Raytraced image of the \house on the hill" model. Plate 4 Aluminum milled version of the \house on the hill" model. Plate 1 Raytraced image of the knight model. Plate 2 Aluminum milled version of the knight model. Figure 5: Adaptive isocurves toolpath for the ^ O ooset of the \house on the hill" model. Figure 4: Parallel plane contouring is used to generate 3 axes pockets for rough cutting. (a)...

Improving the energy efficiency of residential buildings can lead in reducing the energy consumption of cities. It is presented a prototype house that uses real time connectivity to enable effective energy management through the deployment of an optimization algorithm. Following the principles of the Web of Things, the devices of the house are mapped into a RESTful structure where the HTTP prot...

The assembled -type light steel (ATLS) modular house is an emerging type of eco-friendly building and has been widely used for buildings with repetitive units. This paper focused on the bending stiffness bottom frame ATLS house. full-scale was tested. It indicated that cold-formed thin-walled beam floor weak vertical deformation obvious. Furthermore, finite-element (FE) model developed based ge...

In recent years, a growing number of archaeologists have explored the potential of expanding Lévi-Strauss’s concept of house societies to better understand specific archaeological contexts. Looking specifically at the classificatory distinction between “great houses” and “small houses” within Chaco Canyon (A.D. 850–1180), I suggest this theoretical model might yield new insights with regard to ...

In this paper we present a heterogeneous collaborative sensor network for electrical management in the residential sector. Improving demand-side management is very important in distributed energy generation applications. Sensing and control are the foundations of the "Smart Grid" which is the future of large-scale energy management. The system presented in this paper has been developed on a sel...

The paper presents a general paradigm of semiautomatic house extraction from aerial stereo image pair. In the semiautomatic extraction system, the house model is defined as the one with multi right angles roof, then under the knowledge of the roof type, low-level and mid-level processing including edge detection, straight line segments extraction and obtaining initial house corners are used to ...

This paper analyzes the temporal pattern of prices for single-family housing. We estimate models of house price dynamics using a repeat sales framework, and we use the results to test for a random walk in asset prices. For eight large samples of housing transactions, representing essentially all house sales in Sweden during a 12-year period, we reject the hypothesis that house prices follow a r...