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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Existing fabric"”.
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Existing fabric as generator for a 'New Identity' : re-connecting lost space
The thesis challenges how the existing fabric can be adapted and transformed to generate similar benefits to that of a new construction.
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A library for the town of Milford : an addition to and redefinition of three buildings in an urban context
… committed to the idea of reinforcing the existing fabric of our towns and cities, and intrigued with the need to sometimes redefine the existing architecture within those cities. This thesis concerns itself with the design of a library on a site In Milford, Massachusetts. The site is …
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Design guidelines for downtown shopping centers
… centers should attempt to build upon the existing fabric in such a way as to become an integral part of the city. This study first examines the nature of retail districts, the shopping center as a building type, and the recent emergence of the downtown shopping center. Two recently …
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Hypodensity/Hyperdensity ; or, Apple skies
… mode of living that is not isolated from the existing fabric of the surrounding area.
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Revealing and Exposing the City Behind the Symbol
… inspiration, which allows representation of existing and past local populations. For my thesis, I sought to fulfill this need by turning to the existing fabric of the city, learning from it, and eventually employing adaptive reuse techniques to unify the existing framework with the new …
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Emerging from stasis : a new typology for the public building in centro Havana/
… Cuba. This new institution aims to capitalize on existing social networks which, consolidated and enhanced, might provide the social medium out of which a vibrant and active civic institution would arise, facilitated by a new architectural typology. The site, Centro Habana, is an "in-between" …
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A Window To The City
… connection to the city and the surrounding existing recreational spaces. The panoramic view of the city, a compelling element of the site became the driving force for type, organization and orientation of the building. The view of the city is constructed as an architectural element and the …
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Design for education and environment: Jacksonville Estuarine Research Center
… urban development and promote the wealth of its existing ecology. This educational focus, in conjunction with the three states of marine habitat, establishes the basis for the aquarium design. By integrating the building design into the existing fabric of the city and focusing the research on the …
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Value engineering the palace of learning
… previously neglected space while reinforcing the existing fabric and character of the site. On an architectural scale, the project addresses the nature of public space within the school, presenting an alternative to the double-loaded corridor. The relationship of classroom to circulation is …
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[Co]Building for A displaced community: the conduction of place-making strategies as a means of addressing spatial segregation
… Park. My aim is to draw inspiration from the existing infill spaces that subsequently manifests into a speculative design proposal to harness ideas of polyvalency and heterogeneity which will aid in alleviating the cycle of poverty. How can Hanover Park's poorly defined residual spaces within …
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Reinhabiting the Fort Point Channel : a proposal for transforming and extending the warehouse district in South Boston
… of this design investigation is the warehouse fabric of the Fort Point Channel and its potentials as a model for further development This extensive configuration of warehouses and access roads is the product of an integrated process of planning. design and building. As such, it forms a useful …
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Recognizing contextual continuities : investigations of the Charleston single house
… determine the relevant physical attributes of an existing fabric for inclusion in new construction as a way towards building greater continuity? For this investigation I have chosen to examine and work within the context of Charleston, South Carolina. Charleston is a city over two hundred years …
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A contribution to urbanism--the tall building as a multi-dimensional framework for additive growth and change
… to closure and detail, will provide the existing urbanism with a mechanism to accommodate growth and change. The work is divided into three sections. The first section, The Project, is a design proposal for a specific site in downtown Boston. While these studies do not aim at producing an …
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Urban livelihood
… explores how we can stitch new designs into the existing fabric of the City Bowl of Cape Town, using well-located parcels of land and available buildings. Key well located state-owned sites are identified within economically vibrant neighbourhoods. These sites will be reimagined to envisage …
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Destructive preservation : figuring the urban ground
What does it mean to invert the urban fabric? When figure becomes ground, and ground becomes figure, how does a neighborhood adapt to moving from extreme privacy to communal living? Despite the complete destruction of the existing fabric, the proposition immediately disallows a Utopian, …
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Attitudes towards the urban past
… social patterns and technology. Thus a city is a fabric of several layers of time, existing at the same moment in the same place. This continuum is, on one hand, a repository of its people's memory and collective consciousness; and, on the other, of their hopes and aspirations. It is this which …
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A city's edge: where the land meets water
… where City and Natural Landscape overlap, existing without choice or expectation.' Steven Holl The interaction across boundaries sets up a dialogue that is highly complex and ambiguous. The periphery of a modern city presents itself as an erratic composition of fragments having little or no …
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The Densification of Historic Districts: Applying Metabolism to the Cast Iron
… and megastructures of the future but also to the existing fabric of cities through interpreting a building as framework, a historic buildingholds the potential of adapting with the surrounding city. SoHo, with it’s history based in multifunctional, premanufactured, modular parts and historically …
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Contemporary Arts Museum in Roanoke: an Entrance to the City
… factors in design. The insertion into an existing fabric requires a careful dialogue between past, present and future. The proposed building sets in contrast to the existing structures in the neighborhood of the site, establishing its own response to time. Although contrasting the existing …
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From Neglect to Opportunity: Revitalizing a neglected coastline through adaptive reuse architecture that unites and celebrates
… significant features associated with the existing, enhancing the site's cultural and social connections to related communities . The project centre s around the present day and future transformation s of a dilapidated Crayfish Factory and it's unknown landscape , into a thriving coastal …