Month: March 2024

Aqua House – Architecture That Integrates Water Technically and Aesthetically
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Aqua House – Architecture That Integrates Water Technically and Aesthetically

- by Sergio Torian

Stephanie Madison of Habitus Living interviews the author about his book “Aqua House, Architecture that Integrates Water Technically and Aesthetically” Can you please elaborate on what inspired you to write Aqua Houses and the key ideas in the book?

Current concerns about global water usage and the increasing pollution of it’s environments is what inspired me to write Aqua House. The book focuses on the relationship of water and architecture. It re-examines the place that it occupies in architecture in order to determine how current practices in architecture contribute to the pollution of water environments and to what is believed to be an unsustainable usage of it. The book then seeks to investigate how some of these practices in architecture could be modified in the future in order to mitigate the water problem.

The key idea in the book is how can the design of a house integrate the technical and aesthetic functions of water?

I have attempted to answer this by designing a building (Aqua House) that works with both the aesthetic and technical functions of aqua. In addition, the design integrates water and architecture in a way that could contribute to reducing contamination of the water environment. While Aqua House is a small project, focused on the problem of residential architecture it can perhaps help raise awareness of wider water issues. The lessons learned can perhaps be extrapolated to a re-examination of other types of buildings and urban environments, where a wider set of water issues could be …

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The Importance of a Good Looking Exterior to Your Property
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The Importance of a Good Looking Exterior to Your Property

- by Sergio Torian

We all know how important it is to keep the interior of our property looking its best, and apart from anything else we know that it’s unhygienic to leave it any other way. However what many of us don’t realise is that it’s equally important to keep our property looking good from the outside, and that it can have a lot of negative impacts on our lives if we don’t. Here we will look at some of the reasons that this is the case.

First Impressions are Everything

You may have heard just how important it is to make good first impressions in all works of life and this is also true of our properties. Bear in mind that when anyone visits your home, the first thing they are going to notice is what it looks like outside. As such then if your walls are looking grubby and your grass is overgrown, then your visitors are going to assume that your home is badly maintained and looked after and it’s not going to change their mind even if this interior is well maintained. In short, their first site of your home is going to color the rest of their experience and it will be hard for them to forget it. This is a shame if you’re trying to make a good impression on guests, but it’s much more of a problem if you are planning to sell your property as it will mean that you aren’t likely to impressive the …

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Best Sites for Skateboarding – 4 Excellent Spots for Exercise
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Best Sites for Skateboarding – 4 Excellent Spots for Exercise

- by Sergio Torian

1. The outside skateboard park. You have in all probability handed by a single at some issue in your city and have observed men and women cruising all-around on a piece of wood with wheels on the bottom. The nearby skateboard park is designed specially with skate boarders in intellect. Many of the parks obstacle are built like things you would see on the streets of a metropolis. With handrails, boxes, stairs and benches. Most parks are manufactured of concrete. Numerous have slopes, hills, ramps and usually some metal rails. These community skateboard parks typically have a wonderful range of obstructions for the buyers to apply and study new skills on. The very first out of doors skateboard park opened in nineteen seventy-six, in California. Due to the fact then many have sprung up in various places and nations of the planet. The park is contacting. Seize your board and head to the nearest a person.

2. The indoor skate park. This is an additional wonderful possibility for boarders. Okay, you like to skate, you wake up on a Saturday early morning, its raining. (If you are a skateboarder you know you can not skate in the rain) The outdoor parks will be soaked and no fantastic for critical skating. Do not worry! The indoor skate park is the best area for skaters on a rainy working day. It beats all the weather conditions conditions. Some indoor parks cost a small entry payment but you can skate to your hearts-content. …

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The Importance of Garden Decor
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The Importance of Garden Decor

- by Sergio Torian

The Quest for Significance

People are looking for ways to add significance, peace of mind, a quality experience, and an escape from the “rat-race” in their lives. Stated differently, people want to add depth and meaning to their lives. One way to accomplish this, it is asserted, is to make or purchase decor for your garden.

Make Your Garden Unique

Garden decor, along with things related to gardens, provides a return to nature, a sense of spirituality, and a return to the earth as people journey on their quest for significance and ultimate meaning. Moreover, through the use of decorations, gardeners reveal their quirks and shortcomings, their wit, their creativity, and their desire to make their gardens unique.

Transform Your Life

Gardens and their ornaments are symbols of enchantment, of mystery, of meaning, and of ultimate being. Another way of looking at this is to see that gardens and garden accents provide the power to transform one’s mood and one’s life. To be sure, garden accessories can become symbolic reminders of life’s blessings as they encourage people to enrich their surroundings by transcending the mundane.

The Gardening Imagination

Garden ornaments help people take an active stance in their lives by enabling them to create a niche in the world that is in concert with their values and their dreams. Indeed, it is this “gardening imagination” that provides people with the opportunity to select meaningful objects that speak to their senses, to their experiences, and to their lives.

An Invitation to …

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Bamboo Origin of Vertical Chinese Writing
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Bamboo Origin of Vertical Chinese Writing

- by Sergio Torian

In China, in parks, mountains and villages, you can find Chinese characters or other symbols carved on living bamboos. People just act naturally, on the smooth surface, picking up a stone with sharp tips. This simple, natural way of writing could have been practiced thousands of years ago and have to do with the origin of Chinese writing.

Vertical carvings on living bamboos predated bamboo slips

Writing horizontally is natural for eyes to read. Although not with a natural direction, Chinese writing had been fixed in vertical columns until last century. There should be a cause. Tsien [1] has attributed verticality of Chinese writing to bamboo strip and brush. However, bamboo strips can also be arranged in horizontal direction to write on. It seems no horizontal writings on bamboo strips of ancient times have ever been discovered. Regarding the origin of verticality of Chinese writing on bamboo slips, there could be three scenarios. In the first case, the scribes chose vertical direction without trying horizontal. In the second case, both vertical and horizontal writings were practiced but later horizontality was abandoned. In the third case, vertical direction was already in place before bamboo strips were used. The first case is unlikely, since scribes can know which direction is more advantageous after trying each one. The second case means vertical arrangement is advantageous over horizontal arrangement in competition. We don’t support this case since we consider horizontal writing is suitable for reading thus should not fail in competition. Let’s talk about …

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A Kitchen area Rooster Brings You Luck
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A Kitchen area Rooster Brings You Luck

- by Sergio Torian

Throughout distinctive cultures the rooster has been a image of quite a few things one of the most predominant is luck. Possessing some form of Rooster in your kitchen is mentioned to carry you luck and could just make you come to feel excellent. Right here is a minimal additional information about Roosters and Rooster folklore.

First a tiny bit about genuine Roosters. They do not lay eggs and are not essential for egg creation, but are expected if you want child chicks. They are protective of the flock and will protect the loved ones from predators. They can be tamed, and grow to be devoted pets if dealt with and labored with frequently.

They can crow at whenever including night time. Crowing marks territory, so the fewer roosters the considerably less crowing. One rooster for every flock is all which is wanted. In truth a hen household with additional than one particular rooster is just inquiring for hassle. You can retain a rooster subordinate if he is more compact than the greatest hen. Which, implies she runs the clearly show.

On my favorite island of Oahu, wild roosters have reigned for about a thousand a long time. I did find it a bit odd when I was at an out of doors BBQ taking in rooster and a rooster walked up and was standing by my desk. But wild Roosters and chickens have been roaming cost-free on this attractive island for centuries. In actuality on Oahu if you ask …

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