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UID:pretalx-spathum24-KSVNUP@pretalx.com
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DESCRIPTION:The built environment constantly changes as buildings are const
 ructed\, repaired\, renovated\, remodelled\, refurnished\, reconstructed\,
  and demolished. But while we know from everyday experience that building 
 existence is a temporal phenomenon\, systematically defining what ac-tions
  amount to the construction of a new building or its demise is not as stra
 ightforward as one could expect. This blurriness in definitions was acknow
 ledged in recent studies on building age prediction and heritage discourse
  in spatial humanities (Ferreira-Lopes & Pinto-Puerto\, 2018\; Li et al.\,
  2018\; Sun et al.\, 2022\; Zeppelzauer et al.\, 2018)\, including a study
  that noted that “[w]hile it is one of the key building attributes […]
 \, the year of construction of a building has not been given much attentio
 n in practice and research” (Biljecki & Sindram\, 2017\, p. 22). When at
 tempting to investigate large databases of building information to explore
  the historical transformations of a city's physical development\, this co
 nceptual blurriness becomes a genuine impediment to extracting meaningful 
 and reliable quantitative insights. Without clearly and consistently defin
 ing the moments of “birth” and “change” of most buildings in such 
 databases\, analysing the historical trends embodied in them stands on sha
 ky grounds.\nIn this study\, we explored the theoretical ambiguities\, blu
 rry definitions\, and technical challenges that complicate the seemingly s
 traight-forward definition of major moments in a building’s life\, both 
 within academic discourse and across professional and regulatory domains (
 Figure 1). We then attempted to distil coherent definitions of a building
 ’s moment of inception that may serve as a strong indicator for signific
 ant construction activity concentrated on a single building plot. In defin
 ing this moment\, the proposed system considers a building’s visual ap-p
 earance\, impact on the built landscape\, and structural integrity as the 
 most important spatial variables that indicate significant construction ac
 tivity. Consequently\, we suggest determining a building’s moment of “
 birth” based on the type of certification documents contained in mu-nici
 pal building files\, highlighting the significance of carefully studying t
 he local properties of building certification systems in large-scale and h
 igh-resolution analyses of building stock trends.  \nThis study presents a
  reproducible ontological formulation defining a building's moments of “
 birth” to support large-scale\, high-resolution historical analysis of c
 onstruction trends and cycles. The study also aims to rectify a critical g
 ap in the methodological foundations of architectural historiography that 
 has direct implications within the broader domain of the spatial humanitie
 s. This gap impedes different types of diachronic analysis of the evolutio
 n of the built environment\, especially when studying how the ups and down
 s in the economy affect the building stock. To explore the coherence\, pra
 cticality\, and challenges of the suggested methodology\, we applied it to
  the historical analysis of a large dataset of planning and construction d
 ocuments archived and digitised by the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality’s Engi
 neering Administra-tion. Based on the documents’ classifications\, we au
 tomatically extracted years of increased building activities on each plot 
 to recreate the city’s timeline of construction and expansion.
DTSTAMP:20260316T235519Z
LOCATION:MG1 00.04 Hörsaal
SUMMARY:The Birth and Life of Buildings: High-Resolution Analysis of Histor
 ical Building Trends through the Digitised Municipal Archive of Tel Aviv-Y
 afo - Elad Horn\, Or Aleksandrowicz\, Daniel Rosenberg\, Ido Baum
URL:https://pretalx.com/spathum24/talk/KSVNUP/
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