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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"promenade"”.
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Promenade Down the Slope
This project is an investigation into issues surrounding the placing of a building into the context of a sloped site. The study manifests itself through the design of a farmer's market, restaurant and retail space on a site defined by a change on volumetric disposition, movement pattern and …
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A Promenade for Isolation
… the first part, the plan appears as a map of a promenade which is the main ordering device of the building structure.<br /><br />In the second part, the internal spaces are presented as isolated from each other as is the building from any external reference.<br /><br />In the sections, which …
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La Marginal: A Coastal Promenade Park
… explores alternate typologies for a coastal promenade park in the town of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. The proposal acts as a link between the town, the park and the coastal edge. The coastal promenade park is created as a connector, defined mostly by the concrete walls that resemble the coastal …
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A tissue, a building, Santiago de Chile : transformation of the images and elements of the language of space and form into the design of a promenade
… components all contribute to the making of a promenade acting as a catalyst for the revitalization of Centro Poniente
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Suite for the Passersby
… circular forms. The eighth fixed media piece is “promenade” music that plays when the user is in transition or not within the bounds of a defined zone. Promenade consists of various texture-driven drones, instrumental samples from each of the other seven movements, and soundscapes from sampled …
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Contextualising the Muizenberg Civic Centre: an investigation into urban and environmental integration
… replicas, Fish Hoek Beach and the Sea Point Promenade to inform both the urban and site design proposals that are innately driven by the desire for integration and accessibility, whilst taking full advantage of its prime beachfront location.
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Building the water edge : a public event for art and artists at Fort Point Channel
… waterfront. The design proposes a multilayered promenade into which various activities are interwoven. It is a place for artists' studios as well as indoor and outdoor exhibit spaces for the artists working there. The project also informs about the many galleries and studios in the Fort Point …
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Building upon ruins : the evolution of an urban artifact from infrastructure to public space
… situation. The programmatic ideas of theater and promenade were employed as both the methods of linkage, and generators of design.
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Espacios públicos de ocio en el Madrid de Felipe II y Felipe III
… important are the social connotations of the promenade, of which the higher social classes were very fond in the studied period; these rides and open air activities, had usually a courtier prevailing character. Their public character supposes no limitations for the access to the social groups …
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Brúin á Skeiðarársandi og önnur sérstæð útivistarsvæði
… eftir gömlu lestarteinunum á miðri Manhattan. Promenade Plantée eru gamlir lestarteinar í miðri Parísarborg sem þjóna núna sem göngu- og útivistarsvæði fyrir íbúa stórborgarinnar. Verslun og þjónusta hefur einnig blómstrað undir gömlu lestarteinunum sem voru byggðir á upphækkun fyrir ofan götur …
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Megaform : a frame of opposition
… interiorized urban realm where a linear public promenade facilitates a new urban landscape that is best described by its radicalized sectional experience. This type is a piece of the larger urban core typology that strategically clips out a piece the urban fabric to define a space of opposition, …
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Architecture as connector : insertions, ruins, and additions at Pier 26, San Francisco
… Market and the popular recreational Embarcadero Promenade which runs along the waterfront. The program for the building will include artists' studios, recreational facilities and a restaurant. The main tools to achieve this end are based on the strategies for reuse developed in this thesis: …
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Pequossette Riverway : design visions for the urban river edge, Watertown, Massachusetts
… for individuals or groups, boat landings, and a promenade through the park. In addition, two new footbridges will physically link the site to the other side of the riverbank allowing residents to cross the river without encountering the dense vehicle traffic of the existing bridge.
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Museum-worthy smartwatches: A medical humanities perspective
… people to their smartwatches along the Sea Point Promenade in the city of Cape Town. The study identifies smartwatches as objects with immense social, personal, and interpersonal traction. Materiality in anthropology is well explored and offers a range of theoretical tools for bridging the gap …
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Edgeways : the design of mediating zones along public paths
… transit stop to the water's edge and the Promenade a long a south-facing expanse of river next to an auditorium, cafe and sluice. "Biographies" of the elements forming the edgeways explain the design process at each stage.
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Understanding Paseo Boricua : why the preservation of Chicago's Puerto Rican enclave matters
… which loosely translates to "Puerto Rican Promenade," is the center of Puerto Rican culture, business, and politics in Chicago. Since 2000, the rate of gentrification on Chicago's northwest side, where Paseo Boricua is located, has increased significantly. Community leaders and residents …
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Inhabiting the Cloud : architectural excess to surplus
… symbiotic relationship. A new public promenade inhabits the building and captures the excess heat, winding upward and comprising itself with programs of leisure and surplus that are literally defined by their heat as a physical collection of biomes from around the world. The biomes …
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E Pluribus Unum: A Study of Reconnecting a Broken Urban Fabric
… this thesis is to reconnect the higher L'enfant Promenade with the lower Maine Avenue and Southwest Waterfront by means of the architecture and exterior public spaces. The program chosen for the site is a large public museum called the National Museum of the American People. It will "tell the …
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Out of sight : re-imagining Graaff's pool
… specific site of Graaff's Pool, on the Sea Point Promenade in Cape Town. I set out to explain how this site, located in a liminal space, geologically, architecturally and historically, becomes a nodal point for the concerns of my masters project. As such, I begin to trace out the .themes that …
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Irgendwo muss man doch einmal hingehoeren': Irmgard Keun as Heiress to the Flaneur."
… still remain: was it possible for women to promenade in the streets of a male-dominated society and is it possible that female flaneur literature even exists? My answer to these questions is yes. Although the public sphere was dominated by the male figure as they confined women to the …
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