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The aim of our study is to investigate the way teachers see the physical environment of their school, and what they would need for better teaching abilities and skills for 21 century students. Physical learning environment can have a holistic impact on userВ’s performances, teachers and students alike. In Romania, 60% of primary and secondary schools in rural areas and 20% in urban areas are not equipped with libraries, 72% of rural areas and 30% of urban areas lack laboratories and only 32% of rural gymnasiums an...

Museums can be regarded as a tool that, beyond presenting sections of art and culture, have an important role to inform and connect with elements that generate tendencies at a local or general level; mentally and emotionally. They promote new ideas, new information, they promote local aspects. Museums are institutions with their own identity, leading to the creation of new phenomena in the social framework (through exhibitions and a varied type of organized events). The study is centered around those specific muse...

The aim of this paper is to present a design of a metallic structure. The structure was obtained by reusing of an old barge, which belongs to the Romanian navigation company. In order to respect the UN Sustainable Development goal and the COP21 objectives, the Waterborne sector in Europe is increasing and fits for next generations. Galati, a Romanian port on Danube river, with its cliff that have a length of 2.48 km, itВ’s included among 250 European ports and navigable inland waterway that measure 40.000 km. The ...

Traditional wooden joints, which have developed for centuries, featured their own function and their own aesthetics. However, from today's point of view, they are too complicated to produce – not only in the terms of time but also the skill required to manufacture them, which is one of the main reasons for their disappearance. In order to clarify whether it makes sense to bring them to life and to define their desired form, questionnaire research has been carried out. It explored consumer preferences and the pot...

In the post-war period, the architecture of Polish single-family houses went through a number of phases. As a result, the landscape of Polish homes is very diverse and illegible. Currently, the prevailing architectural styles are strongly mixed up and their placement is accidental and does not flow from deeper historical analyzes and the architectural - urban context. In addition, the level of architectural awareness of investors and developers makes that there is a dramatic spatial chaos in Poland. The article co...

Every architectural interference involves an unavoidable change in space the object is created in. That changed site would never be the same as it was before, neither in the material nor symbolic dimension. To build is to discover the location. This discovery of the 'new' site is tantamount to learning about the 'found' place, called context - its cognitive, aesthetic, cultural values as well as spatial, typological and morphological properties. Therefore it is always a kind of continuation. Creators recognize the...

Humankind was born in optimal conditions for itself, in the sun, however, as the civilization developed and the population of people on Earth increased, man was forced to leave them in pursuit of new places to live and, as a result reached even the least friendly areas of our globe. The expansion embraced all continents with very diverse geo-climatic conditions and now we are trying to colonize an even newer environment, i.e. seas and oceans. Living on the high seas or oceans is actually an attempt to master one o...

The paper documents the research program entitled "SY4.0, Smart Yard: Industry 4.0 Production Process" financed with European funds under the ERDF Regional Operational Program 2014-2020. The research, through the use of automatic field data processing systems and their integration in the design, through the realization of technological demonstrators and through the improvement of operating activities and disseminating and sharing information, aims to come up with a new modalities for yard management based on digit...

The design process is a complex, multi-aspectual set of actions and decisions that go toward achieving a concrete aim. In the history of the development of design as a professional field, an essential role has been played by an expanding number of methodological tools, created to support the effective execution of the design process. The diversity of the tools and methods to support design is often overwhelming. Instead of offering more tools, the KMP WFP team has attempted to develop a device whose main goal is t...

Mies van der Rohe’s approach to architecture through a poetic structural skeleton, abstractly refined to become a universal prototype of the essence of form and spiritualization of space, can be best seen at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. This unique modern temple recently under restoration work by the subtle pencil of David Chipperfield [1] will soon have to be prepared to receive the extra additional space designed by the winner competition office leaded by Herzog & De Meuron [2]. Despite the rebirth of t...

The paper deals with the issue of the design of a hospital chapel from early 20th century built as one of the buildings comprising the Institution for Nervously and Mentally Ill in Krakow-Kobierzyn. The whole complex was built as a pavilion style mental hospital starting from 1908 on the outskirts of Krakow. It was opened in 1917 and still operates. The hospital grounds cover ca.50 hectares and house a dozen of pavilions for patients and many background facilities such as administration buildings, pharmacy, kitche...

In Poland, the transformation period, initiated in 1989, brought a huge development of academic education. The number of studying youth has increased many times. This process forced building investments in higher education in Poland at an unprecedented scale. Still lively "old" traditional university centers have been developing dynamically, yet at the same time many new ones have been created. Wroclaw University of Science and Technology is the largest university in Lower Silesia and one of the best technical uni...

The new air HUB and railway junction will be built in the Baranow commune, about 40 km west of Warsaw. The Central Communication Port, called the Solidarity Port, is planned as the best communicated place in Poland. Over the course of the decade, a new airport, a railway station as well as a railway and expressway are to be built. The airport will be scheduled to start operating with two runways, but four are planned. The planned area of the airport area is about 3,000 hectares. Initial airport capacity in the lau...

Chrzanow is one of the many Polish cities and towns that found themselves on nineteenth-century maps of the Austrian and Austro-Hungarian empire. It is located in southern Poland, near Krakow, and its history dates back to the Middle Ages. The most important Austrian maps to be made in the nineteenth century include: The Map of Western Galicia (the so-called Heldensfeld's map, the First Military Survey), the Map of Galicia and Bukovina from the years 1861–1864 (the Second Military Survey), and the Map of the Aus...

Urban sustainability has been a topic of keen interest to both the scientific community, as well as practitioners around the world. However, despite increased efforts in recent years, the debate continues over its clear definition and especially its measurement and monitoring. As the concept of urban sustainability is deeply rooted in its physical context and the territory scale taken into consideration, a wide variety of studies, diagrams, graphic models or value maps have been proposed, as each researcher and na...

It is acknowledged that design adds value and plays a role in creating competitive advantages. European Commission recognizes that design is an activity of people-centred innovation by which desirable and usable products and services are defined and delivered. Nevertheless, there is ongoing debate over how design adds value, and what it means for users. This paper aims to decode the use, value, and impact of design on public service development and users in Latvia. In-depth interviews with executives from ten nati...

Ephemeral or temporary architecture is neither new nor marginal phenomenon in architectural history. In contrast to permanent structures, this tendency, which was being resented during modernist era, is focusing on structures that are defining time as its essential determining state, fundamental basis and key aspect of architecture – often considering it even more important than spatial and tangible aspect of such designs. In spite the fact that temporary architecture is being built only for a brief time scope i...

The reception of temporary architecture objects, which until now were treated only as substitutes for an existing buildings, has changed during recent years. Many realizations are characterized by high aesthetic values, as well by the fact that they positively affect the space in which they operate. Furthermore they can be considered the first step to the revitalization of degraded areas. Usually, the realization of a temporary pavilion is associated with cultural events, accompanying festivals or functioning duri...

Traditional museum is typically characterized especially by presenting exhibits. However, it has recently been enriched by many other features that contribute to the attractiveness of exhibitions. Museum spaces nowadays offer various educational events, creative workshops or shops with artefacts and publications. This paper is aimed at presenting partial research results orientated to human-centered design of museums for children. The introductory part describes innovative design tools that focus on multisensory p...

Inclusiveness is a critical economic and social paradigm of the XXI century. Since the early years of the first decade of this century, the design assumes an essential role to society as all: if economic development and social well-being are rooted in innovation, the design is responsible for "translating" innovation into new products consumers can value. The last twenty years brought a sustained search for design graduation and post-graduation courses all over the world. From more traditional programs to new high...

Industrial heritage provides one of the most important records of social progress and urban development and continues to have international potential for education and development as confirmed by the joint ICOMOS – TICCIH Principles for the Conservation of Industrial Heritage Sites in 2011. A global problem is young persons’ decreasing interest in studying natural sciences, architecture and engineering, knowledge of which is a prerequisite for further technological progress and socio-economic development. This ...

The architectural solution of hospital facilities in Slovakia in recent decades is insufficiently saturation of patient and staff expectations. In the field of neonatal health care, the key response to the growing number of pre-term newborns is the key. In the last decade the number of pre-term newborns in Slovakia has increased by up to 30%. In many cases, stressful stimuli from the intensive care unit (noise, light, pain, insensitive manipulation and separation from the mother) cause the damage to many important...

The research question of the article is to find out the aspects of Russian smart city developers’ vision of expected inhabitants, as practitioners elaborating “smart city” concepts pay less attention to humanistic aspect of the problem than to technologies. To achieve that, an analysis of Russian articles on smart city mentioning the roles and functions of “smart people” was held. The results of the review are the following: first, the idea of “smart people” is controversial and impossible to achieve,...

The paper shows research through a case study of interior design of the functionalist, residential complex Avion, built in 1932, which has been paid only marginal attention in previous works. Due to its exceptional architecture, the building was already part of the cultural heritage of the then Czechoslovakia in 1985, and in 2011 it was declared a building of a century in the category of residential buildings in Slovakia. Almost a 90-year-old Avion performs its original function without interruption and is still a...

The historic Brewery in Szczytno is a very interesting architectural object, but does not have accurate documentation. In works on historic buildings, it may be very helpful to make documentation in BIM technology. This technology allows you to create a virtual building that can be filled with all information about it. Thanks to this, it is possible not only to track changes in the documentation, but also to quickly find any collisions. In order to reproduce the documentation that can be used during the renovation...

Homes by avant-garde architects, created in the interwar period, featured empty, uncluttered rooms, strictly functional objects, lightweight machine-made furniture which would not take up too much space, everything not serving a practical purpose was removed. There was no place for purely decorative objects in small interiors. The prospective residents not always liked the idea as demonstrated by the spectacular failure of Le CorbusierВ’s Pessac project reflecting its residentВ’s lack of understanding of modern ar...

Starting from the words of Ludovico Quaroni (as architect and educator), the paper aims to highlight the importance of social content for the purpose of good planning and architecture. With reference to the Vitruvian triad - utilitas, firmitas, venustas – Quaroni insists on the necessary integration of the three components, clearly stressing how, in the education process, it is fundamental to start from the social question - what he defines as "content" or "structure of the contents" of the design – and not fr...

Around 60% of the urban population in Romania lives in blocks of flats made of prefabricated panels, built mostly between 1960 and 1990. Interventions on these buildings are a highly debated topic in order to achieve the 20-20-20 EU targets, but less discussed is the part that makes these interventions truly sustainable on long run. The study presented in this paper constitutes the part related to social sustainability conducted for a project that defines some alternative solutions for Timisoara. These proposals a...

The aim of the article is to present the development of spa architecture in Poland on the example of one of the most famous spa town in Poland, Krynica-Zdroj. The town is known not only because of its picturesque location, the richness of the natural environment in natural mineral resources manifesting in numerous healing mineral waters, exploited in this spa, but due to the richness of the forms of resort architecture, accumulated during almost 200 years of Krynica-ZdrojВ’s activity as a health resort, is a very ...

The paper examines alternative forms of the museum – concepts of contemporary art museums by artists in comparison with the traditional museum buildings and following the initial artists’ interventions in the exhibition space formed in the first half of the 20th century. The thesis analyses several concepts of the contemporary art museum by active artists from the 70s-90s of the 20th century, which according to their authors, present an ideal platform for art presentation. The analysis reveals that the artists ...

During the “Wilhelmine” era in the German Empire (1871-1918) several large-scale prisons were planned. The evolution of those structures started in the first part of the 19th century with “castellated style”, neo-Gothic architecture of prisons (Breslau, Ratibor, Beuthen). Large prison structures (Wohlau, Gross-Strehlitz, Siegburg, Herford, Kassel, Wittlich, Neumuenster, Berlin-Tegel, Breslau - Kletschkau Strasse, Wronke, Freiendiez, Stuhm,) were also adorned with architectural neo-style costumes, related t...

The aim of this study was to identify a change in the attitude and behaviour of secondary school students from “Fine Arts High School” of Timi?oara, Romania, after their optional involvement in the refurbishment of their classroom. Students could experience ‘design thinking’ and learn steps necessary to put their creative ideas into a project, and then implement the project: “Classroom of my dreams”. 20 students filled in a 22 points questionnaire for the post occupancy evaluation, five months after the ...

The universe of HejdukВ’s, is a unitary and undivided В‘realityВ’ of a trinitarian form, where poetry, painting, and project are interconnected and undistinguishable worlds. His is a deeply dramatic architectural universe; a sort of reliquary inhabited by angels and demons and adorned with fantasy characters, animals, machines and anthropomorphic figures. A world completely infused with a poetic soaked of a profound sense of the sacred. This tight connection between architecture and literature, in addition to mark...

Confronted with the Western culture and architecture the Iranian society in general and building designs in particular underwent significant transformations in the Qajar period, although the earliest influences can be traced back to the Safavid era. With the advance of industrial developments and the import of technology from the West, concurrent with the reign of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar in Iran, Persian architecture began to enter its own period of Neoclassicism, as a symbol of Modernism and development, which th...

Using FreudВ’s psychoanalysis as a starting point for our study, we want to investigate whether the built environment one grew up in has an influence on our brains and on our future architectural preferences. The Viennese psychologist aims to make the unconscious mind, conscious, and his findings teach us that the repressed emotions and experiences have an impact on our brains, and therefore on the quality of our lives. How does the brain influence our perception of the space? Everything is a matter of perception,...

The author of this paper made an attempt to determine the optimal shapes and sizes of the functional areas in different types of theatre buildings. There is no ideal shape and size of a theatre. But there are some indicators that can help to define the best possible relation between the facilities in theatres. Buildings for the performing arts are intended for drama, opera, classical or modern music, ballet, dance or other performances where a performing artist communicates with the audience. Each type of a produc...

In the past few decades, in the furniture industry, the value of traditional culture has been underestimated in many countries under the process of western-centric modernisation. The process of the culture grounded competitive advantages of furniture& furnishing firms has not yet identified and still undeveloped theoretically and practically. Using the local identity (culture) to add an emotional and symbolic value to the furniture and creating marketing differentiation advantage is not yet fully recognised by aca...

The Italian artist Alberto Burri is known for his artistic research on the expressiveness of materials and particularly for his pictorial cycles more than for his sculptures. However, his expressive power is strongly manifested also in his sculptures. Burri had a strong sensitivity towards solid geometry and his sculptures are absolute works of art. In particular, the paper will investigate the first sculpture created by Burri in 1973, demolished in 1989 and then rebuilt in 2015: the Teatro Continuo created for th...

The aim of this survey was to identify the hierarchy of most important aspects of what primary, secondary and high-school students, from six schools, in three Romanian cities would describe as “The School of My Dreams” (the ideal school). The methodology used was content analysis of a questionnaire with open answers written by students, along with drawings, on empty postcards. The question was: How would look like the school of your dreams? The answers were written after a discussion on school buildings from d...

The article is an analysis of the contemporary shape of special economic zones in Poland. The attempt presents the complexity of spatial and landscape interactions observed at the interface between privileged areas and urban and suburban spaces. Special economic zones had a strong influence on changes taking place in the Polish economy, labor market, social processes and spatial transformation of the city and regions. Currently, SEZ have become one of the symbols of the Polish political transformation. They are no...

Josef Frank (1885-1967) certainly occupies a prominent place in the central European architectural scenery of the early twentieth century. His work is entirely devoted to living and of course, in addition to having designed furniture, furnishings and beautiful fabrics, Frank designs and creates architectures. The furniture and objects of furniture that he produces in Vienna at the beginning of the twenties, born on the idea of English furniture from which he takes inspiration to reinterpret the models and adapting...

In the 19th century, urbanization and transport in European cities contributed creation of industrial territories, reducing areas of natural greenery, but changes at social life altered the attitude towards nature: the natural environment has been replaced by man-made cultivated roadside and walking allees provided a functional link between green areas of various significance, uniting parks and squares into one system. In the mid- 19th century, functional issues at European largest cities as Berlin, Paris, Vienna,...

In the 19th century, urbanization and transport in European cities contributed creation of industrial territories, reducing areas of natural greenery, but changes at social life altered the attitude towards nature: the natural environment has been replaced by man-made cultivated roadside and walking allees provided a functional link between green areas of various significance, uniting parks and squares into one system. In the mid- 19th century, functional issues at European largest cities as Berlin, Paris, Vienna,...

Architecture works with signs and symbols, the key to reading it always depending on the cultural environment and historical time. Today, as in the past, the architectural forms of Orthodox churches are governed by tradition. In the construction of a church, the expressive variations of contemporary constructive systems are often ignored, being considered as not conforming to tradition. What is tradition? Where does tradition begin and where does it end? What is and what is not traditional? These are just a few of...

The world is undergoing rapid urbanization and Malaysia is not an exception with more than 75 percent of its population currently living in urban centres. This brought about numerous urbanization concerns that must be addressed comprehensively and aligned to the United NationВ’s target of Sustainable Development Goal 11 of Sustainable Cities and Communities. One approach of tackling urbanization challenges is with institutions producing competent urban planners with the industry contributing significantly in the d...

A strict connection exists between mobility patterns and urban quality. The cities that throughout time gave priority to public transport, bicycles and pedestrians against the use of private car are those which today are characterized by a higher urban and life quality. Nevertheless, most of contemporary cities grew according to the model of “spread metropolis” generating suburbs that eluded, more or less consciously, the monitoring of the authorities, in which public space, dominated by the automobile, totall...

The urban structure reflects different stages of its life cycle land use efficiency. Extensive development of Slovak cities in the second half of the 20th century in combination with the construction method, demands on infrastructure and transformation of the industry, caused that there is an enormous number of dysfunctional, unused, empty areas and degraded sites in our cities. Such areas can be regarded as a problem, but above all as a potential and driving force for re-development, the city's urban vitality gen...

Design strategy requires the proper order of actions. Each stage of an investment focuses on the data set and the results of the investigations conducted. A virtual 3D model and computer simulations facilitate and accelerate the work of designers. Thanks to proper planning and consequent implementation of the schedule the whole project is carried out in a timely manner. The proper logistics of actions, combined with the implementation strategy, translates also into the amount of the expenses incurred. Specified or...

Walking is the most primary form of transporting. It is the socially equitable mode most accessible to the masses. However, transportation technology primarily the car has caused the desertion of the pedestrian space. Consequently, the phenomenon created a degradation of the pedestrian environment. In many cities the abandonment of the pedestrian space has created a socially unfriendly environment. Some studies have shown that more crimes are committed in areas where only few pedestrians are present on the street....

The existence of water mills in the Pradnik Valley in southern Poland was a result of the riverside nature of settlement and industrial development. Located partly among the unique landscape the smallest national park in Poland – Ojcow – challenge the available means of preservation of architectural and landscape heritage. The research was carried out to review the past studies and to suggest the opportunities for the revaluation and protection of the area. The main research method used is synthetis – query ...