Nowadays, many heritage shophouses remain intact in major urban areas Malaysia, including Ipoh, Perak. These architectural assets are significant as they portray the glory and achievements of Ipoh over centuries. However, some face inappropriate façade changes due to improper conservation activities performed on properties. situations have resulted phenomenon inconsistency elements building fac...

The paper discusses the importance of greenery in cities. It considers presence green elements inside a typical urban perimeter block and deliberates about their impact on solar radiation level facades yard. A series computer simulations have been done using six combinations surface reflectance (façade/yard) for configurations. were performed with DIVA, plug-in Rhino Oslo (59.91273, 10.74609). ...

Accurate and realistic 3-dimensional models of urban environments are increasingly important for applications like virtual tourism, city planning, Internet search and many emerging opportunities in the context of “ambient intelligence”. Applications like Bing-Maps or Google Earth are offering virtual models of many major urban areas worldwide. While initially these data sets support visualizati...

The relation between wind-driven rain (WDR) and its potential negative effects on the hygrothermal performance and durability of building facades can be better understood by the correct estimation of the spatial and temporal distribution of the WDR intensity. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations with Eulerian Multiphase (EM) modeling are used to obtain accurate spatial and temporal in...

Building facade extraction is the primary step in the recognition process in outdoor scenes. It is also a challenging task since each building can be viewed from different angles or under different lighting conditions. In outdoor imagery, regions, such as sky, trees, pavement cause interference for a successful building facade recognition. In this paper we propose a knowledge based approach to ...