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Showing 1 to 20 of 670 for “"Shelter"”.
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Shelter
Shelter is a collection of poems dealing with questions of inheritance, permeability, and access to the divine. This thesis uses different poetic forms to explore each poem's inherent and inevitable architecture, so as to get closer to the idea of poem as physical object, as sculpture. Shelter …
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Floating shelter
Thesis. 1978. M.Arch.A.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Searching for shelter
… in Gainesville, Florida where a fallout shelter was built by a community of residents as a response to the threat of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Shelter to Habitat
… concerns do not exist"¹ This thesis design, Shelter to Habitat, attempts to provide a place for dog care, sheltering, homing and education to a community that needs it. It pushes the definition of sheltering and provides dogs with a space scaled and intentionally designed for their mental and …
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Disaster emergency relief shelter.
Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1973
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The Shelter of Object
… always changing, always complete. The object is shelter of object. The purpose is to contain both material things and purpose.
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Temporary shelter for the homeless
… cardboard structure was designed to temporarily shelter the homeless during harsh weather conditions. The overall form is based on the folding Yoshimura pattern. It is collapsible, wind and water resistant, and structurally rigid. The design is a prototype made from commonly available cardboard …
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Solar energy and shelter design.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1973. M.Arch.
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Take Shelter in the Sun
For humans, architecture is a shelter for dwelling. People seek protection and a sense of belonging in their surroundings. Architecture should reveal the time passage, changes in weather and the character of the place in order to make a place for people to dwell. Sunlight, as an abstraction of the …
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A Shelter in El Salvador
A house composed of two bedrooms and two bathrooms sits in a landscape of towering pine trees, lush orange groves, and tall grasses. Approaching from the west, a stepped lava tock garden wall protects the terraces of gravel and grass that bound and hold the concrete walls of the house. Within these …
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Prospect and refuge : shelter in Roxbury
… of juxtaposed prospect and refuge to design shelter on a large urban site (92,000 square feet). The broad range of scales stretches the applicability of prospect and refuge as a design tool, yet also forges a varied understanding of related (and sometimes synonymous) architectural principles …
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Investigating diversity in the function of shelter
… by including societal aspects, in this case shelter. This study seeks to lay a foundation for understanding why diversity is important in the function of shelter in a typical South African city. Diversity is one of the attributes for building resilience in social-ecological systems, …
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Living out west : shelter, neighbor and garden
In cluster housing each house becomes more than a single entity-it is connected to and a member of a community of dwellings. Their designs focus on both the formation of the "home" and the "neighborhood" in which they exist. This thesis is the design exploration of medium density cluster housing on …
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Hydrological disasters : designing to shelter in place
The focus of this thesis is hydrological disasters and the question it attempts to answer is: how can we design and implement housing structures along U.S. coastlines that fully withstand hydrological disasters? Priority and severity is shown by increasing trends in natural disaster occurrence …
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Crossroads Center, Homeless Mission and Transitional Shelter
… is a homeless mission and transitional shelter in Alexandria, Virginia. Homelessness is a constant battle for both individuals and communities, precipitating disjointed and fragmented lives. I hoped to design a dignified urban dwelling where man is able to remember who he is, his …
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On the prairie lines: the earth shelter
The thesis of this project focuses on some possibilities for present day interpretation of the prairie style as it relates to the third dimension i.e. trying to use Frank Lloyd Wright as a departure point for my personal design explorations. I consider this thesis project to be an important step in …
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De-Isolate: The Water-Food-Shelter Nexus
Climate change is a natural cyclical phenomenon and throughout our planet's existence there have been sustained periods of heating and cooling. These periods are often referred to as "ice ages" and "interglacials" respectively. Scientists attributed warms oceans and carbon dioxide released from the …
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