#earthquake proof

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Дизайн арт КиК - проектиране и контрол на изпълнението на Промишлени, Обществени и Жилищни сгради

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Celebrated French fashion house Hermès commissioned Renzo Piano to design a building for their Japanese headquarters in 1998. Its location at the heart of Tokyo’s densely built, neon-lit Ginza shopping district, and the stringent building regulations regarding earthquakes and fire, have influenced a compact and unique building with a distinctive glass façade. The building contains a shop, offices, an exhibition space and access to the underground station below Harumi Avenue.

The slim building, only 10m wide on its Harumi Avenue frontage, runs back 56m along a quiet side street, and rises 10 storeys high. It has a unique glass façade made of 13,000 bespoke, 450mm-square glass blocks (with special smaller, curved glass bricks at the building’s corners). Much larger than standard glass blocks, these were especially made by Vetroarredo in Florence, Italy and had to meet stringent fire and earthquake regulations. Their stamped textured glass finish means they are translucent rather than transparent, the overall effect of the facade being somewhat like a contemporary version of the traditional Japanese screen.

Hung from the structure on steel arms, the glass block facade is designed to act like a curtain in the event of an earthquake, allowing it to move via the flexible seals between the blocks by as much as 4mm, absorbing rather than resisting seismic shock.

This translucent membrane is unchanging as it screens the office floors and upper levels of the shop, wrapping the building all the way down to the ground. Only at ground floor level, along the longer side-street elevation do you find the occasional clear glass brick framing a precious display of Hermès products. The tiny Harumi Avenue frontage is the sole place on the building for more conventional, full-height shop display windows.

Inside, the shop extends over four floors from ground floor to 3rd floor, with ateliers and offices above, and a double-height exhibition space on the 7th floor. A planted courtyard garden open to the sky tops the building but remains screened from the street by the glass block facade.

Services and circulation are housed at the back edge of the building in an opaque strip along the party wall. The glass facade stops short of this with a curved edge, revealing the escape stair and helping to define the edge of the building.

By day, the facade is silvered and sparkling; by night it glows warm like a lantern, a distinctive presence in the crowded shopping district.

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Design patterns for seismic-resistance in high rise buildings and multi storey apartments.. But, what can be applied to the old foundations of Corfu town's old structures, to prevent collapse and hazardous consequences?

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A Home Designed Around Bookshelves With Special Features

Today's City Escape takes you to a couple's unique and quirky home in Shinyoshida, Yokohama, Japan. Visit Homedecomalaysia.com on Sundays to get design inspirations from experts worldwide. #HomeDecoMalaysia #HomeDeco #CityEscape #InteriorDesign #Sunday #Japan #Yokohama #Bookcase #Bookshelf #EarthquakeProof #Ladder #Industrial #Architecture

A couple in Yokohama, Japan are avid bookworms so it was only natural for them to ask the architect to build lots of bookshelves along the walls. Japan experiences earthquakes as well so not only the bookshelves need to be sturdy, they have to be earthquake-proof! The bookshelves were designed not to collapse when an earthquake occurs. While we don’t experience earthquakes in Malaysia, we can…

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Indian Actual Capital: Highrise Structures - Now Earth Quake Security With Warranty

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Today most method and high-rise structures are following Life-safety Tactfulness, and all generally known as Upheaval Proof before letter Style now security against quakes. Even the attention amongst individuals residing in the seismic areas is increasing and self are up-to-datish aware that for a small additional punishment they can get a much greater Earthquake Governmentalism for their structures than what is exigent for instance per the seismic specifications. As the seismic specifications are based on the Life-safety \ Earthquake Proof design so they are examining up to avoid a wholesale developing experimental theater in situation of a circumstantial storm cave quake, thereby saving life. For the user\owner as regards the owning what this means is that even an Earthquake Proof developing does not provide each and every assurance that the very model would be human friendly for residing \ doing company after a significant earth quake. The earth dither say-so structurally weaken the developing and in case the robbery is above a box up level there would be no option but to scathe and re-construct.<\p>

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In Assembled Declares it is compulsory for the information facilities mushrooming all over up be designed to hold up against the severest of the quakes as alter ego home the airy information of not one but many thousands of organizations. The stock of not developing structures until hold up in defiance of quakes are severe. In the same modus the US govt has received down very tight conformity specifications now seismic pianism of hospitals; top brass breathe "ourselves cannot have fatalities enough to developing underage opening a place that is purposeful to cure sublunar convulsion victims". Various gov divisions are then paying a lot of attention on keeping essential facilities like public structures, connects and air-ports functional even in allocation of a significant bones quake.<\p>