Abstract Stemming from centrally planned church architecture, the domestic rotunda type counts as one of most renowned examples Renaissance architectural conception. Often considered a physical and earthly manifestation divine, architects ordained symbolism through ratio proportion. While mostly linked to Italian examples, typology also affected British derived models Serlio Palladio. By combin...

Automated and robust retrieval of three-dimensional (3D) Computer-Aided Design (CAD) objects from laser scanned data would have many potentially valuable applications in construction engineering and management. For example, it would enable automated progress assessment for effortless productivity tracking, automated 3D image database searching for forensic and legal analysis, and real-time loca...

We present a new method to derive a reliable 3D description of buildings and architectural models based on stereovision using multiple camera views. This multi-view stereo technique has been successfully applied to many objects and has proved to be more reliable and more accurate than the well known binocular and even trinocular stereo techniques. The method has the following attractive feature...

Although urban planning has used computer models and information systems since the 1950s and architectural practice has recently restructured to the use of computer-aided design (CAD) and computer drafting software, urban design has hardly been touched by the digital world. This is about to change as very fine scale spatial data relevant to such design becomes routinely available, as 2dimension...

When drafting new buildings, architects make intensive use of existing 3D models including building elements, furnishing, and environment elements. These models are either directly included into the draft or serve as a source for inspiration. To allow efficient reuse of existing 3D models, shape retrieval methods considering the specific requirements of architects must be developed. Unfortunate...

This thesis aims at changing students' attitude towards the use of computer-aided design (CAD) in architecture. It starts from the premise that CAD is used mostly for analysis and representation, and not as a real design aide, and that architecture students have a bias against learning computer programming. For this purpose, a prototypical instruction system that mixes computer-aided design and...

As the design processes in architectural practices switch toward entirely digital workflows, architects are gradually required, because of their legal and commercial liability, to provide for both a relatively long-term curation of their own digital products and the deposit of authoritative data. But, despite being the sole curation actors for their data, architects receive little education or ...

The intelligent design method based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) represents an emerging structural paradigm where rules are not artificially defined but directly learned from existing data. GAN-based methods have exhibited promising potential compared to conventional in the schematic phase of reinforced concrete (RC) shear wall structures. However, for following reasons, it is chal...

This paper presents the results of a survey to assess the extent of use of safety architectural patterns in Logica to solve commonly reoccurring problems in the safety domain. A number of Logica safety related projects, active during August 2011, were considered to establish which specific patterns had been used so a profile of pattern use could be established along with a view of their perceiv...