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In June 2009 and October 2021 field surveys were performed in Ciechanowiec municipality, Wysokie Mazowieckie County, in south-western part of the Podlaskie region, N-E Poland, to look for semi-vernacular buildings made with raw materials or alternative constructions, such as rammed earth, wattle and daub, and cordwood masonry. In particular, a group of rammed earth barns was found and examined in a small village of Tworkowice. All those buildings were built in the 1950s, but their construction had been known in that region before that time. The intention behind this work has been to contribute to recognizing the distribution of hitherto underresearched vernacular or semi-vernacular earthen architecture in N-E Poland, as most researchers of vernacular and semi-vernacular architecture of the Podlaskie region have focused onto timber architecture rather than earthen constructions.
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Bialystok University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture

Rammed Earthen Farm Buildings in Tworkowice, Ciechanowiec Municipality, N-E Poland

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The article deals with the issue of the application of modern shading analysis methods using computer software. Obtaining the optimal exposure of buildings in the urban context, issues related to insolation of rooms and meeting other requirements regarding access to natural light are an extremely important element of design work. Despite the high rank of the above issues, in practice designers rarely have the opportunity to verify their theoretical analyses with the results obtained <italic>in situ</italic> during and after the construction of the facility. The need for this type of verification can be imagined in the case of claims by users. However, it is not easy to implement, because in reality the measurement would have to take place on specific days of the year and under favourable weather conditions. This article summarises the results of sample tests, generated with the most commonly used programmes and field tests in nature using simple observational research methods. The obtained data revealed significant measurement discrepancies. The comparative analysis of the obtained results clearly indicates the need for a more critical look at the effects of using modern tools in the work of architects. This article is the result of the initial stage of the author’s research, ultimately aimed at the use of a wider spectrum of methods on a larger scale, on the examples of real architectural objects.
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The Problems with the Application of Contemporary Software for the Analysis of Shadowing of Architectural Objects

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The paper presents material collected during field research and inventory of old village houses from the village of Soce in the municipality of Narew. Its purpose was to collect architectural-ethnographic information about buildings important in terms of cultural values. They were described in the article in order to document the disappearing local heritage and to supplement the research and inventory of documentary resources. Drawings of plans, sections and facades of the buildings and their furnishings were prepared as well.
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Inventory Materials of Wooden Country Houses in Soce Village, Narew Municipality

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This paper deals with the possibilities of architectural design of wooden structures in the digital age. The first part of the paper presents the material-based design as a new approach to shaping free-form objects. The problem is that a new geometry requires new materials or a new approach to old, well-known building materials and structures. The lack of suitable materials to build curvilinear free-form surfaces has led to the use of traditional materials in new ways.
The second part describes the historical techniques of designing and manufacturing of curvilinear wooden forms. They were compared to digital tectonics as a new methodology in architectural design. Historically, architects and carpenters used the stereotomy method and manufactured non-standard wooden elements (e.g. guitarde dormers and balconies), taking into account the inherent properties of the material. Digital CAD/CAM technologies have radically changed the conceptual approach to architectural and engineering design. Architectural forms created with the use of digital parametric tools are considered in terms of geometry, material properties and means of production. Such well-known buildings as Chesa Futura in St Moritz (Switzerland) and Weltstadthaus in Cologne (Germany) were presented as model examples of digital tectonic design in wooden architecture.
In the Discussion, the paper presents the advantages of timber architecture. The new generation of high-performance wood materials offers unique architectural possibilities. The digital era led to the transformation of traditional tectonics into digital tectonics operating in terms of construction logic shaped according to the principles of digital design and fabrication tools. The CAD/CAM system is the basic formula of digital tectonic approach and it unveils inherent properties of wood as a natural material.
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Advances in Digital Design and Fabrication of Wooden Architecture

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The article deals with energy transformation on an architectural and urban scale. The first part describes the assumptions of the German energy transformation, taking into account both the scale of individual buildings and urban scale solutions based on RES. Selected objects and design concepts from Hamburg and Berlin are presented as model examples. The second part describes the approach to transformation on the example of Warsaw, based on current programmes, strategies and development visions in relation to the architecture and new standards of facilities as well as the use of RES on an urban scale. The German approach was compared to the Polish assumptions, indicating the possibility of implementing some solutions. A discussion and a photographic documentation made ‘in situ’ of selected Polish and German contemporary RES applications in architecture are presented. Selected examples of modern buildings show the use of energy-saving and RES technologies. The analysis of contemporary architectural designs concerns issues related to energy and the possibility of adapting contemporary architecture to a changing climate. At the end of the paper, challenges in the context of energy transformation are presented. The need to adapt buildings and cities to climate change requires transforming the traditional linear design process into an energy-integrated one operating in terms of the principles of sustainable development. This process will not be possible without the support of digital design and simulation tools as well as mapping to determine the potential of RES in cities in the perspective of 2050. Attention is also drawn to the important role of experimental, educational and popularizing activities that give the opportunity to acquire knowledge about RES.
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Energy Metamorphosis of Cities and Buildings

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The article deals with the topic of implementation of renewable energy sources (RES) in architecture. The method of comparative analysis was adopted in order to identify certain directions, emerging trends regarding the use of solutions based on RES in architecture at various scales. Conclusions were formulated on the basis of study visits and analysis of selected national pavilions at Expo 2015 in Milan and the main assumptions related to the implementation of the adopted solutions and strategies for sustainable development. The article also analyses policies related to the application of advanced technologies in the Digital Smart City Milano 2015 strategy as a part of the Italian Smartainability project, initiatives and projects related to the use of RES presented at the exhibitions inside the national pavilions, as well as overviews of Expo 2017 Astana and Expo 2020 Dubai in the field of renewable energy.
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Renewable Energy Sources in Architecture of the World Expo

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The paper attempts to describe the possibilities of shaping the environment and spatial development of the rural administrative areas of Białowieża, using the tools of planning documents. The natural and cultural space of Białowieża rural administrative district is particularly sensitive to any investment activities. It is impossible to overestimate its value, and the need to take care of it is a natural necessity, determining all activities, especially planning and architectural-urban planning ones, responsible for its future shape. The aim of the study is to indicate ways of searching for such possibilities so that the two – natural and cultural – structures harmoniously interpenetrate each other. Subsequent steps and activities are described in detail, starting with a very precise identification of the resources of the space under analysis, followed by the execution of an architectural and urban planning inventory, conducting a nature and landscape study up to the development of a list of parameters and indicators, and ending with the development of a three-dimensional model of the settlement units of the rural district, based on the provisions of the draft local spatial development plan.
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The Directions and Indicators Concerning the Process of Shaping the Environment on the Basis of Changes in the Local Zoning Plan and Land Use in the Rural Administrative District of Białowieża

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In the article the author provided an analysis of two chosen sustainable housing concepts designed and built in the end of 20th and beginning of 21st century in Amsterdam.
The purpose of the research is to identify urban, sustainable and architectural features of two case studies – untraditional, experimental housing concepts. As research methods the author used the method of comparative analysis of the case studies and critical discussion. The result of the study will be conclusions of comparative analysis ultimately revealing a better concept of sustainable housing model for the 21st century.
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Two Experimental Housing Concepts from Amsterdam: Comparative Analysis

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Paris is one of those cities that arouse extreme emotions. From the Middle Ages it was an important centre of culture and art. The article presents two themes that show the city as a palimpsest. One concerns the description of the eighteenth-century city, a city of narrow dangerous streets, devoid of technical infrastructure, based on <italic>Le Tableau de Paris</italic> by Sebastien Mercier. The second theme is the 19th-century revolutionary reconstruction of the city, which was ordered by Emperor Napoleon III and carried out by Georges Eugene Haussmann. The implementation of the vision of an orderly spatial arrangement resulted in the demolition of entire quarters of buildings. The <italic>new</italic> Paris with its monumental buildings, tenement houses and new infrastructure was to become the true <italic>capital of the world</italic>. Great changes affected both the inhabitants and all areas of social life. Haussmann’s plan was so prophetic that both the administrative division into districts as well as the communication system and recreational areas created at that time serve the city’s residents to this day.
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Parisian PalimPsest – Paris before and After Haussmann’s ‘Revolutions’

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