Projeto LX Conventos
Organic Unit: NOVA FCT
Research Center: NOVA LINCS
The LxConventos platform was developed with the aim of reaching several types of audiences interested in the study of the evolution of the urban landscape in Lisbon, and its transformation due to the extinction of religious orders in the 19th century.
Users can view and study originally religious buildings and their changes over time, either changes to the building itself or to its surroundings. In this way, LxConventos integrates various types of multimedia data with time reference, enabling the study of the evolution of buildings from that data. Data sources include heritage data owned by the Municipality of Lisbon, including associated information (text, images and georeferenced drawings and videos) and geographic data layers generated for the project, which were juxtaposed on the interactive map of the city.
In this setting, the different religious buildings are represented spatially, with the possibility of viewing spatial changes to the buildings between 1834 and 2015, plus their integration with Lisbon’s Historical Maps. During the project, every relevant building was captured photographically. The browsing of the building’s evolutionary representation was made possible in perspective, due to a tool developed specifically for the project, Evolapse, to provide a chronological journey through time, supported by the available set of photographs, originating from different time periods.
