Thailand’s Fine Arts Department (FAD) is ready to employ 3D scanning know-how in monitoring the tilt of Wat Arun’s main stupa, an important heritage site situated in Bangkok’s Yai district. Remote revealed that a recent survey found a slight tilt on the wat’s main structure’s high alongside the Chao Phraya River.
Furthermore, minor subsidence has caused 4 smaller stupas and an additional four mondop (shrine-like constructions with spired roofs) to lean barely in the course of the principle stupa. Despite the tilt, Phanombut Chantharachot reassured that the inspiration construction of the main stupa is robust, with the tilt solely affecting the highest half.
These findings were a half of FAD’s ongoing project to record heritage sites’ buildings using digital expertise. The FAD intends to perform 3D scanning checks on the main stupa every three months to monitor whether there is a rise in tilt. If the tilt stays constant, they will report the information each six months, eventually conducting checks annually.
Phanombut also mentioned that the gathered data would play a vital role in planning the mandatory repairs for the temple, which dates again to the Ayutthaya period. In mild of those findings, the temple’s secretary-general, Phra Kru Suwatthana Rattanakun, acknowledged that prime parts of the primary pagoda have been closed to public entry for security causes, limiting guests to the second terrace only reported Bangkok Post..g