Interior Decoration Research Articles

Multilayer Transparent Wood with Log Color Composed of Different Tree Species.

In this experiment, a multilayer transparent wood with different surface and core layers of tree species was prepared, which has log color. The purpose is to explore the feasibility of preparing multilayer transparent wood from different tree species as raw materials. The experiment first removed partial lignin from the veneers to obtain the wood templates. Then, tree species with rich texture and color as the surface layer wood and tree species with less texture as the core and bottom wood were selected. Finally, the resin-impregnated wood templates were laminated and dried to obtain samples. The results show that wood fiber and resin have good coordination, and the laminated structure is conducive to weakening the anisotropy of transparent wood. Transparent wood has better mechanical property and hydrophobicity than original wood. The above shows that this transparent wood has a large elastic mechanism for the selection of tree species, and the thickness optics can be adjusted according to tree species and wood layers. It has good application prospects in interior decoration or as outdoor structural material.

What is a Playhouse? England at Play, 1520–1620 by Callan Davies

Reviewed by: What is a Playhouse? England at Play, 1520–1620 by Callan Davies Elizabeth E. Tavares What is a Playhouse? England at Play, 1520–1620. By Callan Davies. New York, NY: Routledge, 2022. Pp. xii + 230. Hardcover $160.00. Paperback $44.95. Ebook $40.45. The final act of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet features a swordfight that must do more than accompany dialogue. Laertes and Hamlet must swap a poisoned blade, and both characters must be struck by it at some point in the choreography. The stage directions for fencing in the quarto and folio versions of Hamlet take the diegetic form “they play” (5.2.258, 266, 283). Hamlet captures one way in which Renaissance theater, according to Callan Davies’s What is a Playhouse? England at Play, 1520–1620, “encompassed and necessitated other forms of expertise and relied on an audience’s ability to ‘read’ other play forms” (83). The central claim of this necessary book is that “play” described a range of interrelated activities affiliated with commercial leisure spaces across England. Davies emphasizes the fluidity of the notion of “playhouse,” the multifunctionality and co-dependence of these venues on other recreational institutions. Playhouses come in a range of types situated within what Davies calls an entertainment complex or district rather than constituting a destination unto themselves, changing the way critics might conceive not only of these spaces, but also of the ways in which playwrights might have written for them. Davies substantially rethinks the early modern playhouse and offers a new critical vocabulary with which to describe its “family” of architectural features (2). He focuses on all the elements that early modern contemporaries could have identified as part of a playhouse rather than on what was not, such as the long-contested “discovery space.” Adeptly toggling between archaeological findings and archival witnesses, Davies builds an impressive family tree of venues which traces their development in the context of wider architectural shifts, arguing that “theatre-ness” became a byword for sumptuousness (29). Untangling the modern scholarly platitude of permanence, Davies demonstrates that these venues were designed to be convertible and impermanent, and their “inherent fluidity and flexibility” is attested by the fact that “forms, seats, and benches could be recast anew as suited the play medium at hand” (35). Establishing the plasticity of this architecture early in the book makes it possible for Davies then to take account of [End Page 575] the many branches on the playhouse family line, showing links between pageant houses, game houses, and alehouses; guild, moot, and leet halls; arenas; bowling; fencing; the use of bears, dogs, and cocks; and little considered spaces such as The Almonry, a London boy company venue. In this landscape, it becomes clear that the circular amphitheater is an outlier, an exception rather than the rule. Most evocative in this new vocabulary is Davies’s phrase “amphitheatrically accented structures” (36). Not necessarily requiring roundness, these venues combined Greek and Roman traditions with “English developments in house-building, interior decorating and existing environmental features” (36). This new terminology establishes a scaffold upon which further terminology sensitive to the modular and the mobile might be constructed. The book often aligns playhouse development with broader cultural trends, making these venues seem more a part of a shared mental furniture than I had previously appreciated. In addition to amphitheatricality’s emphasis on Classical art, math, and forms, playhouses reflected the practice of “upcycling” in early modern England, as deforestation and the new availability of buildings emptied by the Protestant Reformation provided both new spaces and a need to recycle materials already in use. Rather than standing alone or apart, these venues were more often at the intersections of “leisure precincts” across England (125). In identifying multiple kinds of playhouses existing simultaneously as opposed to crafting an evolution of a single thing called “playhouse,” Davies provides a series of regionally specific microhistories that capture something of the phenomenology of these leisure enclaves and anticipate the rise of the flâneur. For example, the early modern council-run sports complex in Congleton, Cheshire, chimes with my personal experiences of more recent urban planning, such as wandering downtown Cleveland, Ohio, on a busy night...

The characteristics of teapots made of plastic and clay: what are their designs, functions, and impacts on the environment?

Currently, people are starting to reduce the use of traditional products and switch to ready-to-use products made from plastic, such as teapots. Nevertheless, clay crafts still maintain their existence in the widespread use of plastic products. Bayat is one of the subdistricts in Klaten Regency, Central Java, which is famous for its ceramics and pottery craft centres. Most artisans in the Bayat make crafts with clay as raw materials. This research focused on the advantages of Bayat pottery over other plastic products. This study aimed to increase public awareness to reduce plastic products’ use in daily life. This study used the descriptive qualitative method. The research was conducted in Bayat, Klaten, from March – June 2022. The results showed that clay crafts were considered more eco-friendly than plastic products. The development of Bayat pottery from clay has implications for design, function, usability, and environmental aspects. In the design aspect, the Bayat teapot can increase the aesthetic value of the craft. In terms of function and usability, the clay teapot functions as a water storage container as well as interior decoration. Meanwhile, in the environmental aspect, raw clay materials are easier to decompose, while plastic products are difficult to decompose.

Византийские осветительные приборы из главной базилики города на плато Эски-Кермен

Introduction. The light played a big role in Byzantine culture. It was an integral part of the original architectural, artistic and symbolic design of the temple. For additional lighting inside the temple, polycandyla, lampadophoroi and candlesticks were used. Lighting devices are depicted on Byzantine mosaics, frescoes, icons, textiles and in manuscripts. Information about lighting devices is also contained in the typicons. Method. In 1930 and 2019–2021, during the excavations of the basilica erected by the Byzantines at the end of the 6th century on the Eski-Kermen plateau, fragments of Byzantine bronze candlesticks and a polycandylon were found. Their study is important for the reconstruction of the interior decoration of the once rich main city temple. Analysis and Results. These candlesticks and a polycandylon are only a small part of the lighting equipment of the main basilica of the city on the Eski-Kermen plateau. The considered lamps give an idea of the complex of church lighting, which was known only by mentions in monastic inventory inventories and typicons of the late 11th – 13th centuries. The increase in the value of candles in the artificial lighting of churches is a characteristic feature of the Komnenos period, which is intensified under the Palaiologoi. Apparently, a new set of lamps began to be used in the main basilica after its reconstruction.

Four Worthies on plaster ceilings in Scotland (1617–25)

This article aims to contextualise a group of Scottish plaster ceilings dating from c 1617–1625 which all include roundels with busts of four of the Nine Worthies, to be found in houses identified by William Napier as comprising the Kellie Group. They will be viewed from two different perspectives. First, the Worthies will be considered as a subject popular in the literature and decorative arts of the period. Engravings of the Nine Worthies in a variety of formats enabled this medieval topos to retain its popularity throughout Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. They featured widely in ornament and interior decoration of this period, not least in plasterwork. By setting these Scottish ceilings within this broader context, this paper will attempt to understand the reasons for their selection. Secondly, in the light of current research into London’s plasterwork and its production in the early 17th century, the provenance of these busts will be reassessed. In 1900 Lord Balcarres’s observation of the similarity between a plaster ceiling in his house and one from the ‘Old Palace’, Bromley-by-Bow, first appeared in print. The similarities included the repetition of roundels containing three of the Nine Worthies. The London building and/or its plasterwork had already been erroneously attributed to James VI/I for many decades and this article will present the historical evidence to dispel the myths which have continued to surface into the 21st century. In addition, the documentary and visual evidence that was adduced prior to the re-creation of two Jacobean ceilings in the State Apartment of Edinburgh Castle will be examined within these contexts.

The Palas Manufacturing of the Southeastern Bashkirs in the Late 20th — Early 21st Century: to the Problem of Preserving Traditions

The article deals with one of the types of decorative-applied art — the production of lint-free carpets (palases) by the Bashkirs in the south-eastern part of the Republic of Bashkortostan (Abzelilovsky, Burzyansky, Beloretsky, Baymaksky districts). The source base of the study was the author's field materials collected in 2010-2021 in the study area. It was revealed that palases were woven on a frameless loom of sheep and goat wool. The palases are characterized by a longitudinal-striped ornament without a border — buoy balaq with a serrated pattern. Woollen palases were an indispensable element of the interior of the Bashkir dwelling: they covered bunks and hosted guests on them. The woven items were a part of the bride's dowry. In the 70-80s of the 20th century in some settlements of southeastern Bashkiria they started to weave lint-free carpets aqy balaq or kelam. On their dark background there were bright plant motifs, rhombuses and polygons.
 It was determined that in the late 20th — early 21st centuries, palace production existed in the territory under study. For the most part, the palases produced are used as interior decoration. Carpets neatly laid on a chest occupy a prominent place in rural and sometimes urban dwellings. The material and size of the item changed, but the technique remained the same.

Investigation on the sound absorption of cross-stitched fabric by airflow resistance and sound-induced vibration effects

The main aim of this work is to investigate the acoustical properties of cross-stitched fabric, which exhibits a similar structure with micro-perforated plate. The sound absorption coefficients of cross-stitched fabric with different specifications were measured, where the backing air cavity distance is 1 cm, 2 cm, and 3 cm, respectively. These distances are suitable to the practical interior decoration applications of cross-stitched fabric painting. Cross-stitched fabric can be made into diversity of artistic patterns through manual or mechanized embroidery technology. This work has also studied the effects of multifarious embroidered patterns on the sound absorption coefficients of fabrics with different backing air cavity distance. Classical micro-perforated model, vibrational micro-perforated model, and airflow resistance based model were used to predict the sound absorption of cross-stitched fabric. In summary, cross-stitched fabric with exquisite patterns is expected to be a promising sound absorber for potential room acoustics applications.

Research progress on dynamic testing methods of wood shear modulus: A review

Wood is a non-homogeneous and orthotropic natural polymer material. It is important to test the wood shear modulus and elastic constants accurately and reliably using dynamic methods. Based on the introduction of the advantages of six common methods for dynamic testing of wood shear modulus, such as free plate torsional mode method, free bar torsional vibration method, and Timoshenko beam iterative method, issues associated with the applicability and accuracy of these methods are also pointed out. Recent methods, such as the free square plate torsional mode method and the square plate static torsional strain method, that were developed to dynamically test the shear modulus of wood and wood composite materials, are presented as effective ways to tackle these issues. These new approaches are expected to provide beneficial technical support for using small specimens, overcoming the size effect of specimens, simplifying the testing procedures, improving the test accuracy, and expanding the application range in the dynamic testing of wood shear modulus. These approaches have practical significance in promoting the industrialization and development of structural engineering, furniture and interior decoration, transportation, military, and musical instrument industries.

Using synchronous thermal analysis to study characteristic features of a developing fire

Introduction. The purpose of the work is to estimate the temperature of impact on the material under study using the results of synchronous thermal analysis. This task is solved to achieve the pre-set purposes: studying the process of the thermal-oxidative destruction of the material under study, developing thermal impact assessment criteria, and deriving equations to determine the temperature of impact.Materials and methods. Specimens of ROTBAND gypsum finishing putty, frequently used for the interior decoration of walls of buildings and premises, have been studied. Before testing, putty samples were subjected to the preliminary thermal impact of 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, and 800 °С for 30 min. The tests were carried out using the method of synchronous thermal analysis (Netzsch STА 449 F5 Jupiter) in corundum crucibles at a heating rate of 20 °С/min and with an air flow rate of 75 ml/min.Research results and discussion. Mass loss at a temperature of 200 °C and ash residue at a temperature of 900 °C can be expediently used as the criteria for assessing the temperature of impact on the gypsum putty using thermal analysis methods. Equations are obtained to calculate the temperature of impact on the gypsum putty composition according to the thermos-analytical characteristics of putty specimens. Conclusions. The study demonstrates that synchronous thermal analysis can be applied to determine the temperature of impact on the material under study, which is vital for the analysis of a developing indoor fire.

3-D flower-like templated LDH-rGO as coating additive for flame retardant products

Construction of multi-component heterostructures as a flame retardant reinforcer within a polymer is a favorable option to realize the synergistic effects between different types of reinforcers. However, it is difficult to improve polymer flame retardance as the poor compatibility of retardants with polymer matrix can lead to low dispersion. Herein, 3-D flower-like templated layered double hydroxides (LDH) and graphene (rGO) were prepared on the surface of a caprolactam-modified casein micelle template for integration with casein latex based on a blending-casting method. Temp@LDH-rGO hardly affected the stability of the casein-based latex, as its casein-based composite latex was used as a leather surface coating. The limiting oxygen index of finished leather increased up to 27.4% when casein-based 4% Temp@LDH-rGO composite latex was applied for leather finishing. In contrast, its heat release rate and smoke production rate were lowered to 55.686 kW/m2 and 2.239 m−2 s−1, respectively. According to the combustion analysis, the leather samples finished by casein-based Temp@LDH-rGO latex exhibited significant improvement in flame retardant and smoke suppression performance. The casein-based Temp@LDH-rGO composite latex has thus been demonstrated as a highly effective option for functional coatings in diverse fields (e.g., automobile interior decoration, furniture manufacturing, and firefighting equipment).

A multidisciplinary approach to investigate the peculiar artistic technique of Scagliola: Modern age decorations in Hadrian’s Villa (Tivoli, Italy)

In the present work, a multi-technique approach was adopted to study and characterize six polychrome decorated elements found in the storerooms of the archaeological site of Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Rome). In particular, preliminary microscope observations along with μ-Raman and FT-IR spectroscopies and FESEM-EDS analyses were adopted to identify the used materials and the execution technique. This information could allow placing the artefacts in a chronological context, in particular by evaluating possible coherences with the modern phases of the archaeological site. At first visual observation, both stylistic and technical details suggested that the artefacts had been performed by using Scagliola, a particular and not deeply investigated artistic technique developed in Europe at the end of the XVI century for interior decorations. The acquired information has been compared with data obtained by similar in-situ decorations, found on the vault of the Casino Fede, an XVIII century building of the Villa. The characterization of the constituent materials revealed a rich palette, based on both inorganic and organic pigments, some alteration products, and a massive presence of gypsum in the matrix. These results led to confirm the use of Scagliola technique in the realization of all the artefacts, even though this information is not sufficient to confirm if they belong to the same building. Furthermore, a peculiar result was the identification of arsenic-based pigments as pararealgar and amorphous arsenic sulphide as an orange pigment. In particular, pararealgar was identified as the initial material used for the synthesis of the amorphous pigment, a very rare identification in artworks.

Application of Chinese Classical Garden Landscaping Techniques in Modern Indoor Natural Landscape Design from the Perspective of Virtual Reality Technology

In the multimedia information comprehensive development of multimedia culture, the traditional technology of many industries and advanced mobile technology develop in concert. Ancient Chinese gardens have a long history. They are rich in content, outstanding in style, and full of characteristics. They have great aesthetic value and are the valuable property of all mankind. This paper discusses the environmental expression, spatial layout, and element combination in traditional garden art. The study of landscape design techniques involves different subjects. Through the developed mobile multimedia information, the traditional garden design is more rich, separation but not blocking, desire to promote first restraint, twists and turns, appropriate scale, borrowing from afar and borrowing from neighbors. The application of these expression techniques in modern interior design is of great significance. By using the ancient gardens of our country to reflect the civilization products of our country in a certain historical stage, the paper traces its development ideas and motives and analyzes the consistency with the corresponding contemporary ideological development. From the perspective of space design, this paper discusses the influence of ancient gardens on contemporary space creation from the aspects of space type, structure form, and space language. How to apply the reference means of ancient Chinese garden design to modern interior decoration through multimedia information so that the interior space can also experience the aesthetic pleasure of “changing scenery” so that the traditional landscape and modern interior decoration can be more fully integrated. This is something designers have to think about. Chinese ancient gardens have always been the focus of domestic design circles. Both the ideas behind it and its own gardening techniques can be used for reference by contemporary interior design. Therefore, the main content of this paper is the foundation of the transformation mechanism of traditional garden in contemporary design through multimedia information. Based on the framework system of contemporary indoor natural landscape or indoor natural landscape as the background, this paper discusses how to use virtual reality technology for reference to the gardening techniques of classical Chinese gardens.

Investigation of odor emissions from coating products: Key factors and key odorants

Coating products are widely used for the interior decoration of residential property. However, there is growing concern regarding their odor emissions and their impact on indoor air quality (IAQ). Most manufacturers and government agencies set odor intensity limits to control the odor of coating products, including their raw materials. However, it is difficult to determine product performance by means of their odor intensity index. Although evaluating odor intensity requires odor assessors to distinguish between different intensity levels, low consensus and reproducibility represent challenges that are difficult to avoid. As the odor concentration index only requires odor assessors to ascertain whether the odor is felt or not, the reproducibility of the evaluation results is relatively better. Moreover, suitable methodologies for determining odor concentrations in volatile coating product emissions have rarely been reported. Therefore, establishing an evaluation method for odor concentration of coating products and exploring its key influencing factors should bridge this gap. We examined the influence of the airbag material on the recovery rate of typical volatile organic compounds (VOCs) using direct injection by GC-MS and established that their adsorption effects were in the order: PET > PVF > PTFE. We then explored the influences of the sample curing and odor emission times on odor concentration. The solvent-based and water-based coatings reached equilibrium after 8 h and 16 h curing, respectively, and after 8 h and 12 h odor emission, respectively. The odor concentrations of real coating samples were measured and compared against their odor intensities. The odor concentration method more accurately and reliably discriminated coating products than the odor intensity approach. Thus, to assist manufacturers in improving coating formulations to reduce the odor impact of coating products, we used headspace gas chromatography to determine the odor substances in water- and solvent-based coatings and analyzed the odor contribution of various volatile compounds using the odor activity value (OAV) method. Butyl acetate, ethylbenzene, and 1-methoxy-2-propyl acetate were the key odorants in solvent-based coatings while 1-butanol, ethylbenzene, and butyl acetate were the key odorants in water-based coatings.

The Chursächsische Spiegelfabrik at Friedrichsthal in the Electorate of Saxony: Rediscovery of a Forgotten Glass Factory and its Products

This article aims to rescue from oblivion one of the most important German glass factories of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: the Chursächsische Spiegelfabrik or Mirror Factory of the Electorate of Saxony, founded by the Elector at Friedrichsthal, north of Dresden, in 1709. Using new research results it traces the history of the factory and analyses the factors that led to its heyday from 1787, when, as well as mirrors, it started producing plain and coloured glass objects for the table and interior decoration, such as fruit bowls, candelabra, jugs, and so on, as well as lamps and chandeliers. Its international success culminated with the introduction of semi-opaque white bone glass in 1794, until production ceased in 1815.

Interior Soft Decoration Product Design Based on 3D Modeling and Image Processing Technology

In order to solve the problems of the traditional 3D simulation system of indoor soft decoration, such as the lack of effective enrichment, rendering means, and poor authenticity when selecting the geometric modeling method to simulate the effect of indoor soft decoration, this paper proposes a 3D simulation system of indoor soft decoration based on OpenGL and Direct3D. The system uses 3DMAX software to establish the indoor model, imports the model into the OpenGL 3D graphics standard library module, draws the indoor soft decoration scene elements using the basic geometric elements, and constrains the scene elements through the wall, overlap, and size constraint functions, so as to ensure the reasonable layout of the indoor soft decoration agent area and enrich the indoor model. After enrichment, the indoor model is transmitted to the Direct3D rendering engine module transformation unit to implement the soft decoration layout, and the lighting unit and rasterization unit are used to render the indoor after layout so as to obtain the optimal indoor soft decoration effect and output the 3D simulation image of indoor soft decoration. The experimental results show that the favorability, operation sensitivity, design portability, design satisfaction, and soft fitting effect score of the system are higher than those of the Untiy3D system and Smart3D system. The average score of this system is about 95, while the average score of the Untiy3D system is lower than 89, and the average score of the Smart3D system is lower than 85. Conclusion. The three-dimensional simulation effect of indoor soft decoration of this system is good, the design is convenient, the operation is sensitive, and the user satisfaction is high, which provides a reliable analysis basis for indoor design.

First Report of Colletotrichum karstii Causing Anthracnose of Begonia lanternaria Irmsch. in China.

Begonia lanternaria Irmsch., an ornamental plant endemic in China, which is commonly used in landscape and interior decoration. In March 2021, an estimated 30% B. lanternaria plants were observed with anthracnose-like symptoms at a botanical garden conservation greenhouse in Mengla County of Yunnan Province (21.91° N, 101.21°E). Initially, small black spots developed on the disease leaves, which gradually expanded into irregular necrotic lesions surrounded by a yellowish halo, eventually turned wilting and defoliating. Twenty diseased leaves were collected and surface-disinfested with 75% ethanol for 30 s. Small fragments (5 × 5 mm) from the margin of lesions were disinfected with 1% NaClO for 120 s, washed with sterile water three times, and cultured on potato dextrose agar (PDA) at 28 ± 1℃. After 3 days single spores from four fungal colonies with identical morphology were isolated. Colonies on PDA were 70-75 mm diam in 7 d (7.5-10.6 mm/d), with dense white to gray-white mycelia attached with brown to black-brown acervulus. The underside of the culture was yellow to yellowish-brown concentric circle. Conidia were single-celled, hyaline, straight to slightly curved, cylindrical, 12.88 to 16.66 × 6.25 to 7.97 μm (av=14.65 μm × 7.22 μm, n=50) in size. For molecular identification, genomic DNA was extracted from a representative isolate, and the internal transcribed spacer, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, calmodulin gene, β-tublin, actin, and chitin synthase 1 genes were amplified with ITS1/ITS4 (Gardes et al, 1993), GDF/GDR (Templeton et al, 1992), CL1C/CL2C (Li et al, 2018), Bt2a/Bt2b (Prihastuti et al, 2009), ACT-512F/ACT-783R and CHS-79F/CHS-345R (Carbone et al, 1999) primers, respectively. The obtained DNA sequences showed over 99% homology with Colletotrichum karsti (GenBank Accession No. ITS: NR144790; GAPDH: KX578772; CAL: KY039988; TUB2: KX578804; ACT: LC412408; CHS1: KU251855), and the results of sequences were deposited into GenBank with accession No. MZ496954 (522/522 bp), MZ504978 (238/238 bp), MZ504979 (737/737 bp), MZ504982 (472/472 bp), MZ504981 (273/273 bp), MZ504980 (282/284 bp). The phylogenetic tree combined with ITS-ACT-GAPDH-CHS 1-CAL-TUB2 concatenated sequences using the maximum likelihood methods showed that the isolate was C. karsti. To confirm pathogenicity, Koch's postulates were conducted on intact plants, 10 μl spore suspension (1.0 × 106 conidia/ml) of each of four isolates (7-day-old culture on PDA) was inoculated on 15 wounded with a sterilized needle or non-wounded healthy living leaves, and 15 wounded leaves were inoculated with sterile water as controls. All leaves were incubated at 28 ± 1°C and 90% relative humidity (12 h/12 h light/dark). After 5 days, all wounded leaves inoculated with C. karsti showed symptoms similar to those previously observed, while the control and non-wounded leaves remained healthy. Colletotrichum karsti was re-isolated from inoculated leaves. C. karsti was previously reported to cause disease on Nicotiana tabacum L. (Zhao et al, 2020), Stylosanthes guianensis (Jia et al, 2017) and Fatsia japonica (Xu et al, 2020) in China. To our knowledge, this is the first report of C. karsti causing anthracnose of B. lanternaria Irmsch. in China. This disease reduces the ornamental and economic value of B. lanternaria Irmsch., and this work will provide a basis for the prevention and treatment of the disease in the future.

Preparation of a biomass-derived electromagnetic wave absorber with potential EM shielding application in interior decoration surface coating

Novel functional materials with electromagnetic energy attenuation ability are gradually considered in home decoration due to the increasing attention to the excess electromagnetic radiation pollution. A series of heterostructure carbon materials is prepared by surface modification of cellulose-derived graphite-like sheets with lignin-derived carbon particles through one-step pyrolysis of bamboo-derived lignin/cellulose mixture with varied mass ratios. Among the candidates, BC-8 shows a strong EMW absorption performance with a RLmin value of −49.4 dB, and an effective absorption band of 14.4 GHz. When the corresponding coating is applied to the flattened bamboo surface, the obtained decorative surface exhibits a maximum SET value of 30.1 dB (indicating more than 90% EM energy can be attenuated) with enhanced surface hydrophobicity while maintaining the original mechanical properties, implying its potential application in EM-attenuation involved biomass-based home decoration. The absorption attenuation loss is proved to be dominant in the shielding behavior. Such excellent EM energy attenuation performance is proved to be attributed to attributed to the good impedance matching due to the relatively large dielectric properties and strong dipolar polarization effect, the good energy conversion efficiency caused by dielectric loss and conductive loss behavior, and the elongated EMW propagation path among the graphitized lamellar structures.

Chinese Decorative Color Based on Improved AlexNet in Interior Decoration Design

Since the twenty-first century, with the improvement of China’s comprehensive national strength and cultural confidence, our country has paid more and more attention to the protection and development of Chinese traditional culture, and more and more attention to the protection and development of China’s traditional culture, traditional culture has no longer become a simple symbol in history books but has gradually entered people’s daily life with the characteristics of vitality and gradually evolved into various characteristics and forms and integrated into all walks of life. Under the background of the evolution of this culture, this paper discusses the application of Chinese decorative color for interior decoration design and puts forward an application model of Chinese decorative color for interior design based on the AlexNet network improved by Adam, BN, dropout, and data enhancement optimization algorithm. Through analysis, it is found that the AlexNet network improved based on the above optimization algorithm has a good application prospect for interior decoration design. For the traditional AlexNet network, the improved AlexNet network is obviously better than the traditional AlexNet network in color extraction and can greatly reduce the loss value in the process of color recognition, up to 70.77%. Finally, the application forms and decorative functions of Chinese decorative color elements based on the improved AlexNet network in interior decoration design are analyzed. Relevant research can not only promote the integration of new and new technologies into traditional art but also effectively carry forward Chinese traditional culture and promote the internationalization of Chinese color.

The Peak of Jože Plečnik's Ecclesial Oeuvre: the Parish Church of Saint Anthony of Padua in Belgrade

The paper deals with the architectural evaluation of the Parish Church of Saint Anthony of Padua in Belgrade, Serbia, done by a Slovene architect, Jože Plečnik, in 1929. The study is based on a research of available historical sources with a critical approach to analysis and architectural evaluation, as well as a contemporary fieldwork and an on-site analysis. The paper offers a brief overview of Plečnik's engagements in various public projects throughout Europe, followed by an analysis of a wider historical and Lektura: Maja Bjelica Andonov Univerzitet u Novom Sadu 286 social context within which the site of the Franciscan convent and later parish church in Belgrade emerged. Furthermore, the paper provides an insight into the historical development of the site inside the framework of the Franciscan Province Bosna Argentina. It also gives a critical examination of the stylistic approach to the project for the church, and its later alterations made by Plečnik's successors. Moreover, its contribution to ecclesial architecture, significant structural novelties, interior decoration, furnishing and works of art produced for this project, according to Plečnik's ideas, are historically analysed and examined. Keywords: Jože Plečnik; Belgrade; architecture; Bosna Argentina; parish church

Building Floorplan Reconstruction Based on Integer Linear Programming

The reconstruction of the floorplan for a building requires the creation of a two-dimensional floorplan from a 3D model. This task is widely employed in interior design and decoration. In reality, the structures of indoor environments are complex with much clutter and occlusions, making it difficult to reconstruct a complete and accurate floorplan. It is well known that a suitable dataset is a key point to drive an effective algorithm, while existing datasets of floorplan reconstruction are synthetic and small. Without reliable accumulations of real datasets, the robustness of methods to real scene reconstruction is weakened. In this paper, we first annotate a large-scale realistic benchmark, which contains RGBD image sequences and 3D models of 80 indoor scenes with more than 10,000 square meters. We also introduce a framework for the floorplan reconstruction with mesh-based point cloud normalization. The loose-Manhattan constraint is performed in our optimization process, and the optimal floorplan is reconstructed via constraint integer programming. The experimental results on public and our own datasets demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms FloorNet and Floor-SP.