Blueprints for building.城邦阵
Reconstructions, game-ready scenes, and works from the community — where researchers, students, and artists turn Silk Road heritage into experience.
Reconstructions复原
3D rebuilds of monuments and cities as they may have once stood — built from archaeology, drawings, and reasoned guesswork.
Jiaohe — Han garrison block
ReconstructionA street-by-street reconstruction of the rammed-earth city, grounded in 2019 fieldwork.
Taq-i Kisra — the lost arch
ReconstructionRestoring the Sasanian capital's iwan to its pre-collapse silhouette.
Bamiyan — niches before 2001
ReconstructionThe cliff and the standing Buddhas, modelled from pre-destruction surveys.
Game scenes场景
Walkable, interactive environments built from heritage data — for teaching, immersion, or simply for play.
Samarkand — Registan at dusk
Scene · WebGLA walkable Registan square, lit for the call to evening prayer.
Dunhuang — inside Cave 17
Scene · VRThe library cave at the moment of its 1900 discovery, in immersive VR.
Constantinople — the Theodosian Walls
Scene · UnrealA first-person walk along the triple wall, with overlaid historical layers.
Community works社区作品
Submissions from researchers, students, and artists using SITU's tools in their own projects.
Reading Xuanzang's road home
Community · EssayA student's annotated route map, tracing the 7th-century pilgrim's return through the Pamirs.
Silk vs. paper — a maritime contrast
Community · AtlasSide-by-side studio comparing two trade economies, by a graduate researcher.
Ninety-eight cities, one print
Community · ArtAn artist's poster series turning every UNESCO site into a single ink-and-gold stamp.
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