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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Site and building"”.
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Designing Happiness: Architecture and urban design for joy and well-being
Scientific studies exploring the environmental and experiential elements that help boost human happiness have become a significant and expanding body of work. Some urban designers, architects and planners are looking to apply this knowledge through policy decisions and design, but there is a great …
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Connections : the structural details of an art gallery
… describes the physical means by which the building transforms concept into reality. These connections link between user and building; site and building; program and building; art and public. This study uses as a starting point a previous design project where advances technology allowed and …
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From "the projects" to houses : Physical redevelopment, poverty deconcentration, and resident self-sufficiency impacts on public housing residents at hope IV developments in Camden, New Jersey
… (PHAs) throughout the United States have been building public housing rental and owner-occupied housing in place of demolished or rehabilitated distressed public housing and simultaneously attempting to deconcentrate poverty and improve self-sufficiency among the affected residents. The …
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What can the site give to the building and the building to the site?
… between the "constructed" (built) environment and the natural environment. What defines such a relationship and can the relationship be formulated? Surely a successful union is much like a marriage whereby one part is better than either of the individual parts. This thesis is an exploration …
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Collective space for M.I.T. West Campus
… or in walking through the streets of some towns and cities can sensitize one to the particular potential a street can have as a place for informal conversation, sitting, watching or gathering collectively - an alternative setting to the social atmosphere that exists within offices or classrooms. …
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Architecture as connector : insertions, ruins, and additions at Pier 26, San Francisco
… one of few remaining pieces of San Francisco's grand maritime heritage. With the city's vision of changing its unused industrial waterfront into a recreational zone, the thesis focuses on the conditions affecting the reuse of the site to achieve this vision. The goal is to investigate how …
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The art of ambiguity : (experiencing the Kimbell Art Museum)
… Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, designed and executed between 1966 and 1972 by the architect Louis I. Kahn. This study responds to a series of design related questions raised in the author's mind upon visiting the Kimbell museum on June 22, 2000. The work will evaluate the buildings' major …
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Center for craft : design for expeditionary learning
… is an act of creation itself. He passes his hand over the satiny texture and finds God within." -George Nakashima, The Soul of a Tree. (1987). This project is a proposal for Expeditionary Learning: a proposal drawing on the experience and ideas of Outward Bound to challenge and the engage the …
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Hagia Sophia as a Facture: Originality through Appropriations
… hybrid facture of one of the most influential buildings of architectural history, Hagia Sophia, which has been a source of wonder and awe since its construction in the sixth century. Since the first temple erected on that site; old-new, future-past, forgetting-remembering are all intertwined in …
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E Pluribus Unum: A Study of Reconnecting a Broken Urban Fabric
… Architecture mediates its surrounding public and open spaces, including plazas, streets, and parks. To fully understand a site of a future development, it is first important to understand the current and future conditions of the area within which the site is located, and in some cases its …
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The planning and design of mental health treatment centres
This research thesis was developed as a planning and design reference for mental health treatment centres. This text is intended to assist planners, designers, and health practitioners to optimize patient health and comfort by providing suitable environments to facilitate care and treatment. This …