A semantic device adapted to images, to assist with the architectural design process

A lot of research shown that designing an architectural solution requires introducing external references<br />other than those existing in the design problem. In our case we choose photographic images to illustrate<br />these references because an image illustrates the graphic part of an architectural concept. For this the<br />information transmitted by photographic image is often easier to interpret by the designer. To assist the<br />design process, we are working on the construction of a reference image database where the designer will<br />find various solutions to his design problem. We have therefore proposed a method for indexing this image<br />database. The following paper tackles the particular question of semantic meaning applied to architectural<br />works. More precisely, we present the results obtained through an experiment following the Chi-square<br />statistic rule, whose objective was to validate the weight associated with the architectural concepts<br />illustrated according to their visual features in images