Empathic Imagination: Formal and Experiential Projection

The celebrated architect, educator and author Juhani Pallasmaa is well-known for having forged a new understanding of perception and the experiential in architecture with his seminal book The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Sensory (3rd edn, Wiley, 2012). Here he describes how ‘imagining human situations’ is at the core of architecture, relying on the interrelationship of physical space, behaviour and the capacity for mental tuning.     

浅谈新形势下高职外语教师应具备的素质与能力

“十年树木,百年树人”;“百年大计,教育为本。教育大计,教师为本”。高职外语教师与其他教师一样,从事的工作是培养和造就中国特色社会主义事业合格接班人和建设者的伟大工程。教师师德水平和专业素质关乎教书育人水平,关乎人才培养质量,关乎社会道德风尚。教师要不断学习、更新知识,提高专业素质和教育教学水平;教师要爱自己的事业,爱自己的学生,用一片赤诚之心培育学生,用高尚的人格魅力影响学生,用崇高的师德塑造学生。     

对小城镇景观规划与设计研究

在城乡经济显著发展、城乡发展环境日益开放的背景下,小城镇建设得到了前所未有的蓬勃兴起。而在方兴未艾的城镇化建设进程中,小城镇景观规划和设计也日益被提上了重要的发展日程。     

Vertical dynamic interactions of poroelastic soils and embedded piles considering the effects of pile-soil radial deformations

The paper presents an analytical solution for the vertical dynamic interaction analysis of a poroelastic soil layer and an embedded pile with the consideration of pile-soil radial deformations. The soil is treated a three-dimensional porous continuum and described by the Boer’s poroelastic model, while the pile is treated as a two-dimensional rod with both radial and vertical deformations of which the equation of motion is derived by the Hamilton’s variational principle. Without the introduction of potential functions, first take the volumetric strain of soil skeleton and pore fluid pressure as intermediate variables to deal with the equations of motion for the soil and then use the separation of variables to solve the equations of motion for the soil and the pile. By imposing the boundary and continuity conditions of the pile-soil system, the dynamic impedance in frequency domain and the velocity response in time domain of the pile top are obtained. The present solution is then verified by comparing with the corresponding finite element model computation results and the existing solutions. The effects of the pile-soil parameters on the dynamic characteristic of the pile-soil system are also analyzed. Some significant conclusions are drawn, which can provide useful reference for related engineering practice.     

冒险游戏场的起源、实例与启示

游戏是儿童成长中不可或缺的部分,儿童友好城市的重要硬件措施是建设儿童游戏据点。冒险游戏场作为代表性场所,在治愈儿童心理问题、培养儿童责任感、激发儿童危机意识和自我保护技能等方面发挥了重要作用。冒险游戏场在国外已有70余年的实践历史,但我国对冒险游戏场的研究尚处于初级阶段,在实践方面仍属空白。本文从剖析冒险游戏场的起源与核心思想入手,重点围绕欧美和日本的发展背景,对其发展历史进行系统梳理,再深入解读"常设"和"非常设"的三个典型案例,总结出设计理念"自由化"、空间要素"自然化"、场所运营"专业化"三个关键启示,为我国儿童公共空间的研究提供借鉴和参考。     

An Examination of Tabriz Gardens in Iranian Garden Art

This study was conducted to determine the place of historic gardens in the city of Tabriz vis-a-vis Iranian garden arts. It provides information on the historic gardens of Tabriz, which are no longer in existence, for example, ‘Saheb Abad’ Garden, ‘North’ Garden, ‘Sefa’ Garden, ‘Amir Kabir’ Garden, ‘Saheb Divan’Garden and ‘Fath Abad’ Garden, as well as four historical maps belonging to the Qajar era in the city of Tabriz. In this research, the factors influencing the design of El-Goli Garden were studied, which can be grouped into three major categories: physical, biological and cultural. After a brief study of the above factors in the city of Tabriz and its different microclimates, the types of similarities that exist relating to Iranian garden art were determined.     

Surrealism and Architectural Atmosphere

The concept of atmosphere in present architectural theory has many points of convergence with the insights of 20th-century Surrealism. Alberto Pérez-Gómez – Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor of the History of Architecture at McGill University in Montreal – here examines themes including desire, poetics, musical affinities and the risks of stylistic imitation, with reference to writers from André Breton to Octavio Paz and from Edmund Husserl to Maurice Merleau-Ponty.     

Response of Aspergillus flavus,Aspergillus niger and Penicillium citrinum to oxidative stress induced by Fenton’s reagent

The presence of fungi in water systems represents a threat to human health. Hydrogen peroxide is known for its disinfecting properties and easy decomposition to water and oxygen. Its activity can be enhanced by the addition of iron as a catalyst, a reagent known as Fenton?s reagent. In the present study, different Fenton concentrations were investigated on the spores of Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus niger and Penicillium citrinum at different time intervals. The results indicate that complete inactivation of spores was noticed after 60 min of exposure to both 2 and 3% H₂O₂ catalyzed by 0.025 g Fe²⁺/100 ml for A. niger, and 3% H₂O₂ catalysed by 0.075 g Fe²⁺/100 ml for P. citrinum. The activity of two antioxidant enzymes, superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT), was determined in mycelial mat harvested after 7 days. Their activities were either highly increased or reached their minimum values prior to inactivation of spores.     

中国城市发展的新趋势

从信息化、全球化和高技术发展正在重建世界出发,概述了中国城市已经参与全球化进程,城市的发展出现某些新趋势,主要表现在:国家城市体系内不是所有城市的快速增长,而是一些与全球化进程相连接的关键城市的发展。具体体现在几个城市的城市功能的全球化,城市规模的巨型化,城市间交流的快速化,以及城市联盟及其一体化,以发展中的全球城市为核心的全球城市区正在发育之中。     

‘Springtecture’ B

Masaaki Takahashi describes a house, designed by Shuhei Endo, whose coiled corrugated-steel surface seamlessly unifies the inside with the outside, despite its surprisingly rural setting.