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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"prototypical house"”.
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Investigation of Concrete Wall Systems for Reducing Heating and Cooling Requirements in Single Family Residences
… within the context of a representative or prototypical home in the U.S. and are compared to two wood frame systems; one representing a typical configuration and the other an energy efficient configuration. A whole wall approach is used to incorporate the two and three dimensional conduction …
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A process of subdivision : creating a therapeutic environment for a Northampton mental health community
… of a gym (largest collective size), a prototypical house (smallest individual size), and a library (mid-size), various issues of siting, enclosure, and structure are explored. Through the fractal behavior of subdivision, the smallest elements of a house become integral to the overall …
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An evaluation and comparison of the livability of prototypical and conventional house types: the development and testing of a methodology
… for evaluating the livability of single-family houses and to test it on conventional and prototypical house types. The House Plan Evaluation Checklist and the Housing Satisfaction Scale were developed and analyzed for content validity using the responses of randomly selected housing …
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Habitable Walls, Courtyard Homes in Urban Places
… today. This thesis will explore an alternative prototypical housing type to promote vitality and livability in urban environments today.