AN OVERTURE TO THE ROLE OF ARCHITECT WORLDVIEW IN CONFORMITY AND DIRECTION OF THE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
The “product” of architecture, as something that is created by the architect in a “design process”, along with other effective materialistic and environmental factors, depends on the worldview of the architect as the pioneer and director of the process. In fact, the architect‟s definition of human being and his aspects of existence on one hand and ...
By Sepide Abbasi Yusefabad, Behnaz Aminzade, Mohammad Naghizade
APPLICATION OF EARTH AND STRAW MIXTURES IN MODERN BUILDING
Building with earth is widespread and still mostly based on traditional experiences. Increasing demands in energy consumption reduction during the construction and exploitation of buildings put more and more in the focus the good features of houses built with earth.Testing of earth mixtures with other natural materials showed that it can get even a...
By Ivan Hegediš, Neđo Đurić, Arpad Čeh, Golub Karaman, Danilo Vunjak, Edita Tenji