Sentence examples for vernacular construction from inspiring English sources

In this sense, the present article aims at enlightening the vernacular construction techniques of domes in the Casbah of Algiers.

The use of nonconventional and vernacular construction materials addresses these concerns by incorporating cultural context, minimizing environmental destruction, and considering social impacts throughout materials' life cycle.

The innate and seemingly infallible wisdom of American vernacular construction in the 18th and 19th centuries is underscored on every page of this informative but cautionary survey of building traditions on Nantucket.

Through the use of life cycle analysis, consideration of systemic and technical design factors, Pareto optimality, and intersectional innovation, and conventional as well as nonconventional and vernacular construction materials can be assessed for their potential to achieve sustainable scale.

This paper proposes a description of the vernacular construction practices according to the material used for the walls and tries to explore the hygrothermal behaviour of various wall compositions.

However, the vernacular construction is ever-dominating the other construction technologies and typology of structures in terms of wall systems.

Almost all the façades of rural vernacular constructions were rendered in order to protect and decorate the masonry walls.

The aim of this paper is to determine the design strategies used in vernacular constructions to adapt them to the environment.

The results of the study can be used in two different forms: (1) to make a proposal for the recovery of vernacular constructions with peculiar bioclimatic strategies; (2) to translate some of the bioclimatic strategies used in vernacular constructions to the present ones.

According to the practical experience of the author in Central Spain, this paper deals with the proposal of methodological bases for data collection and subsequent analysis of the vernacular constructions in a particular rural area.

The paper thus presents the results of a detailed numerical study based on finite element modeling and nonlinear static (pushover) analysis intended to quantitatively evaluate the influence of each technique on the seismic behavior of vernacular constructions and to better understand their structural role under seismic loading.