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Templo Mayor- The Aztec's built conception of the
world
A CAD-Reconstruction
A CAD-Reconstruction
| The computer reconstruction and simulation,
which includes the plateau of Mexico City, the old Tenochtitlan with
its ceremonial area and the Templo Mayor, is based on the current
state of the rapidly developing research of the Aztec's main edifice.
This research was developed in cooperation between scientists from the Museo del Templo Mayor and the TU Darmstadt's special CAD Architecture department. It was created upon a request from the Art and Exhibition Hall (Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle) of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn and will be given to the Museo del Templo Mayor after the exhibition has ended. There it will be available for visitors and also for scientists, who can continue developing the model according to constant new insights. |
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Blick von Nord - Westen über den Zeremonialbezirk Click on any photograph for a full-size image. |
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The advanced state of development of
the Templo Mayor with all its meaning for the Aztec's is visualised
in a 20 minute simulation. Atmospheric as well as geometrical, this simulation illustrates the astronomical components of the Templo Mayor. Based on today's research the 10 built over layers of the Templo Mayor can be shown for the first time in their individual building steps and also the possible reasons for this procedure. |
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| Die Sonnenwende am Templo Mayor |
| For the first time, with the help of
computers, the most likely design of the ceremonial area of the city
of Tenochtitlan can now be reconstructed from the results of the current
research from excavations in the centre of Mexico City. A view that
corrects previous ideas. The religious aspect of this complex edifice forms the end of the simulation. Displayed are the rituals of sacrifice in the reconstructed places of worship of the so called building stage II and the fire celebration in the ceremonial district. |
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Schematische Darstellung der Ober- und Unterwelten, verbildlicht im Templo Mayor |
| Project of the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal
Republic of Germany, the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes,
the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia and the Technischen
Universität Darmstadt, Fachgebiet CAD in der Architektur. |
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