What are good predictors of the construction year of residential buildings?
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I'm not an architectural historian, although I have an interest in the subject, but I really do not think this is feasible, at least without limiting your area of interest considerably.
To take just one vernacular form of architecture, wattle and daub. This is a widespread technique, with many variations in construction, materials and wide geographical spread. How an algorithm could distinguish between a medieval English house and a similar construction in, as Wiki Commons illustrates, Bulgaria, frankly defeats me.
Furthermore, architectural historians rely, not merely on stylistic conventions but techniques of roof construction, material, joints, wall plates - all of which require access to the interior, often extremely difficult to physically get at. Then, there is dendrochronology - when were the timbers felled? At the time of original build, or during a later remodeling /repair?
I am not a computer programmer, but to construct (pun intended) an algorithm to do all this from external photographs appears to me quite impossible. Sorry!
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I apologise, I did not pick up on the energy implications. However, this stuccoed house is a straw-bale construction, an excellent insulator , but I doubt this would be obvious from an external photograph.
Exterior view of straw bale library in Mattawa, Washington taken in 2008
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Anyone can learn to do so to a degree.
As a teenager watching Dark Shadows (1966-1972) I saw that the fictional Collingwood estate at the fiction town of Collinsport, Maine, had two mansions. The present Collinwood Mansion and the abandoned Old House.
In episodes where a character traveled back in time to the 1790s, the newer Collingwood was new built, meaning that the Old House was even older.
But even as a teenager it was apparent to me that Collinwood Mansion looked like it was built a century or more after the 1790s, while the Old House looked like it should have been built at least 30 years after the 1790s.
The exteriors of Collingwood were filmed at Seaview Terrace or the Carey Mansion at Newport, Rhode island, which has a highly complex history since a large part of it was first built in Washington DC in 1907 and later moved to Newport and rebuilt there in 1923-25, incorporating Seaview, a house built in 1885. Some of the rooms were much older, brought from Europe to Washington and then to Newport.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaview_Terrace 1
The exteriors of the Old House - built in 1767 in fiction - were filmed at an appropriately abandoned mansion in Tarrytown, New York, near Washington Irving's mansion and near Lyndhurst, which was used as Collingwood in two Dark Shadows movies. The mansion used for the Old House was first built in the 1850s and probably had its columns added decades later.
http://www.hudsonvalleyruins.org/yasinsac/spratt/spratt.html2
https://darkshadows.fandom.com/wiki/The_Old_House3
So as you can see my teenage self could tell fairly accurately that the buildings used for exterior scenes of Collingwood and the Old House were much younger than the fictinal ages of those buildings.
No doubt an architectural historian can estimate the ages of buildings much better than I can, and some of the knowledge of architectural historians can be programmed into computers. Therefore, it seems to me that what you ask about could be done, but I do not know how well it could be done.
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