We present the algorithms and implementation of an interactive system to capture and interpret an architectural design from a collection of small-scale physical elements. The user sketches a proposed design by arranging 3D wall modules and simple markers for windows, materials, and other design features on a table. The color-coded elements are captured by a camera mounted above the scene and re...

The paper here presented shows the outcomes of a research/didactic activity carried out within a workshop titled “Digital Invasions. From point cloud to Heritage Building Information Modeling” held at Politecnico di Torino (29 September – 5 October 2016). The term digital invasions refers to an Italian bottom up project born in the 2013 with the aim of promoting innovative digital ways for the ...

Architecture-based analysis and testing of systems plays a key role in increasing their dependability. In order to perform those activities, both structural and behavioral architecture descriptions are needed. In most ADLs, support for representing dynamic behavior at the architectural level is either unavailable or is available only using the particulars of that ADL, thereby limiting its usefu...

A significant driver for lowering life-cycle cost and cycle time is the ability to make good design decisions early. Building virtual prototypes, which enable analysis of the impact of decisions, is an effective way to do this. However, virtual prototypes have to support the product's representation as well as its behavior. Building virtual prototypes of complex systems being designed by a mult...

Software architecture research has yielded a variety of powerful techniques for assisting in the design, implementation, and long-term evolution of complex, heterogeneous, distributed , multiuser applications. Since software development environments are themselves applications with these characteristics , it is natural to examine the effectiveness of an architectural approach to constructing an...

We present an algorithm for the automatic interpretation of a rough architectural sketch as a consistent 3D digital model. We compare our results to the designer’s intended geometry. We further validate the algorithm by studying the variations in possible interpretations made by other humans for a set of relatively ambiguous sketches. In our system, the user sketches an architectural design by ...

Abstract This article presents an activity carried out in a course on representation master’s degree architecture, which aims to train students the practice and theory of geometric transformation for production shapes, using case study from contemporary architectural design: folies Parc de la Villette.

Computer support for conceptual design of building structures is still ineffective, mainly because existing structural engineering applications fail to recognize that structural design and architectural design are highly interdependent processes. This paper describes a computer representation called StAr structure-architecture , aimed to act as a common basis for collaboration between architect...

| We describe EXPRESSION, a language supporting architectural design space exploration for embedded Systems-on-Chip (SOC) and automatic generation of a retargetable compiler/simulator toolkit. Key features of our language-driven design methodology include: a mixed behavioral/structural representation supporting a natural speci cation of the architecture; explicit speci cation of the memory subs...

Architectural descriptions can provide support for a formal representation of the structure and the overall behavior of software systems, which is suitable for an early assessment of the system properties as well as for the automated generation of code. The problem addressed in this paper is to what extent the properties verified at the architectural level can be preserved during the code gener...