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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"architectural intervention"”.
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Engaging homelessness: Facilitating change through architectural intervention
This dissertation engages with the issue of homelessness in the City of Cape Town. It makes use of existing literature and research on homelessness to frame the severity of the issue. Furthermore, it surfaces the lived experience of homelessness through first-hand accounts of living on the street, …
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An architectural intervention to the Corcoran Gallery of Art
The essence of an architectural intervention is the reconciliation of the joint between the old and the new, the historic, and the present.
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Paradigm or pariah? : an architectural intervention into Daniel Burnham's timeless plan of Chicago
… a eulogy to but an analysis of and contemporary intervention into Daniel Hudson Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago. It presses the boundary of what is known, and concentrates on dissecting and analyzing extremes brought about by the polar boundaries of (re)presentation and abstraction, in order to …
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Color, Texture and The Space In-Between: An Architectural Intervention of Stained Glass
… space becomes a room that reveals a dimension of architectural space not rarely studied or thought about when designing, revealing the way light continually shapes and defines a space throughout the seasons and time of day. The goal of the installation is to highlight ordinary conditions of light …
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A challenge to contextualize an architectural intervention in an historic city : case study : Madinat al-Zahra
This thesis proposes a contextually sensitive architectural intervention in Madinat al-Zahra without compromising the character and significance of the historic setting. Madinat al-Zahra ("City of the Rose" in Spain) was a palace city built in 936 CE by Abd al-Rahman III. Covering 112ha, the city …
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Sentience and Site
… integral towards the proper implementation of an architectural intervention which reconciles itself amongst the landscape. This thesis is situated at the convergence of technology and nature, investigating a constructive engagement of site in order to inform an architecture embedded into rural …
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Interpreting the Landscape through Layers of Mapping
… and how to utilize these qualities in an architectural intervention.
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Unity Emerging from Contrast
Two architectural entities meet at a point in time, to form a simultaneous presence of both, habitation and expression. An architectural intervention in that sense is an evolutionary process in which ideas of different periods and languages are examined, translated and confronted. Even though …
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Operative boundary : a series of exaggerated studies along the US-MEX border
… to a physical wall where policy operates as an architectural intervention and the immediacy of information transforms the social-techno sphere. More specifically, the method employed for this thesis will more closely examine national policy for Nogales, AZ and describe the elements which make up …
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Excavation in Toronto
… "Should we be surprised by the fact that architectural form can be found in the plan of the city? Yes, if one considers the fact that there is no architectural intervention in the design of the plan. No, if one considers architecture as not just the practice of a specific form of …
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Space & event in contested territories: Public assembly through place-making tradition exploring tectonics and materials of the circular economy
… a specific moment in a thought process when an architectural strategy becomes the generator for making buildings, Concept-form is about designing conditions rather than conditioning designs. The research by design dissertation report contains sketches, parti diagrams, and artworks as social, …
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Architectural Dissection and Intervention: Old Wiehle Brewery
This thesis is an investigation of architectural intervention; specifically a question: "How does one mediate the old through the intervention of the new?" By using methods of dissection, one is able to deconstruct the layers of a historic situation and identify key elements of the old in an effort …
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Experiments in participatory architecture : adventure classrooms and the construction of micronational realities
… of the built environment, two projects of architectural intervention were developed to experiment with the notion of "participatory architecture." The first was ting-ing, a modular classroom structure designed to be built, redesigned, and rebuilt by a group of high school students. The …
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Awakening Perast : interconnecting past and present architecture in a baroque town
… suffocating under the burden of its own past. My architectural intervention, a conservation school dispersed in five locations around strategically selected ruins in Perast, seeks to reconcile the competing claims of preservation and development: it offers heritage-related vocational training as …
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A Woven Place
… client and architect have faded. Therefore, an architectural intervention has a responsibility to the greater whole, the city. The subject of the thesis is the design of a house in Wilmington, North Carolina. The concern of the design is not the building as an object. The design is a proposal in …
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Extending sites of education: patterns for adaptable shared facilities to upgrade existing schools
Extending sites of education is an architectural design-research project that takes a typological approach to the upgrade of existing old-stock public schools in Cape Town. The focus is on parallel linear-block type schools built in neighbourhoods in the 1960s-80s. The defining decision was to …
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Metallic links : for the integration of city to sea and people to city
… In this lies the opportunity or need for an architectural intervention that will begin to integrate or break down this barrier. The barriers discussed here are not isolated to Cape Town or South Africa but is a consequence of the post industrial city that is further explained in the theory …
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Design for achieving strategic business objectives
… work environment demands a multiple functioning architectural space, for which our current understandings of process, program and even building type are insufficient. As organizations become increasingly complex and their competitive environments less stable, progressively higher demands are …
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A place for play ... in post-conflict reconstruction
… to deal with many of the issues associated with architectural intervention in, and the future possible urban morphology of the polarized city, in a specific and complex urban situation.
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Bridging the gap
The urban realm is a collage of ruin, artifact, and modern invention. Whole pieces and fragments linger untouched or prosthetized onto new constructions, creating a landscape of monsters. These creatures, beautiful or grotesque, metamorphose through time. The tendons that tie these body parts …
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