Building an Ottoman City

An Efficient Double Skin Façade for an Office Building in Shiraz City

Energy efficiency in office buildings has been the center of attention for many researches. This special attention is due to highly energy consumption in this building type. Refinement of facade and building’s envelop is a good approach to reduce buildings energy requirements. Double skin facade concepts are commonly used to achieve that object. Although the concept is not new, there is a growi...

Multifont Ottoman Character Recognition

Ottoman characters from three different fonts are used character recognition problem, broadly speaking, is transferring a page that contain symbols to the computer and matching these symbols with previously known or recognized symbols after extraction the features of these symbols via appropriate preprocessing methods. Because of silent features of the characters, implementing an Ottoman charac...

History Matters , but How ? An Example of Ottoman

Blending Building Information with Smart City Data

The increasingly urbanized world together with modernization and industrialization trends has led to the explosive growth of city information. Cities can be considered as data factories that daily produce a huge amount of data from different sources such as people, infrastructure, machines, events, sensors, and smart devices. In the context of Smart City, built environments play an important ro...

Provo City Library: Building across a Century