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Consensus inside

Rachid Guerraoui, Maysam Yabandeh, Tudor Alexandru David

Scaling to a large number of cores with non-uniform communication latency and unpredictable response time may call for viewing a modern many-core architecture as a distributed system. In this view, the cores replicate shared data and ensure consistency amo ...

ACM Press2014

Wire Mesh Design

Mark Pauly, Bailin Deng, Akash Garg

We present a computational approach for designing wire meshes, i.e., freeform surfaces composed of woven wires arranged in a regular grid. To facilitate shape exploration, we map material properties of wire meshes to the geometric model of Chebyshev nets. ...

Association for Computing Machinery2014

Architectural contribution given the risks due to the popularity of the Mont-Blanc

Estelle Lépine

The objective of this contribution is to demonstrate the capacity of architecture to be a major factor of development on the specific site of the Aiguille du Goûter refuge, against the risks, both, environmental and human, caused by the severe overcrowding ...

2014

Celebrating Contrast and Daylight Variability in Contemporary Architectural Design: A Typological Approach

Marilyne Andersen, Siobhan Francois Rockcastle

The perceptual performance of architecture can be greatly altered by the ephemeral quality of daylight. Unlike artificial light sources, which can be adjusted to meet performance criteria regardless of geographic location and time of day, daylight is a var ...

2013

Human Response in Daylit Spaces

Marilyne Andersen, Mandana Sarey Khanie, María Lovísa Ámundadóttir, Siobhan Francois Rockcastle

While energy-efficiency or environmental measures have benefited from numerous and powerful research efforts, further research is needed to better understand the complex interactions between the many parameters influencing human comfort. Studies concerning ...

2013

Detailing the small city. Building in the built world

Inès Lamunière

Ines Lamuniere will exemplify the attitude of dl-a, / Devanthery & Lamuniere, in architecture by two of their most recent projects for city centers in Switzerland. The Opera House in Lausanne, the national TV Tower in Geneva and other projects still in des ...

2013

Reconstruction de l'église et des cloîtres de San Francesco à Mirandola (I).

Luca Bertolini

Le projet s'inscrit dans la continuité d'un thème propre à l'architecture, celui du rapport entre l'ancien et le nouveau. Le tremblement de terre qui a touché, il y a un an, plusieurs villes de l'Emilia Romagna, dont Mirandola, impose une confrontation à l ...

2013

Historicist aesthetics of architectural image: Mimesis and memorial in public space

Sila Karatas

Turkey has been facing an aesthetic revivalism of Ottoman and Anatolian Seljuk architecture within public space, a phenomenon which is having been observed not only in the construction of new public buildings but also the renovation of historical housing d ...

2013

Architecture. A main factor of development and protection of the mountain environment

Estelle Lépine

The objective of this contribution is to show architecture as a major factor of development of the mountain environment against both environmental and human risks caused by the severe overcrowding of the routes leading to the main Alpine summits. The choic ...

Salzburger Nationalparkfonds2013

Density Introduction: Revisiting the Compact City

Harry Gugger, Gwendolin Kerschbaumer

30 specialists from around the world challenge the question of (higher) costs related to sustainability of the built environment The Economy of Sustainable Construction is a publication inspired by the 4th International Holcim Forum and examines how sustai ...

Ruby Press2013