Rural and Urban Vernacular Architecture of the Mediterranean: A source for contemporary, contextual, architectural design solutions

Traditional weaving as a national cultural heritage is being abandoned, including songket in Palembang city. Songket weaving craft has been abandoned due to the limited process of the making, expensive raw materials, and competitiveness, either other crafters or modern weaving. There are hundreds of Palembang songket motifs that have not been documented and collected well. Only 77 motifs which have been registered as intellectual property rights. The lack attention of this matter would give possibility for neighboring countries to claim it such an accident ever exist. Songket Museum is needed as conservation center, exhibition, research, and songket craft workshop. Neo-Vernacular Architecture approach is used to make museum architectural design which is in line the cultural values of Palembang in contemporary design. The design issue is how to apply the principles of Neo-Vernacular Architecture into Palembang Songket Museum design. The method is designing the museum by taking both the physical and non-physical elements of local culture. Beside, re-interpretation the shape and philosophycal value of local architecture and Palembang songket are apllied in a new composition of Neo-Vernacular Architecture. The result is a design of Palembang Songket Museum which applies Neo-Vernacular Architecture principles. Keywords: Architecture, Neo-Vernacular, Palembang Songket, Songket Museum.

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Contextualizing urban vernacular architecture - distinguishing the actual and the ideal

Vernacular Buildings and Urban Social Practice: Wood and People in Early Modern Swedish Society ◽

10.2307/j.ctv1dwq0q5.13 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 196-213

Keyword(s):

Vernacular Architecture ◽

Urban Vernacular ◽

The Ideal

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Juniper Timber: Potentiality of a Vernacular Raw Material

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.250-253.1143 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 250-253 ◽

pp. 1143-1146 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

José Ramón Ruiz Checa ◽

Valentina Cristini

Keyword(s):

Iberian Peninsula ◽

Mediterranean Basin ◽

Vernacular Architecture ◽

Raw Material ◽

Traditional Use ◽

The Family ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

The Mediterranean Basin

This research presents some features about juniper timber, above all related with aspects of its structural use (for supports, pillars, beams, roofs...) in some vernacular architecture. Therefore, a special attention is driven to botanical, technical, mechanical features, typical for this type of rare wood. Its traditional use in the Iberian Peninsula and throughout the Mediterranean Basin is still visible in some cases of study, presented in the research. Good constructive qualities make juniper timber a great candidate for further test-researches and experiments, focalized on the family of traditional and”ever green “constructive materials.

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The meaning of the relationship between bale nyungcung roof and inner room in architectural design of Mosques at Sunda Tatar

ARTEKS Jurnal Teknik Arsitektur ◽

10.30822/arteks.v6i1.538 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 25-34

Author(s):

Roza Rahmadjasa Mintaredja ◽

Purnama Salura ◽

Bachtiar Fauzy

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Architectural Design ◽

Vernacular Architecture ◽

The West ◽

West Java ◽

Form And Function ◽

Basic Reference ◽

And Function ◽

The Relationship

There has been a decline in the form and function of Sundanese vernacular architecture for large buildings due to the absence of artifacts in village houses. The data on palace or keraton and terraced roofs are only found in lontar and from outside observers in the XVI century. Meanwhile, the phenomenon of the bale nyungcung roof emerged on the mosque in the XVI-XIX centuries at West Java after disappearing for more or less two centuries. The reappearance makes it interesting to study this concept, especially with the focus on its relationship with the inner room of the mosque. This research was conducted on the Great Mosque spread in Sunda Tatar such as the West Java and Banten Provinces with buildings of Majalaya, Manonjaya, and Banten used as case studies. It was conducted qualitatively and interpretatively using the building anatomical theory to analyze the scope of shape and the Bale Nyungcung roof. The results showed the relationship between the roof and the inner space is a reflection of the adjustment in the mosque's basic reference with the Bale Nyungcung roof used as one of the Sundanese local building features.

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Urban Vernacular Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore

Winterthur Portfolio ◽

10.1086/496001 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 33-63 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Mary Ellen Hayward

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Vernacular Architecture ◽

Urban Vernacular

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Environmental Sustainability in the Conservation of Vernacular Architecture. The Case of Rural and Urban Traditional Settlements in Cyprus

International Journal of Architectural Heritage ◽

10.1080/15583058.2020.1719235 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-23

Author(s):

Maria Philokyprou ◽

Aimilios Michael

Keyword(s):

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Vernacular Architecture ◽

Rural And Urban

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The Wooden Roof of Banesa e Skendulate in Gjirokastra, Albania: The Role of the Diagnostic Test Campaign in the Structural Safety Evaluation

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.778.911 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 778 ◽

pp. 911-918 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Stefano Podestà ◽

Federica Pompejano ◽

Gerolamo Stagno

Keyword(s):

Diagnostic Test ◽

Structural Engineering ◽

Diagnostic Testing ◽

Vernacular Architecture ◽

Safety Evaluation ◽

Structural Safety ◽

Engineering Theory ◽

Urban Vernacular ◽

Timber Constructions

Banesa e Skendulate is part of the historical center of the museum-city of Gjirokastra (Albanian UNESCO World Heritage), an unique and well-preserved example of Albanian urban vernacular architecture influenced by the ottoman architectural style, situated in a strategic position in the valley of the Drino. Banesa e Skendulate represents not only the typical compositional characteristics of this architecture but also a culture and a lifestyle deeply rooted in its own traditions. As its known, historic roofings are load-bearing structures made of timber according to an empirical and intuitive design, without structural engineering theory support, and Banesa e Skendulates roof is a clear example of the posts and beams system and shows the ability of the local craftsmen to deal with the support of heavy stone roofing. In the following paragraphs, will be presented the non-destructive diagnostic testing performed on the wooden structure of the roofing together with a detailed geometric and technological survey in order to recognize the structural system, its behavior and pathology and then process the analytical 3D model. Furthermore, the paper deals with the problem arose as consequence of the interpretation of the results obtained by the diagnostic tests, concerning the determination of the classes of resistance attached to ancient structural wooden elements that, for obvious reasons, cannot be classified according to the strength classes defined by the regulations for new timber constructions. Applying the reference strength values classified for the new timber elements to the historic ones, can cause a heavy penalty in terms of structural safety verification of the roof; that is why the role of the diagnostic test campaign should guide the reinforcement project applying reference values determined on the real conditions of the wooden elements.

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Machine Learning-Aided Architectural Design for Carbon Footprint Reduction

BUILDER ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0014.1615 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 276 (7) ◽

pp. 35-39 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mateusz Płoszaj-Mazurek

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

Machine Learning ◽

Built Environment ◽

Greenhouse Gases ◽

Carbon Footprint ◽

Architectural Design ◽

New Paradigm ◽

Design Solutions ◽

Carbon Footprint Reduction ◽

The Way

The built environment is considered responsible for at least 20-40% of greenhouse gases emission. The way we design may exert an impact on this percentage. A new paradigm, namely artificial intelligence, is arriving. More and more tasks are becoming automated via algorithms. How could this power be applied in order to strengthen our knowledge about the ways we design buildings? The author of the following paper presents a study in which carbon footprint yielded by a multifamily building is analysed. ML has been used to generate an extensive overview of the possible design solutions. This, in turn, made it possible to observe correlations between various parameters that resulted in a reduced carbon footprint.

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Discursive design thinking: The role of explicit knowledge in creative architectural design reasoning

Artificial intelligence for engineering design analysis and manufacturing ◽

10.1017/s0890060410000065 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 211-230 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Kinda Al-Sayed ◽

Ruth Conroy Dalton ◽

Christoph Hölscher

Keyword(s):

Architectural Design ◽

Design Thinking ◽

Explicit Knowledge ◽

Main Hypothesis ◽

Creative Thought ◽

Spatial Configurations ◽

Design Solutions ◽

Discursive Design ◽

Design Reasoning

AbstractThe main hypothesis investigated in this paper is based upon the suggestion that the discursive reasoning in architecture supported by an explicit knowledge of spatial configurations can enhance both design productivity and the intelligibility of design solutions. The study consists of an examination of an architect's performance while solving intuitively a well-defined problem followed by an analysis of the spatial structure of their design solutions. One group of architects will attempt to solve the design problem logically, rationalizing their design decisions by implementing their explicit knowledge of spatial configurations. The other group will use an implicit form of such knowledge arising from their architectural education to reason about their design acts. An integrated model of protocol analysis combining linkography and macroscopic coding is used to analyze the design processes. The resulting design outcomes will be evaluated quantitatively in terms of their spatial configurations. The analysis appears to show that an explicit knowledge of the rules of spatial configurations, as possessed by the first group of architects can partially enhance their function-driven judgment producing permeable and well-structured spaces. These findings are particularly significant as they imply that an explicit rather than an implicit knowledge of the fundamental rules that make a layout possible can lead to a considerable improvement in both the design process and product. This suggests that by externalizing the design knowledge and restructuring it in a design model, creative thought can efficiently be evolved and stimulated.

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