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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"architectural investigation"”.
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An Architectural Investigation of the Haptic Sense: A Material Exploration of the Balance Between Building, Body, and Landscape
… exploration of the haptic sense and a material investigation of the choreography between our bodies, our buildings, and our landscape. In order to create a memorable space or in the case of this exercise, create place from path, a conservation of the spirit of the players/pieces is necessary. …
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An architectural investigation of Marinid Wattasid Fes Medina (674-961/1276-1554) in terms of gender, legend and law
… dissertation, this preoccupation takes exemplary architectural form in the high-sided, labyrinthine structure of Fes' walled city, or medina. In Islamic law, it takes the form of The Book of Walls, a genre pertaining to the regulation of external and party walls within the medina environment. In …
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unclosure: Workstation for Aquarcheology
… is the subject of the major inquiry of the architectural investigation through the project. The means to achieve longevity in architecture are explored. Self-sustainability, interrelation of structure and space, lightness, and locality are the issues that are studied pertaining to the …
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Tower House
This thesis is an architectural investigation of a house as a rational object imbued by memory. The place is a wooded hill on the border between a hundred acre farm and the marshy ravine of the Totopotomoy "Totomoy" Creek in Mechanicsville, Virginia. The farm dates back to the Civil War when the …
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Bringing Together Earth and Sky: Project Vehicle - Gymnasium
… seeks to define, distinguish, and bring together architectural entities representative of these two core elements â earth and sky. Throughout this investigation I have come to define these elements as follows. The earth is hard, heavy, robust, solid, and stout. Its strength is massive, …
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Images of public housing : a design exploration addressing the intrinsic relationship between individuals and the living environment
… own image of public housing. This thesis is an architectural investigation, and because it deals with images -- what people see and feel -- the sociological influences are strong as well. The concern of this thesis is creating positive images of public housing from both the residents' and the …
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The architecture of storytelling : children's shelter in Venice, California
The thesis investigation began with my experience with storytelling. Verbal stories told to me as a child provided a form of cultural continuity. Stories were a way of transferring culture, ideas, religion, morals, and values. The moral of the story changed depending on who was the storyteller. My …
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Regeneration through decay: Architectural prosthetic within the damaged coastline of the South African West Coast
… lends itself as a testing ground for an architectural investigation acting as a tool to stabalise the pinch point, rehabilitate ecology and serve as resistance for any future exploitation. Using the Japanese practice of Kintsugi the project tests whether architecture can act as an …
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The architecture of the extended mind: towards a critical urban ecology
… and are so radically trans-disciplinary, that architectural discourse and its metropolitan mediations is well positioned to reflect upon, articulate and stage as a new modern project, this multi-disciplinary and socio-ecological complexity. The content of this thesis therefore crosses a number …
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Void and beyond : reading between the void structures
… human settlement, movement pattern of people and architectural elements - are the major consideration in defining architectural configuration. By relating these voids, physical and psychological boundaries are eliminated, and the architecture becomes the connector between nature and people. …
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OpuntiaGenesis: The hybrid generating plant
… that is both the fuel and the generator of the architectural programme, materiality, spatiality and structure. The main intention of this architectural investigation is to explore a range of alternative processes, strategies and facilities that can be used to uplift the community of Sutherland …
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Design infrastructure for large organizations
… of these issues generates the basis for th is architectural investigation on a collaborative design process in the workplace. The investigation begins by examining conventional design paradigms in order to articulate some of the limitations in the design process as currently practiced by …
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Efficient classroom lighting and its environmental consequences in schools in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
… Therefore, it is necessary to conduct a full architectural investigation on the current conditions to evaluate how visually comfortable the students and teachers are. Daylight has always been recommended as the best source of classroom lighting in most of the current design guide-lines. Since …
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The Social Lives of Vacant Homes: Tracing Registers of Value in Contemporary Cairo
… discernable at a much closer scale of social and architectural investigation. Addressing this gap and drawing on 15 months of fieldwork involving interviews and architectural analysis, the thesis investigates five trajectories of homemaking in four neighbourhoods traversing social class and …
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Tearing the envelope: from tunnel to tower industrial typology
… The revival requires a shift in business and architectural model that encourages adaptability through rethinking the scale of production/manufacture and tenancy. Current single tenancy models operate with a ground floor sprawling line of production, prioritising the machine in a controlled …
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Fashion, fabric & architecture: An exploration into the relationship between fashion and architecture by way of building fabrics
… In addition, this proposal will attempt to apply architectural concepts that support the purpose of the building. A fashion retail hub must address the relationships between retail, hospitality, entertainment, and public pedestrian space. This project will treat the fertile intersection of fashion …