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Showing 1 to 20 of 208 for “"Residences"”.
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Affordable luxury resort residences for the Baby Boomers
… members are granted use rights in a portfolio of residences located in different destinations around the world. Each residence is large enough to accommodate a family or group and services are on a par with a well run hotel. In recent years destination clubs have experienced very strong growth in …
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La Costa Residences: A Tower by the Shore
This thesis choreographs the procession around and within a tower. An alternating sequence of compression and expansion of space creates a rich spatial experience. Each moment along the sequence is meant to complement or contrast the others, exaggerating their effect. The tower's form is designed …
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Residents Without Residences: A Study of Homelessness in Birmingham, Alabama.
Popular perceptions of homeless persons are undergoing significant revision in these early years of the 1980's. The traditional pejorative stereotypes are still circulated, as evidenced in the remark made by the morning show DJ reproduced above, but such stereotypes now have to compete against a …
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Renovation & Relocation : MIT Undergraduate Residences : How could MIT house students during the renovations of undergraduate residences in order to mitigate the negative impacts of displacement?
As MIT renovates many of its undergraduate dormitories, special attention must be paid to the fate of displaced students and communities. This thesis examines the context that necessitates renewal processes on college campuses and at MIT specifically. It connects the issue to existing displacement …
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The Deliberate Destruction of Urban Residences in Medieval Italy (800-1200)
The deliberate destruction of urban residences is a well-known but little-studied fact of civic life in the medieval period, especially for centres of the Italian peninsula. Most often, it is seen as a corollary to the urban factionalism which characterised life in these cities in the central and …
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Front/back/side : design of outdoor spaces for multi-family residences
… of detached, privately owned, multi-family residences and seeks alternative solutions at both the broad scale of the block, and at the scale of the spaces directly adjacent to the interiors. Originally these types of residences were based on the block layout and ideals of equal light, …
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A passive cooling design for multifamily residences [sic] in hot, humid climates
… cooling design solutions for the multifamily residences found in hot, humid climates like Taipei. In addition, a low-cost cooling system is developed as a substitute for conventional high-cost air-conditioning systems, to be used during periods when passive means are incapable of maintaining …
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An architecture of authority: the jail/sheriff's residences of northwest Ohio, 1867-1902
This study investigates the historic development, classification, and reuse potential of the jail/ sheriff's residence building-type. Using collected data, the study examines fifteen buildings in northwest Ohio and develops a classification system for the building type. The historic precedents for …
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Summer cooling for single residences, a system based on nocturnal radiation and stored rainwater.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1973. M.Arch.
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The residences of Potentiores in Gaul and Germania in the fifth to mid-ninth centuries
No abstract available
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Function and Architecture of the Principal Residences of the Tetrarchy: An Assessment of Their Capitalness
… why these cities were chosen as the principal residences among the numerous cities in which the tetrarchic emperors and their successors stayed. The second chapter is an overview of the tetrarchic system in order to clarify the function of these cities in this system. The third chapter …
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Recontextualizing water conservation in university residence hall populations in the context of semi-permanent residences
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Investigation of Concrete Wall Systems for Reducing Heating and Cooling Requirements in Single Family Residences
The single family housing sector currently accounts for approximately 15% (US DOE 2002) of the total national energy consumption with the majority of the energy use associated with the HVAC system to provide comfort for the residents. In response to recent concern over the unpredictability of the …
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Student development in the University of Cape Town residences : a training needs analysis of house commitees
… (UCT) formally introduced student development in residences in 1998 with the intention of designing a range of interventions that would respond to the changing student profile as well as the socio-political climate, which focused on personal and institutional transformation.
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Elite Landscapes in Late Medieval and Early Modern East Anglia: Families, Residences and the Development of Exclusivity
… that gradually changed the relationship between residences, elite households and their surroundings. The research presented here traces the rise and decline of families and their houses as they responded to the challenges and opportunities offered during a time of momentous change. Detailed …
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First-Year Students’ Experiences of Peer Groups and Peer Pressure in the Residences of a South African University
… comprised first-year students living in two residences of a selected South African university. The qualitative data was analysed through thematic analysis, while the quantitative data was analysed through descriptive statistics and inferential statistics such as Spearman’s Rank correlation …
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