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Showing 1 to 20 of 91 for “"inhabitation"”.
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Postwar British Fictions of Inhabitation
… chapter explores the idea of play as a form of inhabitation. Having examined the textures and surfaces of uneven housing provision in inner-city London throughout the 1950s and 1960s, I move from notions of confinement to the possibilities of creative improvisation. I contribute to the …
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Toward a shifting inhabitation, Kaho'olawe, Hawaii
The island of Kaho'olawe is a desert island in the Romantic sense: it is unapproachable and unsettleable, yet always an object of desire. Waterless, used for military target practice, cleaned up, and being replanted, the island requires an architecture that acknowledges and aids the continual …
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The In-between: Armature for Inhabitation
Flyovers, or grade separated bridges or roads, are a type of urban infrastructure that has been used to facilitate high-speed vehicular movement. This once-popular strategy of the west, despite being considered as a failure for sustainable urban growth, has been adopted in Bangladesh to combat …
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Embracing the shadows : inhabitation of an infrastructural landscape
… transportation infrastructure: It proposes an inhabitation of the places over, under and within existing enclaves and impasses, through an engagement of the specific, inherent forces of the site, both physical and sociological. The site, a Community of Industrial Arts in Philadelphia, PA, is a …
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An artistic experience in dwelling : shell building and personal inhabitation
… forms within its overall continuity. The inhabitation is personal artistic expression: nest, home, and place within the neighborhood. It needs to satisfy body and mind, physical and aesthetic senses. The juxtaposition of these two elements is every person's journey to find their place in …
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Benthic meiofaunal and micro-eukaryotic inhabitation of extreme environments: Submerged caves and hydrocarbon seeps
Benthic meiofauna and microbial eukaryotes comprise diverse taxa that influence biogeochemical cycling and food-web dynamics in aquatic ecosystems. Many inhabit “extreme” environments with steep gradients in parameters such as oxygen, salinity, and organic matter availability, serving as natural …
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Processual preservation of the city within a city : the (in)formal inhabitation of heritage
Globally, the practice of heritage conservation still presumes certain modes of history, authenticity, and permanence. However, the understanding of these modes are specific to various contexts across multiple time-frames. Within this framework, a universal methodology of preservation that attempts …
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Lithic scatters and landscape: the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Early Bronze Age inhabitation of the lower Exe valley, Devon
This thesis examines the inhabitation of the lower Exe valley, between the Mesolithic and the Early Bronze Age through the evidence of a series of surface lithic scatters. Research draws on recent confident approaches to surface lithic scatters which view them as key data for understanding the …
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A proposal for the inhabitation of space ... : or how to put more stuff in less space Mark D. Jewell.
This thesis is based on the premise that a need exists for the densification of our existing urban centers. The investigation then becomes how to put more stuff in less space. The objective, however, is not a technical optimization exercise, but rather the pursuit of a palatable set of ideas that …
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Home-Being: Creating Dwelling in the Digital Age
… between the experience of creation and inhabitation in the context of dwellers’ experience of home renovation with social media. Contributing to the contemporary discussion about media–life entanglement in our digitally saturated world, I draw on Heidegger’s (1951/1971b) notions of …
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Inhabiting the Drawing
… The interiority of a room places emphasis on inhabitation. By inhabiting a room, one perceives the phenomenal qualities of that room. To inhabit a drawing is to do so imaginatively rather than perceptively. Perspective drawings can shape imagination by defining form, light, and context. They …
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Inhabiting Structure: An Elementary School Campus
… spaces within the structure of a building. The inhabitation can range from physical to imaginative.
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Negotiating place: an exploration of the educational potential of practising spatial design with primary and secondary pupils in three schools in England
… manifest and unfold during design and inhabitation through uses of material, care, and time; and how the particular qualities of materials, care, and time used are thus central to the nature of negotiations and by-extension practices of design and inhabitation. The spatial analytic …
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Evolution and metamorphosis of pre-existent structures : lasting change, Lazarus' memory
… pre-existent building fragments (structure and inhabitation, form and use) provides necessary continuity to affirm cultural and individual identity. Within this framework of continuity, radical transformation may occur, in line with the evolution of society. This project examines the necessity …
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Policy and design in urban social housing : a reconciliation
… means and spatial articulations. Third, the INHABITATION stage involves management of the resulted environment, and its use by inhabitants. The quality of the end product and the user's satisfaction with the product depend on who is making decisions in the three stages. In modern Western …
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Beyond Kennicott : perceptions of threshold, conceptions of distance
… begins. -- Project: The project presents an inhabitation of Kennicott. The actors are the tourists who come to this place. Inhabitation reflects a relationships between their activities and the context. It requires acts of construction. The act of construction creates the here, a place for …
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kINetic eMOTION: Beyond the object
… objects that merely house human experience and inhabitation, this dissertation argues for a "building machine" that adopts the notion of "performative architecture". Programmed as a Film School, kinetic architecture allows the building to be indeterminate whereby the flexibility to reconfigure …
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slowness
… be slow and deliberate in its construction and inhabitation. without conventional machines, the architecture and the individual must take on increased roles in the process of washing. ideas about how slowness relates to memory, drawing and construction, and about how we might ground ourselves in …
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