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Inferring a realistic building land use, defined as an inventory of the distinct functional spaces hosted by a building, brings valuable knowledge for building models. Manual measurement can produce highly realistic interior models, but such approaches are labour-intensive and must be conducted on a case-by-case basis. We introduce a fully automated workflow that systematically simulates a well-described building land use by integrating three complementary tasks: (1) use-oriented building object modelling \u2013 defining building objects that capture building land use, (2) activity census and conflation \u2013 aggregating and reconciling activity records from heterogeneous datasets, and (3) logical attribute generation \u2013 deriving detailed attributes for housing units and activities in relation to the characteristics of their host building and other environmental factors. 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