Virtual heritage rehabilitation and reclaiming the historical narrative - the 4D capturing of Adelaide Mosque, Adelaide, Australia

This study embarked upon a premise that considers architecture of building as a dynamic phenomenon. Hence capturing building and its dynamic evolution is necessary to appreciate its architecture as well as its heritage value. Whereas the conventional method of fact based historiography only captures the building in particular moment. It makes architectural historians to become perplexed over to which particular moment to be documented. The idea of 4d capturing comes in front in this scenario. This paper highlights the need for a flexible tool to capture this dynamic character of the building. By citing the case study of first urban mosque in Australian soil, this paper thus argues for the need of capturing the narrative of a historical building along with the facts to get a complete picture of its architecture.