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eWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and Construction
In the last two decades, the biannual ECPPM (European Conference on Product and Process Modelling) conference series has provided a unique platform for the presentation and discussion of the most recent advances with regard to the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) applications in the AEC/FM (Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Facilities Management) domains. ECPPM 2014, the 10th European Conference on Product and Process Modelling, was hosted by the Department of Building Physics and Building Ecology of the Vienna University of Technology, Austria (17-19 September 2014). This book entails a substantial number of high-quality contributions that cover a large spectrum of t...
Outsider Art and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry
Outsider Art and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry is a study of psychiatric institutes and psychiatric violence as seen through art created by the inhabitants of a psychiatric hospital. Cosimo Schinaia explores the history of the Cogoleto Psychiatric Hospital, now abandoned, and how its architecture and ideology influenced treatment of the patients who lived there. At the book’s core is an in-depth historical, anthropological, and psychoanalytical study of the “Nativity of Fools,” a large art installation constructed from 1980 to 1984 by patients, nurses, and psychiatrists, representing their everyday lives in the asylum. Schinaia’s understanding of the scenes considers questions of nostalg...
Historical Buildings and Energy
This book provides a methodological framework to set properly the thermal enhancement and energy efficiency in historical buildings during a renovation process. It describes the unique thermal features of historical properties, closely examining how the building materials, structural elements, and state of conservation can impact energy efficiency, including sample calculations and results. It also describes means and aims of several fundamental steps to improve energy efficiency in historical buildings with an experimentation on a case study. This timely text also introduces leading-edge technologies for enhancing the energy performance of historical buildings, including the potential for integration of co- ad tri-generation though micro-turbines, photovoltaics and solar collectors and their compatibility with architectural preservation.
Icelandic Farmhouses
Icelandic Farmhouses. Identity, Landscape and Construction (1790-1945) retraces the history of Icelandic rural architecture between the late eighteenth century and the mid-twentieth century. Through the study of Icelandic rural buildings, this book narrates a very special history of architecture: one of adaptation and tradition, scarcity of building materials and transfers of knowledge with Europe. The history of Icelandic farmhouses is intermixed with construction issues, nationalistic debates, and a quest for a much-needed modernization of the standards of living. The book aims to retrace the role of modern building techniques in the development of Icelandic rural architecture and society.
Approaching Cyprus
Does the sea separate or connect? Are islands isolated or are they the stepping stones of connectivity? The Mediterranean is an all-but closed sea of seas, of marine locales around which ‘its inhabitants live like ants and frogs around a pond’. Cyprus, at its eastern end, is tucked between Asia Minor to the North, the Levant to the east, to Africa further south, and the wider Mediterranean to the west. From its vantage point, this island panopticon established connections across the Mediterranean in which it was either incorporated or remote in proportion to its integration into a variety of networks of exchange. The seventeen chapters in this volume explore aspects of the relationship b...
Mediterranean Architectural Heritage
The Mediterranean region is distinguished by an architectural heritage of great richness and diversity. This book focuses on the preservation and enhancement of this heritage. As the building and construction sector is one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases, there is much effort to replace traditional materials with environmentally friendly materials. Great efforts are made to prioritize the use of eco-materials instead of conventional materials. There is a trend to use local materials, such as earth, stone or wood, due to their sustainability and highly favorable environmental footprint. Keywords: Tire-Based Anti-Seismic Fibers, Hydraulic Lime Concrete, Recycled Glass-Fiber Reinfor...
Embodying Peripheries
This book combines approaches from the design disciplines, humanities, and social sciences to foster interdisciplinary engagement across geographies around the identities embodied in and of peripheries. Peripheral communities bear human faces and names, necessitating specific modes of inquiry and commitments that prioritize lived human experience and cultural expression. Hence, the peripheries of this book are a question, not a given, the answers to which are contingent forms assembled around embodied identities. Peripheries are urban fringes, periphery countries in the modern world-system, Indigenous lands, occupied territories, or the peripheries of authoritative knowledge, among others. No form can exist outside historical relations of power enacted through knowledge, political structures, laws, and regulations.
Earthen Architecture: Past, Present and Future
Earthen architecture is widespread all over the world and demonstrates a significant richness of varieties both in application and in materials used. This book discusses and debates the lessons that can be learned from earthen architecture to create sustainable architecture today, both for the conservation of traditional existing buildings and the
Design driven strategies
La raccolta di contributi di questo volume cerca di guardare in avanti, e anche all’indietro, in merito alla centralità del design tra nuovi e tradizionali sistemi produttivi, spazio-ambiente-sostenibilità e identità. Il ruolo del progetto, nella definizione delle forme, materiali e immateriali, è determinante per la loro comprensione e, di conseguenza per costruire partecipazione. Nella maggioranza degli interventi è sottesa la volontà di accrescere la dimensione sociale del design attraverso pratiche partecipative. In altri termini potremmo dire che c’è voglia di dare una dimensione politica al progetto nel senso più pieno della parola. Riconquistare questa dimensione può davvero essere strategico, e per far questo è forse necessario capire come è cambiato e come cambierà il rapporto tra design-produzione-lavoro.
Six projets pour l’urbanisme euroméditerranéen / Sei progetti per l’urbanistica euromediterranea
Ce livre naît par une intention de projet et par la volonté de dialoguer avec la rive sud de la Méditerranéenne autour de grands défis actuels, en matière d’urbanisme et aménagement. A cette fin les auteurs identifient six projets, matrices de la tradition disciplinaire italienne, d’où extraire orientations conceptuelles. Quelques stratégies se dégagent : le rôle structurant de l’espace ouvert non artificialisé ; la fonction ordonnatrice de l’espace public ; la centralité de l’action publique dans le gouvernement des transformations ; l’importance d’une approche multidisciplinaire et intégré ; un concept de patrimoine comme gisement vivant d’idées pour le proj...
