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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"courtyard"”.
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The room of the courtyard
Define a courtyard. Buildings form the Walls of the Room of the courtyard. Define its center, a pool of water. Define the axis, controlled by the center, leading to it, flowing from… the entry, the Door to the courtyard, the microcosm of the whole, the source of the water.
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Habitable Walls, Courtyard Homes in Urban Places
In the United States, the living urban environment in the last two centuries has almost completely disappeared. Dense urban environments as viable and normal places to live have become a thing of the past. Living in the suburbs has become the trend and everyone has looked to the outskirts of the …
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Thotti Mane - Nn Indian Courtyard House in Blacksburg
Having grown up in a India, the importance of the courtyard was imbedded in the very essence of the understanding the architecture of a house.The project started of with the intention of designing a courtyard house, and eventually evolved to a house based on the principles of Indian building norms …
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Transformations of the courtyard : an exploration in Chinese architecture
This thesis deals with the design of a large hotel with modern facilities in Suzhou, China, using a reinterpretation of traditional Chinese architecture. This was approached by analyzing the city fabric in Old Suzhou, isolating several characteristics in terms of ordering, spatial definitions, …
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Potential influence of courtyard on indoor environment conditions of office buildings
… designers highlighted the potential influence of courtyards as a natural cooling technique to enhance indoor comfort for building users and consequently minimize space-cooling conditioning. This research investigates the courtyard attributes as a natural cooling technique in tropical climates, to …
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"Relationships Between Human and Planets": Student Housing Based on Courtyard Planning
… achieve all the above parameters by providing "Courtyard Planning" that is based on ancient archaic notion of "Vastu Purush Mandala"- A matrix of nine planets. A large courtyard at the center also reveals a series of "hidden" secondary courtyard spaces, one after another, as one walks through …
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Understanding the changes and constants of the courtyard house neighborhoods in Beijing
The courtyard houses in Beijing, named siheyuan, have undergone many changes during the last three decades. The siheyuan is a type of house that had slowly developed over more than two thousand years. At the beginning of the twentieth century it was still piratically untouched by influences of the …
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Transformation of the courtyard house--low-rise high density urban housing in Korea
… but highly inefficient in terms of land use The courtyard house provides an alternative solution by combining advantages of individual house and high density housing. Its introverted nature allow dense clustering while maintaining a private open space. The design takes this traditionally …
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Courtyard housing, a solution for high-density, low-rise single-family housing in the U.S.
… the potential application of the L-shaped courtyard house in an American context. Privacy for the dwelling and its grounds is a key issue to be addressed. It is shown than a traditional single-family detached house will provide sufficient privacy on lots of one-quarter acre or more. …
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In service of the king: The form, function, and chronology of courtyard A-3 at Chan Chich, Belize
… to the form, function, and chronology of Courtyard A-3, also known as the Back Plaza and its associated structures. Extensive excavations have revealed the relationship between the Back Plaza and the rest of the site core. The material assemblage collected indicates that Courtyard A-3 …
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Thermal Comfort and Spatial Variability: A Study of Traditional Courtyard Houses in the Hot Dry Climate of Khartoum, Sudan
… thermal comfort conditions in traditional courtyard houses in Khartoum, Sudan. The aim is to compare these conditions to the predictions and recommendations of international standards to assess the existence of any discrepancy between the two. It also studies occupants' space-use patterns …
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The language of gardens: Ibn al-‘Arabi’s barzakh, the courtyard gardens of the Alhambra, and the production of sacred space
… understanding of space by focussing on the courtyard gardens of the Alhambra. By presenting a theoretical conversation on the Sufi notion of the barzakh (an intermediary and relational space) between the premodern Muslim mystic Ibn al-Arabi and contemporary western theorists concerned with …
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The past, contemporary and future utility of Beijing courtyards
… tackles the practical value of traditional courtyards in Beijing. It features a utilitarian perspective—examining the relevance of the courtyards on both macro- and micro-levels through mapping. The value of the project lies in its primary endeavor to introduce the concept of mutation into …
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kraftLAB : reimagined courtyards for the future of Fes
… artisans toil away passionately in their courtyard houses that, with the increasing density of the medina over the past century, have come to dominate the surrounding architectural landscape. The homogenous typology of these riads presents a barrier to the interactions between local …
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A Geoarchaeological Investigation of Storage and Surplus at Tel Tsaf, Israel
… Tsaf uncovered evidence of at least four walled courtyard complexes spanning two Chalcolithic phases. Each courtyard contained either rectangular broadroom houses or circular buildings, with no evidence of both structural forms in the same courtyard. Each courtyard also contained multiple large, …
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The transformation and continuity of the traditional dwelling in Suzhou, China
… residents of Suzhou transform their traditional courtyard house because of socio-economic change and modernization and yet retain some spatial and social patterns which are important to them. My purpose is to examine the neighborhoods with a positive eye, trying to select the good points and not …
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A methodological perspective on the use and organization of space: A case study of Hohokam structures from Snaketown, Arizona
… in the context of spatial aggregates of houses, courtyard groups. Their distributions serve as a basis for deriving inferences regarding the nature, localization, and size of cooperating economic groups at the site. Replication of use-area categories and house types within and between courtyard …
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Bridging between the Contemporary and the Vernacular architecture
… of the Islamic traditional house, which are the courtyard (the core of the house), scattered rooms which form the courtyard, and the wall that encloses the house. These landmarks are: the edge sit,representing the first landmark housing a threshold, a wall enclosing the courtyard, a market and a …
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Support for court-yard houses : Riyad, Saudi Arabia
… and in order to clarify the capacity of the courtyard house. Third, a support for courtyard house type was designed by using the S.A.R. methodology. This report deals only with design aspects on the level of the individual dwelling.
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Thermal Efficiency of Courtyards for Residential Buildings in Iraq
This thesis investigates adopting the courtyard pattern in Iraq to provide a thermally efficient architectural solution that contributes towards solving the housing challenges in the country. As a result of more than three decades of wars and instability, the country suffers from having a large …
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