Final images captured of historic hotel

Inovo was engaged to capture a full colour 3D point cloud of the Club Hotel, Bluff, as a historic record prior to its demolition. Unlike a photo, the point cloud transforms raw scan data into as-built model, capturing all the dimensions and detail of this once-grand hotel building.

The Club Hotel was built in 1914 on the south side of Gore Street. It was designed in Italianate style by architect Frederick Annison and is a significant example of a relatively grand hotel building for a small Southland town. The heritage-listed building is structurally damaged and therefore unsafe. A demolition Resource Consent has now been issued to the long-vacant building’s owners, Bluff Oyster and Food Festival Charitable Trust, who stage the Bluff Oyster and Food Festival on an adjacent site but had to cancel the event in 2022 due to the former hotel having a dangerous building notice on it.  

In recognition of the site’s historic value, resource consent conditions included, among others, detailed building records being made of the exterior of the hotel. That’s where Inovo’s laser scanning and modelling work comes in.

Inovo work allowed detailed information of the building to be preserved and, if needed, reproduced in the future.