scholarly journals Correlation between military and domestic architecture: A tribune's house in Aquincum and its place in Roman architecture

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-277
Keyword(s):  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Domestic Architecture ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
Roman Architecture ◽  
Floor Plan ◽  
Roman Army ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
Large Building

Abstract The House of the Tribunus Laticlavius, a large building in the legionary fortress of Aquincum, has only been partially excavated, and this was in the 1970s. This short paper makes an attempt to understand its function and find its place in Roman architecture through a reconstruction of its floor plan and comparison with other prominent residential buildings of the period which share similar features. It appears very likely that the house is based on a loose adaptation of a Hellenistic model, tailored to the needs of high-ranking officers of the Roman army.

scholarly journals An Interim Protocol for the Mitigation of Radon in Non-Residential Buildings

1994 ◽  
Vol 56 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 9-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.L. Wilson ◽  
C.S. Dudney ◽  
R.B. Gammage
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Protection Agency ◽  
Safety Issues ◽  
The Us ◽  
Process Studies ◽  
Radon Testing ◽  
Fire Codes ◽  
Large Building

Abstract To date, the US Environmental Protection Agency has not published guidance for radon testing, diagnostics, or mitigation within large, non-residential buildings. Current research indicates that large buildings may contain construction features or mechanical systems that could inhibit the installation or operation of a mitigation system. Health and safety issues such as asbestos and fire codes may further interfere with the installation process. Studies also show that elevated radon can be restricted to a particular area or room within a building and not be uniformly distributed. A four-step, sequential protocol has been developed to address these issues and facilitate large building radon mitigation.

The early development of concrete in the domestic architecture of pre-Roman Pompeii

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 43-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcello Mogetta
Keyword(s):  
Early Development ◽  
Domestic Architecture ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Roman Architecture ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Recent Debate ◽  
Roman Concrete ◽  
Rome I ◽  
The Town ◽  
Prevailing View

Because of its exceptional state of preservation, Pompeii has traditionally been viewed as an ideal site at which to study the early development of Roman architecture. Scholars have looked to the Pompeian evidence in order to provide parallels for periods and classes of buildings that in Rome are less well documented archaeologically. The focus of recent debate has been on the Mid- to Late Republican transition, with an emphasis on building types whose introduction at Pompeii would demonstrate a direct cultural link with practice at Rome. The prevailing view is that both the town-planning and the architecture of Pompeii in the 3rd-2nd c. B.C. were strongly influenced by Roman models or prototypes. Similarly, there has been a tendency to refer to the Pompeian materials as the missing link for the high dating of early Roman concrete architecture in Rome, which would have been introduced around the same period. In a recent review of the evidence from Rome, I have argued for a later chronology, which, inevitably, prompts a reconsideration of the development and cultural significance of concrete construction at Pompeii.

Transformation on the Design for Sustainable of High-Rise Residential Buildings – The Case Study of Shanghai Combined Apartment Building

2012 ◽  
Vol 204-208 ◽  
pp. 3565-3570
Author(s):  
Le Minh Ngo ◽  
Zhen Yu Li
Keyword(s):  
Economic Benefit ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Floor Plan ◽  
Apartment Building ◽  
Cause And Effect ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Apartment Buildings ◽  
And Function

In the recent years, the design for high-rise residential buildings in Shanghai has been changing in floor plan. It is the transformation in the shape of the house from residential tower-shaped buildings into combined apartment buildings; the transformation in constitution of floor plan, the number of apartment in each floor; the transformation in area and function of each apartment and even in living habits. Studies of the transformation in shape mentioned above were carried out by the morphology methodology. Combined apartment buildings in Shanghai combined together leads to high economic benefit, and the number of floors is up to 34 floors. Auxiliary area which is shared equally to each apartment, accounts for an approximately large portion of a typical floor plan. Each apartment in Shanghai must be added 12-18% of external auxiliary area. The cause and effect of the transformation in the design for high-rise apartment buildings are valuable experiences for other developing metropolitans in China, so as other countries in region.

scholarly journals AN EVALUATION OF HOUSING FLEXIBILITY AFTER SEVEN YEARS OF HABITATION: IBA HAMBURG 2013

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-204
Author(s):  
Blerim Lutolli
Keyword(s):  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Floor Plan ◽  
Housing Projects ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Urban Level ◽  
Selection For ◽  
Questionnaire Research ◽  
Shed Light

Flexibility in housing has been used for a long time to meet the changing needs of inhabitants. After a century of vicissitude, flexibility became a means for architects to deal with social changes in the new millennium. The International Building Exhibition (IBA) 2013, which took place in Hamburg, Germany, is an example of how the concept of flexibility is being adopted. Housing, in particular, the post-occupancy phase, has not been studied, despite the urban-level aspects of the IBA Hamburg having been extensively written about. Seven years after its construction, nothing is known about what happened regarding these new approaches. The purpose of this study is to investigate the number of households in the IBA Hamburg housing projects that have used the promoted concept of flexibility, particularly in the “Building Exhibition within the Building Exhibition.” As a result, this article aims to shed light on this issue by presenting data from a field survey regarding whether floor plan flexibility was used, and if so, to what extent and what were the reasons. As a result, the author utilized an administered and self-administered open and closed-ended survey questionnaire research approach to collect necessary data for the execution of this investigation. The survey was conducted in twenty-two apartments, with four residential buildings chosen as a case selection for this investigation. The results of this study revealed that, despite being considered during the initial planning phase, flexibility was not commonly applied in the housing projects of IBA Hamburg 2013. Furthermore, the findings reveal that the extent of use of flexibility in these case studies is closely linked with the occupation status of the inhabitants.

Data-driven Floor Plan Understanding in Rural Residential Buildings via Deep Recognition

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhengda Lu ◽  
Teng Wang ◽  
Jianwei Guo ◽  
Weiliang Meng ◽  
Jun Xiao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Floor Plan

scholarly journals Experimental studies on in-plane performance of plasterboard sheathed ceiling diaphragms

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-106
Author(s):  
Angela Liu ◽  
Minghao Li ◽  
Roger Shelton
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Floor Plan ◽  
Damage Survey ◽  
Torsional Response ◽  
Seismic Engineering ◽  
The World

The ultimate goal of this study is to develop a model representing the in-plane behaviour of plasterboard ceiling diaphragms, as part of the efforts towards performance-based seismic engineering of low-rise light timber-framed (LTF) residential buildings in New Zealand (NZ). LTF residential buildings in NZ are constructed according to a prescriptive standard – NZS 3604 Timber-framed buildings [1]. With regards to seismic resisting systems, LTF buildings constructed to NZS3604 often have irregular bracing arrangements within a floor plan. A damage survey of LTF buildings after the Canterbury earthquake revealed that structural irregularity (irregular bracing arrangement within a plan) significantly exacerbated the earthquake damage to LTF buildings. When a building has irregular bracing arrangements, the building will have not only translational deflections but also a torsional response in earthquakes. How effectively the induced torsion can be resolved depends on the stiffness of the floors/roof diaphragms. Ceiling and floor diaphragms in LTF buildings in NZ have different construction details from the rest of the world and there appears to be no information available on timber diaphragms typical of NZ practice. This paper presents experimental studies undertaken on plasterboard ceiling diaphragms as typical of NZ residential practice. Based on the test results, a mathematical model simulating the in-plane stiffness of plasterboard ceiling diaphragms was developed, and the developed model has a similar format to that of plasterboard bracing wall elements presented in an accompany paper by Liu [2]. With these two models, three-dimensional non-linear push-over studies of LTF buildings can be undertaken to calculate seismic performance of irregular LTF buildings.

scholarly journals Una mezquita en Valencia: capilla del Grupo Benéfico San Francisco Javier, A. Gómez Davó

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Antonio Miguel Gómez Gil
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Floor Plan ◽  
Religious Buildings ◽  
Architectural Element ◽  
Wise Decision ◽  
Archaeological Project ◽  
Large Building ◽  
Entire Ensemble

In Valencia there was a large building complex, the Grupo Benéfico San Francisco Javier in the district of Campanar, built in Spanish neo-colonial style, now disappeared. Among many of its endowments was a chapel designed in Maghrebi style (1941), which, of the entire ensemble, is the only construction currently left standing. The article, written with unpublished material, reveals the building and analyses the author, the Valencian architect Antonio Gómez Davó, to verify whether or not he acted with archaeological rigor in its design. For this, its building elements and parameters have been compared with other existing religious buildings in North Africa. This analysis shows efficiency in the floor plan and other parameters, for its use as a Catholic church. There is, on the other hand, a Maghrebi archaeological project rigor; in terms of its construction system, its forms and its decoration. We must also highlight the wise decision of including in the chapel a missing Spanish historical architectural element, such as the roof of the convent of San Juan de la Penitencia de Toledo. This non-Islamic element was skillfully integrated into the Maghreb environment of the Campanar chapel.

The promises and perfidy of cryomicroscopy and analysis

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 382-383
Author(s):  
Patrick Echlin
Keyword(s):  
Low Temperature ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
List Type ◽  
Time Resolved ◽  
Energy Beam ◽  
Cellular Analysis ◽  
Dissolved Ions ◽  
Embedding Medium ◽  
Low Temperature Microscopy

The unusual title of this short paper and its accompanying tutorial is deliberate, because the intent is to investigate the effectiveness of low temperature microscopy and analysis as one of the more significant elements of the less interventionist procedures we can use to prepare, examine and analyse hydrated and organic materials in high energy beam instruments. The promises offered by all these procedures are well rehearsed and the litany of petitions and responses may be enunciated in the following mantra.Vitrified water can form the perfect embedding medium for bio-organic samples.Frozen samples provide an important, but not exclusive, milieu for the in situ sub-cellular analysis of the dissolved ions and electrolytes whose activities are central to living processes.The rapid conversion of liquids to solids provides a means of arresting dynamic processes and permits resolution of the time resolved interactions between water and suspended and dissolved materials.The low temperature environment necessary for cryomicroscopy and analysis, diminish, but alas do not prevent, the deleterious side effects of ionizing radiation.Sample contamination is virtually eliminated.

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