Recent empirical investigations have indicated that the majority of occupants in office buildings would appreciate contact with the external environment, especially in cities where the climate is mild for part of the year. Supported by the possibilities of adaptive thermal models, the design of naturally ventilated buildings has been elaborated since the decade of 1990s. More communal areas rat...

We are developing an intelligent interface for the many design evaluation programs becoming available in architecture. As the central part of this project we have developed a model of buildings, capable of holding all the information needed to describe a building to a number of design tools commonly used by architects. The model also contains knowledge about components in a building and their i...

The internal concentrations and emission rates of ammonia (NH3), total bacteria, respirable endotoxins, and inhalable and respirable particles were monitored in 160 piggery buildings in four states of Australia (Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia, and South Australia) between autumn 1997 and autumn 1999. Emissions were calculated for individual buildings as a product of internal concentrat...

Automatic texture mapping is an important task in enrichment of the common 3D city models. A significant part of all algorithms for automated texture mapping is the visibility checking. Nowadays most algorithms for texture extraction use visibility check based on z-buffer or polygon intersection in the image plane. Thus, the visibility of particular face is calculated for every frame independen...

This work is part of an ongoing project, which focuses on the application of AR in Architecture and Urbanism and heritage studies seek to develop interactive multimedia platform and contents about historic buildings known as "Quarteirão dos Trapiches" on Laranjeiras, city of Sergipe State on Brazil. This project explores the potential of mobile applications to disseminate the architectural heri...

This paper describes the Connection Project, an effort at the University of Michigan to support an academic unit divided between two buildings on campus using high-quality, high-bandwidth conferencing technologies. This paper describes the systems used in the project and provides an overview of a number of human-factors related research activities that are being conducted as part of the project.

Semi-active fluid viscous dampers as a subset of control systems have shown their ability to reduce seismic responses of tall buildings. In this paper, multi-objective optimization of the performance of this group of dampers in reducing the seismic responses of buildings is studied using multi-objective genetic algorithms. For numerical example, two 7 and 18 stories buildings are chosen and mod...