PRE-FABRICATED EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT BUILDING FOR LOW INCOME HOUSING

This paper discusses advantages of pre-fabricated earthquake resistant building for low income housing. The structural performance and collapse of non-engineered constructions during past earthquakes and general concepts of earthquake resistant design will be discussed.

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Building houses that safe against future earthquake hazards: LOAD BEARING MASONRY CONSTRUCTION

If you are intending to build a single or double storied house without reinforced concrete frame
consisting of columns & beams, but masonry walls, you need to do the following to make the
building structurally safe against future earthquake hazards compliant with the Building
Byelaws.

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FALL AND WINTER GARDENING BASICS FOR LOS ANGELES COUNTY

One of the advantages of Southern California over the North and the East, is that our mild winters make it possible to plant and grow year-round. Fall is not only a time for garden maintenance and preparation of the soil for spring planting; it is the time to plant for winter and early spring harvests and blooms. Also it is the time to overwinter cool weather hardy crops, and plant cover crops for soil building. Growth during fall and winter slows down.

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Deep and Distant Ethics: The Fictional Approach in Chinese Gardens and Urbanism

This paper begins by analyzing Jorge Luis Borges’s fictional creation “The Garden of Forking Paths” while searching for architectural realities in his novel. It then progresses to a discussion on the eighteenth-century Chinese imperial Garden of Round Brightness to demonstrate the fiction-reality relationship in the mystic garden existence. With the revealed historical context, this research interprets the Daoist sage Laozi’s concept, “the deep and distant ethics” (xuan-de), by introducing the metaphoric approach of architectural fiction, which acts as a poetic resistance for ethical architecture in Chinese urbanism.

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