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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Ticino"”.
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Modeling a bender element test using Abaqus Finite Element Program
… made of bender element testing of unsaturated Ticino Sand specimens uniaxially compressed and the Abaqus Finite Element Method program simulation. The research determined that the mesh resolution of a numerical analysis are optimal at a resolution of a twentieth of the shear wavelength and the …
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From process to criteria
This house is not in Ticino. It is somewhere between earth and sky, in the country, or in the city, passing the suburbs altogether at a speed of 45 mph. This house does not have a television set, hence the dweller never sees the architect portrayed in deodorant commercials, soap operas, nor shoe …
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Seven Loci: The Completion of Villa Maderni
… of an already sacred villa and garden in the Ticino region of Switzerland. The secondary goal of the thesis is to explore and propose an architecture which does not make a forgery of the villa, but one whose language is of its own time and materials, all the while responding to the invisible …
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I BOSCHI PLANIZIALI E LA CITTÀ NEL XVIII SECOLO.CASI DI STUDIO CON L¿IMPIEGO DELLA DIGITAL HISTORY
… il GIS; in particolare si studiano l’area del Ticino, con particolare riguardo per Abbiategrasso e Vizzola Ticino, e del Tradatese, zona in cui è presente il parco naturale della Pineta di Appiano Gentile e Tradate. Il GIS è impiegato anche nel secondo tema esaminato, ovvero le modalità con …
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4 urban houses
… in the architecture of the Shakers and the Ticino architects in Switzerland. The formal simplicity of this architecture allows for a clarity in the relationship between light, construction and space. This position 1s investigated through the design of four contiguous houses which are one …
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Using thermochronology to constrain exhumation in the Swiss-Italian Alps
Twelve bedrock samples were collected from Ticino, Switzerland and Northern Italy for thermochronological studies using the (U-Th)/He technique on zircon and apatite and fission track on subset of zircons. Nine samples were collected from the Lepontine Dome, north of the Insubric Line, six of which …
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Contested nationhood: Literary Geographies of contemporary Italian Alpine borders
… along the Franco-Italian border, the Canton Ticino in Italian-speaking Switzerland, and the multilingual autonomous Italian region of South Tyrol. My geo-literary analysis identifies three types of textual geographies, that is, what emerges from the intersection of the places represented in …
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Re-Dwelling: A Proposal for Five Dwellings in Maggia, Switzerland
… Maggia, a medieval village in Italian-speaking Ticino, Switzerland. The modern scheme placed within Maggia's old town outlines an attempt to revitalize the village's life by providing places for individuals, families, groups of families, and the whole village community. The act acknowledges a …
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Metodología de estimación automática de parámetros de suelos arenosos en ensayos presiométricos
… en celda de calibración con arenas del Ticino (Belloti et al, 1987). Con todo ello se ha desarrollado un código de ordenador que incluye diferentes técnicas de estimación automática de parámetros geotécnicos a partir del ensayo presiométrico. Este código puede ser fácilmente ampliado …
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Monument of Travel
… to define the basis of architecture. In the Ticino region of Switzerland, these ideas were present in a different culture, specifically Galfetti’s Castelgrande project, as well as the existing castle. The region’s architecture made it possible to see what was important personally in …
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The study of shear and longitudinal velocity measurements of sands and cohesive soils
… For this case, experiments were performed on dry Ticino sand. It was concluded that the bender element tip geometry has a much greater impact than previously perceived, in particular with long, slender geometries sometimes creating directly-propagating compressional waves that interfere with the …
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L'eredità di Aldo Rossi nella Penisola Iberica. La costruzione della città e il progetto contemporaneo
… gitanos di César Portela e la Casa Bay di Borgo Ticino di Aldo Rossi, di cui si è occupato l’ultimo paragrafo di questo capitolo. Nel corso degli studi è poi emerso un interessante risvolto della ricerca che, capovolgendone l’oggetto stesso, ne ha approfondito gli aspetti cercando di scavare più …