scholarly journals A history of masonry and concrete domes in building construction

1977 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.J. Cowan
Keyword(s):  
Building Construction ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals GALLERI ARSITEKTUR BANJAR

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-47
Author(s):  
Febry Ramadan Saifudin ◽  
Ira Mentayani
Keyword(s):  
Building Construction ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Single Mass ◽  
Initial Process

Banjar Architecture Gallery is one of the solutions to increase the interest of the people of Banjarmasin city for the benefit of developing their own city. The essence needed about building construction can be a creative and educative socialization agent to make visitors understand Banjarmasin city architecture. In the end, the Architectural Gallery Design can be realized as a single mass building by presenting a Banjar house holographic collection presented from the house, the history of the house's hierarchy, and the initial process of making a house. On the 1st floor tells the history and process of making banjarise house. The second floor is where we proceed with hologram technology.

scholarly journals A House of Sticks: A History of Queenslander Houses in Maryborough

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-74
Author(s):  
Donald Watson
Keyword(s):  
Building Construction ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
History Of ◽  
High Set ◽  
Local Term

Some years ago, when South-East Queensland was threatened with being overrun with Tuscan villas, the Brisbane architect John Simpson proposed that revenge should be taken on Italy by exporting timber and tin shacks in large numbers to Tuscany. The Queenslanders would be going home – albeit as colonial cousins – taking with them their experience of the sub-tropics. Without their verandahs but with their pediments intact, the form and planning, fenestration and detailing can be interpreted as Palladian, translated into timber, the material originally available in abundance for building construction. ‘High-set’, the local term for South-East Queensland's raised houses, denotes a feature that is very much the traditional Italian piano nobile [‘noble floor’]: the principal living areas on a first floor with a rusticated façade of battens infilling between stumps and shaped on the principal elevation as a superfluous arcade to a non-existent basement storey. Queensland houses were very Italianate.

A Reconsideration of the Equitable Building in New York

1990 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally A. Kitt Chappell
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Architecture ◽  
Management Techniques ◽  
The City

Conventional opinion has held that the Equitable Building (1912-1915) at 120 South Broadway in New York was the embodiment of all that was wrong with skyscrapers, and that it was thus a major cause of the 1916 zoning ordinance which restricted the height, size, and arrangement of buildings in the city. A closer look at the evidence reveals that a blueprint for the zoning regulation was complete in 1913 when the Equitable had just been begun. In the clash of conflicting ideologies surrounding the zoning movement, the Equitable was more a convenient symbol, a handy scapegoat in the heat of contemporary rhetoric, than a principal cause of the new ordinance. The earlier misjudgment has obscured the building's place in two other areas in the history of architecture: elevator engineering, and the adaptation of management techniques to building construction.

scholarly journals Construction History in Theory and Teaching

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-125
Author(s):  
Martin Pilsitz
Keyword(s):  
Research Programme ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Artistic Development ◽  
Architectural Drawings ◽  
Design Factor ◽  
Historical Building ◽  
Universities And Colleges ◽  
Historic Building ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
History Of

For the development of a comprehensive explanative model on the genesis and use of the history of a historic building, an exclusively visual and aesthetic approach is not sufficient. In addition to the function, the construction is also shown as a peer design factor in the planning, architectural and artistic development. In this context, the task of the technical universities and colleges is to provide students with a far-reaching expertise in historical building construction. To achieve this goal, the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BUTE), in the context of a research programme, has taken a targeted initiative. For this purpose, a large number of historical architectural drawings were combined in a plan collection at the Department and made available for further research. With regard to the structural importance of these drawings, a systematic scientific research has been carried out.This study was supported by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office - grant No. 112906.

Rock engineering for construction of Science North, Sudbury, Ontario

1985 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 443-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Franklin ◽  
David Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Site Investigation ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Construction Work ◽  
Rock Engineering ◽  
New Science ◽  
Exposed Rock ◽  
Anchoring System ◽  
History Of ◽  
Rock Faces

This paper presents a case study of rock engineering investigations, design, and construction work for the new Science North museum in Sudbury, Ontario. While the rock work is not particularly innovative, the building construction involved singular geotechnical requirements and problems.The building sits astride a major regional fault, which has a mapped length of 56 km, a throw of over 600 m, and a shear zone 30 m wide. Inclined drilling was used to locate and characterize the shears within this zone. The paper describes the site investigation and assesses the fault's history of movement and the potential for future fault activity.Architectural requirements included excavation of a "cavern" and entrance tunnel with exposed rock faces that were to appear rough yet remain stable. Given the sheared rock, the excavation required careful blasting. No shotcrete, mesh, or other visible forms of support were permitted. Instead, the rock was stabilized by "invisible" fully resin-bonded dowels. Anchors with a working load of 500 kN each were used to pretension the piers to the rock and stabilize the rock faces beneath pier foundations. The paper describes the methods used to assess foundation bearing capacity and rock cut stability, to design the anchoring system, and to inspect and scale the footings, the tunnel, and the open-cut rock faces. Key words: rocks, foundations, blasting, site investigation, anchoring, bolting, slope stability, scaling, faults.

Designing houses: the façade and the architecture of street and square

2018 ◽  
pp. 75-121
Author(s):  
Conor Lucey
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Building Regulations ◽  
City Councils ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic Competence ◽  
Pattern Books

This chapter builds on a rich and complex history of the eighteenth-century urban house in the cities of Britain, Ireland and North America. Shifting emphasis away from construction, economic competence and labour organization – the predominant focus of academic studies devoted to this class of building producer – it investigates the artisan’s engagement with the processes and aesthetics of architectural design. With prominence given to the design of the house façade, topics include the emerging standardization in building construction; building regulations and the varying degrees of control exercised by landowners and city councils; and the responsibility of design to the urban milieu, specifically the requisite (ideal) interface between private concern (house) and public obligation (street). With reference to artisanal education through apprenticeship and builders’ academies, and the role of pattern books and drawing portfolios, this chapter argues that building tradesmen were concerned as much with making design (architecture) as with making profits (building).

scholarly journals Secretive Mausoleum of Timurids

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khusenova Mekhrangiz Gayratovna
Keyword(s):  
World Heritage ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Reliable Information ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Misleading Information ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Structure Research

One of the brightest examples of Timurid’s architecture is the Ashatkhana monument attracting many people. Ashratkhana is also appreciated and considered heritage of not only for Uzbekistan, but also for humanity. For this reason, the mausoleum is included in The World Heritage List of UNESCO. However, some unproved and misleading information which is spread by unknown sourses made the monument have misleading opinions. It can be as a result of lack of fundamental and reliable information about the history of building, construction, describtion of the monument. This article describes the history of its construction, structure, research and its aspects as a tourist destination. This monument has been renovated many times over the years and the process is continuing

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