Koper is one of the fortified northern Mediterranean coastal towns boasting continuous settlement since preantiquity. With the general public being only partially interested in the remnants of the two town walls and in the issues related to the past, our fieldwork has revealed only scarce information about their material existence. Architectural knowledge of ancient construction techniques, meticulous study and verification of archival sources and of the in situ condition has convinced us that the existence of the two town walls in Koper is orth thorough research. The results gained through several years of research have induced us to formulate the hypothesis that the majority of the outer town wall is still preserved in various forms.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1731027
The article analyses the practice of proportion systems in vernacular architecture in Croatia. It focuses on vernacular architecture of two areas in Croatia. The first is traditional wooden architecture of the Northern part of Croatia where the composition is based on squares and their diagonals − growth based on the square root of two. The second is stone architecture along the Croatian coast, from Istria to Konavle, whose proportion is based on the square root of three divided by two.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2386308
Contemporary building skin design is nowadays approached from three different perspectives. The first one is based on a traditional concept that still offers fresh challenges to a designer. The second one stems from various innovations within the realm of digital engineering, complex geometry and biological principles. The third approach is entirely the result of the most recent technological and visual innovations.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2561924
The paper examines the development of earthquake resistant design in relation to architecture in earthquake prone areas, from the first mainly intuitive measures for ensuring horizontal stiffness of buildings up until the 20th century, when influences of earthquakes on buildings began to be included in standards and regulations for the design of contemporary earthquake resistant structures. Through the prism of earthquake resistance the paper studies and chronologically resents the influence of building structural systems from the period of the labour division of architecture and engineering until today.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2557316
The paper deals with the applicability of the extended N2 method to base-isolated mass-eccentric RC frame building isolated with lead rubber bearings. The results are presented in terms of displacements and amplification factors of the isolation system and of the superstructure. The results of the extended N2 method are compared with the average results of nonlinear dynamic analyses. It was concluded that the extended N2 method could provide a reasonable prediction of the torsional influences in minor to moderately asymmetric base-isolated structures.
COBISS.SI-ID: 2472324