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A tool for a first analysis of architectural façades

Giuseppe Pellitteri

subject

Structure (mathematical logic)Engineering drawingEngineeringHierarchy (mathematics)business.industryComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISIONBuilding and ConstructionImage (mathematics)Facade patternControl and Systems EngineeringHomogeneous spaceArithmetic functionEquidistantFacadebusinessCivil and Structural Engineering

description

Abstract This work presents a tool for analysing the figurative structure of architectural facades. The procedure begins by singling out the elementary shapes which make up the facade image; it detects and identifies them as “area objects”, even if present in combination in virtual or mental form and groups them into classes of equal objects. A second step is the analysis of the inner structure of the classes: equidistant, arithmetical and geometrical sequences, or alternate distances are distinguished. The procedure ends by singling out the symmetries which structure the facade image and displaying them, pointing out their implied hierarchy through a thickness differentiation.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
1997-02-01Automation in Construction
https://doi.org/10.1016/s0926-5805(96)00160-4