Ventilated façades have become an increasingly employed feature in the design of low energy buildings over recent years in that they offer the attractive features of a conventional glass façade but without the thermal disadvantages. These façades consist of a double skin surface, the outer layer of which is of toughened glass, and the inner layer of which usually comprises conventional double-g...

designing an efficient skin for the building can minimize winter heat loss and summer heat gain. double skin façade (dsf) is a good device for achieving such a goal; but its summer overheating is a problem for using it, especially in hot-dry climates such as iran plateau. in this study, after reviewing state of the art strategies for cooling façade cavity, the effect of using some of them (such...

This paper is focused on integration between laser scanning data, CAD modelling and photogrammetric data collected during the survey of one façade of the monument called “Quattro Canti” in the historic centre of Palermo. The investigation has been directed to the production of a 3D photorealistic model of the monument. The “Quattro Canti” monument is formed by four cylindrical façades facing th...

This appendix describes the system model that is adopted for the experimental evaluation of our state-driven testing approach. Moreover, it contains the glossary of the terms used in the paper. 1 System model The system model adopted for state-driven testing is showed in Figure 1. Transitions in the Petri Net represent events that can occur during an execution. These events are logged by the Wo...

This paper presents a new approach to recognize individual façade objects and to reconstruct such objects in 3D using MLS point clouds. Core of the approach is a primitive shape based algorithm, which introduces building primitives, to identify the façade objects separately from other irrelevant objects and then to model the correct topology. The primitive shape is identified against defined di...

Two groups of subjects were presented with two façade designs, one with the front façade of the existing Atlanta Public Library, an exercise in modern abstract plastic composition by the Bauhaus-trained architect Marcel Breuer, and the other with alteration that toned down its plasticity and enhanced simple relations of its parts like symmetry and repetition. The subjects were asked to recall a...

Semi-transparent photovoltaic double skin façade (STPV-DSF) is a novel structure which integrates photoelectric, photothermal, ventilation and energy-saving features, proves to be extremely attractive promising. In this study, full-scale experimental system was built, airflow heat transfer in rectangular cavity with different transmittance (τ) modes summer that studies STPV-DSF includes natural...

The depth of scientific understanding of martensitic transformations provides a strong foundation for the predictive design of materials exploiting artensitic phenomena. Recent theoretical advances supporting this capability include twoand three-dimensional applications of Landau–Ginzburg heory to martensitic nucleation, and important refinements of multiscale kinetic theory. Accurate control o...

Measurements of in situ sound reduction index of a façade defines noise source’s incidence angle of 45±5 degrees (ISO 140-5). Seeing as the sound reduction index is dependent from the angle of incidence, it is of interest to examine to what extent results obtained with such incidence represent real sound insulation performances of a façade in different circumstances. The paper presents the resu...

We examine a new method of façade segmentation in a multi-view scenario. A set of overlapping, thus redundant street-side images exists and each image shows multiple buildings. A semantic segmentation identifies primary areas in the image such as sky, ground, vegetation, and façade. Subsequently, repeated patterns are detected in image segments previous labeled as “façade areas” and are applied...