Above the Houses

Green houses.

We designed a web server for the analysis of biosynthetic capacities of metabolic networks. The implementation is based on the network expansion algorithm and the concept of scopes. For a given network and predefined external resources, called the seed metabolites, the scope is defined as the set of products which the network is in principle able to produce. Through the web interface the user c...

Halfway Houses

Patterns of the Prairie Houses

This paper attempts distillation of the essential design themes of Frank Lloyd Wright’s prairie houses in pattern form. The result is a pattern language fragment that documents the key features of Wright’s architectural style and an interpretation of Wright’s design justifications and motivations. The exercise serves to illustrate the use of patterns and pattern languages in post hoc design doc...

The Performance of Auction Houses

It has been observed that similar prints can obtain quite different prices at different auctions within the same auction period. Previous works applying hedonic price technique to determine the formation of auction prices of objects of art have found no conclusive result about the impact of auction houses on final prices. In these studies the object of art has been the unit, and influence of au...

Explaining the basic components of the structure of Vernacular Houses Case Study: Ardebil Vernacular Houses

The House as a social- cultural unit is the product of the interaction between housing patterns and patterns of human habitation, is expressed in the form of behavioral patterns and physical spatial patterns. The present study seeks to explore how these patterns are embedded in the structure of vernacular houses. Therefore, 15 middle class houses in Ardabil who were left from the late Qajar and...