Sentences with phrase «traditional building techniques»

A site - built home is built «on - site» using traditional building techniques that meet either a local or state building code.

The last few decades have seen the abandonment of centuries of traditional building techniques, accumulated knowledge and locally adapted construction, replaced by industrialized, low performance materials.

Ecuadorian architects Luis Velasco Roldan and Ángel Hevia Antuña created this small house prototype that takes into consideration the region's traditional building techniques, using naturally sourced and local materials and passive solar heating.

Post war reconstruction was limited by the shortage of experienced bricklayers and the slow nature of traditional building techniques, resulting in a shift towards modular prefabricated systems which became synonymous with social high rise housing in London and its new towns.

However, tiny houses are built to last as long as traditional homes, they use traditional building techniques and materials, and they are aesthetically similar to larger homes.

Designed by the award - winning French - Moroccan architect, Lotfi Sidirahal, from Atelier PoD, the resort was constructed using traditional building techniques and local building materials, including stone taken from the mountain, a true reflection of Omani history and culture but with contemporary flair.

Local craftsmen used predominantly traditional building techniques using local timbers and materials harvested from the property where possible e.g. bamboo & coconut timber.

Not only are great savings achieved in construction costs and site development times, but the steel framed buildings look just as pleasing and are as equally robust as those that are built using traditional building techniques.

This would not have been achievable using traditional building techniques.

Not exact matches

And what's even more interesting for existing media companies, a traditional title like National Geographic has been able to build a relatively huge following with millennials through social media, using many of the same techniques BuzzFeed and Vice employ.

Put differently, if using a traditional technique your shaving brush will either build the mix outside of the brush itself; if using a Method approach the brush will build the mix internally — inside the brush itself.

These conditions can be largely met if technology is built primarily on natural human and renewable local resources, if it can be linked to traditional skills, crafts and techniques, and if it is geared to production that will meet the basic needs of the poor» (Faith Science and the Future.

The duo built the company's third facility in Rhode Island, and the state - of - the - art plant continues to produce gourmet Italian products using traditional dry - curing techniques, the company says.

The metal - coated microbe can thus be used to build energy - storage devices with a power density much higher than that of traditional batteries, says Paula Hammond, a self - assembly expert who helped develop the technique.

The research builds on the team's previous work with a technique called three - dimensional culture, which involves incubating stem cells in a floating ball - shaped aggregate, unlike traditional cell culture in which cells grow in a flat layer on the surface of a culture dish.

In a similar vein to Sweet Cravings, another gluten - free baking book, the recipes are built on a foundation of classic techniques and use simple, natural ingredients that are easily recognizable and staple items, so that it feels as if one was reading a traditional, wheat - filled baking cookbook.

Jones confidently maneuvers around the lunar locations with the help of seamless, deceptively simple special effect techniques and a contemplative screenplay that's more concerned with building unexpected passages of tension than traditional shock routines.

Dr. B. Lynn Ware, president & CEO of Integral Talent Systems, reported in Corporate Universities: Lessons in Building a World - class Work Force that retention and absorption levels through gamification are ten times higher than through traditional learning techniques or computer - based learning.The Boy and Girl Scouts of America have effectively used gamification techniques for years.

The firm designed the building using a technique devised by structural engineer Fazlur Khan, who discovered that a building constructed of a series of tubes would be lighter and stronger than a building constructed with a traditional steel skeleton.

This dual mission is evident in the school's modern curriculum and facilities and in a master plan for its 114 acres designed to promote gentle use of the site at the same time it pays homage to traditional Pueblo building techniques.

The console, the core of the interior design, uses a traditional Japanese architectural wood joinery technique, kanawa tsugi, found in the carpentry used to build religious temples and shrines.

That changed with industry mandates that dramatically affected traditional power - building techniques.

In the kitchen, which is built to closely resemble a traditional Balinese one complete with unique utensils that you might never have seen or handled before, you don the black and white aprons and learn the many secrets, flavours and techniques from Heinz von Holzen, author of four highly acclaimed cookbooks, and former chef of a five - star resort in Nusa Dua.

Over the past 15 years, Pat and Dave have rebuilt the properties using traditional Cornish techniques — think stone - built with slate or even thatched roofs — and the effect is charming.

Materials were sourced locally and all furnishings created with traditional skills: huge marble baths carved from single blocks of Romblon marble and wooden baths crafted using traditional boat - building techniques; local wood and rattan sourced from sustainable supplies; cushions made from tribal fabrics, woven by craftspeople from Mindanao in the South; and intricate wooden chests carved by indigenous Palawan woodcarvers.

All of our accommodations have been designed to blend in with the natural surroundings by using traditional, local building techniques and materials.

Built by one of Indonesia's premier boatbuilders, Tiger Blue started life on a beach in South Sulawesi where they have been building phinisi using traditional techniques for generations.

The garden was built by the local farmers using the same traditional technique of interlocking stones reminiscent of the Banaue Rice Terraces.

Lembeh Resort originally built wooden cottages using traditional or Minahasan style building techniques; large verandas are coupled with spacious sleeping rooms and Balinese (semi-open) bathrooms.

The main challenges we will face are: - Our engine is built for traditional level design techniques and will need to be modified

In terms of the physical process, I only ever make my pieces using the traditional hand - building techniques of coil building and pinching.

In creating these works, the artists used various techniques including altering the outline of the canvas, building up relief, cutting into the plane, and using materials alternate to traditional canvas as support.

Noffke is noted for his technical versatility, his pioneering research into hot forging, the introduction of new alloys, and his ability to both build on and challenge traditional techniques.

He received his BA hons in Illustration at Coventry University in 2007 and since then he has been drawing strange creatures, building Greek traditional musical instruments and developing his relief printmaking techniques.

Bontecou has fond memories of Zorach's encouragement of experimentation: she began welding parts together — «figures, strange shapes» — contrary to traditional techniques of building up a form.

Each piece begins sculpturally through traditional canvas - building techniques to emphasize form and shape.

Studio Mumbai incorporates skilled craftsmen trained in traditional Indian building techniques who work in the same environment with architects.

Made in an analogue color darkroom, and build up from multiple exposures on light sensitive paper, the prints combine projected Photoshop files of digitized brush strokes with traditional photogram techniques where objects are placed directly on the image surface.

In creating these works, the artists used various techniques including altering the outline of the canvas, building up relief, cutting into the plane, and using materials alternate to traditional canvas as support... Shaped canvas works became popular in the 1960s as artists sought to emphasize the potential for paintings to be considered objects.

Through executing what is most important to my practice, I encourage the viewer to focus on the structure, where I use traditional canvas - building techniques.

It features rain chains for harvesting rainwater, skylights, wide windows for passive cooling, and traditional building methods like earth plaster for humidity control and charred wood siding (shou sugi ban or a scorched - wood technique from Japan) for better protection against the elements.

Building upon traditional boat - making techniques, Durnin designed Water Bed in consideration of the abundance of waterways of London.

Brazilian designers and sisters Claudia and Monica Araujo use traditional weaving techniques and natural and recycled materials to build these versatile fabrics that serve as rugs or as textiles.

While it is common for people to build their own homes using traditional techniques, it often reproduces vulnerability as most of these self - built houses are easily damaged even by low or medium magnitude weather events.

Built for Bali's pioneering Green School, this bridge uses local materials and traditional techniques.

Anagram Architects used a traditional technique to keep it a little cooler and quieter: They constructed a brick Jaali screen that acts as a double skin to shade the building.

The facade is maintenance free built of burned wood, a traditional Japanese technique transformed into a Norwegian context.

Built using traditional and local techniques of construction, this distinctive structure sits on the edge of a national forest and a long - vanished lake.

New York matrimonial lawyer Joleena Louis has built a traditional, referral - based law practice by using tried and true marketing techniques.

I employ a range of both traditional and progressive techniques to facilitate relationship building, communication skills and behavior change that are designed to help you become the person you want to be.