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was scecpital of of complex though, with it going up right on the main street, concerns of the constucion causing a nusen to the town were buzzing all over. After a few months into contrucion, Ribeiro paused the construction process due to fears that Mesure 48 would cause his funding to be limited and local banks refusing to provide loans for the 10-15 million dollar complex. This left the town with 3 story eye sore. The building…

are comparative to interior space. There are principles that both share in different ways and scopes. The organization, the logic, the way of understanding stays current because all these kind of spaces have human factor.As we know, there are eight main principles about urban design. Character, continuity and Enclosure, Public Realm quality, ease of movement, legibility, adaptability, diversity and…

Andersson, a PhD Fellow at the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Both targeted homes were managed by a municipal real estate company for care facilities and all the interior renovations done were limited only to the communal spaces of the two building. The overall aim of the intervention project was to attribute the interior settings with subsidiary quality, which would benefit elderly individuals with functional impairment to find their own way from their respective…

Though the original request was to build a culture center, Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers actually made it a highly flexible building that can be used for any kinds of purposes. The framework and interior arrangement can be changed to adapt the requirements. Also, its unique steel framework allows the center to have huge uninterrupted space, which is highly preferred by exhibitions…

The History to Today of American Construction and advice High School Student Who Wish to Pursue the Construction Industry Due to cultural, economic, technological reasons, the construction profession has evolved throughout American history and into contemporary American society. Contemporary American high schoolers can prepare themselves to be a constructionist. Likewise, American high school graduates must complete training and processes to become professional constructionist. What marketable…

and introduced abstract art. This interest guided me to researching online and realizing Cubism spread beyond art to influence design and architectural styles. Consequently, I began to take notice of the small details of the forms and shapes of buildings I used to obliviously pass every day on the street and at this point, I knew I found my passion and therefore, I decided to explore architecture in depth at university.…

“The works of famous architects like Laurie Baker, Anupama Kundoo, Sanjay Prakash, Anil Laul, and Vasanth Kamath are demonstration of how ecologically sensitive cost effective buildings can be designed using local material and technologies” . These architects have incorporated vernacular style in modern era buildings. The works of these architects are used as example to modify the vernacular architecture according to present day construction. Didi contractor an organization active in…

If you were asked to build the ideal school, what features would you include and why? It would be amazing if I was asked to build and design the ideal school. It would most likely be a high school. In the school I would put features that I think kids would like. I want to put features that kids will like because as a student you hear all kinds of things that students say they would want in a school. I would build it two stories tall, seperate it in wings, have a two story tall libary and gym,…

populated, resulting in larger buildings, and the risk of numerous fire fatalities increased due to building construction design. To this day building design plays a significant role in the ability of its occupants to exit safely during and emergency. The design of new buildings is influenced as a result of human behaviors during past fire emergency. For many years, engineers and architects have believed that when an alarm sounds occupants will immediately leave the building in an orderly…

Earthen materials show interesting environmental advantages when used to build [1]. These materials are becoming increasingly important in the context of the modern desire of construction materials which are less highly processed and have low toxicity [2][3][4]. Nowadays, there are several available techniques where these materials can be used with structural purposes, namely as earth blocks (adobe), compressed earth blocks (CEB), rammed earth and cob [5] but the lack of scientific data and lack…