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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Spatial Quality"”.
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A systematic methodology toward creating spatial quality in urban settings
… and to overlook the elements which constitute spatial quality for others. Planning and design tasks performed in this way are prescriptive and perfunctory, and do not meet the urban dweller's perceptions of spatial quality. Although the planning and design disciplines can avail themselves of …
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Reimagining Urban Highway Overpass Infrastructure in the US: Designing for Spatial Quality and Material Quantity
The United States’ aging transportation infrastructure requires over a third of its bridges to be repaired or replaced. This provides an opportunity to reconsider urban highway overpasses by designing for the communities through which they run and reducing global carbon emissions that the …
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Surface in the Making: A Study in Colors and Weaving
… assisted the process to make sense of the spatial quality of the layering of threads.
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Study of QoE for DASH at Sub-representational Level
… for refining QoE metric with multiple temporal quality operating point for a given spatial quality i.e. PSNR. In this work we use frame visual significance metric and frame loss induced distortion metric to drive a DASH sub-representational scheme that offers a spatio-temporal QoE tradeoff at a …
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The contribution of 3-D sound to the human-computer interface
Sound inherently has a spatial quality, an ability to be localized in three dimensions. This is the essence of 3-D, or spatial, sound. A system capable of recording sounds as digitized samples and playing them back in a localized fashion was developed in the course of this research. This sound …
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Study of the Effect of Light Emitting Diode (LED) on the Optimum Window-to-Wall Ratio and Whole-Building Energy Consumption in Open Offices
… only on energy performance and not on the spatial quality of the design.
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A GAN-BASED HUMAN UV COORDINATES ESTIMATION
… method uses a GAN model trained to balance the spatial quality and temporal stability. Our experiments show that the trained model generates high-quality UV coordinates in extended clothing, and generalizes to new poses. The inferred UV coordinates sequence can be used to synthesize new looks …
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Built space
This thesis explores the spatial qualities of built environments through observation and design. Recognition that we move through our environment should be reflected in the space we design. Where applicable, a series of sequential sketches are used to observe/design the spatial variety of places …
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The Space Re-Actor : walking a synthetic man through architectural space
Spatial qualities in architectural design cannot be fully evaluated solely by observing geometrical constructs without reference to inhabitants placed inside. However, imagining what happens to those inhabitants and appreciating their movement is difficult even for trained architects. This thesis …
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Living with the dead
… that the status quo of anonymous burial is spatially circumscribed and finite, geographically dispelled and demographically unequal, and there's a conflict between the scarce space for the living and the dead, as part of the "ever-accumulating past" of the city. Thus attempts to generate a …
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History within the Wall Transition & Transformation The Transition of Architecture to Art
… contributing to our well-being. Consequently, spatial quality is a very important factor. Light and shadows, scale, vertical and horizontal movement, sound control, temperature and color influence the quality of a space. Space is transformed by means of layers, material finishes, and movement …
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Toward more integrated planning in Jakarta : the case of Rasuna Said Avenue
The spatial quality of cities, in regard to their openness and friendliness to pedestrian, varies widely. It ranges from the automobile dominated metropolis like Los Angeles to the pedestrian oriented environment like Boston. Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, is in many ways similar to Los …
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The temporary and the permanent
… for flexibility requires the knowledge about quality and location of changes at a time when the building, Its use and Its user configuration do not exist. Since form and function are closely tied together, designing for flexibility will influence form. In the past, what was thought to be the …
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Embodiment - Architecture, Body and Mind (Inhabiting Urban Markers)
… Embodiment is experienced through substance, quality, as well as existence associated with specific space and time. Bodies are pre-consciously aware of their existence and consciously ask questions regarding their own being and that others. Bodies also have to be aware of their own historical …
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Bee-cause - Designing to receive: a project which explores designing landform and soils to receive and support a variety of flowering species in strategically located corridors; bridging the boundary between the cape honey bee foraging grounds and bee pollinated farmlands, as a result creating other socioeconomic, educational and environmental relationships
… which play out within a landscape forming a spatial juxtaposition of landscape patchworks. Each ecotope is defined by a variety of factors such as landform, soils, hydrology and weather. In a natural setting, the relationship between two different ecotopes tend to be less abrupt than that of …
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Building adaptive capacity to flood risk in Philippi, Cape Town, through infrastructure-led planning interventions
… key informant interviews, Census data, geospatial data mapping and observation, this study identifies the major impediments to enhancement of flood resilience through infrastructure planning in Philippi. It explores the opportunities and potential that Philippi has to set precedent for …
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Nature's Manifestation: How Architecture Can Entice Exploration of the American Landscape
… of complex phenomenon and manifests, through spatial experiences, external loci for exploration of the natural world. Assertion While the early Americans utilized "Manifest Destiny" for their own conquests, the manifestation of these architectural elements alludes to the buildings propensity …
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White Light Continuum for Broadband Nonlinear Spectroscopy
… measurements. The ability to generate a high-quality, high-spectral-irradiance source of radiation confined in a single beam that spans the visible and near-infrared spectral regimes has great utility for nonlinear measurement methods such as the Z-scan technique. Using a broadband WLC instead …
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Energy Stress Causes Chaperones to Assemble Into Cytoplasmic Complexes
… bodies may also play a crucial role in protein quality control. The overall goal of my project was to characterize these novel bodies in terms of composition and dynamics. The different chaperones coalesce into aggregates at different frequencies in response to starvation, however a thermally …