Abstract Digital architecture, as a proceeding architectural style, has caused fundamental evolutions in architectural design and building appearance via applying complex geometries and topologies. Computers and digital tools have truly altered the design process and architectural conception facilitating production of new eye catching forms. Avant-garde architectural forms have emerged from the...

This paper explores the truism that people think about what they say. It proposes hat, to satisfy their own goals, people often plan their speech acts to affect their listenerr’ beliefs, goals, and emotional states. Such language use mn be modelled by viewing speech acts as operators in a planning system, thus allowing both physical and speech acts to be integrated into plans. Methodological is...

Heritage façades are relevant to the historical preservation and identity of a city. Their deterioration can cause devaluation urban environment, together with accidents caused by possible detachment their different elements; therefore, maintaining them is crucial. It important have early warning systems in place, which would indicate potential damage such façades, be factors as humidity, earth...

By means of airborne multiple camera imaging system, we can acquire vertical and oblique aerial images (VAI and OAI) at the same time. In addition to the reduction of data cost, the OAI can also strengthen the imaging geometry during aerial triangulation and be applied on automatic façade texture mapping. With the development of image matching technique, instead of airborne laser scanning (ALS)...

The generation of photo-realistic city model is an important task for many geospatial applications, such as 3D GIS, urban planning, virtual city tourism, car navigation, real estate, etc. The purpose of this research is to automatically generate façade texture from aerial oblique imagery. The developed algorithm can be applied to any oblique imagery taken from the air, such as UAV, airplane, or...

Facebook use in higher education has grown exponentially in recent years, with both academics and students seeking to use it to support learning processes. Noting that research into educational cyberspace has generally ignored spatial elements, this paper redresses this deficiency through using Foucault’s (1986) discussion of different spaces to examine Facebook use. Recognising that more than ...

considering long term impacts of mehr housing plan on appearance and performances of cities, it is necessary that their construction will be done on the basis of geographical elements and criteria of urban planning in order to have positive impacts on urban quality and performance and reduce the ecological, social, and economical costs. therefore, this research analyzes and evaluates appropriat...

Buildings are large consumers of energy. In the United States of America; they constitute over 33% of the total annual energy consumption, produce 35% of the total carbon dioxide emissions and attribute 40% of landfill wastes. The building industry is also a large consumer of non-renewable materials and this trend has escalated dramatically over the past century. It is essential that we find wa...

The objective of Subtask A (“Performance”) of IEA SHC Task 27 “Solar Façade Components” is to further develop, structure and integrate the energy performance assessment methodology for windows and other solar building envelope components. Such a methodology will facilitate selection of components and enable comparative performance to be made. Particular emphasis is given to the assembly and int...