Vol 2, No 4 (2012)

This article presents a successful example of the restoration of a building from the 1930s in London – the Isokon apartment building in Hampstead by Wells Coates. The article describes the analysis of the condition of this listed English modernist building and the strategy for its restoration according to the principle of authenticity. The methods deployed to restore the monolithic reinforced concrete structure, the roof and the original interiors to accommodate modern appliances and heating systems are detailed.

Vanguard are typical for all the transition stages in the history of art culture, certain types of art. In the 20th century. notion of the avant-garde has become the term to refer to a powerful phenomenon of artistic culture that has enveloped her significant events, which have much in common. Vanguard is the reaction of the artistic and aesthetic consciousness on a global, not yet encountered in the history of mankind change in cultural and civilizational process caused by scientific and technological progress (STP) of the last century. The nature and importance to humanity of this process in culture have not yet received adequate scientific and philosophical understanding, but with sufficient detail expressed in the artistic culture in the phenomenon of the avant-garde, modernism, postmodernism.

The article considers the modern structure system of kindergarten at the Samara State region. There was produced resolution of existing building codes for kindergartens. The dependence of the location and type of building from type of the territory were identified. The several areas of modernization of the existing system of pre-school buildings were offered.

It is difficult to say who and when the first had an idea to use mechanical systems in the architecture and interior design. Until recently, we could see constructions capable to change its geometric shape only in space and military industries: solar satellites, self-opening tent and life rafts, etc. Understanding that the convertible construction can be the starting element of the architectural object, appeared at the beginning of twentieth century.Schemes of device transformed volumes as many as there are various mechanisms invented by humanity in its history. Therefore, in this area offers an endless field for constructive and architectural work.

The article briefly describes the origin of “Bezymyanka” district, the situation with the residential fund at those times and nowadays. Three types of buildings are shown up and described. The work is not completely finished and most likely it is aimed at drawing more attention the part of the city which not long ago was the alternative centre of Samara and especially to two-storied residential structures built in 1940-1950th.

The article outlines the basic principles in solving the problems of storm sewage wastewater purifying worked by the author while developing the technologies, equipment and projects which were introduced in Yekaterinburg, Tyumen, Krasnoyarsk and in other cities as well as at Uralmash Plant, Kaminski -Uralsk Metallurgical Plant, Uralsk Turbine Plant and at other large industrial enterprises. The closed design of sewage treatment facilities developed both in the ground and the underground versions; their relative compactness and normative impact on the environment make it possible to construct them practically in any part of the city.

A method is given for the operative determination of the water permeability of hydraulic concrete, using a mathematical model of the process of destruction of this material, based on the apparatus of fracture mechanics.

Reviewed the technical aspects of the use steelfiberconcrete in production of small-format elements bent on the example of the beams of residential and public buildings. Showing the advantage of steelfiberconcrete beams in comparison with standard concrete, due to their high fracture toughness, as well as reducing labor costs in their production due to the exclusion of the transverse and the mounting hardware.

A new problem for disk motion along Kelvin rheological beam is solved. Amplitude-phase equations are set up according to the energy type averaging method. Instability of the disc motion along the beam is shown.