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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"single-family house"”.
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House loops: Upcycling the single-family house
The thesis takes the position that the single-family house will soon move into a consumer cycle of disposability similar to that of products like single-use cameras. This analogy suggests a new house type that uses such material and acquisition cycles to its advantage, creating a service loop …
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Modeling contaminant exposure in a single-family house
… In this study, occupational exposure to household contaminants in a single-family house with several ventilation, heating, and climactic conditions was simulated using CFD. Typical household exposure to CO2, CO, HCHO (formaldehyde), NO2, and water vapor is evaluated over the day for a …
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A comparative study of condominium and single family house price appreciation in the Salt Lake Valley
… test conducted is whether condominiums and single family homes in the Salt Lake Valley have appreciated at the same rate over the past six and a half years. To test this hypothesis, a sample of 10,134 condominium and 48,913 house transactions was analyzed. The sales were grouped into eight …
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A house four all seasons : a suggested habitation model for Great Barrington
… Barrington are used to generate a design for a single family house in this South Berkshire town. Through this residential model of the single family house it is suggested that one's physical habitation is able to both directly and indirectly reflect and relate to the ever changing seasons and …
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Verticality An Experiment on a Vertically Organized House
… default horizontality, a vertically-oriented single family house is studied. The house takes advantage of the verticality by offering unusual spatial overlaps with a set of choreographed views corresponding to level and visibility distance of the surrounding terrain.
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Sustaining tradition : design for a contemporary Thai house in northern Bangkok
… explores and documents the evolution of a Thai house, which has transformed drastically over the years to meet changes in social aspiration. The result of this investigation had generated the design principles for a new single family house, which can be used as a prototype for future development …
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Repairing the suburban metropolis: Introducing varied housing typologies into the suburban city model
… range of housing typologies, specifically the single family house and the apartment. This thesis examines the varied groups whose needs are not served by the housing types offered in the suburban model as well as the role that typical suburban housing has had in shaping the suburban city model. …
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Exploring Architectural Implications on Social Sustainability: The case of extended family dwellings in contemporary Bahraini households
Bahraini households have witnessed a transition from tradition to modernity since the 1960s, in response to the fleeting economic prosperity of the era of oil exportation in the region, by moving from the traditional courtyard house to the single family house. But subsequently, the global economic …
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Air leakage of Insulated Concrete Form houses
… a large number of Insulated Concrete Form (ICF) houses has not yet been completed. This thesis first collects 43 blower door tests of recently built ICF houses in North America. These are then examined and compared with a large collection of blower door tests of wood-stud construction. There is a …
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Re-Imagining the Middle Landscape
… America, considering our myths surrounding the single family house, micro and macro community creation, density, sustainability (regarding the economics of the home and country, as well as our place in an ecosystem), emerging timber construction of tall buildings, and industrialized methods of …
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Passive Houses in Sweden. From Design to Evaluation of Four Demonstration Projects.
… in residential and commercial buildings. Passive houses are one way to reduce the energy use in buildings and at the same time keep a good indoor comfort. The basic idea of the passive house concept is to have well insulated and air tight climate shell together with a mechanical ventilation …
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South Boston ex-urban : a new living paradigm for harbor revitalization
… and private garden to every housing unit. A single family house symbolizes a success of personal life; however, it compromises urban public space and usually is exclusive to social activities in a shared economic era. This thesis project addresses the issue of livability as part of the harbor …
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Kipple kaboodle : reincarnating California city
… to comment on the decline of the road-centric, single family house dominated town typology within a specific context. This thesis examines the decaying suburban condition and proposes an architectural intervention that embraces a city's collapse as analogous to death and imagines a reincarnated …
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Game theory and real options : analysis of land value and strategic decisions in real estate development
… from 1995 to 2013 among 5 property types (single-family house, apartment, industrial, office, and retail) and 44 MSAs, this thesis analyzes the relationships empirically between the volatility of underlying assets, the land cost ratio, the option premium value, and the timing of …
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Homebuilder’s Songbook
… potentials of cultural practices in transforming single-family housing in the present-day United States through a series of speculative designs. An archival assemblage documenting historical modifications to houses, along with music and other cultural artifacts, forms the working material for …
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System analysis of a PV/T hybrid solar window
… Sweden and against a solar window built into a single family house, Solgården, in Älvkarleö in the central part of Sweden. The results from the simulation show that the solar window produces about 35% more electric energy per unit cell area than a vertical flat PV module. When the solar …
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Essays on the Non-market Valuation and Optimal Control of Bio-invasions in Urban Forest Resources
… for tree cover in urban communities using single-family house sales data from multiple property markets across the U.S. The study analyses how home owners' preference for tree cover vary across the landscape and across cities. Further, it identifies what factors affect these variations via …
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Assisted Living Facility as a Home: Cases in Southwest Virginia
… or physical health problems or the loss of family members. Most elderly people who move into these facilities do not feel "at home" in their new living arrangements. Assisted living facilities (ALFs) have been developed as a response to these issues. The major goal of assisted living is to …
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Jednogenerační rodinný dům
Předmětem bakalářské práce je návrh rodinného domu. Práce je rozdělena na dvě části. První část bakalářské práce je zaměřena na architektonické a konstrukční řešení, posouzení stavební fyziky (akustiky, osvět-lení, tepelné techniky) a požárně bezpečnostní řešení. Druhá část se věnuje koncepci …
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Aplikace vybraných způsobů ocenění na atypický rodinný dům
Diplomová práca sa zaoberá odhadom hodnoty rodinného domu v lokalite Slezská Ostrava. V prvej časti sa práca zameriava na definície pojmov, úzko späté s problematikou oceňovania a so spôsobmi oceňovania, ktoré sú aplikované na rodinný dom. Ďalšiu časť tvorí opis lokality, identifikáciu pozemku a …
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