Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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The principie of this research answers to the interest to procure a value for silence. This argument was added to the expectation generated by the "Documento básico de Protección Frente al Ruido (DB-HR) del Código Técnico ...
The Dissertation's main aim is to establish a procedure for the optimization of space grid as a framed tube (spatial mesh) structural typology envelope for tall buildings given the increasing interest in this recent ...
Being a fundamental element of the commercial process, the importance of a proper visual presentation of shop windows is critical. The present research analyzes this everyday urban element in the city of Barcelona, and ...
The main objective has been built a methodology of analysis and evaluation system at neighborhood scale on the incorporation of everyday experience in urban analysis support it with a theoretical and critical base, begun ...
The theoretical, technical, and multidisciplinary specificity of the Architectural Restoration education often entails the knowledge fragmentation and makes the student lose the necessary global and complex view of the ...
This study aims to analyze whether the increased use of wood for housing construction can mitigate carbon dioxide emissions and reduce embodied energy in the civil construction sector in Brazil. The emphasis is on environmental ...
A través de esta tesis se investiga las soluciones utilizadas por el arquitecto Joao Filgueiras Lima - Lelé en los hospitales de la Red Sarah, situados en ciudades brasileñas. Sus proyectos cumplen con las exigencias ...
The research presented here focuses on the situation of the unprecedented nineteenth-century work on the llotja or market house of Palma de Mallorca (1866-1905). Carried out while the restoration of the monument was in ...
Domestic architecture is the nerve centre within which human development takes place. Based on that premise, the evolution of spatial perception and the concept of intimacy in human dwellings throughout history are ...
Post-tensioning precast elements is a very usual practice in civil engineering. However, it is a much more unusual practice in building construction. Here is presented a new construction system to build precast two-way ...
The overall aim of the thesis is to encourage the presence of sunlight into indoor spaces. The specific objective is to show that, from the lighting point of view, a good design can harness the solar reflection on the ...
This thesis approach the improvement of the sound insulation action in façade buildings with the barrier protection against to exterior airborne noise focuses specifically in the research of the acoustic performance of the ...
Traditionally, the dynamic analysis of Multi degree Systems are based on the study of modal Shapes or energy balances given an established oscillation figure. The expert user of those methods could determine how resonance ...
This paper considers the current status of our planet as well as the particular conditions of the economic crisis in Spain in order to propose an analysis of the efficiency involved in reconditioning the skin of the existing ...
The notion of destruction and conservation of urban heritage has passed through different generations and, until today, is present in the history of various cities around the world. The issue undertaken in this dissertation ...
The aim of the thesis is to study !he environmental behavior of the gallery as a space in between the indoor of the building and outside and as a climate system. Specifically focuses on the galleries of the courtyards of ...
En la historia de la arquitectura, la luz natural ha sido condicionante y se ha basado en el juego de iluminación y sombra, materializando volúmenes y desmaterializando espacios. La forma arquitectónica y la definición del ...
The following research work has directed its efforts towards the study of the cognitive process in projecting architecture and urbanism. There is a naed to reorient this projection to a current pedagogical framework in ...
This work is an approach to the dynamic perception of architecture. lt seeks to provide parameters to help finding a way to analyze and graphically represent the architectural features that give a special and spatial quality ...
The object of this doctoral thesis is to explore the effects of the passage of time on the façades of buildings, focusing on the architect's sphere of influence and point of view. The initial hypothesis is that project ...
