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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"architectural spaces"”.
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Sacred sounds and natural grounds: designing acoustic communities within Prairie Style and Organic architectural spaces
… between music performance and Midwestern architectural spaces designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and his Prairie Style and Organic Architectural contemporaries. It examines a period of nearly 100-years, from the late 1890s to the mid-1980s, and considers the way music performance has been used …
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Space, Gaze and Femineity: Representation of Women in Architectural Spaces in Persian Miniature Painting (Timurid to Safavid eras)
… framed. Through a historical comparison of the architectural framing of the female figure in Persian miniature paintings, produced during the transformation of cultural traditions from the Turko-Mongol practices of the Timurid dynasty to the Irano-Islamic cultural norms and pratcices associated …
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ARkits : architectural robotics kits
… Our cities are in urgent need of new architectural solutions that maximize space efficiency and respond to the complexities of life. What if the traditionally passive spatial elements, that give shape to our architectural spaces, could become dynamic and connected?What if furniture …
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An axis, a termination, a hotel, a gateway
… has advanced to such degrees, yet the quality of architectural spaces has not. Man has become like a satellite - not having contact with the planet. We need to recover the act of living, the act of inhabiting our cities. Good architecture allows for and creates an interaction between man and his …
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Directing Space - Spatial Continuity in architecture
… of people via a choreographed sequence of architectural spaces through a site and a building. It further investigates a concept of continuity at various scales. A proposal for an art gallery in downtown Washington DC becomes the vehicle of exploration. The urban scale of this proposal seeks …
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Unveiling the emotional dimensions of Light: An Exploratory Study
… light and shadow, with the intention of creating architectural spaces that evoke emotions. The research conducted in this thesis is rooted in the author's personal emotional experiences during the process of designing the space. The primary objective is to explore the impact of light on human …
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Space and Spatial Metaphor in the Texts of Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger
… and Pliny the Younger. It considers natural and architectural spaces in the works of both authors and explores how each made use of this imagery to serve the aims of his texts. While acknowledging the important differences between the two men and their works, the study aims to show that a …
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The Jewel of the City
… art, craft and making beautiful jewel pieces and architectural spaces for a building devoted to housing the kinds of precious items that would be reflected in a city such as Washington DC. The appreciation of outstanding factors in gems and jewel making would be analogous to the precision, design …
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Perspectives
… on to perceive our external world. Through an architectural sense, meditative and relaxing experiences establish themselves. How one is influenced by their surroundings a sense of self sparks a connection between body and place. Architecture, along with the phenomenon of synesthesia, brings …
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A House For Stories
… studies the relation between varieties of architectural spaces through photography. Models and analytical drawings were an essential part of the work.
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Luminous Land of Phon
This thesis, Luminous Land of Phon, explores how architectural spaces, even interior spaces, interact with nature along different dimensions. Light and sound are the two very powerful elements of nature and are the focus of this study. Louis Kahn once said: "The sun does not realize how wonderful …
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[tree-housed]: Seeking to synthesize two into one
… memories and how they shape our appreciation of architectural spaces as we grow older. While our inherent bond with nature and trees remains strong, modern cities and crowded neighborhoods have gradually overshadowed the charming image of gardens next to homes. This study aims to revive the …
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paperPublics
… including academic symposia, exhibitions and architectural spaces, paperPublics reads 'the public' as a practice of representation in both the political and aesthetic iterations of the term. Central to this undertaking is the idea of reading as a contingent and productive act, whose practice …
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From Furnace to Fairness: Atmospheric Sequences in Steel Museum Spaces
… to narrate the story through the qualities of spaces—scale, steel construction, materials, and light—by utilizing architecture study methods including modeling, sketches, lighting studies, and architectural drawings. By showcasing two contrasting spaces, it explores how the sequence of space, …
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Interactive phototherapy : integrating photomedicine into interactive architecture
… for implementing phototherapy in the context of architectural space and dynamic user behavior. By doing so, a number of problems across the fields of (I) healthcare innovation, (2) self-tracking or the "quantified self," and (3) interactive architecture would be solved. First, if healthcare …
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Invisibility, appropriation, subversion: British Army observation posts at the Shankill Falls divide, 1972
… in the appropriation and subversion of architectural spaces and structures as military observation posts at the Shankill Falls Divide in 1972?<br/><br/>Summary:<br/>My thesis examines key reversals of power and visibility that occurred in four observation posts near the 'Peace Line' …
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Building Yoknapatawpha: Reading Space and the Plantation in William Faulkner
… is equally about narrative structures and spaces too: about how Yoknapatawpha textually fits together; about how this spreading oeuvre was constructed by Faulkner and how it may equally be reconstructed by the reader. It is about both the reading of space and the space of reading – about …
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Rembrandt’s Spaces
… in scholarship devoted to the study of pictorial spaces in seventeenth-century Netherlands. While much light has been shed on the spaces of such artists as Nicholaes Maes and Pieter de Hooch, those of Rembrandt have not been the objects of a scholarly gaze. Sparsely illuminated with few features …
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Space of mind The Hidden Architecture in the Time of Pandemic
… productivity and memories. In this project, Architectural spaces are envisioned to be the echo of actions and the extension of one’s state of mind. With the approach of Worldbuilding based on cognitive activities and accumulated work traces, three virtual scenes are proposed to reveal the …
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On the articulation and the synthesis of space in architectural and urban design
… understanding of the repetitive productions of architectural spaces in the city. What we did and are doing in the architectural and urban design process is regarded as something epi-genetic. To succeed to the precedents means one of the evolutional processes of the urban space from the genetic …
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