Raiders of the Lost Architecture: Kernels for Bayesian Optimization in Conditional Parameter Spaces

Lost Space Renewal; a Reborn of an Urban Water Body

Due to rapid growth of urbanization and economic demand, we are continuously losing our fields,our free lands, open sky, ponds, lakes; actually our breathing spaces. Sometimes for zoning policies, migration ortransferal of a particular business or activity, a place like waterfronts, body of water, military or industrial sites can lostits importance, kept vacant and become a dead place. These ar...

An Introduction to Inference and Learning in Bayesian Networks

Bayesian networks (BNs) are modern tools for modeling phenomena in dynamic and static systems and are used in different subjects such as disease diagnosis, weather forecasting, decision making and clustering. A BN is a graphical-probabilistic model which represents causal relations among random variables and consists of a directed acyclic graph and a set of conditional probabilities. Structure...

Defining a Structural Model for the Revitalization of the Lost Urban Spaces (City Entrances) in Contemporary Urban Design Case Study: Entrance of Sanandaj

Not long ago, city gates and entryways had high spatial value and were among the landmarks for marking city boundaries. Today with cities having been expanded and developed, such aspect of the entrance concept is lost and entryways are turned to passages for transportation. In fact, the rich spatial value of such entrances has decreased as they are solely spaces for passing through out or into ...

Transition from Detached Plazas Close to Traditional Bazaars towards Reviving Lost Spaces Close to Contemporary Shopping Centres, Case Studies: Proma Shopping Center and Bazaar-E Reza in Mashhad

Application of Architectural Visual Documents and Oral History of in the Representation of Micro-Spaces and Three-Dimensional (3D) Modeling of Nawab Razavi Historical House in Yazd

Over the time, various factors have led to damage the Iranian houses. By examining the surviving documents of Nawab Razavichr('39')s house in Yazd, it is possible to represent a major part of the lost spaces and also to minimize speculation in the restoration of this historic house. The basic belief of this research is that the studies of the oral history of architecture as well as the existing...