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Interior Architecture

Is interior architecture a luxury? First, I would like to start with the definition of luxury. Luxury refers to something that is beyond your essential requirements, an excess. So, what...

Performance Analysis

The TBDY 2018 Code states in Article 3.4 and onwards that it is a performance-based regulation, specifying which performance level buildings must provide during a corresponding earthquake. For new buildings...

Occupancy Permit

Upon completion of a building or the parts thereof that can be partially utilized, it is mandatory to obtain a permit from the relevant authority upon application by the property...

What Is Reconstruction?

Reconstruction, or rebuilding, is the process in architecture of identifying the former form of an entire city, a fragment of it, or a single building using surviving ruins and historical...