Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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La fachada ventilada es aquel cerramiento caracterizado por resolver la estanquidad al agua por medio de una cámara drenante continua en todo su plano. Para la definición de dicha cámara se precisan dos hojas que la limiten: ...
Arquitectura y estructura han ido siempre íntimamente ligadas, pero con la aparición del acero y el hormigón surgieron nuevas necesidades formales o estéticas. El Estilo Internacional se inclinó por separar la retícula ...
En 1879 nace Eugène Freyssinet, padre reconocido del hormigón pretensado. Cuarenta años antes de su nacimiento, ingenieros americanos ya habían empezado a pretensar perfiles de hierro fundido, para evitar que cuando éstos ...
These thesis will argue about the importance of Dynamic Parametric Architecture versus Static Parametric Architecture. Describing the architectonical and the algorithmic context within which the Emergency Deployable System ...
Concrete-filled tubes have been increasingly used these recent decades thanks to their improved structural behavior, especially under compression.Concrete filling in these sections improves ¡ts compressive strength thanks ...
A pesar de la amplia bibliografía sobre arquitectos del Movimiento Moderno y sobre los debates de las Vanguardias, aún permanecen obras sin estudiar de arquitectos y artistas, cuyos compromisos contribuyeron en el Nacimiento ...
This research aims to study the trade architectural support to finally get to generate proposals directly on architectural support. There has been an architectural walking tour to introduce the issue of the study. The ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Currently, the intervention in urban excavations with greater dimension and depth is increasing in importance exponentially. The great sensitivity of the overlying buildings to the displacements and tensions produced in ...
The main objective of this Thesis is to determinate the behaviour of the prestress effect of a fabric structure. On the understanding that the prestress of a fabric structure is a fundamental part of its stability and ...
As has been shown since the beginning of the intervention, either restoration or rehabilitation of the modern movement in buildings with Architectural values with enough importance, raised all kinds of difficulties, often ...
After 150 years from the beginning of the construction of the Eixample of Barcelona. it has become an emblem of the city. In addition to the many urban planning virtues, l'Eixample has a value that is given by the formal ...
During years the hitoric British treatises about construclion have been considered almost exclusively from the point of view of the use of orders and the architectural planning of major houses, palaces and occassionally ...
The building sector is moving towards new approaches to energy efficient design, which includes not only the improvement of the thermal performance of the building envelope but also the reduction of the embodied energy. ...
The research is conducted for single-family social housing in the city of Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico, taking into account different general or simplified procedures applied at the energy certification of new housing, ...
Room module buildings have been the subject of extensive literature, but few buildings have actually been built. However, the numbers are now high enough to carry out an on-site analysis, in orde rto confirm or refute the ...
The post-war industrialized housing between 1955 and 1985 in Belgrade has been analyzed with its special focus on the transformation capacity on spatial, technical and environmental leveL for future refurbishment. The focal ...
