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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"pavilion"”.
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Labyrinth Pavilion
The primitive hut, which is regarded as the initial model of architecture, came from humans' desire to survive and be sheltered from the severe weather outside. Architecture lays its root in practical use but when mankind thrives and begins to flourish, the practical use is no longer the only …
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Water Pavilion
… is a whole, assembled by episodic moments. The pavilion is designed on Daingerfield Island, located south of Ronald Reagan National Airport along the Potomac River in Alexandria, Virginia. The site offers a panoramic view across the water of the airport, Washington Monument, Jefferson Memorial, …
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A Pavilion for Time
The purpose for this thesis, "A Pavilion for Time", is to allow an unhindered exploration of phenomenological time. It is to go beyond, to transcend a convention towards empiricism. The result is an uncritical state, unhindered, uncluttered, a place of pure perception, an existential autoclave. As …
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Moments in a pavilion
This thesis is my answer to the following question: What is a good building? I believe that a good building must have the moments that can touch people. It should have some spiritual qualities. These moments can be achieved by form, meterial, light, details, and color.
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NEO-ZOOMORPHIC ARCHITECTURE: The Decaying Whale Pavilion
… their internal life cycle patterns to design a pavilion at the boundary of Pandapas Pond wetland and forest. The whale's skeleton becomes the main wooden structure, and the decaying flesh is represented by a woven bamboo fabric. The skin is simulated by a transparent wood shelter. All the …
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Construing reconstruction : the Barcelona Pavilion and Nelson Goodman's aesthetic philosophy
… thesis explores Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion through the lens of Nelson Goodman's philosophical categories of the autographic and the allographic in order to determine what constitutes the building's identity. The Pavilion was originally designed as a temporary structure for the 1929 …
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A Conservation Study of the Naulakha Pavilion at Lahore Fort, Pakistan
… study of the marble elements of the Naulakha Pavilion at the Lahore Fort in Pakistan, built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. The scope of work includes the two sets of adjoining jalis (lattice screens) on either side of the pavilion, that are self-supporting. The jalis along with the …
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Creases and folds : applying geometry to a pop-up fashion pavilion
… are tested in a design for a pop-up fashion pavilion. The result is a geometric form that acts as a canopy, enclosure and inhabitable surface to hold program elements such as a marketplace, small fitting rooms, and a runway.
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O! Canada? : a pavilion for the 2010 World Exposition in Shanghai
… is seldom answered. Through the design of a pavilion for Canada at the Shanghai World Exposition in 2010 this thesis aims to draw these elements together to stand as a critique of the single family home that is their apotheosis. Also addressed are the ramification of large crowds on the …
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Temporary exhibition pavilion for the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Massachusetts
Thesis (B.Arch.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1957.
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From box to pavilion : variable enclosure as a strategy for making dwellings in Florida
… during uncomfortable weather and open up as a "pavilion" during pleasant conditions. The thesis begins with a brief explanation of some characteristics of Florida's climate. This is followed by a discussion of some dwellings which have also used the "box and pavilion" strategy. The major portion …
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The elusive faces of modernity : the invention of the 1937 Paris Exhibition and the Temps Nouveaux pavilion
The 1937 Paris Exhibition, the "final European enactment of the ritual of peace and progress before the deluge," remains the least researched and most misunderstood in the history of the World's Exhibitions in France. This study deals primarily with the years that preceded the opening of the …
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The construction of a war-time national identity : the Japanese Pavilion at New York's World's Fair, 1939/40
… This thesis examines one particular national pavilion presented by Japan at the New York World's Fair 1939140 from multiple perspectives, to reveal different intentions behind its planning and design. By drawing upon archival records and the condition of pre-war foreign relations, it argues …
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Looking South African: tracing the relationship between national pavilion and nation in South Africa s history at the Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale, structured around national pavilions, is the world's oldest, largest and most prestigious biennial event for national art participation. South Africa has participated since 1950, and this has engendered thought-provoking, ever-changing debates about what constitutes artistic …
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Construction and dismantling N51-113
… replica of this office as a free standing pavilion extracted from the body of its architectural context. This pavilion, situated at the entrance gate of the courtyard of building N51 was carefully replicated using identical materials and exact scale for every detail. By inverting the walls …
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An Urban Park Pavilion as a Sense of Place: A Community Theater and Water Taxi Terminal at the Foot of King Street
… end of the street. This project, an urban park pavilion, is composed of four different programs: the roof park, plaza, community performance Theater and boat taxi terminal which will be treated as equal value by a juxtaposed arrangement and interconnected street grids. My thesis will narrates …
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Directing Movement and the Perception of Space
… is implemented in the design of a playground and pavilion for Elkhorn Lake, located in Jenkins, Kentucky. Wall, column, color, roof, and floor are explored to create a variety of spatial arrangements that affect ways of perceiving and moving through the pavilion and playground.
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Man and his world : an Indian, a secretary and a queer child : Expo 67 and the nation in Canada
… (Bhabha, 1994:155): the Indians of Canada Pavilion, the Man in the Home Pavilion and the Quebec Pavilion. Each of these sites produced a challenge to the definition of the nation being performed in 1967, although not without problems. Man and His World investigates the possibilities and the …
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