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The architecture of contemporary educational facilities is a field of the search for innovative learning spaces. School buildings, along with other facilities and solutions which serve the purpose of permanent informal education, create a varied learning landscape in the public space of the city. This article attempts to see this issue from the angle of ludic culture and discusses its impact.
Cellular automaton model has been elaborated for simulation microbial process in a biofilm. It was shown that the proposed algorithm gives possibility to obtain various structures of microbial biofilms, depending on operating conditions.
The present industry of builder’s materials basing himself on latest successes of the technique and the technology, lets on attaining of effects which still several years backwards one would acknowledge too futuristic. Practical at present technologies at the realization of facings of external objects of the general building or else the thermal modernization of habitable objects let on the considerable...
This paper describes the natural, environmental and cultural conditions in Switzerland and the Netherlands. It shows how the principle of Green Architecture, which concerns respect for the surroundings with reference to housing, is applied in these two dissimilar countries.
The paper presents the analysis of the relation between window thermal transmittance and the window shape, size, frame profile, glazing type and opening area division. The analysis was performed in the Window 6.3 program developed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which has the possibility of a comprehensive analysis of the heat flow through the various types of windows, according to the...
The future of cities and societies is burdened with uncertainty as well as numerous unknowns which make it difficult to predict it precisely. In the author’s opinion, the basis for actions in the formation of an urban housing environment at present and in the future can be some timeless values related to the broadly understood ecology of a space of residence. Messestadt Riem in Munich makes a model...
An attempt at the verification of simple designing rules of chosen building components is made in this paper, taking into account not only heating energy demand but also avoidance or at least reduction of cooling demand. Large south-oriented windows supply a large amount of solar energy and thus minimize the heating demand. Oversized windows and the resulting large energy gains, which are not accumulated...
The article presents results of simulation of building assuming presence of phase change material in wall barriers. Obtained results were compared with the ones of a building without phase change material in wall barriers. Object of comparing calculations is a model of a real service building located in Silesia. It has light-frame construction with light covering (external metal sheet, heat-insulation,...
The paper presents the campus of the Lausanne Technical University (EPFL) in Ecublens and analyzes its form as an example of development of a superblock. History of EPFL goes back to 1853 and the school received independence in 1968. The decision to build a new campus out of city center, in Ecublens-Dorigny was made in the 60’s. Described superblock includes both University and EPFL, carrying out...
The beauty of modern architecture and especially its external image, is achieved by various means, but one can venture to say that real beauty is created only in accordance with the current state of technical knowledge. The author specifies elements which characterize contemporary facade solutions, namely: modern, ecological materials, energy-efficient systems of double glass facades, sun shading...
The paper presents the possibility of applying the internal systems of thermal insulation of heated rooms with design guidelines. It discusses the problems of the inner insulation effect, the re-use and new aesthetics on comfort room thermo-humidistat.
As far as modern building technological and material solutions, wood-based constructions are more often applied. New technologies in wood constructions allow to design and construct buildings in low-energy and passive building standards. Producers of system solutions provide the catalogues of different system construction details. The aim of this article is the analysis of thermal bridges of different...
The results of numerical simulations of the destruction of gabion retaining walls are presented. Special attention is paid to distinguishing possible destruction modes.
According to the brightness dependences on the cloudiness, identified in our previous studies of the artificial sky glow, we attempted a detailed examination of these relationships within the light island of Cracow. For this purpose we use the measurements made in one of the Cracow residential estate in conditions of a cloudless and overcast sky. We have also used the unique measurements made during...
The revolutionary development of Internet services, and legal requirements arising from the implementation of the provisions of the act on spatial infrastructure, are causing rapid development of public geoportals. The paper presents results of research on assessing the quality of information available in public mode in geoportals of 10th largest Polish cities. Data sets were analyzed in terms of...
The paper presents the results of analyses of numerical interaction between a tunnel made of reinforced concrete prefabricated with backfill and stratified ground. A number of variants of foundation have been discussed: gravel cushion, on an additional concrete strip, and on a cap based on jet-grouting columns. The grounds in the simulations were described using the Coulomb-Mohr model.
In this paper we study approximative properties of modified Szasz-Mirakyan operators for functions of two variables from exponential weight spaces. We present theorems giving a degree of approximation by these operators for exponential bounded functions.
Compressed Sensing is new method of data acquisition. Typical data acquisition approach is based on the measurement of signals with a frequency determined by the sampling theorem. Data sampled in this way are often redundant. Therefore it is necessary to compress it, often in a loss manner (the perfect examples are image compression algorithms such as JPEG), in order to reduce the amount of data to...
The paper contains a description of the CAN bus technology used in vehicles, basic information about the protocol and a description of the realized CAN analyzer and an example of its use. Research and analysis were performed in the laboratory and road conditions in the vehicle with the Skoda Fabia diesel engine.
The changes that are taking place in the airport passenger service technology allow for the increase of passenger traffic in terminal buildings. Novel technologies in identification, checkin and security control in passenger service areas impact the way architectural spaces are being shaped. This article describes an algorithm for analysing a terminal building space with respect to passenger service...
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