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Showing 1 to 20 of 129 for “"architectural elements"”.
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Architectural Elements As Structure
If there is magic on this planet, It is contained in water. "Loran Eisely, The Immense Journey, 1957"
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Through a window, brightly : modulating daylight and solar radiation in commercial and institutional buildings through the use of architectural elements
… reviews a series of traditional design tools and architectural elements to modulate and control daylight and solar radiation. Second, it proposes and evaluates an innovative daylight introduction system - a particular "lightshelf" configuration integrated as an architectural element - with careful …
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Precedents in African American architecture
… have not been able to offer culturally specific architectural elements to the design process because the history of African American form and space has not been recognized within academia. This thesis is an attempt to fill the gaps in the African American history of form and space. I do so by …
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Drawing Through 4 Seasons
… this project is about architecture changing its architectural elements in four seasons. It all began with an imagination of how a building would respond differently in each of the four seasons. The project, located at the waterfront of Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia, is an Aquatic Center with …
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Play of light on planes; A kindergarten for Blacksburg, Virginia
… that can be created with simple planar elements by modulating light. The result is an architectural space in which children better comprehend natural phenomena through the constellation of architectural elements.
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Processional and Threshold; A Sacred Space for Downtown Blacksburg
This thesis is an investigation of architectural elements and lighting conditions that reinforce a journey. From the initial encounter to the presence of the sanctuary, a Presbyterian church has been constructed in downtown Blacksburg to instrumentally govern an interaction between congregation and …
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Horizon
… emphasizes the existence of the Horizon architectural elements emphasize this place of meeting using elements of repetition, reflection, and separation
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Sedimentological lithofacies, internal architecture and evolution of deep marine fans of the Tithonian Angel Formation, Northwestern Dampier Sub-basin, North West Shelf, Australia.
… classifications and the establishment of an architectural scheme comprising seven orders in combination with wireline, biostratigraphic and seismic reflection data and applicable analogues. Eleven cores totalling 547 metres were analysed to identify sedimentological processes responsible for …
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Directing Movement and the Perception of Space
An investigation on how architectural elements can direct movement and affect the way we perceive space. The idea is implemented in the design of a playground and pavilion for Elkhorn Lake, located in Jenkins, Kentucky. Wall, column, color, roof, and floor are explored to create a variety of …
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Vernacular Whimsy.
… investigation and reinterpretation of regional architectural elements. Practical consideration of structure, technique, and influence is discussed. Included are detailed images as well as a complete catalog of the thesis exhibit.</p>
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Rectifying the Arc (of the sky) - a series of architectural exercises
A series of fourteen architectural exercises were conducted over twelve months, beginning with a study of composition and ending with an exhibition. Composition, known to both painters and architects, assists in providing an order for five distinct architectural elements: a singular beam, color …
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Contrarchitecture
A study of how contrasting architectural elements can create a sense of presence. Contrasts constitute movement, feeling, and energy and are what could be the basis of an architecture that illustrates these principles. The transition between extremes creates a balance. Through the use of …
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A bioclimatic approach to integrated design : form, technology, and architectural knowledge
… explores a holistic design process through which architectural elements can engage the dynamic forces of natural phenomena and integrate the spatial and temporal experience of building form with its physical environment. The framework for this exploration is a contextual mapping of dynamical …
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Armature: Infill, A Health Care Facility in Verón, Dominican Republic
… is to explore the idea of duration of physical architectural elements, and how their relative permanence or temporariness affects time and memory. This project takes on the program of a healthcare facility in the community of Verón located in the Dominican Republic. Through the exploration of …
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Characterising alluvial architecture using physical models, subsurface data and field analogues
… model is classified and quantified into six architectural elements. Architectural elements from the Ashburton River model show that alluvial architecture is dominated by channel fill deposits. An increase in primary channel fill width and thickness, an increase in splay widths, a higher …
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Accomplished space: the Italian piazza
… depth study of eleven piazzas yielded a set of Architectural elements, characterizing each piazza. Clearly, "intention" supplements their unique evolution, and the layered symbolism over time, throughout the urban fabric, emits a specific disposition within each piazza. The consistent refinement …
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Architectural Models for Lower Pennsylvanian Strata in Dickenson/Wise County, Southwest Virginia: A Reservior Case Study
… a hierarchy of bounding discontinuities and architectural elements. Discontinuities are both erosional (unconformable) and depositional (condensed) and are 3rd-order (~ 2.5 Ma) and 4th-order (~ 400 k.y.) in origin. Architectural elements are bound by 4th-order discontinuities and consist of …
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Sequence Stratigraphy and Architecture of Lower Pennsylvanian Strata, Southern West Virginia: Potential for Carbon Sequestration and Enhanced Coal-Bed Methane Recovery in the Pocahontas Basin
… a hierarchy of bounding discontinuities and architectural elements. Discontinuities are both erosional (unconformable) and depositional (condensed) surfaces of 3rd-order (~2.5 Ma) and 4th-order (~400 k.y.) origin. Architectural elements bound by 4th-order erosional discontinuities consist of …
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