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Transport planning as suggested in John Claudius Loudon’s 1829 plan for London
2017
ABSTRACTWe consider Scottish landscape gardener J.C. Loudon’s already well-documented 1829 plan for a system of successive green belts around London. Our perspective will be that of transport planning, given his recommendations on street layout and public transport provision. Our contention is that Loudon’s design for the Metropolis would have been theoretically inoperative if it had not been for its transport network. Beside other forward-thinking aspects already demonstrated by researchers, Loudon’s plan is remarkable for setting out a design for an integrated Metropolis based on road planning and the then barely nascent technology of railways.
Inverse Analysis Used to Determine Plastic Flow and Tribological Characteristics for Deep-drawing Sheet
2014
Abstract The present paper aims to develop a simple method based on inverse analysis that allows us to determine the laws of plastic flow coefficients and the friction coefficient between the material and punch. Selecting from different types of tests, we have chosen the Hecker test, because this test requires a single form of punch, the hemispherical one. In this test, the friction between the punch and the blank-sheet is caused by the blank-sheet strains and not by the movement it makes (as in deep drawing case). Besides the friction coefficient, other parameters like hardening and strength coefficients (n and k), influence the distribution of stresses and strains in the material. Using t…
Experience from Indoor Fire Search and Rescue Game Design for Technology Testing
2018
No matter how good the fire evacuation plan for a building is, there is a risk of immovable victims being left behind due to smoke obscuration, inhalation of poisonous gasses, or other reasons. Firefighters usually perform the search and rescue for casualties in responding to fire hazards, besides the firefighting. Among of the challenges in the search and rescue operation is how to locate victims, and to keep monitoring the fire development so that it will not accidentally harm the fire personnel. This paper presents a game designed to test a smartphone app’s feature that supports concurrent tracking of indoor victims and fire spread. 22 volunteers were assigned roles either as rescuers or…
Helena Niemirowska Syrkus. Graphic Analysis of the ‘House of Dr. N. in Warsaw’
2015
The paper proposes a graphic re-reading of the “House of Dr. N. in Warsaw” that Helena Niemirowska, female pioneer of Modern Movement, designed in 1932. The building, on two levels, shows in its form a strict geometric layout and a three parted-subdivision plan in which she defines the functional inside layout both at the ground floor and at the first one. Helena combines Suprematism and the Modern Movement, cultural influences that are revealed, as well as in her other projects, by surfaces, colours and volumes of seemingly static treatment.
Martial Raysse, Dessins/Drawings
2015
International audience; Nouveau Réaliste en France, ami proche des artistes du pop art à New York et Los Angeles, réalisateur de films psychédéliques dans les communautés hippies au Maroc et ailleurs... Martial Raysse est l’un des artistes majeurs de la scène contemporaine. Alors que ses portraits de femmes ultracolorés des années 1960 sont devenus des icônes et que ses fresques allégoriques surprennent encore, les Éditions Dilecta publient un ouvrage présentant une sélection de ses dessins, de ses débuts à nos jours. Encore peu connues, ces œuvres sur papier sont empreintes de la même audace et impertinence que ses peintures, auréolées d’érotisme et de mythologies actualisées. Une centaine…
Matilde Ucelay Maortua. Single-family house for Vincente Sebastian Llegat
2016
Between 1931 and 1936, the Second Republic in Spain was proclaimed. A social and political model consolidated as one of the most prolific according the artistic point of view. The new democratic regime brought many basic rights for women as the chance to complete their university studies. An emblematic figure of the cultural and architectural revolution of Spain was Matilde Ucelay Maortua. The project here analyzed is the house of Vicente Sebastián Llegat in Pradolargo-Pozuelo de Alarcón, of 1968. Matilde Ucelay designed a building with two levels, a large garden, a swimming pool and the outside porch marking the environment of the L-structure of the house. The critical redrawing of the Uce…
Disegno geometrico e storia dell’arte nell’accademia di Pietro Selvatico (1849-1859)
2016
This book chapter investigates Pietro Selvatico Estense's position as director of the Venice Academy of Fine Arts (1849-1859). During this period art history classes and linear drawing have been strengthened within the academic curriculum.
Re-drawing of vanished space: Casa Giobbe della Bitta by Marcello Piacentini
2020
Ha ancora un senso oggi, nel tempo dominato dall’immagine e dal suo potere, interrogarsi sulle ragioni e sulle potenzialità del Disegno di Architettura? Potremmo sfruttare, invece, questa forza immateriale che pervade la nostra era contro il modus operandi della tabula rasa che interessa il patrimonio del moderno in Italia? Un tentativo di risposta a queste domande potrebbe giungere dallo studio di un’opera non più esistente di Marcello Piacentini, Casa Giobbe della Bitta, del 1925. A partire dal ridisegno critico dell’edificio, si vuol tentare una decodifica dell’architettura svanita, analizzandone forme e matrici geometriche che l’hanno generata; la modellazione tridimensionale digitale, …
Images of the imagined city
2018
The essay investigates one of the projects in the competition for the expansion of the North area of Palermo named ZEN 2 and designed by the architects Pasquale Culotta, Giuseppe Laudicina, Teresa Cannarozzo, Anna Maria Fundarò and Tilde Marra, in 1970. The essay aims at illustrating the spatial, figurative and urban qualities of it. The analysis of the project has been guided by a written text and the graphic support, that is the project report and the attached drawings, in Indian Ink, made by the architects themselves, indeed very often fragmented and difficult to be interpreted. In this regard, the support of digital drawing in two-dimensional and three-dimensional form, based on the cre…
Alphabet as a pretext. Representation and architecture starting from J.D. Steingruber
2020
Johann David Steingruber (1702-87) realizzò nel 1773 l’ “Alfabeto Architettonico” (titolo originale “Architektonisches Alphabeth bestehend aus 30 Rissen”),ovvero un compendio di edifici immaginari le cui piante presentano la forma delle lettere dell’alfabeto. A partire dall’analisi delle tavole, obiettivo del contributo è presentare una riflessione su questi disegni, sia in relazione alle intrinseche caratteristiche storiche ed estetiche, sia in relazione alla personalità dello Steingruber. Johann David Steingruber (1702-87) realized in 1773 the “Architectural Alphabet” (original title “Architektonisches Alphabeth bestehend aus 30 Rissen”), that is a compendium of imaginary buildings with p…