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Crafting the faًcade : stone, brick, wood
Crafting the Faًcade' prèasentiert die Ergebnisse eines internationalen Kooperationsprojekts der Universitèat Liechtenstein, der Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow und der Academie van Bouwkunst in Amsterdam. Drei Jahre lange wurden verschiedenste Aspekte des Themas Fassade behandelt, von historischen Entwicklungslinien èuber Techniken des Zusammenfèugens bis hin zu Fragen des Materials. Neben Entwurfsprojekten von Studierenden, der theoretischen Arbeit und Exkursionen wurden auch handgefertigte Zeichnungen im Massstab 1:10 erstellt sowie 1:1-Prototypen der Fassaden in Stein, Ziegel und Holz gestaltet und gefertigt.0Dieses Buch stellt die Frèuchte der internationalen Kooperation im Rahmen des europèaischen Erasmus-Programms detailliert vor. Es analysiert die Lernprozesse und bietet in Bild und Text Anleitung zur vertieften Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema Fassade in der Architektur.
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A Study on the Trends for Expression in Korean Contemporary Architectural Facade Design: Focusing on Large Buildings in the City Center
Various facade designs in modern architecture have expanded the limits of materials and construction methods. In this study, I explored and analyzed structural, decorative, media, and adaptive as representative case studies of facade expression. This study identified the following modern architectural trends for new facade construction methods in South Korea. First, efforts to improve the function of spaces by integrating interior and exterior spaces. Second, attempts for creating decorative facade expressions that stimulate human senses, or expand perceptions and increase aesthetic sense. Third, forming complementary relationships with the city by demonstrating regionality. Fourth, enhancing the performance of facades with adaptive facades. Fifth, helping to expand publicness, such as strengthening and combining the relationships between city, building, and person. Changes and advances in architectural facades will ultimately enhance fundamental aspects of architecture, enriching our daily living through harmony between the traditional and the modern, buildings and humans, and buildings and the environment.
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Designing Kinetics for Architectural Facades
Architectural facades now have the potential to be literally kinetic, through automated sunscreens and a range of animated surfaces. This book explores the aesthetic potential of these new types of moving facades.
Critique of theory and practice in architecture is combined here with ideas from kinetic art of the 1960's. From this background the basic principles of kinetics are defined and are used to generate experimental computer animations. By classifying the animations, a theory of kinetic form called 'state change' is developed. This design research provides a unique and timely resource for those interested in the capacity of kinetics to enliven the public face of architecture.
Extra material including animations can be seen at www.kineticarch.net/statechange
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Hazard focused methodology for façade systems
The built environment is designed to meet the needs of its users. However, these needs are not static and the expectations and requirements for the built environment are rising, particularly for buildings to be more sustainable. The result is an increased requirement for optimisation and performance, often leading to conflicting drivers within a project and an increased level of complexity in the design. The façade system is one recent example of a system in which combustible components were introduced for cost optimisation and energy performance, without a sufficient understanding of the impact on the fire safety of the building. Tackling a design problem with an increasing level of complexity with the existing assessment methods, is likely to result in a non-optimised solution or, in the worst case, an unsafe one. A methodology to assess façade systems in terms of an explicit hazard coupled with the building fire strategy is proposed. The methodology focuses the assessment on the hazard, allowing for clear objectives to be established for a range of disciplines. This enables a clear comparison between solutions and iterative design that meet all the necessary functionalities.
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The national ornament application of Kabardians and Balkarians as a quality architectural decor of the buildings' facades
The results of studies on the application of the national ornament of Kabardians and Balkarians as an architectural decor of the buildings facades enhancing the architectural and artistic expressiveness of the buildings' facades are presented. The Kabardians and Balkarians national ornament classification is given, the stylized patterns of the national ornament are considered and the variants of their placement on the buildings' facades are proposed as an architectural decor.
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ATLAS: A Three-Layered Approach to Facade Parsing
We propose a novel approach for semantic segmentation of building facades. Our system consists of three distinct layers, representing different levels of abstraction in facade images: segments, objects and architectural elements. In the first layer, the facade is segmented into regions, each of which is assigned a probability distribution over semantic classes. We evaluate different state-of-the-art segmentation and classification strategies to obtain the initial probabilistic semantic labeling. In the second layer, we investigate the performance of different object detectors and show the benefit of using such detectors to improve our initial labeling. The generic approaches of the first two layers are then specialized for the task of facade labeling in the third layer. There, we incorporate additional meta-knowledge in the form of
weak architectural principles
, which enforces architectural plausibility and consistency on the final reconstruction. Rigorous tests performed on two existing datasets of building facades demonstrate that we outperform the current state of the art, even when using outputs from lower layers of the pipeline. Finally, we demonstrate how the output of the highest layer can be used to create a procedural building reconstruction.
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