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Showing 1 to 20 of 478 for “"retreat"”.
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Urban Retreat
This thesis rediscovers the built environment and develops an awareness of scale, materiality and composition in architecture.
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Urban spiritual retreat
The design of this project - a religious retreat - although based on the form of a traditional monastery differs from it in its basic premise. The idea of monastic life is based on solitary contemplation and restricted social exchange, while a retreat places group interaction at its base. lt is a …
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River Edge Retreat
… and contemplation, and also allows one to retreat to seclusion and recharge. A retreat on a river's edge provides access to these attributes of nature. An effort to blur the boundary of the outdoors was made to encourage immersion into it. The choice of natural and relatively local material …
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Building Blocks Retreat Center
In a perfect world, teamwork just exists. People function harmoniously with each other & their environment. Although we do not live in a perfect world, people and environments can always change and adapt to better their relationships. The Pumphouse was abandoned 41 years after the project was …
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Topophilia: A Tidal Retreat
"My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call." -Pat Conroy "Existential contents have their source in the landscape." -Willy Hellpach The preceding statements each reflect the significance of the landscape to one's existential being. The first embodies the veracity of the latter …
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Equus as Client: A Biocentric Retreat
The foundation of the built world has been acknowledged to be based on ergonomics and the study of the human scale. For architects, this often leads to manifesting a safe, comfortable and inspiring habitat for mankind. This thesis asks what would happen to architecture and design if we shift the …
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A health retreat : building/landscape reciprocity
… and is demonstrated by a study for a health retreat at Poland Spring, Maine. The site and program were teamed on t he premise that communion with the landscape can develop, for the willing user, awareness to holistic health. Structural elements were deployed to signal the nature of places, …
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a place for creation: artisans' retreat
… soul. The vehicle for this study is an artisans' retreat placed on the ridge line of Brush Mountain located in Blacksburg, Virginia. This project explores the idea of separation and the moments it creates at many scales: man to nature, maker to made, public to private, structure to skin, and …
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in the blue .. an urban retreat
how does a structure signal change? in the absence of conformational alteration, of opening or closing, a dynamic must develop as a temporal function of the participant's experience. in a place where change is sought after, the mask of the skin is lifted. renewal is found.
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Horizontal Forest: A Retreat on the AT
… with the empirical world of nature. A small retreat on the Appalachian Trail near Dragon's Tooth, this project employs two elements belonging to each of those entities. The retreat is composed of a double envelope. The exterior envelope is a wooden screen and dry stacked stone wall relating …
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Permanence Amidst Continual Motion: A Marsh Retreat
This thesis explores how a place can be made within a tidal marsh; a place where people can stay and experience being in the marsh. The experience should be able to be en- joyed at any time, day or night, good weather and bad. For this a shelter, a built form, is needed. This built form should have …
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Modelling the economic implications of coastal managed retreat
… in New Zealand is large-scale managed retreat. However, it requires research to examine how to implement it and what are the impacts. This thesis presents a new method to support robust approaches to implementing managed retreat of coastal communities exposed to climate change through …
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Narrative light : the design of a monastic retreat
This thesis is the design of a monastic retreat on Cumberland Island, off the coast of Georgia. The island serves as the source of the generative concept that organizes the sequence of spaces within the monastery. The thesis proposes that light possesses the capacity to reinforce the generative …
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Architecture and Nature: A Retreat at Claytor Lake
My thesis looks to define a harmonious relationship between architecture and nature. The critical intersection of the realm of land and the realm of building is what has most influenced my design process. This place where building meets nature needs to be both meaningful and balanced. The …
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Sticks and stones: a Blue Ridge Mountain retreat
… problem of the thesis project was to design a retreat that would fit the environment and the people that would inhabit it. It was a searching for the interdependence between the landscape and the building. Equally important was a search for a structure that would give architectural integrity to …
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Endless Horizons Bed and Breakfast: A lodging retreat center
Architecture can provide an opportunity for relaxation by reflecting the forms and colors seen in nature; therefore, by using nature as a model architecture can enhance one's relaxation. Forms and colors found in nature possess relaxing qualities which through God naturally occur. The major …
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Tracking retreat processes at the Falljökull Glacier, SE Iceland
… forward motion is insufficient to offset retreat.
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Advance and Retreat: Motion in Roethke's "North American Sequence"
… of the imagery of movements which advance and retreat in "North American Sequence” I think the thematic and structural development of the poems will become apparent. Since the poems in the second and third sequences of The Far Field receive their thrust from the focus of the opening sequence …
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