• It is merely stated whether - given the close spatial proximity of a property to a stormwater sewer - it would be possible to provide a connection to this system. (berlin.de)
  • The largest impact that green roofs have is on stormwater management. (columbia-green.com)
  • Developers and design professionals are also increasingly looking to green roofs for the benefits they provide as a way to create more sustainable green buildings, with lower carbon footprints and a greater ability to manage stormwater runoff. (columbia-green.com)
  • this expressive pathway carves out a spatial and structural void which opens up a public courtyard and guides the flow of pedestrians. (designboom.com)
  • It is suitable for the construction of large-span, large-column mesh roofs and other structural forms. (lfspaceframe.com)
  • Given their structural operation in full tension, catenary-based roof structures substantially reduce material needs when compared with those relying on straight beams (Wong and Crolla, 2019). (hku.hk)
  • It analysis their structural concept, geometric and spatial complexity, fabrication and assembly protocols, applied construction detailing solutions, and more, with as aim to identify methods, tools, techniques, and construction details that can be taken forward in future research aimed at minimising construction complexity. (hku.hk)
  • The new canopy roof writes the names of Lower Austrian cultural institutions on the square with delicate shadows. (feld72.at)
  • The timber-framed canopy roof undulates among the tree limbs and opens to allow natural light to permeate the interior of the home. (jbohn.com)
  • This paper covers the review of a range of built projects employing catenary glulam roof system, starting from seminal historic precedents like the Festival Hall for the Swiss National Exhibition EXPO 1964 (A. Lozeron, Swiss, 1964) and the Wilkhahn Pavilions (Frei Otto, Germany, 1987), to contemporary examples, including the Grandview Heights Aquatic Centre (HCMA Architecture + Design, Canada, 2016). (hku.hk)
  • In Australia, there is an increasing interest in using extensive green roofs to make buildings more sustainable and provide a number of social, ecological, aesthetic and thermal benefits to cities. (researchgate.net)
  • the building's location, within a grouping of historic buildings, on a major street facing the waterfront -the spatial configuration of the building and front plaza. (historicplaces.ca)
  • Green buildings and green roofs are increasingly viewed as a solution to help mitigate the threats and concerns surrounding climate change, water quality and the expanding gap that exists in energy supply and demand. (columbia-green.com)
  • The application of a green roof helps to contribute from 6 to 14 LEED points for sustainable building structures, while buildings with white membranes alone, qualify for only 1 to 2 LEED points. (columbia-green.com)
  • This third edition of the Responsible Housing Awards saw a record-breaking number of 87 submissions (an increase of 29% compared to 2016) across five categories from 16 countries. (housingeurope.eu)
  • This year, for the 3rd edition of the European Responsible Housing Awards, we received a record-breaking number of 87 submissions (an increase of 29% compared to 2016) across five categories from 16 countries (almost double compared to 2016) and so, deciding on five winners and finalists was no easy task for the Jury. (housingeurope.eu)
  • It was praised for concealing an external courtyard and swimming pool on the second floor of a brick and gable-roofed house at Siglap Plain. (thepeakmagazine.com.sg)
  • Its design offers a contemporary interpretation of a regional vernacular that utilises green brick and the spatial principles of feng shui. (dezeen.com)
  • After just a few shots we are in the studio, which provides a view from the building's roof, and the legendary over-the-top shooting begins. (sixpackfilm.com)
  • Green roofs that are combined with solar panels have also been shown to produce even greater energy benefits due to increased panel efficacy that help contribute to lower a building's overall energy consumption and environmental footprint. (columbia-green.com)
  • Rigorous local planning requirements and an existing foundation system were leveraged to create a straight-forward appearance that masks spatial complexity and dynamic form. (jbohn.com)
  • The City of Espoo organised an open architectural competition for the Ruusutorppa School in 1996 in order to find new spatial solutions meeting the requirements of modern pedagogic methods. (finnisharchitecture.fi)
  • The Community Church Knarvik has an architectural expression, spatial solutions and materiality which unites religion, culture and the sitespecific context into a whole. (dexigner.com)
  • This information relates to the physical properties of the building such as building type/land use, age, height, area, materials, roof type, percentage of glazing e main type of open data we need to collect relates to the fabric. (pollyhudson.net)
  • The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar are taking the lead in the urbanization boom that is drastically transforming the spatial fabric of the Arab Gulf region. (scienceopen.com)
  • Our approach was to avoid the conventional design practice and to create a structurally rational but spatially heterogeneous house.On the assumption that there is a human being within the optimal spatial. (archilovers.com)
  • The practices of the "Fair financing for housing affordability" category make the case that sustainable investment that ensures cost effectiveness and balancing of the level of services provided, related costs and how far current and prospective tenants/residents can afford them - can help with minimising housing costs as well as mitigating real estate speculation. (housingeurope.eu)
  • By expanding the tectonic system's practically applicable architecture design solution space and facilitating architects' access to a low-tech producible, spatially versatile, lightweight, eco-friendly, wooden roof structure typology, this study contributes to environmentally sustainable building. (hku.hk)
  • The word document contains two tables describing all settlements information regarding the built-up areas, the years of reference, and the roof composition of the building assets. (mendeley.com)
  • It is not possible to exactly match individual roof and courtyard areas to the catchment areas of rain water sewers by reference to maps of the sewer network. (berlin.de)
  • Open floor plans and soaring ceilings offer residents maximum spatial flexibility. (qrthisplace.com)
  • Green roofs are consistently being used to reduce some of the negative environmental impacts of cities. (researchgate.net)
  • With the age-old method of roof sounding, miners provide direct mechanical impacts to roof rock and listen for the hollow drummy sound that indicates the presence of a loose block of rock. (cdc.gov)
  • the garden design elements provide a quiet and relaxed spatial experience in this shared space. (otherwhere.hk)
  • There are three categories of architects that participate in competitions in Greece today: the young ones who seek the opportunity of gaining exposure, the organized firms in times of low workflow and the romantics who insist, each one for his own reasons, to disregard the crisis. (greekarchitects.gr)
  • the architects identified three important 'memories': the 'urban memory' of the façade, the 'spatial memory' of the staircase, and the 'material memory' of the characteristic elevation color. (archello.com)
  • The increasing interest in extensive green roofs requires refined studies on their design and operation, and on the effects of their relevant parameters on green roof thermal performance. (researchgate.net)
  • The effects of two design parameters, substrate thickness (ST) and conductivity of dry soil (CDS), and four operating parameters, leaf area index (LAI), leaf reflectivity (LR), stomatal resistance (SR), and moisture content (MC), were investigated using the green roof computer model developed by Sailor in 2008. (researchgate.net)
  • The computer simulations showed that among the operating parameters, LAI has the largest effects on thermal performance while CDS is a more influential design parameter than ST. Experimental investigations of non-vegetated and sparsely vegetated green roofs in Melbourne were principally used to understand the effect of the substrate and enable better understanding of dominant heat transfer mechanisms involved. (researchgate.net)
  • Such a design produces a series of rooms of similar size and causes monotonous spatial experiences. (archilovers.com)
  • Whatever we put into a design must have a very good functional, contextual or spatial reason for it. (thepeakmagazine.com.sg)
  • Our clients often have a rough layout or design in mind when they come to us, but we still manage to exceed their expectations in terms of spatial requirements, functionality and aesthetics," says founder Tan Cher Ming. (thepeakmagazine.com.sg)
  • Luis Alonso's thesis charts the nature of creativity, and its relation with the constructed environment, in order to stimulate it through concerted spatial design strategies. (uprrp.edu)
  • Given that creativity is a very complex phenomenon - that depends on the particular formation of each individual - there is no guaranty that these spatial design strategies will instigate everyone's creativity equally. (uprrp.edu)
  • All 3 appeal to similar spatial distribution and design strategies. (uprrp.edu)
  • This paper reports on historic precedent case study research that informs an ongoing larger study focusing on novel algorithmic methods for the design and production of lightweight, large-span, catenary glulam roof structures. (hku.hk)
  • Visual inspection, fol owed by roof "sounding," are the primary means by which miners evaluate the stability of overhead rock structures in their workplaces. (cdc.gov)
  • Additional background information on previous studies of loose roof rock vibrations in underground mines, analyses of expected low-order resonant frequencies of slabs with varying boundary conditions, and reviews of laser Doppler and full-field vibration techniques applied to large structures can be found in [2]. (cdc.gov)
  • The potential of green roofs to reduce building energy consumption has been extensively studied overseas in a variety of different climates. (researchgate.net)
  • However, in Australia the green roof industry is relatively new. (researchgate.net)
  • There is still very little information on the thermal properties of Australian green roofs and their performance. (researchgate.net)
  • Further, as a relatively new industry, there is a general lack of specific policies and initiatives to promote green roofs. (researchgate.net)
  • In this paper, we briefly review the research investigating green roof thermal performance in various climates and analyse policies and actions that have been implemented internationally to foster green roofs with an emphasis on their thermal performance. (researchgate.net)
  • Many green roof policies had difficulty interpreting the thermal performance of green roofs, because of the dynamic nature of green roof R-values. (researchgate.net)
  • In this study, the effectiveness of overseas green roof policy is discussed and recommendations how they could be adapted for Australian cities are provided. (researchgate.net)
  • Because of these wide ranging results, it is not possible to specify one 'optimum' green roof build-up (drainage layer, substrate or growing medium and plants) that will maximise green roof thermal benefits in all countries or climate zones. (researchgate.net)
  • In situ research is therefore necessary to help select substrates and plants for green roofs in various locations [19] . (researchgate.net)
  • As a result of a review of the literature [19] , we selected three vegetation parameters and three soil parameters as the most relevant to a green roof thermal performance for further investigation. (researchgate.net)
  • This systematic literature review provides an overview of existing studies which have explicitly investigated the urban ES of differently spatial-scaled green infrastructure types. (mdpi.com)
  • This comprehensive, 635-page how-to guide by Bruce Dvorak, ASLA, associate professor of landscape architecture and urban planning at Texas A&M University, and a slew of contributors - the rare book that wins an ASLA Professional Research Honor Award - is for any landscape architect or designer serious about integrating biodiversity into their green roof projects. (asla.org)
  • While the hail of bullets is not shown, the staccato editing with which Peckinpah staged his bandits' end tears up the functionally designed studio: A swivel chair, two dark-green doors to a toilet, a full shelf, and so on remain unrelated spatial particles, and the cuts jump effortlessly between indoors and out. (sixpackfilm.com)
  • We offer comprehensive green roof, paver and amenity deck solutions for extensive, semi-intensive and intensive roof gardens. (columbia-green.com)
  • A green roof warranty is essential for protecting your investment. (columbia-green.com)
  • Why install a green roof? (columbia-green.com)
  • Green roofs, also known as eco-roofs or vegetated roofs, are increasingly common. (columbia-green.com)
  • However, there are other benefits that come from the implementation of green roofs. (columbia-green.com)
  • The application of a green roof can help to reduce energy costs related to heating and cooling through their insulating effects, providing the building owner with year round energy savings. (columbia-green.com)
  • Green roofs can play an integral role in mitigating those negative effects through the ability to lessen the amount of gases that warm the atmosphere and therefore cool the surrounding environment. (columbia-green.com)
  • The green roof industry is continually growing and further benefits continue to develop as groups within the green building community push the envelope as to what this technology can provide. (columbia-green.com)
  • Green roofs are also seeing support from governments across the globe. (columbia-green.com)
  • Some incentives available for installing a green roof system include: tax incentives, zoning expansions and direct public utility rebates/monthly billing reductions. (columbia-green.com)
  • The program of the house is distributed over 5 levels with the garage, art storage and a private gallery on the ground level, a guest suite on level 1, the master suite on level 2, the living and dining areas on level 3 and an outdoor entertaining area on the roof terrace. (peterbennetts.com)
  • Access to roof terrace which includes chaise lounge chairs, table with umbrella, grill and shower. (qrthisplace.com)
  • 2 The production and organization of social space, in this sense, cannot be seen as a 'dead' or passive category with no influence over various dimensions of lived experience, including thought, politics and economy. (scienceopen.com)
  • Juxtaposing the UAE's and Qatar's urbanization projects with the nineteenth-century phenomenon of world exhibitions and fairs, this article takes the Louvre Abu Dhabi and Villaggio Mall as case studies to investigate the modalities of knowledge generated through processes of cultural and spatial (re)production and the impact of the latter on the construction of personhood and lived experience in the Arab Gulf region. (scienceopen.com)
  • Triatoma infestans is the principal vector of T. cruzi in the understanding of the spatial distribution of potential southern cone of South America and the sole vector in Chagas disease transmission in the community. (cdc.gov)
  • A pitched roof added to the original warehouse in the 1980's is removed and replaced with a double height volume that forms the new living spaces for the residence. (peterbennetts.com)
  • On the assumption that there is a human being within the optimal spatial coordinates resulted from the site and living requirements, we used Voronoi line segments that divide equally the shortest distance to create spaces.The actual trial and error involved the full use of 3D-CAD. (archilovers.com)
  • In the spatial structure construction of large-span construction projects, the characteristics of the steel space frame structure are mainly manifested in the following five aspects: First, compared with other spatial structure systems, the steel space frame structure is more convenient in the construction of the spatial structure. (lfspaceframe.com)
  • the lower volume features large, floor-to-ceiling windows and is topped with a translucent roof that makes the structure appear to glow at night. (archello.com)
  • For operational ease in developing and testing the proposed methods, a damaged concrete slab was selected to serve as a convenient analog to the blocky roof rock structure encountered in underground mines. (cdc.gov)
  • Each frame includes drawings of a distinct category: such as interior survey or public realm survey, etc. (metropolismag.com)
  • The entire new spatial setting creates a stage situation in the public space in which the roles of "audience" and "actors" merge and converge. (feld72.at)
  • Until last year, most of Switzerland's photovoltaic (PV) installations were built on roof tops. (frontiersin.org)
  • This is clear once one looks at the projects of the "Empowering the team, addressing employees changing needs" category. (housingeurope.eu)
  • Sliding additionally trains the child's sense of balance and spatial understanding. (newtonplay.com)
  • It also boasts cantilevered roofs that reference local vernacular. (dezeen.com)
  • The finalists here prove in practice that ensuring decent, affordable housing (and which will remain so in the future), understanding that this is key to avoiding social and spatial segregation and promoting social cohesion in our neighbourhoods. (housingeurope.eu)
  • The other spatial categories encourage encounter and social interaction. (uprrp.edu)
  • Spatial.ai , for instance, is a company that organizes billions of social media conversations into more than 70 actionable segments revealing the personalities, attitudes, and interests of communities. (gaar.com)
  • The possibilities for occurrence of social learning depend critically on the level of spatial tolerance among individuals, which determines the level of detail with which an "observer" can watch the manipulatory activity of a proficient conspecific (Coussi-Korbel & Fragaszy, 1995). (bvsalud.org)
  • pavilion"- an extended family of five, how can they live harmoniously under the same roof while enjoying their own place? (otherwhere.hk)
  • This article examines the spatial metamorphosis taking place in the Arab Gulf region, using the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar as two exemplary cases. (scienceopen.com)
  • He wrote in 1924, "These black, red and blue houses with their roofs-sometimes light, sometimes heavy but often peculiar-are quite remarkable. (metropolismag.com)
  • Printed on both sides so your dragon-slayer can double the fun by mixing blue and red roofs and banners. (brainstormeducation.com)
  • The impulse-response and impact-echo techniques are both essentially drive-point response measurements, as is the miners' roof sounding, where a stimulus is applied and a response is measured in the same, or nearly same, location. (cdc.gov)
  • The placement of dormers along the roof, decorative fence atop the tower roof, and the regular pattern of the large rectangular windows on the façade also reflect the Second Empire architecture. (historicplaces.ca)
  • In the Box House, landscape is integrated into each level via the use of roof gardens. (thepeakmagazine.com.sg)
  • these two large-scale zones ' reflect the expert's category and the professional mission of construction engineering . (designboom.com)
  • This set helps build STEAM skills as children learn geometry, spatial awareness and much more. (brainstormeducation.com)
  • Entire units and subunits as represented on the map were always allocated in their entirety to one of the categories or one of the first receiving water bodies, even if individual properties or parts of a unit drained differently from others under specific circumstances. (berlin.de)
  • They made nice individual percussive noises, with great spatial positioning, so I decided to use them to seed a piece of music. (polymorphart.net)
  • As part of NIOSH's mission to find ways to reduce hazards to workers, the feasibility of measuring remote vibrations using laser techniques is being explored as a means of improving, expanding, and automating procedures for mine roof inspection. (cdc.gov)
  • We look forward to releasing only the finest of packages and hope the fans join us on the deepest of dives into our archives as we continue to grow his legacy through our partnership with BMG, starting with the release of his entire back catalog in Spatial Audio, for the first time, on Apple Music. (theseconddisc.com)
  • Doubleground includes an evocative passageway, which references the triangular patterns of the NGV's roof and glass wall of the Great Hall. (peterbennetts.com)
  • Although kara (唐) can be translated as meaning "China" or "Tang", this type of roof with undulating bargeboards is an invention of Japanese carpenters in the late Heian period. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ascending step by step along the main entrance and going around the back of it gives one view of the sloping plate extending from the roof of the exhibition hall to the platform, forming a fully three-dimensional spatial connection with the hill. (licc.uk)
  • The most recent accolade was earned on the back of its "Room Without Roof" project, which won the 2018 INDE. (thepeakmagazine.com.sg)
  • The conference hall roof project is located in Lome, Togo, which was finished in 2014. (lfspaceframe.com)
  • For each of the 27 categories, one project w. (archello.com)