Towards reconstructing the Shakespeare's first Globe Theatre: A virtual model for research and development

Shakespeare's first Globe Theatre (early 17th century) is considered one of the most iconic theatres in English history, despite lasting less than twenty years and having little information directly attributable to its shape and size. This building, part of a wide variety of Elizabethan theatres found in London during a fertile period in the history of entertainment, has fascinated historians and scholars for years. Interest in Globe Theatre has led to several attempts at reconstruction around the world in recent decades, very few of which are historically reliable due to a lack of accurate sources and the need to adapt a historic building, burnt down in a fire in 1613, to modern safety standards. However, with the increasing evolution of modelling systems in a virtual environment, it is now possible to analyse the theatre in a spatially and historically more consistent way with surviving data. The aim of this paper is to provide a historically and constructively valid virtual model that can reopen the debate on the shapes and dimensions of Shakespeare's first Globe Theatre. The model has been created by collecting the main hypotheses proposed by scholars. These were used to create the basic scheme, the plans, and then the whole theatre. Finally, the model was made available to encourage its use in future research and development.     

重庆地域传统人居形态及文化研究

地域性作为人居环境的基本属性之一,是人类聚落在漫长的发展过程中与地域自然及社会人文因素相互作用的结果.在自然生态环境、社会发展水平、历史文化传统等因素的影响下,重庆在簇群格局、建筑形态、建筑结构等方面形成了独特的地域特征.设计师应充分发掘城市的地域特征,创造出既满足现代生活需求又富有认同感和归属感的人居环境.     

乡土性建筑与乡土环境

试图在当代世界建筑思潮的各种走向中，从相关的内容和特点出发，探讨乡土性建筑的发展背景，阐述乡土性建筑与乡土环境的关联，例举当代建筑师的典型作品，说明当代乡土性建筑设计的多样性。     

基于WEB的通用话单转换系统的设计与实现

该文设计与实现了一个基于Web的通用话单转换系统,分别从系统需求分析、系统的总体结构及处理流程、数据存储模型设计和系统实现的主要技术这四个部分进行阐述。     

桃花坞木版年画造型元素在现代室内设计中的应用

目的 将传统年画艺术应用于现代室内设计,为非物质文化遗产的传承与发展提供新的思路与方法,提升桃花坞年画这一民间艺术的现代影响力,满足现代人对室内环境的精神需求.方法 以桃花坞木版年画为研究对象,从设计学角度出发,采用案例研究、比较研究、视觉分析以及实践研究的方法,对桃花坞年画造型元素进行研究分析,将传统民间艺术与现代室内设计相结合.结论 桃花坞年画造型元素多样,各有艺术特征,具有浓厚的地域特色与艺术价值.将桃花坞年画造型元素分类、提取设计,结合现代工艺、材料以及现代住宅与公共空间中各个空间的功能性,应用于现代室内设计,能实现中国传统民间艺术在现代设计中的合理应用,既为传统年画增加实际应用价值,又能为现代室内设计增添人文气息.     

浅析乡土建筑文化在当代中国建筑设计中的可持续性

乡土建筑是先民经验总结和智慧结晶的产物,本文通过对乡土建筑文化的可持续价值分析,发现其在当代中国建筑设计中的可持续性应用,进一步审视其价值在今后中国建筑设计中的可持续性发展。     

Understanding the climate sensitive architecture of Marikal,a village in Telangana region in Andhra Pradesh,India

Architecture and climate are engaged in a happy marriage in any indigenously developed settlement. We documented and analysed a vernacular settlement, Marikal in composite climatic region of A.P., as part of a large development project. Marikal’s form and structure are a result of centuries of evolutionary process and knowledge transfer, reflecting a set of varying physical and nonphysical determinant forces such as climate and geology, religion, socio-cultural values, economics, technology and administrative factors. It is a closely knit fabric of small clusters of dwellings comprising of thick white walls, heavy roofs, small windows and narrow streets. Many house typologies are identified. The house plans essentially vary in size, shape and detailing, but not in their climate sensitivity. They are in great harmony with the occupation/activities of the occupant. The occupants adaptively synchronize their activities with the spatial environmental qualities of the space.     

Thermal monitoring and indoor temperature modeling in vernacular buildings of North-East India

Vernacular architecture is still very popular and constructed widely in North-East India. In this paper, the result of long-term monitoring of two vernacular houses selected one in Tezpur (warm and humid climate) and other one in Cherrapunjee (cold and cloudy climate) are presented. Long-term monitoring work includes the measurements of temperature (inside and outside house), relative humidity (inside and outside house) and illumination level (inside and outside house) for 25 days in all the seasons (January: winter, April: spring/pre-summer, July: summer/monsoon and October: autumn/pre-winter) of the year 2008. Temperatures profile across all the seasons represents strong daily and seasonal fluctuations. Formulae have been developed based on part of the monitoring data to predict the indoor maximum, average and minimum temperatures inside the same house occupied by the same family. The predicted formulae were developed based on the measured data for the month of January and July and were validated with the measured data of April and October months. It is found that the correlation coefficient (R² value) is above 0.96 for all the six formulae for the entire monitoring period.     

Dream a Little Dream

Does the protocell require too great a leap in scalar imagination for architects? A detail of a building is manageable but what about something smaller than the microscopic? Mark Morris encourages designers to scale down to the diminutive level of the nanoscale by providing them with some inspiring precedents in architectural theory and popular culture. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Interpreting vernacular space in Ireland: a new sensibility

ABSTRACT

Performative analysis of the use of landscape strategies in pre-industrial vernacular architecture indicates that there is more design agency involved in the creation of these environments than conventional and historical interpretations would suggest. The development of this interpretation, referred to here as the Utilitarian-Landscape approach, has been described in the Irish architecture media as pioneering because it posits a counter-reading to typological classifications of vernacular architecture. Moreover, it challenges the entrenched scenic understanding of vernacular architecture’s relationship to landscape that underpins rural policymaking in Ireland. However, the limitations—indeed the dangers—of these two expressions of vernacular architecture, the typological and the scenic, have already started to be recognised in much emerging scholarship and practice. This article considers aspects of this scholarship and practice context in light of the Utilitarian-Landscape investigation, and points to a shift in approach to understanding vernacular environments and a new sensibility towards rurality in Ireland.