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.