Cultural heritages and historical buildings are vulnerable against severe threats from fire. Since the 1970s, ten fire-spread events involving historic buildings have occurred in Taiwan, affecting a total of 132 nearby buildings. Developed under the influence of traditional Taiwanese culture, historic buildings in Taiwan are often built using non-fire resistant brick-wood structure and located ...

ARKIS Architecture Recovery Knowledge Information System is an Information System, set up as an auxiliary tool for the organisation, representation and utilisation of knowledge of data in the recovery of historical buildings. It regards the architectural item, its immediate context and its territorial location. ARKIS is user friendly and represents an operative tool for different Organisation, ...

Modern architecture has vital impact in Nigerian architecture even though there are somesocio-cultural and religious factors and elements of traditional architecture and use of traditional materials andprinciples of design that still exist. This paper will be discussing on how modern architecture failed in the aspectthe of conservation and restoration of palace buildings which are the focal poi...

Architectural heritage must be conserved by using contemporary approaches. Conserving the historical buildings depend on appropriate measurements and data related to their life history. At this stage, digital photogrammetric techniques and GIS (Geographical Information System) integration would be one of the best solutions. GIS has a capability to integrate and update graphic and non-graphic da...

This paper is about single three-point perspective historical photography-based CAAD modeling (amateur camera calibration, pose and 3-d reconstruction) of man-made environments, buildings and monuments, rich in geometrical regularity. The proposed method, gains profit from the presence in the image (historical photography) of three vanishing directions and two orthogonal object edges with known...