scholarly journals Architectural Significance of the Seokguram Buddhist Grotto in Gyeongju (Korea)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Salguero-Andújar ◽  
Fulgencio Prat-Hurtado ◽  
Inmaculada Rodriguez Cunill ◽  
Joseph Cabeza-Lainez
Keyword(s):  
Structural Properties ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Stone Masonry ◽  
Significant Potential ◽  
Architectural Significance

The purpose of this article is to disclose the architectural proportions and nature of the Korean national treasure in Seokguram Grotto, Gyeongju. The authors compare its features with those of other ancient hypogeal or ashlar constructions and intend to rediscover its relevant hidden configuration and latent structural properties to show its uniqueness. The methods employed in the research belong initially to architectural design and composition to advance at a later stage, into the nuances of stone masonry, lighting effects or cohesive construction. In this discussion and thorough analysis, different philosophical and scientific subtleties come afloat. The results demonstrate a significant potential capable to be applied in part to recent architectural developments like Tadao Ando’s Buddha Hill in Hokkaido (2017) and the authors’ own project for a Buddhist monument.

scholarly journals Architectural Significance of the Seokguram Buddhist Grotto in Gyeongju (Korea)

Buildings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Francisco Salguero-Andujar ◽  
Fulgencio Prat-Hurtado ◽  
Inmaculada Rodriguez-Cunill ◽  
Joseph Cabeza-Lainez
Keyword(s):  
Structural Properties ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Stone Masonry ◽  
True Nature ◽  
Significant Potential ◽  
Architectural Significance

The purpose of this article is to disclose the hidden architectural proportions and true nature of the Korean national treasure in Seokguram Grotto, Gyeongju. The authors compare its features with those of other ancient hypogeal or ashlar constructions with the intention of rediscovering its relevant configuration and latent structural properties in order to demonstrate its uniqueness. The methods employed in the research belong initially to architectural design and composition to advance in the later stages to the nuances of stone masonry, lighting effects and especially cohesive construction. In this discussion and thorough analysis diverse philosophical and scientific subtleties are brought to the surface. The results demonstrate significant potential thanks to recent architectural developments, such as Tadao Ando’s Buddha Hill in Hokkaido (2017) and the authors’ own proposal for a Buddhist monument.

scholarly journals On dependencies between architecture and media: considering the remote work

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Christenson
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Architectural Significance

To consider architecture as a communicative medium requires acknowledgment of the necessity of mediating artifacts suchas drawings, models, and photographs, insofar as these artifacts provide structure for communication and discourse. In this essay, I examine the criticality of mediating artifacts to architecture's communicative potential by proposing a tactical identity between the act of architectural design and the study of architectural precedent. In both situations, mediating artifacts incorporate decisions and assumptions about how architectural significance should be communicated.I propose two hypotheses as frames within which to discuss architecture’s dependence on mediating artifacts. First, the Neutral Frame hypothesis suggests that significant attributesof a work of architecture are capable of disclosure regardless of the medium through which these attributes are “filtered.” By contrast, the Production Bias hypothesis holds that significant attributes of a work of architecture can be identified as unique to a medium of investigation, and furthermore, that in some cases it may not be possible to disclose a given attribute by any other means. By considering existing photographs of a completed work of architecture (Crown Hall in Chicago,Illinois) in two ways, first through computer-aided manipulation and second by diagramming superimposed fields-of-view of photographs from two distinct sources, I suggest that the Production Bias hypothesis is the better explanation of architecture’s relationship to mediating artifacts.

Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon-Based Thin Film Solar Cell: Optical, Electrical and Structural Properties

2015 ◽  
Vol 1116 ◽  
pp. 59-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Kamal Hossain
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Solar Cell ◽  
Amorphous Silicon ◽  
Structural Properties ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon ◽  
Cell Efficiency ◽  
Materials Used ◽  
Silicon Based ◽  
Hydrogenated Amorphous

Hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) has been developed as an important materials in thin film-based photovoltaic technologies because of considerable cost reduction as a result of low material consumption and low-temperature process. Among the materials used for thin film solar cells, amorphous silicon is the most important material in the commercial production. Despite of these benefits, the efficiency limit for a single band gap thin film based solar cell predicted by Shockley and Queisser (i.e. ~31%) has become a matter of challenge for current research community. Considering the thermodynamic behavior of a single threshold absorber in generating electricity from solar irradiance, this limit seems inevitable, and thus a tremendous investigation is now being carried out in different dimensions such as hot carrier generation, rainbow solar cell, multiple exciton generation, multiband absorber etc. Nonetheless, so far reported efficiency (ηlab~12%) provide enough room to improve and take challenge to reach to the highest value for a-Si:H based solar cell design. Further to improve architectural design as well as engineer the materials, it is indispensable to understand the optical, electrical and structural properties of aSi:H as an active layer. Here in this article, an attempt was taken into account to focus on such characteristics that affect the overall cell efficiency.

Rediscovery of the Great Architect’s Bridge: Mimar Sinan Bridge, Istanbul, Turkey

2019 ◽  
Vol 2673 (8) ◽  
pp. 99-111
Author(s):  
Niyazi Özgür Bezgin
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Stone Masonry ◽  
Masonry Arch ◽  
Design Considerations ◽  
Design Requirements ◽  
First Time ◽  
Arch Construction

A bridge is an important element of transportation which improves the accessibility of a location. Before the Industrial Revolution, stone masonry arch construction was the preferred method of construction of bridges with the longest spans and the highest durability. Multiple arches provided the solution when a single arch was insufficient to provide the required span. Bridge design required thorough consideration of the seismicity, geology, hydrology, bathymetry, and topography of the particular region, along with considerations of the functional and architectural design requirements of the bridge. This paper introduces for the first time a new concept of an “intermittent-bridge” and presents a technical inquiry into historical design considerations and contemporary protective and maintenance efforts for a sixteenth-century, multi-arch masonry intermittent-bridge built in Istanbul during the epoch of the Ottoman empire by the chief imperial architect, or mimar, Sinan.

Newborn's Preference for Faces

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 200-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Umiltà ◽  
Francesca Simion ◽  
Eloisa Valenza
Keyword(s):  
Visual System ◽  
Structural Properties ◽  
Sensory Properties ◽  
Human Face ◽  
System Experiment ◽  
Face Experiment

Four experiments were aimed at elucidating some aspects of the preference for facelike patterns in newborns. Experiment 1 showed a preference for a stimulus whose components were located in the correct arrangement for a human face. Experiment 2 showed a preference for stimuli that had optimal sensory properties for the newborn visual system. Experiment 3 showed that babies directed their attention to a facelike pattern even when it was presented simultaneously with a non-facelike stimulus with optimal sensory properties. Experiment 4 showed the preference for facelike patterns in the temporal hemifield but not in the nasal hemifield. It was concluded that newborns' preference for facelike patterns reflects the activity of a subcortical system which is sensitive to the structural properties of the stimulus.

Elements of Architectural Design

1888 ◽  
Vol 25 (647supp) ◽  
pp. 10339-10341
Author(s):  
H. H. Statham
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design

Investigation of the structural properties of crystallized Fe-(Cu)-Sm-B ribbons

1998 ◽  
Vol 08 (PR2) ◽  
pp. Pr2-47-Pr2-50
Author(s):  
O. Crisan ◽  
J. M. Le Breton ◽  
F. Machizaud ◽  
A. Jianu ◽  
J. Teillet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Properties
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