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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"outdoor spaces"”.
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An Integrative Approach to Therapeutic Outdoor Spaces in Dementia-Care Units
… dementias (ADRD) and the design of therapeutic outdoor spaces for these persons. With the rapid growth of the aging population, appropriate outdoor spaces will become essential to improved quality of life for older adults with ADRD. This study explores nonpharmacological treatment approaches for …
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Front/back/side : design of outdoor spaces for multi-family residences
… scale of the block, and at the scale of the spaces directly adjacent to the interiors. Originally these types of residences were based on the block layout and ideals of equal light, access, and air that were formed at the turn of the century for single family homes. Some of the results of …
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Controlling solar radiation through urban form manipulation to improve thermal performance of outdoor spaces in Upper Egypt
… ones. Consequently, the geometric parameters of outdoor spaces have become more complex, with significant impacts on the local micro climate. The research at hand is triggered by the following inquiries: To what extent can urban form manipulation affect outdoor thermal comfort? How does the …
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Designing outdoor spaces to support older adult dog walkers: A multi-method approach to identify and prioritize features in the built environment
… from urban planning and design, management of outdoor spaces, public health, gerontology, and human-animal relationships modified and rated the importance of the identified features as it pertains to older adult dog walkers. Following the Delphi study, 12 older adult dog owners from the Warm …
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Student experience and the design of campus outdoor spaces : an optimized assessment and comparative cross-case analysis at Universities from two leading nations – England, UK & California, US
… for advanced levels of social and physical outdoor activities. The aim of this study is therefore to support appraisal framework for experience-led design by forecasting and prioritizing key elements of campus physical design that stimulates the greatest experience to its users and redeems …
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Wildly Inaccessible: Reaching Public Lands via Public Transit
… people to highly sought amenities, including outdoor spaces. Outdoor recreation has grown in popularity, with a particular uptick in outdoor activity in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Additionally, a growing body of research has demonstrated the public health benefits of access to open …
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Between Light and Man - A Chapel for Virgnia Tech
… of all religions while offering indoor and outdoor spaces for meditation. The differentiation of spaces is established through the use of light, color and form. The light is structured to utilize the color system devised from Goethe's Color theory.
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Understanding Outdoor Social Spaces: Use of Collaborative-Sketching to Capture Users' Imagination as a Rich Source of Needs and Desires
… environmental designers design neighborhood spaces has a role to play in the quality of outdoor spaces that shapes and directs daily outdoor social activities as well as creates a bridge between individuals and the local community. The high quality design of outdoor spaces is fundamental in …
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Valued Spaces of Adolescents in a Rural Community
… that during this stage adolescents have unique outdoor needs and preferences. In general, the social and emotional needs of adolescents require that their environments provide opportunity for companionship. Within this context, the purpose of this study was to provide designers with information …
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Housing in the City
… by providing the inhabitants with access to the outdoors and Biophilic experiences. I will attempt to address these issues through the design of a mixed use housing complex that provides readily assessable private outdoor spaces to all its inhabitants while responding to unique site conditions …
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A sociable place
… This thesis examines one such setting: public outdoor spaces, or gathering places, and attempts to discover design elements which can help these places support social contact and gathering. These elements are presented in the form of design criteria, which are then applied to a short design …
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Connection and Retreat: Reimagining the Public Library as a Biophilic Urban Escape
… free resources, and acting as central public spaces in the communities they serve. In urban environments where public and private outdoor spaces are limited, a beneficial experience of nature can be one of the resources that public libraries provide to their communities. Through the use of …
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High speed suburbanism: Developing transit infrastructures in a disconnected metropolis
… retail strips, working units, and public outdoor spaces, this proposal condenses and reorganizes the suburban landscape into a field condition transit development with emerging nodes of connectivity to the ground, rail, and city landscape.
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Passive enhancement of air flow at pedestrian level in built environments
… induced by buildings. Urban street canyons, the outdoor spaces formed between buildings, often have much lower wind speed than the atmospheric wind above the roof level. In tropical regions, wind plays an important role to improve outdoor thermal comfort of urban inhabitants by increasing the …
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SoundSkinSpace
… University's campus. I designed a series of outdoor spaces that reflect sound, and provide a structure where people can add to the sounds of campus. This project creates space that facilitates acoustic activities of a university. The walls reflect and focus sound due to their material and …
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William Eggleston's Guide To The Suburban South
… the story of this changing region, from the outdoor spaces that were once agriculturally rooted, to the private, intimate spaces of the rural South. He juxtaposes these types of images with photographs depicting development and abuse on once agrarian soil. By doing this, William Eggleston’s …
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Human intelligible positioning
… confusing and don't provide complete coverage of outdoor spaces. Latitude and longitude coordinates, a metric addressing scheme, are unambiguous and accommodate locations that may not have street addresses. However, latitude and longitude coordinates are unusable on a daily basis because they must …
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Person, place & privacy : dwellings for denser neighborhoods
… through the site, relationships between the outdoor spaces and their public or private nature, and relationships between open spaces all became important aspects in the- design process.
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Možnosti využití přírody v podpoře duševního zdraví
… and meaningful use of time. The availability of outdoor spaces and contact with animals were identified as significant factors.
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Living out west : shelter, neighbor and garden
… decision making; connection and extension to outdoor spaces, provision for neighboring and privacy, and identity and choice through the repetition and variation of physical form.
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