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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Architectural solution"”.
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Adaptable Housing: A Sustainable Architectural Solution to Informal Settlements in the Caribbean
… thesis explores design challenges and conceptual solutions as they relate to residential building forms within urban slum environments- specifically those found in the Caribbean region. It examines the roles of the house, form, and culture surrounding the place and people of Jamaica; using a …
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A policy based governance framework for cloud service process architectures
… Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural style commonly adopted for enterprise IT infrastructures and the implementation of service based business processes. However, the SOA style and current specifications do not intend for the case of business processes sharing with cross …
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Regenerative Aquaculture: Designing for Resilience of the Chesapeake Tidewater
… design in an effort to generate a holistic solution. The final product will consist of a methodology of planning for resilience at a framework scale, and will also propose an architectural solution that combines educational facilities with commercial aquaculture, to foster stewardship and …
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MIT i² : idea incubator
… primary method of incubating ideas. MIT i2 is an architectural solution to this issue, and is situated on the Charles River along the Harvard Bridge, the point of greatest pedestrian activity compared to the other parts of the waterfront. This project ultimately changes the Charles River from a …
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Body in space : the sensual experience of architecture and dance
… as perceived in dance to inform the design of architectural space. I can address the creative process of design through the interchange of ideas from two artistic disciplines. The intent of this thesis is to find an architectural solution for the dance performance theatre that informs the users …
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Atmospheric prototypes : rethinking spirituality in the American mosque
… is aimed at developing prototypes which can architecturally create atmospheres conducive to deep-thought/ meditation/prayer in order to counter the experience of the retrofit space. The thesis makes the claim that spirituality can indeed be produced through our physical built environments. …
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Revealing expressive spaces : transformation of a former quarry to a dancers' retreat center
… landscape. The goal of this thesis is to find an architectural solution for the dancers' retreat center that informs the users of dance and allows dance to inform the definition of the spaces in architecture and landscape. Mutual influence and exchange of ideas between the two disciplines occur in …
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St Pius X School Glenn Innes : matter tells space how to curve, space tells matter how to move
RESEARCH QUESTION: How can the architectural redevelopment of St Pius X School preserve and accommodate its unique spirit and culture? St Pius X School in Glenn Innes, Auckland, New Zealand consists of a unique make up that distinguishes [it] from other schools. St Pius X School is a Catholic …
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Building (as) performance : a material approach to adaptive architecture
… expense or are confined to the temporary and architecturally limited realm of installations. We can thus witness a trend in architecture moving away from the mechanic and towards the use of material behavior and deformation as a cheaper and more durable architectural solution to …
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Thermal Efficiency of Courtyards for Residential Buildings in Iraq
… pattern in Iraq to provide a thermally efficient architectural solution that contributes towards solving the housing challenges in the country. As a result of more than three decades of wars and instability, the country suffers from having a large housing shortage and a major production shortfall. …
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Design and evaluation of information flow signature for secure computation of applications
This thesis presents an architectural solution that provides secure and reliable execution of an application that computes critical data, in spite of potential hardware and software vulnerabilities. The technique does not require source code of or specifications about the malicious library …
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Architecture for environmental learning : a National Outdoor Leadership School in Baja, Mexico
… establishes a foundation from which to make architectural decisions. The focus of this thesis is to understand the needs of those involved in an outdoor education school in Baja, Mexico and assemble a comprehensive architectural solution to these needs. The outdoor education school has the …
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Lights, camera, emergency : preemptive planning for disaster relief
… triumph and loss. This thesis seeks to find an architectural solution to disaster preparedness, one that is in place long before the crisis, one that exists as an entity in its own right. What is it that a city needs both before and after disaster? Is it a place of refuge? Or organization? Urban …
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TRANSITIONAL PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE : REDRESSING HOMELESSNESS IN SINGAPORE
… demographic of homeless are not static and the solution should not be a means to an end. Instead, by rethinking normative land use convention, activating the abundant plots of land that are currently pending for development in and around the periphery of Singapore’s public housing towns, the …
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A secondary school design for Pearisburg, Virginia
… Giles County School Board, has in his office a solution to each proposed building prepared by Smithey and Boynton, Architects, Roanoke, Virginia. It is the purpose of the author of this to render his own solution to the problem for comparison with the existing conception. The subject matter is …
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The Alternative to Sprawl: A Civil Consolidation - Integrated Interdisciplinary Approach
… a personal agenda. In the same way that an architectural treatise is not a handbook, it is far from becoming a written code. It is an attempt at understanding how universal values, from our shared past, can contribute to our designs for the future. Therefore, let us first reinterpret the way …
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The Secular Monastery: a research center in the Negev Desert
… and fierceness of its surroundings. The proposed architectural solution to this challenge is possible thanks to the predominant use of retaining walls that allow the creation of public and private spaces. The Center takes its form from the slope on which it resides, and continues a …
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Secure Access to Service-based Collaborative Workflow Across Organisations
… workflow across different organisations with an architectural solution. This involves addressing such issues as collaborative workflow and business processing, Grid Computing, service-oriented architecture and role-based access control. Grid Computing has been developed to provide middleware for …
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Ourhouse: Gender-Inclusive Student Housing
… and gendered spaces, "Ourhouse" evolved into an architectural solution to the lack of inclusivity. It takes the typical dorm-style student housing to another level by creating safe, genderless spaces while simultaneously catering to the needs of an individual student. The project raises questions …
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What next? : densifying suburban Brooklyn
… environments. For all its negative portrayal in architectural discourse, there are also significant positive attributes to suburbia. Currently, the South African suburban condition is densifying. This process of densification means that the suburban form as we have known it is currently changing …
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