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Daylighting in Schools For The Future
Good daylighting design is inseparable from good architectural design and should be considered from the earliest stages of the design process. This is a more effective approach than applying daylighting techniques to a completed design. As good lighting is essential in all building types for a successful school building, a careful and informative approach is particularly important for they contain a varied range of activities embracing a complex array of different visual tasks, many of which may have to be carried out in the same room. It will also provide good conditions for children during their school life; not only so that they will not be handicapped in their learning but also that they may develop the habit of using their eyes intelligently and may carry into later life an awareness of the value of good lighting conditions. The most successful school building designs have been those in which planning to meet the educational requirements of the school is integrated with a skilful solution to the problem of providing for the physical needs of the occupants. This kind of solution is only possible with a detailed knowledge of the visual implications of the various activities in the school.
 Submitted on: May 17, 2005, 03:48 ... read more
The Co-ordination of Services Utilities in Public/Private Capital Projects. A local Perspective.
For the past few decades, Malta has been suffering from a deterioration of quality roads. The fact that roads are disrupted just after a few weeks of completion and unnecessary delays has been criticised heavily by the local media and road users. In fact, the roads’ problems always feature prominently in surveys regarding the general problems of this island.
Submitted on: Jul 16, 2004, 12:14 ... read more
Recycling of Waste Concrete as Aggregate
The construction industry persists in a massive over production of primary aggregates. This has caused the depression of primary aggregate prices which in turn leads to the serious under-utilization of secondary and recycled aggregates – valuable resources which are simply being wasted.
Submitted on: Oct 18, 2003, 18:40 ... read more
Crystalline: A quest in the realms of structure, skin and space. The physical and meta-physical aspects of transparency, theories, interpretations and re-interpretations.
The origins of the concept of the transparent form are rooted inside the development of glass as a material. Colin Rowe, being at the foremost of this concept could only have conceived his line of thought when possibilities in the use of material glass as envisaged by Paul Scheerbart, were becoming a reality. Scheerbarts’ thoughts have revealed themselves as being more than a thuggish manifesto, but means to be absorbed in its political and social contest to understand that the authors aspirations through glass architecture which reflected metaphorical properties where society can be idealized through the environment produced by a transparent/translucent urban landscape.
Submitted on: Oct 18, 2003, 14:53 ... read more
Malta’s Rural Settlements a Decade After the Establishment of Temporary Provisions Schemes
Rural settlements, particularly the so-called “hamlets”, are a striking feature within the Maltese countryside. Their condition has been overlooked over the years despite efforts undertaken in order to direct development into existing or planned urban areas through the formulation of 1988 Temporary Provisions Schemes, and later, the establishment of a Structure Plan for the Maltese Islands and recent subsidiary planning documents.
Submitted on: Oct 7, 2003, 16:31 ... read more
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