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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Good Design"”.
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Pedagogies of ‘Good Design’ and Handling in Relation to the I.L.E.A./Camberwell Collection
… Collection as a case study for the teaching of ‘good design’ in post-war Britain from 1951 to 1977. The methodological approaches used are drawn from the disciplines of design history, material culture studies, educational theory,museology and sociology. The main objectives of the thesis aim to …
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"For good design, you pay now; for bad design, you pay later"--or do you?
What is the value of architectural design on office building income? This empirical study of 296 office building located in 11 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) hopes to quantitatively determine if a plain vanilla cereal box suburban office building commands more or less net operating income …
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Does "good design" add value? : a comparative analysis of two residential projects; the planned unit development of Mission Valley and the new town of Reston
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1989.
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An Exploration of the Importance of Design in Branding
The purpose of this thesis is to explore how good design is used to enhance and communicate a brand’s image. At its core, a brand is a personality. Thoughtful marketing and good design are tools that can effectively communicate that personality. The products, promotions, and experiences that your …
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Financial impact of workplace performance on effective rents : a study of the Manhattan Office Market
… to work performance. Yet, the question whether good design correlates to increased financial outcomes has not been explored much. This thesis studies the economic impact of workplace performance by linking post-occupancy analysis to financial outcomes. The paper uses two data sets to explore if …
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A design performance driven learning framework for conceptual design knowledge : methodology development and applications
… automation of acquisition of bridge conceptual design knowledge. The thesis proposes a new learning methodology explicitly aimed at capturing quality design aspects to help engineer gain insight into good design. The research uses the National Bridge Inventory (NBI) data, which contains more …
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A matter of understanding : urban design strategies to integrate street vendors in Mumbai
… or resigned acceptance of these markets, good design offers a better solution. It inquires into Mumbai's structure and how the street vendors use civic space to inform a new design creating an equitable integration of the informal markets into the emerging modern paradigms of urban design. …
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Multi-fidelity strategies for lean burn combustor design
In combustor design and development, the use of unsteady computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of transient combustor aero-thermo-dynamics to provide an insight into the complex reacting flow-field is expensive in terms of computational time. A large number of such high-fidelity reactive …
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The Open Agency Project : operations in the Creative UnCommons
… inventions. By actively seeking unconventional design opportunities, taking advantage of loopholes in restrictive codes, and hacking/tinkering rather than master planning, this office aims to insert architectural ideas into unexpected places and spur the imaginative rethinking of familiar …
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An analysis of the Select Committee on Arts and Manufactures of 1835-6: anatomy, benthamism and design
… was a core debate in which an analogy between design of society and design for manufactures was drawn. Design in its broadest definition is therefore examined in a number of ways starting with an initial outline of the principles of good design. This analysis offers a set of criteria for …
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Redefining urban design through public-private partnerships
… with a search for an expanded framework of urban design and an observation on the way projects were implemented and how downtowns revitalize themselves. The search showed that the expanded framework of urban design should be thought of as both a product and a process. As a product, urban design …
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Producing architecture
It is said that good design is transparent. Time and time again, designers have stressed that the transparency of a building is in its detailing. As designers continue to take their designs to new limits, the importance of detailing has grown. Today, buildings are designed such that people from …
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The use of continuum models for conducting both linear and nonlinear analyses of lattice structures
… was not available. Now, it can still be a good design method especially for tall buildings in the preliminary stages of structural design because through the displacements under the axial, shear and moments stresses on the continuum model, the sizes and shapes of members can be determined …
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Toward a Convergent Evidence-Based Urban Design Approach
Urban designers do not typically include research or evidence in practice, though the need for an evidence-based approach is becoming increasingly apparent. The way our built environment is constructed affects our health, well-being, and sense of place, as prior research has uncovered. …
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Grind, Mash, Distill
… role of the architect into question; how can we design a building, make drawings and reach practical completion on a building site whilst being aware of the looming future, with its eternal punch list of alterations? Or, how can an awareness of passing time as a gradual tweaker, weatherer, and …
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Quantifying aesthetics of visual design applied to automatic design
… In this dissertation, we study what makes a good design by investigating mechanisms to bring aesthetics of design from realm of subjection to objection. These mechanisms are a combination of three main approaches: learning theories and principles of design by collaborating with professional …
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Efficient selection of a set of good enough designs with complexity preference
… important methods involved in solving the best design selection problem in the discrete-event system simulation. The selection of one or several best designs is a common problem people meet in real situations. The research originally focused on the one best design selection problem, the …
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RadioActive : enabling large-scale asynchronous audio discussions on mobile devices
… one must first have an adequate interaction design before its possible to investigate the qualities and usage patterns over the long-term. This design does not exist for mobile devices. This thesis takes the first step in this direction by creating and evaluating an initial design called …
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Parameter Identification and the Design of Experiments for Continuous Non-Linear Dynamical Systems
Mathematical models are useful for simulation, design, analysis, control, and optimization of complex systems. One important step necessary to create an effective model is designing an experiment from which the unknown model parameter can be accurately identified and then verified. The strategy …
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Social congestion in Shanghai : an urban housing project designed on its sections
… their changed lifestyle, usually appreciate the good privacy, generous space, and full facilities in high-rise housing. However, most of them also dislike being isolated and lament their loss of the "big warm family" of old Lilong (Hammond, 2006, p.41). Believing that a good design should bring …
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