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The intention of this project is to take a closer look at the use of contemporary styles for new additions to historic buildings. The use of a new and different style for additions on historic buildings, also known as contrasting styles, is one of the most typical approaches in the field, yet observing the variation in the results obtained when architects use contrasting additions in historic buildings, causes one to question this approach. What is it that makes projects like this succeed or fail? This research, will explore the key elements that allow historic buildings and contemporary additions to work cohesively, respecting and promoting each other’s architectural significance. Using the results, I will consider the feasibility of establishing design guidelines to promote the use of specific design elements for the expansion of historic buildings.

New architectural styles can actually reinforce the significance and architectural value of historic buildings. By labeling architecture as an old or new style, we are recognizing a timeframe for the use of unique and symbolic details that have value and meaning for a specific group. These symbolic details are the language that helps to illustrate or convey the evolution of our society. The styles expressed on historic buildings represent the language of the past and the new styles will represent our present in the future. For this reason, it is important to create an environment where both can coexist and correlate with each other, building additions to historic buildings using contemporary architecture styles with an honest representation of current social situations, while protecting the historic structure which represents the social situations of our past.

How do different methods employed by landscape architects impact the design outcome? This paper identifies and defines design methods in landscape architecture that may be classified as part of four internal and external connections and structures categories. Methods are further examined through two design exercises. In the first design exercise, the identified methods are individually applied to the same simple design which is used as a control. The only variable changed is the method used to design. The resulting designs are shown and analyzed. In the second design exercise, three different methods are applied to a complex design. Similar to the first design exercise, all variables are held constant except for the design methods. The resulting design outcomes are shown and analyzed. One conclusion from this work recommends landscape architecture designers use at least one method in each of four categories: 1) Modeling Systems, 2) Interrelationship and Dependencies, 3) Incorporation and Adadaption, and 4) Structure Problems in order to explore complex design issues more thoroughly.

This thesis centers on the key question: What effect do different design methods employed by landscape architects have on the design outcome?
One component of the design process in landscape architecture is methodology, which should be a conscious choice of methods to achieve a desired result. However, many times the choice of methodology is not given much thought. The designer chooses a methodology that she or he is comfortable with or has used in the past with no little or no thought on how this choice meshes with the objective of the design. (Lynch, 270)

Service orientation is becoming a standard paradigm in the development of software applications. The paradigm is centred around the notion of service, i.e. a computational entity whose functional and non-functional aspects can be described in a standard document to be advertised in some service registries and made available for discovery. Contrary to traditional applications, service oriented ones are not just statically assembled. Instead, they have the potentialities for allowing dynamic assembly via publication, discovery, selection and binding.

SEnSOria (Software Engineering for Service-Oriented Overlay Computers) is a research project that aims to develop a novel and comprehensive approach for engineering service oriented computations. Key issues of SEnSOria concern the early stage and development of service specification, like design and reconfiguration of service-based architectures. In this setting, the configuration of a system consists of the present components and interconnections (i.e. the architecture), together with their current state. Architectural styles can be applied to reuse existing design patterns and thus facilitate software development.

The solutions proposed in this manual concentrate on low-cost single-story houses, built from earth in rural areas of earthquake-prone zones. They are based on research projects carried out at the Forschungslabor für Experimentelles Bauen (Building Research Laboratory) of the University of Kassel, Germany, on the analysis of earthquake damage in Latin America, on studying relevant literature and on the implementation of several test structures in Germany and prototype houses in Guatemala, Ecuador and Chile.

Using locally available building materials as well as the skills of local craftsmen should be considered for the design of seismic-resistant (earthquake proof) houses and it should be proved that the solutions are accepted by the users.