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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"Spatial experience"”.
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Spatial experience in humans and machines
Spatial experience is the process by which we locate ourselves within our environment, and understand and interact with it. Understanding spatial experience has been a major endeavor within the social sciences, the arts, and architecture throughout history, giving rise to recent theories of …
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A natatorium for M.I.T. : a spatial experience defined by a roof structure, light and movement
… relationships of light, structure of a roof, to experience. The design as a primary understanding the movement and the defining a spatial for the facility serves as an exploration o f spacial experience analogous to nature; and it intends to evoke the visual sensation of being underwater on a …
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The Poetics of sensory-spatial experience in varieties of leisure consumption and the diversity of cultural ecology.
… to 'map' the dimensions of selected sensory-spatial leisure consumption varieties in support of humanistic drives, or will, towards inner self-development and societal well-being. The investigative focus is primarily upon leisure domains of a liminal or transitional nature, between cultural …
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Combinatorial analysis of sequential firing patterns across multiple neurons decoding memory of sequential spatial experience in rat hippocampus
… of such memories is the temporal order and spatial context of the events experienced. Evidence from a wide variety of behavioral and electrophysiological experiments indicates that the rodent hippocampal spatial memory system is a model system for studying this type of memory in humans. …
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Effects of prior spatial experience, gender, 3d solid computer modelling and different cognitive styles on spatial visualisation skills of graphic design students at a rural-based South African university
… to the relationship and effect of prior spatial experience, gender and how they influence three-dimensional (3D) solid modelling as well as different cognitive styles on the spatial visualisation skills has little to no evidence, especially in graphics design students at …
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Lion Battery Museum
… root of all architecture; architecture is about spatial experience. This thesis is an investigation around the ideas of architectural spatial experience how we experience space and how to construct rich spatial experiences in architecture. The design project revolves around re-imagining the Lion …
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Architecture of uncertainty
… that can provide the opportunity to redefine the spatial experience of a given time and place. In this investigation the Pinhole camera was used as a device for capturing photographic images of an urban place. The images produced by the pinhole cameras are representations of the existing place and …
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Painting a theoretical world : Stuart Davis and the politics of common experience in the 1930s
… suggests that the pictorial reorganization of spatial experience that anchored his practice as a socially engaged artist is inextricably bound to the politics of place.
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Sculpting space through sound
How does one experience space? What kind of information do humans collect in the process of constructing space in their mind? How does one begin to understand volume, light, texture, material, smell and sense of space? The focus of this thesis investigation is on the basic parameters of space, …
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Architecture, dance and materiality : using choreology and sensuous materials to enhance the experience of architecture
… do with using the study of dance to enrich the spatial experience of architecture. This project was initially generated by my interest in dance. The technology document, 'Sensuous Materiality in Architecture' was about using sensuous materials to stimulate the haptic senses of the user, and …
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Water infrastructure : hybridized architecture along the Arizona canal
… for the water infrastructure as well as creating spatial experience of water collection. A series of architectural interventions along the canal serve as nodes for rainwater collection. These nodes function as public spas that combine the act of swimming with the act of collecting and cleansing …
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La Costa Residences: A Tower by the Shore
… and expansion of space creates a rich spatial experience. Each moment along the sequence is meant to complement or contrast the others, exaggerating their effect. The tower's form is designed by producing and then selecting from a series of potential solutions. Each iteration is guided …
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Embassy of Lebanon, Washington, D.C.
An Edifice that establishes Identity through spatial Experience. An Environment traditional in its Values, modern in its Language, yet capturing a Mood inherent to Lebanon. An Architecture that Reveals a sense of Unity around a Central Court. A Design that reflects an Attitude toward the Totality …
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Fluidity and time-based architecture : a community centre in Hout Bay harbour
… on the existing fluidity of the harbour's spatial experience.
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An ideal theater : the Takarazuka Revue Company in Los Angeles
… becomes a gestural proscenium to the city. The spatial experience which results constitutes the making of an architectural icon.
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Neurosis - Continuum [ Architecture As Urban Therapy ]
… the site and its absurdities, implying that spatial absurdity is the effect of problems of the personified "sitemind". By visualizing what are called "neurosis spaces" the expressions of site-mind anxieties, and arranging them into a speculative site, the project creates a space of analogy. A …
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Discovery in flux: informing design for experience of exploratory walking in changing urban landscapes
… European cities have been undergoing rapid spatial and social transition (United Nations 2014). Increasingly complex urban environments have been posing challenges to wayfinding — a process of negotiating and moving around unknown quarters (Lynch 1960). Wayshowing — an information design …
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Approaching the new : a center for the research and performance of contemporary music
This thesis examines the idea that the spatial experience of a place can make the activity of being in the presence of a new art form more understandable, more meaningful and more powerful. The premise is that contemporary art is significant for it reflects the goals and spirit of an era, and that …
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Rethinking the Role of Urban Freeway: A Remediation of the I-5 Freeway in Downtown Seattle
… freeways create voids generating disconnected spatial experience. The goal of this project is to activate the space around a part of the I-5 freeway in Downtown Seattle and form a safe, clean, transparent, and sustainable urban environment. In this case, the design will respond to air and noise …
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Drifting absence :: drafting memory
… the memorial becomes inhabitable- unifying the experience of the viewer with the substance and physicality of the memorial. Once the notion of the archetypal memorial is dissolved, the spatial memorial is then open to interpretation with respect to architectural conditions. The thesis proposes a …
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