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Architecture design for elderly people could be aligned with kindergarten design. Both processes need integrated approach, using ergonomics and daylight conditions as guide lines. Forming a space is a cognitive process combined with standards and other regulation in the field of engineering and health (medicine). Additional aspect is the scope of cost of investment and cost needed for maintenance of the building. Costs are nevertheless combined with human resources, also. In the field of architectural theory the g...

Transition from communism to capitalism has massively affected Romanian society in its every aspect. Opening up the free market and thus to the western consumerist way of life, unleashed a frenzy of large commercial construction developments (more than 60 shopping malls built during the last 14 years). Current studies are mainly focused on matters of marketing and social issues, whereas few of them try to investigate how these shifts translate into architecture. The case study that we conducted on Iulius Mall Timi...

The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.” (John Paul II). Kosice, city in eastern Slovakia doesn´t require the installation of green roofs on new commercial, institutional, and multifamily residential developments across the city. There is no bylaw requiring covering existing buildings roof tops with vegetation. This article focuses on leadership on green roofs. This article...

The need for the local government authorities' attitude shift from administration towards management through a more entrepreneurial behaviour is the subject of many academic and professional research studies. However, the means of achieving this objective and connecting to their †urban customers' have not been fully discussed. Local governments worldwide have increasingly become closed bureaucratic institutions, loosing track of their objectives - fulfilling the needs of the people - and have developed a view of...

If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happened better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that's often the case. Anyway, whatever it is,...

Within the historical and regional context of the Czechoslovak Modern Movement, the paper examines the garden and landscape architectural concepts of the Interwar Modernism in Slovak territory. The research maps the local examples, expressed in various scales and typological forms, from gardens of family houses and villas, through design of outer spaces of school, sanatoria, administration and commercial buildings, up to urban concepts of garden cities and public open spaces at urban scale. The characteristic feat...

The phenomenon of cave inspires to various interpretations in art and architecture. Grotto, this "curious architectural object", is characteristic for garden art of different historical periods and styles, creates a typical feature of historic gardens and parks. The paper presents the evolution of the use of grotto as an architectural garden element in the context of development of garden art in the territory of today's Slovakia. The examples of artificial caves in the setting of historic parks and gardens in the ...

This study aims to highlight how the historical background of furniture design affect the present approaches in “newly” developed designs in Turkey. With this purpose, the historical background of furniture design has been briefly reviewed in order to shed light to the further studies, and to make an analysis on the current trends in terms of consistency in design. Within this context, some recent furniture designs (called “avant-garde” in the market) were taken into consideration to identify the most comm...

Paper analyses the empirical approaches of Slovak construction companies to cost management in construction and architectural projects. Authors conducted own research on sample of Slovak construction companies aimed to identify the important issues in cost management and cost controlling. Author examined wide range of cost management and cost controlling concepts, methods and IT tools, its barriers and benefits in construction and architectural practice. The analyses showed that companies in general are aware of e...

The problem of the efficient management of energy is very important, not only to individual real estate owners, but also to city authorities. Building blocks, districts or the entire organism of a city require the development of various planning documents - cultural value analyses, integrated urban planning and even energy optimization plans for each district within a city. It is possible to achieve varying economic and aesthetic effects that generate different costs, at the same time having a differing impact on ...

The paper addresses some of the general issues concerning industrial heritage and its values in a contemporary society via unique situation occurring in the Slovak capital of Bratislava, with an intention to emphasize the importance to conserve the remains of the industrial past as an integral part of our culture; not only according to the established architectural and heritage values, but equally addressing wider sociocultural aspects. The methodological approach applied in the research consists of an analysis of...

From the 1990s we have been dealing with a shift of paradigms in architecture. This occurs in a number of directions - but their common denominator is the abandonment of the classical Vitruvius triad – moving form stability to temporariness, from statics to variability, from function objects to scenarios played in time. One of the results of these changes became strengthening of a new species of architecture - architecture of low costs - so called low-tech. It was created as a result of the growing need for fina...

Throughout the history cities have accumulated, controlled, regenerated and dispensed things/concepts which have been carried by flows; nevertheless, with the switch from analog communication to digital communication, they have become more receptive to every thing/concept than ever. In this sense, it can be expressed that, with this switch, Istanbul has also entered into a new period in which the flows have accelerated and intensified. Moving from this acknowledgement this study creates a conceptual ground by defi...

The article presents a conceptual model of eco-innovative product design and development built on life cycle approach. A proposed model is based on literature review, observations of the design process and interviews carried out among representatives of teams developing eco-innovations. Particular attention was paid to knowledge management related to reduction of the environmental impact of eco-innovation throughout its life cycle. Specific methods, techniques and tools dedicated to the analysis and assessment of ...

The world in which we live in is constantly being transformed as a consequence of our actions, sometimes in accordance with them and sometimes against them. Behavior models in the fields of economy, culture, social life and aesthetics are subjected to shifts. These shifts are accompanied by changes in the way that architectural form and function are being shaped. The problems associated with the placement of new buildings and the reconstruction of existing ones in relation to existing historical structures are not...

With concrete being the most widely used material on earth, with over two tonnes per person being used annually, and most forms of thermal insulation sourced or prepared by fossil fuels, the building construction market provides significant potential for reducing consumption with cost-effective and sustainable measures. Naturally all building criteria regarding structural integrity, thermal technical requirements and hygiene should be met for the solution to be attractive. Considering the changes in many construct...

The current UN and EU policy highlights building a society for all ages and avoiding of segregation of various generations in local environment. In my paper I would like to present how the material shape of urban architecture influences relations between generations. The article is based on the case study I conducted in some chosen places of Warsaw, using the theoretical prospect of the sociology of architecture. I analyzed public spaces and quasi-public buildings in the context of their both communicative and phy...

Advanced design methods using the building information model can be applied also in the process of building renovation. Three-dimensional scanning of the existing site situation by 3D scanner significantly streamlines data collection work. The problem is automated digitization of large amounts of data, and their representation. Automated transcription of the collected data cloud into the elements such as wall, floor, ceiling or window still requires consuming manual composition. Article examines possible solutions...

The present papers are principally concerned with such social research problem as the 21-st century modern organization of active recreation zones, and, particularly, investigate the ways of given them a new creative urge. This problem is globally spread and is common for most countries. Objects of this research are Aqua Parks, treated as a special landscape recreation zone where architectural-landscape planning, water architecture and creative design meet. The authors have performed the analysis from different po...

Along with modernism †space', one of the main interests of architecture, started to be handled as an empty, abstract and measurable notion. This approach also brought about many criticisms that mainly centered on the issues such as loss of meaning in space, dedifferentiation of space and estrangement from people-oriented space design. At the same time a series of studies which aimed to re-fill in space -with meaning- introduced architectural literature with a new notion: †Place'. †Place', which was put forwa...

Fuenterrabia, one of the most outstanding strongholds of the Basque Country, has historically been a strategic checkpoint on the land crossing between France and the Iberian Peninsula. Due to its military interest, it was many times besieged between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries for its possession and territorial control. The siege of Fuenterrabia of 1638 is framed within the Franco-Spanish War (1635-1659) fought parallel to the Thirty Years War (1618-1648). It had essentially a Religious character but it...

The mood for the imagination and inventiveness in Brazil recreates every moment many other "Brazils" that retakes and reinvent traditions, weaving an amalgamated diversity with festivity and affection among transitions, courage and hope tempered with grace and spontaneity that at the same time reaffirms our identity on every small step of citizenship in the streets, homes and institutions. This "brazilianness" that renews and enriches our culture is highlighted here in this text that focus on the inspiration on cu...

A small initiative \#Istanbulstarted public workshops that aims to raise public awareness on the urban environment, the use of space and the current debates on public spaces. By catalyzing temporary and participatory spatial interventions as a method on defining/redefining urban environment. The aim is to support the development of a new form of critical platform by raising awareness on site through the reactions or actions of the society. With the support of public participation and detailed analysis, the volunta...

Modern stage of the development of Information society is characterized by changes in the nature of information delivery. The growth of importance of visual communications in contrast to the verbal ones is marked by many researchers. Visual information becomes an important factor of social practices construction, such as social communication between groups, elites and active-passive majority, social mimesis, etc. Graphic design becomes one of the instruments that form our cultural identity, and graphic designer of...

Globalization of the cities is the result of the globalization of the entire human society. It is a phenomenon of our age, which has historical roots and context. If more advanced is the society, then more intensively is the globalization manifesting itself in various areas of human existence. Most of the cities in well developed countries are characterized by unprecedented dynamics of internal restructuring, which is significantly formed by globalization. New understanding of urban space brings new typological ty...

The article reveals the main stages of development of the national church architecture in the context of Russian history. Called iconographic sources, methods and techniques of ancient motifs and styling elements of Byzantine architecture. Showing the art features of the neorussian style in contrast to the previous stages of the formation of architecture of orthodox churches. Are examples of the neorussian style churches, including constructed relatively recently.

On January 10th 1710, Prospero Jorge de Verboom was appointed Quartermaster General and General Engineer of all the Spanish armies. Felipe V wanted to establish an organizational system based on the French model of Louis XIV, who had granted all responsibility of French fortifications to Sebastien le Prestre de Vauban. Verboom had received an exquisite war training and experience, participating in war campaigns with Van Coehoorn and Vauban in the Netherlands. From the experience and skills of Verboom some high qua...

As a result of development of information and communication technology, the amounts of available data rapidly glow. In this situation called “Information explosion”, a bunch of researches have been conducted and designed. And I researched some user interface too. Through these researches I developed an ambient user interface making use of slight changes of graphics. The purpose of its interface is providing information so as not to attract user's attention. In this paper, I discuss a new information design for...

This paper examines the role of architects in the society of socialist Croatia between 1955 and 1965, a time marked by a major housing shortage, when the demands of the society represented within the new state housing strategies often meant that the architects had to abandon certain autonomous tools and values of their profession. In that particular period, the dictate of implementing rationalization principles into housing construction dictated architectural discourse to change, and its social position to redefin...

This study deals with issues of creating a vivid and pedestrian oriented street network. It is an emerging and vital question in a domain of urban sustainability and place-making for most cities. This research seeks to explore an increasing number of diverse studies regarding the public realm and streetscape. The aim is to set a background for spatial analysis of case studies. This paper uses case studies analysis as the main method through which it develops the systematization for a further study of this theme. S...

In my article I show how – based on existing architecture and some kind of urban nostalgia – a new definition of a social value and a new idea of architecture have been created. The paper grounds on qualitative research I conducted in Warsaw, Poland, in 2013 (IDIs in Polish with key opinion leaders, social activists, NGOs, writers, etc. approaching an increasing phenomenon of a wide interest in modernist architecture). I reflect on both: ways of creating the new perception and its results.

This paper discusses principles of creation of visual identity systems, problem of brand/trademark recognizability, several cases of using randomness in visual identity design and suggests SD3-framework for implementing visual identity systems that are based on applying random variations to the visual identity system that increases memorability. SD3 allows designer to create set of guidelines for visual identity system that retain recognizability of brand/trademark after applying randomness by using random generat...

In work classification and the main characteristics of information and intellectual technologies perspective are given in design. The principles bases of heuristic and bases of the patterns defining specifics of similar system are formulated. Systems and the technologies based on self- training and modeling are considered.

The paper presents the basic principles of innovative jewelry designs. The essence of each principle, and examples. Simultaneous use of several principles leads to a synergistic effect. The main principles are fractal, semiotic modeling, application transformers, op-art, etc.

With the publication, in 1975, of Les objects fractals: Forme hasard et dimension, Benoit Mandelbrot created the foundations of a new geometry that, since then, plays a crucial role in the description of natural and irregular shapes. Free from the strict understanding of form and space, as defined by its Cartesian dimensions, or strictly based on Euclid's postulates and common notions, this new geometry provides new languages, new concepts, new techniques and new instruments of reflection. Through the design of sp...