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Showing 1 to 20 of 231 for “"permanence"”.
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Nudging Permanence
… to trace a shifting and unresolved paradigm. Permanence privileged over temporality. Certainty over uncertainty. Recent regulatory changes do not fall short of mentioning how current flying trade (fleamarkets, food trucks, etc.) “undermine” existing retail offerings. This project questions the …
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Constructing a Transient Permanence
A residence hall is a temporary home. Yet, it can be the most impactful campus environment on a student's education and life. From lifelong friendships to retention rates, residence halls affect students as many experience their first opportunity to express their individuality and personal …
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The Infant's Differential Understanding of Person Permanence and Object Permanence: Decalage or Artifact
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T18:21:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7709179.pdf: 2135961 bytes, checksum: 2ecf10e200de2c92c8f7facc021a9b31 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
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A Dialogue between Permanence and Impermanence
This thesis, "A Dialogue Between Permanence and Impermanence," is an exploration of architecture's ability to embody time's duality—its capacity to endure and its inevitability to transform. The project envisions a hotel as a living metaphor for life itself, where the permanence of its structural …
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Transience and Permanence: An Architectural Dialogue
… This type of space addresses the sense of permanence and rootedness as they are designed to be responsive to the site forces and define the unique characteristics of a home based on client’s unique requirements. Overall, the composite approach addresses transience and changing family …
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Permanence Amidst Continual Motion: A Marsh Retreat
… form, is needed. This built form should have permanence. It is the constant that the ever-moving marsh registers against.
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Change and permanence of urban open spaces : analysis of change and permanence of open space patterns in expanding urban environments
This thesis is an investigation of the process of change in physical environments. Specific focus is fixed on the patterns of change of urban open spaces. The intend of the study is to produce some design guidelines for changing urban environments with provided continuity of patterns. In its …
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Permanence/Transience: The Afterlives of Ann Hamilton's Installations
For this essay, I have examined four installations—the capacity of absorption (1988), privation and excesses (1989), lineament (1994), and human carriage (2009)—and their afterlives as seen in a table; a grouping of a hat, chair, and sheet; balled threads of text referred to as book/balls; and book …
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Permanence : aligning architecture, nuclear waste, and the Public
Permanence is intended as a provocation to question the current relationship of time and architecture. Architecture has always had a relationship with time, but historically this relationship has been troubled. In 2013 we as architects are currently operating under a false assumption that …
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Permanence and change : architectural translation from traditional Japan
Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1982.
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Permanence and Life Cycle Performance of Biocementation Soil Improvement
… there has remained limited understanding of the permanence of the generated carbonate minerals and how the engineering behaviors of biocemented soils may change over time following chemical and mechanical damage. In this research, the life-cycle performance of biocementation is investigated …
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Alternatives to permanence : reflections on temporary use in planning
… outcomes. However, an alternative pathway to permanence through temporary use planning may be used to build consensus and solicit the unexpected. This approach addresses a range of urban planning and development goals from raising real estate value and stimulating development, to promoting …
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Achieving normalcy: possibility and permanence in a workshop for artists
University of Minnesota M.Arch. thesis. August 2012. Major: Architecture. Advisor: Marc Swackhamer. 1 computer file (PDF); ii, 55 pages.
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Kenneth Burke's early works: A study of permanence within change
… of his earlier books, Counter-Statement, Permanence and Change, and Attitudes Toward History. Since the later books are intimately related to his early work, Burke often suffers disastrously partial readings that miss his keen social and political interests.
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The necessity for permanence : making a nuclear waste storage facility
The United States Department of Energy is proposing to build a nuclear waste storage facility in southern Nevada. This facility will be designed to last 10,000 years. It must prevent the waste from contaminating the environment by either natural causes or by human intervention. This thesis …
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Prospects for permanence and change : conventions of dimension in architecture
Thesis (M.Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1983.
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Permanence and poetics: a monument to individual achievement, Washington, D.C.
… Architecture is the making of sacred space. Permanence and poetics are the signification for Architecture and the sacred. The poetics are man's desire to express, create and understand meaning in this world. Being a significant act of man, this expression of the infinite, manifests itself in …
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Lasting Impressions: Parental Persuasion and Its Permanence in a Child's Development
The questions of parents are never fully answered due to the plethora of factors involved in raising children. However, a different angle of research has uncovered some new techniques that provide renewed hope for the longevity of parental impact. Many people understand that parents—and people in …
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Supports for high tech : permanence and change in building system design
… In Pan Four an exposition of the importance of permanence in the built environment is attempted and pertinent design strategies are presented in light of the work of contemporary architects. Finally the Support Infill approach is described as a framework for the implementation of design …
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The Permanence of Race: Governor Deval Patrick and the Deracialization Concept
This dissertation examines the deracialization concept through a case study of Governor Deval Patrick's first administration and reelection campaign. The study use critical discourse analysis to explore how race as a discursive social construct was present in the speeches made by Governor Deval …
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