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Brixton Spatial Tour

Urban Cultural Documentation with Aerial Gaussian Splatting

Brixton town center London at night showing vibrant cultural district with street lights, shops, murals, and urban architecture captured for 3D reconstruction

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Location

Brixton, South London

Technique

Google Earth 3D data reconstruction

Coverage Area

Town center, 3 blocks radius

Deliverables

Web viewer, spatial navigation

The Challenge

Brixton is a vibrant cultural hub with rich musical heritage, diverse communities, and constantly evolving street art. Documenting this dynamic urban environment required combining large-scale spatial data with detailed captures of cultural landmarks.

The goal was to create an immersive spatial tour that preserves both the urban layout and the specific cultural touchpoints that make Brixton iconic – from the David Bowie mural to the Electric Avenue market atmosphere.

The Approach

Combined Google Earth 3D reconstruction with handheld camera captures of significant cultural landmarks, demonstrating how different data sources can be integrated into a cohesive spatial tour.

1. Urban Reconstruction

Extracted 3D mesh data from Google Earth to create the base spatial framework of Brixton town centre, capturing the urban layout and building relationships across a three-block radius.

2. Cultural Landmark Documentation

Captured key cultural sites with handheld camera including the David Bowie mural at Morley's Department Store (painted by Australian artist James Cochran in 2013), the small shop in Brixton Station ticket hall, the bust of Henry Tate in the library square, St Matthews Church fountain, and the distinctive telephone boxes near the station with their communist stickers.

3. Street Scene Integration

Created 3D captures of Electric Avenue showing the hustle and bustle of market life, then integrated these detailed landmark captures as interactive hotspots within the larger urban model to create a navigable spatial tour.

Interactive Tour Assembly

Built a web-based spatial tour using 3DVista Pro, allowing users to navigate the reconstructed urban environment and jump to detailed cultural landmarks with interactive hotspots linking Google Earth reconstruction to specific site captures.

The Result

The Brixton Spatial Tour creates an immersive digital archive of this culturally significant urban area, combining wide-area Google Earth reconstruction with intimate captures of heritage landmarks like the David Bowie mural and St Matthews Church.

Users can navigate the broader Brixton town centre from a bird's-eye perspective, then jump to specific cultural touchpoints to explore the detailed 3D captures of murals, monuments, and street scenes that define the area's character.

This project demonstrates how combining different data sources – satellite imagery with handheld captures – can create comprehensive spatial documentation that preserves both urban structure and cultural detail for heritage archiving and community engagement.