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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"family house"”.
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House loops: Upcycling the single-family house
The thesis takes the position that the single-family house will soon move into a consumer cycle of disposability similar to that of products like single-use cameras. This analogy suggests a new house type that uses such material and acquisition cycles to its advantage, creating a service loop …
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Virtual Family House Irrigation System Controlled by PLC
… problem depiction. I formed and depicted virtual family house irrigation system controlled by PLC. Creation of virtualizing family house irrigation system and framework, legitimate IO list, electrical schema, selecting electrical devices was finished. Likewise, I chose the appropriated PLC and …
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Modeling contaminant exposure in a single-family house
… In this study, occupational exposure to household contaminants in a single-family house with several ventilation, heating, and climactic conditions was simulated using CFD. Typical household exposure to CO2, CO, HCHO (formaldehyde), NO2, and water vapor is evaluated over the day for a …
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A comparative study of condominium and single family house price appreciation in the Salt Lake Valley
… conducted is whether condominiums and single family homes in the Salt Lake Valley have appreciated at the same rate over the past six and a half years. To test this hypothesis, a sample of 10,134 condominium and 48,913 house transactions was analyzed. The sales were grouped into eight …
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A house four all seasons : a suggested habitation model for Great Barrington
… are used to generate a design for a single family house in this South Berkshire town. Through this residential model of the single family house it is suggested that one's physical habitation is able to both directly and indirectly reflect and relate to the ever changing seasons and weather. …
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Verticality An Experiment on a Vertically Organized House
… horizontality, a vertically-oriented single family house is studied. The house takes advantage of the verticality by offering unusual spatial overlaps with a set of choreographed views corresponding to level and visibility distance of the surrounding terrain.
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Family Centre Practice and Modernity A Qualitative Study from Sweden
Family centres have become a common institution to promote health and wellbeing among young children (0-6 years of age) and their parents in Sweden. The core of the work is usually based on both maternal and child health care, a preschool and social services, all located under the same roof in the …
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Sustaining tradition : design for a contemporary Thai house in northern Bangkok
… explores and documents the evolution of a Thai house, which has transformed drastically over the years to meet changes in social aspiration. The result of this investigation had generated the design principles for a new single family house, which can be used as a prototype for future development …
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Repairing the suburban metropolis: Introducing varied housing typologies into the suburban city model
… of housing typologies, specifically the single family house and the apartment. This thesis examines the varied groups whose needs are not served by the housing types offered in the suburban model as well as the role that typical suburban housing has had in shaping the suburban city model. …
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Inside-out : a design investigation of the exchange between the built elements and the natural elements
… are explored in the design of two projects: a family house situated in the countryside and a mixed-use infill building located in an urban setting.
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Exploring Architectural Implications on Social Sustainability: The case of extended family dwellings in contemporary Bahraini households
Bahraini households have witnessed a transition from tradition to modernity since the 1960s, in response to the fleeting economic prosperity of the era of oil exportation in the region, by moving from the traditional courtyard house to the single family house. But subsequently, the global economic …
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Air leakage of Insulated Concrete Form houses
… a large number of Insulated Concrete Form (ICF) houses has not yet been completed. This thesis first collects 43 blower door tests of recently built ICF houses in North America. These are then examined and compared with a large collection of blower door tests of wood-stud construction. There is a …
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Re-Imagining the Middle Landscape
… considering our myths surrounding the single family house, micro and macro community creation, density, sustainability (regarding the economics of the home and country, as well as our place in an ecosystem), emerging timber construction of tall buildings, and industrialized methods of …
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Passive Houses in Sweden. From Design to Evaluation of Four Demonstration Projects.
… in residential and commercial buildings. Passive houses are one way to reduce the energy use in buildings and at the same time keep a good indoor comfort. The basic idea of the passive house concept is to have well insulated and air tight climate shell together with a mechanical ventilation …
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Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of the Historic Cemeteries at the Nathan Boone Homestead State Historic Site
… Nathan Boone (youngest son of Daniel Boone), his family, and their slaves. The site contains the Boone Family House, Boone Family Cemetery, and African American Cemetery. This study focuses on the cemeteries. The goal is to delineate the boundaries of, and identify burials within, each cemetery. …
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South Boston ex-urban : a new living paradigm for harbor revitalization
… private garden to every housing unit. A single family house symbolizes a success of personal life; however, it compromises urban public space and usually is exclusive to social activities in a shared economic era. This thesis project addresses the issue of livability as part of the harbor …
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Kipple kaboodle : reincarnating California city
… on the decline of the road-centric, single family house dominated town typology within a specific context. This thesis examines the decaying suburban condition and proposes an architectural intervention that embraces a city's collapse as analogous to death and imagines a reincarnated future. …
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Game theory and real options : analysis of land value and strategic decisions in real estate development
… from 1995 to 2013 among 5 property types (single-family house, apartment, industrial, office, and retail) and 44 MSAs, this thesis analyzes the relationships empirically between the volatility of underlying assets, the land cost ratio, the option premium value, and the timing of development. The …
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Homebuilder’s Songbook
… of cultural practices in transforming single-family housing in the present-day United States through a series of speculative designs. An archival assemblage documenting historical modifications to houses, along with music and other cultural artifacts, forms the working material for these …
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Addressing the title deed backlog in South Africa – a systems perspective
… These challenges include issues around the family house (Bolt & Masha, 2019; Mackay, 1996), deceased estates with linkages to family disputes, and the township proclamation process as key challenges to the most long-standing title deeds backlog issues. A proposed operational model …
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