Marble envelopes represent a relatively common architectural solution used in variety of historic, modern and contemporary building facades. White marble envelopes have been shown to reduce solar heat gains, while improving indoor thermal comfort and energy efficiency in summer time. While marble is useful in this context, the urban atmosphere accelerates the degradation of marble elements. Thi...

Building facades typically consist of multiple similar tiles which are arranged quite strictly in grid-like structures. The proposed method takes advantage of translational symmetries and is able to analyze and segment facades into tiles assuming that there are horizontal and vertical repetitions of similar tiles. In order to solve this quite complex computer vision task efficiently a Monte Car...

Different models of social influence have explored the dynamics of social contagion, imitation, and diffusion of different types of traits, opinions, and conducts. However, few behavioral data indicating social influence dynamics have been obtained from direct observation in ‘natural’ social contexts. The present research provides that kind of evidence in the case of the public expression of po...

The modelling of consequences to built infrastructure when subject to blast loading is well developed; however, there is considerable uncertainty and variability with explosive loading and system response; which provides many challenges for collateral damage estimation. In this paper, structural facades are assessed – with a focus on glazing – as this is a structural and load-capacity system th...

Scene interpretation systems are often conceived as extensions of low-level image analysis with bottom-up processing for high-level interpretations. In this contribution we show how a generic high-level interpretation system can generate hypotheses and initiate feedback in terms of top-down controlled low-level image analysis. Experimental results are reported about the recognition of structure...

Openwork facades are used commonly in buildings hot climates the tropics. However, little is known about their performance regarding daylight sufficiency, glare probability and non-visual effects. In a hypothetical classroom, climate-based simulations were carried out 3 cities Colombia. Results analysed considering people’s perception of light sufficiency temporal variations directions view. Th...

Industrialization and increasing demand for the consumption of fossil fuels cause that energy becomes a strategic factor. Energy crisis and the emergence of modern architecture led designers to pay more attention to the important task of building's envelope. Building skins play an important role in building thermal behavior and reduce energy consumption. If Double Skin Facades properly designed...