A project-based approach to teaching restoration students using digital twin construction for architectural monuments

The course «Reconstruction and Restoration of Architectural Heritage» requires students to do comprehensive work on a project, which is not always possible in the current teaching process. A project-based approach to student teaching and learning in this course was tested using the creation of a digital twin of the cultural heritage object «Zilantov Monastery» in Kazan in order to evaluate how useful this approach is in the training of restoration architects. The results of the study suggest that a project-based approach has a significant potential for teaching students specializing in the reconstruction and restoration of cultural heritage sites.