The Functionalist creed, however, is especially associated with the modern style of architecture, which developed during the second quarter of the 20th century as a result of changes in building technique, new types of buildings required, and changing cultural and aesthetic ideals.
The intention of Guédelon is essentially academic and didactic — to try to use or recreate, as nearly as possible, the building techniques of the time, which is supposed to be 1241, in the early years of Louis IX.
The CT analysis permitted us to obtain valuable information about the conservative conditions, the presence of previous interventions, the distribution of various materials and the dimensions and arrangement of several wooden pieces, thus allowing for interesting hypotheses about the building technique of this masterpiece.
Topics such as the main features of this building technique and its peculiarities that played an important role in its structural behaviour are discussed in detail.
The aim of the present paper is to investigate a straw bale wall, both in laboratory and in situ, and to perform a Life Cycle Assessment to identify strong and weak points of this building technique.
A survey-based method of consensus building, the Delphi technique is based on fundamental principles of purposive sampling of experts in the field of interest, panellist anonymity, iterative questionnaire presentation, and feedback of statistical analysis [ 41, 42, 47- 49].
Therefore, a technique for fast building of the backfilling wall was developed.
The Greeks and Romans used advanced organizational techniques in the building of monuments.
It summarises some of the findings of a doctorate research on the strengths and weaknesses of these traditional building techniques in terms of engineering principles and use of materials.
The bureaux, usually located in post office buildings, employed a variety of techniques to surreptitiously open, copy and reseal correspondence, then forward the missives on to the unsuspecting recipients.
