scholarly journals Attributing and Defining an Unbuilt 1859 Architectural Plan for the Site of Trogir’s Medieval Walls

Prostor ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (2 (62)) ◽  
pp. 174-185
Author(s):  
Ana Šverko
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Spatial Context ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Apartment Building ◽  
Ground Floor ◽  
Rental Property ◽  
Building Typology ◽  
Architectural Language ◽  
Commercial Spaces

This paper discusses the attribution of an anonymous and unbuilt 1859 plan for a four-storey apartment building with commercial spaces on the ground floor, located on the site of the old town walls in Trogir. It proposes Josip Slade as the architect of the plan, interpreting Slade’s architectural language and the development of his approach to architectural heritage. An analysis of the project in a historical socio-political and spatial context, moreover, supports the conclusion that this was intended as rental property, and this paper therefore offers insights into the first known example of the tenement housing building typology in the nineteenth-century Trogir

scholarly journals Photovoltaic BIPV Systems and Architectural Heritage: New Balance between Conservation and Transformation. An Assessment Method for Heritage Values Compatibility and Energy Benefits of Interventions

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 5107
Author(s):  
Cristina S. Polo López ◽  
Floriana Troia ◽  
Francesco Nocera
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Complete Information ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Historical Building ◽  
Improve Energy Efficiency ◽  
Building Integrated Photovoltaic ◽  
Architectural Language ◽  
Guidance Documents ◽  
The Aesthetic

This paper proposes to identify an approach methodology for the incorporation of building-integrated photovoltaic systems (BIPV) in existing architectural heritage, considering regulatory, conservation and energy aspects. The main objective is to provide information about guidance criteria related to the integration of BIPV in historical buildings and about intervention methods. That will be followed by the development of useful data to reorient and update the guidelines and guidance documents, both for the design approach and for the evaluation of potential future interventions. The research methodology includes a categorization and analysis of European and Swiss case studies, taking into account the state of preservation of the building before the intervention, the data of the applied photovoltaic technology and the aesthetic and energy contribution of the intervention. The result, in the form of graphic schedules, provides complete information for a real evaluation of the analyzed case studies and of the BIPV technological system used in historical contexts. This research promotes a conscious BIPV as a real opportunity to use technology and a contemporary architectural language capable of dialoguing with pre-existing buildings to significantly improve energy efficiency and determine a new value system for the historical building and its environment.

scholarly journals Traces of a fortified hamlet. Iconography and urban development of San Valentino in Abruzzo Citeriore

X ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Cecamore
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Urgent Problem ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Historic Center ◽  
Historic Centre ◽  
Developmental Line ◽  
Continuous Use

The paper proposes a reading of the possible urban development of the historic centre of San Valentino in Abruzzo Citerore starting from the analysis of its architectural heritage. The image of a fortified hamlet surrounded by walls, represented in a painting dating back to the mid-nineteenth century, appears in cartographic reliefs and representations accessible at the local and extra regional archives. The reading of the current architectural set of givens, which are characterized by the continuous use of building techniques related to the processing of local limestones, seeks through comparison with the historic iconography to identify persistences and alterations of the urban fabric, tracing a possible developmental line of San Valentino in Abruzzo Citeriore from medieval castrum to Farnesiano fief up to the substantial interventions of modernization and revision of the historic center operated in the last century. The requests of functional and formal changes occurring at the turn of the nineteenth and twenteeth century implicates the dismantling of the walls, the typological change of the original building and of the urban layout and the loss of the urban imagine resulting consolidated in the collective memory. An awaking context of the main features of the historic and building development of this fortified reality in the Middle Adriatic area is today an indispensable step in this path of consciousness and awareness of the society regarding the urgent problem connected to the neglect and to the conservation of the historic centres.

BIM Application in Documenting and Recreating Lost Architectural Heritage

2019 ◽  
pp. 112-141
Author(s):  
Paola Casu ◽  
Claudia Pisu
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
3D Models ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
Digital Archiving ◽  
Food Market ◽  
Definition Of

The digital archiving process of complex historical architectural 3D models is a key point in the field of tangible cultural heritage. A lot of research focus on the definition of methodologies and tools that exploit the full potential of ICT applied to the documentation of cultural heritage. This chapter illustrates a part of a study in this line of investigation. It focuses on the use of BIM for the reconstruction of lost architectural heritage. BIM will be applied to virtual reconstruct the nineteenth-century covered food market of Cagliari that was demolished in 1957. Thanks to the properties of BIM to enter information related to each element constituting a building, every part of the model will be accompanied by information on the degree of reliability and references adopted for its creation. In this way, each family of elements could more easily and knowingly be reused for other similar projects.

scholarly journals A reinforced concrete building in Wellington

1969 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 420-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. Hollings
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Separation Distance ◽  
Tall Building ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Apartment Building ◽  
Financial Return ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Building ◽  
Ground Floor ◽  
Concrete Building ◽  
The Town

The building which is to be studied is an apartment building on a one acre site in Wellington's Oriental Bay. It was a design and build venture of Wilkins and Davies Development Co. Ltd. Registered Architects were employed for the design and the author's firm as consulting engineers with normal professional responsibilities for design and supervision of the structure and of the site works. In order to achieve the best financial return on the venture the maximum possible number of flats had to be fitted on to the site. With the town planning requirements for separation distance and the need for adequate car parking, this meant
 a tall building with 15 floors of flats (4 and 5 flats per floor) over
 a ground floor of parking.

Alpine heritage in Swiss publications

ARCHALP ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Ortelli
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Urban Morphology ◽  
Fundamental Difference ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Technical School ◽  
Building Typology ◽  
Real Size ◽  
Vernacular Buildings ◽  
Accurate Reading

Switzerland boasts a wide production of publications dedicated to its architectural heritage that offer an articulated overview of Swiss architecture from the so-called bourgeois to the rural one. Starting from the monumental study by the philologist Jakob Hunziker (1827-1901) on the Swiss house in its landscape and historical development, two series of books have been written, namely Die Bauernhäuser der Schweiz and Das Bürgerhaus in der Schweiz. The peculiarity of these two series is their method and completeness, the result, among other things, of a careful cultural policy capable of finding and organizing the necessary means. In this context, there are some publications with substantially different approaches to those mentioned above. The fundamental difference lies in the fact that the analyses and descriptions are not limited to the single artefacts but investigate their ways of aggregation, relating the building typology with urban morphology. This is one of the characteristics of La costruzione del territorio nel Canton Ticino by Aldo Rossi, Eraldo Consolascio, and Max Bosshard, published in 1979 by the Fondazione Ticino Nostro. In this publication, there is no solution of continuity between the vernacular buildings and the more “noble” ones, often rather ancient and the result of an extraordinary ability to include and combine elements. The example of La costruzione del territorio was followed by other publications that share its same methods and objectives. Among these, two volumes dated 1983 should be noted; they are dedicated to the villages of Avers and Soglio respectively and both were created by the Department of Architecture of the Technical School of Muttenz. In these publications, renouncing the separation between vernacular buildings and bourgeois houses leads to a more accurate reading of the real size of the settlements, as opposed to the idyllic image of the mountain village consisting exclusively of rural artefacts.

Cosmopolitan Space: Political Topographies in ‘Lord Arthur Savile's Crime’

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-142
Author(s):  
Giles Whiteley
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Spatial Context ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Henri Lefebvre ◽  
Revolutionary Politics ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

This essay responds to Julian Wolfreys's suggestion that Oscar Wilde's London is primarily psycho-geographical by seeking to read his texts within the historical and spatial context of late nineteenth-century London. Taking as a test the short story ‘Lord Arthur Saville's Crime’, this essay deploys the critical insights of Henri Lefebvre to suggest that Wilde's city writing engages more closely with London life than has been hitherto suggested. Following Lord Arthur on his three perambulations across the city, from Hyde Park and Piccadilly to Covent Garden, through Soho, and finally from St James's to the Embankment, the article focuses particularly on the ways in which Wilde's use of what might easily be assumed to be an incidental location, namely Cleopatra's Needle, invites us to reread the text's revolutionary politics within the context of the French Revolution. Concluding with a discussion of Wilde's treatment of London's ‘cosmopolitan space’, the essay shows that the way in which seemingly stock imagery deployed in Wilde's representation of the city may in fact be read as part of a wider and complex engagement with both the politics and the aesthetics of space.

Occidental Encounters and Impressions

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-91
Author(s):  
Sohini Singh
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Central India ◽  
Structural Members ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Architectural Style ◽  
Free Standing ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
The Relationship

The visual and literary chronicles of British Residents and Surveyors comprise a reservoir of information on the historical, social and economic milieus of various territorial regions within the Indian subcontinent. Further, they contain copious documentation on the art and architectural heritage of these regions. Straddling the realms of antiquarianism and archaeology, the concomitant processes of survey and documentation evolved during the seventeenth century and acquired a panoptic character by the nineteenth century. They were essentially products of the interface between the diametrically opposed occidental and oriental cultures and were furthered by the expedients of colonialism. This article is divided into three parts. The first part delves into the relationship between antiquarianism and archaeology. The second part elucidates upon the practices of surveying and documentation in India. The third part elaborates upon the career of Lt. Frederick Charles Maisey and his explorations in central India with special reference to his mid-nineteenth century illustrations of Chanderi’s architectural edifices and structural members. Chanderi, a town of historical importance in Madhya Pradesh, is interspersed with tombs, step-wells, mosques and free-standing gateways of Indo-Islamic affiliation, ascribable largely to the fifteenth century. Some of these edifices are in a bad state of preservation and Maisey’s illustrations have been instrumental in reconstructing their effaced architectonic and decorative details. The illustrations under purview have also contributed towards a holistic understanding of the architectural style at Chanderi, an area which is fairly uncharted.

Restaurant Republic

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Erby
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Social Hierarchy ◽  
Department Stores ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Do So ◽  
Commercial Spaces

Restaurant Republic examines the nascent restaurant landscape in Boston in its entirety, from the most plebian of eateries to the extremely elite and refined. Focusing on the rise of commercial dining in one specific city provides the opportunity to systematically explore the varied networks of public dining venues that catered to distinct groups of Americans. The story of why Americans embraced dining out and the wide variety of ways in which they began to do so is an important one. Restaurants were a major part of a growing trend in urban public venues dedicated to consumer leisure in the nineteenth century. Along with theatres, department stores, and hotels, restaurants provided a public stage at a time when, still fresh from their revolution, Americans were eager to enter into the public sphere and define themselves as a people. But perhaps more than these other public commercial spaces, restaurants were also sharply differentiated. Thus, the study of restaurant dining in this period provides an opportunity to cast new light on how Americans attempted to balance the revolutionary ideal of egalitarianism against a growing capitalist consumer culture that both reflected and contributed to social hierarchy.

Tunnels in Arcadia: Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Portal Designs for the Great Western Railway

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 143-169
Author(s):  
Hubert Pragnell
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Railway System ◽  
Classical Style ◽  
Great Western Railway ◽  
University Of Bristol ◽  
Careful Design

AbstractFrom the 1830s, the British landscape was transformed by the development of the steam-hauled railway system, which necessitated bridges, viaducts and tunnels. Of such structures, tunnel entrances feature little in serious studies of railway architecture. However, rich archival evidence exists relating to the designs of Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the tunnel portals on the Great Western Railway between London and Bristol, including numerous pencil and ink drawings in sketchbooks held by the Brunel Archive, University of Bristol, and watercolour elevations in the Network Rail Archive in York, as well as lithographs of the portals by John Cooke Bourne for his History and Description of the Great Western Railway (1846). Brunel's drawings, unique among nineteenth-century engineers, range from the classical style for Box and Middle Hill tunnels in Wiltshire, through the Gothic for Twerton in Somerset, to the Romanesque for Brislington on the edge of Bristol, his so-called ‘Tunnel No. 1’. In their variety and careful design, Brunel's portals represent an important part of Britain's railway and industrial architectural heritage.

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