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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"green architecture"”.
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Nature Conquers Construction
… began as a critique of the current notions of "green" architecture. It grew into the creation of a system for integrating nature with structure, the organic with the constructed. A grand entry for the Highline Park on the lower Westside of Manhattan is used as a means for generating a domain …
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BridgeGreen : bridging the disconnect between design professionals and resources fro environmentally, socially, and economically responsive architecture
Sustainable design, whether referred to as green, high performing, responsible, or environmentally, socially, and economically responsive architecture, is influencing the global building industry. Most major firms of architecture including Gensler, Hellmuth, Obata, Kassabaum, and Skidmore Owings …
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CREATIVE SPRAWL @ TOA PAYOH : A LIVING COMMUNITY FOR THE CREATIVE CLASS THROUGH THE REUSE OF OBSOLETE ARCHITECTURE
… the Creative Class through the reuse of obsolete architecture. Today’s interest in "green" architecture heightens our ethics on preservation as a cornerstone of sustainability. The thesis explores a perhaps undermined aspect of sustainability: "recycling wasted architecture." Rather than seeing …
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Designing for the Waterfront - An Estuarine Research Reserve on Jones Point
Due to our love of the waterfront, almost half of the United States population now lives in coastal areas, including shores of estuaries. Unfortunately, this increasing concentration of people upsets the balance of ecosystems. My thesis project, Designing for the Waterfront - An Estuarine Research …
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a house on Tee street
Combining both roof and shelter into one creates several design opportunities for a small house for college students living in Blacksburg, VA. The roof will serve many purposes, including structure, rain water collection, and inhabitable space. The house has two volumes overlapped into a large …
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Greening Architecture Design Education: A Proposed Framework for Saudi Arabia
… response to demands for resource conservation, architecture has become more complicated because the design process now depends on a large number of different disciplines. Now more than ever, building owners and users have many requirements—informed by developments in knowledge, technology, and …
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An Incremental Approach to Development at Gesundheit! Institute
This thesis is an evaluation and proposal for development for an alternative health care center in West Virginia. The Gesundheit Institute is based on the work of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams and his desire to create an alternative to the current model of health care. The Institute would not charge for …
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Una genealogía de lo verde : del simbolismo romántico a los higienismos de los años 20
… this doctoral thesis is to explore the idea of 'greeness' from the origins of its conception to its interpretation in modern culture and its embodiment and symbolization through architecture. The investigation intends to prove that greeness is not only a reference that has come out explicitly in …