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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Courtyard house"”.
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Thotti Mane - Nn Indian Courtyard House in Blacksburg
Having grown up in a India, the importance of the courtyard was imbedded in the very essence of the understanding the architecture of a house.The project started of with the intention of designing a courtyard house, and eventually evolved to a house based on the principles of Indian building norms …
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Understanding the changes and constants of the courtyard house neighborhoods in Beijing
The courtyard houses in Beijing, named siheyuan, have undergone many changes during the last three decades. The siheyuan is a type of house that had slowly developed over more than two thousand years. At the beginning of the twentieth century it was still piratically untouched by influences of the …
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Transformation of the courtyard house--low-rise high density urban housing in Korea
… 2) To reconsider the essential qualities of house - a house with a garden, light and air. Modern high-rise apartments provide greater density and improved living conditions in terms of proper sanitation, electricity, and open space. But it lacks individuality and promotes a high degree of …
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Courtyard housing, a solution for high-density, low-rise single-family housing in the U.S.
… the potential application of the L-shaped courtyard house in an American context. Privacy for the dwelling and its grounds is a key issue to be addressed. It is shown than a traditional single-family detached house will provide sufficient privacy on lots of one-quarter acre or more. …
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Support for court-yard houses : Riyad, Saudi Arabia
… were made for both traditional and contemporary houses. Second, twenty-four patterns were developed to explain the possible relationship between various patterns in the Saudi culture, and in order to clarify the capacity of the courtyard house. Third, a support for courtyard house type was …
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The transformation and continuity of the traditional dwelling in Suzhou, China
… residents of Suzhou transform their traditional courtyard house because of socio-economic change and modernization and yet retain some spatial and social patterns which are important to them. My purpose is to examine the neighborhoods with a positive eye, trying to select the good points and not …
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Population policy and urban housing in China
… family of three generations in a traditional courtyard house, now have isolated by apartment box. The traditional social and spatial relationships among children, families, and neighbors have been extremely weakened. My intention is to restore the lost relationships for lonely children in a …
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Reconfiguring the Republic Dream: New Equitable Housing Types in Post-Socialist Tbilisi
… public, and semiprivate. The Art Nouveau courtyard house embodies these values as its internal composition reveals that the shift toward Art Nouveau accompanied a broader redesign of domestic space at this moment. Further, these buildings were constructed when Georgia was determining its …
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In the shadow of segregation : women's identity in the modern Iraqi house
… on the culture and politics of the modern house in Iraq. It advances the discussion from the authoritative religious environment of women's segregation in the Islamic era associated with the courtyard house, to the seemingly liberated status of women in modern times, as manifested in the …
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Exploring Architectural Implications on Social Sustainability: The case of extended family dwellings in contemporary Bahraini households
Bahraini households have witnessed a transition from tradition to modernity since the 1960s, in response to the fleeting economic prosperity of the era of oil exportation in the region, by moving from the traditional courtyard house to the single family house. But subsequently, the global economic …
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A challenge to contextualize an architectural intervention in an historic city : case study : Madinat al-Zahra
… the Near East." The most predominant type is the courtyard house, which is still relevant to the contemporary domestic life in the region. Today, only 10% of the city has been excavated. This thesis demonstrates the significance of context-specific responses in historic settings by designing and …
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The sequence of the supreme and mundane : case studies of the Chinese urban order
… application of sequential principles from the courtyard house to the plan of a capital is examined, and the basic features of Chinese sequence are summarized. Afterwards, the transformation of urban sequence is reveal through contemporary cases. Here I looked at how Chang'an Street and the …
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Collective urban block
… seen through historical urban forms of courtyard house and Hutong (alley). This thesis uses the vocabulary of historical neighborhood of Beijing, and investigates how collectivity can be formed through relational aspects of elements of architecture, such as courtyard, alley, window, …
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Monumental Building Complexes in Orientalizing and Archaic Central Italy
… within settlements and comprising large central courtyards and surrounding building wings, the complexes appear to have been constructed and used by the elite both as residences and as centers of civic authority. Examples of such monumental building complexes are known from Satricum, Rome, Veii, …
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Space + culture + identity : Chinese cultural center in Sea Point
… and philosophies behind their making. The courtyard house will be studied as an example. Furthermore, contemporary Chinese architecture that looks at new approaches to representing the modern Chinese identity will be discussed. The second part explores spatial and urban manifestation in …
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People's Wall : reconstructing a new city wall for the modern city of Beijing
… but also done more harm to the surviving courtyard house fabric than good. Therefore, this project proposes an alternative method of reconstruction which enriches, rather than damages, the old city center. The new wall is imagined as a continuous landscape infrastructure; the design …
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Enabling housing : dwelling + home + domesticity; typology + specificity + site; chaos + complexity + control
… upon specific common typologies -the row house, the suburban house and the courtyard house-"developed models" were explored to more fully understand type and its role in low-cost housing. In each iteration, enabling character was enhanced or implemented through evident capacity for use …
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Home under siege: Bab al-Hara, televising morality and everyday life in the Levant
… ontological security, grounded as it was in the courtyard houses of Old Damascus. The Damascene courtyard house constituted the spatial anchor for an idealized moral past, an ahistorical Damascusfocused Arab cultural history, and an imagination of the domestic as sovereign. It thus promoted a …
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To What Extent are Nornour's Roman Votive Finds Indicative of Roman Religious Activity on the Isles of Scilly?
… of Exeter, situated in and around a cluster of houses of Bronze Age origin. Four previous interpretations of Roman period activity on Nornour will be reviewed. Was this a centre for brooch manufacture or a shrine? Were the artefacts votive offerings to Sillina, or hoarded spoils from shipwrecks? …
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Towards sustainable architecture and urban form
… uncovers the process of the formation of the house and mahalla in order to shed light on how the built environment responds to inhabitants‟ socio-cultural determinants and everyday lives. It unfolds how changes in the nature of Iraqi society and its priorities affect the architecture of home …