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Showing 1 to 20 of 99 for “"landscape design"”.
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Passive Solar Landscape Design: Its Impact on Fossil Fuel Consumption Through Landscape Design
… project presents an analysis of passive solar landscape design (PSLD) principles used to create microclimates within the landscape, and thereby increasing human comfort both indoors and outdoors. The analysis includes case study results of fossil fuel consumption and PSLD implementation. …
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Cecil Pinsent: architecture and landscape design
… Pinsent (1884-1963), an English architect and landscape designer who lived and practised almost exclusively in Italy from 1907 to circa 1935. During this time he was involved in the restoration and renovation of many of the most historically sensitive villas and landscapes in Tuscany, and …
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The landscape design preferences of older people
What are the landscape style preferences of older people? What are the preferred outdoor activities of older people? In this study I want to raise the issue of how the external environment is aesthetically perceived, and how we as designers might facilitate the user’s needs in design. In order to …
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The Western Kentucky University Teaching Gardens: Landscape Design and Establishment Plan
<p>The purpose of this thesis is to design a landscape plan for Teaching Gardens at the Western Kentucky University Agriculture Research and Education Center. The landscape plans were selected based upon the available 5.3 acres surrounding the greenhouse, vineyard, and Exposition Center. Planning …
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A Bunker Garden: Mindfulness-Based Landscape Design to Restore Physicians from Burnout
Landscape architects design healing gardens at healthcare facilities to support patients, visitors, caregivers, and staff. Many acknowledge that medical staff regularly visit healing gardens to escape work-related stress (Marcus and Sachs, 2014). Rarely, however, are healing gardens on medical …
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Historical and cultural narratives in landscape design : design applications for Miami Beach, Florida
Narrative landscapes are designed environments that use physical elements, spaces and stories to convey messages and make place. Through the use of narrative landscapes, designers can relate the historical and cultural significance of particular places and peoples. The designer must be concerned …
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Landscape design criteria for creating a restorative environment in outdoor areas of Ikenberry Commons Residence Halls
… elements of the physical environment and design that promote restoration is insufficient. This thesis focuses on understanding those elements and generating landscape design criteria, using one of the four restorative components proposed by ART—being away. We wanted to see which landscape …
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Towards a Greater Knowledge Base - Engaging Chicago River Watershed Intelligence to Demonstrate Systemic Landscape Design Strategies
Traditional landscape architecture design practices are limited by existing institutions and too reductive and site-focused. These practices typically lack the synthetic, flexible, and projective methods necessary for the effective planning, design, and management of complex regional landscapes. …
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The Mangrove Mosaic: An Ecological Landscape Design Strategy for Everglades City's Climate Adaptation and Phased Transition Amidst Sea-level Rise
… natural hydrology in a historically disturbed landscape through ecological design strategies. The first step is to restore natural hydrology and appropriate salinity levels to support healthy mangrove growth and ecosystem function. A key part of the project involves "supercharging" mangroves by …
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Urban Landscape Design for Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity of Young Seniors: A Study of Shopping-Mall-Plazas in Central Beijing
… and plazas, in front of shopping malls are not designed as activity spaces; they are edges and residual spaces left over after planning. Although shopping mall plazas are ‘designed’ interstitial spaces with regard to their physical characteristics (for example between road and building), from …
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The illuminated design environment : a 3-D tangible interface for landscape analysis
… the visual emphasis in current computer aided design interfaces. It describes the potential advantages of computer interfaces that allow a greater degree of physical interaction and it describes previous work that has attempted this goal. It describes the implementation of the Illuminated …
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An illuminated workspace for iterative design
… led to the widespread of virtual or CAD based design environments. However, these tools lack a means of combing physical and digital representations in order to support the iterative design process. The illuminated workspace provides a self-contained design environment in which a number of …
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Master Plan for the Jerry S. Rawls Championship Golf Course
… the seamless integration of master planning, landscape and architectural design, particularly for university campuses. The purpose of this research is a comparative study and theoretical application of planning and landscape design concepts for university golf facilities. The comparative …
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Ecological and Aesthetic Factors' Preferences of Urban Riparian Corridor in Arid Regions: A Visual Choice Experiment
… willing to trade-off unmaintained ecological landscape for aesthetics offered by specific micro and macro environmental factors. Landscape design reflects ecological and aesthetic values, and trade-offs are often made between the two in practice. In arid regions, water scarcity means …
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In search of significance
… that meaning and significance are achieved in landscape design through the use of landscape narrative. The author argues that meaning neither resides in the landscape itself nor with the creator but with the mediation between user, the landscape and its elements. The design intervention …
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a garden in the sky
… for remedying these trends. New rooftop designs highlight the need for more plant life and green space in urban areas, improve energy efficiency, and offer urban residents gardens to enjoy and relax in. Rooftops can enhance buildings in urban areas through landscape design, transforming …
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Chinese American cultural identity in the urban landscape: Sunset Park, Brooklyn
… to Sunset Park, and then evaluates the impact of landscape and other elements in urban design on their community identity. This thesis compares Chinese communities in: 1) central and suburban Toronto, Canada; 2) central and suburban Los Angeles; and 3) Chicago, Illinois. Each of these communities …
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Productive Landscape - Revitalizing a Post-industrial District with Slow Economy
… sites is important to the practice of landscape architecture professionals. In some developing cities, like Guangzhou China, reprogramming post-industrial sites for new productive purposes can be problematic because of contradictory conditions: theses large cities are aging but also …
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