Rua Estrada Community Centre, Spain

Corrupted Scans and a Failing Server: The point cloud scans were hosted on a cloud server that was experiencing problems. The scans took an unusually long time to download, and worse, the server issues corrupted the files. This meant that the scans had to be identified as corrupt and downloaded again before any work could begin. On a five-day project, losing time to repeated downloads at the very start was a serious pressure on everything that followed.

Misaligned and Overlapping Scans: Once downloaded, some of the scans were not in alignment with one another. In several areas, the internal rooms did not align between scans, creating confusion about the building’s actual geometry. The team had to work through these conflicts and establish which scan data represented the true condition of each space before modelling.

Non-Orthogonal Walls the Client Wanted Squared: In the scans, the walls were not orthogonal. They ran at slight angles to one another, as walls in older, organically-developed buildings often do. But the client required that all walls in the model needed to be orthogonal (perpendicular and square). This required forcing the square geometry while preserving the real proportions of each space.