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HBIM between Antiquity and Industrial Archaeology
Industrial heritage with secular production activity constitutes a specific field of application to refine digital tools for knowledge within the HBIM (Heritage Building Information Modeling) process. Industrial sites are traditionally linked to the exploitation of local resources, and, not infrequently, are settled by recovering the ruins of ancient buildings and monuments. There is the possibility of creating a diachronic HBIM to investigate a complex industrial heritage, its evolution and production phases, modeling components for this type of architecture, with the deepening of the LOD of BIM (Building Information Modeling) instances applied to machines. The application represents an augmented knowledge process applicable on industrial heritage through modeling instances of machines and industrial processes that would allow regional and transnational cross-sectional studies and the enhancement of fruition and reuse of these sites.
  • 950
  • 01 Feb 2022
Topic Review
Sustainable Recovery of Architectural Heritage
Rey Prendes House is representative of one hundred and forty-five houses made of wood, stamped steel sheet, and deployé that are located in the historical center of San Salvador. Its origin is linked to historical events, such as the strong migration of foreigners to El Salvador in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the presidential decrees that encouraged the reconstruction of the city with anti-seismic materials as a result of the earthquakes of 1873 and 1917. More recently, since 2017, Rey Prendes House has been included in the project funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation. The phases of the survey are documented with both materials and degradation analyses, the new design construction with BIM technology for the organization of the educational construction site, the creation of offices and laboratories for restoration and treatments of timber and metal details. 
  • 942
  • 28 Mar 2022
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Teaware Design
Teaware designers and producers have invisibly created a considerable carbon footprint with regard to nonrenewable clay and energy waste due to excessive production. The size of the tea-drinking container and the thickness of the cup’s rim will affect the perception of the tea’s taste and smell.
  • 941
  • 22 Sep 2021
Topic Review
Impact of Interior Lighting Color in Rural Bed Design
In architectural spaces, the atmosphere created by lighting plays an important role in influencing people's emotions, often relying on the use of colour and light. The combination of cool white light and warm white light with coloured light significantly affected participants' arousal levels, but had relatively little effect on levels of pleasure, dominance and relaxation. When comparing the emotions experienced after exposure to cool white light and warm white light, warm white light triggered more positive emotions.
  • 904
  • 11 Oct 2023
Topic Review
Artificial Intelligence for Master-Quality Architectural Designs Generation
The outstanding buildings designed by master architects are the common wealth of mankind. They reflect their design skills and concepts and are not possessed by ordinary architectural designers. Compared with traditional methods that rely on a lot of mental labor for innovative design and drawing, artificial intelligence (AI) methods have greatly improved the creativity and efficiency of the design process. It overcomes the difficulty in specifying styles for generating high-quality designs in traditional diffusion models.
  • 898
  • 18 Sep 2023
Topic Review
Modern Movement Housing Estate Architecture in Turkey
Since the late nineteenth century, factors such as increasing industrialisation, urbanisation, technological advances, political events, and population growth have profoundly influenced architecture and related disciplines. This shift from traditional values became apparent in evolving living conditions, daily realities, and urban environments, making the “modern” evident across various domains. Modern architecture, finding the appropriate solutions to the concerns of the Industrial Revolution, introduced new perspectives and approaches in architecture and urbanism. As society modernised, advancements across various sectors laid the groundwork for architectural designs that catered to new materials and incorporated scientific and technical innovations.
  • 890
  • 22 Jan 2024
Topic Review
Climate-Resilient and Climate-Neutral City
The urban heat island (UHI) effect is the main problem regarding a city’s climate. It is the main adverse effect of urbanization and negatively affects human thermal comfort levels as defined by physiological equivalent temperature (PET) in the urban environment. Blue and green infrastructure (BGI) solutions may mitigate the UHI effect. First, however, it is necessary to understand the problem from the degrading side. Researchers related to urban planning, architecture, and climatology are developing the city-UHI relationship’s mechanics and effective mitigation strategies based on the already-known dependencies. What the future urban environment should look like in order to be resilient to climate change and to be climate neutral are examined here.
  • 886
  • 12 Apr 2022
Topic Review
Traditional Tujia Village Architecture in Southwest Hubei, China
A traditional village is a spatial unit comprising a community of farmers who live and reproduce in a specific area for generations. Traditional villages are a product of Chinese agricultural civilization and they have extremely high historical and cultural values. The rapid urbanization in China in the past four decades has significantly affected traditional villages, resulting in a series of problems such as limited space, damaged style, weak sense of place, and loss of skills.
  • 884
  • 06 Feb 2024
Topic Review
Autobiographical Design through Digital Transformable Fashion and Textiles
To promote a resilient user-product relationship for sustainable fashion, design methods for emotional durability are required. Digitally transformable fashion design can be seen as a practical approach that enables dynamic, sensory, experiential, and emotional interaction.
  • 883
  • 29 Feb 2024
Topic Review
Living Street and Resilience in Cities
With the rapid growth of urban populations, people’s living spaces have become more constrained, drawing attention to issues related to human habitats. Redesigning streets can not only improve the urban environmental quality and enrich residents’ activities on the streets but also drive the benign development of surrounding areas. Among them, “living streets” represent the largest proportion of urban streets and therefore hold significant importance regarding their potential for transformation, making them a subject of significant research. Building upon the overall approach found in worldwide street design guidelines, which often classify streets based on adjacent land uses or functional characteristics. Enhancing the resilience of living streets enables flexible adaptation to residents’ multifaceted needs at the micro-level resident activity spaces. It also contributes to resilience realization at the macro-level of the urban system. 
  • 879
  • 27 Sep 2023
Topic Review
Positive Experience Design and Impact-Centered Design
The pursuit of sustainable well-being is one of the research objectives of positive experience design. 
  • 852
  • 16 Nov 2023
Topic Review
The Status of Embodied Carbon in Building Practice
Embodied carbon data exist to evaluate all life-cycle stages of buildings in the U.S, however the data development are mainly focus on A1-A3 stage, more effort are needed to collect data on life cycle B and C stages. In addition, not all databases are regularly maintained and with back-end documentation of their data sources and methodologies easily available for end-users. A robust database is the backbone of reliable LCA analyses. Data collection and reporting guidelines are needed for supply-chain specific and facility-specific data and for transport and construction data. Guidelines for data standardization and transparency are also needed.
  • 842
  • 28 Mar 2022
Topic Review
Landscape Architecture and the Green Deal Dare
Landscape architecture can be defined as the art of composing landform, water and plants with buildings and pavements to make good places. Natural elements, such air, wind, vegetation, soil and sun, are what landscape architecture is made of, and their thaumaturgical power can be revealed in the open spaces of cities. The Green Deal can be an opportunity to overturn the traditional building-centric view of the city in favor of a new interpretation of it through work on open spaces. 
  • 842
  • 08 Aug 2022
Topic Review
Systems of Multicriteria Analysis for Housing Environment
The quality of the housing environment (HE) is an important issue that has a direct impact on the life of inhabitants. Aiming for quality in residential architecture begins with a well-designed HE, with the designing process being a value that is difficult to evaluate. Nowadays, a well-designed HE takes into account the energy efficiency of a building. An appropriate degree of thermal comfort, which is required by inhabitants, needs to be considered at the design stage. Designers can use building certification programs and multi-criteria analysis to motivate investors to construct buildings in accordance with energy efficiency requirements. These systems respond to the needs of energy efficiency, thermal comfort, sustainable heating, and ventilation. Defining ways and methods to evaluate quality in architectural projects will allow the value of the HE to be improved.
  • 800
  • 31 Oct 2022
Topic Review
Multifamily Housing Complexes in Slovenia
Multifamily housing complexes were built as collective high density residential neighborhoods as a solution to the post-Second World War (post-WW2) housing needs of people all over Europe. Popularly referred to as large-scale housing estates, they have been often seen and described as deprived residential neighborhoods that house mostly low-income households, as areas of concentration of ethnic minorities and, in many cases, also as neighborhoods with above average unemployment rates and social exclusion. 
  • 798
  • 29 Sep 2021
Topic Review
Sense of Presence for Human Behavior Studies
Sense of presence is a key element of the user experience in the study of virtual environments. Understanding it is essential for disciplines, such as architecture and environmental psychology, that study human responses using simulated environments.
  • 797
  • 19 Dec 2023
Topic Review
Cultural Heritage of Montilla
The printing press was key for the dissemination of culture and knowledge in the Modern Age. It was used to produce books, documents, and etchings, which are key elements for the dissemination of knowledge and the preservation of human heritage.
  • 776
  • 19 Mar 2024
Topic Review
Strategies for Realization of Socially Sustainable Residential Buildings
The construction industry greatly contributes to civilization’s environmental footprint, thereby influencing the achievement of economic standards and quality of life (social well-being). Therefore, sustainable construction represents a key social sustainability topic/objective, which concerns the well-being of the community with regard to environmental, social, and economic aspects.
  • 768
  • 29 May 2023
Topic Review
Stone Construction Materials of the Vera Cruz Church
As part of the restoration project of the 13th century Vera Cruz Church (Segovia, Spain), a preliminary study of the stones used in its construction—dolostones of the Montejo de la Vega Fm of Santonian age (Upper Cretaceous)—and the possible location of the quarry of the provenance of these stones was carried out. For this purpose, a comparative analysis was performed between the currently active quarry of La Vera Cruz n° 88 and the historical quarry of Zamarramala. The samples were characterized using a multidisciplinary approach, combining X-ray diffraction (XRD), polarized optical microscopy (POM), and scanning electron microscopy with microanalysis (SEM-EDX). 
  • 760
  • 12 Mar 2024
Topic Review
June 17: Statue of Liberty Arrives in New York
On June 17, 1885, the French steamer Isère entered New York Harbor, carrying with it one of the most enduring symbols of democracy and freedom: the disassembled parts of the Statue of Liberty (La Liberté éclairant le monde). This transatlantic gift from France to the United States marked the culmination of years of political idealism, diplomatic collaboration, and artistic ingenuity. As a monumental symbol of liberty, the statue would eventually become an icon of American identity, immigration, and transnational friendship. Its arrival not only heralded a new era of Franco-American relations but also embodied broader 19th-century ideals of republicanism, enlightenment, and modern engineering achievement.
  • 759
  • 16 Jun 2025
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