During the first century BC, famous Roman architect, Vitruvius, defined architecture as encompassing three essential properties: firmitas (firmness), utilitas (utility), and venustas (attractiveness or beauty) [...]

Nowadays, new forms of virtual architecture are appearing as virtual worlds based on the Metaverse concept are becoming increasingly more popular, holding all kind of virtual versions of human activities. This paper aims to make a reflection on the features of these new architectures compared with their equivalents in the real world by means of an analysis through the prism of the three fundame...

This paper reports on an investigation into how base isolation can produce benefits for the architectural design of hospitals. If a relatively new technology such as base isolation can be coupled with interdisciplinary collaboration from the birth of a project, it seems possible to achieve an improvement not only in their seismic, but also in their architectural design. The methodology adopted ...

No more famous slogan has been invented for the essential components of architectural values than Vitruvius’s famous three of utilitas (function? commodity? utility?), firmitas (solidity? materiality?), and venustas (beauty? delight? desire?). Despite the famous attempts to fix the meaning of the three terms, it is evident that their location within the Vitruvian ‘triad’ has cast a spell over a...

The number of games designed for various applications in healthcare is growing rapidly. However, balancing the game can be a difficult task, especially without a guiding vision or design framework. Here, we propose a philosophical framework inspired by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius, which can be used as an approach to designin...

Abstract. This study deals with the redevelopment of buildings built in last decades Nineteenth century, a style that can be defined "post-modern". In those years, communication became an architectural theme superimposed and abstract by functional structural needs, "architectural elements" hyperbolic way respect to function. The result culture, interesting for research they narrate but incongru...

In architecture, Venustas (aesthetics) is always considered an important attribute along with Firmitas (firmness) and Utilitas (usefulness). Pursuing aesthetics/ beauty one of the architect’s primary roles. However, it critical to comprehend ‘What aesthetics?’ its implications for built-unbuilt environment human beings. a world where everything changing, are definitions, concepts, parameters ae...

In the 60s and 70s few people were interacting with computers and if they did, those interactions were predominantly work-related. It seems quite natural then, that early Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), which emerged at that time, strove to enable people to perform work-related tasks in an efficient and error free way. During the 1980s, usability engineering emerged from this understanding of...