In this paper, we describe a novel method for morphological façade analysis. The analysis consists of two parts: façade division and localization of windows. The façade division is based on the façade alignment hypothesis. We accumulate directional color gradients and we analyze the generated profile. Our approach introduces several morphological filters to augment the robustness to problems su...

Insufficient airflow in the cavity of Double Skin façade (DSF) systems has resulted overheating risk and resulting reduction thermal performance cooling dominant climates. Previous research focused more on buoyancy-driven natural ventilation, there is a lack utilising wind-driven ventilation as force for heat dispersion from cavity. Additionally, geometrical features wind direction influential ...

Indoor air quality is a crucial factor when evaluating habitability, especially in developed countries, where people spend most of their time indoors. This paper presents novel double skin façade (DSF) system that combines physical and photocatalytic filtering strategies. The purification made up fixed slats are both solar protection system. objective this work to determine the thermal behaviou...

Hiding true personality behind a façade is one of the basic tricks adopted by humans who live double lives for illegal purposes. In particular terrorists have historically adopted the protocol of a façade behaviour coupled with a second life consisting mainly in illegal activities and their planning. Nowadays a few cases of behaviours that hide a dangerous activity, possibly illegal, behind an ...

This paper presents a method to automatically refine existing 3D building models with laser points acquired from a terrestrial mobile mapping system (MMS). 3D models derived from aerial imagery are in general less accurate than 3D information derived from terrestrial laser scanning. Therefore, point clouds are used to refine these models in order to make them precisely correspond to the scanned...

In this paper we present a method for representing complex façades. For this purpose we developed a hierarchical decomposition for the façade. The steps of the decomposition are represented as nodes in a typed graph where the leaves are the atomic façade elements. Every node includes necessary attributes for its façade structure. The edges in the graph depict adjacent façade elements providing ...

FAÇADE (Fast and Automatic Clustering Approach to Data Engineering) is a spatial clustering tool that can discover clusters of different sizes, shapes, and densities in noisy spatial data. Compared with the existing clustering methods, FAÇADE has several advantages: first, it separates true data and noise more effectively. Second, most steps of FAÇADE are automatic. Third, it requires only O(nl...