the present paper is a case study on one of the old areas in the city of ardabil with an approach of gentrification model to gentrify and rehabilitate the old urban context. besides the library studies, this study includes local observations and questionnaires which deal with the opinions of residents on the problems and shortcomings. it also includes the ways of satisfying the residents to kee...

on april 15, 1979,a destructive earthquake struck the southwestern part of yugoslavia, in which the total damage exceeded 2.7 billion dollars. in this paper, major engineering lessons learned in this earthquake are discussed and illustrated with representative photographs. the main causes of failure of masonary and reinforced concrete buildings are pointed out. effect of architectural design on...

The energy efficiency of the urban texture relies notably on the buildings’ form, which characterizes its capability to take profit of the solar potential as well as its loss of energy through the envelope. Therefore, the general layout at the district scale has a significant impact on the global energy balance in a dense built environment, where the relative position of the adjacent buildings ...

Green buildings that fail to meet expected design performance criteria indicate that technology alone does not guarantee high performance. Human influences are quite often simplified and ignored in the design, construction, and operation of buildings. Energy-conscious human behavior has been demonstrated to be a significant positive factor for improving the indoor environment while reducing the...

The assessment of the seismic vulnerability of all school buildings located at Chorrillos and Barranco districts in Lima, the capital city of Peru, was conducted using the Rapid Visual Screening procedure of ATC-21. A total of 28 school buildings were evaluated in Barranco, and 80 in Chorrillos, comprising all kindergarten, primary, and secondary school buildings existing in these two districts...

This study investigated the distribution of the fraction of rainfall intercepted by the facades of buildings located in an urbanized area. We used the frequently used semi-empirical standard ISO-15927-3 to simulate Wind-Driven Rain on facades. The implementation of the Norm on a neighbourhood scale required a list of parameters, including building geometry and terrain characteristics. For the f...