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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Material space"”.
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Material, space and order
The basis of any human existence is a space to inhabit to support that existence. Space, given by nature or created by man is always determined by the "planes" by which the particular space is enclosed. The issue, (what kind of materials these planes are made of - a roof, a wall , a column), is …
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Metatheatricality on the Renaissance Stage, the Audience and the Material Space
… navigate this difficult, sometimes dangerous, space. In particular, the development of Renaissance metatheater derived from (and, simultaneously, affected) the unique nature of its original spectators, who practiced a much more actively engaged participation in the theater than is often …
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Toward Liquid Emerald: A Cultural Center for the Japanese Tea
… between building and user? Weight? Time? Material? Space? How do these four elements affect the perception of an architectural figure?
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"A national imaging arts museum"
… hierarchical scaling of the referents of order, material, space, and light.
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The making and meaning of gay space : the case of the Castro in San Francisco
… the creation, defining, redefining, and use of space. An understanding of these non-brick-and-mortar aspects includes how the use and meaning of that space changes over time. Gay space, specifically gay male space, is studied as both material space and social space. Material space is the 'brick …
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Analysis of functionally graded material object representation methods
… approaches to modeling Functionally Graded Material (FGM) objects are evaluated based on their memory requirements. Through this research, an information pathway for processing FGM objects based on image processing is proposed. This pathway establishes a clear separation between design of …
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The man with the movie camera : an event-driven approach to architectural design
… can be viewed as the manipulation of physical material space in relation to human events that take place inside it. This thesis introduces the notion of event-driven architectural design, and implements an experimental digital tool that automatically constructs a cinematic representation of …
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a place for creation: artisans' retreat
… act of separation can elevate the composition of material, space, and light to awaken the mind, eye, and soul. The vehicle for this study is an artisans' retreat placed on the ridge line of Brush Mountain located in Blacksburg, Virginia. This project explores the idea of separation and the moments …
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ANALYSIS OF BRAZILIAN SPLIT CYLINDER USING THE STATE BASED PERIDYNAMIC LATTICE MODEL
… years, does not handle such discontinuities. A material, as defined by continuum mechanics is that which is continuous and fills the space it occupies. Although this is a reasonable assumption for metals, it is an unrealistic notion for concrete. Stewart Silling invented peridynamics, which …
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Deep learning methods for the design and understanding of solid materials
The trend of open material data and automation in the past decade offers a unique opportunity for data-driven design of novel materials for various applications as well as fundamental scientific understanding, but it also poses a challenge for conventional machine learning approaches based on …
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Pedagogies Of Power: Gender, Race, And Bridewell Hospital On The Early Modern Stage
… and sexual violence. This project focuses on one material space where such pedagogy takes shape: London’s Bridewell Hospital, a workhouse, prison, and charitable institution founded to reform “lewd” women. When “Bridewell” is staged as a setting, I suggest that it is not just a backdrop but a …
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The Scientific romances of Charles Howard Hinton : the fourth dimension as hyperspace, hyperrealism and protomodernism
… socio-cultural and aesthetic impact of the hyperspace philosophy of Charles Howard Hinton, as expressed within his two-volume collection of Scientific Romances (1884-1896). Hinton's hyperspace philosophy is founded on the belief that the fourth dimension exists as a transcendental yet material …
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Resonant Space, Sonorous Time: The Varieties of Acoustic Phenomena in the Art of Christian Marclay
… for critical reflection. These include the material space of his sculptural installations, the visual space of his photographic installations, the social space of his collaborative performances and the televisual space of his video installation. In addressing these spatial concerns, my …
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Architecture as a creative will in the a-tectonic aesthetic order: (an architecture-theoretical inquiry according to Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of order)
… essence in structure. The thesis recognizes the materialist tectonic principle as a manifestation which tries to find its justification in the oneness of man with nature; moreover, such an architectural understanding tends to make the various individual forces evolve to a norm. The thesis …
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Regionalist Social Movements in Contemporary Chile: Production of Space, Place, Territory, and Scale Through Collective Action
… identity, leading to social empowerment; (3) material space framed collective action of these movements since isolated conditions allowed long-lasting demonstrations; also, collective action produced ephemeral places and temporarily changed the territorial dynamics; and (4) the regional scale …
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Biopolitics, Borders and the Populations of Literary Space in Two Post-millennial Black British Novels: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea and Andrea Levy’s The Long Song
… is an analysis of biopolitics, populations and space in two post-millennial black British novels: Adbulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea (2001) and Andrea Levy’s The Long Song (2010). In chapter one, I examine the regulation and control of migrant and asylum seeker populations in twenty-first century …
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Public cemeteries and the production of urban space in colonial Seoul, 1910-1945
… traces the production process of colonial urban space in Seoul. In particular, the research analyses how the space of the dead (the gravesite) was transformed into a space of urban settlers during the colonial period. The Government General Korea introduced the burial rule in 1912, the first …
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At home in the metropole : gender and domesticity in contemporary migration fiction
… of migration to Britain from postcolonial spaces. Employing a feminist postcolonial approach to works by Buchi Emecheta, Monica Ali, Andrea Levy, Abdulrazak Gurnah and Leila Aboulela, this thesis challenges dominant readings of migration fiction that have been shaped by postmodern and …
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Study on Urban Form Changes and Urban Transformation of Modern Luoyang(1910s-1960s)
… projection of urban development history in the material space of the city. The formation of urban morphological regions varies according to different historical contexts. Changes in the elements of urban morphology, as well as their increase and decrease, can directly reflect the process of …
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Digital material aerospace structures
… design, fabrication, and performance of digital materials in aerospace structures in three areas: (1) a morphing wing design that adjusts its form to respond to different behavioral requirements; (2) an automated assembly method for truss column structures; and (3) an analysis of the payload and …
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