Abstract
Regarding interior building topology as an important aspect in building design and management, several approaches to indoor point cloud structuring have been introduced recently. Apart from a high-level semantic segmentation of the formerly unstructured point clouds into stories and rooms, these methods additionally allow the extraction of attributed graphs in which nodes represent rooms (including room properties like area or height), and edges represent connections between rooms (doors or staircases) or indicate neighborhood relationships (separation by walls). In this paper, we investigate possible applications of these approaches in architectural design and building management and comment on the possible benefits for the building profession. While contemporary practice of spatial arrangement is predominantly based on the manual iteration of spatial topologies, we show that the segmentation of buildings in spaces along with the untraditional more abstract graph-based representations can be used for design, management and navigation within building structures.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Fusion : Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe |
Editors | Emine Mine Thompson |
Number of pages | 10 |
Volume | 2 |
Publisher | eCAADe (Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe) and ITU / YTU |
Publication date | 2014 |
Pages | 557-566 |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Event | Fusion: eCAADe Conference - Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Duration: 10 Sept 2014 → 12 Sept 2014 Conference number: 32nd |
Conference
Conference | Fusion |
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Number | 32nd |
Location | Northumbria University |
Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
City | Newcastle upon Tyne |
Period | 10/09/2014 → 12/09/2014 |
Keywords
- 3D Scanning
- Point Cloud Processing
- BIM
- Facility Management
- Space Syntax
Artistic research
- No