Prompt: The ISS simplifies individual experiments by allowing groups of experiments to share the same launches and crew time. Research is conducted in a wide variety of fields, including astrobiology, astronomy, physical sciences, materials science, space weather, meteorology, and human research including space medicine and the life sciences. Scientists on Earth have timely access to the data and can suggest experimental modifications to the crew. If follow-on experiments are necessary, the routinely scheduled launches of resupply craft allows new hardware to be launched with relative ease. Crews fly expeditions of several months' duration, providing approximately 160 person-hours per week of labour with a crew of six. However, a considerable amount of crew time is taken up by station maintenance. Perhaps the most notable ISS experiment is the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), which is intended to detect dark matter and answer other fundamental questions about our universe. According to NASA, the AMS is as important as the Hubble Space Telescope.
Prompt: Art Deco. New materials and technologies, especially reinforced concrete, were key to the development and appearance of Art Deco. The first concrete house was built in 1853 in the Paris suburbs by François Coignet. In 1877 Joseph Monier introduced the idea of strengthening the concrete with a mesh of iron rods in a grill pattern. The ISS consists of pressurised habitation modules, structural trusses, photovoltaic solar arrays, thermal radiators, docking ports, experiment bays and robotic arms. Major ISS modules have been launched by Russian Proton and Soyuz rockets and US Space Shuttles. The station is serviced by a variety of visiting spacecraft: the Russian Soyuz and Progress, the SpaceX Dragon 2, and the Northrop Grumman Space Systems Cygnus, and formerly the European Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), the Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle, and SpaceX Dragon 1. The Dragon spacecraft allows the return of pressurised cargo to Earth, which is used, for example, to repatriate scientific experiments for further analysis. As of April 2022, 251 astronauts, cosmonauts, and space tourists from 20 different nations have visited the space station, many of them multiple times.
Prompt: Copper. The East Tower of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, showing the contrast between the refurbished copper installed in 2010 and the green color of the original 1894 copper.
Prompt: Self-similarity is visible in the elegant facades of the gothic structures. There is a repeat of basic, regular elements throughout the elevation in varied heights and widths. There is a recurrence of arched forms and motifs throughout the structure in different hierarchical scales. Here, the shape of the main entrance is repeated in smaller dimensions in the arched windows on either side, which is further repeated in the small openings and niches. Gothic architecture is also very detail and pattern-oriented which adds to the fractal character of its structures. Geometry was used in gothic architecture as a means of conversing with the universe through mathematics. The fractal nature of the structures creates an unlimited scale, very detailed and appealing to see. The walls, ceilings, pavements, and facades all have minute patterns that repeat and are self-similar. The subtlety of these designs registers in the mind very minutely and creates beauty. Saint Peter’s Dome in Venice also has iterative domes at different scales. The structure has a central, cross-shaped aisle with symmetric clusters in between its arms. These arms further consist of smaller crosses.
Prompt: Fractals are geometric shapes that repeat themselves as the scale changes. The term ‘fractal’ was coined by Benoit Mandelbrot in 1975 for mathematical sets of numbers that stay ubiquitous despite the scale at which they are viewed. These are never-ending patterns that are self-similar. The property of self-similarity refers to the property where the object retains its original proportions even after it undergoes a transformation.Several architectural styles have their principles based on the inspiration of nature. Fractals provide a medium for the expression of irregular, organic curves, and natural shapes. They help reduce the complex patterns of nature to something comprehensible. Fractals are naturally present all around us, from the growth of pineapples and pinecones to the formation of ice crystals and tree branches. Hence, it only makes sense that architects looking at nature for inspiration applied fractals in their structures as well. Fractal geometry in architecture can be found in two ways- unintentional or intentional. Unintentional fractal geometry is usually found in cases of aesthetics, where the fractals create a repeating pattern that is visually appealing.
Prompt: The small party employed by M. Botta were at work on Kouyunjik, when a peasant from a distant village chanced to visit the spot. Seeing that every fragment of brick and alabaster uncovered by the workmen was carefully preserved, he asked the reason of this, to him, strange proceeding. On being informed that they were in search of sculptured stones, he advised them to try the mound on which his village was built, and in which, he declared, many such things as they wanted had been exposed on digging for the foundations of new houses. M. Botta, having been frequently deceived by similar stories, was not at first inclined to follow the peasant's advice, but subsequently sent an agent and one or two workmen to the place. After a little opposition from the inhabitants, they were permitted to sink a well in the mound; and at a small distance from the surface they came to the top of a wall which, on digging deeper, they found to be built of sculptured slabs of gypsum. M. Botta, on receiving information of this discovery, went at once to the village, which was called Khorsabad. He directed a wider trench to be formed, and to be carried in the direction of the wall.
Prompt: The beginning of human space flight was dominated by engineers proving out the necessary transportation and life support systems, but it did not take long for architects to envision their role in designing space stations and planetary bases. NASA relied on their crew systems division for capsule design and in the early 1970s, a few architecture students expanded the scope defending graduate theses on space station concepts. Toward the end of the decade, NASA’s interest in building a space station exposed the need for architectural-level thinking. This cracked the door for aerospace support contractors to consider hiring an architect. Later, the Space Station Freedom program further opened the door including architects within NASA, the broader contractor community, and academia working together in the emerging field called Space Architecture.
Prompt: Space Architecture is the theory and practice of designing and building inhabited environments in outer space (it encompasses architectural design of living and working environments in space related facilities, habitats, and vehicles). These environments include, but are not limited to: space vehicles, stations, habitats and lunar, planetary bases and infrastructures; and earth based control, experiment, launch, logistics, payload, simulation and test facilities. Earth analogs to space applications may include Antarctic, airborne, desert, high altitude, underground, undersea environments and closed ecological systems. Designing these forms of architecture presents a particular challenge to ensure and support safety, sustainability, habitability, reliability, and crew efficiency, productivity and comfort in the context of extreme environments.
Prompt: Fort Manoel is built in the shape of a square, with a pentagonal bastion on each corner, giving it the shape of a star fort. The four bastions are called St. Helen, St. Anthony, St. John and Notre Dame Bastions. St. Helen and St. Anthony Bastions are located on the seaward side, facing Valletta. They originally had echaugettes and gunpowder magazines, but the echaugettes on both bastions were dismantled in the 19th century, and the magazine on St. Anthony Bastion was demolished to make way for three QF 12-pounder gun emplacements. The magazine on St. Helen Bastion is still intact. The curtain wall linking these two bastions contains the main gate, which is protected by a lunette known as the Couvre Porte. St. John and Notre Dame Bastions are located along the landward side of the fort. Each bastion is protected by a low cavalier. The curtain wall between the two bastions is further protected by a pentagonal ravelin, which is largely rock hewn.
Prompt: Tolkien describes Barad-dûr as a "vast fortress, armoury, prison, furnace of great power". The fortress was constructed with many towers and was hidden in clouds, "rising black, blacker and darker than the vast shades amid which it stood, the cruel pinnacles and iron crown of the topmost tower of Barad-dûr." It could not be clearly seen because Sauron created shadows about himself that crept out from the tower. Frodo sees the immense tower from Amon Hen, the Hill of Seeing, as wall upon wall, battlement upon battlement, black, immeasurably strong, mountain of iron, gate of steel, tower of adamant... Barad-dûr, Fortress of Sauron. There was a look-out post, the "Window of the Eye", at the top of Barad-dûr. This window was visible from Mount Doom where Frodo and Sam had a terrible glimpse of the Eye of Sauron. Barad-dûr's west gate is described as "huge" and the west bridge as "a vast bridge of iron."
Prompt: Brooke comments that in Lothlórien, Tolkien had worked in his personal concern for nature. Further, she suggests that Lothlórien embodies Ruskin's principles of Gothic architecture. She argues that the centrality of the mallorn tree to the Elves makes architecture hard to distinguish from nature. Further, the colours of silver and gold in the hall of Galadriel and Celeborn recall both the silver-grey of the mallorn trunks and the circle of trees "arrayed in pale gold" in Lothlórien, and the Two Trees of Valinor, with Laurelin's golden fruit and Telperion's silver flower. This in turn, she writes, implies that the Elves of Lothlórien are wholly integrated with their forest environment. In Unfinished Tales, Tolkien speaks of the mallorn grove "carpeted and roofed with gold"; Brooke writes that this mixes the lexical fields of architecture and nature description, revealing the intertwining of the two in the Elvish realm.
Prompt: Meduseld, the Golden Hall of the Kings of Rohan, is in the centre of the town of Edoras at the top of the hill.[T 5] "Meduseld", Old English for "mead hall",[6] is meant to be a translation of an unknown Rohirric word with the same meaning. Meduseld is based on the mead hall Heorot in Beowulf; it is a large hall with a thatched roof that appears golden from far off. The walls are richly decorated with tapestries depicting the history and legends of the Rohirrim, and it serves as a house for the King and his kin, a meeting hall for the King and his advisors, and a gathering hall for ceremonies and festivities.[T 5] Tolkien hints at the hall's heroic connotations by having Legolas describe Meduseld in a sentence that directly translates a line of Beowulf, "The light of it shines far over the land", representing líxte se léoma ofer landa fela.[7]
Brooke comments that Meduseld represents "a more historical reworking of architecture", given its evident Anglo-Saxon roots, while Gondor's Minas Tirith suggests a "more classical legacy" from European history. The parallels do not imply identity: unlike the Anglo-Saxons.
Prompt: Isengard was for most of its history a green and pleasant place, according to Tolkien, with many fruiting trees. It stood in front of Methedras, the southernmost peak of the Misty Mountains, which formed its northern wall. The rest of the perimeter consisted of a large wall, the Ring of Isengard, breached only by the inflow of the river Isen at the north-east through a portcullis, and the gate of Isengard at the south, at both shores of the river.[T 8] The tower of Orthanc was built towards the end of the Second Age by men of Gondor from four many-sided columns of rock joined by an unknown process and then hardened. No known weapon could harm it. The place became evil only after Saruman took it over, filling it with pits and tunnels where his Orcs worked underground with fire and wheels. Orthanc rose to more than 500 feet (150 metres) above the plain of Isengard, and ended in four sharp peaks. Its only entrance was at the top of a high stair, and above that was a small window and balcony.
Prompt: Architecture is becoming liquid, invisible and indistinguishable from images. As the city remains open to processes of growth, decline and transformation, Architects and City Planners must strive to sustain a continuous program so that intense metabolic changes can take place freely within our Cities. Perhaps these critiques on Architecture in the Imagined Cities guide the evolution of the perception of our cities. That the city itself was transforming through new media, new technology, and new patterns of consumption. As the physicality of architecture is dematerializing, Architecture is set to become a very metaphysical thing. At present, Architecture is still very tangible. But there is already an imaginable state where all the physical elements could become, somehow, simple images. There is going to be an interpenetration on the physical world that we live in. And people live with it already, with information overload as the norm and social media as the training center just for that.
Prompt: Cyberpunk is a futuristic, sci-fi-based society that's often dominated by – or at war with – hi-tech intelligence. Common characters involve avatars, robots, or hybrid humans. Picture this: you're at war with the elites of artificial intelligence.
Prompt: 30 St Mary Axe. The primary methods for controlling wind-excited sways are to increase the stiffness, or increase damping with tuned/active mass dampers. To a design by Arup, its fully triangulated perimeter structure makes the building rigid enough without any extra reinforcements. Despite its overall curved glass shape, there is only one piece of curved glass on the building, the lens-shaped cap at the apex. On the building's top level (the 40th floor), there is a bar for tenants and their guests, with a panoramic view of London. A restaurant operates on the 39th floor, and private dining rooms on the 38th. Most buildings have extensive lift equipment on the roof of the building, but this was not possible for the Gherkin, since a bar had been planned for the 40th floor. The architects dealt with this by having the main lift only reach the 34th floor, with a separate push-from-below lift to the 39th floor. There is a marble stairwell and a disabled persons' lift, which leads the visitor up to the bar in the dome.
Prompt: Montreal Biosphere. he building originally formed an enclosed structure of steel and acrylic cells, 76 metres (249 ft) in diameter and 62 metres (203 ft) high. It is a Class 1 (icosahedral, as differentiated from Class 2 domes, which are dodecahedral, and Class 3 ones, which are tetrahedral), 32-frequency, double-layer dome, in which the inner and outer layers are connected by a latticework of struts. (There has occasionally been confusion in mistakenly referring to this as a 16-frequency dome due to the fact that there are 15 hexagonal polygons from each pentagonally polygonal vertex of this icosahedral polyhedron to the adjacent vertex. However, the standard for measuring dome frequency is the number of triangles from vertex to vertex. Since there are two triangles from one side to the opposite side of a hexagon, there are actually 30 triangles from the edge of each pentagonal vertex in this dome to the next, plus the triangle that comprises one-fifth of the pentagonal vertex at each end of the length from one vertex to the adjacent vertex: totaling 32 triangles from the center of each vertex to the center of the next vertex.).
Prompt: Blobitecture. Despite its seeming organicism, blob architecture is unthinkable without this and other similar computer-aided design programs. Architects derive the forms by manipulating the algorithms of the computer modeling platform. Some other computer aided design functions involved in developing this are the nonuniform rational B-spline or NURB, freeform surfaces, and the digitizing of sculpted forms by means akin to computed tomography. Buckminster Fuller's work with geodesic domes provided both stylistic and structural precedents. Geodesic domes form the building blocks for works including The Eden Project.[6] Niemeyer's Edificio Copan built in 1957 undulates nonsymetrically invoking the irregular non-linearity often seen in blobitecture. There was a climate of experimental architecture with an air of psychedelia in the 1970s that these were a part of. The Flintstone House by William Nicholson in 1976, was built over large inflated balloons. Frederick Kiesler's unbuilt, Endless House is another instance of early blob-like architecture, although it is symmetrical in plan and designed before computers.
Prompt: The Architecture of ‘Tron’ relies on a novum created to achieve this alternative universe. There are no natural sources of light in the digital universe of ‘Tron’, and this is clearly represented in the Architecture of the spaces. The spaces in the movie are almost exclusively lit up by artificial LED Lights and even in the technology and clothes worn by humans and humanoids. It is almost like the lights in ‘Tron’ are not use for illuminating the surface but rather to simply wash the surface with light hence allowing for the object to be gently be acknowledged. With the absence of any natural light sources, artificial light is used in the form of a material or in the way colour is used in the real world. The architectural aesthetic of the film is inspired by microchips, and so is the visual aesthetic of the costumes and vehicles in the Tron world. Another inspiration that the virtual world has taken from the real world is the Architecture of totalitarian governments.
Prompt: The Tower of Ring is a stunning structure that is a beautiful sight to behold. Despite being dubbed a tower, it has more of a monumental status. Completely empty, it does not house any rooms or even stairs to climb up. Occupying the middle of a big square in Tianjin, China, it simply offers a serene area for revellers to lose themselves in. Designed by the EASTERN Design Office, the Tower of Ring is made out of cast-steel. Exactly 1,168 pieces make up each wave element, all of which are embedded with LEDs for a spectacular show at night. Consisting of 73 levels, the cylindrical structure spirals up into the heavens, inviting people to enjoy its height amongst the blue sky and clouds--to not would be a shame.
Prompt: The seemingly out-of-place 'Step Tower' looms over Ibaraki-city in Osaka, Japan while imitating a seafaring vessel. Designed by architecture firm EASTERN design office, the tower was built with a minimalist facade to look like a white ship. The residential tower is composed of layers of beautiful curves that extend into the sky. As you look up, each subsequent layer looks like it's curving further and further up. As a result, the seafaring tower looks like a gargantuan wave or spine.EASTERN's tower is 10-stories tall and has extremely well-designed rooms. The design firm decided to keep the apartments simple with rich hardwood floors and clean white furniture. The Step Tower will have larger suites on the fifth to tenth floors and single room suites on the second to fourth floors.
Prompt: When Ziba Esmaeilian describes the themes and principles at play in the design of 'Dichotomy & Ambiguity,' it's difficult to envision an architecture that embodies any harmony at all. Interestingly, despite the contrasting forms at work within this idiosyncratic structure, the skyscraper carries itself with a beautiful balance. The chaotic "pile" system is met with the predictable monolithic style for a fascinating fusion of geometric masses. They appear to defy the logic of the planned horizontal floor planes. A glance at the cross-sections will show you that such interior spaces function regardless with an intelligent arrangement of open galleries and vertical circulation. 'Dichotomy & Ambiguity' mesmerizes from the outside with its abstract shape and the captivating striation of its cladding.
Prompt: Scientists and engineers at Arizona State University's Center for Science and the Imagination are working on a concept with science fiction author Neal Stephenson to develop sci-fi building that is capable of launching rockets into outer space. Before becoming an author, Stephenson studied physics, familiarizing him with issues like wind pressure and the constraints of today's building materials. He claims that one day, "high-grade steel could one day be used to build a tower that is around 24 times as tall as the 830-metre Burj Khalifa," which is currently the world's tallest man-made structure. The proposed design of 'The Tall Building' is part of 'Project Hieroglyph,' which aims to bring the visions of sci-fi writers into reality. Stephenson imagines that this structure would tower over the ground at over 12 miles high and because of its height, it would become one of the most cost-effective ways to send objects into space.
Prompt: These sci-fi architecture examples range from cloud-shaped structures to futuristic interiors that are inspired by conceptual imagery. Embracing futuristic design ideals, these sci-fi architecture examples are the opposite of traditional and are always pushing boundaries with their complex and sophisticated designs. These amazing structures are not only visually striking but are designed using some of the world's most sophisticated technological inventions. Standouts from the list include Yuliyan Mikov's Museum of Architecture concept. This project looks to nature for its visual inspiration and employs complex technology to create its organically shaped structural form. The end result is a dreamlike and sculptural design and is a piece many hope will be fully realized and built in the coming future.
Prompt: According to Egyptologists, the word means “the temple at the entrance of the lake.” According to Herodotus, the entire building, surrounded by a single wall, contained 12 courts and 3,000 chambers, 1,500 above and 1,500 below ground. The roofs were wholly of stone, and the walls were covered with sculpture. On one side stood a pyramid about 243 feet (74 m) high. Herodotus himself went through the upper chambers but was not permitted to visit those underground, which he was told contained the tombs of the kings who had built the labyrinth and the tombs of the sacred crocodiles. Other ancient authorities considered that it was built as a place of meeting for the Egyptian nomes, or political divisions; but it is more likely that it was intended for sepulchral purposes. It was the work of Amenemhet III, of the 12th dynasty, who reigned from 1818 to 1770 bc. It was first located by the Egyptologist Karl R. Lepsius to the north of Hawara in the Fayum, and in 1888 Flinders Petrie discovered its foundation, the extent of which is about 1,000 feet long by 800 feet wide (300 by 250 m).
Prompt: Brooke remarks that where Rohan had a long low hall, Gondor has a tall tower, suggesting defence as well as signalling architectural skill, while "its whiteness reflects the enlightened Gondorian society".[1] As for the interiors, the nature-loving Hobbit Pippin sees the palace's "tall pillars" as being like "monoliths ...[rising] to great capitals carved in many strange figures of beasts and leaves".[1] Brooke comments that the Hobbit recognises the carved foliage, but finds its expression in stone incongruous. As for the walls, they have no "hangings nor storied webs, nor anything of woven stuff or of wood", but only "tall images graven in cold stone".[1] Once again, this contrasts with Meduseld's comfortable warmth, with its "many woven cloths ... hung upon the walls" telling the stories of "figures of ancient legend".
Prompt: The capital city of Gondor was Minas Tirith. It had seven walls: each wall held a gate, and each gate faced a different direction from the next, facing alternately somewhat north or south. Each level was about 100 ft (30 m) higher than the one below it, and each surrounded by a high white stone wall, with the exception of the wall of the First Circle (the lowest level), which was black, built of the same material used for Orthanc. This outer wall was also the tallest, longest and strongest of the city's seven walls; it was vulnerable only to earthquakes capable of rending the ground where it stood. The Great Gate of Minas Tirith, constructed of iron and steel and guarded by stone towers and bastions, was the main gate on the first wall level of the city.[T 6] Tolkien called it a "Byzantine City".
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