Search results for "ARCHITECTURE"

Raus aus Suburbia, rein in die Stadt?

2007

Policy and Practice Perspective

L’urbanité de l’héritage industriel La reconversion du viaduc de la High Line à New York

2015

At the heart of urban dynamics over the past few decades, the reconversion of riverside and port spaces in cities of the western world is associated with the deindustrialisation of these sites, often situated near historic city centres. This contemporary situation puts industrial heritage conversion at the centre of thinking which goes beyond the mere conservation of the original value of the buildings to question the future of cities, in relation to the notion of sustainability. In New York, after thirty years of neglect, the old railway viaduct known as the “High Line” has been transformed into an elevated, linear urban parkway. The project must be reframed within the Hudson Riverpark ope…

An Interview with Giorgio Grassi

2007

In January 2007, Lucia Tozzi visited Giorgio Grassi's office in Milan. Their conversation touched on Grassi's recent work on Leon Battista Alberti, which is examined here in the context of Grassi's obliquely expressed views on contemporary architecture and the cult of personality. As perhaps the most intellectually rigorous and formally consistent Rationalist architect of his generation, Grassi's work and thinking retain a hermetic aspect, but one notable for its philosophical self-questioning and underlying political commitment. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Determination of thermometric parameters from the conductance curve of the normal metal based tunnel junction array

1997

Abstract We propose a method for extracting thermometric parameters from the measured conductance curve, against bias voltage, of a tunnel junction array. Instead of fitting the whole theoretical conductance curve to the experiment, we perform several polynomial fits to selected bias regions. The advantages of this method is that polynomial fits are linear in their fitting parameters whereas the theoretical form for the conductance is inherently nonlinear. This way the proposed method is about three orders of magnitude faster than the nonlinear fit. Optimizing this polynomial fit procedure is discussed.

Jacobian-free approximate solvers for hyperbolic systems: Application to relativistic magnetohydrodynamics

2017

Abstract We present recent advances in PVM (Polynomial Viscosity Matrix) methods based on internal approximations to the absolute value function, and compare them with Chebyshev-based PVM solvers. These solvers only require a bound on the maximum wave speed, so no spectral decomposition is needed. Another important feature of the proposed methods is that they are suitable to be written in Jacobian-free form, in which only evaluations of the physical flux are used. This is particularly interesting when considering systems for which the Jacobians involve complex expressions, e.g., the relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) equations. On the other hand, the proposed Jacobian-free solvers hav…

Ports and the timber trade in the yonne valley in the middle ages and the modern period : A study from building archaeology

2019

Etude documentaire sur les portails

2007

A portrait of Jost Krippendorf

2014

The problem of sustainability emerged in last decades as a result of climate change and pollution produced by modern industry to the atmosphere. Seminal studies have contributed to give alternative...

The positioning system of the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope

2012

The ANTARES neutrino telescope, located 40km off the coast of Toulon in the Mediterranean Sea at a mooring depth of about 2475m, consists of twelve detection lines equipped typically with 25 storeys. Every storey carries three optical modules that detect Cherenkov light induced by charged secondary particles (typically muons) coming from neutrino interactions. As these lines are flexible structures fixed to the sea bed and held taut by a buoy, sea currents cause the lines to move and the storeys to rotate. The knowledge of the position of the optical modules with a precision better than 10cm is essential for a good reconstruction of particle tracks. In this paper the ANTARES positioning sys…

Integration of WiFi ToF Positioning System in the Open, Flexible and Adaptive WiSHFUL Architecture

2017

We integrate a prototypeWiFi Time-of-Flight (ToF) ranging and positioning system in the WiSHFUL software platforms and hardware radios for experimental prototyping. Users have access to ToF measurements as well as computed positions through unified programming interfaces that make possible to investigate innovative positioning and networking solutions. TRUE pub