Looking Back. In early december we were on site at the August Wilson House where Matt from #SheltonDesign/Build carefully deconstructed a few pieces from the 100-year-old storefront which previously housed Bella’s Market during the time that August Wilson lived there. In this video, Matt removes one of the ornamental colonnette capital pieces. We will be testing the traditional restoration method of “dip-and-strip” to see if this is a viable process that can be applied to the other colonnette capitals in order to restore them. Another more advanced method we will also be testing is to use photogrammetry based 3D -scanning to obtain a digital model of the capital element. We will use the 3D model as the platform for digital fabrication methods to precisely reproduce the capitals.
