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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"nature of building"”.
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The Nature of Building A Public Arts Complex in Washington, DC
"Construction is the art of making a meaningful whole out of many parts. Buildings are witnesses to the human ability to construct concrete things. I believe that the real core of all architectural work lies in the art of construction. At the point in time when concrete materials are assembled and …
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Material and Form
… and subject. It is a reflection on the question of the nature of building. I cannot tell you that something is beautiful. I can only explain why I do what I do, and how I do it. I have tried to limit the text to a minimum, because architecture is not about words. Text is added to clarify an idea. …
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Towards understanding a tower: the design of the Staten Island Ferry Terminal
This thesis explores the nature of building in a tower form at the special edge between land and water. Secondly, it pursues a coherent order both formal and ontological based on a circular geometry. This proposition is in the form of a tower/terminal for the Staten Island Ferry in New York City. …
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Envelopes of adaptation - an architecture of social thresholds and flexibility: investigating the socio-technical relationship between the built edge and social surface
The concept of adaptability in architecture is one that very often bears technical rather than social connotations. What are the mechanisms and systems that allow buildings to adapt to fluctuating environmental and climatic conditions? These responses are often the driving force behind design …
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Channel erosion projections for threatened Alaska-Native communities along the Kuskokwim River
… indicate that the magnitude and regularity of these events may increase. The cost-prohibitive nature of building hardening structures like seawalls means that these villages adapt to the eroding river by moving their infrastructure away from the river, a process known as managed retreat. In …