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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"720 Architecture"”.
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Incremental cities : discovering the sweet spot for making town-within-a-city
This thesis studies how utterly marginalised people acquire acceptance or credibility - therefore participation - in the established civic and economic processes of a larger host municipality. In particular the signifi cance to this aspiration of incremental house and city-making is explored. The …
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Collaborative heritage conservation in Tajganj : investigating civic possibilities in the urban order through architectural making
This thesis explores the claims made by architectural heritage on the urban order and investigates how architects might better contribute to practices of heritage conservation. There are conflicting opinions amongst residents, historians, academics and municipal authorities as to which parts of …
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Transformative lines: a mapping approach to explore urban imaginaries and opportunities for socially sustainable change in Beirut, Lebanon
Beirut, Lebanon, is a city shaped by complex socio-political histories, shifting socio-economic conditions, and continuous physical and institutional transformation. Within this context, persistent disconnections often exist between formal urban development initiatives and the lived realities and …
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Time catalysts: research by design in the loose ends of Barcelona
The passage of time, understood as the duration of becoming in space, offers playful yet serious liberating potentials concerning individual and collective, human and nonhuman rights of appropriation and transformation. This research enquires about the use of time as a design tool in pursuit of …
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The workhome... a new building type?
This research is concerned with the hybrid building that combines dwelling and workplace (the 'workhome'). In the 1980-90s the 'live/work unit' emerged as an apparently new architectural type. It captured the imagination of marketers and urban professionals looking for alternatives to suburban …
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A methodical approach to formulating the client user input to a design brief for health building
This work involved a world wide search of literature on design briefing in general and briefing for health buildings in particular. A critical review of the literature has revealed that methods used currently to formulate client user requirements for a brief are varied and haphazard, despite the …
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Practical poetics: rhythmic spatiality and the communicative movement between site, architecture and sculpture
… and social conditions of a site, as revealed in architecture and sculpture, and most clearly in their continuity. In order to deal with the effects upon modern design and architectural thinking of dead metaphors like 'technology, 'form' and 'space', I critique and reject their use in …
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Primary health care facilities in Bangladesh: a method for planning and design taking account of limited resources, local technology, future growth and change
This thesis attempts to derive an appropriate method of planning and design of Primary Health Care (PHC) facilities in Bangladesh. The constraints and strategies like limited resources, use of local technology, need for phasing and future growth and change are set as prime considerations for …
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Bastide city territory: landscape infrastructure design, Monpazier, France
… and involvement it proposes the role of architecture, as a cultural exercise, in making the diffused city as an aesthetic environment, in which specificity of a sense of place and time can contribute to the possibility for meaning. In doing so it further defines design as research as a …
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Daylight and planning in Europe
This work addresses issues related to daylight in urban canyons in predominantly sunny climates. Reflected sunlight from obstructions and ground is a major contribution to the illumination of buildings in orientations and at times when the sun is behind the building. Physical measurements collected …
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Primary care buildings: government policy, implementation and community involvement in facility planning and design
… based settings. This had implications for the architecture of primary care, as new and extended facilities were required. Controversially however, instead of developing a centrally planned strategy to provide an equitable distribution of resources supporting comparable services to people in all …
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Negotiating shared spaces in informal peri-urban settlements in North India: collaborative architectural making as a catalyst for civic empowerment and social change
This research investigates the nature and creation of common places in informal peri-urban settlements in North India through negotiation and sharing. It aims to develop a profound understanding of the effect of the post-hoc introduction of amenity buildings and city infrastructure in the creation …
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Architecture, festival and order: the history and persistence in the Florentine Feast of San Giovanni and its significance to the city's civic identity
The Feast Day of San Giovanni is still a significant day for Florence. Since its revival in the 1930s - but also throughout much of the city’s history - every year church processions and civic parades have been augmented by a series of other events that together combine to represent the city to …
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Accounting for carbon impacts in buildings: a rating procedure
The construction industry’s influence on climate change needs to be quantified in order to assess the carbon impact of dwellings. The appropriate measure of carbon within dwellings is the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) impact. The influences that determine how much GHG impacts residential buildings needs to …
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Aircraft noise, overheating and poor air quality in London primary schools' classrooms
… environment is the fundamental aim in Architecture. Comfortable environment mainly refers to a surrounding atmosphere which is thermally, acoustically, visually, aesthetically, etc. comfortable. Generally, environmental comfort is assessed by environmental factors such as thermal, …
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Visualising process and placemaking : upgrading shack urbanity in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
This investigation concerns the analytical challenge of understanding settlement upgrading in South Africa. Drawing upon evidence from a case study, Duncan Village Redevelopment Initiative, and two reference studies, Zanemvula and Sakhasonke, it builds an account of events, as experienced at street …
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The depth structure of a London high street : a study in urban order
… are composed. Depth has a number of components: architecture, space and time; depth is the armature in which people live their social lives, and the place where local cultures emerge. The conception of depth offers a way of capturing urban life in its richness and its reciprocities. The …
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The search for city : between being and seeming in the rapid urbanisation of Doha, Qatar
… upon hermeneutic phenomenology that incorporates architecture into its structure of understanding; (3) to use this framework to illuminate the structure of Doha’s urban culture during its most transformative period; (4) to publish previously unseen documents and gather original personal narratives …
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Efficient classroom lighting and its environmental consequences in schools in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
This research examines the current lighting conditions and its thermal comfort consequences in classrooms of secondary schools in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Although improving school infrastructure has received a lot of attention recently, there have been several reports on poor visual comfort in …
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The evaluation of mental health buildings
The aim of this thesis is to clarify the nature and role of evaluation of mental health buildings, and to make recommendations about the design of mental health buildings and about how they should be evaluated. Reference is made to examples of evaluation work, in particular to work carried out …
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