Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a globally adapted methodology by government organisations and builders who conceive the integration of the organisation, planning, development and the digital construction model into a single project. In the case of a heritage building, the Historic Building Information Modelling (HBIM) approach is able to cover the comprehensive restoration of the building. In contrast to BIM applied to new buildings, HBIM can address different models which represent either periods of historical interpretation, restoration phases or records of heritage assets over time. Great efforts are currently being made to automatically reconstitute the geometry of cultural heritage elements from data acquisition techniques such as Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) or Structure From Motion (SfM) into BIM (Scan-to-BIM). Hence, this work advances on the parametric modelling from remote sensing point cloud data, which is carried out under the Rhino+Grasshopper-ArchiCAD combination. This workflow enables the automatic conversion of TLS and SFM point cloud data into textured 3D meshes and thus BIM objects to be included in the HBIM project. The accuracy assessment of this workflow yields a standard deviation value of 68.28 pixels, which is lower than other author’s precision but suffices for the automatic HBIM of the case study in this research.

Humanitarian architecture as a domain of architecture that deals with people in need and has peculiar characteristics in regards to what and how does the architect design. In the last three decades, there have been major developments in the architectural techniques that are currently not adopted with their full potential by the humanitarian sector. The aim of the research presented in this paper was to develop new methods for shelter design that have integrated automation of various tasks and leave others to the professionals. The developed algorithm for semi-automated design is used to make shelter study models that are presented here. The research critically addresses the widely accepted design standard for shelter height and area and proposes an alternative approach for shelter evaluation.

This paper presents a new method and toolset to measure strain values of the fabrics under biaxial tensile test. The proposed model is based on the reverse engineering of Delta 3D printing system. A comparison is made to the existing widely accepted models of strain measurements. The designed toolset was developed by parameter based modelling and genetic optimization to ensure that the equipment can function within the given strain domains. The equipment design model can be adapted to any biaxial tension frame.