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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"built space"”.
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Built space
This thesis explores the spatial qualities of built environments through observation and design. Recognition that we move through our environment should be reflected in the space we design. Where applicable, a series of sequential sketches are used to observe/design the spatial variety of places …
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Urbanizing terrains
… that have consistently increased the amount of built space while population has seen only a modest rise. The decrease in residential density has created hybrid landscapes in areas identified as the"urban fringe" or"periphery". Supported by an isotropic distribution of infrastructure the …
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Hermine Cloeter, Feuilletons, and Vienna: A Flaneuse and Urban Cultural Archaeologist Wandering Through Opaque Spaces, Bridging Past and Present to Reclaim What Could Be Lost
… the past use time to study history—some use space, including writers who write about and interact with an urban topography. The space used by these writers is built space, as well as inhabited and practiced "lived" space. Whereas time provides a transparent overview of history, the urban …
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Visualising Boolean set operations: Real and virtual boundaries in contemporary site-specific art
… the investigation of the relationship between built architectural spaces and their architectural digital modelling. Replicable procedures are developed for systematically visualising that relationship through the analytical modelling of the spatial properties of that space. A site-specific …
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Organizing Around a Center: A Design Incubator and Business Center
… the design possibilities in connecting a built space to its physical surroundings and for giving meaningful new life to an abandoned space.</p>
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Parental engagement in primary schooling in Aotearoa New Zealand: A policy enactment case study
… on two less considered material contexts, built and digital space. The research involved a single bounded case in an English-medium (state-not integrated) primary school. It is possible to apply multiple methods within a policy enactment case study, making it ideal for examining parental …
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Staging frontier dynamics : interplay at the periphery of Manaus
… towards a new common project, one where built space and natural space are no longer mutually exclusive, but instead work within a systematic relationship that can adapt to land use transformations through time. The Amazonian frontier is not a border or a purely linear development between …
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A Journey through a Story : Remembering to be a child again with The Little Prince
… thesis about wanting to explore the design of a built space through the context of storytelling, I was confused. There were these three questions that hounded me at every turn : 1. What is a "place for storytelling"? Does the act of storytelling really exist within the confines of a particular …
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Interact : media informed architecture
… image and the experience of moving through built space can direct, distract and alter perception. Interaction between the public and the displayed media create an environment that is both social and engaging. this relationship is considered within a mobile media park sited inside the Los …
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Centers all the way down: a study of centrality in the modern city
… activity in the modern city. Using measures of built space for different types of activity in Atlanta, we will map the distribution of activity in the city; then we will derive the system of centers distributed throughout the city. This system of centers will be sorted into scales, from global …
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Statements in Stone: The Politics of Architecture in Charlemagne's Aachen
… from the 790s to 814CE. The interplay between built space and its Social uses inform the larger Social understandings and interpretations of power and authority. Court poetry written by contemporaries and courtiers of Charlemagne allow readers to glimpse the court as it moved through and …
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Tall buildings in Asia : a critique on the high-rise building in Colombo, Shri Lanka
… potential for designing vertical and incremental built space, free from the rhetoric of political and economic identities. This thesis proposes a design as a critique of the Asian high rise and as a means to investigate the following : -- the conditions that promote or limit accessibility in the …
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Five houses
… are an attempt to convey the quality of the space. The drawings exist somewhere between the idea drawing and the construction drawing, but by no means are they a realization of the built space. The work thus confronts reality and yet hides from it. The plans will never pretend to replace the …
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Space of Interfaith: Transcending Religious Boundaries to Reach Mutual Understanding
… community structure, education, and the built environment. To better understand the common traits of religious and spiritual architecture, this thesis topic will explore what makes a built space spiritual and how this can be utilized to unify rather than divide. The primary architecture …
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A labyrinth of endless steps : the postmodern city and Paul Auster's urban detective
… that postmodernity is marked by "a mutation in built space itself," this thesis examines the representation of urban space in Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy and attempts to characterize the effects of this spatial mutation on Auster's detective protagonists. The detective's traditional …
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Financing alternative development through double bottom line private equity funds & a real estate social investment framework
… that seek to accommodate the demand for new built space through alternative spatial forms, development locations, development practices, and development products. Collectively called "alterative development", these development models seek to minimize or eliminate potential negative social and …
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Empathy with the built environment : exploration through the design of a museum
… be understood as a positive association with the built environment. Association, whether positive or negative, is subjective to some extant; however, this is not the aim of the thesis. There are behaviors of the physical environment that are positively associative to all people, in spite of race, …
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A Network Communications Strategy for Planetary Habitats
The space industry is beginning to consider the design and construction of communication network infrastructures on planets beyond Earth. In approaching these design challenges, network managers should be involved in the architectural process to understand how such networks will be designed both …
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Reconstituting experience : a place for experimental electro-acoustic music
… my imagination on the sensual qualities of built space and exploring material possibilities.
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Marginación socio-espacial: Programas de rehabilitación de patologías estructurales en el polígono de viviendas del barrio Besòs de Barcelona
… neighborhood in relation to the real value of built space in front of the estimated land value; the first is the loss of market value (process of devaluation) refers directly to the structural conditions for soil quality and the deterioration of the properties by the use of aluminous cement; …
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