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Journal articles on the topic "Urbanus (Architectural firm)"
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Tostões, Ana. "Manuel Salgado interviewed by Ana Tostões." Modern Lisbon, no. 55 (2016): 74–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.52200/55.a.wdsh9h4l.
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On August 2016, Ana Tostões interviewed the architect Manuel Salgado, councilor of the Municipality of Lisbon since 2007, in order to discuss the main policies undertaken and his ideas on urban planning in its connection to mobility infrastructures, public space and the continuous reconstruction of park and green areas, in Lisbon. Manuel Salgado was born in 1944, Lisbon, and studied architecture at the Lisbon School of Fine Art (1968). From 1971 to 1982, he was the technical responsible for the architectural office CIPRO and in 1984 he became manager of the architectural office Risco. From 2002 to 2008, he was architecture professor, at Instituto Superior Técnico. He has participated in conferences worldwide and widely published, on urban planning, and has designed major urban projects and buildings in Portugal: the Belém Cultural Centre (with Vittorio Gregotti), the Lisbon Theatre and Film School, the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, the Expo’98 public areas, the FC Porto Dragão Stadium, the Lisbon Luz Hospital, etc. His architectural and public space projects received several awards: the Valmor Award (1980, 1998), the International Award Architecture in Stone (1993), the AICA Award (1998); the Portuguese National Design Award (1999) and the Brick in Architecture Award (2003). Within the Municipality of Lisbon, he took the position of councilor of the Urbanism and Strategic Planning Department in 2007, which accumulates, from 2009 to 2013, with the Municipality Vice-Presidency. Currently, as councilor, heads the Department of Planning, Urbanism, Urban Rehabilitation, Public Space and Construction of the Municipality of Lisbon.
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Zhang, Donia. "Pingyao Historic City and Qiao Family Courtyard." Journal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism 4, no. 1 (March 11, 2022): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.36922/jcau.v4i1.47.
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Historic cities all over the world are facing challenges on how to best preserve their architectural heritage. We need good examples to follow. This study explores the historic city of Pingyao in China’s Shanxi Province, and the Qiao Family Courtyard in Qiaojiapu Village of Qi County nearby. Pingyao is a representative of northern Chinese city planning and vernacular architecture during the Ming (1368‒1644) and Qing (1644‒1911) dynasties, and it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997. Qiao Family Courtyard is famous not only because of its majestic architectural compound and exquisite craftsmanship, but also it embodies the unique style of Chinese residential architecture in the Qing dynasty. Zhang Yimou’s 1991 film “Raise the Red Lantern” was shot here. Hu Mei’s 2006 TV series “Qiao’s Grand Courtyard” based on the business history of the family have made the compound internationally acclaimed. From an architectural and urbanist perspective, this paper examines what has made Pingyao Historic City and the Qiao Family Courtyard resilient and responsible. The findings reveal, among other things that, Confucian ethics of honesty, trustworthiness, and righteousness were the backbone accounting for the robust success of Shanxi merchants who held deep-rooted cultural values, and who conducted their businesses accordingly.
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Tokeshi, Angélica Maeireizo. "Self-culture and sustainable development of a community in the Peruvian Rainforest." Ekistics and The New Habitat 73, no. 436-441 (December 1, 2006): 311–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.53910/26531313-e200673436-441131.
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The author, an architect who graduated in 1996 from the Department of Architecture and Urbanism, Ricardo Palma University, Lima, Peru, is currently working as a research visitor at the Urban Studio of Professor Haruhiko Goto at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. Further to being Head of her architectural firm in Lima (since 2003) with a grant from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), her projects include the final coordination, with Austrian architect Hans Hollein, of the Landscape Project for the Lima Headquarters of Interbank (the second largest bank in Peru); her role as Assistant Project Manager of EMILIMA S.A. (Lima Municipal Real Estate Firm), and her research work on Japanese Gardens in Okinawa (Shuri Castle's Gardens restoration Consultant) under landscape engineer Shimada Hiromitsu. The text that follows is a slightly revised and edited version of a paper presented by the author at the international symposion on "Globalization and Local Identity," organized jointly by the World Society for Ekistics and the University of Shiga Prefecture in Hikone, Japan, 19-24 September, 2005.
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González Cubero, Josefina. "MICROHISTORIAS DE ARQUITECTURA Y CINE I: LOS ARQUITECTOS EN LOS CONGRESOS CINEMATOGRÁFICOS EN ESPAÑA, 1928-1931." Proyecto, Progreso, Arquitectura, no. 20 (2019): 180–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/ppa.2019.i20.01.
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Stevens, Jeroen. "Theatre City: On Design in the Interplay of Social and Material Space (Teatro Oficina, Bixiga, São Paulo)." Culture and Local Governance 5, no. 1-2 (December 30, 2015): 45–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.18192/clg-cgl.v5i1-2.1457.
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Cultural mapping reflects a spatial turn broadly taken in related areas of urban studies, all of which, in different ways, care about the interaction between social and material space. This article will contribute to this emerging interdisciplinary field by exploring applications of cultural mapping as tools for more inclusive forms of urbanism. The main argument holds that particular forms of cultural mapping can help bridge certain constraints of ethnographic methodologies of social sciences, on one hand, and spatial analysis and design methodologies, on the other hand, as they can operate in the same interstices of social and material space. This article is the result of a three-year and ongoing collaboration between the Research Group on Urbanism and Architecture of the University of Leuven and theatre company Teatro Oficina, located on a highly contested urban site in São Paulo’s central neighbourhood of Bixiga, which for thirty years has been part and parcel of a Lute Urbaine (‘urban battle’) between the cultural group and a major real estate development firm. Both the theatre building and the surrounding terrain present themselves as pars-pro-toto for a theatrical city paradigm, offering insights on the dialectic vicissitudes of socio-cultural actions vis-à-vis the material transformation of the city.Keywords: urban activism, participatory urban design, modernism, urban stage, theatre cultureRésumé: La cartographie culturelle reflète un tournant spatial dans le champ des études urbaines et disciplines associées qui sont à tout le moins toutes concernées par les interactions entre les espaces sociaux et les espaces matériels. Cet article tente d’apporter une contribution à ce débat interdisciplinaire en explorant les applications de la cartographie culturelle dans le cadre des projets d’urbanisme participatif, voire d’urbanisme plus socialement inclusif. Certaines formes de cartographie culturelle peuvent permettre de répondre à certaines contraintes émanant des méthodologies ethnographiques en sciences sociales et ce, en comblant les lacunes découlant de la rencontre des espaces sociaux et matériels. Les résultats de cet article découlent de trois années de collaboration entre le Research Group on Urbanism and Architecture de l’Université de Leuven et le Teatro Oficina, situé dans un espace contesté du quartier Bixiga, au coeur de São Paulo. Ce quartier en question a été au coeur de plusieurs luttes urbaines (Lute Urbaine) entre groups sociaux culturels et promotteurs immobiliers. L’immeuble du théâtre et ses environs se présent en tant que pars-pro-toto pour le paradigme de la ville théâtrale, offrant des points des perspectives sur la dialectique de l’action culturelle vis-à-vis la transformation matérielle de la ville.Mots clé: l’activisme urbain, dessin urbain participative, modernism, scène urbaine, culture théâtrale
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Osiri, Navanath. "The Development of Modern Landscape Architecture in Thailand." Nakhara : Journal of Environmental Design and Planning 21, no. 1 (June 10, 2022): 206. http://dx.doi.org/10.54028/nj202221206.
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The profession of landscape architecture has been firmly established in Thailand and has continued to flourish for over 40 years. Throughout this time, landscape architecture has made important contributions in improving environments, the people’s quality of life, and the aesthetics of Thailand’s cities and communities. This research discusses the development of the landscape architecture profession and design concepts in Thailand from the beginning to present to understand how landscape architecture has been cultivated through the processes of adaptation and appropriation.
The major contents of this research were obtained from the analysis of interviews conducted with 20 practitioners of landscape architecture firms in Thailand. The topics of discussion include multiple factors affecting the concepts, styles, and typologies of landscape architectural design.
The results show that landscape architecture in Thailand has developed in parallel with global design trends since the beginning of this profession. However, contextual factors, particularly socio-economic, political, and environmental issues, also affected the variation of project types and detailed designs. These trends and factors help foster the richness of landscape architecture in Thailand.
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Colón Mur, Alegría, and María Pilar Biel Ibáñez. "Secundino Zuazo’s intermediate stations on the Caminreal–Zaragoza rail line: minor architectures for a paradigm shift." ZARCH, no. 16 (September 13, 2021): 194–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2021165664.
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The firm Compañía del Ferrocarril Central de Aragón built 21 stations and halts along the 120 kilometres separating Caminreal and Zaragoza. The construction of this line in the 1930s marked a turning point in Spain’s railway history as it was an example of adapting technological solutions to the circumstances of the environment. Its most important novelty, however, was that great architects provided minor architectures, which served as an experimental laboratory of design mechanisms that would end up being identified with modernity in our country. The stations designed for this line by Secundino Zuazo (1887–1971) represented an opportunity for him to reflect on a modern language combining rationalist elements with local traditional ones but without ever losing sight of the appropriateness to the surroundings. The rational use of new materials, whose qualities differ greatly from traditional ones, determined a new architecture.
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Faulconbridge, James R. "The Regulation of Design in Global Architecture Firms: Embedding and Emplacing Buildings." Urban Studies 46, no. 12 (October 16, 2009): 2537–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098009344227.
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The emergence of global architecture firms and their role in the production of city architectures raises a number of questions for social scientists. For example, how— indeed do—global architects ensure that the buildings they design are ‘in place’ and appropriate for the urban cultural, economic, social and political contexts in which they are to be built? The aim of the paper is to consider this question. ‘Regulation’ is taken in its broadest sense and the paper explores the role of standards and codes as well as other forms of social regulation in the process of emplacing designs. It is argued that, in order to understand how buildings are put in their place, analysis is needed of both the design-side adaptations architects make to buildings and also the consumption side regulation of designs and the way the behaviours of those inhabiting buildings produce ‘local’ meaning.
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Rossetto, Tania, and Annalisa Andrigo. "Cities in music videos: Audiovisual variations on London’s neoliberal skyline." Urban Studies 55, no. 6 (June 13, 2017): 1257–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098017707928.
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Despite the resurgence of music video clips in the YouTube era, they have not received attention as a specific subject of inquiry in either cultural or urban geography. This article is aimed at providing a full consideration of music videos with a focus on the urban realm. In particular, the paper concentrates on how neoliberal iconic buildings and city skylines emerge in music videos by using London as a case study. Drawing from recent developments within architectural geography and urban morphology, as well as in the geocultural subfields of music geography, media geography and film geography, the paper shows how a partial return to critical traditional interests and text-based research styles could be still useful to appreciate the mutable, fluid, and affective ways in which skylines are mediated. The empirical part of the paper provides an analysis of three music videos set in London and with lyrics and music that refer to a mood or feeling ascribed to London’s iconic architecture.1
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Salama, Ashraf M. "Interrogating the Practice of Image Making in a Budding Context." International Journal of Architectural Research: ArchNet-IJAR 8, no. 3 (November 30, 2014): 74. http://dx.doi.org/10.26687/archnet-ijar.v8i3.549.
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Image making is a continuous worldwide practice of architects and designers whose concern is to create meaningful environments. Such a practice results in expressions that either reflect the regional context or mirror the wider global culture. This paper aims at interrogating image making practices in the city of Doha, which has experienced rapid urban transformations, associated with building large scale work and learning environments, mixed use developments, and cultural and sport facilities. Contextualizing current debate on Doha’s architecture and urbanism, a critical analysis of geo-cultural politics and on the notion of the ‘scapes of flows’ is undertaken. Based on contextual, critical, and perceptual approaches image-making practices in the city were discerned. Different types of efforts were categorized and critically analyzed underlying the contextual and critical approaches. The analysis reveals that efforts range from utilizing symbolism in contemporary imaging, to manifesting tradition-modernity in search for image identity, to addressing the global condition towards image making. The perceptual approach established empirical evidence by investigating users’ reactions to three notable office buildings that their design attempts to evoke a unique image. This was supported by statements made by CEOs of architectural firms and development companies that reflected a promise towards image making in the architecture of Doha. A concluding critique is introduced to elucidate that while there are incessant attempts at image making, the practice of ‘cutting and pasting’ dominates in the absence of critical consciousness. Such a critique calls for avoiding ‘case by case decision making’ the urban governance in the city still adopts while engaging effective place making strategies.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Urbanus (Architectural firm)"
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Mehndiratta, Rohit Raj 1973. "Film as urban investigator : Satyajit Ray's Aparajito and Baaras." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68812.
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Brown, Amy S. 1949. "Nature in practice : the Olmsted firm and the rise of landscape architecture an planning, 1880-1920." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8170.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2002.Vita.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 200-206).
This dissertation examines the development of the fields of landscape architecture and planning during the career of John Charles Olmsted. It attributes to him much of what happened in that period to standardize landscape architecture and planning practice. After Frederick Law Olmsted's retirement in 1895, the Olmsted Firm, under John Charles Olmsted, pioneered and led the development of landscape architecture and planning, working at both the large scale of national practice and at the smaller scale of office practice. The Olmsted firm is well-recognized for contributions to the profession of landscape architecture and to the development of American cities, especially in the form of innovative and influential projects in cities and towns across the United States. With the burgeoning cities and suburbs across the United States and increased opportunities for work, Olmsted Brothers grew into the largest landscape architecture and planning firm in the country. In the office, the firm's attempts to manage an often unwieldy amount of production material led to the development of an office system that forms the basis of modern design practice. On the road, John Charles Olmsted expanded the firm's national practice and became the most sought-after expert called in to help plan cities and towns across the country.
by Amy S. Brown.
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McDonald, Ross. "Urban Projections : a cinema and film centre for the Cape Town east city." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19076.
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This thesis is concerned with the particular way in which people perceive urban space around them. It is my position that, further to the requirements of making buildings and urban spaces that are functional and comfortable, architects have the responsibility to engage the users of their designs on deeper levels. This deeper response to one's urban environment is a characteristic that good architecture always has. Architecture that is invested with a strong sense of meaning, through the specificities of its experiential and formal qualities and with other associations it may possess (historical, cultural, etc.) plays an important role in shaping the everyday urban realities of people in the city. This document serves to present the theoretical research and outline the approach to design that I have followed, regarding my thesis design project. Both my theory of architecture and theory of technology papers have been included in this document in their entirety, as they are both frames through which I have approached the design process. Interspersed are additional sections of text and diagrammes that outline the specifics of the design project I have undertaken subsequent to (and resulting from) the initial theoretical research.
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Willittes, LeAnne M. "Dwelling in the Flame: An Architectural Response to Developing in Fire-prone Areas within the Wildland-urban Interface." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554120505582884.
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MesKimen, Allen L. "Assessment and Improvement of Fire Resiliency for Structures Located in the Wildland-Urban Interface." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2011. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/559.
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The purpose of this research was first to study the Wildland-Urban Interface and Wildland-Urban Intermix (WUI) fire problem, and then to design, develop and implement improved fire assessment and fire protection features for structures in the these interface fire-prone areas. The findings included that several areas of the world are prone to devastating fires that claim lives and destroy property, and their fire problems continue to exacerbate. None of these compare to the property loss experienced in Southern California due to its vast development in fire prone areas. It is because of the continuing huge property loss and frequency of major WUI fires that Southern California was selected as the concentration for research and the case studies used in this paper. However, the results of the research are applicable to other interface fire-prone areas in the world. The author is motivated by a need to dramatically improve our ability to effectively deal with what is no longer a fire “threat,” but the reality that people have chosen to live in an area of the world in which wildland fires are part of natural forest dynamics. To reduce the economic and social impacts of these inevitable fires, we need to understand the causes of fire damage, and establish methods to minimize damage when fires occur. This thesis proposes several fire protection strategies for increased fire resiliency and safety of individuals. Following a search of fire history and analysis, three related fire assessment matrixes were synthesized (see Chapter Five). The Fire Profile Index is the principal fire assessment matrix. It was developed empirically and applied to historical fire spreads for a sense of accuracy. The intended users of the Fire Profile Index are design professionals, public agencies charged with oversight for development in the WUI, insurance agencies, building and landscape contractors, homeowners, potential homeowners, residents and fire service professionals. From the Fire Profile Index two derivative special-use matrixes were established for use by diverse groups. The first of these matrixes, the Developers Guide, is intended for design professionals, public agencies, insurance agencies, and building and landscape contractors. The second matrix is the WUI Fire Assessment Guide, whose intended users are those concerned with development in high fire hazard areas, who should have a fundamental knowledge of fire behavior. This group includes fire agencies, developers, homeowners, potential homeowners and insurance companies. This thesis contributes to increased residential structure fire resistiveness and occupant fire safety in the WUI, by proposing site-specific fire assessment and corresponding design features in both structures and landscapes. Chapter Seven covers the development of noncombustible fire shields to divert airflow and diminish flames and embers blown towards structures. Wind tunnel modeling research was conducted at the Aerospace Program’s wind tunnel at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
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Schupp, Janina. "Audiovisual battlefields : the remediation of cinema and media imagery and technologies in military urban conflict simulations." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/275654.
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Since the end of the Cold War, the combined influence of audiovisual media, modern urban conflicts and asymmetric enemies has generated a new kind of military live training simulation to prepare soldiers for future combats. These novel hybrid exercise battlefields are situated in artificially constructed urban spaces and integrate real physical training with techniques and imagery inspired by the fields of cinema and media. This thesis critically examines this convergence of entertainment practices and images in military training and the resulting, potentially negative, impacts on the execution of warfare and perception of urban spaces and populations. The thesis begins by tracing the evolution of terrain representations in wargames – from black and white squares, painted landscape elements and actual maps, to virtual environments, miniature houses and real-scale architectures. The historical relationship between the film industry and military training is analysed in order to explore the emergence of cinematic components in simulated combat training landscapes that brought the flat world of wargames to its real third dimension. The mock urban training space is then investigated as a “meta-cinematic city” – a city created through cinematic tools, including set and sound design, which portrays a cinematic city (a city as represented through a filmic medium). This analysis focuses on how cinematic elements, such as creative geographies and architectural sequences, are created in order to train for the subversion of traditional conceptions of urban spaces and architectural elements in urban combats. Furthermore, the examination reveals how the sensory qualities of moving image technologies are employed to generate a multi-sensory “hyperrealism” and “hyperimmersion” to train physical and emotional reactions and engrain military responses to combat stimuli. The analysis furthermore excavates both the conscious and unconscious remediation of media imagery and practices in the creation of the artificial “human terrain”. The mise-en-scène of the enemy population is investigated in order to uncover how the simulation of “foreign” and “alien” identities is increasingly based on the media coverage of these population groups. The analysis critically considers how the resulting role-play reproduces self-perpetuating stereotypes that pre-shape the soldiers’ perception of populations. Lastly, the thesis explores how artificial media cycles are generated as part of the combat training to prepare soldiers’ self-representation and communication skills under unpredictable, straining circumstances and to effectively communicate the army’s message to the world. This section especially focuses on the growing military “weaponisation” of the media, which has now begun to market the military training itself as an entertainment attraction to worldwide audiences – thus closing the circle between entertainment and military practices and subsuming the population in the war preparation. With entertainment and marketing imagery, technologies and concepts now at the core of military preparation, stereotypes of population groups and urban spaces and a “de-realization”, “gamification” and “sanitisation” of warfare are increasingly carried over into real conflicts, thus affecting critical decisions as a result of entertainment-based conditioning. Furthermore, to ensure public support, the general population is turned into an indispensable part of military training through participatory video games, social media and training centre visits and consequently becomes increasingly complicit in the merging of entertainment and military practices and subject to the same remediated preconceptions.
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Brayer, Laure. "Dispositifs filmiques et paysage urbain : la transformation ordinaire des lieux à travers le film." Thesis, Grenoble, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014GRENH008/document.
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Partant d'une considération sur le paysage configuré au quotidien par les pratiques individuelles et collectives qu'il accueille et qui lui donnent forme, ce travail de thèse en architecture s'intéresse à la transformation ordinaire des lieux et interroge les manières dont nous pouvons l'appréhender pour penser leur devenir. Comment prendre en compte la dynamique de l'ambiance pour penser la conception d'un lieu ? Cette recherche interroge dans ce sens la portée du film (comme médium, comme pratique et dans sa réception) dans ce qu'il permet de comprendre de la transformation ordinaire des lieux. Il s'agit ainsi de questionner les potentialités des images audiovisuelles quant à la perception, la représentation et la conception partagée d'espaces publics urbains. En quoi et comment le film peut-il permettre de saisir les états et transitions des relations entre espace et corps percevants autant que pratiquants ? Pour cela, un protocole méthodologique croisé, à l'écoute d'une hétérogénéité des usages du film dans la compréhension et la constitution du fait urbain, a donné lieu à la construction et à l'analyse de quatre corpus de travail : 1. Recueil et sélection de films existants ; 2. Observation et suivi d'une mission vidéo dans un cadre opérationnel ; 3. Réalisation d'un film de commande ; 4. Expérimentation pédagogique auprès d'étudiants en architecture. Ces quatre corpus considèrent à plusieurs égards la problématique de la fabrication de films : statut et enjeu du recours au film, engagement dans le terrain (dans l'espace, le temps et la relation à l'Autre) par la pratique filmique, postures filmiques et rapports au monde. Notre recherche soulève, dans un second temps, la question de la réception filmique. C'est ainsi à partir d'une expérience d'audio-vision collective que le film devient le support d'un dialogue entre différents interlocuteurs conviés à mettre en partage et en débat leurs expériences. La pluralité des registres mis au travail au cours de la réception des films et de leur discussion (à savoir le sensible, le perceptif, l'interprétatif, le critique et le créatif) devient le support à l'élaboration d'un commun. De ces considérations sur la portée du film émerge en toile de fond l'importance du sensible et de l'improvisation collective dans l'appréhension et la conception de l'espace public urbainStarting from a consideration of the landscape, as it is configured daily by individual and collective practices which are supported by the landscape and from which the landscape is being shaped, this PhD thesis in architecture focuses on the ordinary transformation of places and questions the ways through which we can understand it in order to think out the becoming of these places. How can we take into account the dynamic of the ambiance in order to think about the design of a place? In that perspective, this research questions the scope of film (as a medium, as a practice and in its reception): what does filming allow us to understand of the ordinary transformation of places? This work investigates the potential of audiovisual images in terms of perception, representation and shared designing of urban public spaces. How can film facilitate the understanding of the states and transitions of the relationship between space and bodies – considering that bodies perceive and act at the same time? In order to study that question, a specific methodological protocol, open to heterogeneous uses of film for the understanding and the designing of cities, was worked out. It led us to the analysis of four frameworks: 1. Collecting and selecting existing films; 2. Observing a video project within the context of an urban study; 3. Filmmaking; 4. Experimenting film practice with architecture students. These four frameworks address the question of filmmaking in different ways: status and stakes of the use of film, involvement in fieldwork through film practice (involvement in space, in time and in relation with others), film postures and relations to the world. Secondly, our research raises the question of film reception. It is, then, from a collective experience of reception that film becomes the base of a dialogue between people who are invited to share and debate about their own experiences. The plurality of registers coming from the film reception and its discussion (what is sensible, perceptive, interpretive, critical and creative) becomes the base to work out a common design. From these considerations of the scope of film, it appears in the background that the sensible register and collective improvisations are of paramount importance in the understanding and designing of urban public spaces
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Van, Wyk Isabel Mari. "Layering the city : re-use of the old Pretoria Fire Station." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29805.
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Due to considerations for sustainable development and urban sprawl we have to address the growing concern of abandoned buildings and cities. Underutilised buildings and urban spaces are the development sites of the future. This dissertation investigates the problems of underutilised buildings and cities, and by doing so aims to contribute to a good urban environment, “the good city” according to Stern (2003: 21). As a further challenge, many of these underutilised buildings were designed with abrupt thresholds and inward orientation, instantly divorcing them from the public domain. Therefore not only is the re-use of an existing building explored, but is the extension of the public realm into the building also investigated. The project addresses this extension of the public realm through layering as a tool and a design generator. The layered tectonic is applied through spatial, componential, material and transitional layering. The building chosen for the dissertation is the old Pretoria Central Fire Station. The new proposed programme is a Centre for Architecture. Site information: Programme: Centre for Architecture: includes exhibition space, auditorium, conference facilities, offices, library, archives, bookshop and restaurant. Site description: Old Pretoria Central Fire Station, 1912 Client: Client body consisting of SACAP and voluntary associations within the architecture profession Users: Professionals and students in the Built Environment industry, tourists and the general public Site Location: Erven 913 + 914 Address: 449 Bosman Street, c/o Minnaar Street, Pretoria CBD, South Africa Between African Window and City Hall GPS coordinates: 25°45’12.99”S, 28°11’8.61”EDissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2011.
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Randall, William Sanford. "How Methane Made the Mountain: The Material Ghost and the Technological Sublime in Methane Ghosts." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1460722538.
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Bernardini, Gabriele. "A “behavioural design” approach for architectural spaces design. Development of tools and solutions for fire and earthquake emergency evacuation at different scales." Doctoral thesis, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11566/242972.
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La sicurezza degli spazi architettonici in emergenza implica una corretta gestione del processo di evacuazione. L’attuale approccio alla progettazione è influenzato da determinismo e schematicità: si suppone che conformazione di spazi e facilities (sistemi di wayfinding) sia di per sè in grado di plasmare il comportamento umano. Il progettista spesso adotta metodi semplificati (da manuali e norme) che considerano l’evacuazione un evento fluidodinamico con scelte umane rigidamente codificate. La letteratura dimostra però come i rapporti uomo-ambiente rendano vane le soluzioni comunemente adottate. Inoltre, stessi problemi sono riscontrati a grande (spazi urbani) e piccola scale (singoli edifici).
Lo studio propone un nuovo approccio: il behavioural design (BD) intende progettare spazio e facilities basandosi sul reale comportamento umano. Le fasi principali sono perciò comprensione del comportamento umano con prove sperimentali, sviluppo e validazione di simulatori di evacuazione; analisi del processo per individuarne le criticità; proposta di soluzioni e valutazione dell’impatto tramite simulatore o prove reali.
La metodologia BD è applicata a 2 casi riguardanti scenari esistenti complessi. Cardine è minimizzare gli interventi grazie alla localizzazione dei punti critici del processo e alla progettazione di nuovi componenti edilizi.
Il primo caso ha visto lo sviluppo di un modello per la simulazione dell’evacuazione post-sisma su scala urbana. Il modello può essere usato per stimare il rischio includendo il fattore umano, valutare l’efficacia di interventi su edifici ed asseto urbano, e di procedure di emergenza.
Il secondo caso sviluppa nuovi sistemi di wayfinding in edifici storici (teatri). Essi sono progettati per interagire efficacemente con le persone, guidandole attraverso le corrette vie di fuga, e senza apportare sostanziali modifiche al layout architettonico. Il lavoro è stato svolto anche in coordinazione con il cluster TAV-progetto SHELL O.R.4.4.Occupants' safety in architectural spaces during an emergency is essentially connected to the evacuation process. Current strategies are influenced by a schematic and deterministic approach: it is supposed that building layout and wayfinding systems can directly induce individuals’ behaviors. Interventions on buildings could be enough for reducing people risk, because occupants would surely behave in “the correct way” (e.g.: using right paths). This approach seems to exclude behavioral aspects: experiments demonstrate enormous differences between theoretical and real behaviors in evacuation. Same problems are noticed at both small (building) and wide (urban) scale. Hence, this study focuses on a behavioral point of view and defines a “behavioral design” (BD) approach for increasing people’s safety in architectural spaces. BD is aimed at adapting architectural spaces depending on human behaviors! Hence, method phases include: understanding behaviors in emergency through experiments/real world events; defining and validating evacuation simulation model; analyzing emergency processes through simulator; proposing design solutions based on retrieved critical behaviors and verifying their impact by simulator or drills. The BD method effectiveness is shown by 2 cases. Firstly, an earthquake pedestrians’ evacuation simulator is developed. The model is able to represent man-environment interferences in damaged scenarios and can be used for evaluating vulnerability-reduction interventions on buildings, urban planning and rescuers’ management strategies. The second case concerns wayfinding systems definition in building heritage (theater). Systems are defined so as to address correct evacuation path choices, by reducing overall risks with no architectural modifications. This issue is considerably significant in these buildings because of preservation principles and minimum intervention criterion. This work was developed in accordance with “TAV-progetto SHELL-O.R.4.4” activities.
Books on the topic "Urbanus (Architectural firm)"
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Jonathan, Falkingham, Johnson Nick, and Urban Splash (Firm), eds. Urbansplash: Transformation. London: RIBA Pub., 2011.
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1959-, Bos Caroline, ed. UN Studio: Design models, architecture, urbanism, infrastructure. London: Thames & Hudson, 2006.
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Ian, Luna, Powell Kenneth, and Krinsky Carol Herselle, eds. KPF: Kohn Pedersen Fox, architecture and urbanism, 1993-2002. New York: Rizzoli, 2002.
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Another modern: The post-war architecture and urbanism of Candilis-Josic-Woods. Rotterdam: NAi, 2005.
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Avermaete, Tom. Another modern: The post-war architecture and urbanism of Candilis-Josic-Woods. Rotterdam: NAi, 2005.
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Drawing the ground, landscape urbanism today: The work of Palmbout Urban Landscapes. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2010.
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Hadid, Zaha. Zaha Hadid: Vitra Fire Station. Berlin: Aedes Galerie und Architekturforum, 1992.
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(Firm), feld72. Urbanism, for sale: Feld72 : österreichischer Beitrag zur 7. internationalen Architkturbiennale São Paulo = Austrian contribution to the 7th International Biennial for Architecture, São Paulo. New York: Springer, 2008.
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Stan, Allen, and Morphosis Architects, eds. Combinatory urbanism: The complex behavior of collective form. Culver City, CA: Stray Dog Café, 2011.
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Ohgai, A., Y. Gohnai, S. Ikaruga, M. Murakami, and K. Watanabe. "Cellular Automata Modeling For Fire Spreading As a Tool to Aid Community-Based Planning for Disaster Mitigation." In Recent Advances in Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning, 193–209. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2409-6_13.
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Gohnai, Y., A. Ohgai, S. Ikaruga, T. Kato, K. Hitaka, M. Murakami, and K. Watanabe. "Development of a Support System for Community-Based Disaster Mitigation Planning Integrated with a Fire Spread Simulation Model Using CA." In Innovations in Design & Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning, 35–51. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5060-2_3.
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Sklair, Leslie. "Architects as Professionals and Ideologues." In The Icon Project. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190464189.003.0011.
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The globalizing professionals and technical personnel that make up the professional fraction of the transnational capitalist class (TCC) in architecture are a very mixed group, ranging from those who work with (or for) those who own and control the major architectural firms to those engaged in facilitating construction (Kennedy 2005; Ren 2011), the education of architects, designers in general, professional architectural entrepreneurs, historians, and critics. In chapter 2 the role of architects and their firms in the social production of iconicity was discussed (summarized in table 2.2). In this respect the professional fraction and the corporate fraction of the TCC clearly overlap. However, there are many other professionals in and around architecture and urban design whose relationship to the professional fraction of the TCC is more problematic, and they are the prime focus of this chapter. Of all the four fractions of the TCC, the professional fraction is the one in which we find most opposition to the globalizing agenda of contemporary capitalism and, in some cases, outright condemnation of consumerism and its effects on architecture and the city. There are frequent debates between globalizing professionals who enthusiastically support and practice the agenda of capitalist globalization and others who pursue their own, sometimes alternative agendas. These include engineers and consultants working with inexpensive and sustainable local materials and building methods, and teachers, historians, and critics who give them theoretical and practical support. There is no shortage of critical commentary on capitalism and consumer society from those on the politically progressive wings of contemporary developments in architecture and urban design, more or less leftist scholars. Proponents of Critical Regionalism in its several incarnations (Frampton 1985; Canizaro 2007; Lefaivre and Tzonis 2012) and those under the umbrella of vernacular architecture (Harris and Berke 1997) also provide some insights about what alternative globalizations in architecture and urban design could look like. Even some notable architects, considered members of the cultural establishment, have expressed radical ideas when in reflective mood (e.g., Rogers 1991).
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Sklair, Leslie. "The Architecture Industry and Typical Icons." In The Icon Project. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190464189.003.0008.
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This chapter aims to fill in the substance of the first component of the corporate fraction of the transnational capitalist class (TCC) in architecture and urban design, the major architecture firms. While the starchitects and signature architects who produce unique architectural icons have attracted most media attention, they are a very small group within the profession. Here, the focus is on the much larger group of architecture firms producing the successful typical icons that are transforming cities all round the world in the era of capitalist globalization. Infrastructure is an increasingly large part of this, and I introduce the idea of celebrity infrastructure to highlight how bridges, transportation hubs, and waterside developments are mobilized as the Icon Project strives to turn them into consumerist spaces. Here the focus is more on the projects than the firms. As we saw in the previous chapter, contrary to the claims of many architecture critics and theorists, iconicity is not simply a creation of the media or corporate publicists. Architects play a significant part in the social production of iconic architecture, making some of them active participants in the Icon Project. As Dion Kooijman (2000: 829) argues, ‘architecture can form a true part of the “image building” by PR and marketing departments’. Behind the general discussion of the ways in which the four fractions of the TCC serve the interests of capitalist globalization through creating and promoting iconic architecture is the idea that, as well as the symbolism and aesthetics of iconic buildings and spaces, there is something else going on of great significance. Two pioneering studies, Blau (1984) and Gutman (1988), researched architecture as an industry in the United States. Judith Blau focused more on architects themselves, reporting a key finding that 98 per cent of respondents (she surveyed 400 architects in New York) said that architects were distinct from other professionals in terms of the ‘mystique of artistic creativity’ (Blau 1984: 49), but that most architects never realize this goal. This was seen to be a problem for architecture, particularly in capitalist societies.
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Dowdall, Alex. "From Towns into Battlefields." In Communities under Fire, 19–56. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198856115.003.0002.
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Chapter 1 explores the topography of the urban battlefield, and provides an urban history of the Western Front. It describes how Arras, Reims, Nancy, Lens, and other towns were progressively transformed into battlefields in the period after August 1914. It describes the transformation of urban space by the First World War, through artillery bombardment, the fortification of these towns by the militaries, and the proliferation of military weaponry and defensive architecture. It discusses how civilians changed their routines to adapt to the urban battlefield, and argues that as much as possible civilians at the front aimed to maintain a semblance of normality. This was encouraged by local authorities, and represented as a form of heroic resistance in the face of the enemy. The chapter charts the physical impact of urban warfare near the front, and describes the extent of urban destruction during the period of the stable Western Front. It also charts the transformation of the civilian population of the front, through discussions of evacuation policies and the scale of civilian death and injury.
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Llano, Fabian Andrés, Oscar Mauricio Pérez, and Mireya Barón Pulido. "Contemporary Architecture of the Periphery." In Advances in Religious and Cultural Studies, 321–35. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6701-2.ch017.
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This chapter analyzes of two types of social and cultural development in the context of peripheral regions. The projects analyze a library, Biblioteca España (2007-2015), and a cultural center, La Casa de La Lluvia (2013-present). The library was designed by El Equipo Mazzanti, a design firm, as part of the social urbanism policy framework that characterized the city of Medellin between 2004 to 2007. The cultural center was built by Arquitectura Expandida, a design collective that has been in operation since 2010 and whose headquarters is located in the city of Bogota. This analysis is unique in how it applies a sociological analysis to two architectural projects. It also seeks to demonstrate how two cultural models of habitat development that seem to be incompatible, in regard to their design and implementation, share a common goal: attain the social wellbeing of the communities living in peripheral regions.
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"Urban-Architecture as a Battleground of Socio-Cultural Struggle." In The Urban Gaze: Exploring Urbanity through Art, Architecture, Music, Fashion, Film and Media, 129–40. BRILL, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9781848884533_013.
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Dimendberg, Edward. "Introduction." In The Moving Eye, 1–12. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190218430.003.0001.
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This introduction presents the central concepts developed by film and media scholar Anne Friedberg (1952–2009) in her books Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern and The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft. It argues that her notions of the moving virtual gaze and the virtual window prefigure subsequent discussions in the visual studies and mobility studies literature that emphasize the significance of vision in motion. It also explicates how the chapters in this volume investigate domains such as film, television, visual art, architecture, urbanism, and virtual reality. Finally, it indicates how each chapter extends Friedberg’s ideas to new areas and contributes to an ongoing investigation of cultural modernity in an age of rapid media change.
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Wang, Qing, Matthias Ihme, Yi-fan Chen, Vivian Yang, Fei Sha, and John Anderson. "Towards real-time predictions of large-scale wildfire scenarios using a fully coupled atmosphere-fire physical modelling framework." In Advances in Forest Fire Research 2022, 415–21. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-2298-9_67.
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With the changing climate, fire-exclusion, and expansion of wildland-urban interfaces, the frequency and severity of wildfires are expected to increase, putting substantial stress on fire management and authorities to mitigate the risk of wildfires. Improved physical models in conjunction with advanced high-performance computing resources offer new opportunities for operational use in examining potential fire-spread scenarios and planning. This work presents an open-source, high-fidelity modelling framework for simulating large-scale wildfire scenarios, taking into consideration atmospheric/fire coupling, complex terrain, and heterogeneous fuel loading. The framework is implemented using the TensorFlow programming environment on tensor processing units (TPUs). TPUs are a dedicated high-performance computing architecture to accelerate machine-learning applications and high-performance scientific computing. This framework solves the Favre-filtered reacting Navier-Stokes equations and the unclosed terms describing turbulence/chemistry interaction and turbulence transport are modelled using large-eddy simulation (LES) closures. Wildfire dynamics is described by a one-step solid-fuel pyrolysis/combustion model that is coupled to atmospheric flow dynamics using a Boussinesq-type approximation. A second-order finite-difference discretization is employed in a variable-density, low-Mach number formulation to discretize the governing equations, and an immersed-boundary method is adapted to represent complex terrain. In conjunction with the coupled atmosphere/fire model and physical models for turbulence/atmosphere/fire interaction, the resulting simulation framework enables high-resolution simulations (with spatial resolution below 2m) of large-scale fires that cover up to ~100,000 acres. Following the summary of validation results against a prescribed fire experiment to assess the overall accuracy at well-controlled conditions, we employ this coupled atmosphere/fire modelling framework to simulate a large-scale wildfire scenario that is representative of the 2017 California Tubb’s fire. To this end, we extract the terrain of the North Bay region of Calistoga and Santa Rosa, spanning an area of 20×20 km2, and consider a North-Eastern wind. The simulation results illustrate the rapid fire-spread dynamics and the coupling of the fire with the terrain and atmosphere. With relevance to operational and research applications that include parametric studies to examine effects of wind, fuel-density, other environmental factors, and fire-management strategies, we discuss the scalability and further extensions of the physical fidelity towards enabling real-time applications on TPU-compute architectures.
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Evans, Victoria L. "Final Chord and ‘Die Neue Welt’: The Mise-en-scène of Aufbruch1." In Douglas Sirk, Aesthetic Modernism and the Culture of Modernity. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474409391.003.0006.
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Chapter 5 ("Final Chord and 'Die Neue Welt': The Mise-en-Scène of Aufbruch")examines the only film from Sirk's German period to depict twentieth-century urban life. In the prologue that the director added to the existing script, two antithetical aesthetics appear to underscore the philosophical and political disparities that distinguish a democratic New York from a Fascist Berlin. Because the architectural symbolism of each of these cities may be read both positively and negatively (from a Modernist and a National Socialist point of view), after outlining the main arguments on either side, the author then attempts to resolve the vexed question of which metropolis offers the most desirable "New World" of the future, based upon the formal and narrative evidence that is provided by the film.
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Lopes, Ricardo Ferreira, and Lélia Mendes de Vasconcellos. "A prática pedagógica de croquis urbanos no ensino da arquitetura e urbanismo sob uma perspectiva sensorial." In Seminario Internacional de Investigación en Urbanismo. Barcelona: Curso de Arquitetura e Urbanismo. Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/siiu.6248.
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O objetivo deste artigo é contribuir com uma reflexão sobre o ensino do desenho de observação, através da percepção do meio ambiente urbano nas múltiplas esferas sensoriais. Constata-se uma significativa mudança no pensamento e no comportamento das novas gerações de alunos ingressos nas universidades, inseridas em uma cultura cada vez mais tecnológica e imagética. As experiências vivenciais necessárias ao amadurecimento cognitivo estão se fundindo pela velocidade e simultaneidade.A mudança no paradigma representacional implica em novas atitudes pedagógicas, o que incide no exercício de reflexão sobre a noção de uma “perspectiva sensorial”. A metodologia aborda uma revisão teórico-histórica e filosófica, assim como algumas experiências didáticas realizadas com turmas da Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora(FAU-UFJF). Ao fim, são estabelecidas algumas recomendações para a proposição de uma disciplina eletiva em caráter experimental intitulada “Croquis Urbanos”, a ser ministrada na FAU-UFJF em abril de 2016. The purpose of this article is to contribute to a reflection on the teaching of observational drawing through the perception of the urban environment as from the multiple senses. There has been a significant shift in thinking and behavior of new generations of students admitted in Universities, set in a culture increasingly technological and imagery. The experiential necessary for the cognitive maturity are merging for speed and simultaneity. The change in representational paradigm implies new teaching attitudes, which means the reflection on the notion of a "sensory perspective". The methodology approaches a theoretical-historical and philosophical review, as well as some educational experiments with groups of the Architecture and Urbanism of the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora(FAU-UFJF). Lastly, establishes some recommendations to propose an experimental subject entitled "Croquis Urbanos” (Urban Sketching), to be given in FAU-UFJF in April 2016.
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Poole, Scott. "A Disruptive Partnership Connecting Academia, Science and the Profession." In 2019 Teachers Conference. ACSA Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.teach.2019.71.
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Initiated in April, 2014, The Governor’s Chair for Energy + Urbanism was a $2.25M five-year research partnership between the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, a prominent architecture, interior design, urban planning, and engineering firm with an extensive global practice, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL, located near Knoxville, TN, the largest U.S Department of Energy science and technology laboratory.1 While the partnership had multifaceted objectives, they all, in one way or another, had to bridge the prevailing disconnect between academic inquiry, basic scientific research, and practical application.
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Branco, Micaela. "Lugar do sagrado: igreja como elemento dinamizador do espaço público." In Seminario Internacional de Investigación en Urbanismo. Barcelona: Facultad de Arquitectura. Universidad de la República, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/siiu.6140.
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À mulher de César não basta ser honesta, tem de parecer honesta. Este trabalho pretende verificar a relação entre a igreja e as pessoas, em especial, a importância do edifício parecer igreja na questão da orientação e no sentido de identidade do homem, considerando que estes fatores permitem dinamizar o espaço público e, por conseguinte, gerar vitalidade nos tecidos urbanos. O estudo começa por clarificar a importância da revitalização do espaço urbano de Clichy-sous-Bois, Paris, como resposta aos motins de 2005. De seguida explica a relação do Espaço Sagrado com a Cidade ao longo do tempo. Posteriormente analisa os resultados de um inquérito realizado a quatro casos de estudo do séc. XX localizados na área metropolitana de Lisboa. Por fim, verifica que os elementos arquitetónicos estão relacionados com o parecer igreja e que esse parecer influencia os sentidos de orientação e de identidade do homem, permitindo a dinamização do espaço público. Caesar's wife doesn’t need to be only honest, she has to look honest. This paper is aimed at confirming the relationship between the church and people, in particular the importance of the building look like a church on the issue of man’s orientation and sense of identity, considering that these factors allow the public space to be more dynamic and therefore they generate vitality in urban life. The study begins by clarifying the importance of urban space revitalization in Clichy-sous-Bois, Paris, as a response to the riots of 2005. Then explains the relationship over time between Sacred Space and the City. Subsequently, analyses the results of a survey regarding four 20th century cases of study located in the metropolitan area of Lisbon. Finally, checks that the architectural elements are related with looking like a church and that this appearance influences the sense of guidance and identity of man, allowing the public space to be more dynamic.
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Juzwa, Nina, Tomasz Konior, and Jakub Świerzawski. "Architecture on the Edge of a City." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002334.
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The topic concerns the revitalization of a place by the introduction of a new building whose functionality and architectural uniqueness renew and/or develop the place. To put the problem in a broader perspective - the introduction of a building with a non-threatening function and an attractive form makes a declining or stagnant place suddenly appealing again. This applies to both, the built and natural environment. The restauration of both often requires similar revitalization activities and supporting elements.The presented issue is a part of a broader study that concerns architecture as the fine art of building, covering the topic of sustainability in architectural and urban design. The so-called “human factor” is an essential element for shaping a place. It is an element of urban and architectural design of new places. By creating new and different workplaces in declining or stagnant districts, also by introducing unusual architectural forms or materiality, a place can become attractive to users. Previously declining built or natural environment - suddenly become a desirable, growing place. Contemporary international research conducted by neuroscientists confirms the importance of the desire for beauty in ones surroundings. Thus, architectural beauty becomes a vital and economically significant factor in the shaping of the built and natural environment.Present processes of revitalization are usually supported by emphasising elements that make up the “human factor”. It involves balancing the functionality and beauty of an object as important in creating a PLACE in architecture.The topic is presented on the example of architecture of the following buildings:-Gymnasium and Cultural Center in Białołęka, 2006 is located on the edge between urban and landscape areas, on the right bank of the Vistula escarpment. The architectural form reflects the natural landscape. Traditional materiality blends with the context nearly perfectly. -The small buildings of the Cultural Center, 2013, on the outskirts of Warsaw, create a contrast of geometry and materiality to the high-rise blocks of flats. In its shape and material there is a longing for tradition expressed in a balanced, non-intrusive way.-The Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice, 2017. The university building for artistic education was tasked to create a PLACE in a declining district. It impresses with its simplicity and its materiality of the traditional material – brick that is presented in a new, changed form. - Stone Pavilion Golędzinow, 2020 is a small building that tells Warsaw residents about nature conservation. The buildings form was created in the image of a post-glacial fossil. It is an object which shape and materiality seems as if taken directly from the natural world. - Press Glass offices in Konopiska, 2021, built in an unexpected place for this type of building. It is located in a former wasteland which was turned into a golf course. The building is intended to promote the excellence of glass - it reflects the green surroundings, and its form builds the uniqueness and beauty of architecture.The co-author of this publication is the designer of the first and fifth example.
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Tang, Shuang, Yu Bai, Yu Mo, Ju-dan Hu, Min-jie Yang, and Ke-yi Ren. "Quantitative Analysis of Building Loss in Urban Subway Fire." In 2021 4th International Symposium on Traffic Transportation and Civil Architecture (ISTTCA). IEEE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/isttca53489.2021.9654647.
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Shih, Naai-Jung, and Wei-Jeh Lan. "Incorporating a 3D Urban Environment Model between Government and Local Architectural Firms." In 14th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction. International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC), 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.22260/isarc1997/0020.
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Pasquini, Rafael, Rodrigo S. Miani, Paulo R. Coelho, Augusto V. Neto, Nicolás Hidalgo, Martín Gutiérrez, Erika Rosas, Javier Baliosian, and Eduardo Grampín. "ADMITS: Architecting Distributed Monitoring and Analytics in IoT-based Disaster Scenarios." In Simpósio Brasileiro de Computação Ubíqua e Pervasiva. Sociedade Brasileira de Computação - SBC, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5753/sbcup.2020.11207.
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The ADMITS project aims to develop algorithms, protocols and architectures to enable a distributed computing environment to provide support for monitoring, failure detection, and analytics in IoT disaster scenarios. We face a context where, every year, millions of people are affected by natural and man-made disasters, whereby governments all around the world spend huge amounts of resources on preparation, immediate response, and reconstruction. Recently, the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm has been extensively used for efficiently managing disaster scenarios, such as volcanic disasters, floods, forest fire, land- slides, earthquakes, urban disasters, industrial and terrorists attacks, and so on. However, in a disaster scenario the communication/processing infrastructure and the devices themselves may fail, producing either temporary or permanent network partitions and loss of information. Moreover, it is expected that in the years to come, IoT will generate large amounts of data, making processing and analysis challenging in time-critical applications. Considering such challenges, ADMITS targets the development of a architecture in which IoT, Fog, and Cloud computing technologies participate to provide required capabilities for IoT data analytics, real-time stream processing, and failure monitoring for environments potentially subject to disasters. In this positional paper, we discuss the motivation, objectives, architecture, research challenges (and how to overcome them) and initial efforts for the ADMITS project.
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Yılmaz, Didem Güneş. "Fire Safety of Tall Buildings: Approach in Design and Prevention." In 5th International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism – Full book proceedings of ICCAUA2020, 11-13 May 2022. Alanya Hamdullah Emin Paşa University, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.38027/iccaua2022en0215.
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Johnson, Jason S., Matthew Parker, Christina James, Joshua Taron, and Logan Armstrong. "FXAT SCREEN." In 2016 ACSA International Conference. ACSA Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.intlp.2016.11.
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The FXAT Screen seeks to reclaim the presence of architecture and its imagery in the public realm. CNC milled opaque plywood panels produce a thickened surface revealing the material stratification within the planar surfaces. In direct contrast to the hyper smooth and streamlined aesthetic of contemporary media devices, the FXAT Screen wraps an artificial topography around an exaggerated cantilevered form that addresses both the pedestrian corridor of the urban core and the main venues for the RAIC ArchitectureFestival. A gradient of openings migrates across the form toward the street, concluding with a 14 x 7-foot rear projection screen showing the work of 15 emerging Canadian architecture firms in the RAIC’s Future Voice: Situating Architecture Exhibition.
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Ceastina, Ala. "The outstanding architect Alexander Iosifovich Bernardazzi (1831–1907)." In Patrimoniul cultural: cercetare, valorificare, promovare. Institute of Cultural Heritage, Republic of Moldova, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.52603/9789975351379.20.
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This year marks the 190th birthday of the famous Swiss architect of Italian origin A.I. Bernardazzi, who is also known for creating various historic buildings in Ukraine, Bessarabia and Poland. Archival documents were an evidence of the beginning of architectural career of Bernardazzi, when the Bessarabian Road and Construction Commission appointed him as the technician for urban planning of Akkerman and Bendery in 1853 and also for building some bridges and causeways in those districts. He took part in the organization of the third market in the Forest Square in Kishinev in September of 1855. This was the first mission of his creativity in Kishinev. Alexander Bernardazzi executed his duty as municipal architect from 1856 to 1878 having taken the place of another architect Luca Zaushkevich. All his subsequent monumental buildings became the best examples of European architecture by their style, shape, and quality. . In Bessarabia, he participated in the design and construction of many buildings such as the temporal theatre, the Lutheran school, the railway station, the Greek Church, the Manuk-Bei’s palace, etc. As for Kishinev, the architect Bernardazzi performed the beautification of paving many streets, the construction of urban water supply and the cast-iron railing in the city park. Also, he participated in many architects’ meetings where he submitted interesting reports referring to the theater, some windows, fire safety of buildings and so on. After his arrival to Odessa in 1878, Alexander Bernardazzi continued to participate in designing social and civil buildings in Bessarabia. For his enormous creative contribution to urban development, he was appreciated with the title of honorable citizen of Kishinev and appointed member of the Bessarabian department of the Imperial Russian Technical Society.
Reports on the topic "Urbanus (Architectural firm)"
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Gupte, Jaideep, Sarath MG Babu, Debjani Ghosh, Eric Kasper, and Priyanka Mehra. Smart Cities and COVID-19: Implications for Data Ecosystems from Lessons Learned in India. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/sshap.2021.034.
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This brief distils best data practice recommendations through consideration of key issues involved in the use of technology for surveillance, fact-checking and coordinated control during crisis or emergency response in resource constrained urban contexts. We draw lessons from how data enabled technologies were used in urban COVID-19 response, as well as how standard implementation procedures were affected by the pandemic. Disease control is a long-standing consideration in building smart city architecture, while humanitarian actions are increasingly digitised. However, there are competing city visions being employed in COVID-19 response. This is symptomatic of a broader range of tech-based responses in other humanitarian contexts. These visions range from aspirations for technology driven, centralised and surveillance oriented urban regimes, to ‘frugal innovations’ by firms, consumers and city governments. Data ecosystems are not immune from gendered- and socio-political discrimination, and technology-based interventions can worsen existing inequalities, particularly in emergencies. Technology driven public health (PH) interventions thus raise concerns about 1) what types of technologies are appropriate, 2) whether they produce inclusive outcomes for economically and socially disadvantaged urban residents and 3) the balance between surveillance and control on one hand, and privacy and citizen autonomy on the other.
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Gupte, Jaideep, Sarath MG Babu, Debjani Ghosh, Eric Kasper, Priyanka Mehra, and Asif Raza. Smart Cities and COVID-19: Implications for Data Ecosystems from Lessons Learned in India. Institute of Development Studies, March 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/sshap.2022.004.
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This brief distils best data practice recommendations through consideration of key issues involved in the use of technology for surveillance, fact-checking and coordinated control during crisis or emergency response in resource constrained urban contexts. We draw lessons from how data enabled technologies were used in urban COVID-19 response, as well as how standard implementation procedures were affected by the pandemic. Disease control is a long-standing consideration in building smart city architecture, while humanitarian actions are increasingly digitised. However, there are competing city visions being employed in COVID-19 response. This is symptomatic of a broader range of tech-based responses in other humanitarian contexts. These visions range from aspirations for technology driven, centralised and surveillance oriented urban regimes, to ‘frugal innovations’ by firms, consumers and city governments. Data ecosystems are not immune from gendered- and socio-political discrimination, and technology-based interventions can worsen existing inequalities, particularly in emergencies. Technology driven public health (PH) interventions thus raise concerns about 1) what types of technologies are appropriate, 2) whether they produce inclusive outcomes for economically and socially disadvantaged urban residents and 3) the balance between surveillance and control on one hand, and privacy and citizen autonomy on the other.
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Gupte, Jaideep, Sarath MG Babu, Debjani Ghosh, Eric Kasper, Priyanka Mehra, and Asif Raza. Smart Cities and COVID-19: Implications for Data Ecosystems from Lessons Learned in India. SSHAP, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/sshap.2021.012.
Full textAbstract:
This brief distils best data practice recommendations through consideration of key issues involved in the use of technology for surveillance, fact-checking and coordinated control during crisis or emergency response in resource constrained urban contexts. We draw lessons from how data enabled technologies were used in urban COVID-19 response, as well as how standard implementation procedures were affected by the pandemic. Disease control is a long-standing consideration in building smart city architecture, while humanitarian actions are increasingly digitised. However, there are competing city visions being employed in COVID-19 response. This is symptomatic of a broader range of tech-based responses in other humanitarian contexts. These visions range from aspirations for technology driven, centralised and surveillance oriented urban regimes, to ‘frugal innovations’ by firms, consumers and city governments. Data ecosystems are not immune from gendered- and socio-political discrimination, and technology-based interventions can worsen existing inequalities, particularly in emergencies. Technology driven public health (PH) interventions thus raise concerns about 1) what types of technologies are appropriate, 2) whether they produce inclusive outcomes for economically and socially disadvantaged urban residents and 3) the balance between surveillance and control on one hand, and privacy and citizen autonomy on the other.