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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"apartment building"”.
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An apartment building in Boston's Chinatown
Thesis (B.Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1962.
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A small cooperative apartment building for Germantown, Pennsylvania
Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1958.
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Moments of Entering a Home
… as an essential architectural element in an apartment building. By differentiating the conventional linear corridor, a more pleasant corridor could be achieved: corridor with various widths and natural lighting through architecture manipulation. The building's locale contributes to another …
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Health in the Urban Environment: Exploring residents’ views and system understandings within the apartment living context in Sydney, Australia, using a complex systems health and wellbeing framework
… contributes to knowledge of healthy high-density apartment living in Sydney, Australia. Today, many factors, problems, and trends influence health and wellbeing within urban environments. These complex factors ultimately coalesce and influence health at the apartment building level. To understand …
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Hi-Low : new semi public space in the high-rise
… Let's talk more about the inside of an apartment housing complex. First of all, even though there is trash in front of the apartment building, nobody picks it up until the cleaning woman does something. This is the irony of high-rise apartment housing. No one wants to behave as if they …
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A New Middle Landscape: An Urban Neighborhood
… detached house of the suburbs and a high-density apartment building of the city. A block in the Shockoe Bottom district of Richmond, Virginia is the site for this medium-density living environment. The building is a multi-use complex consisting of forty-six homes, a large central courtyard, and …
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The way we live now : a new apartment house for Broadway
This thesis is essentially a design for a large apartment building in New York City containing substantial public facilities, which, it is hoped, might function as a kind of neighborhood center. The design process was devoted chiefly to the overall design of the building, with particular attention …
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The Rab' in Cairo : a window on Mamluk architecture and urbanism
… elements in its urban fabric, the rab' or apartment building. This building type is investigated via its extant examples and the extensive archival collection from the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk periods. The salient features of the rab' are identified, and its variations noted. The …
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A Future for Housing
… then applies them in the design of an apartment building on a specific site. The project also touches on questions of what makes a living space desirable, namely the preservation of the tenant's individuality and the fostering of community, each of which is examined and applied through …
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Dynamic amplification factor for moment resisting frames in progressive collapse
… explosion caused the collapse of the Ronan Point apartment building in 1968. Progressive collapse occurs when an instantaneous loss of a supporting element causes failure in adjacent members leading to a large scale collapse of the structure. The General Services Administration (GSA) and the …
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Did Sarajevo's Multiethnic Spatiality Survive?: A Study of a Residential Building in the City through War and Peace
… are assessed through a study of a residential building in central Sarajevo. The thesis argues that the apartment building under study was a concrete manifestation of the ideology and political economy of Tito’s Yugoslavia. It was a space made possible by an authoritarian political system and an …
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Post-Carbon Seoul: Low-Carbon Interventions for a High-Carbon Housing Stock
… years, resulting in one of the world’s shortest apartment building lifespans. This entrenched status quo, fueled by post-war policies, real estate speculation, and finance models treating housing primarily as a short-term asset, contrasts sharply with other developed nations. This research …
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Ventilative cooling
… allowing for fast real weather simulation of the building thermal performance. The simulation is performed on a six-story, isolated, suburban apartment building, considered to be typical of the three cities. The performance of the two natural ventilation strategies on this building is compared . …
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Network Infiltration: Gaining Utility Acceptance of Alternative Energy Systems
… City, an urban windmill was installed atop an apartment building. In Sacramento, CA, the municipal utility, SMUD, broke from the system model to become a leader in energy efficiency and renewable energy programs. In Texas, their renewables portfolio standard has become a standard for others to …
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Countering Foundational Myths and Cultural Beliefs: The Reportage of Anna Politkovskaya
… as a result, was assassinated at her Moscow apartment building on October 7, 2006. While the Western world mourned the death of this reporter and publicist who was deemed "the conscience of Russian journalism," the majority of Russians ignored the news and even expressed delight at her death; …
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Filling in the gaps | Reimagining underutilised city space to promote sustainable intensification
… and ‘Below’ alongside adaptive reuse of existing buildings / structures. The project explores the importance of context-sensitive densification to achieve high quality urban density. It conducts a thorough analysis of the site's context to inform the design process, aiming to enhance the existing …
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Tectonics in architecture : from the physical to the meta-physical
… external references and internal references of buildings. These references are developed in two ways: a building's inter-consciousness and inner-consciousness. The former is concerned with the general circumstances of a building, (physical, social, political, economic), or in Heidegger's terms, …
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MANAGEMENT OF HIGHRISE PRIVATE APARTMENTS - WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO HIGHPOINT
Private interest in the building of houses, the number and kind to be built, and the ways in which their building should be financed, may be said never to flag. The management of housing has attracted less widespread and less continuous attention. Yet it is the good or bad management of housing …
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Aqua House
… of food production or vertical farming to an apartment building allows for this merger of lifestyles. Inviting these two programs to coexist within the same space allows them to benefit from each other's presence and create a new building typology in the urban fabric of a city. This thesis …
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