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In 1964, a young Cedric Price joined forces with the successful theater director and producer Joan Littlewood to conceive a project with the ambitious goal of transforming the concept of leisure and education in post-World War II Britain, which was still recovering from the devastation of the war. The Fun Palace project, however, never materialized into a physical structure, leaving Price's drawings as the sole record of its design. Employing cybernetic principles, the project was envisioned as a structural framework encompassing an interactive machine without a defined program, in perpetual transformation. It was like a board of combinations with no single solution, foreseeing the emergence of parametric architecture. Based on the collection of Price's original drawings, this article presents a virtual reconstruction of the Fun Palace project. It includes new documentation and an analysis of the changeability of the constantly evolving elements that define the Fun Palace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this article is to facilitate the understanding of the historical phases of the complex construction process at the College of San Pablo, initiated in 1556 and in progress to this day, through three-dimensional virtual reconstructions, obtained from two-dimensional graphic hypotheses as well as from the laser scanner survey of the part corresponding to the old Jesuit schools, in order to preserve its original architectural configuration almost intact. It is a building of great relevance for the city of Granada, being known as Jesuit College, University, and Law School, which throughout its history has undergone different transformations. The methodology used to obtain the main phases of the historical-construction process has been based on the collection and analysis of primary and secondary sources. The realization of virtual reconstructions, using 3D modelling and subsequent rendering has proven to be an efficient instrument of conceptual recreation of the spaces and shapes of the architectural complex, due to its great utility in future interventions in the building in addition to its ability to disseminate among the scientific community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we propose a 3D virtual representation of the catafalque erected in 1689 in the church of the Real Monasterio de la Encarnación in Madrid to celebrate the solemn exequies of Marie Louise d'Orléans. Information drawn from historical sources is used to describe the different phases to create the 3D model of this Baroque funeral ensemble. The potential of virtual resources for the reconstruction of a singular typology, ephemeral architecture, are highlighted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Spanish Renaissance architecture is structured, in a general way, from pieces that, depending on the design criteria and the spatial configuration defined in the project, are joined to generate one result or another; this is what we will call “components.” This is justified by the fact that each builder had to plan the pieces of the puzzle that had been assigned to him and, therefore, it is not uncommon that, sometimes, disagreements appear between complementary pieces of the same work. Thus, the architect’s organizational capacity, as a composer of the formal configuration and as director of the executive process, plays a fundamental role. To recover the unfinished geometry of the church of Cazorla we will rely on the individualized study of the components that make up the set, paying special attention to the definition of the wall box that defines the volumetric envelope of the construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

4000 years ago, during XII Dynasty, Elephantine's Governors were buried in the Qubbet El-Hawa necropoli. The set made up for the QH32, QH31, QH33 and QH34 hypogea stands in this period out. The goal is to contribute with a virtual hypothesis of the outer set construction sequence, an enclosure which include the front courtyards of every one of the successively excavated tombs as a part of a bigger funerary set. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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