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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"historic building"”.
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Training in the Historic Building Trades of New Orleans: An Inventory and Analysis
The unique cultural techniques of the historic building trades of New Orleans are currently at risk of being lost due to a lack of new master craftsmen and the demise of the current generation of master craftsmen. The purpose of this study is twofold: to analyze the historic transmission of the …
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Shades of Green: Improving the Energy Efficiency and Environmental Impact of Historic Building
… energy consumption in residential and commercial buildings accounted for 40% of total energy consumed in the United States in 2007, and produced nearly 48% of the country's greenhouse gas emissions. While architects have been making their contribution to the environmental cause, designing more …
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UAV, GNSS, total station, and data management applied to an ancient clay structure as a historic building information modeling proposal: a case study of Huaca Arco Iris (Trujillo, Perú)
… current risks and environmental impacts, HBIM (historic building information modeling) offers a highly efficient and interactive method for managing historical data and represent- ing the current states of ancient clay structures. In this study, traditional geodetic techniques were employed to …
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Fite Fuaite
… of the architectural re-purposing of a historic building ruin with the goal of maintaining and emphasizing its current character and state of decay. Simultaneously examining how new interventions can clearly achieve modern expectations of function and enclosure, while allowing the …
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Building a History: Evaluation of Central Washington University Campus Buildings to Determine Eligibility for Listing on the National Register of Historic Places
… I completed an intensive inventory of 184 buildings on the Central Washington University (CWU) campus, from which I evaluated buildings to determine their eligibility for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Historical research allowed me to identify the age of …
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Certified rehabilitation: a tool for the architect
… and quality control on the rehabilitation of a historic building. Theory and principle are applied to a specific case. To strengthen the architect's and the planner's awareness of governmental guidelines, approaches are suggested to benefit the client and improve the potential for "adaptive …
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Response of an unreinforced masonry building during the Loma Prieta earthquake
… subject structure of this study is a two-story historic building and former firehouse located in downtown Gilroy, California. The structure was built in 1890 and it is one of the first URM buildings that has been both instrumented and subjected to a moderate earthquake in U.S. history. Recorded …
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Greenwich parish church, memorialisation and community c. 1700 to the present day
… and processes which shaped these church buildings. What was forgotten, discarded or changed, where it can be detected, has provided further detailed information about how the churches were remodelled to create a new version of the parish church in each period. The historic presence of a …
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Historic Steel Beam Reuse: A Case Study of a 100-year-old Warehouse
… prove a barrier to steel reuse, especially for historic sections. This thesis explores coupon testing and full-scale beam testing as a way to obtain information about the ductility and strength of historic steel beams produced in the United States between 1894 and 1911. Four historic steel beams …
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Heritage Cities and the Encroaching Seas: The Preservation of Venice with Reference to Rhodes Town, Edinburgh Castle, and Old San Juan
… signifies the need to understand and preserve building materials. Following an analysis of the scholarship on Venice, this paper reveals the role of building materials in discourse on the city, as materials can bridge the gap among competing literature. Therefore, this thesis makes a key …
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Risen Land
… County. Each object is created in Tabby, a historic building material comprised of oyster shells, lime, sand and water, commonly known as ‘the first American concrete.’ Tabby was often used in the Coastal South, speaking to the resourceful tradition of using available aggregates. The …
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A corporate fitness center : an example for the reuse of the Empire Stores, Brooklyn, N.Y.
… centers and design a facility as the reuse of an historic building in Brooklyn, New York.
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Considerations for Contemporary Design and Land Use Within Existing Historical Context
… contemporary design is appropriate for existing historical context. This is inherently a wicked problem that is becoming increasingly important to designers in the 21st century. Wicked problems, as the connotation implies, are those that are multi-faceted, unique, and with innumerable possible …
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Using historic buildings as contemporary workplaces: An investigation into the conflicts between building conservation and contemporary requirements for fire safety and accessibility
… examines the impact of Workplace Legislation on historic buildings that arecurrently in use as workplaces. The work focuses on those aspects of the legislation that relate to fire safety and access for disabled people and examines the implications of these legal requirements for such buildings. …
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Old Buildings, New Ideas: Historic Preservation and Creative Industry Development as Complementary Urban Revitalization Strategies
… in recent years, often occurring within historic building stock. In a departure from previous models of economic development in which workers are drawn to an area by jobs, footloose and often self-employed creative industry workers are more likely to locate based on quality of life and an …
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A design strategy for transforming an old power plant into a cultural center
In the process of transforming a historic building, retaining the entire façade and its existing structure is critical in building restoration. Because of a building's historic and traditional identity, proper preservation has to be made to keep the image of its original architecture. In Finland, …
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Past, present and future : evaluating the Massachusetts Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit as a tool for promoting historic preservation and economic development
… saw very little interest in the preservation of historic properties; indeed, much of the nation's historic building stock was at risk of being lost forever, as the pressures of mid-century urban renewal threatened the historic city center, while historic buildings in suburban and rural …
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Amazon here
… in the urban context of Chicago, an abandoned historic building retrofitted into a densely-packed, hyper-efficient machine that weaves together business and public-oriented spaces. This hypothetical development pushes for a model in which corporate-sponsored public architecture operates as the …
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Landscape in Peril: A Cultural Assessment of Thomas's Wharf and Woodlands Farm, Northampton County, Eastern Shore, Virginia
… Interior, National Park Service methodology for historic properties, including cultural landscapes, is used to complete this study. The National Park Service method includes four interrelated steps: (1) historical research, and (2) inventory and documentation of existing conditions, (3) site …
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Riqualificazione energetica dell'edilizia storica. Criticità e strategie d’intervento
… need to operate a cost-effective reuse of historic buildings, with the aim of reducing energy and soil consumption, places us in front of a conflict between the observation of the principles of restoration and the limits imposed by European Community law about the energy consumption …
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