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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"hillside"”.
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Inhabiting the hillside : projections, process
This thesis is an exploration of form in three projections for inhabiting the hill side. Each projection encompasses a different approach or focus. The first, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, is within an urban context; the second and third, in Highland, New York, are in a rural setting and study cluster …
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Inhabiting the Hillside: A Multigenerational House
This project is a romantic exploration of a site and a way of life. It is a proposition for blended boundaries between inside and out, between hill and house, as well as a study of mobility concerning a steep slope. Set in Lebanon overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, the house is carved from the hill …
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Housing...the Hillside, Los Angeles, California
This Thesis is a proposal for a prototypical hillside housing community in Los Angeles, California. As a prototype it is responsible for setting an architectural precedent. In this effort, the Thesis continues with focus on issues of construction methodology, urban planning, and land use …
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Okowai : a study in hillside residential development
Accompanying plans (1-7) have been scanned separately.
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Climate, change and insecurity: Views from a Gisu hillside
… for climate adaptation. The location is a poor hillside village in Uganda. Its Gisu inhabitants rely on subsistence farming and are exposed to climate variability and extremes as well as acute land scarcity and environmental degradation. I interviewed over 80 men and women in different …
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Hong Kong, a case of urban settlement expansion : an investigation of implications of waterborne and hillside development
Thesis. 1978. M.Arch.A.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Prefabrication and the individual
… and two houses, in two very different places. Hillside sites were selected in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and in Los Angeles, California. A set of principles (the universal) was derived through the analysis of conditions on the two sites (the specific), and a new prefabricated …
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Topographic classification of digital image intensity surfaces
… set {peak, pit, ridge, ravine, saddle, flat, and hillside}, with hillside having subcategories {inflection point, slope, convex hill, concave hill, and saddle hill}. The topographic classification is based on the first and second directional derivatives of the estimated image intensity surface. …
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Investigations
… into the relationship between two objects on a hillside and the implications of those objects being a church.
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A Herpetofaunal Inventory Study of two National Wildlife Refuges in the Mississippi Delta and Associated Evaluation of Trapping Efficacy
… and reptile species present at Panther Swamp and Hillside National Wildlife Refuges (NWR) and to quantify trapping efficacy as a result of various methodologies under different habitat variables. The primary methods employed were two varieties of drift fence trap arrays consisting of 100-foot …
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The warp and weft of Fries, Virginia
… mill continues to be a massive presence on the hillside overlooking the New River. It is possible to turn this symbol of the past into a hope for the future. About a century ago an imposing brick building intruded on the serenity of that hillside above the New River. That building was an …
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Optimization of central receiver concentrated solar thermal : site selection, heliostat layout & canting
… for the purposes of (i) locating sites in hillside terrain suitable for central receiver solar thermal plants and (ii) optimization of heliostat field layouts for any terrain. Additionally, optimization of heliostat canting, is presented as an application of the heliostat layout …
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Structure of Sound
… of a multifaceted music venue located on a hillside in the New River Valley. Minutes from the college town of Blacksburg, Virginia this event complex caters to an array of musical functions. Spaces include The Lantern, which is a multipurpose lobby/lounge, the main auditorium, and an outdoor …
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Post-fledging habitat use and movements of worm-eating warblers in the Tennessee River Gorge
… indicate that degrees slope (gradient of a hillside) and leaf litter depth are significant characteristics of juvenile habitat, and that shrub density and herbaceous cover may also be determining factors. Daily movements averaged 49 linear meters and moved down slope. Additional studies will …
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"Assia Djebar and ""La Ville Blanche"": Writing in and on the *City"
… embodiment of Algiers past, continuing down the hillside to the modern city and ending at the port, a site that Djebar revisits in several of her works, and which serves as the interface between self and other.
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The Four Thresholds
… unfolds alongside the descending waterfront hillside, where spaces are carved, layered, and revealed gradually, blurring the boundaries between interior and exterior. Here, the architecture acts not merely as a vessel for activity but as an active participant in a ritual of slowing down, …
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Gathering Between Walls: A Catholic Church in 12 Mile, Kentucky
… The existing church building is set into a hillside, mostly underground. It was originally intended to be the basement but had to be used as the church once funding ran low during construction. Through my design I wanted to create a space that would be both welcoming for the parishioners to …
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Texas Ranch
… buildings along a linear spine down a gradual hillside on the property. The limestone block spine walls begin at a wind pump tower which provides well water for horses to drink and bathe in. A clear structural hierarchy exists in the buildings. I was interested in the relationship between the …
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A house on a hill
… The placing of the house at the bend of a hillside prompted a rotation of axis in the plan. As a result, the thesis becomes about the architectural implications of this rotation. Through formal studies in plan, what was originally conceived as a rotation of axis developed into a rotation of …
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