Due to advances in computer hardware, virtual environments become significantly larger and more complex. Therefore the modeling of virtual worlds, e.g. for computer animation and games becomes increasingly time and resource consuming. In architectural settings façade features are influenced by the underlying geometrical structure or even by other façade structures, e.g. façade edges made of lar...

org/10.1016/j.foar.2014 015. Higher Education P ing author. resses: katharina.eder@ [email protected] (T. Bedn under responsibility of Abstract This article presents an innovative façade system designed to increase the thermal comfort inside an office room and to enhance the cooling capacity of the suspended cooling ceiling. A series of measurements is conducted in an existing office building with...

This paper describes a new semi-automatic approach developed for modelling historic building façades with Building Information Modelling (BIM) software. Two new developments for BIM software are presented in this paper. The first is a new library of parametric objects which are designed for modelling classical architectural elements from survey data. These library objects are dynamic and have p...

The building façade model is the most prominent streetscape feature for rendering virtual street models. This paper aims to develop a method to identify street obstacles which hinder photo-realistic texturing of building façade. In order to achieve this, the presented method focuses on two research components. Firstly, we develop an effective grid-based line analysis method to differentiate ima...

In recent years, the demand for highly detailed building models has clearly risen. Most of the details, which characterize a building, come from its façade. It is obvious that such façade detail is ideally acquired from ground-based sensors. For any street-level data acquisition system, a common problem arises: that of occlusions and hence incomplete data. In the past we have shown how multiima...

Working on building façade is dangerous. Many accidents have occurred, and many workers have lost their lives. We have researched to apply robot systems to prevent these accidents. In this paper, we purposed an algorithm for sensor system of a gondola-typed building façade maintenance robot. The robot system moves on the building façade autonomously, or by remote control. Therefore, window area...

In the past few decades, the issue of environmental quality in the urban environment is a recurring theme. Green walls and roofs have demonstrated great efficiency in the attenuation of adverse effects such as heat islands. The thermal characterization of these systems are well studied, however few studies have been carried out on their acoustic potential. The characterization of the acoustic p...

The binary split grammar is powerful to parse façade in a broad range of types, whose structure is characterized by repetitive patterns with different layouts. We notice that, as far as two labels are concerned, BSG parsing is equivalent to approximating a façade by a matrix with multiple rankone patterns. Then, we propose an efficient algorithm to decompose an arbitrary matrix into a rank-one ...

This paper presents an approach to address the problem of image façade labelling. In the architectural literature, domain knowledge is usually expressed geometrically in the final design, so façade labelling should on the one hand conform to visual evidence, and on the other hand to the architectural principles – how individual assets (e.g. doors, windows) interact with each other to form a faç...

Background: The debate on the question whether biomimetics has a specific potential to contribute to sustainability is discussed among scientists, business leaders, politicians and those responsible for project funding. The objective of this paper is to contribute to this controversial debate by presenting the sustainability assessment of one of the most well-known and most successful biomimeti...