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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Architecture and construction"”.
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A Wall Building
… a constructive technique, within the materials and methods of conventional practice, which allows for a common building material such as concrete block to carry form and beauty. Furthermore, this project seeks to demonstrate the role human ingenuity, patience, attention, and perception can …
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Waterproofing of roofs
Roofing as an element of architecture and construction presents a challenging topic. This challenge, always present in the history of architecture, is now being met by dramatic new technological developments both in materials and systems. In the past decade these have made possible a revolution in …
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Multi-Scalar Perspective in Civic Architecture: Arlington Civic Center
… psychology studies human relationship to places and settings, which are then categorized as the public's identities, attachments, and dependencies. Of interest to city planning, these findings can also be utilized in a design methodology. By giving particular attention to civic programs, this …
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Earthly Forces: Rethinking the Potential Energies of the Episodic, Dispersed, and Unpredictable
… Mountains are violent, rivers relentless, and even the slightest movement of matter—drops of rain or grains of sand, when compounded can have exponential ramifications. Geology has a long history of being chained to the economies and ambitions of material and energy revolutions—and regimes …
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Iron Heart Memory Village - Designing Independent Living for Dementia Residents to Enhance Mobility
… aims to foster engagement, support independence, and promote a sense of meaning, comfort, and safety for dementia residents of care facilities. The proposed Iron Heart Memory Village aims to improve the quality of life for dementia residents by redesigning healthcare facilities and integrating …
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A Draft Resolution Supporting The Municipal Authority to Rearrange: A Non-Optimized Methodology for Doing Less
… objects. They are enclosures that are detached and extended outward from the body in order to warm, cool, or otherwise insulate persons, animals, or objects deemed worthy of protection. Containers of space and air, building enclosures create barriers to temperature, moisture, and to strangers. …
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Redefining historical Bukhara : professional architectural vision of the national heritage in late Soviet Uzbekistan (1965 - 1991)
… Bukhara's architectural heritage was interpreted and redefined by local architectural professionals between 1965 and 1991, a period characterized by heightened interest in architectural heritage and increased restoration of monuments. Architectural professionals criticized the earlier Soviet …
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Method to design and fabricate an octahedral-tetrahedral spaceframe from repurposed scaffolding
Spatial structures find many applications in architecture and construction as flat trusses, but few examples take advantage of the rich variety of configurations that a multi-layered octahedral- tetrahedral (octet) spaceframe can accommodate. The octet geometry is considered because of its inherent …
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Ética e valores morais: o caso das práticas comissionadas ocultas no setor da construção civil
… across abominable behaviours from the economical and political classes of the nation and question yourself where would be the ethical rules and what has been done with the nacional moral. The tendency of “Projection”, revealed by Freud, makes people, ignorantly, point your finger to politicians …
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Building the machine in the woods : reconciling technology and architecture
… technologies for a given set of requirements; and, more importantly, how do we find architectural and landscape forms which express the pragmatic reality of the technologies as well as their temporal and symbolic implications? In so doing, are there ways in which the dynamism of the activities …
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An investigation of contemporary public building design with particular reference to disabled peoples' design needs and designer awareness.
… to the needs of people with disabilities and that they perceive of people with disabilities as a separate minority who require 'special' provision. Within this context it is suggested that building designers would be more able to serve the needs of people with disabilities if building …