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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"communal living"”.
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A study of convent life and the impact of communal living on Sisters, who disaffiliate from the convent
The declining Christian population in the UK has become a significant concern, with projections indicating a decrease to 45% by 2050, in contrast to an 11% rise in the Muslim population. Previous studies in this area have predominantly focused on the number of young women entering religious Orders …
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Fourth Belgrade : story about reclaiming land
… imagines a new village typology and a way of living on the PKB land, called Fourth Belgrade. Fourth Belgrade preserves the postulates of the right to housing and communal living which led previous Belgrade developments. However, communal living is not only based on nuclear family structures. …
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A wholesale drug house for Norfolk, Virginia
… the slowly changing aspects of man's social and communal living patterns; and ( 2) to design a building to be placed within the physical and human limits of this environment. The culture of man must be understood in order for the architecture within its midst to have meaning and purpose. The …
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In Search of the Ooey Gooey Good
… utopias of modernism, the transcendental, the communal living of Shakers and Early Christians, ascetic monks and The Desert Fathers. These ideas have shaped my studio practice as I construct installations based on worlds which allude to the eternal, the otherworldly, and the fragility of our …
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Vertical Village : towards a new typology of high-density low-income urban housing
… the 14th century. The foundational components of communal living have not changed significantly in the last 800 years, remaining concretized in the defensibility, production and sociability of the collective. It is the aim of this body of research to elaborate and expose the 21st century …
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Skyward Serenity
… the typical social isolation found in high-rise living. Drawing inspiration from the communal dynamics of Mumbai's traditional chawls, the proposed architectural model merges communal living areas with private spaces to foster both community interaction and individual privacy. This hybrid design …
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Hippies in the Park: Yosemite and the Counterculture in the Sixties American West
… Campgrounds allowed hippies to form and reform communal living situations overnight. Tourism is a pliable construct, capable of accommodating disparate moral and political factions. My research explores the role of national parks in highlighting--and mediating--conflicting visions of nature, …
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Destructive preservation : figuring the urban ground
… adapt to moving from extreme privacy to communal living? Despite the complete destruction of the existing fabric, the proposition immediately disallows a Utopian, Tabula-Rasla response. Although ghosted, the idiosyncratic identity becomes even more identifiable, and somewhat nostalgic; …
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The "present" of the past : persistence of ethnicity in built form
… that a study of the importance of kinship and communal living in the perpetuation of traditions and in the development of cultures would have to be included. The endurance of ethnicity in realized built form became the crux of the entire study. In tracing back the infiltration of the muhajirs …
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Seven Loci: The Completion of Villa Maderni
Through observation and critical response, Seven Loci: The Completion of Villa Maderni is for the author not only a work reflective of his still emergent design judgments, but also one birthed as he lived and worked in the physical fabric of the place. The primary goal of this work is to propose an …
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Embedded autonomies projecting an American middle-Class polis
… container suggests a potentially new form of living, one which goes beyond the simple abutting of live/work spaces, to the definition of a total life-world. To mediate this complexity I have appropriated a subtle archi-tectonic device, the plenum, as the infrastructure that simultaneously …
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A Study Of The Pokot Cultural Worldview: Missiological Implications For Seventh-Day Adventist Witness Among The Pastoral Nomads Of Kenya
… and shared value systems. A high regard for communal life and rigorous religious practices and customs are among values characteristic of the people.</p> <p>In their communal living, group-thinking and decision-making above individual pursuits is fundamental. Rather than focusing on the …
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Towards active ageing: A comparative study of experiences of older Ghanaians in Australia and Ghana
… from the lived experiences of older Ghanaians living in Ghana and Australia, and compared the findings theoretically and conceptually with the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) active ageing model. The study also investigated the extent to which research participants’ socio-cultural and …