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Walls || Memory
… their respective materiality? |From| Memory of Walls |to| Walls of Memory
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4 walls +
A higher level of complexity is possible by combining more than one idea as long as the order of the elements is readable in each built condition. Order is possible at any level of complexity. The more complex the greater the need of order. Order can be the relationship of a limited set of elements …
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Penetrable walls
… openings between and through layered, parallel walls. Light, orthogonal form, and layering is used to create a rich palette of spatial events. Arural dwelling is the vehicle for this inquiry. The openings that cut through the layers maintain an orthogonal edge. They are designed to frame views, …
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Urban Walls
… breaks in continuity: shores, railroad cuts, walls. They act as lateral references rather that coordinate axes. "Those edges seem strongest which are not only visually prominent but also continuous in form and impenetrable to cross movement. An edge may be more than simply a dominant barrier …
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Beyond the Walls
Architecture has the potential to significantly enhance the lives of individuals with dementia, particularly through the design of their most immediate and personal environment. This thesis explores how responsive residential apartments could contribute to wayfinding, reduce anxiety, support …
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Walls with Presence
… and celebrating it in the design of a building. Walls are necessary elements in the urban fabric, and as such, should be celebrated. They enrich the space that they surround and enrich that which surrounds them as part of the urban fabric. The project involves first creating walls with presence, …
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A dwelling among walls
Siegfried Giedion wrote that the basic aim of the modern movement was to “win the split of thought and feeling” which is characteristic of modern man; that despite his power of scientific thought, modern man has lost a true relationship to the world in which he lives,and that what is lacking in our …
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It Doesn't Take Walls
… are made to refrain from resorting to full size walls when not necessary. The actual means of separation used for a certain space is usually a balance between the desire for seclusion and the urge to evade walls. The form of the house unfolds from the order of an overarching cruciform structure, …
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Adobe materials for structural walls
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Adobe construction is becoming popular in the American Southwest, but has always been a critical construction type in many parts of the world. When military personnel move into an area, they often will temporarily …
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Reinforced composite masonry shear walls
… shear loads are discussed herein. Eleven walls were tested. Each of the walls was made from two wythes of brick-to-brick or brick-to-block, with a nominal 2-inch collar joint. In the first 10 walls, the collar joint was grouted and reinforced with either welded wire fabric or vertical and …
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Physical literacy within climbing walls.
… is to examine Physical Literacy (PL) at climbing walls, specifically investigating coaches’ expert views of whether taught climbing sessions are a valid means of contributing to the physical literacy of the children that attend them. Physical Literacy as a concept appears to be gathering momentum, …
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Measured performance of slurry walls
This thesis evaluates the measured performance of 29 slurry wall supported excavations in Boston, Chicago, Washington DC, and San Francisco - most of which have been constructed since 1980. Each of these case studies includes data on the initial site conditions (soil profile and properties, …
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The Walls of Dongshuiguan Island
Walls are important elements in architecture design history. Walls have been used as barriers and as structural elements as well. The biggest scale of a wall is a city wall which can protect the whole city area as a fortification--boundary. Another scale is the wall around buildings, which can …
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Suburban housing: living between walls
… allow access to all six dwellings. Large site walls, dividing the site for each dwelling, comprise the second element. The third element is building walls set perpendicular to the site walls which begin to establish each dwelling. Following the site strategy, the dwellings are composed of three …
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Concrete walls founded on earthquake areas
… on bedrock or soil bed. In the project, 10 walls are modeled in a structural software program, five squat walls and five slender walls. The walls have different foundations, fixed to the ground (cantilever), founded on bedrock and founded on soil bed (gravel) with and without damping. …
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Strength of slender reinforced concrete walls
… design recommendations. A second group of walls was tested under five different combinations of uniformly distributed top and bottom vertical in-plane loads. A range of percentages of vertical web reinforcement was used. The quantity of reinforcement showed no effect in retarding the …
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Cell-walls of growing plant cells
… primary cell wall) and sunflower hypocotyl cell walls were altered using high molecular weight polyethylene glycol (PEG) solution, and their extension under a constant load was measured using a creep extensiometer and showed that there were clear reduction (30-35%) in extensibility suggesting …
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