Interest points on the building façade are the basic element for 3-D building modeling and texturing. Grouping these points to the same or separate buildings is a fundamental process for establishing building models and detecting building boundaries. The grouping process is generally achieved by analyzing the geometric relation and the distances between the points in the object space, which req...

Environmental design goals Environmental conditions within the laboratories and their support spaces demand high volumes of treated air to maintain safe and comfortable working conditions for research staff and their students. The overall design team environmental conditions objectives were to design a building with a DSF to the offices, which reduces the annual energy consumption. The design g...

Building occupants interact frequently with façades. These interactions simultaneously affect several domains of the indoor environment (visual, thermal, air quality and acoustic) occupant perception, as well energy performance Yet this multi-domain relationship between façade is not understood. This gap in knowledge particularly problematic for dynamic façades, where automated controls endeavo...

Thermally modified timber (TMT) is increasingly offered in Europe as an alternative to preservative treated timber. TMT durability in field tests as well as its moisture sorption behaviour in façade application was determined so as to consider its suitability for outdoor use. Additionally, abrasion and crack-formation of TMT deckings were examined and the optical appearance of a TMT façade was ...

The development of energy-efficient technologies at all stages a building’s life cycle is essential to achieving sustainable goals. object the study climate-adaptive façade structures with air gaps in form Trombe wall and double-skin façade. Cases using phase-change materials (PCM) photovoltaic modules (PV) are analyzed separately. research method aimed review analyze energy-saving potential fr...

The paper describes an approach for the quality dependent reconstruction of building façades using 3D point clouds from mobile terrestrial laser scanning. Due to different look angles, such measurements frequently suffer from different point densities at the respective building façades. In order to support the interpretation at areas, where no or only limited LiDAR measurements are available, a...

At the intersection of multimedia, artificial intelligence, and gaming technology, new visions of future entertainment media arise that approximate the “Holodeck” ® idea of interactive storytelling. We report exploratory experiments on the user experience in a ‘classic’, foundational application of interactive storytelling, “Façade” (Mateas & Stern, 2002), and compare results with an identical ...