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General data according to the conducted examination of some monolithic and precast steel concrete constructions of tower type, which were built by authors in Ukraine in the period from 2006 to 2011, has been described in this article. Conducted research has shown that unqualified implementation of separate works and factory defects in constructional elements are the basic reason of ruining the buildings...
The title of the conference Defining architectural space – Games and play of architecture should be regarded as a kind of intellectual provocation, given that without a profound comment, these “games and play” should above all be understood as extremely costly ones. However, taking for granted the “game” motif (in the sense of artistic manipulation of the structure’s shape and detail embedded in space),...
Global urbanisation processes do not only account for quantitative growth, but also bring about qualitative transformations of our urban environments. They lead to the formation of new typologies of settlement forms. Besides the monocentric metropolises and mega-cities, we observe an increasing number of large-scale urban forms that grow together out of former single cities merging into one interconnected...
The arenas with great grandstands are the public places where the consequences of failure are very high. For this reason, according to EN 1990, they belong to CC3 class consequences of failure. The reliability class RC3 is associated with the consequences class CC3 and is defined by the reliability index β = 4.3 with probability of failure pf = 8,54*10–6. The distributions of horizontal and shear...
Residential complexes make the prevailing part of urban structures determining their expansion and spatial form. In certain historical periods, the intermingling of various functions identified housing zones with the area of a city. Even at that time, however, we dealt with diverse spatial forms – those organized rigorously and totally free alike. As a result of the development of civilization and...
The expression “future city” is used to be understand semantically as “ideal city”. The tendencies dominating recently in urbanization of Polish cities, like: urban sprawl, deindustrialization of the country, spatial chaos in urbanized areas and the symptoms of city shrinking, awoke serious concerns about the future of Polish cities, what makes thinking about the future city as the ideal one more...
How do we understand the life of the city, its time and its space? What requirements do we impose on the space we live in? What does the future mean to us? Today, answers to these questions are marked with a reflection upon the dynamic and scope of changes which affect us and our cities. What is and should remain the same; what changes or should change? Instead of presenting answers and visions, we...
Great Cultural Projects (GCPs) have a multi-layer influence on the development of cities, their socio economic situation, functional-spatial structure, tourist attractions as well as their environment quality. The article focuses on their role in water-side area transformation as over 70% of the events were located in the waterfront areas, however, the research covered all the GCPs in the world from...
Due to several factors, cities in Europe and North America are stopping to grow. At the same time industrial processes are being delocalized and substituted by “clean industries”. Two new necessities arise: Where can the new labour and leisure activities be located close to the centre? What shall be done with the obsolete industrial tissues? The answer to these questions, if added, is obvious: part...
Currently many cities are experiencing a so-called urban renaissance. This has led to large scale rehabilitation of historical centres and living quarters, inflated property prices and to what is generally known as gentrification. Whilst we have seen many attempts to explain these processes through the housing market – focusing either on the demand of the supply side of the market – in this paper...
The historic workers’ colonies in cities located in the Upper Silesian Industrial District are an examplen of very valuable cultural heritage of thr Industrial Age. Based on the genius loci idea they create a sense of identity, and also a place for daily life. However, the undeniable landscape values of the historic groups of buildings are difficult to perceive due to the poor condition of architectural...
The fine art of gardening in Poland abounds in garden layouts which place special emphasis on the theme of the sacred in landscape design. One of the instances in that respect is calvaries, i.e. a distinct group in the realm of sacred garden layouts that is primarily related to the Stations of the Cross and thus intended to commemorate the Passion of Jesus Christ. In addition, calvaries are designed...
In this paper the architectural competition for the seat of the authorities of the Regency of Opole of 1929 is presented, its formula, participants, the jury are indicated on the background of examples of German competitions of the interwar period. Analysis of the competition entries enabled definition of their style inspired by the ideas of interwar modernism and also architectural tradition. The...
The numerical simulation of time evolution of thermal and mechanical fields in a selected section of a massive concrete dam was undertaken by means of the Finite Element Method (FEM) using 3D modelling. Low- (i.e. with time period – year) and high frequency (i.e. with time period – day) cycles of environment temperature variation were considered. The results of the computation confirmed the hypothesis...
Since the Middle Ages, the name rose gardens has been used in reference to gardens where roses were grown. However, they began to thrive at the turn of the 19th century when rose growing developed significantly, and as a result many new rose varieties were created. These began to be widely introduced into gardens. Usually they were found in public gardens and parks. Roses were exhibited due to the...
This article is devoted to the topic of garden houses, characteristic of buildings in garden architecture in many epochs. In the 19th century, owing to the creator of German culture, they assumed a characteristic form, becoming part of the design trends of that time. The main considerations will include their characteristics, the importance and value in creating 19th-century cultural landscapes against...
In the field of garden art, Isabela Lubomirska was known as the founder of one of the most famous Polish gardens named Mon Coteau. In her project the Princess worked with the leading architects and planners of those times, including Ephraim Schroeger and Szymon Bogumił Zug. Thanks to their cooperation a small, but very charming garden composition was created, which surrounded the Princess’ suburban...
The main aim of this article is to show how different ways of modelling a construction process of soldier pile walls influence the development of the computational lateral earth pressure in this type of structure. Moreover, the paper includes an analysis of soldier pile systems designed in both traditional (Coulomb, Rankine etc.) and numerical approaches. In order to analyse the above problems, several...
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