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Modern building reuse : documentation, maintenance, recovery and renewal
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“Foreword”
by Vincenzo Riso / The definition of the Field
“Two or three things I know about conservation of modern architecture”
by Benedetto di Cristina / “Some considerations on the preservation of 20th century architectural heritage”
by Teresa Ferreira / “The Architectural Press photographs at the core of the modern architecture paradigms, UK 1950/1970”
by Paulo Catrica / “Intervening in modern architecture: a design theme and a research problema” [EN e PT]
by José Miguel Rodrigues / “Design as Research in Architecture” [EN e PT]
by Pedro Bandeira / “Inspection and condition assessment: Concepts, methods and tools” [EN e PT]
by Paulo J. S. Cruz / “Architecture of the 20th century in Seine-Saint-Denis: an emerging heritage” [EN e FR]
by Bruno Mengoli / “A conversation on the habitability of the domestic space.
The client, the architect, the inhabitant and the house” [EN e PT]
by Ana Luísa Rodrigues / “Improving the energy efficiency of existing building envelope”
By Peter Erlacher / Marianna Marchesi / “The Tugendhat House between craft tradition and technological innovation.
Preservation as sustainable building policy” [EN e PT]
by Ivo Hammer / “Cost-effective rehabilitation of the building envelope of a housing development. From diagnosis to completion of the Work” [EN e PT]
by Vasco Freitas, Pedro Gonçalves & Sara Stingl de Freitas / “Restoration of Alvar Aalto’s Library in Vyborg”
by Maija Kairamo / “Vedute, abstract from «Subtopia:
Photography Architecture and the New Towns programme»”
by Paulo CatricaThe volume gathers the transcriptions of a great part of the lectures given within the second edition of the Doctoral Programme in Architecture of EAUM of the academic year 2011-12. Under the motto Architecture: Sustainability, Conservation and Technology and considering all the didactic intentions, we thought about Modern Building Reuse: Documentation, Maintenance, Recovery and Renewal as a specific thematic line, which could embody the current changes in architectural education and professional practice, and their significant impact on the way architectural knowledge is today developed
Flame Front Propagation in an Optical GDI Engine under Stoichiometric and Lean Burn Conditions
No full textLean fueling of spark ignited (SI) engines is a valid method for increasing efficiency and reducing nitric oxide (NOx) emissions. Gasoline direct injection (GDI) allows better fuel economy with respect to the port-fuel injection configuration, through greater flexibility to load changes, reduced tendency to abnormal combustion, and reduction of pumping and heat losses. During homogenous charge operation with lean mixtures, flame development is prolonged and incomplete combustion can even occur, causing a decrease in stability and engine efficiency. On the other hand, charge stratification results in fuel impingement on the combustion chamber walls and high particle emissions. Therefore, lean operation requires a fundamentally new understanding of in-cylinder processes for developing the next generation of direct-injection (DI) SI engines. In this paper, combustion was investigated in an optically accessible DISI single cylinder research engine fueled with gasoline. Stoichiometric and lean operations were studied in detail through a combined thermodynamic and optical approach. The engine was operated at a fixed rotational speed (1000 rpm), with a wide open throttle, and at the start of the injection during the intake stroke. The excess air ratio was raised from 1 to values close to the flammability limit, and spark timing was adopted according to the maximum brake torque setting for each case. Cycle resolved digital imaging and spectroscopy were applied; the optical data were correlated to in-cylinder pressure traces and exhaust gas emission measurements. Flame front propagation speed, flame morphology parameters, and centroid motion were evaluated through image processing. Chemical kinetics were characterized based on spectroscopy data. Lean burn operation demonstrated increased flame distortion and center movement from the location of the spark plug compared to the stoichiometric case; engine stability decreased as the lean flammability limit was approached
Mulheres que habitavam Comala: personagens femininas em Pedro Páramo
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura, Florianópolis, 2011Este trabalho realiza uma análise das personagens femininas do romance Pedro Páramo, de Juan Rulfo, de 1955. Investiga como foi construída a representação das mulheres e como se constituem ficcionalmente as relações entre homem e mulher na sociedade do período da Revolução Mexicana. Para compreender como Rulfo constrói tais personagens, seleciono algumas delas, a partir de pesquisa bibliográfica documental e ficcional, e desenvolvo uma leitura sobre a construção desses papeis femininos. A construção estético e ficcional de perfis psicológicos do romance procura mostrar uma sociedade rural em decadência, onde o cotidiano e as relações são regidos pelo desencanto e pela (des)esperança de uma outra história.This dissertation analyzes the female characters in the romance novel "Pedro Paramo", written by Juan Rulfo in 1955. The novel investigates the construction of the representation of women and how they fictionally constitute the relations between men and women in the society of the Mexican Revolutionary era. To understand how Rulfo creates these personages, I select some of them, and through documentary and fictional bibliographic research, I develop a reading on the construction of these female roles. The aesthetic and fictional development of the psychological profiles of this romance novel attempts to show a decadent rural society where everyday life and relationships are governed by disenchantment and the hope(lessness) of a different story
Modelación y resultados de análisis sobre la aplicabilidad de plantas CSP para la generación de electricidad, en el Uruguay.
No full textTrabajo presentado en el marco del Proyecto ANII FSE_1_2015_1_110011 : “Evaluación del potencial de generación
termoeléctrica por concentración solar en el Uruguay” / Gonzalo Abal y Pedro Galion
Modelación y resultados de análisis sobre la aplicabilidad de plantas CSP para la generación de calor para procesos industriales en el Uruguay
No full textEste reporte fue realizado en el marco del Proyecto ANII FSE_1_2015_1_110011: “Evaluación del potencial de generación
termoeléctrica por concentración solar en
el Uruguay” / Gonzalo Abal y Pedro Galion
Writing with the Ghost: Specters of Narration in Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
No full textThis paper proposes an analysis of Anil’s Ghost (2000) by Michael Ondaatje in the attempt to overcome a marginalisation of Sri Lankan literary production, both in the canon of the contemporary South Asian novel, and postcolonial criticism. The novel is set in a Sri Lanka ravaged by the civil war between Sinhalese and Tamils that plagued the country for about a quarter of a century. The war represents a pivotal historical and political circumstance that has attracted the attention of many Sri Lankan
literary authors for the last 30 years. Such scrutiny sometimes put in the foreground the active influence that past events still exert in the present, an influence that is often invisible, hidden or neglected. This is also true for Ondaatje. The author chooses to focus on the investigations of a forensic anthropologist who has returned from the United States to her native Sri Lanka in order to recover the identity of a skeleton abandoned in a zone protected by the government. In her surveys to solve the mystery behind the identity of the nameless victim, and uncover the truth about the mass killings plaguing the region, not only does Anil’s quest represent a new generation’s attempt to give voice to the voiceless victims of wars and national conflicts but also provides her author with a narrative space made of voids, gaps and blind spots.
Attention to such narrative breaks provides space for truths that prove essential to making visible those unaccountable processes through which social authorities and symbolic formations interacted during those warring years. Following Jacques Derrida (2016) and Homi Bhabha (1990), the aim of my paper consists in showing that Ondaatje’s novel belongs to a wave of literary fiction concerned with (and even haunted by) the ‘ghosts’ produced by the violence of the recently ended war. In
Ondaatje’s literary effort the Civil War works as a moment of temporal negotiation, whose dreadful events are used to highlight the need to recover history in the clash between historical happenings, subjective experience and the distortions of memory
When Narration is Made Flesh: An Affective Reading of Geetanjali Shree's The Empty Space
No full textThis paper examines Geetanjali Shree’s The Empty Space (2011) as an exemplary novel exploring the performative power of language in order to re-create an episode of violence somewhere in the Indian sub-continent. Describing the explosion of a bomb in a university cafe, the narration makes events emerge as the product of a field of forces relying on the bodily perception and sensorial participation of the reader. The essay focuses on the ways through which Shree’s novel shuns hermeneutic or representational readings of violence in favour of a skin or ‘haptic’ writing whose performative power relocates a story of violence from its geographical location to the body of the reader. In acknowledging the human body as the shared ground of any possible communication, the author attempts to overcome the divisive binarisms and cultural juxtapositions brought about by the ocularcentric understandings of knowledge and culture
Correção dos erros de previsão de carga elétrica de curto prazo decorrentes de variações de temperatura na Ilha de Santa Catarina utilizando rede neural
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Computação, Florianópolis, 2013.Este trabalho apresenta primeiramente uma pesquisa que tem como foco a investigação da relação da carga elétrica com a temperatura ambiente para a Ilha de Santa Catarina, e a influência da temperatura na precisão da previsão de carga elétrica de curto prazo, em diferentes faixas de temperatura. A partir dos dados históricos de carga e temperatura, foi construída uma aproximação polinomial de terceiro grau da relação carga versus temperatura, onde a curva resultante mostra a influência da temperatura sobre o comportamento da carga e o relacionamento não linear entre estas variáveis. Foi verificado, para a região estudada, que existe uma faixa central de temperatura com pouca influência no consumo, enquanto que acima ou abaixo desta faixa, existem, respectivamente, relações significativas direta e inversa com o comportamento da carga. Ainda que, a precisão da previsão da carga horária por uma rede neural é afetada pela faixa de temperatura considerada. Outra contribuição desta dissertação é a proposta de um método de correção para a rede neural que minimiza o erro de previsão gerado pelas faixas de temperatura que mais afetam a previsão de carga. Os estudos experimentais indicaram que uma rede neural que inicialmente apresentava instabilidade quando submetida a variações de temperatura, após sua correção, conseguiu diminuir seus erros de previsão a índices muito próximos a dias normais. Abstract : This work first presents a research that has focused on the investigation of the relationship between electric load and temperature in the Island of Santa Catarina and the influence of the temperature on short-term load forecasting regarding different temperature intervals. Based on historic data of load and temperature, it is built a load over temperature curve from a third-degree polynomial approximation, which is used to estimate the influence of the temperature on the load and the nonlinear relationship between these variables. For the studied region it has been shown that there is a central temperature interval with minimum influence on demand, while above and below that interval, respectively, direct and inverse relationships with the behavior of the load is observed. Furthermore, the load prediction accuracy of a neural network is affected by the temperature range considered. This study may produce as result a better scaling on load demand, resulting in financial gain to the distributors. Based on this knowledge we propose a correction method for the neural network that minimizes the prediction error generated by the temperature ranges that most affect the load forecasting. Experimental studies suggested that a neural network which initially showed instability when subjected to temperature changes after correction, managed to reduce forecast error to rates very similar to the normal days
Sociologia pelo humor: para uma reflexão Crítica sobre o ensino orientada pela Profanação.
No full textTCC (graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Curso de Ciências Sociais.O artigo reflete sobre o uso do humor no ensino de conteúdos sociológicos, políticos e antropológicos no Ensino Médio, bem como sua contribuição para reflexão crítica. Procura-se, a partir de experiência em estágio de docência no curso de Ciências Sociais da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), compreender como o humor – pela ironia, sarcasmo, riso etc. – interfere no processo de ensinoaprendizagem. Investigam-se conceitos referentes ao humor e suas diferentes manifestações, enfatizando sua relação com a compreensão e a construção de conceitos sociológicos, políticos e antropológicos, através do enfrentamento de uma linguagem exclusivamente acadêmica e científica, que pode distanciar o estudante do conhecimento. Esse enfrentamento se dá na analise crítica sobre discurso, disciplina, relações de poder, verdade, ciência, e linguagem, por meio de conceitos de Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu e Giorgio Agamben, entre outros autores. Observou-se a alteração positiva no comportamento e no aprendizado dos estudantes em sala, em comparação às aulas antes ministradas pela professora da disciplina, de postura tradicional em aulas expositivas e conteudistas. O trabalho pretende contribuir para o ensino de uma sociologia reflexiva e crítica mais próxima dos jovens, ao utilizar uma linguagem que lhes é familiar.The article reflects about the use of humour in teaching sociological, political and anthropological contentes in high school, as well as its contribution to critical reflection. We seek, through the teaching stage experience in the course of Ciências Sociais, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), to understand how the humour – by irony, sarcasm, laughing, etc. – affects teaching and learning. We investigat concepts related to humour and its different manifestations, emphasizing its relation to the understanding and construction of sociological, political and anthropological concepts, through a confrontation with an exclusively academic and scientific language, which can hold off the student from knowledge. This confrontation occurs in the critical analysis of the concepts discourse, discipline, power relations, truth, science and language, by Michel Foucault, field and symbolic capital of Pierre Bourdieu, profanation of Giorgio Agamben, among others. We observed a positive change in the behavior and students learning, compared to the classes taught by the teacher of the discipline, whose stance was expressed by the traditionalism of an expository and contentbased lecture. The paper intends to contribute for the teaching of a critical and reflexive sociology nearest to young people, using language familiar to them
O Riso de Fausto
No full textThis article constitutes an inquiry into one of the most subtle themes in Thomas Mann's novel 'Doctor Faustus' – namely, Adrian Leverkühn’s laughter. Its aim is to establish a connection between a specific element within the novel (Adrian's laughter) and the overarching theme of artistic creation in the modern age. Not only does the author explicitly link the novel to the broader concept of artistic creation, which is its central concern, but the presence of Theodor Adorno, who was both a reader and critic of the work further underscores this connection. Consequently, the question that guides this study is the following: In what way does Adrian's laughter intersect with his own artistic creation? Throughout this article, we make associations with Stanley Cavell's ideas on acknowledgment and the skepticism which refers to its failure. Theorists such as Bergson, Baudelaire, and Morreall provide the foundation for theories of laughter. What’s more, in the essay, the presence of laughter in other Faustian interpretations written in the first half of the twentieth century will also be comparatively addressed. Thus, in this study, Adrian's unique position in the Faustian landscape is shown to be connected to the eruption of laughter, which, far from being a minor detail, proves to be crucial for understanding his artistic production.O presente artigo é uma investigação sobre “uma das menores recorrências” do romance Doutor Fausto de Thomas Mann, a saber: o riso de Adrian Leverkühn. Busca-se, assim, associar uma circunstância presente no romance (o riso) à problemática maior da obra: o fazer artístico na modernidade. Não somente o autor textualmente relaciona o romance ao fazer artístico, ou seja, sua problemática maior, como também a presença de Theodor Adorno, leitor e crítico da obra aponta nessa direção. Dessa maneira, a pergunta que norteia o presente estudo é: De que forma o riso de Adrian conecta-se a seu próprio fazer artístico? Associações são feitas ao longo do artigo com o conceito de reconhecimento do filósofo norte-americano Stanley Cavell e o ceticismo referente à falta do mesmo. Teóricos tais como Bergson, Baudelaire e Morreall fornecem a fundamentação para teorias do riso. Ademais, ao longo do texto, a presença do riso em outras interpretações fáusticas escritas na primeira metade do século XX também será comparativamente abordada. Assim, no presente estudo a posição singular de Adrian, no cenário fáustico, mostra-se conectada à irrupção do riso, que longe de ser um dado menor, revela-se enquanto primordial para compreensão de sua produção artística
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