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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"historic fabric"”.
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Reclaiming Identity: Utilizing Historic Fabric to Revitalize Downtown Rochester
… on the Genesee River by adaptively reusing its historic structures, establishing public spaces, and developing vacant lots to benefit current and future residents and businesses. The development of downtown by respectfully utilizing historic fabric will address the unused skeletons of past …
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Contemporary interventions in historic fabric: context and authenticity in the work of Gabriel Fagan
… all essentially contemporary interventions in historic fabric and each contains easily identifiable and iconic new portions – the sail-like roof of the Dias Museum, the glass lift shaft at SAB and the circular glazed pavilion at UCT’s Medical School.
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An Urban Design Method for Rehabilitating Historic cities in Iran: The Case of Shiraz Historic Fabric
Historic cities are valuable, cultural, economic and identity assets of each nation that project a culture’s characteristics, beliefs, lifestyles and arts. They present the socio-economic, socio-cultural and socio-political identity and traditions of residents of many ethnicities in established …
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Conservation, the search for an interpretive method
Many historic zones within old cities of developing countries like India are vulnerable to pressures of growth and modernization. While the process of modernization brings in the economic resource to improve the environment, the negligence of chaotic growth tends to erase the genius loci of the …
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From the past to the present
Thesis Statement: Overlaying historic buildings with new architectural forms gives a sense of renewal and rebirth while at the same time preserves the historic fabric of the existing community. Scope of Project: This project involves the redesign and use of a historic warehouse once owned and …
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Preserving the Queen (City's) crown jewel : historic preservation in Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine
Over-the-Rhine is a nationally significant historic district in Cincinnati, Ohio, and one of the City's greatest assets. Despite its tremendous character and potential, for years the district has languished through disinvestment and neglect, resulting in substantial demolitions of the historic …
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Sustainability and Heritage Conservation: A Study of the Problems of Heating and Thermal Comfort in Churches in the UK
This PhD thesis looks at the issue of heating historic churches. These structures pose particular challenges: they consist of large high volumes, they are composed of materials that are vulnerable to changes in indoor microclimate, they usually possess fabric of low energy efficiency, it is often …
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On the Art of Fortification: A New Visitor's Center to Revitalize Fort Washington Park
… their contributions to the national and local historic fabric. Fort Washington is one such structure located within Fort Washington Park, Maryland perched above the Bank of the Potomac River where it long protected the Nation's Capital. Through my research, I propose to answer the following …
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Revisiting History - Heritage walk Proposal in Old City Pune, India
… pace of urbanization in the recent times, the historic fabric has been radically altered. As cities have evolved through aspirations and ideas only, with no functional thought whatsoever, it is vital for a developing country like India to recognize that without regard for its heritage it cannot …
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An Evaluation of Laser Ablation Cleaning on Surficial Black Crust on Pennsylvania Marble: A Case Study of the Hood Cemetery Gate, Germantown, Philadelphia, PA
… on marble buildings, not only threatening the historic fabric, but also leading to aesthetic damage. Laser ablation cleaning has become a popular method to remove black crust from masonry surface. This study focuses on the evaluation of laser ablation cleaning on the Pennsylvania marble of the …
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Cultural interfaces : (in)visible spaces in the Old City of Jerusalem
… between Israelis and Palestinians on the fabric of the Old City. The goal is to describe how the inhabitants of this contested place deal, everyday, with their physical environment and suggests that through that understanding one might locate a trajectory for co-habitation. In the Old City …
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Unreinforced Masonry Precincts in New Zealand: History, Heritage, and Seismic Retrofit
… focused public sentiment on an overlooked historic construction typology: unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings. The findings of the Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission (2012) highlighted a high proportion of deaths that occurred in public places, as a result of collapsed nineteenth- and …
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Revitalization of the Bazaar neighborhood in Tehran
… between Iran and these countries. Bazaars are historic market places that provide trade services as well as other functions. Their historic buildings are renowned for their architectural aesthetics, and in old cities such as Tehran (Iran) they are considered the centerpiece of activities with …
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The Krishna Temple Complex, Hampi: An Exploration of its identity as a Medieval temple in the contemporary context
… put to uses that are sensitive to the existing historic fabric of the temple complex. However this kind of a phenomenon is highly dependent on the regionality of belief and geography of thought. Other temples do not have the same location or the same circumstances as the Krishna Temple, and …
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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 …