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Showing 1 to 20 of 42035 for “"Form"”.
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Form follows finance? ...finance follows form?
… by financial firms together with the structural form, aesthetics and floor plate requirements commonly requested by such firms.
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Narrative Form
Architecture is a dilemma of transforming complex desires into compelling forms. It stands to reason, then, that to better understand the desires of a user might produce a more compelling form. This is an investigation into the process of design, wherein narratives are constructed as a productive …
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Deferential Form
Tech giants have emerged to have a significant presence in the Bay area, many of which are in the suburban regions of Silicon Valley where they have erected massive symbolic entity. However, with the lack of urban fabric in Silicon Valley, the “Google Bus” would transport tech employees to work in …
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In form
Spatial computing is human interaction with a machine in which the machine retains and manipulates referents to real objects and spaces. It is an essential component for making our machines fuller partners in our work and play. This thesis presents a series of experiments in the discipline and …
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Ambiguous Form
This thesis is an exploration of the ambiguous form. "Ambiguous" means having multiple interpretations. Usually, a figurative presentation will direct people to a particular thing. On the contrary, if familiarity is provided as the only way, people can find a deceptive scenario, and associate it …
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Town form
American town form consists of primary form - the layout of streets, lots and other features determined for a town at its inception - and secondary form - the fabric of building and usage that a town acquires over time. This thesis explores the primary and secondary form of ante-bellum Western …
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Landscape and form : observation and transformation of farm form
… an exploration of the collective, that of farm form. The form of a collective organization is of a multiplicity of relationships, rich in information and understandable. It is an interactive coming together of elements, creating something shared by the individual and the whole, a unity made up …
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Creating form : the presentation and perception of three-dimensional form
This Creative Arts Project is an investigation of form within the ceramic tradition -how three-dimensional forms are created, presented and perceived. It addresses this topic by focusing on how form can be implied without actually creating the form itself. The project consists of an exhibition of …
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Form und Formalisierung
Frühdrucke des Aldus Manutius und seiner Zeitgenossen in Hinsicht auf die Druckpraxis und zur Software gestützten Erfassung und Verarbeitung (optische Layout Erfassung).
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Fiction Free Form
Fiction Free Form includes a short story, free verse poetry and formal poetry. Arrangement of the collection follows the title of the thesis: the short story is first, free verse is next, and formal verse is last. Themes throughout the collection vary and explore diverse topics such as …
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Atrium defines form
The natural environment is deteriorating and electricity demand is outstripping supply partly due to our growing built environment and economy. In response there is a need for energy efficient office space to accommodate economic growth and help with the conservation of the environment. The inner …
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Autonomous city form
… domain, and worsened of the quality of the urban form. This thesis looks into the relationships between transportation technology as a driver and space as a medium of urban design. With the rapid introduction of new technologies in transportation (autonomous vehicles) there is an opportunity to …
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Form-finding structures
… engineers in the examination of their optimal form. Through the elimination of bending and shear forces in the structure, less material and reinforcement is needed. By minimizing the use of materials, a form that is economical, sustainable and aesthetically attractive emerges. However, this …
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Time, energy & form
Physical manifestations of time occur in natural forms of all sizes. Architectural form serves as shelter while providing a built envelope of human life, simultaneously influencing and influenced by energetic activities which occur within the containment. Change is either progressive or cyclic, …
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Color and form
… is constrained to maximize issues of color and form making. The design used various media to visualize the design and explore two color systems. Additive color systems lead to painting, pastels, colored pencil, and plaster casting. The computer facilitated image processing, geometrical …
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Energy-in-Form
This thesis is a study of architectural form in relation to energy. Energy performance is rooted in form. Overall performance in the practice of architecture includes necessarily consumption as a form constraint. The term energy in this body of work relates to the social circumstance that the …
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Material and Form
… between essence and appearance, construction and form, necessity and possibility, object and subject. It is a reflection on the question of the nature of building. I cannot tell you that something is beautiful. I can only explain why I do what I do, and how I do it. I have tried to limit the text …
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Time rendered form
… optimization, and masonry becomes generous in form through the needs of its use. A building is a note emitted in a particular instant in the midst of a culture and composed of an infinitude of elements. Buildings measure mortal progress through the instrument of technology. Time is measured by …
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