scholarly journals DIGITAL PRESERVATION OF ANCIENT MAYA CAVE ARCHITECTURE: RECENT FIELD EFFORTS IN QUINTANA ROO, MEXICO

2017 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W5 ◽  
pp. 613-616
Author(s):  
D. Rissolo ◽  
E. Lo ◽  
M. R. Hess ◽  
D. E. Meyer ◽  
F. E. Amador
Keyword(s):  
Religious Practice ◽  
Quintana Roo ◽  
Ancient Maya ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Architectural Features ◽  
Complete Obliteration ◽  
Digital Documentation ◽  
The University ◽  
Physical Challenges ◽  
Architectural Documentation

Abstract. The presence of ancient Maya shrines in caves serves as unequivocal evidence for the ritual appropriation of these subterranean spaces and their significance with respect to Maya religious practice. Detailed study of the miniature masonry temples and altar features in the caves of Quintana Roo, Mexico reveals a strong stylistic and likely functional correspondence between these structures and their terrestrial counterparts at Postclassic sites. The Proyecto Arquitectura Subterranea de Quintana Roo (coordinated by the Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture, and Archaeology, or CISA3, at the University of California, San Diego and in collaboration with the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia in Mexico) is conducting a survey and program of digital documentation of both the pristine and impacted cave shrines of the region. Once an area is developed and populated, and access is opened to caves containing ancient architectural features, they are soon vandalized – often resulting in the complete obliteration of these rare miniature buildings and their diagnostic architectural elements. This emergent situation necessitates the use of rapid reality-capture tools; however, the physical challenges of working in caves requires researchers of adapt increasingly common architectural documentation methodologies to more adverse field conditions.

scholarly journals The Connection between Architectural Elements and Adaptive Thermal Comfort of Tropical Vernacular Houses in Mountain and Beach Locations

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (21) ◽  
pp. 7427
Author(s):  
Hermawan Hermawan ◽  
Jozef Švajlenka
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Comfort ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Rainy Season ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Dry Season ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Air Temperatures ◽  
Adaptive Thermal Comfort ◽  
Architectural Features ◽  
Study Results

Passive thermal comfort has been widely used to test the thermal performance of a building. The science of active thermal comfort is important to be connected with the science of architecture. The currently developing active thermal comfort is adaptive thermal comfort. Vernacular houses are believed to be able to create thermal comfort for the inhabitants. The present study seeks to analyze the connection between the architectural elements of vernacular houses and adaptive thermal comfort. A mixed method was applied. A quantitative approach was used in the measurement of variables of climate, while a qualitative methodology was employed in an interview on thermal sensations. The connection between architectural elements and adaptive thermal comfort was analyzed by considering the correlation among architectural features, the analysis results of thermal comfort, and the Olgyay and psychrometric diagrams. At the beginning of the rainy season, residents of exposed stone houses had the highest comfortable percentage of 31%. In the middle of the rainy season, the highest percentage of comfort was obtained by residents of exposed brick and wooden houses on the beach at 39%. The lowest comfortable percentage experienced by residents of exposed stone houses at the beginning of the dry season was 0%. The beginning of the dry season in mountainous areas has air temperatures that are too low, making residents uncomfortable. The study results demonstrate that adaptive thermal comfort is related to using a room for adaptation to create thermal comfort for the inhabitants.

scholarly journals Depiction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on a Jerusalem icon from Ružica Church: An example of visual culture in the context of religious practice

Nasledje ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 191-207
Author(s):  
Marko Katić
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Early Origin ◽  
The One ◽  
The Church

Among but few icons brought back home by hajjis from their pilgrimage to Jerusalem (hence the name jerusalems) preserved in Belgrade, the one that stands out for its peculiarity and relatively early origin is the 1819 icon kept in Ružica Church in Kalemegdan. The most important element of the icon is the depiction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. This paper presents and analyses numerous peculiarities of this depiction, before all by comparing its iconography and style with the usual kind of the Jerusalem pilgrimage icons of the same age. Th icon painter's method is additionally analysed through the theoretical prism of palimpsest and gloss, recently developed in art-historical studies. It has been concluded that the depiction is basically similar to that on other icons dating from after the 1808 fire in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, but bearing an array of specificities that could be ascribed to the reinterpretation of architectural elements of the Jerusalem Church which the icon painter depicts to underline its holiness. The analysis points to a local Palestinian master as the author of the icon.

scholarly journals 3D DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES TO RECORD EXCAVATION DATA: THE CASE OF THE CATACOMBS OF ST. LUCY (SIRACUSA, SICILY)

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davide Tanasi ◽  
Ilenia Gradante ◽  
Mariarita Sgarlata
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
3D Modelling ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Virtual Archaeology ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
Long Life ◽  
The University

Between 2013 and 2015, Arcadia University in partnership with the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology and the University of Catania undertook new excavation campaigns in the Catacombs of St. Lucy at Siracusa. The research focuses on some very problematic parts of Region C of the complex, including Oratory C, the so-called Pagan Shrine and Crypt VI. These areas document most effectively the long life of this Christian hypogeum, which incorporated previous structures and artefacts related to the Greek period and continued to be used until the Middle Ages. During the excavation an array of 3D digital techniques (3D scanning, 3d Modelling, Image-based 3D modelling) was used for the daily recording of the archaeological units, but also to create high-resolution virtual replicas of certain districts of the catacombs. Furthermore, the same techniques were applied to support the study of certain classes of materials, such as frescoes and marble architectural elements that could otherwise only be studied in the dark environment of the catacombs, making the visual analysis of such complex artifacts difficult and sometimes misleading, not to mention that the frequent use of strong sources of light for study can also endanger them. The virtual archaeology research undertaken at the Catacombs of St. Lucy represents the first systematic application of 3D digital technologies to the study of such a special archaeological context in Sicily.

scholarly journals “TORINO 1911” PROJECT: A CONTRIBUTION OF A SLAM-BASED SURVEY TO EXTENSIVE 3D HERITAGE MODELING

2018 ◽  
Vol XLII-2 ◽  
pp. 225-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Chiabrando ◽  
C. Della Coletta ◽  
G. Sammartano ◽  
A. Spanò ◽  
A. Spreafico
Keyword(s):  
3D Model ◽  
Handheld Devices ◽  
Complex Environments ◽  
Existing Structures ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Rapid Mapping ◽  
Digital Documentation ◽  
Immersive Visualization ◽  
Interactive Navigation ◽  
The University

In the framework of the digital documentation of complex environments the advanced Geomatics researches offers integrated solution and multi-sensor strategies for the 3D accurate reconstruction of stratified structures and articulated volumes in the heritage domain. The use of handheld devices for rapid mapping, both image- and range-based, can help the production of suitable easy-to use and easy-navigable 3D model for documentation projects. These types of reality-based modelling could support, with their tailored integrated geometric and radiometric aspects, valorisation and communication projects including virtual reconstructions, interactive navigation settings, immersive reality for dissemination purposes and evoking past places and atmospheres. The aim of this research is localized within the “Torino 1911” project, led by the University of San Diego (California) in cooperation with the PoliTo. The entire project is conceived for multi-scale reconstruction of the real and no longer existing structures in the whole park space of more than 400,000&amp;thinsp;m<sup>2</sup>, for a virtual and immersive visualization of the Turin 1911 International “Fabulous Exposition” event, settled in the Valentino Park. Particularly, in the presented research, a 3D metric documentation workflow is proposed and validated in order to integrate the potentialities of LiDAR mapping by handheld SLAM-based device, the ZEB REVO Real Time instrument by GeoSLAM (2017 release), instead of TLS consolidated systems. Starting from these kind of models, the crucial aspects of the trajectories performances in the 3D reconstruction and the radiometric content from imaging approaches are considered, specifically by means of compared use of common DSLR cameras and portable sensors.

scholarly journals INTRODUCTION

2001 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-259
Author(s):  
William R. Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Ancient Maya ◽  
Maya Lowlands ◽  
Architectural Features ◽  
The Status ◽  
Road Systems

This issue's special section presents a series of papers focusing on recent research on ancient Maya causeways, or sacbeob (“white roads”—a reference to their gleaming, plastered surfaces). Often relegated to the status of “minor architectural features,” even a casual perusal of the literature quickly convinces one that sacbeob were a major feature of the ancient Maya landscape. Throughout the Maya lowlands from at least the Late Preclassic onward, these elevated roads facilitated internal and external transportation within and between Maya centers for a combination of economic, political, social, and ritual purposes. Constructed as an organic element of the built environment, road systems grew in size and expanded in complexity as the Maya centers themselves did (Andrews 1975:89, 323, 428).

scholarly journals Utica’s urban centre from Augustus to the Antonines

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 66-96
Author(s):  
Imed Ben Jerbania ◽  
J. Andrew Dufton ◽  
Elizabeth Fentress ◽  
Ben Russell
Keyword(s):  
Building Materials ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Aerial Photographs ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Second World

Since 2010, a team from the Tunisian Institut National du Patrimoine and the University of Oxford1 has been investigating Utica’s monumental centre, located at the tip of the promontory on which the city is built (fig. 1). The range and scale of architectural elements littering this area were remarked upon by most antiquarian investigators of the site. Nathan Davis, working at the site in 1858, noted that, despite the fact that it “had been ransacked for building materials”, this part of the city was covered with “marble and granite shafts, capitals, and cornices, of every order, size, and dimension”.2 Alfred Daux even observed that local residents referred to the largest building of the zone as the “Dar Es Sultan” (Palace of the Sultan), such was its magnificence.3 Aerial photographs commissioned by A. Lézine in the 1950s (fig. 2) show the area at the head of the promontory almost completely robbed out during and immediately after the Second World War, giving it a rather desolate aspect.

THE YALAHAU REGION: A STUDY OF ANCIENT MAYA SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey B. Glover
Keyword(s):  
Historical Background ◽  
Quintana Roo ◽  
Ancient Maya ◽  
Postclassic Period ◽  
Monumental Architecture ◽  
Sociopolitical Organization ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Preclassic Period ◽  
Regional Settlement ◽  
Yalahau Region

AbstractThe Yalahau Regional Settlement Pattern Survey (YRSPS) addresses the complex negotiations that constituted ancient Maya society through an investigation of the distribution of settlement across the Yalahau region of northern Quintana Roo, Mexico. This paper begins with a brief culture-historical background of the Yalahau region where occupation ranges from the Middle Preclassic period (700–200b.c.) to the Postclassic period (a.d.1100–1521). The region had its peak occupation during the Terminal Preclassic period (75b.c./a.d.100–a.d.400), and this paper explores how monumental architecture, through its size and the rituals conducted in and around it, materialized an enduring sense of community identity during this time period. In so doing, this paper examines the tensions within and between communities as sociopolitical strategies are negotiated and contested in the continually messy process of constituting society.

scholarly journals Get to Know the Gastronomy of Quintana Roo from the Smoke Kitchen Model

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis David Balderas Domínguez ◽  
Yolanda Daza Toldán ◽  
Laura De Guadalupe Vázquez Paz
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The State ◽  
Quintana Roo ◽  
Behavioral Patterns ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
The University

The smoke house works as a tourism model that will directly impact women living across Quintana Roo communities and small towns, with the idea that this project will empower them, and provide them with a more dignified income, with the end goal to reduce the poverty rates in the state Likewise, to introduce an adequate formula of cuisine that promotes the regional gastronomic identity, since this typology of cultural heritage is linked to the experience of enjoying the state's native food. (Carrillo, J. and Vazquez, L., 2018) It should be noted that the main representatives and transmitters of gastronomy are women, usually housewives. Therefore, a methodology based on the qualitative approach was designed, taking as a basis the ethnographic method, which allows understanding the behavioral patterns of a society. In the first instance, a gastronomic laboratory is proposed for the university, which will later be used as a business model within the tourism industry, directed at people who seek to enjoy cultural and ex-periential tourism. And at the same time, it will benefit communities across the state by generating more income for them. In addition, the project of model smoke kitchen is oriented to go in accordance with the 2030 agenda. Which includes 17 objectives and 169 goals; six of those objectives are directly aligned with this project, and the rest can be observed to relate it in a more indirectly manner. In the same way, a summary of the results obtained by the five-year groundwork is presented, as well as the division of the gastronomy in the state according to the characteristics that conform the gastronomic region.

scholarly journals Architectural Elements in Islamic Content and their Influence on Modern Architectural Spaces in Jordan Case Study: "Using the Fountain in Buildings (Residential and Public) and Gardens": العناصر المعمارية المائية في المضمون الإسلامي وطرق تأثيرها على الفراغات المعمارية المعاصرة في الأردن حالة دراسية: "استخدام النافورة في المباني (السكنية والعامة) والحدائق"

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Issa Saleh Al - Sukkar
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Islamic Architecture ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Architectural Features ◽  
Visual Concepts ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
Islamic Values ◽  
Environmental Functions ◽  
Architectural Spaces

The Islamic architecture has a clear impact on contemporary Jordanian architecture and on the work of some Jordanians architects, where some of them deliberately tried to simulate a range of vocabularies and visual concepts that have symbolic and environmental functions lend its own character on the architectural output and take into account the climatic and socio-economic conditions, the research aims to study the effects of Islamic architecture in a contemporary architectural spaces with regard to water architectural features by measuring the degree of vulnerability to the fountain element and employment of this element in several buildings including residential and public as well as in the gardens, where the fountain has links to symbolic and semantic as well as environmental functions, therefore the research reviews on this will address some views in addition to analyses and study the uses of this element in the traditional architectural facilities through the theoretical approach based on the analysis of scientific literature in addition to the analytical approach to study a set of study cases and contemporary buildings that contained in its formation of this element, And compare these analyzes and studies together to arrive at conclusions that emphasize the roles of water elements and the success of contemporary Jordanian architects by employing the water element to re-establish Islamic values in contemporary architecture.

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