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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"verticality"”.
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An Architecture of Verticality
… characteristics of a high-rise building is its verticality. However, it seems that most high-rise buildings do not directly pursue the architecture of verticality. Moreover, verticality is rarely perceived within this building type. This thesis investigates the potential of verticality in a …
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Verticality An Experiment on a Vertically Organized 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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The Tower: Prison architecture and the verticality of carcerality
… architecture that has largely gone unquestioned: verticality. Specifically, my interest lies in the role that verticality plays in the form of the prison gun tower, which I link to other measures of vertical dominance, such as the aerial drone, and the fortified hilltop. To better situate this, I …
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CARE OBFUSCATION AS THE PERFORMANCE OF VERTICALITY: THE POSTURAL GEOMETRIES OF (DESIRING) ACADEMIC PARENTS
… societies revere what Cavarero calls a kind of “verticality” – an analogy for the autonomous and self-sufficient Kantian man – the extent to which this posture is attainable is undermined by the gravitational pull of co-existence. Recognising how the potential for verticality is normatively …
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First World War memory and national mythmaking in capital cities - horizontality and verticality in London, Paris, and Budapest
… in the urban landscape. The thesis follows this verticality and horizontality in the three cities with the help of textual, visual, spatial and ethnographic sources.
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A study of the effects of four body positions on the visual perception of verticality in the apparent frontal plane
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Psychology, 1962
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Developing and evaluating a model for human motion to facilitate low degree-of-freedom robot imitation of human movement
… in the movement. The leaning of the spine, or verticality, was found to correlate with these movement observations. Verticality was then used to inspire a low-DOF model of human motion using motion capture that can be used to command the movement of simulated robots. Experiments were developed …
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Infants' Reasoning About Objects in the Physical World
… revealed that 9-month-olds attended to both verticality and object width. Furthermore, with the addition of width, verticality was elaborated to take width into account. Thus, for 9-month-olds: (1) objects that were wide were perceived as immovable; (2) objects that had a salient vertical …
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CapaCity In the Sky
… growth, is a good example of one driven by verticality. But verticality has its drawbacks with little light penetrating the dense urban jungle, populated by its collection of iconic towers. The concerns are many, but the one most relevant to this thesis is that of connectivity or the lack …
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Foucault, Kant, Deleuze, and the problem of political agency
… in two crucial but neglected concepts, <em>verticality </em>and<em>transversality,</em> and that the systematic exposition of these concepts yields an account of what must obtain for political agency to be possible, realizable, and sustainable.</p>
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Comportamento teórico-experimental de pórticos planos de concreto armado com pilares esbeltos
… ten models, eight were tested correcting the verticality of the load, using a device specially designed for that. The experimental results were compared with those given by the computer program PORT2, for non-linear analysis of reinforced concrete plane frames. ln view of the existing …
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Transitions : a sanatorium on the seaside
… where the horizontality of the water and the verticality of the cliffs create immediate tension. The project combines a strong attraction to this particular site with a growing interest in the process of convalescence, that nebulous limit between illness and wellness, between madness and …
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The development of a transparent soil and its application in imaging root trajectories and root bacteria interactions
… were measured along with the curvature and verticality at sequential points along the roots. There was a greater range of root curvatures in substrates with larger particle sizes and deviation from vertical increased with distance along the root. In substrates with different compactions, …
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HISTORICAL INTIMACY: CONTEMPORARY RECLAMATIONS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY IN THE DRAMA, POETRY, AND FICTION OF SUZAN-LORI PARKS, NATASHA TRETHEWAY, AND COLSON WHITEHEAD
… representational patterns of discourse, like verticality, and reach for a post-rational space wherein both open historical possibility, which stresses self-reflexivity, and a foundation in a “real,” experienced history unlock the opportunity for the construction of an intimate history. …
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New urban manufacturing neo-industrial design in Louisville, Kentucky
… the urban manufacturing typologies, focusing on verticality, mixed uses, transparency, sustainability, connectivity, and adaptability. Finally, the thesis concludes with an assessment of the most pressing challenges and opportunities facing the implementation of the Neo-Industrial City model.
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Urban stairs
… three main attributes of stairs; First, the verticality of stairs connects two levels creating a sequence of experiences from the lower level to the higher level. Second, inhabitability of stairs implies that stairs can be used not only for circulation purpose but also occupiable space. …
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A epidemia de HIV/AIDS no Brasil: um estudo semântico cognitivo sócio-histórico-cultural da conceptualização da morte no século XX.
… levels, Image Schemes (PART/WHOLE, FORCE, VERTICALITY, etc.), Matrix Domains (LIVING ORGANISM, WAR), Frames (FACE, CONFRONT, ATTACK/DEFENSE STRATEGIES, ENCOUNTER, etc.) and Different Mental Spaces (REFLECTION, CONTACT, REPORT, etc.) that are activated in the elaboration of the cognitive …
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"Of the sky above you must beware": Airspace and airpower in twentieth century literature
… and discursive distancing, produced by the verticality of the air war and the rhetoric of chivalry, machine war, or patriotism, combine to hide the aviators' damaged bodies and psyches. Targeted populations also disappear, cloaked in misrepresentation, displaced by precision discourse, or …
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Church - Club: A study in cross programming as a means of survival for the church in the contemporary urban environment
… the application of the key theoretical theme of verticality brought unity to the scheme. Additionally, there was also need for some unconventional construction techniques to achieve comfortable internal environments. Finally, the result of the incorporation of diverse programming proved to yield …
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