Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
La Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Barcelona Tech (UPC) és una institució pública de recerca i d'educació superior en els àmbits de l'enginyeria, l'arquitectura i les ciències.
L’activitat dels seus campus i centres fan de la UPC un punt de referència i, en complicitat amb el teixit productiu, són agent i motor de canvi econòmic i social, en posar en valor la recerca bàsica i aplicada i transferir tecnologia i coneixement a la societat.
Els investigadors i investigadores de la UPC treballen des dels laboratoris i centres de recerca per augmentar la producció científica, valoritzar-la socialment a través de la transferència de resultats i continuar liderant projectes internacionals d’excel·lència, ja sigui a partir d’iniciatives pròpies o en col·laboració amb altres centres de recerca i universitats d’arreu del món.
Portal de la producció científica dels investigadors de la UPC.
Portal d'accés obert al coneixement de la UPC
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At the beginning of times, technique was used to reduce the physical stress of any work undertaken by the mankind; this was done without taking into consideration any saving of the resources used. Indeed, it was the other ...
The object of this doctoral thesis is to explore the effects of the passage of time on the façades of buildings, focusing on the architect's sphere of influence and point of view. The initial hypothesis is that project ...
Domestic architecture is the nerve centre within which human development takes place. Based on that premise, the evolution of spatial perception and the concept of intimacy in human dwellings throughout history are ...
The research presented here focuses on the situation of the unprecedented nineteenth-century work on the llotja or market house of Palma de Mallorca (1866-1905). Carried out while the restoration of the monument was in ...
This PhD thesis is a deep research on the architectural evolution of the most representative municipal markets in Catalonia and Valencia , from its origins to the present day. It includes an extensive comparison of all the ...
There has been interest over the last few decades in Barcelona for buildings in urban cores that have outlived their original purpose. To take advantage of the heritage of these buildings, both public and private sectors ...
This thesis is the result of research aimed at increasing the knowledge of residential architecture century, under the rule of General Porfirio Diaz, and known as the Porfiriato. The objectives are: typological porfirista ...
The current research is based on an experimental prototype that has been developed over a two-year period at Universidad de los Andes' architecture degree programme in Bogotá. The conjoining of a theoretical development ...
La cal, que había sido el material conglomerante por excelencia en el sector de la construcción se ha visto relegada casi exclusivamente, a partir de la irrupción generalizada del cemento, al mundo de la restauración, ...
En este nuevo milenio más del 50% de la población mundial vive en áreas urbanas. Las expectativas señalan que al menos 24 ciudades del mundo superarán los 10 millones de habitantes. Con semejante intensificación de la ...
En una situación de incendio, la fachada del edificio es una de las vías más rápidas de propagación del fuego, representando un potencial peligro no solo para el edificio donde se origina el fuego, sino también para las ...
During the last third of the twentieth century a gradual spreading of a general protective consciousness throughout society has occurred. The important changes of the productive, economic and social fabric of society have ...
The research presented in this thesis under the title ¿Las Fábricas Textiles, En El Centro Y Sur De México De 1835 A 1910. Origen Evolución e Influencia Europea¿ is proposed based on the principle 2.3 that ICOMOS ...
Our research is focused on the seismic phenomenon and the flood phenomenon in the city of Algiers and specifically in the neighborhood of Bab El Oued. These two phenomena are very present and can generate important ...
This Ihesis investigates the school building inserted in the administrative dislrict of Eixample in Barcelona, in order to establish a !)pological and technological base Ihatcharacteri:zes his implantation. The investigation ...
Pursuing the sustainable urban project means to understand the reasons of crisis of the twentieth century city and interpret them under new approaches. This is the purpose of the thesis, to assume the critical states of ...
El "De re aedificatoria", segundo tratado conocido de arquitectura en la historia y escrito entre 1443 y 1452 por Leon Battista Alberti, es uno de los textos arquitectónicos más estudiados. La época histórica a la que ...
The purpose of this document is to study the application of Tensegrity principles on tensile textile constructions. This work studies the basic concept of Tensegrity unit, its classification according a previous researcher ...
A literature review reveals that the virtual reconstructions 01 cultural heritage made using computer graphics techniques , often lack scientific rigor and lose sight 01 existing knowledge. AlI too often, the criteria ...
The aim of this research work is the determination of the mechanical properties of timber of Pinus radiata D. Don from Catalonia, by means of non destructive methods, with the secondary aim to complete the national data ...
