This paper reviews ways of reducing surface transport noise by natural means. The noise abatement solutions of interest can be easily (visually) incorporated in the landscape or help with greening the (sub)urban environment. They include vegetated surfaces (applied to faces or tops of noise walls and on buildings’ façades and roofs), caged piles of stones (gabions), vegetation belts (tree belts...

This paper addresses the issue of image orientation for interactive tours. We consider situations where image sequences are captured in an urban site for which a virtual-model is already available. We present an approach that allows us to capture the orientation of these images using as control information building façades (instead of traditional points). Our approach allows us to orient image ...

In the last years, several robots for building façade cleaning have been designed and some prototypes have been developed. However, most of these robotics systems are too expensive to be introduced in the market or are only able to cope with very simple completely flat glass façades. Funded by the European Commission, a consortium formed by several European enterprises and research institutions...

The envelope (façade) of a building is the part that forms primary barrier to its environment. Most new and modern office buildings have glazed are usually built-in city centers. concept double-skin façade was born as consequence urban noise. principal noise source in areas traffic Using can be solution ensures good sound insulation for building. This study presents experimental results obtaine...

Integrated life-cycle assessment (LCA) tools have emerged as decision-making support for BIM practitioners during the design stage of sustainable projects. However, differences between methodologies applied determining environmental impact buildings produce significant variations in results obtained, making them difficult to be compared. In this study, a methodology is defined generating benchm...

Designing novel interaction concepts for urban environments is not only a technical challenge in terms of scale, safety, portability and deployment, but also a challenge of designing for social configurations and spatial settings. To outline what it takes to create a consistent and interactive experience in urban space, we describe the concept and multidisciplinary design process of VR/Urban’s ...

The focus of this study is on the impact of solar radiation reflected from the building façade to a pedestrian. The possibility of using high-reflectance technology on building façades was evaluated by using a two-dimensional simple building façade model. The effectiveness of applying retroreflective materials to building façades was also evaluated in regards to avoiding adverse effects on pede...

This study analyzed how the variations of plant area index (PAI) and weather conditions alter the influence of urban green infrastructure (UGI) on microclimate. To observe how diverse UGIs affect the ambient microclimate through the seasons, microclimatic data were measured during the growing season at five sites in a local urban area in The Netherlands. Site A was located in an open space; sit...

Presuming that airborne imagery is available at a sufficient overlap, state-of-the-art multi-stereo matching can generate DSM raster representations at an accuracy and resolution which corresponds to the ground sampling distance (GSD) of the original images. For such secenarios recent matching software exploits the resulting redundancy and derives surface representations at a remarkable accurac...