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Friday, July 2nd, 2010
New York studio WXY Architecture have won a competition to build the Nanhe River Landscape Bridge in Xinjin County, China. This red bridge is due to begin later this year and will cross the river in two interlaced strands. As WXY Architecture wrote “Xinjin is a historical town that has attracted many residents and visitors over the years. It is geographically centered where five rivers converge, and for centuries poets have exalted its natural beauty. Our design draws inspiration from Xinjin’s breathtaking landscape and rich cultural history, and reflects the city’s modern prosperity.”
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
With rapid expansion of urban spaces, concerns are being raised over the amount of energy being consumed, leading to greenhouse gas emissions.
Eco-housing has many benefits. It helps in preservation of local ecology by encouraging natural fauna and flora. It supports ample green space for reduced heat dissipation from common areas. The buildings are designed and oriented considering sun path movement; wind flow et al and calculations are done to achieve maximum comfort level. It allows usage of renewable energy sources such as solar, wind for reduction in energy consumption.
Innovative construction techniques are planned for ecohousing, which will result in more energy efficient construction. Abundant use of ecofriendly materials is done for greater thermal comfort e.g. fly ash bricks. The services are so designed that they help to reduce burden on the civic bodies.
SOME OTHER REQUIREMENTS
Water and sewage services should be designed as there will be maximum recycle and reuse.
Recharge pits should be designed for rainwater harvesting. This facility derives a substantial amount of water.
In electrical services, the common lighting system should be designed efficiently to help reduce the total electrical load.
Energy efficient design - The electrical systems should be efficiently designed. Out of total common electrical requirement, 20% of requirement should be fulfilled by renewable energy.
The solar water heaters are to be provided with nonelectrical buster (gas back up), thus saving 40% of load requirement of individual flat. At individual level one can save further by using CFL fixtures in their flats.
There should be provision for garbage chute where biodegradable waste will be treated and used as manure.
Biogas generation plant for recycling common waste.
( via - Times of India )
Tags: Eco-housing, green, recycle, Reuse, solar, Vertically
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Painting rough brick front, block or stone is different from any other painting you have to paint forever. The main difference is the number of workers needed and the amount of material. These types of surfaces is used twice as much material as any other. Since these areas are so porous, they act like a sponge.
The labor market is necessary for the effort to work the material in these areas. And ’slow, hot work. The materials are used for colorno different than any other color than that there are some special products to do the same work as normal color. Like a bit ‘heavier for better hiding place. As wood and metal, there are no fillers, which can be used on rough surfaces. They are latex or oil-based. They are designed to operate both the surface with a stiff brush for this job or a heavy roller.
Yeah, use a large amount of filler and get only about 200 square feet per gallon. However, the advantagewith filler to smooth the surface, you can use fewer primers. Sometimes you can see that someone is trying to use drywall compound block instead of filling. This is not a good practice. With a product that is not intended for you more than the cost of using the right product. The only thing you can count on, is that they fail. Leaving nothing to clean, but the same problem you started with more than a casino. If you feel confident in your ability,with a spray applied, filling or painting, which is great. Just be sure not all the surrounding areas includes paintings and remember even if you have a syringe, the material is still more than with a roll to reject the application to be sure that the material has worked well on the surface.
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Tags: brick, filler, Painting, rough surface
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
The most common types of colors are: flat, satin or eggshell, satin and gloss.
What is Paint Sheen?
Gloss is the level of brightness in color. In other words, high-gloss colors make your eyes a bit ’shiny walls, while not a flat colorShine. This is important for you because some colors shine better for certain rooms in your home. For example, flat paint hides well from scratches and other imperfections of the existing wall, making it a good choice for the corridor walls would be in a family with children. Read below to find all types of paint finishes.
Flat Paint
Frequently used in most walls
The lower gloss
Smooth, matt surface
Non-reflective
Hides imperfections in the wall
Best for painting irregularSurface water or dry
Satin or eggshell
Low-gloss
The light shine
Brings warmth and depth to a room
Easier to clean than paint flat in comparison
Semi-Gloss
Very resistant
Easy to clean
not hide imperfections
Often used in kitchens and baths
Frequently used in children’s rooms
Gloss
Most durable of all colors
High gloss
Used for doors is that it is so durable
Good to cut baseboards and doorFrames
Other considerations: oil paint or latex?
Most colors have an option to oil based or latex. Your decision to paint is based on several factors including the surface, what the painting and space, what you are applying.
Oil paint
Better abrasion resistance
Most brilliant
More resistant than latex then
smooth latex
Seals also stains
More difficult to clean after using oil paints
Latex paint
Morepopular because it is easier to clean, less odor, and easier to manage global
Water Sports
Fast drying
Easy to process
Resistant to yellowing, fading and mildew
Good for metal surfaces
Best for kitchens, bathrooms and laundries
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Tags: eggshell, flat, glossy, paint, satin, semi-gloss, Sheen
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Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Designed by London-based architects Proctor and Matthews for the Chester Zoo in Northern England, the Heart of Africa Biodome will be Europe’s largest conservation, animal, and leisure attraction.
The massive structure will be 112 feet (34 meters) high, cover 172,000 square feet ( 16,000 square meters), and will simulate the natural African rain forest habitats of the Congo. It includes an undulating dome and a jungle canopy with an authentic climate.
The Biodome will be home to a band of gorillas, a large troop of chimpanzees, okapi (rare giraffe-like creatures), birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish, and invertebrates. An interactive water ride will provide extensive views of the animal enclosures. Themed retail and dining facilities will also be incorporated.
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Tags: Africa Biodome, Matthews, modern architecture
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Friday, April 16th, 2010
When painting a room, it is better to paint the ceiling first, followed by walls, with TRIM, cabinets and doors painted last. Work from top to bottom. To adapt to a wet edge, only time cutting a wall on one before you start painting with rollers.
The brushes are cut to lower the ceiling, around doors and windows before using a roller. They are also used to paint the trim, windows and doors. Usare a number of brush size in the range and angle ruler. The choice depends on the size of the area you are painting, and if you prefer a straight or a bent wing. The rollers are a great saving of time for painting large flat surfaces such as ceilings and walls. Roller covers are available in various lengths nap. The choice depends on whether the painting surface is smooth or structured, it is more. The more structured surface, the longer the NAPmust be in order to push the fibers, the color wells at the surface.
high-quality applications, the best results in painting. applicators Cheap or low quality can paint better quality look and behave badly. Cheap roller covers more than the ink did not spread evenly over the surface and often leave fuzz from the roller on the wall. Cheap brushes are difficult to use because they do not spread the paint evenly and can leave unsightly brush marks. High applicators can be cleaned and reused.
When painting, always working from the area adjacent to dry the wet paint area. Use the technique of N when using a roller. Place the rolls completely. Wear the colors in the form of an "N" in a 2 x 2 ¹ ¹ area. Fill the center of the "N" with horizontal strokes from side to side ‘other. Easy to adjust the painted area with vertical strokes from top to bottom. Go directly use the model N with a roller just uploadedunder the first "N" to work, until you reach the bottom of the wall.
Time saving tip: if you draw a break from, you can wrap your applicators tightly in a plastic bag or aluminum foil instead of washing them!
Make sure you always mix the paint before use and not thin the paint. If more than one gallon for the same color, mix together to ensure consistency of color. Paint, when the space-and surface temperature is 50? F orbefore. Touching, wiping, or wetting a freshly painted surface for 30 days so that the color of cure completely. After 30 days, the painted surface to be cleaned with a neutral non-abrasive detergent and water. Do not place or hang objects on the surface to dry before the paint.
Remember: It ¹ s important to follow instructions for painting on the back label. It contains important information necessary for your painting project.
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Tags: ceiling, Interior painting, tips, TRIM
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Saturday, April 10th, 2010
Most basements are made of concrete or masonry block. In a good many cases the masonry (or concrete) is completely dry. If no water problem exists, a simple paint job can often take care of all decorating. Here’s where Portland Cement Paint comes into the picture. Available in white plus tints or various colors for masonry, it can quickly dress up a drab masonry wall.
Sold as a dry powder to be mixed with water just before you apply it, cement paint looks best over a flat, uniform masonry surface. The cement wall should be clean and completely free of oil, oil paint, dirt or any other nonsense that will keep the paint from sticking to the masonry. Fill all cracks with patching cement and allow them to cure thoroughly.
Lightly dampen the masonry surface with water before you start the brush-work. The idea is to keep the wall from drawing moisture from the paint. The easiest technique here is to turn a garden pressure sprayer on the wall using a fine fog spray nozzle so that you moisten the area but don’t soak it.
Mix the paint with water following the directions on the container. Cement paints are quite heavy and the ingredients tend to settle out, so keep stirring the paint as you use it. The brush used for applying this paint is a stiff fiber scrub brush. This isn’t a lightweight coating that you just flow onto the masonry surface. Because the cement or masonry has many pores, you’ll actually have to scrub the paint into the wall to get a decent looking job.
Dunk the brush into the paint and scrub back and forth over the masonry. Then scrub round and round until the area is covered. Plan to work on a relatively small section at a time. When this is finished move onto the next square.
Here’s another fact about Portland Cement Paint. It must be moist-cured, that is kept very slightly damp for at least 12 hours after you put on the first coat. The second or finish coat should be kept moist for 48 hours. Again, a garden sprayer with a fog nozzle is the best mechanism to use. Allow the first coat to harden for 12 hours, dampen the masonry surface and apply the second coat.
If this sounds like a great deal of work, keep in mind that you’re applying a permanent coating to your masonry. As a matter of fact, when properly scrubbed onto the wall and carefully cured, cement paint becomes an actual part of the concrete masonry surface.
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
The paint roller is our best friend when it comes to painting walls. Able to apply paint very quickly and uniformly, we owe a lot of gratitude to our friend the paint roller. Available in a multitude of sizes and in a variety of different materials generally if something needs to be painted there is a roller that can do the job. This article will discuss some basic tips that I don’t read about very often.
First a brief explanation of the terminology. ‘Paint cage’ this is the tool that you put the actual roller sleeve on. The tube bit that applies the paint is called a ’sleeve’ or ‘roller sleeve’ etc. Sometimes I’ve used ‘roller’ or ‘paint roller’ to describe the cage and the sleeve together.
Loading your roller properly is an important step, the amount of paint you’ll want on your roller depends on the surface that you are painting and what sort of roller sleeve you’ve got but generally the motion is the same. You want to roll the roller down the pan until the just the roller sleeve touches the paint, let it get saturated for a moment before lifting your paint roller up, moving it towards the top of the pan and rolling it back down into the paint. Doing this a few times will load up the paint tray as well and super saturate your roller, you generally want your paint roller to be on the verge of over-saturation as this allows a consistent thickness of paint as well as full paint coverage on the wall. It’s also important to try not to smother the entire roller in paint, you only need it on the sleeve so try to keep it there.
Once you’ve got some paint on the roller and on the tray loading your roller, it’s extremely easy and doesn’t require a lot of time in the pan. A quick dab of paint on the roller from the pan, lift it back to the top, roll it down twice and you’re usually ready to keep on painting.
When applying the paint to the wall the best method is to use long motions going from the top of the wall to the bottom of the wall working in areas 2 to 4 feet wide depending on how tall your wall is and your roller sleeves paint holding capacity. This spreads the paint consistently and gives the best finish.
Once you’ve got your paint roller loaded with paint, it’s time to start painting. When using the paint roller you want to apply just enough pressure to get the paint onto the wall, in most cases and unless you’re painting a very rough surface like old brick there shouldn’t be any need to overly press or force the roller into the wall this is probably more work than necessary and can leave unsightly roller marks. Start near the middle of the wall, roll the roller up the wall to the top and then come back down to the bottom of the wall re-rolling through the area where you started. Now you should have something like a big straight patch on the wall, on your roll up you want to move in either direction left or right and don’t make it too far off, you want part of your roller to still reside in the previous area of paint you applied. On your way back down you continue to move in the direction and now your rolling motion is beginning to take on the shape of a very large V or W. Make sure you go back through your original area of paint to spread the paint out on the wall and give it a consistent thickness. For optimal results, after you’ve spread the paint onto the wall, finish your patch up by gently rolling downwards over the entire area you’ve painted, this will give a consistent finish.
Typical problems when rolling walls are over applying the paint, not spreading the paint evenly, under applying the paint, inconsistent finishes and roller lines or marks. Most of these problems are easy to fix if caught before the paint has had a time to dry or set, though with some modern day paints it can be only 5-10 minutes before fixing it is a problem so it’s best to check your work as soon as you are finished. If the paint is either over applied and/or not spread evenly the build up of paint can begin to drip or sag, this is usually pretty obvious and easy to fix if caught quickly by just re-rolling the area. If the paint has been under applied/not spread evenly you can see what is referred to as ‘holidays’, this is typically where an area was rolled only once or twice and you can see that the paint did not fully cover. When roller marks are present this is usually a sign that too much pressure was used when applying the paint, causing it to squeeze out of the roller unnaturally at the edges of the roller sleeve. Most of these problems are easy to detect my looking at the wall from an acute angle. Overall these problems are usually caused by one of the following: poor quality roller sleeves, poor quality roller cage, poor quality/old paint tray that loads the roller poorly or sloppily and simply an in-experienced painter.
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Tags: Paint Roller, Painting Walls, Roller
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
To make a house beautiful and comfy, you need to paint and decorate it. Painting and decorating is the integral part of maintaining a house. Before you start your painting and decorating project, you need to make certain preparations like selecting the right paints colours and finishes, learning the paint techniques, getting aware of design and decoration trends, accents and furnishings. All of these things are the part of painting and decorating projects.
Here, we will talk about the impact of colours on the mood and ambience of the house. Atmosphere of your home gets enhanced by the particular colour on the walls and these greatly stimulate your mood. There are cool colours, warm colours and metallic colours. Let us find about what colour evokes which kind of mood. Creating an Inviting Ambience for Business Associates.
Dark blue and deep plum on the walls will help create that desired result from your business meeting with your clients which you are expecting. Instead of painting whole room with these colours, you can just add prints where they were applied. They will surely impress your clients and what you need to know, these colours are also associated with stability and wealth. When you get the contract, dark blue and deep plum will help you get down to work immediately!
Want to Concentrate
If you often lose your concentration while working, try this simple trick. Change the colours on the walls of your room. Golden curry is such a strong colour that will definitely invoke concentration in you. You will feel energized. Try deep eggplant colour if you are into some intellectual works like editing, writing or researching.
One thing you must know while choosing colours for creating a particular kind of mood is: do not change colours even if they belong to same family of colours. Like, if I am saying deepest eggplant colours, just do not reach for violet or bright purple. It will change the entire mood. In this case, violet and bright purple are linked with recollection of sweet memories. So, at a work station or office, do not bring these colours to distract you.
Creating Pleasant and Subdued Mood
While in a family, people often have controversies and contradictions, resulting hot debates. If walls in your rooms have such colours like deep, rusty red or rosewood or pumpkin shade, then your mood will get brighten immediately. These are the colours which create quiet and soothing mood. Go and talk amid these walls with such soothing colours, you will definitely understand each other’s point.
Entertaining Mood
A raspberry, lime shade or plum rouge creates bubbly effect. If you hold dinner parties too often, make your living room livelier with these colours.
Tags: Colours, decorating, Painting
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Saturday, March 20th, 2010
Built in the year 1750 and restored in the year 1894 HPA de Wilde Westmas, this church is Dutch inheritance. This heritage church architecture located in Semarang, Indonesia. Occupies area with a chamber and its side is in Greek crucifix form. All of interior design is Dutch characteristic, with spiraling upward of plants. Church balcony have unique characteristic.
Right now this heritage building is single facade which consists of three parts vertically. There is two floors. This heritage architecture faces to south. The foundation is rock and structure system is from concrete brick. The dome layered by metal shaped with teak rafter. At dome there is light aperture. At east, south, and west sides of building, there are portico in Doric Roman style architecture which in saddle roof. This church building has two towers, right and left. Base sketch in cubicle shape but at top layer, circle shape. Cornice surround building is flat lines.
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Tags: architecture, Bend Dome, Church, Indonesia, Semarang
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