one of the primary stages of climatic architectural design is the knowledge of the environmental conditions and meteorology data analyzing according to human thermal comfort and usage of building material. nowadays access to meteorology data of all iran meteorology stations is available on the website of the iran meteorology organization. therefore every architect who feels himself/herself resp...

Indexing and retrieval of architectural visual databases refer to multiple levels of abstraction and various points of view which may co-exist in a single image. This complexity is increased by the necessity to structure architectural images into well-defined, meaningful representations. We propose that the correlation of domain analysis and general methods and techniques provides the backgroun...

For the early phase of conceptualization in the architectural design a case-based retrieval approach for finding building designs that have similar semantic and topological structures to a currently created one, can provide a helpful tool for inspiration and comparison of architect’s own ideas with the solutions available in a case base of previously created designs. The approach presented in t...

The present paper will investigate the specific elements of architectural design based on Islamic beliefs, by taking Iranian Architectural values and vernacular climate design methods into consideration. This research will assess the spirit of experimental elements, created by the inhabitants, according to recent scientific findings. The main concentration will be on the physical design of rura...

Modern distributed operating systems provide users with transparent access to all resources of the computer network by means of distributed object abstraction. The access reliability and efficiency of such systems are determined by the internal implementation of the given abstraction. The existing architectures are based either on the centralized storage of the object state in one of network no...