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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Visitor Center"”.
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Istanbul Visitor Center
The purpose of the thesis study is designing a visitor center which will be used by tourist who are visiting the city and as well as the by the people who lives in the city. Therefore the visitor center will be functioned as a city center in the middle of the most important tourist attraction …
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The New Visitor Center at Shofuso: Expanding Site Interpretation Through New Construction
The design and master plan of the new Shofuso Visitor Center address the topic of new construction in historic settings beyond the existing academic focus on contextualism and style. Considering the low rate of visitation and organizational growth that has put many house museums in a vulnerable …
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A presence of the past: a maritime museum and visitor center in historic Annapolis
The place where the sea and the sky meet is a definition unknown on any map. Only the fisherman and his boat experience this unity. The mast as the symbol of the tree was the reminder of the land Just as the soil was the sign of man's position, his distance from land. The enormous material …
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Aesthetic Movement Ideals in Contemporary Architecture: The President Garfield Historic Site Visitors Center
… style. This Thesis proposes that the existing visitors center be relocated from the carriage house to a new structure on site. This new visitor center is sensitive to the existing however, visually different. This architectural position is contradictory to previous additions in the past 50 …
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Influence of Interpretation on Visitors' Knowledge Gain and Respect for Fossil Resources in a National Monument
… and long-term knowledge gains from a trip to the Visitor Center and the influence of a specially designed fossil respect message on the fossil protection beliefs of Monument visitors. The Visitor Center was successful in conveying information about the fossil resource and story of Fossil Lake, and …
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The Effects of an Interpretive Center on Knowledge and Attitudes of Grassland Habitats at Prairie State Park
… to examine the effects of an interpretive center on knowledge and attitudes of grassland habitats at Prairie State Park. Participants for the survey were visitors at Prairie State Park Visitor Center in Barton County, Missouri. A participant questionnaire was designed to obtain demographic …
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Washington Monument Visitor's Center
… America. The monument has around one million of visitors every year. The necessity for better amenities and accessibility, safety and security for the visitor (better than wait in a line under the rain) and better opportunities for citizens to learn about their monument, President Washington and …
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Generative opponents : a new architecture for native soil
A design of an Ecological Visitor Center for the Central American country of Guatemala was carried out based on a series of explorations with analogue and digital design techniques. The theses addresses a possibility of how traditional methods of design and construction can be employed in …
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Impacts of adjacent land use on Blue Ridge Parkway costs
… operating costs are positively correlated with visitor center capacity and camp and picnic sites. Cost per visit is positively correlated with the presence of concessions and recreation acreage, and negatively correlated with the number of camp and picnic sites, suggesting economies of scale. …
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The Walls of Dongshuiguan Island
… the walls and architectural space. Wall gallery, visitor center and cafe/gift shop are located in this wall garden that I call "Paradise Island".
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Interpreting landscape : understanding through a story of architectural experiences
… buildings on national park land. The visitor and administrative building typologies in the National Park Service have evolved from Army barracks at Fort Yellowstone, to railroad hotels, to the Mission 66 visitor centers, and finally into the present-day interpretive center. Currently, …
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The effectiveness of training river guides as an alternative interpretive approach in the New River Gorge
… and information and services available at the visitor centers. The emphasis of the training session was to increase the river guides’ knowledge base and to encourage their interpretive presentation of this information to their customers. Customers of a commercial outfitter were administered a …
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On the Art of Fortification: A New Visitor's Center to Revitalize Fort Washington Park
… American fortifications, lay silent waiting for visitors to unlock their contributions to the national and local historic fabric. Fort Washington is one such structure located within Fort Washington Park, Maryland perched above the Bank of the Potomac River where it long protected the Nation's …
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An educational museum for atmospheric phenomena
… and organization system. FACILITY TYPE A museum/visitor center which will educate the public about the atmosphere, and document past atmospheric phenomena. Its two primary functions are: 1. Record and archive past atmospheric phenomena within the continental U.S. and facilitate those wishing to …
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MISSION 2066 : a national park for the Antrhopocene
… century. While M66 employed the viewing station, visitor center, and postcard to render protected landscapes as a visitable object of American identity/heritage, M2066 seeks new strategies that react to and augment ecological systems and actors. It accepts the Anthropocenic assumption that truly …
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Taking Root
… urban and work focused lifestyle. A proposed Visitor Center in Rock Creek Park, in Washington, DC, acts as a slow transition from park to city and back again, breaking the landscape into more digestible pieces before putting it back together as a whole. The building's strategy for introduction …
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Mount San Jacinto State Park Visitor Attributes, Preferences, and Perceptions
… study was to assess Mount San Jacinto State Park visitor attributes, visit attributes, preferences, and perceptions. Visitor surveys were conducted at two predetermined points within Mount San Jacinto State Park Wilderness Area, the entrance to Long Valley and adjacent to the Long Valley Ranger …
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Evaluation and Development of a University Visitor Parking Management Framework
… faculty and staff members. The share of visitor usage of these parking spaces is approximately 2%. The objective of this thesis is to evaluate the current visitor parking system and develop techniques to enhance the parking facility operations. The current visitor parking demand is …