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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Building architecture"”.
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Containment building : architecture between the city and advanced nuclear reactors
… technology and public intervention. Containment Building is an architectural response to nuclear technological advancement that challenges historical separation between nuclear power and the public. It is a self-sustained, thorium-powered nuclear plant sited in and powering New York City. It is a …
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Agent-based Modeling of Emergency Building Evacuation
<p>Panic during emergency building evacuation can cause crowd stampede, resulting in serious injuries and casualties. Agent-based methods have been successfully employed to investigate the collective human behavior during emergency evacuation in cases where the configurational space is extremely …
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An artists' community in Georgetown: a study of the dialectical relationship between the general and the particular in architecture
Architecture occurs at the meeting of interior and exterior forces of use and space. These interior and environmental forces are both general and particular, generic and circumstantial. Architecture as the wall between inside and outside becomes the spatial record of this resolution and its drama. …
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Thoughts on Architecture…
Architecture is more than mere building. Architecture is a process involving the study, observation, and solution of aesthetic and pragmatic problems. The act of building solves the pragmatic questions, but it is the architect's intellectual commitment and line of inquiry that ultimately produces …
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The Spirit of Building
… be learned about design through the process of building? The intent of this thesis is to learn about building; to gain a true understanding of the way design decisions are realized through built components. If by knowing what is to come in a project's future, does the designer change their way …
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Reveries of a walk: Architectonics and an Attunement to Nature
Architecture has been primarily ocularcentric for the last century. This thesis proposes a more sensible approach to architecture. A multisensory experience that gives the user a deeper response to the building. Architecture can activate and engage multiple senses through the revelation of nature …
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Architecture and the Inspiration of the Museum
Architecture exists through human experience. As the product of the relationship between a building and a person, architecture gains meaning when it is viewed and contemplated by an individual moving throughout a building. Architecture simultaneously engages the body and mind of one who experiences …
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Islamic Repose Center Johor Baharu, Malaysia
… am happy and I say: " This is beautiful. That is architecture" ^ - Le Corbusier This thesis is intended to explore the architecture of awakening the physical, emotional, and spiritual dimension of life with representations of humanity and nature. This is an architecture of celebrating life, which …
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Urban detox
… will be the seed level basis for a community building architecture, enabling participants to engage in the social network both with locals and other transplants. These villages are connected by an existing walking trail; this trail will be a key element to facilitate community building at a …
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Built to last : designing for a referential continuity in the built environment
… exploring a way of understanding, designing and building architecture which acknowledges that we are a part of a world which is always changing and becoming, without denying or forgetting the past, and still fulfilling the needs and potentials of the present. It is about continuing the collective …
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The Technical Development of Brickwork in Scotland 1700-1900
… examines a much neglected area of Scottish building and construction history, brickwork. It will be conclusively shown that brick has seen far more widespread use in Scottish buildings than has been appreciated to date. This is true not just in terms of the range of building types which have …
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Measuring and filtering microwave radiations using frequency selective surface through energy saving glass
… of a microwave reduction solution for modern building architecture utilising Energy Saving Glass (ESG), in conjunction with Frequency Selective (FSS) surfaces through which useful signals can be filtered. In the investigation, radiation power density levels arising from the three common …
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The Troupes of Theatre
… as being a mimetic art which is different from architecture. The mimetic arts, such as the performing arts, occur in performance spaces concealed in the physical architecture of a theater building. This fixed location of the theatre has led to the elements of the theatre to be hidden and …
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Optimisation of Closed Cavity Façade to Enhance Energy Performance and Indoor Environmental Quality in Office Buildings
… the transparent and translucent part of the building envelope, have traditionally been identified as the weak point of the building and, simultaneously, as a key element to pursue higher building performance in terms of energy use and occupant comfort. Due to the role of the transparent part …