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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Architectural Design and Construction"”.
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Customized digital manufacturing : concept to construction methods across varying product scales
Architectural design and construction is rapidly changing through the extensive adoption of digital design, manufacture and assembly tools. Customized assemblies are paired and recombined to create unique spatial enclosures. These assemblies themselves contain of a hierarchy of individual parts, …
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Mind Tool and Matter- Synergies in Digital Fabrication and Bamboo Craftsmanship
Bamboo is widely used as a construction material in many places across the tropics, presenting a viable approach to locally-sourced, sustainable resource usage. Colombia has a well-established tradition in craftsmanship and design, preserved in a legacy of vernacular and contemporary architecture. …
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Symbiotic Encounter: Shape Memory Alloy Actuators in Architecture
… integration of shape memory alloys into architectural design and design. Despite growing interest in SMAs for kinetic structures and adaptive facades, there is currently a fragmented understanding of how to leverage their unique properties in the built environment. Designers lack …
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Building Life Cycles: An Exploration of a Building's Transformation From One Life Into the Next
… endures but change" - Heraclitus. Buildings are designed and built to house a specific program for a set period of time. The end of a building's life marks a change in its use. In today's building practices, some building owners opt to demolish an entire building prior to constructing a new one. …
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An object-oriented design intent externalization and representation model for cost estimating applications
… nature of the Architecture-Engineering-Construction industry, the involvement of parties with different professional backgrounds and the use of incompatible software at different phases of project development result in fragile communication between design and construction. The software …
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The Development of the Speculative Office in Inter-war England
… provides the first comprehensive exploration and assessment of the speculative office building in inter-war England. Both instruments of revenue and containers of office space, buildings of this type and period have been largely absent from the literature of architectural history, despite …
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Multi-Criteria Decision Modeling for Best Value Selections in Target Value Design Integrated Project Delivery
… Delivery (IPD) combined with Target Value Design (TVD) is a better way to deliver value for the client than traditional guaranteed maximum price (GMP) methods. With traditional GMP delivery methods, the interests of the parties are often at odds. The goal of IPD is to align all party …