The reconstruction of 3D city models has matured to the point where large data sets are now available. As most of the data collection methods used are based on airborne sensors like e.g. aerial laser scanning or stereo imagery, the detailed geometry and material of the building façades is typically not available. For visualisation purposes, however, the surface structure is essential to achieve...

The evolution of daytime façade noise levels by road traffic at 250 dwellings in Flanders is assessed. Three identical man-operated measurement campaigns have been conducted in the years 1996, 2001 and 2009, during fall. A practical methodology has been developed, based on short time noise measurements and context observations at these locations. The uncertainty introduced by short-term samplin...

Compared to conventional façades, adaptive façades (AFs) can adjust their properties in response environmental changes and user requirements. Often performed through the integration of actuators, sensors, control units, this provides benefits such as reduced energy consumption buildings but also increases complexity façade design. To efficiently deal with higher complexity, article aims provide...

Many people learn how to use complex authoring applications through tutorials. However, user interfaces for authoring tools differ between versions, platforms, and competing products, limiting the utility of tutorials. Our goal is to make tutorials more useful by enabling users to repurpose tutorials between similar applications. We introduce UI translation interfaces which enable users to loca...

Media displays in public areas are becoming increasingly pervasive—they are used in many settings, come in different sizes, serve different purposes, and have varied degrees of interactivity. In this paper, we aim to provide a survey of how these displays, often named media façades, are used in the wild in a city in China which is undergoing a rapid growth. This survey is intended to raise grea...

This paper presents a radiometric study to recognize pathologies in façades of historical buildings by using two different remote sensing technologies covering part of the visible and very near infrared spectrum (530–905 nm). Building materials deteriorate over the years due to different extrinsic and intrinsic agents, so assessing these affections in a non-invasive way is crucial to help prese...

Traditional documentation capabilities of laser scanning technology can be further exploited for urban modelling through the transformation of resulting point clouds into solid models compatible for computational analysis. This paper introduces such a technique through the combination of an angle criterion and voxelization. As part of that, a k-nearest neighbor (kNN) searching algorithm is impl...

Colour information is a useful attribute to include in a building’s description to assist the listener in identifying the intended target. Often this information is only available as image data, and not readily accessible for use in constructing referring expressions for verbal communication. The method presented uses a building polygon GIS layer in conjunction with street level captured imager...

Color information is a useful attribute to include in a building’s description to assist the listener in identifying the intended target. Often this information is only available as image data, and not readily accessible for use in constructing referring expressions for verbal communication. The method presented uses a GIS building polygon layer in conjunction with street-level captured imagery...

The problem of solar irradiation in building façades with large windows is often solved with the use of external shading devices, such as brise-soleil systems, but their potential acoustic effects on building façades are usually neglected. The purpose of this work is a preliminary consideration of the acoustic behaviour of brise-soleil systems and, furthermore, the evaluation of the possibility...