The problem of building product selection occupies an important place in an architecturaldesign process. Building product search engines on the Web propose access modes, which, ingeneral, rely on the use of text. These access modes are badly adapted to architect'sinformation needs, which are often fuzzy at the beginning and they are never clearly andcompletely enunciable in words. Therefore, we propose the image as a new support forbuilding product search. We present a method applied to an interactive building productsearch, as well as the construction of an image database used in this search. Consequently,two applications have been realised from this method: 1) a crawler intended for extraction andindexing of building product image from the Web, 2) an interactive building product searchtool. Evaluation of these tools allows us to propose ameliorations of the approach.
