ISPRS-Archives The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ISPRS-Archives Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci. 2194-9034 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-5-W2-243-2013 DOCUMENTATION FOR EMERGENCY STABILIZATION AND THE INTEGRATED CONSERVATION PLANNING OF EARTHEN ARCHITECTURE SETTLEMENTS: THE KASBAH OF TAOURIRT (OUARZAZATE, MOROCCO) Ekim Z. 1 Santana Quintero M. 1 Percy K. 1 Ward S. 1 Fai S. 1 Gregg J. 1 Ouimet C. 1 Cancino C. 2 Boussalh M. 3 Carleton Immersive Media Studio, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel by drive, Ottawa, On, K1S 5B6 Canada Getty Conservation Institute, 1200 Getty Drive, Suite 700, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1684, USA Center for Conservation and Rehabilitation of the architectural Heritage of the Atlas and sub-Atlas zones (CERKAS), Kasbah Taourirt, BP 253 Ouarzazate, Morocco 19 07 2013 XL-5/W2 243 248 Copyright: © 2013 Z. Ekim et al. 2013 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is available from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XL-5-W2/243/2013/isprs-archives-XL-5-W2-243-2013.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XL-5-W2/243/2013/isprs-archives-XL-5-W2-243-2013.pdf

Heritage recording serves as a basis for methodologies regarding diagnosis, treatment and preservation of historic places and contributes to make posterity records of our built cultural heritage. This work is not a stand-alone practice, but a part of the overall conservation of cultural heritage. Recording of heritage places should be directly related to the needs, skills and the technology that are available to the end users that are responsible for the management and care of these sites. They should be selected in a way that the future protectors of these sites can also access and use the data that is collected. This contribution explains an innovative heritage recording approach applied by Carleton Immersive Media Studio (CIMS) in the documentation of an earthen complex, <i>the Kasbah of Taourirt</i> in Ouarzazate, Morocco as part of the Earthen Architecture Initiative of the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI). The selected recording techniques used were carried out according to the requirements of the Moroccan team (CERKAS) in charge of the study and protection of the chosen site documented.