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This study investigates the innovative use of street puppet theatre performances on the façades of commercial buildings to stimulate social gatherings in smart cities. This research investigates the impact of a unique musical puppet show held throughout the 2024 holiday season in the well-known shopping mall El Corte Inglés in Madrid, Spain. This study utilises both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, such as space syntax analysis and empirical observations. It uses the UCL Depthmap 10 software program to assess urban morphology and identify integrated and segregated areas. Observations and video recordings were conducted to analyse social gatherings and behaviours during the performances. The findings reveal that these performances attract diverse audiences and foster social engagement, transforming commercial façades into vibrant public spaces. The study concludes that such innovative uses of urban architecture can significantly enhance the sociability of detached and segregated urban spaces. The research demonstrates that this particular dynamic façade not only fosters social sustainability by creating lively urban spaces but also contributes to economic sustainability by attracting potential customers to commercial centres. This research advances the discourse on smart city development and public space utilisation, offering valuable insights for urban planners and policymakers on leveraging interactive urban façades to enhance public engagement and revitalise underutilised spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The reflection on sacred places continues to assume significant relevance today in urban space production. The public value of sacred buildings has consolidated over time an aggregating sense of community, representing spaces for meeting and sharing. Their historical relevance as spaces for meditation represents for mankind places of personal reflection, while they have always played an important role in the city and in its symbolic and spatial structure. Thus, starting from the hypothesis that the sacred space is affirmed as an interface, because it welcomes the individual and serves the community, we examine the architectural features that enhance this ambivalence, exposing transition systems between private and collective spaces, seeking to systematize essential composition matrices for new urban spaces for public use. Assuming Lisbon as a framework, this article proposes a comparative reading between two paradigmatic buildings—Sagrado Coração de Jesus Church and the New Mosque of Lisbon—with similar goals according to the relationship between architecture, place sacrality, and the urban public space. Methodologically, drawing is used as an interpretative tool and, through formal decomposition, this article tries to demonstrate that these buildings are the result of a reflection deeply determined by the value of the place's identity in the city's public space system. According to these case studies, sacred buildings are conceived based on formal and spatial links that are rooted in Lisbon's urban layout. It is sacred buildings that are at the origin of urban places for public use. Each one of these buildings share an idea of architecture with an urban and public role which integrates the objects with the shape of the city and contradicts the tendency for the dissociation between urban elements. In a way, they can be considered paradigmatic examples of architecture with an urban vocation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

e article makes use of any archive documents to describe the architectural-urbanistic evolution of the city of Bălți in the period of time: the 19th century - the beginning of the 20th century. The first systematization project of the city of Bălţi was developed by the cadastral engineer K.A. Pomorţev in 1839 and approved by Tsar Nicholas I on February 9, 1845. After a devastating fire, in 1888, the systematization plan of the city of Bălţi was drawn up again. In 1894, the importance of Bălţi grew with the appearance of the railway station in the suburb of Slobozia, belonging to the Rezina-Ocniţa railway. As a result of the activities of the new authorities, the physiognomy of the Bessarabian cities is changing radically. The new “exemplary cities” are intended to demonstrate to the entire Balkan world the superiority of the way of life in the composition of the Russian Empire. There is, on the one hand, an undeniable urban development, and, on the other hand, a break with the historical past and the previous urban culture.

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The bottom-up simulation method of building energy consumption, which mainly focuses on individual buildings, is difficult to apply to urban and regional level building energy consumption planning. Therefore, based on data-driven research, a simulation evaluation model for extreme gradient boosting at the mesoscale and K-means energy consumption at the macro scale is proposed and validated. The experimental results show that in the mesoscale model simulation prediction, in terms of training time comparison, the support vector method and sequential model have a time of 138.69 seconds and 90.00 seconds, respectively, which is much higher than other algorithms. The random forest algorithm has the highest accuracy comparison, at 83%; In the comparison of accuracy recall rate, the gradient improvement decision tree algorithm has the highest accuracy, at 83%. The extreme gradient boosting model proposed based on it has a mean square error value of 11.45 in residential sample prediction under refrigeration load and 9.16 under heating load, both of which are better than the comparative model. Applying it to practice, it is found that the correlation between building heating and cooling load and the 8 variables of the building is clearly demonstrated. In the macro scale model simulation prediction, the overall effect of K-means model I is the best under the comparison of contour coefficients, with the highest value maintained at around 0.1 when the number of clusters is 10. By applying it in practice, the spatial distribution of load can be clearly demonstrated, and the predicted value of total energy supply in the constructed regression equation is highly consistent with the actual value. Overall, the simulation and evaluation model for urban building energy consumption proposed in the study at two scales is practical and can effectively accelerate the development and improvement of urban energy systems. In addition, the research method considers the relevant operational energy consumption throughout the entire life cycle and the dynamic energy consumption of urban transportation systems, and provides reference value for existing urban renovation, thus possessing innovation.

The reflection on sacred places continues to assume significant relevance today in urban space production. The public value of sacred buildings has consolidated over time an aggregating sense of community, representing spaces for meeting and sharing. Their historical relevance as spaces for meditation represents for mankind places of personal reflection, while they have always played an important role in the city and in its symbolic and spatial structure. Thus, starting from the hypothesis that the sacred space is affirmed as an interface, because it welcomes the individual and serves the community, we examine the architectural features that enhance this ambivalence, exposing transition systems between private and collective spaces, seeking to systematize essential composition matrices for new urban spaces for public use. Assuming Lisbon as a framework, this article proposes a comparative reading between two paradigmatic buildings—Sagrado Coração de Jesus Church and the New Mosque of Lisbon—with similar goals according to the relationship between architecture, place sacrality, and the urban public space. Methodologically, drawing is used as an interpretative tool and, through formal decomposition, this article tries to demonstrate that these buildings are the result of a reflection deeply determined by the value of the place’s identity in the city’s public space system. According to these case studies, sacred buildings are conceived based on formal and spatial links that are rooted in Lisbon’s urban layout. It is sacred buildings that are at the origin of urban places for public use. Each one of these buildings share an idea of architecture with an urban and public role which integrates the objects with the shape of the city and contradicts the tendency for the dissociation between urban elements. In a way, they can be considered paradigmatic examples of architecture with an urban vocation.

Drawings represent ideas and concepts, not just an architectural project. The concept of the ‘Architecture of the Crowd’ establishes principles of an architecture in which people are protagonists. This architecture, in turn, relates in a harmonious way to the city, inviting people to enter, circulate, and interact with the space and other people, in a natural way. Fábio Moura Penteado’s architectural drawings representing these ideas and concepts were the focus of this study. The projects selected for analysis, dating back to the 1960s, are as follows: Araras Forum (1960), Campinas Coffee Museum (1960), Piracicaba Municipal Theater (1961), Campinas Opera Theater (1966), Campinas Cultural Coexistence Center (1967). Through the analysis of handmade perspective drawings, we can identify the presentation of ideas contained in their theoretical and conceptual discourse. The elements that define and compose the drawings are significant for the representation of their ideas: points of view from which the drawing was constructed; number of people, interacting, immobile or moving, and their location; automobiles and machinery; vegetation and landscape; representation of the accesses to the building with some welcoming element such as a marquee; indication of paths and routes. A point of view that has the ambition of a good, urban, modern society, from the perspective of ordinary people roaming the city and promoting meetings and events in a democratic, safe, and healthy environment.

This study relates the social, economic, and environmental aspects of sustainable development with urban architecture. The data were obtained by observation and using questionnaires, while the analysis approach uses Multidimensional Scaling method, combined with System Dynamic approach, in order to develop scenarios, policies and sustainability strategies. The results of the analysis highlight eight main levers for the sustainability of the sociospatial transformation of urban architecture, namely: waste pollution, residential densification, income, hope for a new job that can be a permanent livelihood, social class, rooted culture, architectural type and style, and land use intensity. An optimistic scenario through interventions on eight leverage factors could raise the sustainability status from an the initial value of 46.81 (less sustainable) to 76.24 (sustainable). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Great Bulgar Khaganate became a state in the north of the Black Sea in the first half of the 8th century. Its collapse during the second half of the same century, caused the heirs of the Khaganate to migrate to all directions. One such migration began with the aim of finding a new homeland. Therefore, they looked westbound towards the Balkans, under the leadership of Asparuh Kagan. The Bulgars had already been organized along the southern border of the Lower Danube. They had ruled over that geography for two centuries and were the architects behind Bulgaria's transformation - which had included the tribe union, to the name of the country. Pliska bears distinct traces of the nomadic Turkish culture in the Balkans and was first established as a Bulglar military in the 680s. It eventually became a capital city later on. Archaeologists had pinpointed the probable location of Pliska during excavation work in the 19th century, near the village of Aboba (eastern Bulgaria). Over time, further archaeological digs have revealed that Pliska had architecture, administrative and military buildings, and economic vitality (as a producer of commercial goods, crafts, agricultural tools, and equipment). Bringing Saltovo-Mayaki cultural elements - including ancient beliefs - to the region they migrated to, the Bulgars succeeded in creating an urban culture that included the settled peoples of the Balkans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines an account of Henri IV's entry ceremony into Limoges in 1605 that was written by Simon Descoustures, a local official and avocat du roi. I argue that this account opens up theoretical terrain on which to rethink narratives of royal power in early modern France. Henri IV's royal entries have previously been understood as part of a broader effort to shore up his authority in the wake of the religious wars. In Descoustures's text, however, while the people of Limoges welcome Henri IV into their city, they do so on their own terms, extending the spatial and temporal framework through which their encounter with the king takes place. By attending to the materiality of Limoges's ancient origins and its enduring civic pride, I demonstrate how the city incorporates Henri IV into its civic body, rather than allowing itself fully to be subsumed into the king's body politic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Van İli, taşıdığı stratejik konumdan dolayı doğu ile batı ticaret ve kervan yolları üzerinde yer almaktadır. Son derece önemli bir coğrafi konuma sahip olan Van İli ve çevresine hakim olan her uygarlık başta dini eserler olmak üzere, sivil ve askeri mimari yapılar inşa etmiştir. Birer tarihi belge niteliğinde olan mimari yapılar, inşa edildikleri dönemin ekonomik, siyasi, kültürel ve mimari seviyesi hakkında önemli ipuçları vermektedir. Van İli ve çevresi Osmanlı hâkimiyetine XVI. yüzyılın ortalarında girmiştir. XVI. ve XIX. yüzyıl içerisinde inşa edilen Osmanlı Devleti’ndeki siyasi, ekonomik ve kültürel gelişmelerin bir yansıması olarak, özellikle Van Kalesi ve Eski Van Şehri’nde gelişerek devam etmiştir. Bölge mimarisinin gelişmesinde yerel kaynaklar ve iklim koşulları dışında doğu sınır komşusu İran Büyük Selçuklu mimarisinin izlerini görmek mümkündür. Eski Van Şehri’nin doğu, batı ve güneyi çift sıra surlarla kuzeyi ise tarihi Van Kalesi’nin sarp kayalıkları ile çevrelenmiştir. Kale ve şehirde oluşan mimari yapılar form, fonksiyon ve yapım özellikleri bakımından farklı ve homojen olmayan bir şekilde inşa edilmiştir.

Mauritius relies heavily on fossil fuel imports to satisfy the energy requirements of its population. Urged by policies to address climate change at the national and international levels, the government is committed to promote sustainable development, with emphasis laid on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Consequently, we provide an assessment of rooftop PV potential at the national level. A sampling strategy is used to acquire reduction coefficients, which are thereafter applied to energy-based equations. The result suggests that the rooftop PV potential at the country-scale is estimated at 20.04 GW with an annual energy output of 32,512 GWh. A novel architectural layout for a Solar City to be located at an identified optimum site is proposed. A shading analysis is conducted to verify the appropriateness of the city's structural design to harness energy from the sun. An energy analysis performed, reveals that the Solar City has a solar power potential of 13.55 MW and an annual energy generation capacity equivalent to 21.99 GWh. Construction of the Solar City would help avert the emissions of 13,744 tons of CO2 annually. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Various competitiveness reports on tourism have ranked Japan as one of the most visited countries in Asia. Along with South Korea and Singapore, Japan offers many unique traits to the tourists. Since the establishment of “Kihinkai” (lit. Welcome Society), Japan’s first organization to engage with foreign tourists, the country has succeeded in developing various sector of tourism such as heritage sites, nature-based tourism, religious sites, and urban tourism. Tokyo Metropolis, as the capital of Japan, is one of the best examples in urban tourism sector. Hotel occupancy in Tokyo has risen around 80% in the last decade, showing high growth of tourism in the city. The aforementioned growth is supported by many factors, with one of them being the enhancement of tourist attractions. The paper examines Tokyo’s nine most famous tourist attractions specifically at their spatial aspects. The complexity of place, accessibility and the presence of surrounding amenities, as well as the ambience or atmosphere offered by the attractions are the components analyzed to form a set of characteristics that define the character of Tokyo’s tourist attractions. The compiled data can be a precedent study or preliminary guideline for other big cities in Japan or Asia to develop their potential of urban tourism.

At present, the Chinese construction industry has begun to apply artificial intelligence technology to the research of the construction industry, and it has attracted the attention of many researchers. At present, the main application method is in the construction of the internal system of the intelligent building, use the neural network system, the mold control system, the expert system, and the intelligent decision-making system to achieve the goal of the intelligent building service. This article will analyze the overall situation of artificial intelligence applications in intelligent construction at this stage, based on artificial intelligence technology, and study in detail the application of artificial intelligence systems in various aspects of intelligent construction. Re-excavate the connotation of the urban texture with the methods of quantification and data analysis. Take the texture data of multiple cities as an example, and use methods such as image dimensionality reduction, k-means clustering, convolutional neural network classification, and machine learning to build urban images. The identification and evaluation system finally concludes that in the existing evaluation system, the total economic score, the total soft economic score, the environmental score, and the sanitation score have the greatest correlation with the recognition results of urban texture. Among them is the environmental score. The correlation of health scores is in line with the common cognition of urban research scholars, and the calculation results of total economic scores and total soft economic scores indicate that urban architectural planning and its layout are hidden from the economic situation of the city, and also prove artificial intelligence based on image recognition is necessary to mine city information and evaluate it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Объектом исследования в контексте испанской архитектуры XVI начала XVII века являются два испанских города Баэса и Убеда, имеющих культурное и историческое сходство. В результате анализа их планов, архитектурных доминант автор обнаруживает отличительные черты архитектурного и градостроительного решения двух близлежащих городов. Особый интерес представляет многообразие художественных течений и традиций разных исторических эпох (поздней готики, мудехара, кастильско-фламандского исабелино, итальянского пуризма, элементов классической архитектуры раннего испанского Ренессанса и др.). Подобное сопоставительное исследование ранее не проводилось искусствоведами. Материалом для анализа послужили наиболее характерные по выразительности стилевых решений арка де Вильялар, ворота Хаена, площадь Популо, дворец Хабалькинто, капелла-усыпальница Сан Сальвадор, дворец Васкес де Молина и собор Санта Мария де лос Реалес Алькасарес, Каса де лас Торрес дворец маркизов Баско дель Пескаро, палаццо Канденас. Автором отмечен вклад таких зодчих, как Энрике де Эгас и Хуан Гуас, Андрес де Вандельвира, Хуан де Эррера и Диего де Силоэ, в формирование архитектурного языка Восточной Андалусии.

As an element of structural and material solutions, aluminium and glass façades are the mainstay of urban architecture; they are especially used in public utility buildings. The article provides a review of architectural styles and trends of the 20th century, when exterior elevations began to take the form of aluminium and glass façades. It illustrates the main architectural trends of urban architecture in the 20th century and their evolution throughout the years. Furthermore, it specifies and refers to the architecture of the 20th and 21st centuries in Kraków and presents selected public utility buildings which have become an integral part of architecture in this city.

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