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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"stone masonry"”.
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Between nature and culture: a stone masonry school and walking path at the Strand Street Quarry
The dissertation design seeks to make present and enhance the inherent qualities of the Stand Street Quarry in order to reintroduce its heritage narratives into the public realm. The proposed intervention aspires to, if anything, subtlety. It seeks to make the value of the histories of the site …
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Structural masonry
… in Malta are constructeed of local natural stone masonry. The reason for this is basically two; 1) Natural Stone building units are still readily available and (2) a load bearing form of construction is relatively economic.
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Equivalent Viscous Damping and Inelastic Displacement for Strengthened and Reinforced Masonry Walls
The masonry still one of the widespread construction system for low-rise residential buildings even for countries prone to seismic risk. Despite seismic design methods yet in use are force-based, in the last decades was highlighted as the differences in strength between two levels of damage is low, …
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The Stone Lab: Decoding Shikahogh Khachkars
"The Stone lab: Decoding Shikahogh Khachkars" is an MPhil by design, seeking to describe the role of Khachkar in formation of Armenian national identity through studies of the stone masonry and the notion of a territory, which in this case is represented with the Shikahogh village (Figs. 1 and 2). …
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Sei'ichi Shirai and subjective method of synthesis
… Shintoism and Buddhism, Jo-mon and Yayoi, and stone masonry and wood carpentry. The attitude was quite different from that of so-called modern architects, since Shirai did not deal with systematic spatial integration. Shirai's architecture emerged like an inevitable creation that was destined …
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Structural engineering for northern Pakistan : indigenous architecture and earthquake resistance
… concern, and the behavior of single story, masonry buildings under seismic loads was investigated. Houses constructed from reinforced stone masonry with a timber roofing system were selected as the most appropriate technology for the region. Processes to quantify the necessary wall …
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Dynamic Analysis and Seismic Retrofit of the Point Sur Lighthouse
<p>The Point Sur Lighthouse is an unreinforced stone masonry building completed in 1889 on the central coast of California. The lighthouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is still an active aid to navigation. The original first-order Fresnel lens was removed from the …
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Planning and Construction History of the Eight Columns, Anti-Mongol Stone Fortress in the Sichuan Theater at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty
… excavations advanced, well-preserved stone structures, including walls, stylobates, and ponds, gradually emerged from the ground. Based on historical documents, historical images, and on-site field surveys, by introducing the perspective of military history and combining in-depth …
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Příprava a realizace stavebně technického průzkumu budovy bývalé radnice v Litomyšli
Bakalářská práce se věnuje přípravě a realizaci stavebně technického průzkumu bývalé budovy radnice v Litomyšli. Teoretická část se zaměřuje na vlastnosti zdiva, vlastnosti dřeva a metody potřebné pro jejich stanovení. Praktická část se věnuje návrhu, provedení a vyhodnocení stavebně technického …
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Advocating Silence
The buildings people inhabit everyday frame their existence and provide a backdrop for life. This relationship is inextricable and, as such, begs the question as to whether buildings can function as more than mere containers for life or whether they, at some point or in some capacity, can begin to …