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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Architectural language"”.
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Theater and community : an architectural language for social integration
… Theater, searched for a new aesthetic language rooted in the use of the human body as an instrument of expression. At the same time, the companies and groups - composed mostly of college students - working with this kind of theater had a well-defined social, cultural and political …
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Three urban artifacts: a study of architectural language through the typology of the city
"The word Type represents not so much the image of a thing to be copied or perfectly imitated as the idea of an element that must itself serve as a rule for the Model... The Model, understood in terms of the practical execution of art, is an object that must be repeated such as it is; Type on the …
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Building community in low-income areas : designing a new architectural language for community centers in Jordan
The aim of this thesis is to develop a vocabulary of principles to be used in the design of future community centers in Jordan. Community centers provide the stage for bringing members of the community together to meet and discuss community issues, and for increasing their sense of community spirit …
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The reawakening of the Chinese heritage through a cultural embassy : transformation of the Chinese architectural language
… in Boston to revitalize the entire Chinatown. Architecturally, this proposed building will carry a uniqueness of its own: a kind of cultural form and vocabulary containing the expression of today's technology and embodiment of the perpetual Chinese ideology in a Boston context. The appropriate …
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A Citizen Plaza in Blacksburg
This thesis is a study of architectural language for a place through the design and development of a citizen parking and plaza project. The site is located in the downtown Blacksburg area and not far from the Virginia Tech main campus. By utilizing the idea of a lifted groundmass, the project …
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Panama vernacular: a tropical house
… established will be integrated in a modern architectural language, preserving the time tested truths of the local architecture. The position of tropical vernacular architecture and contraposition of modern architecture will then be synthesized into a single family tropical dwelling based on …
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Understanding the changes and constants of the courtyard house neighborhoods in Beijing
… rules are important for the preservation of the architectural language of the neighborhoods and of the entire city, as well. Methods of enclosure, levels of hierarchy in the built form, and dwellers direct control of their living quarters, are among principles that should be respected in order to …
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Findings: Relationships of old and new, past and present
"Only with the language of the present can we get the past to speak." Sverre Fehn "A poet doesn't produce a different language for each poem. That's not necessary; he uses the same language, he uses even the same words. In music it is always the same instruments most of the time. I think that is …
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A study of a French Quarter block in the city of New Orleans
… where an attempt is made to explore particular architectural issues in the design of a hospice. Issues that have a significance both to this project and to others beyond it. An exploration that bridges between the architectural and experiential qualities of the past and present by creating a …
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How community is expressed in place : spatial manifestations of two parishes
… with one another, and I am interested in our architectural expression and accommodation of our life in communities specifically communities larger than the family and smaller than the city. I have chosen to look at two Catholic parishes as they are examples of community with a long history and …
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Ancient City Reservation
… scenes into the spaces in the project through an architectural language.
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What if Structures Could Speak?
… the structure and the façade. In the English language we define façade as a false front, whereas façade in architectural language defines the barrier between the outside and the inside. Often the façade blurs the line of truth behind the structure, creating a mask for it. This project explores …
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The Monument of Memories as a place/space of multifarious rhetorical action
… from participatory critical rhetoric, postmodern architectural language, and metonymic reduction to characterize the Monument of Memories as a place/space of multifarious rhetorical action.</p>
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Studying Movement
… views along its length, while formulating an architectural language of path and passage. The façade design is a layering of fixed and active colored glass planes to allow dominate parallel wall, to run through the site without the obstruction of frames. Active glass planes rotate along …
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Space identity
As an architectural language, what elements and systems constitute a work of architecture? They are the structural system, enclosure system, circulation system, functional requirements, context, light, views, proportion, scale, forms, cultural characteristics, color and many others. In this thesis, …
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A multi-use block in the urban fabric
… fabric, the interplay between the two: this architectural thesis seeks to explore the many components of a mixed-use project, its relationship to the city, and its use by potential inhabitants. Through this mixed-use project, many aspects of similar commercial/residential projects in the …
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Grounding Density: Mobilising the economic and spatial potential of low-income housing along the Delft South main road
… considerations that could develop into an architectural language by studying how people are currently building in Delft. Finally, chapter five proposes an architectural outcome that explores three typologically different housing developments located on and around Sibanye Square.
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A country house
… these principles and brings them into a new architectural language. This thesis is a borrowing of traditions while "grounding" them to a particular place. This house stands on a site in Blacksburg. It is oriented according to the sun path and the views from this site that provide the …
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Canon Camera Museum
… Canon camera, but also an experiment of my own architectural language.
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Architecture in miniature : representation of space and form in illustrations and buildings in Timurid Central Asia
… a number of questions about the use of an architectural language in Timurid and Safavid miniature paintings of 15th and 16th century Central Asia. Of these the most important are the following: Is there a language of architectural characteristics that can be identified in the miniature? …
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