Deformation VS.Stiffness.Motion VS.Fixity. New Visions in Seismic Concept Design

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The paper deals with the interaction between the seismic performance of buildings and their global and local configuration. When traditional material were used, technological aspects and structural solutions guided the architectural concept design. In the modern era architects used the new materials to free the morphologies, but the classic design principles based on the Vitruvian "firmitas" with reference to the vertical loads were maintained and when the earthquake engineering gave a number of earthquake-resistant morphological rules, they were received as constraints on the global shape. Nowadays, the up-to-date seismic protection techniques provide for building performances based on the principles of the mechanics more than on those of the statics. The new principles of motion and deformation capabilities of buildings that should guide the architectural design are summarized and discussed. The class of the regular buildings equipped with dissipating bracing systems is used for exemplifying the possibilities got from the application of the new principles.

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