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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Christopher Alexander"”.
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Place That Lives-- Urban Mixed-Use Development in response to Christopher Alexander
… answer lies in the pattern language developed by Christopher Alexander to allow anyone to design a building that feels alive, and has a special quality that makes buildings and places beautiful. I developed my thesis to use his pattern language to design a 12-story mixed-use -- retail, office, and …
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Sensory Stimulating Sanctuaries - Creating spaces that improve and benefit wellbeing and mental health through sensory stimulating architectural techniques
… to a set of design principles, as described by Christopher Alexander, that act as guide lines for the successful design of a trauma-informed healing sanctuary, rather than the institutional approach. The sensory stimulating sanctuary is located on the Upper Campus of the University of Cape Town …
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Pattern Language as a Design and Evaluation Tool for Teaming Environments
… formulation methodology developed in 1977 by Christopher Alexander and his associates. It consists of a series of interrelated physical elements combined to create a framework for design solutions. A web-based pattern language for teaming environments was created by this researcher and …
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Perception of old towns, historicism, and temporality
… and practice. Certain aspects of the theories of Christopher Alexander and Aldo van Eyck which are contingent upon the issue of the old town are expounded. The issue is also linked with the widespread architectural movement in the eastern world to create a culturally and socially responsive …
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Architectural form from human nature
That Christopher Alexander, Serge Chermayeff, David A. Crane, Aldo van Eyck, Louis I. Kahn, Peter and Allison Smithson and Robert Venturi are evolving a theory of architecture based on human nature and that the accommodation of human nature is a prime determinate of architectural form and that the …
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Web 2.0 for urban designers & planners
… success with it, based on methods set forth by Christopher Alexander. Ways that Web 2.0 tools can be applied to overcome the common challenges, and ways they can be used to facilitate the model for success are identified. To show how such results can be attained in practice, a hypothetical …
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Scenography and Dramaturgy of the City
… In addition, a short excursus to the work of Christopher Alexander introduces the concept of "pattern" as a "quality" of human relations that is activated and made possible by a specific architectural circumstance. Besides, it is stated that life and beauty in the built environment arise only …
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Politics of Space in Ankara: The Spatial Triad as Mobilization and Demobilization
… geographer Edward Soja, architect and theorist Christopher Alexander, and sociologist Asef Bayat explain how governments and powerful individuals use architects to shape spaces that reproduce economic and social hegemony. Alexander calls this mode of production System-B, which continues to …
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Patterns of Moments Reasoning about Space Video via Pattern Language of Human Behavior by Extracting MultiAction Activities via Machine Learning Video
… and passengers' immediate needs. For example, Christopher Alexander published a collection of design patterns that promotes everyday users to become consciously aware of their living patterns around specific architectural setups. However, his prescriptive proposal outlines only his empirical …
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A compositional framework for determining pattern applicability.
The notion of ‘pattern’ originates in the work of Christopher Alexander and, in recent years, patterns have become a popular part of software development. A pattern is defined as a ‘three-part rule’: a relationship between a given context, a recurring system of forces peculiar to that context, and …
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El análisis gráfico de la casa. siglo XX
… del existenzminimum y los protagonistas son Alexander KLEIN y LE CORBUSIER, prolongándose la mirada hacia ciertos “acontecimientos gráficos” de las vanguardias y hacia los manuales racionalistas de la vivienda. En el segundo capítulo, nos situamos en el ecuador del siglo, los protagonistas …
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Buildings, beauty, and the brain: psychological responses to architectural design
… patterns in architecture. Chapter 4 introduces Christopher Alexander’s theory of natural structure and reviews past literature linking biophilic design and wellbeing. In Chapter 5, a series of experiments are presented suggesting that subjective perceptions of naturalness are strongly predicted …
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Design, synthesis, and thermodynamic evaluation of peptidomimetic ligands binding to the Src SH2 domain
The ability to predict protein-ligand binding affinities is a difficult and elusive goal in the field of molecular recognition. Models exist to predict binding energetics; however, they are not always capable of considering the incidental events in ligand-binding due to the tendency of the Gibbs …
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Tathmini ya Mabadiliko ya Rara Mintarafu Maendeleo ya Jamii
Utafiti huu umeshughulikia mabadiliko ya rara yaliyojitokeza kama matokeo ya maendeleo ya jamii yaliyofikiwa. Rara, tendi, visasili na visakale vya kishairi ni tanzu za ghani-masimulizi. Aidha, rara imefafanuliwa kama tungo za kishairi zinazoimbwa kwa kuambatana na ala ya muziki. Nyimbo za rara …
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The Effects of Active Recovery during High Intensity Resistance Training on Lactate Clearance in Collegiate Athletes
<p>Purpose: With the development of more intense and complex strength and conditioning programs, it is necessary to discover the best possible means of recovery during workout sessions to increase athletic performance. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of active recovery during …
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A Phenomenological Analysis of the Perceptions of Diversity Leadership by Department Chairs in Creating Social Change in Engineering and Computing Education
This doctoral dissertation explores the perceptions of diversity leadership by department chairs in engineering and computing in higher education and their role in creating social change. Using a qualitative research design, this study explores the lived experiences of department chairs who are …
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Input and Output Legitimacy in WTO Law
This thesis provides an analysis of the complex relationship between law and legitimacy in the WTO. It focuses on the notional dichotomy between ‘Member-driven’ (input-based) and ‘results-oriented’ (output-based) narratives of the WTO’s legitimacy, and how such narratives are both framed by, and …
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Interactive graphical model building using virtual reality
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1994.
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Reflections of Color and Light
An integral part of human vision is the perception of color through the reflection of light. At any moment the human eye is receiving a complex polychromatic reflection of its environment, and the human mind is perceiving many hundreds or thousands of colors. In architecture, light is often a …