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Showing 1 to 20 of 124 for “"built form"”.
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Multiplicity in aggregated built form
… and repeated use of a limited number of form work types tend to result in "built-modules" of excessive uniformity. With respect to building form, these technologies offer little flexibility in realizing more pluralistic design solutions. The designer's input can be reduced to applying …
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A built form exploration of solar energy
Thesis. 1975. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Shanghai contemporary : the politics of built form
… to understand the phenomenon of the urban transformation in Shanghai, one of the fastest growing cities in the world. Having once been a lucrative treaty port city, Shanghai has re-embarked on the mission to become an economic global city through a combination of assimilated industrialized …
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The adaptive re-use of residual built form.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1972. M.Arch.
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Instances of culture manifested in the built form
This thesis looks at select aspects of culture in the architecture of a Gothic city, Prague, Czechoslovakia, a Renaissance villa, the Rotonda and a Baroque church, San Andrea del Quirinale. It also looks at the number of ways man is represented in the architecture of the Church and Piazza of San …
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Phantom Limbs: Urban history and the generation of built form
Throughout the process of trying to manage decisions and objects coming together in a designated area of the city, questions are faced that are generated by more than one set of circumstances, the many histories of a place, its geology and typology and topology, the balance of pragmatism and …
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Minimum built form for maximum urban impact: exploring the minimum built form that generates the greatest urban impact through architecture of closed-loop material systems
… dissertation aims to understand the minimum built form that generates the greatest urban impact through architecture of closed-loop material systems. The inquiry focuses on urban upgrade that is low in embodied energy and holistic in its processes and implementation, where the social side of …
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The "present" of the past : persistence of ethnicity in built form
… included. The endurance of ethnicity in realized built form became the crux of the entire study. In tracing back the infiltration of the muhajirs into Pakistan's prime city of Karachi and its impact on domestic spatial planning, this inquiry attempts to explore the influencing factors in …
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High-density housing at an urban edge: a built-form projection.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1973. M.Arch.
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Decoration/intensification/collage as definition/form in building .... a built-form exploration.
Thesis. 1977. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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The inter-relationship of nature and built form in an urban context
… attempts to show how inter penetration between built environment and natural setting can proceed to bring urban living quality through Eco-housing development.
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Projective architecture : studies toward the meaning and generative language of associative built form
Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1982.
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In the quest of an adaptable built form : studying transformations in the MIT Campus
Adaptability of the built form has for a long time been the concern of many designers. Driven by different motives such as the accommodation of "uncertainty," the pursue of an "economical space", the restoration of the user's "control" over the form, and the pursue of "fit," designers and scholars …
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On formal principles for form-making : notes and sketches on making associative built-form
Form-making is the purposeful arrangement of forms for a specific objective. This includes selecting forms and establishing spatial relations among these forms. Since form making is not a random act, ~here are rules that it must follow. These rules determine the result of the design, or they …
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To build with light : an exploration into the relationship between light, space, and built form
… this thesis is to look at how light works with form to generate space. The thesis attempts to deal with the physical reality that light, space and form exist in a symbiotic relationship. The thesis deals with this relationship by exploring the architectural phenomenon that are generated from …
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Designing for those without voices : transitions from nature to built form -- from animal to human
… strives to integrate the landscape with the built form. Through this integration we learn as much as about the union of the parts as we do about the individual pieces. The two areas are less about the separation of inside to outside or nature to building as they are about environments to live …
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The production of built form : some notes on dialectical materialism, methodology and an associative/projective architecture
… a parallel study of dialectical materialism and built form, with the objective of understanding how our observation of, association with, and construction of the material world is conditioned by social practice and production. I am convinced that we must produce non-reductive and …
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Understanding localness of built form at the urban scale: investigating 'Maqamiat' in the case of Karachi, Pakistan
… aspire to imitate cities of the West in their built form, since for them this represents ‘modernism’ and the future. Pakistan is a young country and the contribution of a new generation of architects and planners has been inspired by the west, in the post-modern traditions, and not informed by …
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A built form/organization projection/exploration of a mixed use, high density inner suburbia/outer downtown edge.
Thesis. 1975. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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