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            <title><![CDATA[Periodic Maintenance of Road Bridges to Ensure a Sustainable Infrastructure – Case Study]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Bridge maintenance work represents one of the main activities dedicated to the maintenance and repair of roads in operation. It plays a primary role within the activities undertaken by public administrators. Periodic maintenance work are large-scale works that are executed with a certain specific periodicity. They are planned in advance and aim to partially or fully compensate for the degradation and wear of the road infrastructure. This article aims to briefly present the periodic maintenance works designed to bring the bridge located on the Romanian national road DN 28 at km 6+957 to an optimal state of normal operation. The structure in question was built in 1963, with a total length of 236.90 meters. It consists of two metal I-type girders, continuous next to the piles, arranged at an interaxial distance of 7.10 meters. Before the execution of periodic maintenance works, the reinforced concrete decking, which supports the carriageway and sidewalks, rested directly on the upped soles of the stringers and main girders, without any intermediate element to ensure cooperation. The planned periodic maintenance works aim to bring the structure to normal parameters necessary for safe exploitation and also to increase the comfort of traffic by increasing the total width of the entire structure, including the pedestrian sidewalks. This modification of the constructive parameters is based on calculation of strength and stability, taking into account the new operating time provided to the structure by the execution of periodic maintenance works.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Issues Related to Increasing the Energy Efficiency of Buildings. from Thermal Retrofit to Deep Energy Renovation at nZEB Level]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In the conditions of the ever-increasing demands of the users and the continuously rising price of fossil fuels, today, the operational energy demand of buildings has become hardly bearable. In the context of global sustainability requirements, it is proposed to build constructions whose energy consumption is as low as possible or almost equal to zero, both new and existing buildings. This fact is of particular importance because buildings consume 40% of total energy and are responsible for 36% of greenhouse gas emissions. In the European Union, 80% of the energy used by households represents heating, cooling and domestic hot water. Achieving climate neutrality by 2050 requires deep renovation of existing buildings to enhance energy efficiency, reduce fossil fuel dependence, and increase renewable resource use.The paper presents the current state of Romania’s buildings, as well as the arguments for accelerating thermal rehabilitation works, from the perspective of obtaining an energy efficient and decarbonized building stock by the year 2050. Examples of good practices, initiatives, and representative pilot projects are presented, as well as an analysis of the new criteria existing buildings must meet in case of undertaking deep and major renovations to meet the nZEB principles.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[An Overview of the Benefits and Disadvantages Associated with the Use of Hempcrete as a Construction Material]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The building and construction industry has been identified as a major contributor to global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, it is imperative to use sustainable building materials. Hempcrete has been recognized as an eco-friendly material that reduces waste and minimizes natural resources and energy use. While it possesses several benefits, including good structural properties, its porous structure limits, its mechanical performance, and water retention, thereby reducing its applicability as a building material. Nevertheless, it can still be used in construction projects where its limitations are not a hindrance. Although, hemp may not provide as much structural strength as previously thought, it exhibits similar properties to fiberglass. This paper provides an overview of the potential opportunities and challenges associated with Hempcrete as a building material based on secondary sources. The paper also identifies areas in Hempcrete research that require further investigation to expand its usage in construction.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Quantitative Seismic Analysis of a Precast Reinforced Concrete Frame Hall and the Establishment of Retrofitting Solutions. Part I – the Dynamic Analysis of the Existing Structural System]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The ventilated facade is an external building envelope system, installed dry, in new constructions or on buildings undergoing renovation. This system is mounted outside the building, with a space in front of its perimeter wall. Its main role is to influence the heat exchange between the inside and outside of the building, with advantages over heat losses. A modern material used in ventilated facades is Corian, a composite material patented by DuPont in 1967, composed of acrylic polymer and alumina trihydrate (ATH) derived from bauxite ore. Its main use is for the finishing layer on the ventilated facades of buildings, and it requires knowledge of how it behaves under the action of temperature variations. This article presents the laboratory results recorded to assess the material’s disturbed state under freeze-thaw cycles.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Moisture Variability in Hemp Fiber Thermal Insulation Layer Under Environmental Conditions in Romania: An Assessment]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Conducting a comprehensive investigation into the behaviour of thermal insulation materials during the developmental phase is crucial for the production of materials. An indispensable aspect of this investigation is the evaluation of water content variation within the thermal insulation layer of various element configurations. Moisture has a considerable impact on the thermal conductivity of materials, which further highlights the significance of this assessment. The article evaluates the water content variability in hemp fibre heat insulation layer in Romania’s distinct environmental conditions via ten-year hygrothermal simulations using specialized software. The results indicate a significant difference in the maximum water content within the thermal insulation layer across various climatic zones. On the other hand, the analysis suggests a relatively lower variability in water content when the element is exposed to different cardinal points. This study reinforces the importance of understanding how thermal insulation materials behave and examining water content variation within building elements, especially the insulation layer. Moreover, the evaluation of the likelihood of mould development is an essential measure that cannot be overlooked.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[State of Art on Passive House Standards Analysis in Terms of Energy Performance]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The building sector is a major contribution to the total final energy consumption all over the world. Implementing energy-efficient technologies and strategies is considered one effective method to significantly reduce the energy consumption of buildings. With increased awareness of environmental concerns and rising energy costs, the Passive House Buildings are rapidly spreading in response to the increasing demand for energy efficient buildings. The Passive House (PH) standard offers a cost-effective approach to minimize the energy demand of buildings in line with the global principle of sustainability. By significantly decreasing energy consumption, Passive Houses provide affordable comfort. The present study provides a succinct overview of Passive House buildings’ fundamental design principles and state of the art on passive house buildings analysis in terms of energy performance.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Urban green infrastructure as a collaborative tool in architectural heritage preservation and valorisation]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This paper investigates the role of Urban Green Infrastructure (UGI) in the preservation and spatial enhancement of built heritage within cultural-historical settings. Using the Bubanj Memorial Park in Niš, Serbia, as an illustrative example, the research explores how ecological elements can be integrated into heritage conservation to support sustainable development, reinforce place identity, and revitalize neglected memorial landscapes. UGI is positioned as a collaborative and multidisciplinary tool that connects environmental and cultural values. Through conceptual design guidelines rooted in ecological planning and heritage interpretation, the study shows how green systems contribute to the transmission of collective memory and encourage public trust in the urban environment. The findings advocate for a dynamic approach to heritage, treating it as an active component of contemporary urban life. By bridging architecture, landscape, and memory, the paper highlights the potential of UGI to foster inclusiveness, community engagement, and long-term care for shared cultural assets.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[New architectural ideas require new structural engineering]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Human society evolves through interconnected relationships and is historically shaped by cosmological views that influenced culture and architecture. Religious cosmologies dominated until the 16th–17th centuries, when Galileo and Descartes introduced first scientific paradigms. Newtonian physics framed the 18th–19th centuries, relativity defined the 20th, and the 21st is engaging with quantum and holistic perspectives. These shifts, alongside technological change, suggest a transition toward a more integrated worldview visible in architecture. Architecture mirrors prevailing cosmologies: modernism reflected Newtonian rationalism, postmodernism expressed relativistic plurality, and quantum cosmology— stressing interconnectivity and emergence—inspires parametric and quantum design. This affects aesthetics, construction methods and the architect–engineer relation. Today, holistic approaches encourage collaboration, aligning with broader scientific convergence. Architect and engineer now share responsibility for creating adaptive, ecological, systemic architecture, oriented toward emergent biological paradigms, thus reshaping space, structure, function, and experience.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Co-Housing. Resilience in times of hardship]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Having to deal with an emerging phenomenon in terms of housing, the questions that this study would try to observe critically and answer, are addressed on various levels. In connection to the conference, the central question of this work focuses on the built environment and the relations that arise from it: how can participatory design redefine residential buildings from a sustainability standpoint?The presentation will first ground the concept of co-housing in its contemporary context, followed by two case studies of co-housing developments in Romania and abroad. It argues that co-housing can be seen as a living laboratory for architecture’s potential to support collective life, especially when residents are involved in the design process. Through a semi-structured interview and comparative analysis of two different co-housing projects, this work positions architecture not merely as a backdrop for social life but as an active agent in community formation. The paper includes diagrams and sketches that illustrate spatial connections, social relations, and the economic or legal aspects involved in this type of housing development, endorsing the hypothesis that sustainability is achieved on various aspects through alliance.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Care infrastructure in Bucharest: A case study on libraries]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This paper explores how neighborhood libraries in Bucharest function as spaces of care within the urban fabric, proposing that they serve as vital components of social infrastructure that foster trust, inclusion, and community resilience. Drawing on feminist care theory and urban sociology, the study reframes libraries as relational and spatial actors that support everyday life beyond their educational function. The research is part of Care Infrastructure in Bucharest: An Urban Culture Research, a project led by Zeppelin magazine, involving an interdisciplinary team of architects, urbanists, and anthropologists. Through participatory methods—including mapping, field observations, and interviews—the project analyzed the accessibility, condition, and perception of libraries across several Bucharest neighborhoods. A comparison with Prague provides insight into alternative strategies for library development. By integrating cross-disciplinary perspectives and user input, the article demonstrates how collaborative design processes can help reimagine underutilized urban spaces as active infrastructures of care. The study contributes to the conference theme by highlighting the role of architecture in enabling inclusive, care-centered urban practices.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Between sign and meaning: genius loci as an (in)visible framework in heritage conservation and regeneration]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A building often preserves, beyond visible traces of the past, an invisible dimension composed of subtle signs intrinsically linked to its historical character. This intangible layer—shaped by collective memory, cultural perceptions, and symbolic references—generates a continuous dialogue between past and present, essential in the conservation and regeneration of built heritage.This paper explores how such (in)visible traces reshape space through two key concepts: genius loci and architectural semiotics. The qualitative methodology combines semiotic analysis with a comparative study of three relevant interventions, addressing how contemporary architecture can engage with historical meaning without falling into rigid preservation.Tourism’s impact on the perception of genius loci is also examined. In heritage cities, visitors’ views often overshadow local voices, highlighting the need for a nuanced understanding of how the spirit of place is interpreted by different urban actors. Semiotics offers a valuable framework for translating this spirit into a contemporary architectural language, reinforcing memory and identity.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Iași Civic Quest: A participatory board game for convergent urbanism and architectural pedagogy]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Iași Civic Quest presents a board-game methodology that translates contemporary urban dilemmas into an accessible, face-to-face simulation. Rooted in the spatial culture of Iași, Romania, the game invites players—students, residents, professionals, and officials—to negotiate real planning scenarios across four domains (Nature, Housing, Academia, and Industry). Drawing on participatory design, tactical urbanism, and architectural pedagogy, the paper argues that analog games can scaffold trust, empathy, and systems literacy. The methodological section details the game’s design-based research framework, modular components, and five gameplay phases (Challenge, Positioning, Intervention, Impact, Reflection). Following informal play tests conducted with architecture students, initial observations suggest substantial pedagogical value: role play fosters empathy; iterative mapping develops critical judgment; and structured reflection nurtures metacognition. The discussion reframes architecture as civic mediation, positioning Iași Civic Quest as a transferable platform for convergent practice in both academic and community settings.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Reinterpreting ancient typologies of natural ventilation: a climatic and cfd-based analysis]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ensuring indoor environmental comfort parameters in relation to indoor air quality requirements necessitates the identification of methods that allow for the development of tools to validate the natural ventilation efficiency in relation to factors that can influence system performance. Analysing the historical evolution of natural ventilation, it is observed that the main identified natural physical phenomena by researchers and design specialists in the field are primarily based on the natural forces that generate the exchange of air between the constructed interior environment and the natural exterior environment. The difference in air pressure on either side of the envelope can be generated by two natural factors, either independently or cumulatively, through the action of the wind and temperature difference.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Collaborative materials for circular architecture: chemically optimized rubberized concrete, between sustainable innovation and architectural expression]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The research proposes the development of a sustainable cement composite, obtained by incorporating chemically treated recycled rubber with sodium hydroxide, to reduce the environmental impact of construction. The material valorizes waste from used tires, transformed into an aggregate compatible with the cement matrix through alkaline treatment, leading to improve performance. The properties and expressiveness of the composite support its applicability in sustainable architecture, especially in the creation of prefabricated ventilated facades, modular urban furniture, or decorative elements with variable geometry. The resulting aesthetics contribute to redefining material expression in architecture. The research is conducted within an interdisciplinary framework and is aligned with European strategies on decarbonizing construction and the circular economy.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The architecture of inclusion: addressing segregation in Romania’s education system]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Romania’s education system struggles with high levels of inequalities and segregation. These are also reflected in architecture, with poorer communities being more likely to access bad education facilities. Despite this, approaching education challenges from a spatial point of view remains rather marginal, both in research and policymaking. This paper looks at school buildings not merely as facilities, but as a result of social constructions and power relations. As such, they can be re-imagined to serve marginalised communities in building equity and inclusion. Indeed, previous research shows that high-quality architecture has a positive impact on attendance, student performance, teacher retention, creating a general climate of wellbeing. Based on several international case studies, our contribution opens the debate around what could be implemented in the Romanian context.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hypermodern spaces: cinematic dystopia and the visualization of hypermodernity in Blade Runner 2049]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This paper examines hypermodern spaces through Gilles Lipovetsky’s framework, analyzing Blade Runner 2049 as a dystopian hypermodernity representation. Hypermodernity—characterized by excess, hyperconsumption, and temporal paradoxes—creates fluid, accelerated, individualized environments that paradoxically undermine collaborative design processes and community trust-building while promising enhanced connectivity. Using Lipovetsky’s paradoxical individualism, the study shows hypermodern spaces satisfy contradictory desires for community/isolation and authenticity/spectacle. Comparative analysis of the 1982 and 2017 Blade Runner films demonstrates the acceleration of hypermodern spatial conditions. Key characteristics include experiential design, functional flexibility, technological integration, and aesthetic eclecticism. The film’s fragmented cityscapes demonstrate dystopian cinema’s warning against emerging hypermodern spatial conditions while systematically fragmenting the social cohesion necessary for collaborative architecture and community trust.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The faculty within the architecture of Iaşi]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The growth and dissolution of our built environment and architectures is, perhaps, a vivid representation of how memory functions, preserving most of what stands the challenge of time and “forgetting”, sometimes in a natural manner, sometimes altered by trauma and sometimes fuelled by the lack of understanding, appropriation and connection with the users’ culture and knowledge. The evermore divided world today reflects in a landscape of architecture lacking, at times, semantic coherence and connection to a broader paradigm. Of course, the visionary endeavor and experiment is mostly an unintended exercise within the design tasks of a Faculty of Architecture, serving mostly as a more or less defined urban, historic urban structure. Yet, every Faculty of Architecture, through hosting its projects within its city, intrinsically showcases a museum of possibilities, a testing laboratory of visions, confronting discourses, aesthetic directions, meanings and attitudes towards the existent, formulating the grounds for its particular architectural and urban hermeneutics. In a world divided to the extent of ideological fractures today, working on the project of a coherent, empowering and relevant city renders the Faculty of Architecture as a platform for building trust and collaboration.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The digital double. From original to variation: architectural representation in the digital era]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In the context of the second digital turn, as it is defined by Mario Carpo in his book The Second Digital Turn, Design beyond Intelligence, the architectural graphical representation suffers a fundamental transformation: the digital tools aren’t anymore only passive tools used for execution, but active cognitive mediums which directly participate in the process of thinking and designing. These new mediums offer the possibility to generate new architectural forms and spaces that don’t derivate anymore from a unique or canonical model, but from variational and iterrational dynamic systems. Thus, the traditional relationship between the original and its copy, in which the double is a faithful reproduction or a translation of a fixed prototype, is destabilized. In the digital logic, the “double” becomes autonomous, it becomes a variation, a unique instance of production.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The other architecture: temporary spaces as tools for communication and social cohesion]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This paper explores how temporary architecture can foster trust, collaboration, and social cohesion through participatory design and symbolic communication. Based on action research methodology, symbolic interactionism, and play theory, the research examines how spatial practices can support identity-building, in an empathetic community. The paper brings an empirical example, a project carried out near School nr. 7 in Timișoara during Timișoara Cultural Capital 2023. The study engaged community members in all the phases of the project, determining a collaborative model. Empirical findings highlight the link between emotional attachment, symbolic communication, and social representation. By framing “The Other Architecture” as both a method and a metaphor, the paper offers a model for inclusive, therapeutic urban interventions that amplify marginalized voices and rebuild social bonds.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Architecture beyond measure]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The ever whelming evolution humanity and its consequent metamorphosing aesthetics translates into a landscape of fragments which, at times, lack articulating resorts meant to ease their intervention in the existent context and even meant to contribute to the sense of cultural convergence through time. The apparent fractures of our environment constitute a direct reflection of the scarcity of introspection and profound understanding of the context. Early years of education in architecture are crucial to students’ in their endeavor of assembling a geometrical, experiential and semantic repertoire of architecture. This paper presents a method of mending the fractures of the built landscape through education, implemented in the 2nd year students’ summer practice, which has, as a study object, Romanian architecture, tradition and culture. The method, entitled architecture beyond measure, has, as main objective, the exercise of a measuring survey of an architecture object, representative to traditional and cultural values. Until 2019, the practice had been traditionally carried out in the Village Museums of the country. In recent years, the practice encompassed the experience of surveying places which bear less of a museum character and bring their user into the equation of study and survey. Results have thus been reaching new forms of understanding, expressing and engaging tradition into the contemporary discourse.]]></description>
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