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Changes in the landscape pattern of the north bank of Xiyuan based on drawing archives (1669–1980)
No full textThe gardens of Beijing's Xiyuan have received widespread attention since the 1930s during the period of the Society for the Study of Chinese Architecture. Based on five drawings from 1669, 1750, 1759, 1874 and 1936, combined with the latest laser scanning point cloud model, this paper compiles and compares the landscape relationship, architectural layout and dimensions of individual buildings of the group over time. While sorting out the changes of the north bank of the Xiyuan, analysed the different garden design concept and pointed out that the precious value about the Xiyuan case is that each new construction and reconstruction is based on a large scale urban pattern and a small scale architectural modulus relationship, with a very clear design concept. At the same time, through the comparison of drawing methods and expressions of different periods, and discuss the functions and meanings of drawings for the recording and presentation of landscape architecture in different technical contexts. At the level of Architecture Survey, promote the elaborate documentation of this important group of historical gardens and at the methodological level, by combining pictorial and historical documentary analysis increase the inter-evidence relationship between the three types of research materials: physical, textual and pictorial
Importance of medieval urban tissue in the contemporary realities of a rural commune in the Polish Subcarpathia. Cases of Dębowiec, Jaśliska and Osiek Jasielski
No full textThis study explores historical heritage in the contemporary development processes of small settlement units. The analyses are conducted in the context of contemporary threats, such as unfavorable demographic, spatial, and economic changes. The main aim of this work is to determine the potential of historical spatial structures in regaining previously lost identity. Another objective is to develop the design and programmatic guidelines to carry out an effective spatial policy. The research procedure consists of several stages. The first stage of the study outlines the evolution of three selected examples of historical urban structures in terms of spatial and functional features. The second stage consists of conducting urban and morphological analyses of the investigated spaces and comparing them in terms of social, economic and spatial aspects. Finally, the conclusions are formulated in the third stage. The key finding is that urban tissue, as an element of local identity, can become an essential part of the development strategy of a given town and region. Furthermore, the findings indicate a close correlation with the directions of regional development based on the assumption of creating a polycentric network of territorial units as generators of social and economic development
The evaluation of heat-mitigation strategies on outdoor heat stress in the waterfront public spaces
No full textDue to climate change, urban thermal discomfort has become a common concern for urban planners. Urban water bodies play an important role in the quality of urban public spaces, significantly influencing the urban microclimatic condition. However, poorly planned waterfront spaces worsen heat stress and block fresh airflow into urban areas. Given that the water bodies are a public asset for improving urban microclimate, the design process for waterfront areas should incorporate consideration of the urban thermal condition. Thus, the purpose of this study was to suggest heat-mitigation strategies for waterfront areas by evaluating the cooling effects of some design concepts. We focused on the following two heat mitigation strategies: 1) planning wind corridors and 2) creating diverse building height profiles. In this research, we compared the heat stress of outdoor spaces before and after applying each strategy on a hot summer day. Using ENVI-met, we modeled and simulated several models to measure air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, mean radiant temperature and physiological equivalent temperature (PET). From the results, we identified that the two design strategies had different effects on the heat environment. The 50-meter-wide wind corridor in the center of residential blocks had noticeable cooling effects on the thermal condition by improving outdoor ventilation. On the other hand, the outdoor thermal discomfort in residential blocks with varying building heights was worsened compared to homogeneous building heights. Therefore, our implications support urban planning for mitigating overheated urban areas
Riabitare Alicia. Through different shapes and scales of urban regeneration in Salemi
No full textThe main objective of this work is to understand the role that punctual project actions can play within broader territorial systems, crossing the municipal dimension to extend to the micro-regional one, observing the weight that this kind of realities can assume within the debate on the inner areas in recent years: the moment of crisis is reinterpreted as an opportunity for reflection and transformation, the ruins become the ideal material for fielding design experiments within a dimension that is not only formal but processual and regulatory, producing a very dense layering of spatial outcomes and visions for the future, in which reading and design intertwine to construct new imaginaries. In doing so, the city of Salemi – and more extensively the Belice territory – is taken as an open-air urban experimental bench, exploring possible trajectories of regeneration through spatial interpretation and meta-projects at the urban and architectural scales
Polarized Historical Preservation Trajectories: Comparative Studies of Tongli Town and Yaowan Town
No full textDue to the divergences of social-economic and cultural environments in the different regions, the existing conditions of historical towns in China emerge into two radical morphological forms, Static Town and Kinetic Town. In 2008, to avoid extreme dichotomic development situations and keep the authenticities of historical towns, the Chinese Historical Town Preservation Bureau formulated a standardized regulation, ‘Regulation on the Protection of Famous Historical and Cultural Cities, Towns and Villages’ (abbreviated 2008 Regulation – 历史文化名城名镇保护条例2008). However, this 2008 Regulation resulted in two trajectories of redeveloping historical towns: government-driven and market-driven preservation approaches, accelerating the disparity of these two morphological forms. This paper reveals the morphologies differentiations of these two outcomes through the lens of demographic migration, economic structure, natural resource and social-spatial structure by comparing two renowned historical town redevelopment projects: the role model, Tongli Historical Town, as a Static Form, located in the wealthy South of Jiangsu Province and the controversial case, Yaowan Historical Town, as a Kinetic Form, located in less developed Northern Jiangsu Province. Eventually, this article explores the reasons behind the inevitability of the polarized historical trajectories' emergence and provides a comprehensive reinterpretation of the extremes triggered by the 2008 Regulation
VideoAI – System for Synchronization of Electronic Program Guides
No full textElectronic Program Guides (EPG) do not contain commercials
and are prepared before the real-time broadcast; therefore are not precise
and sometimes shifted compared to real-time TV streams due to unexpected
events such as football overtime. These inaccuracies in EPG may harm features
often offered by TV stream providers, such as planned recordings. Here
we present a system for mitigating this problem called VideoAI. First, the
broadcast is analyzed, and commercials are detected by the first module using
YOLO neural network. Next, the EPG is synchronized with real broadcast
by minimizing the partition dissimilarity score. We evaluate VideoAI on
different scenarios and show that it can adjust EPG to the real broadcast
Zarządzanie wizerunkiem szkół średnich
No full textProjekt okładki : Magdalena Grębosz-Krawczyk"Placówki edukacyjne, w tym szkoły średnie odgrywają zasadniczą rolę w rozwoju
społeczeństwa, gospodarki i kraju. Jednak na przestrzeni lat postrzeganie pozycji
i znaczenia tych placówek ulegało przeobrażeniom. Od początku lat 90. ubiegłego
stulecia obserwujemy zmiany, które spowodowały nasilenie konkurencji między
szkołami średnimi. Na rynku pojawia się wiele rozmaitych ofert edukacyjnych,
a ich ocenę i wybór utrudnia niematerialny charakter usługi edukacyjnej. W konsekwencji
wizerunek szkoły może być jej wyróżnikiem i jednocześnie instrumentem konkurowania. Podstawą zarządzania wizerunkiem szkoły jest regularne komunikowanie się między jej otoczeniem wewnętrznym i zewnętrznym, tak aby pozyskać ich przychylność (to znaczy spełnić bądź przewyższyć oczekiwania) i w konsekwencji uzyskać zadowalającą pozycję rynkową. [...]""Educational institutions, including secondary schools, play a fundamental role in development
society, economy and country. However, over the years the perception of position
and the importance of these institutions was changing. Since the beginning of the 1990s
century, we have been observing changes that have resulted in intensified competition between secondary schools. There are many different educational offers on the market,
and their evaluation and selection is hindered by the intangible nature of the educational service. Consequently the school's image can be its distinguishing feature and, at the same time, an instrument of competition. The basis for managing a school's image is regular communication between its internal and external environment in order to gain their favor (that is, meet or exceed expectations) and, consequently, achieve a satisfactory market position. [...]
Research on renovation strategy of existing residential areas in Shanghai from the perspective of residential satisfaction
No full textThe goal of this research is to look into the link between residential satisfaction and renovation strategy. This study involved 12 renovation measures, with 22 specific evaluation indicators, based on which generated a residential satisfaction questionnaire of existing residential areas in Shanghai. In this study, 215 questionnaires were gathered, with 184 of them being
valid. Statistical tools, such as SPSS24.0, are used to determine the relationship between various renovation strategies and residential satisfaction. The results of the research reveal that the environmental renovation strategies have a low correlation with the overall living satisfaction of residents. However, renovation strategies in terms of housing renovation and supporting facilities renovation show a high correlation with the residence satisfaction
Challenges of Crop Classification from Satellite Imagery with Eurocrops Dataset
No full textCrops monitoring and classification on a nationwide level provide
important information for sustainable agricultural management, food
security, and policy-making. Recent technological advancements, followed
by Earth observation programmes like Copernicus, have provided plenty of
publicly available multispectral data. Combining these data with field annotations
allows for continuous crop monitoring from publicly available data.
In this paper, we present a solution for crop classification to determine crop
type from Sentinel-2 multispectral data, utilizing machine learning techniques.
Apart from presenting initial results, we discuss the challenges of
crop classification on a Eurocrops dataset and further research directions
Morphological design strategies for the renewal of Jiangnan vernacular buildings under the concept of sharing
No full textThe rapid development of cities has caused a huge siphoning effect on the rural population, resulting in the emergence of ‘hollow villages’ and ‘thousand villages one side’, among other rural problems. In 2017, the 19th National Congress proposed the ‘Rural Revitalization Strategy’ which pushed the study of regeneration and revitalization of vernacular architecture to a new stage, resulting in more and more architects began to enter rural practice. Faced with the current situation of resource constraint, ‘sharing’ provides a new solution for how to revitalize the stock of land, unify urban and rural development and rural revitalization.
Through the typological analysis of the transformation process, methods and spatial forms of 7 Jiangnan vernacular cases, such as Stray Birds Art Hotel·Songyang Chenjiapu, Hotel of Septuor, and Culture Neighborhood·Songyang Three-Temple Cultural Communication Centre, etc. five morphological design strategies for the renewal of sharing spaces in vernacular buildings are summarized: space insertion and wrap, space juxtaposition, linear extension, space penetration and visual penetration. Under the premise of respecting the original texture and local culture of the countryside, through the reintegration of old and new spaces, the sharing of functions and spaces can be achieved which can be used as a sharing place and a sharing platform to increase the interaction between users, residents and villagers, thus activating the vitality of the whole region and the countryside and realizing the regeneration and revitalization of the countryside