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Bimkubwa Seif Ali, Juan Jose Castro, Shogo Omi and Karishma Nazimi
Ancient civilizations have imprinted their legacy on Zanzibar Stone Town through the construction of revered stone masonry buildings, which are experiencing rapid deterioration due to severe ambient environmental impacts. In response to these challenges,...
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Martina Gargiulo, Davide Carleo, Giovanni Ciampi, Massimiliano Masullo, Pilar Chìas Navarro, Andrea Maliqari and Michelangelo Scorpio
Green areas and parks are places where people?s quality of life improves, places of recreation and relaxation, in which to carry out various social activities. Among these, the historic gardens represent the union between green areas and historic archite...
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Jose Antonio Huesca-Tortosa, Yolanda Spairani-Berrio, Cristiano Giuseppe Coviello, Maria Francesca Sabbà, Fabio Rizzo and Dora Foti
This work evaluates the effectiveness of various consolidating treatments applied to Pugliese tuff (Gravina Calcarenite). This type of stone has been used in numerous historic buildings in the Puglia area (southeast of Italy), which presents durability p...
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Daniele Sivori, Laura Ierimonti, Ilaria Venanzi, Filippo Ubertini and Serena Cattari
Recent advances in computing performance and simulation tools allow today the development of high-fidelity computational models which accurately reproduce the structural behavor of existing structures. At the same time, advancements in sensing technology...
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Irene Puncello and Silvia Caprili
The relevant losses determined by recent earthquakes stressed the vulnerability of historical masonry constructions towards horizontal seismic actions, therefore highlighting the need for reliable approaches for the structural assessment and following re...
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Costas P. Providakis, Maria G. Mousteraki and Georgia C. Providaki
Without affecting the integrity or stability of the heritage monuments, vibration-based techniques provide useful solutions for acquiring global information about them. By studying the dynamic response to suitable excitation sources, it is feasible to de...
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Hamid Maljaee, António Santos Silva and Ana Velosa
The popularity of natural cement (Roman cement) in buildings from the late 19th and the beginning of the 20th century and the high diversity of characteristics of natural cement demand research of mortar and binders used in the buildings of this period i...
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Yidan Liao, Jeremy Cenci and Jiazhen Zhang
Architectural heritage refers to buildings, complexes, and sites with historical, cultural, artistic, technological, and geographical values, including ancient buildings, historical buildings, places of interest, dwellings, and industrial sites. China?s ...
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Emily Talen
While scale is an essential factor in discussions about sustainable cities, there is no common understanding of what scale is or how it should be measured. This paper sheds light on the issue of scale by suggesting how it might be measured and evaluated....
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Guiomar Calvo, Beatriz Carrasquer-Álvarez and Javier Martínez-Aznar
Salt harvesting through natural solar evaporation of salt brines is a practice notably abundant in the Iberian Peninsula. Such activity has been relevant for human consumption, food preservation, livestock feed, and various industries throughout history....
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