This paper discusses relationships between research, architectural design and technology, with particular focus on the descriptions and activities of a practice-oriented architectural research program. The objectives of the program are to advance the performance of project designs, improve decision-making process, and to inspire innovation through systematic investigations of building performan...

For realistic simulations, architecture is one of the most important elements to model and render photorealistically. Current techniques of converting architectural plans or survey data to CAD models are labor intensive, and methods for rendering such models are generally not photorealistic. In this work, we present a new approach for modeling and rendering existing architectural scenes from a ...

Architectural settings occur in many virtual environments. Modeling such highly detailed structures manually is a time-consuming and tedious task. Therefore we propose a system for the rapid modeling of building façades. The designer just has to provide some coarse information, the building outline, its type and style and the computer takes care of creating the exact geometry. Adjacent architec...

In this paper, we present a method that introduces graphical models into a multi-view scenario. We focus on a popular Random Fields concept that many researchers use to describe context in a single image and introduce a new model that can transfer context directly between matched images – Multi-View Random Fields. This method allows sharing not only visual information between images, but also c...

IF THE US armed forces are to fight in the fu ture, at the op era tional or stra te gic lev­ els of warfare, they will do so jointly. A joint national military strategy sets the re quire ments for joint plans to be devel oped in the short term. These plans set objec tives for all uni fied com mand ers in chief (CINC) in their areas of respon si bil ity (AOR). The require ment that CINCs create ...

Progressive collapse is defined as the spread of an initial damage from one member to another, leading to extensive partial or total collapse of the structure. In this research, the potential of progressive collapse due to a sudden removal of vertical load-bearing elements in reinforced concrete buildings structures with different floor plans such as geometrical regular and irregular floor plan...

Vegetation moderates a microclimate by casting shadows, increasing light reflection, evaporation and perspiration; and correcting wind patterns. The present study aims to investigate the microclimatic role of vegetated surfaces and bodies in improving thermal comfort in outdoor spaces between buildings. The main research question is which of the green system modes, that is, horizontal vegetatio...

Purpose This paper highlights a crucial public safety issue due to falling objects from tall residential buildings in Singapore. A systematic façade inspection regime and system of evaluation severity for the detection assessment potential are presented. Design/methodology/approach The research uses qualitative case study approach with 450 sampled study. common materials, elements, components h...

This article compares the main aspects of Dugin’s neo-Eurasianism with content two important texts published in 2021: Putin’s ‘On historical unity Russians and Ukrainians’ new National Security Strategy. These can be understood as part ideological preparations for war against Ukraine 2022. The presence elements Russian nationalist ideology these will make it possible to answer question whether ...

The paper presents an approach to efficiently increase the geometric detail of complex building facades by terrestrial laser scanning (TLS). Such applications are frequently required for documentation and presentation of architectural heritage. The modeling of the building geometry is based on a coarse to fine approach. Thus, an approximate 3D building model like it is typically available from ...