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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Home design"”.
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Rethinking Smart Home Design: Integrating Architectural Perspectives and Technologically-driven Design Thinking within a Framework
Smart homes, equipped with sensing, actuation, communication, and computation capabilities, enable automation and adaptation according to the occupants' needs. These capabilities work together to build holistic spatial and living experiences for the occupants. Smart technologies significantly …
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A Web-based user-oriented tool for universal kitchen design
Economic constraints to the professional design practice limit customized solutions to the very wealthy, and thus most of the kitchens in current development housing projects are still generic. With aging baby boomers and an increasing number of survivors of disability, diversified user needs …
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Advancing the Development and Utilization of Data Infrastructure for Smart Homes
The smart home era is inevitably arising towards our everyday life. However, the scarcity of publicly available data remains a major hurdle in the domain, limiting people's capability of performing data analysis and their effectiveness in creating smart home automations. To mitigate this hurdle and …
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WS 1207 Community Workshops
… open workshops, classes, a resource library and design consultation to low and middle income homeowners, affordable housing properties, and community parks. In addition, the center welcomes all of Richmond city residents to join and partake in 1207's resources in order to grow a multi-faceted …
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From personal experience to design : externalizing the homeowner's needs assessment process
… reorganized and integrated system of residential design, may make custom homes a possibility for a larger segment of the population in the years to come. While tools and materials that embody building and design expertise are necessary for making such a system workable, how the homeowner is …
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Hacking Suburbia: An Architect's Reconsideration of the Home
… have struggled to determine their role in the homebuilding industry and contributing to a tension between architects, homebuilders and consumers. During the rise of pattern books, architects originally marketed themselves as ‘tastemakers’, but through the provision of patterns they became …
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Icon + expectation : exploring the evolution of the American single family home
To propose a new conceptualization of "home", it is necessary to explore the mechanisms that have created this revered icon. Since the industrial revolution, the commercial packaging of the home has continually reinforced its significance as a mass-produced object. From clothing to automobiles, …
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The Next Generation of Residential Construction: Adoption of Green Building Programs, Environmentally Certified Wood Products and the Transparency of Environmental Friendliness
… drivers will influence the next generation of homebuilding. As the housing market continues its recovery, we must seek to understand the real and perceived weaknesses and strengths of the home building industry. Architects, as the visionaries in home design, have played an important role in the …
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Privacy in Multigenerational Homes Before and Amidst COVID-19
… of multiple generations living together in one home. Given the health of the individuals, size of the home, and number of dedicated bedrooms and bathrooms, living multigenerational can have both positive and adverse effects. Many family groups fall into the category of multigenerational living. …
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Home Environments and Allergen Avoidance Practices in a Hot, Humid Climate
The purpose of the study was to examine home conditions, housing satisfactions, and allergen avoidance practices of people with allergic rhinitis, focusing on female patients who lived in an urban area in a hot, humid climate. The Morris and Winter theory of housing adjustment provides a …
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Data-Driven Research On Engineering Design Thinking And Behaviors In Computer-Aided Systems Design: Analysis, Modeling, And Prediction
<p>Research on design thinking and design decision-making is vital for discovering and utilizing beneficial design patterns, strategies, and heuristics of human designers in solving engineering design problems. It is also essential for the development of new algorithms embedded with human …
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ReLife: Transitional Housing for Victims of Natural Disaster
… to provide solutions, a new typology must be designed. This thesis proposes a new typology that will create a responsive design that is efficient, aesthetic, environmentally conscious, and ready for implementation. Transitional housing can be defined as housing that is used during the …
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Co-designing in love: towards the emergence and conservation of human sustainable communities
… the following two questions: What is ecological design? And, how does Ecological Design both emerge from, and contribute to, the constitution and conservation of human sustainable communities in our Western-European culture? The research proposes that the only way to understand the practice of …