A virtual 3-dimension city model is a sophisticated application of geoinformatic systems as it represents layouts, activities and functionalities of a real-world community. To enable human users to better visualize their living spaces, a virtual reality city model must be both immersive and accurately re-created. Visualization of city models in such environments is a combination of many challen...

Reducing energy consumption of residential and commercial buildings is a major challenge nowadays. One of the strategies to achieve a significant reduction lies on building renovation. On this regard, a project targeting the industrialization of high performance thermal renovation for apartment buildings is been executed. The renovation is based on an external envelop composed by rectangular wo...

The post-republican modernization experience of Turkey appears with a character that changes social and spatial identity beyond new structure. This process is especially important for the cities where first industrialization activities took place. establishment factory sites in early republican period not only met need production field but also became an step by reflecting movements into daily ...

CSG model manipulation also allows us to lower back-facing walls to improve visibility from a specific viewing angle (See Fig. 1). Let v be the viewing direction, for which the model is to be optimized, and denote hf and hb as the maximum height of the structure to be reconstructed for the front-facing and back-facing walls, respectively. For each primitive, we translate the primitive along eac...

In this paper we present a practical approach for generating an occlusion-free textured 3D map of urban facades by the synergistic use of terrestrial images, 3D point clouds and area-based information. Particularly in dense urban environments, the high presence of urban objects in front of the facades causes significant difficulties for several stages in computational building modeling. Major c...

Corner lines, line signatures related to building facades in SAR images, are commonly related to signal double reflections, either specular or diffuse. However, the scene properties building orientation, building shape, surface roughness often do not correspond to this expectation. This paper presents a 3D representative simulation case study, based on ray tracing and a detailed facade model, i...

In this study we investigate the release of metallic silver nanoparticles (Ag-NP) from paints used for outdoor applications. A facade panel mounted on a model house was exposed to ambient weather conditions over a period of one year. The runoff volume of individual rain events was determined and the silver and titanium concentrations of 36 out of 65 runoff events were measured. Selected samples...