The advancing digitalization in the building sector with the possibility to store and retrieve large amounts of data has the potential to digitally support planners with extensive design and construction information. Large amounts of semi-structured three-dimensional geometric data of buildings are usually available today, but the topological relationships are rarely explicitly described and thus not directly usable with computational methods of AI. To this end, we propose methods for indexing spatial configurations inspired by the similarity analysis of incomplete human fingerprints, since the early design stage of architectural design is characterized by incomplete information. For this, the topology of spatial configurations is extracted from Building Information Modelling (BIM) data and represented as graphs. In this paper, Semantic Building Fingerprints (SBFs) and Semantic Urban Fingerprints (SUFs), as well as use cases for AI methods are described. Keywords.
| Authors | Christoph Langenhan and Jessica Bielski and Christoph Ziegler and Viktor Eisenstadt and Klaus Dieter Althoff and Andreas Dengel |
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| Year | 2023 |
| Venue | Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia |
| DOI | 10.52842/CONF.CAADRIA.2023.1.129 |
| Source Database | Seed (CumInCAD) |
| Bridge-to-GNN | Category Seed |
| GNN Architecture | GNN (heuristic — verify) |
| Graph Encoding | BIM Element Topology Graph (inferred from title) |
| AEC Task | Knowledge Graph Construction (inferred from title) |
| Cohort | Consolidation (2023) |
| Implementation Framework | OWL / SPARQL (heuristic — verify) |
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| Primary Metric | Mean Average Precision (mAP) (heuristic — verify) |
| Key Finding | Semantic Building Fingerprints (SBFs) (e (heuristic — verify) |
| GNN architectures detected | Knowledge Graph Embedding (TransE/RotatE/DistMult) |
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| Frameworks / libraries | RDF / OWL / SPARQL |
| Quality (heuristic, 6-flag) | 0/6 · rigor: Low Code/Data: —Benchmark: —Baseline: —CV/Split: —Ablation: —Reproducible: — |
Part of the GML/GNN in AEC Systematic Review (PRISMA 2020) — 112 papers, 2020–2026