The aesthetics of form in motion has been a central preoccupation for the visual arts of the twentieth century, culminating in the establishment of kinetic art as a distinct area of activity in the 1950's. Architecture has traditionally resisted ‘building kinetics’, but has embraced the body in motion, usually on foot negotiating in (subtle) interaction with static form. However, one aspect in ...

This paper describes an approach for the organization and simplification of high-resolution geometry and imagery data for 3D buildings for interactive city navigation. At the highest level of organization, building data are inserted into a global hierarchy that supports the large-scale storage of cities around the world. This structure also provides fast access to the data suitable for interact...

traditional persian architects used to employ the facade ornaments to illustrate cultural values and heritage. moreover, their approach for the adaptation of decorations to structural constructional requirements of buildings, called tectonics, could be considered as a cultural-artistic character itself. although these features were omitted when modernism and its independent facade principle pre...

Urban facades regularly contain interesting variations due to allowed deformations of repeated elements (e.g., windows in different open or close positions) posing challenges to state-of-the-art facade analysis algorithms. We propose a semi-automatic framework to recover both repetition patterns of the elements and their individual deformation parameters to produce a factored facade representat...

A solar 3D urban model was developed for the calculation and visualisation of the solar energy potential of buildings, integrating the potential of roofs with that of facades. To assess this potential, a digital surface model (DSM) of the urban region was built from LiDAR data and a solar radiation model based on climatic observations was applied. A shadow algorithm was developed in order to ca...

Semantically-enhanced 3D model reconstruction in urban environments is useful in a variety of applications, such as extracting metric and semantic information about buildings, visualizing the data in a way that outlines important aspects, or urban planning. We present a probabilistic image-based approach to the semantic interpretation of building facades. We are motivated by the 4D Atlanta proj...

Automatic reconstruction of large-scale outdoor objects like house facades is an important component of mixedreality systems that model and visualise real world at different level of detail. The authors are involved in a project that utilises a car-mounted LIDAR to acquire a sequence 3D point clouds representing facades in a street. No GPS or IMU is used. Hundreds of point clouds need to be aut...

The paper describes an approach for the quality dependent reconstruction of building facades using 3D point clouds from mobile terrestrial laser scanning and coarse building models. Due to changing viewing conditions such measurements frequently suffer from different point densities at the respective building facades. In order to support the automatic generation of facade structure in regions w...