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The Red Pavilion / AND Architecture OFFICE/ Zhun Zhang. Image Courtesy of AND Office
The masonry materials of the shell are made of terracotta bricks and polymer mortar. The masonry structure is made of three bricks with two mortar layers. The arch support is partially equipped with concrete cores to increase the thickness to 450~750mm. The finished reinforced masonry has characteristics similar to the concrete structure but has a different mechanical property in directions.
The Future of Structural Design
Yimin Guo, the Associate Professor from School of Architecture in Southeast University, stated that:
“The structure is like a human body. If a person has a good figure and muscles, he will be able to show them off. Decorating a house is like putting clothes on a person. Although the body can be beautified by clothes, you can easily find a body’s shortcomings if the original structure of the body is not well designed.
Summer Palace Digital Restoration. Image Courtesy of Yuan Ming Yuan (2006 Documentary)
In 2009, the nearly one-and-a-half-hour-long documentary Daming Palace was filmed, and nearly half of the time was completed with special effects, restoring the Tang Chang an City, Danfeng Gate, Hanyuan Palace, and other things that only exist in history books. According to statistics, this documentary has restored about 500 football fields the size of Daming Palace. It is the first time that China has restored the world s largest brick-wood palace complex.
The Advantages of Using 3D Rendering for Heritage Restoration
The restoration rendering of ancient buildings has the characteristics of high accuracy, scientific and permanent preservation of cultural relics, and can use architectural rendering technology to make ancient buildings into a set of concrete, vivid, peripheral, accurate, and virtual simulation systems. Wherever possible, people can have a clearer understanding of the cultural he
The Contemporary Transformation of Traditional Chinese Architecture archdaily.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archdaily.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.