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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"urban infill"”.
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RetroFILL : residual spaces as urban infill
… environmental and social cues to create vibrant infill architecture. The emphasis is on creating a multi-faceted responsive environment the respects both the user and public experience in the building. The design methodology includes the analysis and cataloging of a variety of residual site …
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An urban infill : a residual site in Boston
… of residual sites in the context of the urban environment and in particular with the wounds inflicted by the passage of the Massachusetts Turnpike through the city of Boston. The Pike, crossing the city from east to west at a level which is approximately twenty feet below the established …
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The Impact of Design upon Urban Infill Development
Within the context of the contribution that urban infill development makes to urban wholeness, this thesis examines three specific sites in the city of Charlotte, North Carolina. The thesis tests the impact upon these sites of certain environmental design theories and principles developed primarily …
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Re-urbanizing Ismailia : by implementing an urban infill housing strategy
… compact and respected a dense and well-organized urban fabric, following its original plan. However, the city was evacuated in 1967 for six years during the Arab-Israeli war (1948-1973). It was in the latter half of the twentieth century, that Ismailia was re-planned and re-inhabited but with many …
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Urban infill, a rational policy for land use in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
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Healing and Reintegrating in the City: Urban Infill as a Sanctuary for Jane Doe
… but also an architectural issue. In the same urban fabric where people live, work, and socialize, victims of commercial sex trafficking live in the shadows, work in obscure environments, and isolate themselves from others. National and local resources in mental care, job training, and legal …
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Urban infill housing in a post-WWII landscape : housing in the City of Dresden, Germany
… two intentions. The first, to create a stronger urban framework in the form of a master plan that is based on the planning department assumptions and values based on my research and analysis. The second, to design housing prototypes that work with the existing housing to achieve the first …
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Earth materials in urban environments - toward building continuity with the past
This dissertation looks at redesigning urban infill to promote a decolonial and environmentally sensitive city that is connected to its history, people, and nature. The inquiry is sparked by experiments in making Compressed Earth Blocks, mud and straw bricks, and shell-crete, and explores the …
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A bookstore
… By using this philosophy, the design of an urban infill project that respects the history as well as the existing character of the district is developed. At the same time, the Bookstore meets the needs of the residents and visitors of the area through the provision of residential, commercial …
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An Anchoring Urban Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee
This thesis proposes an urban infill cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee. By infilling seven blocks within the arts district of downtown Memphis with a new urban cemetery, further significance is given to both the city and the cemetery. Because it would be a newly built cemetery, it could initially …
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Developing a place-centred approach to sustainable development solutions for Namatala Slum, Mbale Municipality, Uganda
… 2003 and 2013 show that there has been both urban infill and urban sprawl in Namatala. The strongest patterns appear to be urban infill of informal housing in Mvule cell with the peripheral areas having more permanent form of housing. Namatala exhibits the challenges typical of most African …
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Inside + Outside
… Window, Material and Path. The project is an urban infill that is very narrow and long, and incorporates an alley that connects one side of the block to another. The program combines a small restaurant with a home above for the family that owns it. Questions of light and privacy immediately …
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Multivariate optimization of neighborhood scale problems for economic, environmental, and social sustainability
… scale work of architects and the city scale of urban designers and geographers. The selected design intervention is in Chicago, Illinois with variables including the number of buildings, their use, and the height of each type of building. Solutions are optimized for Social, Economic, and/or …
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From The Ground Up
… non-orthogonal geometries in re-developing this urban site creating buildings that relate to the site, surroundings, and themselves. The physical, structural connections and spatial relationships reconcile the superimposition of geometries. Ultimately every decision in the project returns to the …
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Dwelling Happens: A Study of Urban Living in the 21st Century
… The project I chose to pursue is a mixed-use urban infill project with four distinct building programs executed with one architectural expression. The programs are two types of urban housing, office/work/retail space, civic/public space, all aligning with the information-driven society and the …
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The In-between: Armature for Inhabitation
… grade separated bridges or roads, are a type of urban infrastructure that has been used to facilitate high-speed vehicular movement. This once-popular strategy of the west, despite being considered as a failure for sustainable urban growth, has been adopted in Bangladesh to combat traffic …
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Convergence: A New Future for the Samuel Madden Homes
… lower-income to middle-class residents to suburban and exurban sites where limited access to municipal resources and public transportation can be highly detrimental to quality of life. While additional density is the knee-jerk response to many of affordability's challenges, often the resulting …