In 2009, while the office's first larger scale project was under construction (Metal), my partner researched Zumthor's approach of materiality, and I was interested by Baroque paintings and architecture, read Foucault's ...

One of the most important aspects of coastal management and planning programs thatneeds to be investigated is shoreline dynamics. Long-term coastal analysis uses historical datato identify the sectors along the coast where ...

This paper investigates the perception and performance of occupants in rooms with and without visual connection to outside. Thereby, experiments were conducted with two groups of participants in a laboratory containing two ...

The proposal aims to highlight the semiotic elements of the discourse that refer to the symbolic ones of representations, and that transform the therapy in an exercise of professional dominion aimed to modify the perception ...

The globalization trend increases the financial linkages, increasing in this way the contagion effects. This issue become even more sensitive for post-communist European countries as their economies have created relatively ...

This paper presents the finite element analysis of a suspension bridge subjected to earthquake ground motion using simplified models. For this purpose, two simplified models are considered. It is assumed that each element ...

Density inflow is modeled in two dimensions through a reservoir with sloping bottom. If an in flow of higher density enters ambient dam reservoir water, then it plunges below theambient water and then becomes density ...

The compressive strength behavior of concrete is one of the fundamental parameters of structural design as most load-bearing concrete elements, such as beams, columns and slabs. However, it was known that compressive ...

The Slow Food and as an extension of it, Slow City (Cittaslow) Movement is born when these disadvantages are posed by modernity and globalization. Slow city is a way of life that cultural richness and quality of life are ...