DURAARK

Ujwal Kumar Gadiraju

Camillo Sitte Main works are “an

aesthetic criticism” of 19th century urbanism.

“City Planning according to artistic principles.”

Space Syntax

Built Environment

Form follows function VS Ornamentalism

What do people think about buildings?

• (On the way)/(at) home, work, play.

• Buildings invoke feelings.

• Research has established that buildings shape the built environment.

• Built environment influences various aspects within a community.

Survey: Pursuit of Ground Truth via Crowdsourcing

Building Types

- Skyscrapers

- Bridges

- Churches

- Halls

- Airports

Emerging factors :

- Historic importance

- Affect on/of the surroundings/built environment

- Materials used

- Size of the building/structure

- Personal experiences

- Level of Details

Emerging factors : For example :

- Ease of access to airport

- Efficiency of movement/processing inside airport

- General design & Appearance

Crowdsourcing with Caution

Gold Standard to detect malicious workers or bots.

Images presented with same resolution and dimensions [Chu et al.].

Avoid bias by using images from Wikimedia Commons.

Chu, Wei-Ta, Yu-Kuang Chen, and Kuan-Ta Chen. "Size does matter: how image size affects aesthetic perception?." Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Multimedia. ACM, 2013.

Emerging Influential Factors

Processing pipeline for automated ranking of buildings

Example

Dataset Characteristics

Patterns for well-perceived architectural structures

Some results...

Performance Comparison of different Ranking Models for Halls

Some results...

Performance Comparison of different Ranking Models for Halls

Most well-received architectural styles

Gothic Revival Romanesque Gothic

Visualization-Interactive Map

Resulting Knowledge Base (exposed as public Linked Data)Example: (The Grandmaster's Palace, Malta)