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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"rowhouse"”.
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Rowhouse sketchbook
Thesis. 1976. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Interplay: Studies in Rowhouse Design
This thesis began as an exploration of the idea of home, a study that revealed the importance of place. Seeking to understand what makes a successful place, I studied neighborhoods with which I was familiar, identifying characteristics of both the vital and the lifeless. As a foundation for …
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City Living: Exploring the Modern Rowhouse Typology
The traditional rowhouse form was a result of economical use of available space and materials that provided its occupants a home that fulfilled functional and societal needs. The result was a series of rooms along a travel corridor with a distinct underlining organization. The typology was …
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Adaptation of the Taiwanese rowhouse with computer application in the design process
… context and living style. For this purpose, the rowhouse type which emerged in the past for reasons of economic land use and survived through the moderni~ation has been selected to illustrate this approach. In order to achieve this objective in the actual process of design, a computer application …
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Radical restructuring : the conversion of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
… syntax compatible with the surrounding rowhouse neighborhood. This is accomplished by creating an additive fragmentary composition which implies continuity with the adjacent residential fabric. Further, the thesis addresses the need for major exterior intervention in building …
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Resilient Ford's Landing: Stormwater Management, Urban Heat Island Mitigation, and Energy Production
… development in 1996, emerging as the rowhouse neighborhood that we now know today. Developed for a wealthy living in Old Town Alexandria, the neighborhood Ford's Landing now confronts geographical challenges exacerbated by the evolving impacts of Climate Change. In response to these …
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Individual and Commune: How we balance the private and the collective in communal housing
… our own, combining a familial archetype with a rowhouse; which we explore specially and socially.
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Weaving Architecture: An Exploration of Old and New Materials and Construction Methods in Washington, D.C.
… the traditional Washington building type - the rowhouse. The architectural project, located near Fourteenth and U Streets, Northwest, in Washington, DC is a hybrid of programs - a textile school, a gallery and bar for the Textile Museum, artist studios, a restaurant, leaseable space for offices …
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Outlining the characteristics of tractable housing : a design of rowhouses
… to the tractability of housing, using the rowhouse type as a spring point. This study is grounded in a behavioral perspective. Dimensional criteria are generated using behavior patterns, in an attempt to avoid stereotypes inherent in defining household activities by rooms. Activity settings …
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Interpreting territorial structure : the machiya of Kyoto and the rowhouses of Boston's South End
… of space in an urban context. The machiya or rowhouses of Kyoto are a sophisticated example of a building type which successfully creates a sense of privacy and contemplative retreat within a dense urban context. Through a study of the principles of spatial manipulation and architectural …
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Monument Square, Charlestown : seeking timelessness in a temporal world
… standing as it does amidst brick and wooden rowhouses in a residential area of Charlestown, Mass. The Bunker Hill Monument Association (BHMA), builder of the obelisk, was also responsible for the planning and development of 15 acres surrounding it. These memorial builders - lawyers, doctors, …
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The Sponge House -Living with Rain-
… and rainy climate. The concept is for the rowhouse to become as a sponge that retains rain. The proposed concept envisions rainwater retention in the building and throughout the site, featuring a landscape based on the site's characteristics with many trees, water retention through rooftop …
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Syntax, Juxtaposition, and Non-Hierarchical Space: A Monastery in Hell's Kitchen
… Manhattan is recognizable for its tartan grid, rowhouse volumes, repetition, frontality, and cardinal orientation. The Monastery is recognizable in its axial progression, centrality, iconic primary volume, symbolic forms, and solar orientation. Differentiation of these systems is achieved in the …