Publications related to Islamic architecture

The Pavilions at the Alhambra’s Court of the Lions: Graphic Analysis of Muqarnas

This research documents and graphically analyzes the pavilions muqarnas at the Court of the Lions in the Alhambra in Granada, a World Heritage Site. In order to cast some light on the understanding and preservation of these 14th century architectural eleme ...

2020

Architecture / Philosophy: how, why, and what the questions seek in three case-studies from the late 20th century

André Patrão Neves De Frias Martins

Architecture and philosophy are no strangers to one another. In philosophical writings, architecture appears referred to, spoken of, described, defined, categorized, and figuratively used. In architectural discourse, by theoreticians and practitioners alik ...

EPFL2020

New Drawings of the Alhambra: Deformations of Muqarnas in the Pendentives of the Sala de la Barca

Ignacio Ferrer Perez-Blanco

Architectural heritage preservation and sustainability need advanced graphic techniques in order to document and understand the disposition/composition of plaster muqarnas, a fragile construction element. The muqarnas are key elements in the Nasrid archite ...

2019

Introducing the architectural values of the Common

Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon

The recent development of the “Common” as an interdisciplinary field of reflection seems to show some restraint with respect to the architectural culture that precedes it. This proposal invites to explore the intensities and the reasons for such a resistan ...

University of Huddersfield2019

Typologie des écoles primaires en Suisse de 1945 à 2015 et stratégies d'éclairage naturel

Jean-Denis Bernard Marie Ghislain Thiry

Following the path initiated by Britain and the United States, where the evolution of education and the importance of the architecture of schools were debated vigorously by school boards, and mainly under the influence of Germany and the Netherlands, Switz ...

EPFL2019

RAIN: A Bio-Inspired Communication and Data Storage Infrastructure

Matteo Monti

We summarize the results and perspectives from a companion article, where we presented and evaluated an alternative architecture for data storage in distributed networks. We name the bio-inspired architecture RAIN, and it offers file storage service that, ...

Mit Press2017

Architecture Diagrams: A Graphical Language for Architecture Style Specification

Joseph Sifakis, Simon Bliudze, Anastasia Mavridou, Eduard Baranov

Architecture styles characterise families of architectures sharing common characteristics. We have recently proposed configuration logics for architecture style specification. In this paper, we study a graphical notation to enhance readability and easiness ...

Open Publ Assoc2016

A Low-Power Correlator for Wakeup Receivers with Algorithm Pruning through Early Termination

Andreas Peter Burg, Adam Shmuel Teman, Reza Ghanaatian Jahromi, Jeremy Hugues-Felix Constantin

A low-complexity, low-power digital correlator for wakeup receivers is presented. With the proposed algorithm, unnecessary computational cycles are dynamically pruned from the correlation using an early threshold check. For the algorithm, we provide a rigo ...

Ieee2016

Secure JPEG Scrambling enabling Privacy in Photo Sharing

Touradj Ebrahimi, Lin Yuan

With the popularization of online social networks (OSNs) and smart mobile devices, photo sharing is becoming a part of people’ daily life. An unprecedented number of photos are being uploaded and shared everyday through online social networks or photo host ...

2015

Privacy-Preserving Photo Sharing based on a Public Key Infrastructure

Touradj Ebrahimi, Lin Yuan, David Mc Nally

A significant number of pictures are posted to social media sites or exchanged through instant messaging and cloud-based sharing services. Most social media services offer a range of access control mechanisms to protect users privacy. As it is not in the b ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2015

Images de pensée. Penser en images. L'architecture comme lecture des apparences: une question de traduction

Carole Thérèse Lanoix

Si « penser l’espace » est devenu une évidence dans l’enseignement de l’architecture, « penser les images » constitue le pendant d’une logique qui se veut à la fois combinatoire et corrélative. Penser l’architecture comme science, c’est se plier aux exigen ...

2014

Iterative geometric design for architecture

Ivo Stotz

This work investigates on computer aided integrated architectural design and production. The aim is to provide integral solutions for the design and the production of geometrically complex free-form architecture. Investigations on computer aided geometric ...

EPFL2009

"Sentry Pallets" for Automated Monitoring of Spatial Constraints

Philippe Cudré-Mauroux

Warehouses must maintain a number of spatial constraints concerning the safe handling of hazardous materials. In this paper, we address the problem of automated monitoring of spatial constraints as pallets are moved on forklifts by human operators. We prop ...

2006