FAÇADE (Fast and Automatic Clustering Approach to Data Engineering) is a spatial clustering tool that can discover clusters of different sizes, shapes, and densities in noisy spatial data. Compared with the existing clustering methods, FAÇADE has several advantages: first, it separates true data and noise more effectively. Second, most steps of FAÇADE are automatic. Third, it requires only O(nl...

This contribution presents a solution based on a photographs analysis allowing the computation of procedural models of façades. The goal is to extract from a photograph of a façade the main features such as the upper limit of the ground floor, the axis aligned boundary lines between the stories and the windows, and finally the position and size of unit elements of the façade (windows, doors, et...

Figure 0. Waterjet Cut models of two Façade Systems The inclusion of technological devices in the built environment may eventually have a profound influence on architecture and may lead to new design philosophies that solve tectonically the dialogue between traditional materials and computer networks; this document describes an exploration on a façade system that articulates distributed network...

The solar façade of the FIAT Research Center (CRF) was realized recently near Turin in Italy, under cooperation between CRF and Politecnico di Milano. The photovoltaic elements, that has a total power of 19.5 kWp, produces electric energy, while the forced air circulation beneath the modules recovers the thermal fraction of captured solar radiation and cools the cells as well. The electricity g...

The paper discusses the importance of greenery in cities. It considers presence green elements inside a typical urban perimeter block and deliberates about their impact on solar radiation level facades yard. A series computer simulations have been done using six combinations surface reflectance (façade/yard) for configurations. were performed with DIVA, plug-in Rhino Oslo (59.91273, 10.74609). ...