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Showing 1 to 20 of 146 for “"ruin"”.
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Revealing a contemporary ruin : toward understanding the ruin, landscape, and change
An approach toward understanding the ruin in relation to a design intervention. In an important way, this thesis asks the question of how a new form can be built or introduced as the survival of the previous form. The first part describes the ruin generally, and in terms of a formal arrangement of …
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Falling into gentle ruin.
Through this research I have endeavoured to unpack the ‘whys’ and ‘hows’ of my own obsession with collecting photographs, by relating it to a theoretical framework as well as to contemporary artistic practice. I further present here examples of my own body of work to show how I have given form to …
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To Build Upon Ruin
it is essential to regard the history of a site. to find the complexities that to others have mattered. architecture has a responsibility to interpret the past to future generations. it is then that it becomes immortal.
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Greedy Hunger and Happy Ruin
Greedy Hunger and Happy Ruin is a collection of poems that gathers a life of fragments and frayed ends into a loose narrative of desire, loss, language, and almost redemption. The poems examine the costs of leaving home, as seen in a mermaid's wish to become human, an immigrant family's aspirations …
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Ruin[ed] edge[iness] ruined landscape: Inverting and resurfacing the buried ruin with the scarred landscape
… elements, as well as their state of neglect and ruin or being underutilized. The urban strategy of this project will attempt to uplift and transform this abandoned area by stitching together the two edges of the strip with a pedestrian orientated, contrasting intervention, that inverts the …
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Mother’s Ruin: Refracting the imperial gaze
… With Ann Stoler's concept of imperial debris and ruination, we expand our gaze beyond physical structures to the effects of colonial legacies that shape contemporary realities. These ideas are then distilled into a visual lexicon of images that are transformed through layering, accumulation and …
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As time passes: garden, monument, ruin
… will eventually deteriorate and become a ruin. What happens to the mortal remains? The conventional cemetery does not have to consider this issue, as the bodies are simply allowed to deteriorate in the ground, and the grave marker is able to withstand much more abuse than a building. The …
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Ruin Probabilities with Dependent Forces of Interest.
… discrete time risk models are introduced and ruin probabilities in these two models under dependent forces of interest are discussed. Recursive and integral equations for these ruin probabilities are given. Inequalities for the ruin probability estimation are derived by an inductive approach. …
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Landscape ruin: groundmass excavation at Higgovale Quarry
… new narratives. My research revolves around ruin discourse, and the idea that a 'dig' is a sort of ruin in reverse. I began thinking about the criteria that define a ruin and applying them to landscapes. The study culminated in the idea of the landscape being a kind of ruin itself; the …
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Nostalgia and the idea of urban ruin
… strives to discover how the idea of an urban ruin can inspire new forms of spatial-temporal experience. The physical and spiritual qualities of the Greek temples, in particular the Doric Order, are analyzed in order to understand the fundamentals in architecture such as Absence, Gravity and …
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Transatlantic ruin in the writing of Nathaniel Hawthorne
… will examine images and ideas of decay and ruin in the writing of Nathaniel Hawthorne within a transatlantic context. In doing so, it will address the ways in which the time Hawthorne spent in Europe in the 1850s altered how decay and ruin figure within his writing. In nineteenth century …
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Dependent risk modelling in (re)insurance and ruin
… models and to address the problem of (non-) ruin within a finite-time horizon of an insurance company. Furthermore, the aim is to consider general risk and performance measures in the context of a risk sharing arrangement such as an excess of loss (XL) re insurance contract. There are two …
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Periodicity and ruin probabilities for compound non-homogeneous poisson processes
… claim counting process are discussed. The ruin probabilities of compound non-homogenous Poisson processes with periodic intensity function are also discussed, in which the embedded discrete risk model and the average arrival rate risk model are presented and bounds for the ruin probability …
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Dependent Risk Modelling and Ruin Probability: Numerical Computation and Applications
… thesis, we are concerned with the finite-time ruin probabilities in two alternative dependent risk models, the insurance risk model and the dual risk model, including the numerical evaluation of the explicit expressions for these quantities and the application of the probabilistic results …
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Matron, Ruin and New Mineral: A Thesis of Iconic Materiality
This thesis is an academic exercise set out to understand the secrets of Architecture. It is a compilation of a series of gestures made on behalf of Architecture. These gestures confront the materiality of Architecture to reveal the imprints beyond what makes the material exist according to the law …
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"""Paper Has Been My Ruin"": On the Organization of Polysemous Senses"
Previous research (Klein & Murphy) has suggested that multiple senses of polysemous words might be represented separately. This thesis examined how these diverse senses might be organized, by using categorization research to examine the problem of polysemy. Categorization paradigms such as …
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Ruin and Ruination, A dialogue with the ghosts of the city
There are contradictory thoughts associated with ruins. Mainly when we hear the word ruin, it reminds us of glorious ancient structures that evoked an aesthetic pleasure and inspired artists and philosophers throughout the history. But it also has a negative feeling, it means to destroy to turn …
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