The relationship between tourism and sites of cultural and natural significance exists since the time of Greek Antiquity and strongly encourages landscape restoration of urban sites. This paper provides an up-to-date ...

Aim of this paper is the presentation of proposal on open space replanning of Democritus University, which is found outside the city of Komotini, in Greece, through the participative activation process of students of the ...

As to the Urban Planning level, the distribution of Public Recreation Areas at the area of a Prefecture is examined(Case of Attiki Prefecture). This existing Public Recreation Areas are specified, while their range as to ...

The protection and enhancement of archaeological sites directly connected to the important infrastructure works. The example of ERGOSE railway construction works. Since the nature of the major infrastructure projects have ...

This paper presents a design proposal for the fortress and the surrounding area of the city of Thessaloniki and will be a part of a general planning and management schedule based on environmental aspects. In this way, the ...

In the Paris world exhibition of 1867 Carl Rabitz, a German master builder, patterned the roof of his own villa to extend the functional space in the building design. The flattened roofs and the extra space given to the ...

Silos are industrial facilities used for storing a huge range of different materials. In the last decades, many silos were damaged by natural events, among which the seismic events are the most significant. Indeed many ...

Silos are industrial facilities used for storing a huge range of different materials. They should be designed to resist several loading conditions, and their seismic behaviour, which strongly depends on the geometrical and ...

The present paper studies a) the restoration of the landscape in a quarry site and b) the establishment of vegetation and its incorporation into the natural landscape without affecting the aesthetics of the area. The aim ...

A number of articles have been published, studying the issue of torsional response of reinforced concrete (RC) buildings [1], the majority of them were focused on the strength of the structural elements or the structure ...

The Egnastia Road constitutes a part of Transpeuropean Network and is one of the fourteen priority projects of the European Union. It is the most important modern infrastructure project for the development of Greece and ...

The following paper is a presentation of an environmental program titled “Considering the house of the past, I plan the house of today”. The program examines the basic environmental principles of the traditional Greek house ...

It is widely accepted that seismic design philosophies do not follow the efficiency of seismic analysis methods is quite remarkable. Torsionally unbalanced structures, is a common field where any of the proposed design ...

The green spaces in the urban environment facilitate the movement of air masses that act as air refreshment in the wider region. The unification of urban open spaces and their enrichment with vegetation affect the micro-climate ...

The subject of the study concerns the regeneration of the urban waterfront, within the framework of a new approach for the quality living of the coastal human communities, not only under the terms of developmental ...

The last few years have been a huge increase in the transfer of coloured architectural lighting, derived from entertainment and theatre, into the urban and exterior environment. The trees in to the landscape seem to be ...

This paper aims to explore the vertical gardens designed by Roberto Burle Marx as an artistic expression of a common design feature, prevalent in landscape architectural discourse and practice since the 1930s. The contribution ...

Several decades of research and development placed new tools in the hands of engineers, builders, supervisors, surveyors, contractors and all people associated with the construction industry. In this paper, we are referring ...

Με απώτερο σκοπό την περιβαλλοντική απόκριση των παραλιακών χωριών του νοτιοδυτικού Πηλίου, διατυπώνονται προτάσεις ενοποίησης τόπων, χώρων και πρασίνου, ώστε να επιτευχθεί η βελτίωση των συνθηκών οίκηση στα πλαίσια της ...

Σκοπός της παρούσας εργασίας είναι η μελέτη της βέλτιστης αξιοποίησης του περιαστικού δάσους Αθαλάσσας, στη Λευκωσία, και του περιαστικού δάσους Πέγειας, στην Πάφο, μέσω της διερεύνησης και ανάλυσης της άποψης του κοινού, ...