“In the course of this year, the Sun will shine down onto the Earth four thousand times more energy than we will consume. By duly collecting the solar radiation, we can obtain heat and electricity. Heat is produced by heat collectors, and electricity, by means of photovoltaic surfaces.”
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Emergency stairs, or escape stairs, is a staircase that runs the full length of the building, included to facilitate evacuation during an emergency such as fire.
Typical New York City rental complexes with fire escape stairs
A fractal is a natural phenomenon or a mathematical set that exhibits a repeating pattern that displays at every scale. If the replication is exactly the same at every scale, it is called a self-similar pattern.
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The Paranoiac-critical method was the invention of Salvador Dali and is an extension of the method of Simulation into the field of visual play, based on the idea of the ‘double- image’.
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An order is the principal component of a Classical building, composed of base, shaft, capital and entablature.
The five Classical orders are the ‘Tuscan’, ‘Doric’, ‘ Ionic’, ‘Corinthian’ and ‘Composite’, which all vary in size and proportion.
Deconstructivist is the appearance characterized by vehemently non-rectilinear forms, and the juxtaposition of divergent and often angular components.
Daniel Libeskind // Jewish Museum, Berlin
Discipline in all fields of human knowledge has been created by individuals who broke the rules of play of their historic context in their eagerness to invent the future.
Projects that seek solutions within their own discipline, insensitive to their cultural environment, produce autistic interventions that conceal the most entrenched immobilism behind their apparent refinement. A dead weight in history.
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Simply put, a diagram is a simplified drawing showing the appearance, structure, or workings of something; a schematic representation.
A diagram is a drawing that, stripped of all superfluous and distracting data, shows the general scheme or outline of an idea or object and its parts. It is a reductive graphic representation of the course or results of an action or process.
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A further line of defence in front of a castle’s gatehouse, often designed to enclose attackers who could then be bombarded from above with missiles.
Barbican also refers to the fortified outposts lying outside the main defences of a city’s walls.
Hypergraphy, also called hypergraphics and metagraphics, is a critical method developed by the Lettrist movement in the 1950s, which encompasses a synthesis of writing and other forms of media. Isidore Isou, the founder of Lettrism, said that “Metagraphics or post-writing, encompassing all the means of ideographic, lexical and phonetic notation, supplements the means of expression based on sound by adding a specifically plastic dimension, a visual facet which is irreducible and escapes oral labelling
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In architecture, the digitally generated walkthrough and fly-by of a virtual building design have become so established that they are now commonplace. Indeed, there is even evidence of a hardening resistance to their apparent ease and slickness.
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Hatching is an artistic technique used to create tonal or shading effects by drawing closely spaced parallel lines. This method is especially important in essentially linear media, such as drawing, and many forms of printmaking, such as engraving, etching and woodcut. In Western art, hatching originated in the Middle Ages, and developed further into cross-hatching, especially in the old master prints of the fifteenth century.
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