constructed upon a height (by footing) or breaking in to the ground, in a building, making a close relation between earth and soil is of great importance. in addition, earth as a prior factor in creation of a shade and residence, plays a crucial role in architecture history. throughout the different area, earth is paid attention differently: as a source of cool (in china), a source of heat (cap...

The support offered to local authorities in this work consisted of technical and economic training on the integration energy efficiency measures as well development tools (guidelines, a decision tool, databases visualization platform) that allow prepare their building renovation plans. These are found very useful for authorities, particularly case Teruel province, characterised by many small mu...

The Japanese architect Yoshikazu Uchida planned the estate plan of Osaka Hokko Co. Ltd. from 1920 to 1922. Through this study, we aim clarify Uchida’s for outdoor spaces such as roads, parks, and plazas, his ideology on them considering plan. To achieve purpose, analyze letters sent mostly corporate insiders Uchida, planning documents, four drawings. results show that used conflicting ideas dep...

In buildings with triangular plan, the center of mass and rigidity cannot geometrically match all possible directions of the earthquake. This will result in torsional moments in the stories causing the building to rotate around the center of rigidity. In this paper, via response spectrum analysis (RSA) and nonlinear static analysis, the seismic behavior of 5-, 10- and 15-story steel structures ...

In 2007, Kaiser Permanente's (KP) Southern California Region designed and implemented a systematic in-reach program, the Proactive Office Encounter (POE), to address the growing needs of its three million patients for preventive care and management of chronic disease. The program sought staff from both primary and specialty care departments to proactively identify gaps in care and to assist phy...

Many smart devices like smart phone and tablet nowadays are featured for hybrid sensor platform of GPS chip, inertial sensor(s), magnetic compass and other gadgets such as camera and Wi-Fi. The interest to apply those smart devices for indoor navigation is growing since a large variety of sensors on such devices enable hybrid location solutions to not only improve the availability of indoor pos...

Building conservation is a cultural phenomenon in the urban landscape, occurring by means of turning culture into a tradable product. In the article we illustrate that building conservation, serves the wealthy by means of the symbolic value given to these buildings and their surroundings, while those who pay the price are the poor. The conservation plan of Tel Aviv is examined against the failu...