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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Site context"”.
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Strategies for reclaiming urban postindustrial landscapes
Expanding the primarily expert-driven and site-specific efforts to solve brownfield problems, this thesis develops a process framework for planners and developers to organize the brownfield redevelopment process through strategy formulation based on a site-context relationship with interacting …
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Development plan and business outline for historical redevelopment in the City of Cambridge
… This document is divided amongst market and site context, a program and design outline, and a financial proposal reflecting nuanced market assumptions. It is prepared from the perspective of the developer / general partner. The thesis concludes with the overall feasibility of redevelopment on …
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Housing design for land-lost farmers in Suzhou, China
… The principles are applied based on the specific site context. The principles are generated from A Pattern Language to meet the special requirements of the land-lost farmers. They are also based upon vernacular housing and the traditional culture in the Yangtze delta region. The study site is …
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Enhancement Plan for Downtown Cayucos, CA
… and fieldwork with surveys, interviews, and on-site observations and analysis. The research included the understanding of the needs, interests, and expectations of the stakeholders, including local business owners, residents, and visitors, in order to help define core issues and to inform the …
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A Framework for Incorporating Virtual Reality into the Early Stages of the Design Process and Massing Studies
… ability to fully explore spatial qualities and contextualize their ideas within the project site, limiting their understanding of spatial relationships, scale, and proportions. By merging VR technologies into the early design stages, architects can better visualize their proposals within the …
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A theater and amphitheater for chamber music on a mountain meadow
… amphitheater for chamber music, upon a beautiful site-- a mountain meadow. The site, context and program which serve as a starting point for the new design are based on a real site and context: that of an existing center for chamber music, situated high in the mountains, housed in the buildings of …
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Expanding the Field: A New Prototype for Stadium Design
… (NFL) stadium and a large park onto a single site. The resulting landscape is a public domain that is open year round and features a plethora of programmed and unprogrammed opportunities resulting in distributed utility across spatial and temporal scales. The added utility activation reflects …
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Seeking sanctum, a space for healing
… a way of deeply understanding and responding to site, context, and the community in an impactful and connected way. Two key issues are highlighted from the research and experiences of others, firstly that of needing to provide a space that feels homely and safe, not sterile and clinical, and …
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Assessing determinants of customer loyalty in an online news service context
… societies and in recent years online news websites have become an increasingly popular source. This thesis examines online news consumption and customer loyalty to online news websites. Using the underlying theoretical perspective developed from the debate between social constructionist and …
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Designing for education at the University of Illinois Arboretum
… both a research and a design project because the site design stems from a synthesis of research regarding site context, educational goals and philosophies, and precedent studies. This research is integrated with design explorations and a theory of planting design that I have developed to produce a …
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Remediation and reuse of a former manufactured gas plant site in Champaign, IL
… associated with manufactured gas plant sites by using in situ remediation. Another aim was to speculate an adaptive reuse of the site through revelatory design such that it unfolds the history of manufactured gas plants as they existed in 1800s to mid 1900s and also to educate the public …
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Designing in virtual reality : tools with the human field of vision
… claims that VR will excel in representing site context, depth, and scale, in comparison to CAD. The second hypothesis says that VR will encourage a preference for monumentality and open spaces in comparison to a higher packing density of objects in CAD. The third hypothesis claims that …
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Origins of sedentism: possible roles of ideology and shamanism in the transition
… in both hierarchical and heterarchical contexts for social control. In the course of this, shamanism was also employed by other influential individuals and became hybridised in the form of the quasi-divine shaman-priest-leaders operating ceremonial centres from which they dominated the …
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Origins of sedentism: possible roles of ideology and shamanism in the transition
… in both hierarchical and heterarchical contexts for social control. In the course of this, shamanism was also employed by other influential individuals and became hybridised in the form of the quasi-divine shaman-priest-leaders operating ceremonial centres from which they dominated the …
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From vacant space to active place: leveraging state-owned land for affordable housing - a case study of Youngsfield
… outlined the metropolitan, sub-metropolitan and site context for potential affordable housing development on well-located state-owned land. This supplied a detailed context for the needs of the site, the environmental context and confirmed the good location of the study area in relation to …