Early design decisions made on building configuration and spatial design affect seismic behavior of buildings. Therefore introducing design guidelines and empirical methods implemented to assess seismic behavior of buildings have been proposed as an appropriate approach. Such concept helps architects to take into the consideration that how their preliminary design decisions influence downstream...

Since the quality of apartment buildings is noted, the way of increasing attachment and discovering its effective variables is challenging subjects for researchers in this field. Person, place and process (P.P.P) model of place attachment as the most precise model of them, evaluate attachment to three parts of person, place and process. What is going to be studied in this research is to evaluat...

with the wind permanent flow in the cities, obtaining the minimal pollution in the environment is accessible. different policies have been considered for optimization of cities such as attachment and or reduction of building parts like air-traps, ceiling forms and so on. due to population growth in cities and the increasing need for resettlement these people in the cities, inevitably, to the hi...

Buildings are beautiful mathematical objects tying a variety of subjects in algebra and geometry together very direct sense. They form natural bridge to visualising more complex principles group theory. As such they provide an opportunity talk about the inner workings mathematics broader audience, but visualisations could also serve as didactic tool teaching building theory, we believe can even...

Contemporary buildings are expected to meet an extensive set of requirements. They must be conceived, constructed, and operated in a manner that is functionally adequate, environmentally sustainable, occupationally desirable, and economically feasible. Moreover, buildings must increasingly accommodate different user groups, a varied set of activities, and multiple indoor environmental control s...

OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATION HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY P.O. BOX 1000, FI-02015 TKK http://www.tkk.fi Author Juha Jokisalo Name of the dissertation On design principles and calculation methods related to energy performance of buildings in Finland Manuscript submitted 20.5.2008 Manuscript revised 11.9.2008 Date of the defence 28.11.2008 Monograph Article dissertation (summary + original artic...

limitations in the design method used for the support systems of urban buildings make them vulnerable to damage by adjacent excavations. this paper examines a traditional system used to support excavation sites and adjacent buildings in which inclined struts are connected to the wall or foundation of the adjacent building. this method can be considered to be a type of shoring or underpinning. t...

Recently, steel structures have been accounted for a large percentage of the buildings due to their advantages such as higher execution speed and easier construction. In steel structures, welded joints are commonly used and their quality plays a key role in stability of buildings under applied loads. Hence, to increase resiliency of welded steel structures against natural hazards, welded joints...