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Visualizing Historic Lhasa ལྷ་ས།
Guoping Huang, D.Des.
School of Architecture
University of Virginia
Team
David Germano, Professor in Tibetan Studies
Kurtis Schaeffer, Professor in Tibetan Studies
Guoping Huang, Assistant professor in urban and environmental planning
Will Rourk, Digital specialist at the Digital Media Lab
Steve Weinberger, Database manager at the Tibetan and Himalayan Library
Zihao Zhang, Research assistant
Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Zhol Village covers 50,000 sq m. of the Potala Palace complex. It includes of 22 ancient buildings which cover an area of 33,470 sq m. These buildings once included housing as well as the city jail and government offices (for the city's administration, judiciary, revenue, and mint).
Potala south face from Chakpori© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford