According to the container recycling institute,nearly a million plastic beverage bottles are sold every minute around the world.Plastic bottles are considered as an urban junk,however,it has shape characteristics whic...According to the container recycling institute,nearly a million plastic beverage bottles are sold every minute around the world.Plastic bottles are considered as an urban junk,however,it has shape characteristics which make them usable in construction in lieu of conventional bricks.This research promotes the use of recycled plastic bottles as eco-bricks by substituting it with the typical construction bricks.It evaluates the thermal performance of sand filled plastic bottle-walls in a comparative analysis with traditional composite brick walls.The thermal performance of the plastic bottle walls was evaluated through COMSOL®Multi-physics and the results are noted.展开更多
Space syntax involves a set of techniques for analyzing the spatial configurations of various spaces at building and urban scales.Religious spaces,such as prayer halls,are exam ples of buildings where observers experi...Space syntax involves a set of techniques for analyzing the spatial configurations of various spaces at building and urban scales.Religious spaces,such as prayer halls,are exam ples of buildings where observers experience space mostly from a single point of view.Furthermore,traditional space syntax is mainly used in the analysis of visibility and space cognition in terms of isovists and graph-based measures.The other aspects of space cognition,such as day lighting,artificial lighting,and glare,are carried in the isolation of the space syntax analysis.This paper proposes the scaling of the space syntax field for the inclusion of other parameters,such as daylighting,and integration of the associated performative measures to space syntax analysis of the mosque typology to aid in the studying of overall space cognition based on com fort and environmental parameters.We present a case study on a typical mosque layout using m ulti-objective optim ization.The analysis presented in the paper has im plications for the architectural designs of spaces with respect to glare m anagem ent and daylight potential.Moreover,it is unique and builds on our previous work for the exploration of comfort,visibility,and proximity thresholds for stationary observers.展开更多
文摘According to the container recycling institute,nearly a million plastic beverage bottles are sold every minute around the world.Plastic bottles are considered as an urban junk,however,it has shape characteristics which make them usable in construction in lieu of conventional bricks.This research promotes the use of recycled plastic bottles as eco-bricks by substituting it with the typical construction bricks.It evaluates the thermal performance of sand filled plastic bottle-walls in a comparative analysis with traditional composite brick walls.The thermal performance of the plastic bottle walls was evaluated through COMSOL®Multi-physics and the results are noted.
文摘Space syntax involves a set of techniques for analyzing the spatial configurations of various spaces at building and urban scales.Religious spaces,such as prayer halls,are exam ples of buildings where observers experience space mostly from a single point of view.Furthermore,traditional space syntax is mainly used in the analysis of visibility and space cognition in terms of isovists and graph-based measures.The other aspects of space cognition,such as day lighting,artificial lighting,and glare,are carried in the isolation of the space syntax analysis.This paper proposes the scaling of the space syntax field for the inclusion of other parameters,such as daylighting,and integration of the associated performative measures to space syntax analysis of the mosque typology to aid in the studying of overall space cognition based on com fort and environmental parameters.We present a case study on a typical mosque layout using m ulti-objective optim ization.The analysis presented in the paper has im plications for the architectural designs of spaces with respect to glare m anagem ent and daylight potential.Moreover,it is unique and builds on our previous work for the exploration of comfort,visibility,and proximity thresholds for stationary observers.
