Salihu, Murtala Muhammad Musa, Muhammad Aminu Ibrahim, Abdullahi Getso Usman, Jamilu Salisu, Abubakar Sadiq
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Architecture Papers of the Faculty of Architecture and Design STU
The principal objective of this paper was to assess the physical properties and weight or structural implications of some potential green roof growth media compositions practicable for use in the Nigerian built environment. The study carried out an essential selection of material constituents of growth media blends mixed in a 3:1:1 ratio of natural...
Benkouda, Hassina Louafi, Samira Mebarki, Ammar
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Architecture Papers of the Faculty of Architecture and Design STU
People should be walking towards the inside of the dwelling through an appropriate visual environment in transitional space; this environment is the staircase in the collective housing. The proper understanding of visual adaptation parameters in the staircase helps architects provide a suitable environment for inhabitants. This paper aims to specif...
Musa, Muhammad Aminu Salisu, Abubakar Sadiq Salihu, Murtala Muhammad
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Architecture Papers of the Faculty of Architecture and Design STU
Many researchers have differed on the optimum values of Daylighting and Passive Indoor Thermal Comfort (DPITC) determinants in tropical climates. The study is aimed at developing a framework for optimising DPITC in singled-banked office buildings, during the activity period (8 a.m. to 5 p.m.), in the temperate dry climate of Nigeria. It was achieve...
Bene, Bence
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Architecture Papers of the Faculty of Architecture and Design STU
In the second half of the 20th century, solving the housing crisis became a significant social issue and political task throughout Europe, particularly in the countries of the Eastern Bloc. Although due to its quantity, prefabricated large mass housing estates became overrepresented, dozens of smaller, experimental, and diverse mass housing forms a...
Benyamina, Bachir Benkoula, Sidi Mohammed el Habib
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Architecture Papers of the Faculty of Architecture and Design STU
Housing represents the initial place where each individual has the opportunity to reconnect with their identity. It should offer every family the opportunity to live according to their lifestyle. Most people aspire to a living space that reflects both their aspirations and their way of life, while also taking into account the demands of everyday li...
Zupančič, Tadeja
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Architecture Papers of the Faculty of Architecture and Design STU
Jehlík, Jan
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Architecture Papers of the Faculty of Architecture and Design STU
Boháčová, Kristína Schleicher, Alexander
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Architecture Papers of the Faculty of Architecture and Design STU
The term temporary forms of performative space was coined out of the need to define the group of objects under study that use temporality and the architectural input into a non-theatrical space, and serve as boundaries for performative content. One such space was designed and built in the previous part of the research. By analysing the space during...
Bayer, Jan Drdácký, Miloš Válek, Jan
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Architecture Papers of the Faculty of Architecture and Design STU
Designing the modification of buildings for a new use is a costly and time-consuming process, before which it is often necessary to conduct a preliminary assessment of the feasibility of the intended project. The article discusses the procedure for such a preliminary cost-effective assessment using the example of a historic building with vaulted ce...
Kiaček, Matúš
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Architecture Papers of the Faculty of Architecture and Design STU
The context of interwar period Czechoslovakia lacks a formal on both the personality and built artefacts on the often overlooked Bratislava builder, Rudolf Frič. Small-scale architecture tends to be undervalued because of its size, utility, multiplicity, or related momentariness, and because of the automatic consideration of its banality. This pape...
