Reasoning about space-time changes: an approach for modeling the temporal dimention in architectural heritage
Résumé
The purpose of this work is to define an approach to space-time representation of buildings. In regard to this topic, problems are rather complex: when studying historical buildings, information related to various states over time is often contradictory, heterogeneous, uncertain and incomplete. As a consequence, geometrical representation of buildings has to take into account the need both to visualize the architectural evolutions and to qualify hypothesis by means of a code of representation. As a consequence of this, information technology development focuses on three aspects: the 3D model structure, the concept of time and the management of uncertainty.