The David Wilson Library, Leicester This is the library that is currently functioning at the University of Leicester. To be frank, It is not old at all, According to Associated Architects (2023) the project was completed in 2008 with a total value of 25 million pounds. I can see the beauty of this project since it is coherent with the environment around it; its design goes with the engineering building which is right next to it. (My picture, sourced from Google Earth) According to Associated Architects(2023), this library comprises 38 kilometers of shelving that allows for a 20-year expansion in the printed collections, 1,500 reader places of all kinds (including a dedicated Postgraduate Area, IT training, and group study rooms), and a student development zone with the Student Learning Centre, Careers Service, bookshop, café, 500-seat lecture theatre, seminar rooms, Accessibility Centre, and Special Collections Archive. Which makes it a general library for all courses, and that i...
Severe earthquakes often result in significant damage to buildings, infrastructures, and cause casualties. For example, the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake in Japan caused over 20,000 deaths and missing, and 190,000 buildings were damaged (Okada et al., 2011; Takewaki et al., 2011). Protecting building structures under earthquakes is of great concern in earthquake-prone countries (Mazzolani, 2001; Azinovic et al., 2016; Tesfamariam, 2022; Zhang et al., 2022). To address this challenge, building isolation systems are applied to mitigate seismic hazards (Morgan, 2007; Mohammed and Mohd, 2011; Takewaki et al., 2013). The aim of applying building isolation is to reduce either the storey or inter-storey vibrations transmitted from the seismic ground motions (Hu, 2014). In practice, two types of passive building isolation systems are commonly used, which are the base isolation system (Jangid and Datta, 1995; Deb, 2004) and the super-structure isolation s...
Generating Ideas In this session, we tried to brainstorm a few ideas and inspirations for our projects, and ever since, I have had many ideas that range from Roman, classical, and Palladian architecture from what I have seen, I can only conclude that the essence of this style is symmetry and geometrical shapes, onto colonial and modernist. (My own picture.) At first, I had a brain freeze because I did not know what to draw, but then I started sketching the structure which I consider to be modernist, that is what I think will make a good gym for a start. However, this seems too simple and too plain, which is the reason why I started thinking about the inspiration for Romans and classical architecture that I had in the holidays. That explains the sketches of the Roman dome which I find interesting because it resembles the domes that I usually saw in mosques and in Muslim architecture. In addition to pillars and arches that I think have an enormous effect on the design aside from the...
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