马德里马哈达宏达幼儿园设计解析

文章介绍了西班牙青年建筑师哈维·加西亚·葛门的建筑作品马德里马哈达宏达幼儿园。笔者从空间组织、能量利用和两个花园的建造三个方面介绍这一刚刚建成的作品,以此介绍和反映可持续发展的理念在西班牙当代建筑实践中的应用。     

Third Natures: Incubators of Public Space

Cristina Díaz Moreno and Efrén García Grinda , founders of the Madrid-based office AMID.cero9, shift the notion of the urban from the classic idea of the complete or ideal city, to one which engages with essential urban phenomena: the dynamics of confrontation, dispute and agreement between individuals, social groups and subcultures. In this way, public spaces are transformed from empty spaces into a real context for social interaction; and active involvement with social exchange becomes the main purpose of a project for a new architecture of the city.     

[ecosistema urbano]

Polish architecture tutors and critics Roman Rutkowski and Lukasz Wojciechowski identify a new kind of architecture in [ecosistema urbano]'s ingenious temporary tower pavilions for a sterile new housing estate in Madrid. Contributing power to the local electricity grid, these towers are explicitly designed to provide shelter from the unmediated heat of the harsh external environment through their cooling effect and in so doing to stimulate communal activities and events. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

马德里都市圈公共交通系统规划与组织管理

对马德里都市圈的公共交通系统进行多层次解读,特别梳理了马德里公共交通系统在规划、运营和组织管理等方面的发展模式,分析并总结其交通规划的特点和策略,试图提出城市化进程中解决城市交通问题的有效途径。     

The pioneers' legacy of inertial confinement nuclear fusion

Some years ago Professor Guillermo Velarde visited his good friend Academician Nicolai G. Basov, Nobel Prize in Physics and Director of the Lebedev Institute, and discussed the possibility of publishing a book on the History of the Inertial Confinement Nuclear fusion to be written by its Pioneers. They thought that only the own Pioneers could focus the book on a realistic and truthful manner.The years passed and unfortunately on July 1, 2001, Nicolai G. Basov passed away. In June 2002 Professor Velarde was invited to Moscow to give a Memorial lecture on Academician Basov in the Academy of Sciences. There in Moscow, Professors Vladislav Rozanov, Sergey Guskov, Natividad Carpintero-Santamaría and Guillermo Velarde decided to carry on with the project.Unfortunately, it was time to close the deadlines and the chapter of Academician Robert Dautray, former Haut-Commissaire of the CEA was not received. We regretted very much that the contribution of this very relevant Pioneer to the ICF is not included in the book. We did not receive also any material from Professor Edouard Fabre from the Ecole Polytechnique.The absence of the contributions of Nicolai G. Basov and Edward Teller was very significant. All of us would like that this ICENES 2013, hosted by the Institute of Nuclear Fusion, could be a posthumous tribute to these two outstanding Pioneers as well as a tribute to all of them.     

A Sense of Purpose: Mathematics and Performance in Environmental Design

Mathematics in design is most often associated with its visual manifestation in geometrical surfaces and elements. The finely tuned ambient qualities of a space, necessary for environmental performance, may not be so apparent, but can involve the application of many branches of mathematics. Martha Tsigkari, Adam Davis and Francis Aish of Foster + Partners' Specialist Modelling Group bring this to the fore by describing how at Al Raha Beach development in Abu Dhabi and the City of Justice in Madrid environmental considerations were interpreted through analytical numerical data. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

MAXXI,Rome: Zaha Hadid Architects

Mark Garcia , editor of The Diagrams in Architecture (John Wiley & Sons, 2010), one of the first significant accounts of the diagram in architectural design, provides a unique insight into the diagrammatic form of Zaha Hadid Architects' new MAXXI museum in Rome. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The suburban perimeter blocks of Madrid 10 years on: how residents’ level of satisfaction relates to urban design qualities

ABSTRACT

In the 1990s, the suburbs of Madrid saw the substantial development of new housing. New plans provided for 200,000 new homes over 7200?Ha of land. These developments eschewed earlier modernist forms of suburbanization in favour of the perimeter block that superficially echoed the ‘traditional’ built form of the city. But the new perimeter blocks and neighbourhood design varied from their inner-city counterparts and have been the subject of near universal criticism. Some 10 years after their occupation, we reappraise the development importantly adding the perspective of residents. While many of the design failings identified in the past are confirmed, we also reveal qualities that residents value. The study demonstrates the value of post hoc evaluation after residents have settled in and leads us to argue for the importance of better integrating the everyday life (lived experience) perspective into evaluations to achieve better places.     

A shallow high-resolution seismic reflection study of dudley ridge, south-east missouri

Dudley Ridge is an arcuate, north-trending terrace remnant of Wisconsinan (late Quaternary) outwash in the Western Lowlands of southeast Missouri. The ridge, an elongate topographic bulge, is approximately 12 km long and 2 km wide with up to 5 m of relief. Previous workers have attributed the ridge to fluvial erosion, or to a combination of fluvial erosion and tectonic deformation during the late Quaternary. The Commerce geophysical lineament, which is a major northeast-trending basement feature, is located a few kilometers to the southeast, and swarms of paleoliquefaction and possible neotectonic deformations have been reported in nearby areas of the Western Lowlands.To test the tectonic hypothesis, in 1994 and 1995 we acquired two west–east high-resolution seismic reflection profiles along the crest and western flank of Dudley Ridge to determine whether Paleozoic, Cretaceous and shallow Quaternary strata are faulted or folded. Profile SPB-1 shows several near-vertical faults indicative of at least three periods of movement: Paleozoic to middle Mesozoic; late Cretaceous to Tertiary; and early to late Wisconsinan (late Quaternary). Profile SPB-2 shows three ambiguous fault-like features which cut Cretaceous and Quaternary reflectors, but cannot be interpreted unequivocally to extend down into the Paleozoic section.These new seismic reflection data are interpreted to show that at least three major periods of faulting have disrupted Paleozoic, Cretaceous and Quaternary strata beneath Dudley Ridge, with the most recent faulting being early to late Wisconsinan in age and producing about 6–8 m (8–10 ms) of near-vertical displacement. Because Quaternary reflectors cannot be resolved above about 30–40 ms, the seismic data alone do not reveal whether or not the Wisconsinan deformation affected the surface of Dudley Ridge or whether the faults may have died out as they propagated up through the soft, saturated Wisconsinan outwash. However, the presence of the Farmdale Geosol beneath lower terraces adjacent to Dudley Ridge and the geosol’s apparent absence, or near-total truncation, beneath modern soils on Dudley Ridge suggest that one or more periods of tectonic bulging and accelerated erosion may have occurred between the Farmdale Interstadial and the Holocene about 25,000–10,000 years before present.