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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Row House"”.
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A building system for additions to row house construction using standard building materials and self-help techniques
Thesis. 1977. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Design from the outside-in : a housing strategy using street facades in row-house dwelling types as a catalyst for neighborhood development
Thesis. 1978. M.Arch.A.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Field, Lines and Drawing
An architectural idea has been drawn out in a row house on an imaginary site. Architectural drawings in plan, section and elevation, as well as diagrams, sketches and graphite renderings show a process of working that presupposes existential questions as necessary for making architecture.
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Walkups : documentaries and commentary : a series of prose poems
… "walkup" staircases typical of Montreal's row-house architecture, these pieces take the reader on a tour of some of the city's apartments, providing glimpses into the ways in which our designed living spaces influence our attitudes and perceptions: the building blocks (indeed, architecture) …
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Urban solarium : thermal performance in Boston
… city of Boston. Located in the historic brick row house neighborhood of the South End, the project utilizes brick for its inherent property of high heat capacity - a material's ability to store radiant energy and release it later due to the temperature difference between day and night - as a …
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The design and performance of building-scale distributed energy generation in Houston, TX
… the design of the prototype, the Zero-Energy Row House (ZEROW), and techniques for cost reduction and simplification of power generation systems were employed in the pursuit of archiving grid-parity solar electrical production as the household level. Preliminary ZEROW system design, …
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Critical Water, Wastewater, and Thermal Infrastructure Development for a Resilient Neighborhood in War-Affected Ukraine
… incorporating ground-source heat pumps in each row house and single-family home, vertical boreholes, a thermal energy network, and a wastewater heating system for the multifamily co-living units. This study offers a blueprint for Ukraine and other regions recovering from urbicidal conflict and …
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Reactive and interactive architectural form : a design exploration
The site is a dense urban row-house residential fabric. Mass. Ave. roars along one 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 …
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A Place to Dream
The houses we grow up in are significant because they are our place to dream, contemplate, and imagine. There are many places in our childhood home to dream but there is often a favorite spot. The window that led to a light well in my grandparents' house was one of mine. This project is an …
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Enabling housing : dwelling + home + domesticity; typology + specificity + site; chaos + complexity + control
… Building upon specific common typologies -the row house, the suburban house and the courtyard house-"developed models" were explored to more fully understand type and its role in low-cost housing. In each iteration, enabling character was enhanced or implemented through evident capacity for use …
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A Place of Our Own
… shelter they could return to and a community to grow. The workers and their families succeeded in making a place of their own.
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Jørn Utzon: the education of an architect
… curvilinear sections of the Sydney Opera House, Silkeborg Art Museum, and Bagsvaerd Church, in the work of that most restrained of architects, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969). I trace, through this unlikeliest of confluences, the genesis in Mies's work of Utzon's three most important …
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Housing a Family: Designing for Multigenerational Urban Living
… (Think of all the suburban developments and houses with perfectly manicured lawns and identical rows of winding streets stretching for miles and miles out into the countryside). However, in my opinion, this form of housing is quite wasteful in terms of space, material, family, and community …