Spark House · Spaces & stories

Explore a place.
Add to its story.

Five projects connect real estate, spatial documentation, and community enterprise. Explore their recorded spaces and share the memories that help explain them.

3D scanning

Alpha Green

Capturing a challenging agricultural environment.

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Project role

Matterport facility documentation and capture planning.

Project question

Document a hydroponic environment with repetitive surroundings and tall obstructions, as described by the original tour.

Documentation approach

Review the relationship between the growing area and utility workspace, while making coverage limitations explicit.

Available result

An interactive record of a greenhouse facility and attached utility workspace near Austin, Minnesota.

A closer look

Four ways to read this space.

Choose a reading stop, then explore the corresponding space in the tour.

Utility workspace

Explore the utility and garage workspace adjoining the growing area.

Support spaces give context to the facility's overall arrangement.

Overview transcript

Alpha Green. A hydroponic greenhouse facility near Austin, Minnesota, with an attached utility and garage workspace. The tour’s own description identifies repetitive surroundings and tall obstructions as capture challenges. Matterport facility documentation and capture planning. The project question: Document a hydroponic environment with repetitive surroundings and tall obstructions, as described by the original tour. Review the relationship between the growing area and utility workspace, while making coverage limitations explicit. An interactive record of a greenhouse facility and attached utility workspace near Austin, Minnesota. Explore the four reading stops: utility workspace; growing area; repeated structures; coverage and obstructions. Relevant to facility documentation, capture planning, and communicating site conditions to a distributed project team. This is a record of the space at capture. Its project brief explains what is documented and which details remain unknown.

Optional narration uses your browser’s voice. The text remains available without audio.

Project record and sources

Capture date to confirm. Facility details and capture challenges come from the tour’s public description. Capture date, equipment, accuracy, scan count, and client outcomes remain unconfirmed.

Public address from the Matterport model; coordinates are an address estimate.

Original scan

Learn with a spatial record

Prepare before you arrive.

Use the Trinity project to practice reading a building record, connecting a story to a place, and preparing questions for an onsite visit.

  1. Read the record

    Open the Trinity tour. Find the sanctuary, side rooms, and connecting stairs. Review the project date context and distinguish what the model shows from what a source reports.

    Explore the Trinity example ↗
  2. Attach the story

    Choose a reading stop and open its contribution link. Notice how the place stays attached to the form and how publication permission differs from Historical Society sharing. Submit only genuine contributions.

  3. Connect the task to a guide

    At Spark House, use the guide for your assigned equipment and confirm its physical location with your coordinator.

  4. Verify the current space

    Before the assignment, confirm the approved room, equipment, visitor arrangements, and current access routes onsite. Record discrepancies for the coordinator. An older tour is a preparation aid.

Open the volunteer course

Active volunteers can complete four short modules, save progress, and earn a separate Spatial Documentation & Heritage Tour Literacy certificate.