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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"architectural tools"”.
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M2: An architectural system for computer design
… opportunities for optimization exist;M2 is an architectural system for computer design. It consists of language tools, architectural tools, and implementation tools. The language tools gather information about programs at compile time and at execution time. This information is used by the …
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Two competitions
Architectural competitions offer opportunities to the participants which are both, individual and collective in nature. For the individual, it is an exercise in the ability to crystallize ideas and communicate them clearly - often exclusively through graphic means. Competitions are also a means of …
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In pursuit of sound
Architectural tools are built around visualizing our environment, however it is sound that paints the most accurate picture of our experiences. A glass wall feels more constricting than a opaque sheet, because when sound can reach our ears, our worlds are opened up. It is time that we leverage the …
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A Framework for Simultaneously Addressing Qualitative and Quantitative Decision-making Criteria during the Early Stages of the Design Process
… the features and characteristics in an architectural tool that enable an architect to simultaneously address qualitative and quantitative criteria during the early stages of the design process and the requirements for implementing these features and characteristics inside a tool/working …
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Gardens of resistance
… of architecture in envisioning and engaging the tools of resistance in the context of such political sites. It narrates the stories of three actors as they reclaim the Complex's Mughal Gardens - landscapes historically seen as spaces of utopic experimentation and speculation - as spaces of their …
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An abstract study of light in architectural design
… powers of light are consciously inherent in architectural design, the ordinary becomes the extraordinary, the temporal becomes the sublime, the brick of dirt becomes the brick of gold. Left to its own devices, light may transfigure or it may not, but a significant design opportunity has been …
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SCISSION: The Architectural Collage and Gordon Matta-Clark's Circus Caribbean Orange
… reconceptualizes cutting as a generative architectural operation. Bridging archival research, material culture studies and critical theory, the dissertation advances three claims. First, purposeful subtraction—breaking, excising, peeling, splitting—has been embedded in architectural …