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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Public buildings"”.
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Architectural Advocacy: Public Buildings as Normative Communication
Public architecture is intrinsically an issue of communication, and both are of keen importance to contemporary public life. Few communications scholars consider public buildings as communicative media, but doing so would begin dialogues on how to broaden the influence of both communication …
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Framework for the audit process implementation on public buildings
Audit of public buildings (PBs) is a relatively new phenomenon in the construction industry in Malaysia. Until 2006, there was no such audit conducted on PBs in Malaysia. In 2007, the government, through the Public Works Department (PWD) introduced audit on all buildings owned by the federal …
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The Design and Decoration of Neo-Assyrian Public Buildings
… have been extended to paragraph length. The buildings discussed are those constructed, largely according to distinctive Assyrian traditions, in the central area of the empire, east of the Euphrates and north of Jebel Hamrin; foreign traditions, except when they influence Assyrian practice, …
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Public Buildings and Civic Pride: Town Halls in Northern Germany, 1200--1618
… Germany. It traces the origin of communal buildings in this region from the earliest period in which they are known to have existed, the early 13th century, up to the decades immediately preceding the outbreak of the Thirty-Years War. The particular focus here is on three major communal …
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A decision-making framework for the sustainable redevelopment of abandoned public buildings in Nigeria.
The aim of this thesis is to examine the sustainability of infrastructure in Nigeria in line with the arrays of abandoned projects and recommend a sustainable solution to enhance their redevelopment. Hence, in contrast to previous studies, a model was developed to improve the decision-making …
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Key Cues for Wayfinding in Windowless Spaces with Complex Circulation in Large Public Buildings
… for high-quality urbanisation in China, large public buildings with complex circulation windowless spaces, such as metro stations and commercial complexes, have become essential spaces in daily life. However, due to the lack of natural light and external environmental references, wayfinding …
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Restroom usage in selected public buildings and facilities: a comparison of females and males
… having to stand in line in order to use public restrooms. The primary purpose of this exploratory study was to determine the number and types of activities performed in the restroom, along with the amount of time spent in the restroom, as these factors might influence the revision of …
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Reactive and interactive architectural form : a design exploration
… side heavily trafficked and fast moving. Major public buildings are interspersed along its edges. A lineal pedestrian parkway moves through the residential fabric. crosses the site and continues through Boston on the other side of Mass. Ave. The site is at a point of transition between singular …
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Urban sunspaces : ecology of atria and arcades
… private outdoor with the yearly climate cycles. Public buildings adopted this in larger scale, and with the ending 18th century, atria and arcades merged to a period of architectural highlights of glass covered interiors in steel and glass. Passages, hotels and public buildings of an emerging …
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Fiberglass Sanctuary A New Corvette Museum
A museum is an important type in the palette of public buildings. Most famous and iconic museums are mainly dedicated to house artworks or historical and cultural artifacts. Aside from the sheltering of the artifacts, museums often are landmarks, which contribute to the identity of a place. The few …
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Minoan Town Planning
… adhering to the natural contours of the land 2. Buildings arranged in irregular, attached blocks defined by the street system 3. A large plateia or centrally located community court easily accessible from all parts of the town 4. Other open public spaces throughout the settlement 5. An elite …
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Distributed Monitoring for User Localization and Profiling in Smart Environment
… control, monitoring, and management of public and private spaces. All these systems exploit the wireless communication and sensing in combination with smart methodologies to provide advanced services to the end user in many application fields, from environmental monitoring to energy …
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Circulation Structured
… and interact with a piece of architecture. In public buildings, such as transportation terminals, it is crucial to have a floor plan that allows easy flow of pedestrian traffic. Effective circulation in public areas such as these ensures a visitor can navigate conveniently and efficiently. …
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John Hartwell Cocke (1780-1866): From Jeffersonian Palladianism to Romantic Colonial Revivalism in Antebellum Virginia
… The second thesis is that Cocke's off-plantation buildings signals his break from the Palladianism of Thomas Jefferson in favor of the Jacobean style for his houses and his acceptance of classical Jeffersonian elements for public buildings. The third thesis proposes John Hartwell Cocke as the …
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Emerging from stasis : a new typology for the public building in centro Havana/
This project proposes a new public institution for the most dense and deteriorated zone of 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 …
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Operations and techniques for energy conservation by local governments
… unique position of being mandated to serve the public while at the same time operating and maintaining publicly owned buildings and equipment. Local government administrators are more often finding themselves required to make energy conservation decisions with a significant amount of experience …
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and access to the handicapped: a case study
… citizens are frequently "walled out" of public buildings because of thoughtlessness of the design. The handicapped have the right of access to public buildings. Because Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University is a public university, in fact and tradition, it has a …
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Evaluation of Impacts Resulting from Home Heating Oil Tank Discharges
… the migration of hazardous vapors into buildings, known as vapor intrusion, can negatively impact indoor air quality in homes and public buildings (USEPA 2015). In this look-back study, we assessed the potential for petroleum vapor intrusion by sampling soil vapor at 25 previously …
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New applications of hollow-core components in housing, administrative and public housing
… directed towards housing, administrative and public buildings. A design example is also introduced and analyzed in terms of possible variations in area of the individual units and the total cost of the building . The latter case shows that the total cost of structure per square-foot for the …
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Rocks in the American landscape
… in parks and parking lots, and around public buildings. Naturally sculptured rocks have an aged appearance and a feeling of solidity that ideally qualify them as spatial and enriching elements in the landscape. Their beauty, symbolism, utility and generally low maintenance requirements …
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