Robots were originally introduced in the production of industrialized building components and modular housing. Later mobile robots were developed for special on-site construction tasks. Automated construction sites use robotics for logistics and assembly. The technological progress of robotics allows recently the automated production of facades, which is described in this keynote.

The increment in the number of automobiles and densification city has increased noise pollution rates. In addition, lack regulation Chile regarding acoustic insulation fa¸cades is a problem growing concern. main objective present study was to obtain model Sound Insulation housing, facades, stratified Santiago, Chile, based on constructive variables. It expected serve as basis for one future fac...

© 2010 enclos Double-skin facades have historically been more common among European high-rises in part because energy prices are significantly higher in Europe than in the United States. The use of double-skin facades (DSF) in the United States for commercial buildings presents a variety of challenges and impediments, including a longer payback period on initial investment. An emerging trend in...

We present a 3D modeling approach to reconstruct urban facades with map constraints. Our main constribution is to use GIS data to filter the points cloud to improve the reconstruction process. The method’s input is a ground-view video sequence captured by a common webcam. We extract original feature points cloud by using structure-from-motion technique. First, the footprint from GIS enables us ...

One of the most important issues that have absorbed the public opinion and expert community during the recent years, is the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the housing. There are several challenges related to this topic that includes the contexts of the construction, manufacturing, planning to social aspects, cultural, physical and architectural design. The thing that has a significant ...

As the sustainable settlements have been included as a vital end product of all planning exercises, the architectural layouts should be well integrated with the sun path charts and the orientations of windows. Appropriate orientations can offer thermally indoor conditions besides physical and psychological comfort in any settlement at lesser energy demand. This investigation uses a vast number ...

Recent advances in scanning technologies allow large-scale scanning of urban scenes. Commonly, such acquisition incurs imperfections: large regions are missing, significant variation in sampling density, noise and outliers. Nevertheless, building facades often consist structural patterns and self-similarities of local geometric structures. Their highly-structured nature, makes 3D facades amenab...

We present in this article a system which improves a DEM. The method reconstructs all the facades of the building and then, corrects the initial DEM by deleting the points of the roofs which pass over the boundaries defined by the facades. We correct the shapes of the buildings with the initial photographs to have sharp contours. The proposed approach does not use any a priori information about...

In this paper we presented a novel approach for building detection from multiple aerial images in dense urban areas. The approach is based on accurate surface reconstruction, followed by extraction of visible building facades, then used as a main cue for building detection. For the facade detection a simple but nevertheless flexible and robust algorithm is proposed. It is based on observation t...

As evidence from recent years has demonstrated, box-counting provides an objective fractal analytical method to evaluate the visual complexity of architecture. This paper for the first time explores the potential of box-counting with regard to the work of the Viennese architect Adolf Loos (1870-1933). Loos is seen as the pioneer of modern architecture, as someone who anticipated the Internation...