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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"building designs"”.
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Imaginative procedural modeling : automated 3D generation and rendering of stylized building designs
… that is specialized to generate geometries for buildings in urban environments. By using the CGA Shape Grammar built into CityEngine, this project seeks to generate geometries based on complex architectural precedents using a procedural modeling system based on shape grammar and computational …
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The MIT Design Advisor : simple and rapid energy simulation of early-stage building designs
… reduce the energy demand of newly constructed buildings. For a simulation tool to assist with design, it must be easy to use, provide feedback quickly, and allow rapid comparisons. Most existing tools do not meet these needs, usually because they were intended for modeling finalized building …
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Building energy calculator : a design tool for energy analysis of residential buildings in Developing countries
Buildings are one of the world's largest consumers of energy, yet measures to reduce energy consumption are often ignored during the building design process. In developing countries, enormous numbers of new residential buildings are being constructed each year, and many of these buildings perform …
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Residential Building
Current residential building designs have become very close and confined. This confinement has made the house lacking in the feeling of open space and the gradual transition from the outdoor to the indoor spaces. These units lack to ventilation, natural lighting, and the connection with the natural …
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Natural ventilation possibilities for buildings in the United States
In the United States, many of the commercial buildings built in the last few decades are completely mechanically air conditioned, without the capability to use natural ventilation. This habit has occurred in building designs since the designers do not have the tools to understand the impact of …
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A guest lodge and associated buildings for a State Forest preserve
… admitting that any progress has been made in the building profession in the past 300 years. This thesis is an attempt to refute the current dominant philosophy of national park architecture, and to present a possible new approach to the problem. The building designs included here, for an actual …
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Multi-objective optimization for structure and energy in the case of multistory buildings with atriums
… with operational energy efficiency for buildings that incorporate natural ventilation practices. The parametric model successfully generates floor-framing plans with atriums that are similar to industry standards. Furthermore, this research follows a workflow that allows one to search …
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Perception of quantity surveyors advising on building specifications to support sustainable building developments
… quantity surveyors experienced with sustainable building projects and how they are able contribute as well as influence designs to address sustainability issues on projects. Design: To determine the considerations that affect quantity surveyors' perceptions towards sustainability in the …
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Self sufficient urban architecture: reducing reliance on traditional sources for basic necessities
… the incorporation of water-efficient fixtures in building designs. By including rainwater harvesting and grey water recycling systems in architectural plans, reliance on conventional water sources can be further reduced, encouraging a more sustainable and responsible use of water resources. The …
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Rhythm and structure: a church for Old Town Alexandria, Virginia
… nature and is associated with familiar patterns. Building designs formed by patterns in nature are sensitive to what the users have previously experienced. The user can then understand the language created by the architect. The means for achieving this idea was through a study of the structure for …
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The machine refinement of raw graphic data for translation into a low level data base for computer aided architectural design (CAAD).
… suggested, in which the creative generation of building designs is set in the context of the development of a 'data-base' of information which completely and consistently describes the architect's hypothetical building solution. This thesis describes research carried out by the author between …
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Trends and innovations in high-rise buildings over the past decade
Over the past decade, high-rise buildings in the world are both booming in quantity and expanding in height. One of the most important reasons driven the achievement is the continuously evolvement of structural systems. In this paper, previous classifications of structural systems are summarized …
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Fire engineering in sustainable buildings: An Evaluation for the application of Performance Based Design in Abu Dhabi
Sustainable Building Design and Engineering is an integrated approach to energy, health, and operational performance. Abu Dhabi, the capital of United Arab Emirates (UAE) is experiencing a phenomenal growth in built environment. In this context, the Abu Dhabi Government has taken initiatives and …
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An investigation of perceived behavioral control (PBC), and environmentally responsible behavior (ERB): a case study of occupants in a high performing building
… energy efficiency goals set for high performance building designs. Environmentally Responsible Behavior (ERB) could be the answer to the improved daily functional energy efficiency of buildings. Previous studies suggest that if ERB and Perceived Behavioral Control (PBC) are positively correlated, …
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Performance evaluation of innovative toggle brace damper for flexible structure seismic upgrade
… and repair costs associated with restoring the building to its original condition using a fully probabilistic analysis. The procedure is organized to be consistent with conventional building designs, construction, and analysis practices so that it can be readily incorporated into a design …
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A Scoping Study to Develop a Computational Fluid Dynamics Based Model to Predict Radiological Materials Packaging Temperatures within a Generic Staging Building
… ventilated radiological-material-package staging building to determine the effect of including or excluding a variety of physical effects and computational methods on both the predicted package temperatures and required computational resources. The generic building contains 640 drum-packages …
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Data-driven models to evaluate root causes of energy performance gaps in office buildings
Designers develop high-performance office building designs with efficient envelopes, and Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems utilizing energy modeling tools with forecasted occupancy, plug load, and operational profiles as inputs. Their expected performance is often not met due …
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Architecture for environmental learning : a National Outdoor Leadership School in Baja, Mexico
… needs. The master plan interweaves the issues of building in a small community and the organization of the program with the natural environment. At all scales the focus of the facility is education. Building designs are direct solutions to the needs of the people in this environment. The site …
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A comparative study on the seismic performance of concrete and steel Diagrid structures
… been more widely used in the current Diagrid building designs, especially with mid-rise buildings. Looking through the entire portfolio of completed Diagrid structures, there are very few Diagrid tall building structures located in the area where seismic forces govern the lateral design. An …
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Assembling the Ineffable in Kurt Schwitters’ Architectural Models
… plaster into scale models after completed designs, Schwitters assembled found objects into two models, Haus Merz during 1920 and Schloss und Kathedrale mit Hoffbrunnen in 1922, to imagine new combinations and transformations of material, form and space in building designs. Schwitters' Merz …
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