Deploying solar reflective materials on urban surfaces is known as an effective heat mitigation strategy. Several studies have shown their cooling impacts; however, most of them focused rooftops rather than facades. The novelty this paper related to exploring the impact each façade orientation corresponding microclimate and energy balance. High albedo were implemented facades with different ori...

Constructing free-form buildings is very complex due to the difficulty in fabricating curved façade. To install façade, geometric shapes of façade need be divided into panels. The panels developed are classified three categories terms their curvatures, i.e., planar, single-curved, double-curved quality determined by difference between as-built and as-designed panel shapes. Among types panels, d...

Recognizing structure is an important aspect of interpreting many computer vision domains. Structure can manifest itself both visually, in terms of repeated low-level phenomena, and conceptually, in terms of a highlevel compositional hierarchy. In this paper, we demonstrate an approach for combining a low-level repetitive structure detector with a logical high-level interpretation system. We ev...

Can we make impartial decisions anymore? Could we ever? It seems that wherever we turn, we are told that impartiality just isn’t possible. We are told that things are much more complicated than they once seemed, that the idea that we could ever be impartial was a mischievous intellectual error and that impartial judgments were and are just a front, a façade, for the harsh reality of some imposi...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the thermal performance vertical gardens by comparing comfort bare (glazed) and green façades in Mediterranean climate. proposal consists applying a vegetation layer on glazed façade that could control solar radiation reduce indoor air temperatures. This study investigates an office building For purpose, Gas Natural Fenosa Office Building as case was simu...

This paper introduces a new, octree-based algorithm to assist in the automated conversion of laser scanning point cloud data into solid models appropriate for computational analysis. The focus of the work is for typical, urban, vernacular structures to assist in better damage prediction prior to tunnelling. The proposed FacadeVoxel algorithm automatically detects boundaries of building façades ...

Media façades are a prominent example of the digital augmentation of urban spaces. They denote the concept of turning the surface of a building into a large-scale urban screen. Due to their enormous size, they require interaction at a distance and they have a high level of visibility. Additionally, they are situated in a highly dynamic urban environment with rapidly changing conditions, which r...

1. ABSTRACT The concept of reality-based interaction has provided the research community an “hook” for discussing the future of humancomputer interfaces. In this position paper, I call for extending the discussion beyond issues of task performance, to other aspects of the human experience. I share high-level findings from my empirical studies of AR Façade, an immersive and interactive drama, an...