For much of modern history, aging has been treated as a problem for medicine, social care, and public policy. Hospitals, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, and specialized housing have become the familiar architectural responses to an aging population. Yet this approach ...
To view the figures and tables associated with this article, please refer to the flipbook above. Grant County, Oklahoma, has built six steel girder bridges over the last six years—and hasn’t bought a single new beam. Counties and municipalities are ...
IGNITE 2026 introduces Archicad Max, Nemetschek Creator, and an open collaboration platform that uses AI for model interaction, element-level reasoning, analysis, and cross-tool workflows. Graphisoft CEO Daniel Csillag opened Graphisoft IGNITE 2026 with enthusiasm, which was understandable given the sheer ...
Cities are becoming denser, apartments are becoming smaller, and access to outdoor space is increasingly treated as a privilege rather than an ordinary part of urban life. Against this background, the balcony has acquired a significance that extends far beyond ...
Un impianto domotico mette in comunicazione sensori, attuatori e controller per gestire in modo coordinato luci, tapparelle, climatizzazione, sicurezza e consumi. Può essere cablato su bus, come KNX, wireless o ibrido, e la scelta dipende dall’edificio, dal tipo di intervento ...
For decades, the shopping mall represented one of architecture’s most confident promises: that the organization of space could organize desire. Through carefully controlled circulation, artificial climates, illuminated storefronts, food courts, escalators, and carefully staged public interiors, the mall transformed shopping ...
Expressionist buildings emerged in the 1910s, mainly in Germany and the Netherlands, as a reaction against historicism and the growing rationalism of industrial design. It borrowed its name from the Expressionist painters of Dresden’s Die Brücke, founded in 1905. Early ...
Pompe di calore, accumuli, teleriscaldamento e biomasse: le soluzioni presenti e future per ridurre i fossili, il peso degli incentivi e le prospettive di studio su idrogeno verde e reazioni nucleari LENR fanno comprendere che molte alternative di riscaldamento sostenibile ...
Architecture has always depended on a peculiar form of education: learning by doing work that is not yet particularly important. Before an architect can make convincing decisions about structure, material, circulation, or urban form, they must spend years dealing with ...
È possibile realizzare un edificio senza riscaldamento? In condizioni specifiche, il calore del sole e gli apporti interni possono mantenere gli ambienti confortevoli senza un sistema di riscaldamento attivo, purché la soluzione rispetti le norme applicabili. Occorre però ridurre le ...