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Snider, David E. "Architecture is Life... ...Life is Architecture." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31734.
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When thinking about architecture, I cannot help but think about my life and the things that have affected my life. How does the environment around us effect the daily decisions we make? How do the experiences throughout our life impact who we are and who we become? The people and surroundings we choose will ultimately decide the type of people we become. When we select our surroundings we are in turn selecting our ideal community. Everyone is trying to achieve community in some sense, from individuals to city planners. Council members, politicians, city officials... make decisions everyday based on their idea of what community is to them and their citizens.
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In the following pages I will design a community and put in place the elements for it to prosper and grow...<br>Master of Architecture
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Carey, Katherine Elizabeth. "Architecture and the motion of life." Thesis, Montana State University, 2009. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2009/carey/CareyK1209.pdf.
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We experience our world through the mobile unit that is our body. As we move through space we are experiencing the riches that make up life. We meet new friends, travel new roads, and see wondrous sights. If architecture is used as a tool to encourage these movements it stands to be conceived that architecture can promote the enrichment of life.
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Flucke, Josefine. "Architecture of defence, preservation of life." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/19074.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura, com a especialização em Arquitetura apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre.<br>This final work consists of an architectural rehabilitation project of a military ruin in Portugal. The re-invention, the re-thinking of places connected to a time of war are important tasks in the current architectural discussion. Those forgotten sites have kept precious landscapes untouched from overbuilding, and with their strange structures created sites of value today.
Transforming a military building, a new use for the site needs to be discovered and the place needs to be adapted to this use.
The proposal of this work re-thinks the original intention of the building, the intention of protecting the coastline and the river entrance of the city of Lisbon and transforms the use into a positive protection.
A “European Institute for Marine Biology and Ocean and Environmental Protection” is developed in this work.
With the current environmental situation being in a crisis, the creation of an institute which focusses on protecting ecosystems and initiating ocean and coastal rehabilitation , the topic of this work fits into the current global discussion.
It deals with the creation of necessary infrastructures for environmental protection, as well as the adaptation of military spaces to laboratory uses.With the addition of architectural elements, gestures and spatial qualities of the new building are carefully chosen, based on an interpretation of the elements found at the site and within the original building.
The objective of this work is to establish a connection of an existing architecture with the now, understand its important elements for the history of a culture, restore its valued qualities and at the same time create a future orientated site in symbiosis with the natural landscape.<br>N/A
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Ditzel, Allie. "Thresholds: End of Life and Architecture." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73783.
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The ultimate threshold state of a human life is the time preceding death. Hospice care provides a gateway environment for many people for their transition to the other side.
Societies throughout history have had rituals and traditions to support the dying and their loved ones, but for modern society, few of these rituals remain. Death has become a topic to avoid "no one wants to look at it or speak about it. This taboo treatment of death often results in the isolation of people at the end of their lives. It also has a major impact on those who are
losing their loved ones, as well as the caregivers that deal with death on a daily basis.
Through the lens of hospice, this thesis will explore spaces of transition in architecture - the idea of thresholds, both physical and emotional. It seeks to develop a design that considers all of its users and their experience of death and dying.<br>Master of Architecture
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Lagerkvist, Carl. "Slice of Life." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-291759.
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An attempt to renegotiate the typology of a functionally separate administrative building by integrating the stacked infrastructure of movement built into the site and introducing new programs that are naturally occurring in Tensta in spite of the inflexible urban context. The building signifies a point of convergence between the different types of traffic and bridges between them, revealing latent connectivity and opening up for a gradual take-over of traffic systems as general patterns of behaviour change. The will to make the building an urban move stems from thoughts about the welfare state architecture as a continuous megastructure, including the subway, Systembolag, Folktandvården, and much more. The municipality building generally separates itself from this continuity, physically and in turn in the public’s perception of it. The goal was to investigate the implications when it comes to how a member of the public perceives a more municipality building that is more integrated in the urban fabric.<br>Mitt projekt utgår från tankar kring välfärdsstatens arkitektur och hur den generellt ser ut och upplevs. Det finns många delar av det som vi inte reflekterar över utan bara passerar genom, i tunnelbanan, systembolag etc. medans det i andra fall blir mer påtagligt. Att besöka en myndighetsbyggnad är ett sådant tillfälle. Oavsett retoriken som används är en myndighetsbyggnad inte en aktivt demokratisk plats, utan en plats dit medborgarna går för att vara passiva mottagare av politiska beslut. Vid inträdandet passeras en subtil gräns där individen går från sin vanliga autonomi till att sätta sig i händerna på ett kollektivt strukturerande system. Den här gränsen där individen gör ett utträde ur sin upplevda individualism och tar steget in det kollektiva är en viktig gestaltningsfråga. I mitt projekt ville jag ifrågasätta stadsdelshusets typologi som funktionsseparerad byggnad och snarare se det som infrastrukturobjekt där rörelsen genom byggnaden och inslag av vardag skulle kunna marmorera strukturen och vara dess huvudsakliga motiv. Min förhoppning var att det skulle kunna förmildra känslan av att träda in i en främmande sfär där man gör avkall på sin autonomi.
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Willey, Guy Phillip. "Site and still life." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70662.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1993.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 59).<br>This thesis uses the still life as a medium for investigating architecture and the city . An analogy is established between what the thesis defines as still life and an urban composition (a site in East Cambridge). Through this analogy a specific understanding of architecture, site, and still life is explored. The analogy is used as a descriptive tool allowing the painting subject matter to be treated architecturally and architecture to be treated in a painterly manner. The site is analyzed as a still life to guide operational moves throughout the design exercise and to increase the experience of the site as both subject and object.<br>by Guy Phillip Willey.<br>M.Arch.
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NOLL, MICHAEL PAUL. "VERTICAL LIFE: RECONFIGURED." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1053691715.
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Carabelli, Giulia. "Readdressing Mostar : the architecture of everyday life." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.600631.
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This thesis investigates the process of post-war reconstruction in Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina), particularly focusing on the post reunification phase (since 2004). Drawing on the theory of "the production of space", as elaborated by Henri Lefebvre, this project explores the ways in which the urban space is produced socially . By re-appropriating Lefebvre's methodological tool of the spatial triad, this research investigates both the ways in which space is imagined, designed, and built at the level of political administration, and the various practices through which this space is re-appropriated, experienced, and lived in everyday life in order to produce a more complex account of the post-war rehabilitation process. Hence, this project adopts an ethnographic perspective to explore the ways in which space is produced (and reproduced) in the quotidian of Mostar to engage with the extent of its polarisation in everyday life. Accordingly, the project sets out the question of how Mostar becomes a divided city by critically engaging with how the city is administered, planned, represented (in political and academic discourses) and also the ways in which the city• is lived and used by the citizens. Empirical evidence of this research shows that Mostar is not merely a divided city but also a shared space and, more importantly, a platform for the activities of engaged actors in Civil society working towards a more just (and shared) future (in the city and beyond). As a general conclusion, this thesis argues that investigations about Mostar should start by unravelling the multifarious dynamics that produce its space as complex, rather than picturing the city as solely divided (or united) . Furthermore, this project suggests that more investigations about Mostar should engage with its spaces of resistance in order to share the story of those who are already producing change.
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Goldman, Anna Scott. "Architecture as the background to collective life." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24367.
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This project develops an approach towards the arrangement and design of the primary elements - public facilities and spaces - that necessarily complement the provision of subsidised housing in South Africa. The historical response to the housing shortage in South Africa has been the provision of a remarkable number of individual housing units, but with insufficient funds and attention given to the urban infrastructure, public spaces and facilities that go hand in hand with housing in livable urban environments. This project considers a subsidy housing project where the social facilities are considered upfront, and are seen as an opportunity to create interesting, people-centred places in the development - this thesis is the search for an architecture which forms the backdrop, and framework for growth, for collective urban life. This paper is structured around six sections: thinking, siting, urban design, programming, making and designing. These sections explore, respectively, the theoretical proposal with regards to social facilities and public spaces, the strategic siting of an area of subsidised housing and its associated primary elements, an urban design proposal for the whole development, the programming of the whole site and the individual cluster of facilities that I consider in more detail, the spatial and technological realisation of the public fronts of three case study buildings, and finally the exploration and manifestation of these ideas through a design. My project is being done in conjunction with another student, Rob Richardson, who is looking at creative housing within the limit of the government subsidy. Together we make a proposal for an overall living environment which takes the form of an acupunctural insertion of subsidised housing and the associated primary elements into an area of Wynburg, Cape Town.
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Villeré, Mariel A. (Mariel Anaïse Kathryn). "Life behind ruins : constructing documenta." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82286.
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Thesis (S.M. in Architecture Studies)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2013.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Page 121 blank.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-120).<br>A transnational index of contemporary art, documenta in its current form is known in the art world for its scale, site-specificity and rotating Artistic Directors, each with their own theme and agenda. On a unique schedule, the expansive show is displayed in Kassel, Germany from June to September every five years. The origins of the exhibition-event are embedded in the postwar reconstruction of West Germany and a regenerative national Garden Show. This thesis focuses on the architectural condition of the first documenta in 1955, which I argue has ultimately shaped the nomadic and parceled form of documenta as it evolved. In a liminal space between a violent, isolated history and a hopeful, democratic future, the organizers of documenta appropriated the damaged, but centrally located Museum Fridericianum as shelter for an exhibition of modern art. I trace the early history of the siting and architecture of the Museum Fridericianum and central urban plaza, the Friedrichsplatz, to unfold the urban planning schemes and controversies of the 1940s and 50s. In the midst of re-planning, the national Garden Show- the Bundesgartenschau, a catalyst for economic regeneration as a tourist attraction and proponent of urban parks, offered the support needed for the germinating plans for an art show that would be called documenta. Arnold Bode, a designer, painter and professor at the Art Academy in Kassel took advantage of the Bundesgartenschau exposure and funding to install an exhibition of modern art in the damaged neoclassical Museum Fridericianum. Although the details of the building's restoration are often overlooked, the thesis examines the built conditions of Bode's Fridericianum in an attempt to reposition documenta in the history of architecture. I argue for the influence of Kassel's urban and landscape history on the staging of documenta, and in turn, the exhibition's dialogue with the form and ideology of the Bundesgartenschau. In displaying the architecture as part of the exhibition, Bode resurrected the Enlightenment ideology that birthed the building and reinterpreted it for a postwar message. Now one among many biennial format global exhibitions, documenta offers a unique and compelling confluence between the subject's relationship with landscape, urban design, architecture, exhibition design and art, based on its inception in 1955 in the Museum Fridericianum.<br>by Mariel A. Villeré.<br>S.M.in Architecture Studies
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Narayan, Pallavi. "Pamuk's Istanbul: everyday architecture." Thesis, IIT Delhi, 2016. http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/12345678/7102.
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von, Martens David. "Disrupting linear street life." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-229921.
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Kan den lokala gatan och omkringliggande arkitektur och urban design bli utmanad med nya sätt att se på kvartersbildning, gatumönster, publika funktioner och eventuella nya funktioner? Den första delen av projektet inkluderade litteraturstudier om staden och livet i staden, undersökningar av typiska och inspirerande urbana miljöer, kvarter och gatumiljöer, och även referensstudier över andra intressanta publika miljöer. Mitt examensprojekt avslutades med framtagandet av ett nytt designförslag för kvartersbildning, gatumönster och bebyggelse för ett område i Sickla öster om Stockholm. Förslaget inkluderar gatumönster, dagvattensystem, kvartersbildning och några kollektiva byggnader, men även stadsbyggnadsregler för bebyggelsen inom området. En mixad bebyggelse av både kommersiella lokaler och bostäder föreslås. Målet för min design är att skapa en stadsmiljö som har följande kvalitéter: - Barn- och lekvänliga gator - Låg till medelhög tät bebyggelse - En stark visuell och fysisk koppling mellan inomhusmiljöer och utemiljöer. - Väldefinierade privata utomhuszoner mellan privata byggnader och publika gator och torg. - En finmaskig gatustruktur med genvägar och diagonala kopplingar som ökar gångbarheten inte bara över gatan, utan även mellan olika kvarter. - Ett dela-med-dig-system, där varje mini-kvarter bidrar med en publik, eller semi-publik, funktion till området. - En grönytestrategi där en stor del av de grönytor som bebyggs ersätts med grönytor på andra ytor som tak och mellan hus.<br>Can the standard local street and its surrounding architecture be challenged with disrupting architecture, reconstructions of the block and displacements of new and old functions, as well as adding imagined new features? The first half of the project included literature studies of the life in the city, research of typical and inspiring urban environments, block pattern and spatial street conditons, as well as other reference studies of interesting public architecture and urban design. My thesis project ended with a design proposal for a new street and block pattern for a site in Sickla East of Stockholm. The proposal includes street, daywater, block and some shared buildings, as well as urban design rules for the construction of the mixed commercial and residental buildings at the site. The aim for my design is to create a street and block structure that have key qualities like: - Child- and play-friendly streets - Low-rise but dense urban blocks - A strong visual and physical connection between the inside of buildings and public outdoor spaces - Well-defined but soft transition zones from the private inside of buildings to the public parts of the streets. - A fine-meshed street-structure with shortcuts and diagonal connections improving walkability and interrelations. - A contribution system where each block contribute with a public or semi-public function, and in return have access to other blocks special functions. - A good green area swap replacing the existing green area being occupied by buildings and streets to other possible surfaces.
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Cummer, Clementine Douglas. "Seeing things : making sense of life." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34102.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2005.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-145).<br>This thesis is a reflection on the ideas and process involved in making a body of art work which deals with singular experiences of looking and personal efforts to grasp meaning through vision. These projects grew from my understanding that vision is subjective and always mediated, both by technologies and by other bodies. Experientially, the theoretically clear distinction between subject and object is confusing: the viewer is always part of the picture, always implicated in the process of making sense. As a contemporary medium that claims to offer direct records of the living world, digital video is both a compelling, but inadequate, simulacra of the real thing and fabulous realization of our dreams of visual acuity. Neither the written nor the visual work included here is intended to illustrate or explain the other. Language and image work best in conversation with one another; both are powerful and satisfying ways of playing with ideas and finding new knowledge. In Chapter 2, I explore a number of different theories that have contributed to my thinking and to my making. This theoretical work is not an explanation of the visual work. It is, rather, another way of thinking through some of the same concerns.<br>by Clementine Douglas Cummer.<br>S.M.
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Nero, Klara. "Sustainable Way of Urban Life." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-133164.
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Griffeth, Bruce A. "The after-life facility : a typological investigation." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23795.
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Zhang, Daya S. M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Rethinking streets : urban life with autonomous vehicles." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118495.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2018.<br>This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.<br>Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 92-93).<br>Historically, streets have served a range of functions, primarily those associated with traffic circulation and social interaction. However, in the 20th century, the street design became centered on traffic movement and maximum space for automobiles, while public lives were marginalized to narrow sidewalks. Contemporary urban planners and designers have acknowledged that both livability and efficiency are indispensable components to a city's sustainable development. However, to achieve them both is a difficult task with the conventional dominance of automobiles. This thesis explores the mutual influence of urban design and transport technology, and offers a solution to rethink streets as urban surfaces, which integrate traffic infrastructure and the public realm with the application of shared autonomous vehicles. The thesis presents a new design paradigm based on a three-prong approach: 1) design of shared surfaces for pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles as a continuous public living room; and (2) inclusion of efficient surfaces that provide dedicated space for shared vehicles and cyclists to collect and distribute people at a faster speed; and (3) inclusion of the transition zone between shared surfaces and efficient surfaces. Another feature of this thesis is a new approach to the design of these autonomous vehicles that combines the self-driving technology of autonomous vehicles with new robotic features that tell vehicles when to reduce speed to share surfaces with pedestrians, and when to resume speed on dedicated surfaces. Using South Boston Waterfront as a case study, the thesis shows that cities do not have to remain under the dominance of vehicles; and that urban life can gain new spatial integrity that serves the needs of people and, at the same time, responds to the realities of urban mobility.<br>by Daya Zhang.<br>S.M.
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Hamanaka, Leslie K. (Leslie Kinu). "Daily life support : building a collective neighborhood." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66723.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1990.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 69).<br>Do the house forms and residential neighborhoods commonly found in the U.S. accommodate the present needs and lifestyles of the people who live in them? The single-family detached house and multi-family units like the triple-decker originated in an era quite unlike the one in which we now find ourselves. I intend to explore the possibility that we may not have to adapt to a dwelling sensibility that is restrictive and inappropriate for the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Perhaps the result will not look radically different than the models we already know but will only function in a subtly different manner, for very specific reasons of use and daily life. I will design a piece of a residential neighborhood in Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts based on the premise that the physical, organizational, and functional aspects of housing design do affect and can contribute to the quality of people's lives. Some questions that I find valid for exploration in the context of housing are: 1) can a mix of uses animate a neighborhood by providing commonly needed services and by reducing the isolation of the home from everything else in life: work, shopping, child care, entertainment?; 2) have we been perpetuating outdated Victorian ideals about the separation of work and home based on roles related to gender? If so, couldn't housing design be more progressive in supporting the way women and men actually live today rather than the way one's great-grandparents lived?;<br>(cont.) 3) if women still perform most of the household chores and child-rearing in the U.S. (whether married, single, or divorced), with the majority of American women also working full-time and getting paid two-thirds the salary of men, couldn't there exist a type of housing that considers the enormous demands on a person's time, energy, and resources necessary to accomplish all of this? I intend to research selected examples of feminist and experimental housing designs prior to starting my own. The Danish precedent of cohousing and Dolores Hayden's historical research and interpretive stance will establish my basic approach to the design project and its program. The design will be further informed by my own rethinking of domestic life and the architectural implications of it, recorded in "patterns" similar in intention to those of Alexander, et al.<br>by Leslie K. Hamanaka.<br>M.Arch.
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Mai, Corey W. "Second-Life Stadiums." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491305046768589.
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Karol, Eitan. "The life and architecture of Charles Holden (1875-1960)." Thesis, University of Reading, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.436618.
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Trillo, Derek. "'The flow of life' : photographing architecture as populated spaces." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2017. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/621298/.
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Many critics have highlighted the gulf between the experience of architecture and its representations via photography, suggesting a more humanistic and temporal portrayal. My research questions whether, in pursuing alternatives to conventional, commercial architectural photography, a more dynamic view can be revealed, one that is closer to the experience of encountering the built environment: episodic, temporal and in flux. I believe temporality and motion are indicative of the life of a building: both habitually omitted from traditional commercial representations. Practical and conceptual challenges directed me to techniques depicting ‘still’ and ‘moving’, that intersect with several of photography’s discourses: the evidential value of images constructed over time, the perception of movement in still photography and negotiations between description and creativity. My methodology is an empirical investigation drawing on principles of the scientific analysis of motion (chronophotography): interpretive, yet with evidential rigour. This allies to Henri Bergson’s concept of duration, Futurism, Cubism and cinematic animation, whence I take the portrayal of motion and multi-point perspectives in still images. By identifying examples from painting and illustration, I reveal a temporal approach, building up images over time, utilising observation, interpretation, editing, iteration and presentation. My subject matter is limited to what is found and what appears during each session; from this bricolage of serendipitous events selections are made throughout the practice’s reiterative process. I argue the case for appropriating the artist’s licence to interpret, producing an abbreviation of a longer period while remaining informative. I challenge Kracauer’s contention that the true ability to depict the city is exclusive to cinema, by using a static medium to represent ever-changing landscapes populated by transient characters in ephemeral scenes. My practice bridges the gap between architectural photography and the ‘photography of architecture’. I identify two anomalies that inform the practice: firstly the difference between mainstream architectural photography during the inter-war period and concurrent, vibrant, animated representations of the city in film and painting. Secondly, my case studies illustrate differences between architectural photography and visual representations in other media (CAD-generated images, architectural models and sketches); the animated nature of the latter negating the notion of commercially-driven work being necessarily objectified, pristine and sterile.
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Yavorskiy, A. V., and D. S. Dmytruk. "Chernivtsi regional state museum of folk architecture and life." Thesis, Буковинський державний медичний університет, 2012. http://dspace.bsmu.edu.ua:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/1413.
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Tondini, Gaia <1992>. "ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE ASSESSMENT AND REDESIGN - A REAL-LIFE PROJECT." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/12811.
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The goal of the this thesis is to show how the application of the techniques of Business Process Management (BPM) within and organization can lead to effective benefits from the managerial, operational and economical point of view.
The first chapter of the paper describes the theory underlying the practical project. In particular, it explains the concept of Business Process Management and focuses on two of its main underlying topics: the “Value Chain” as developed by M. E. Porter, and the “Business Process Reengineering” approach, through the analysis of literature and academic work performed by several scholars over time.
The body of the paper focuses on the description of the project’s goals, phases and results, with a detail analysis of the main activities undertaken.
The last chapter shows the conclusions developed by the author, by confronting the academic and research literature with the results of the project.
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Jahn, Marisa (Marisa Moran). "MetaFormances : the hermeneutics of play in language/art/life." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39316.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2007.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-140).<br>MetaFormances is a correspondence-based project that took place between 2005 and 2007. Miming the protocol of business form letters, the letters request their recipient to perform absurd, erotic, and illicit behavior in order to transform the letter into something else. As I see it, the recipients' correspondence signals their readiness to play, to accept their role in the transubstantiation of the letter, to believe in the metaphysical force of the delicate printed word, to extend a joke. Each letter was mailed via overnight express courier along with a disposable 35 mm. camera and self-addressed, self-stamped envelope. The project engaged a motley crew of 32 characters - a mailman, a confettiologist, a Dutch man, a computation origami expert (and his dad), a pom artist, a pinata factory, a psychoanalyst, etc. As stand-ins for my own body, the letters enable an exploration of the forbidden, the otherwise inaccessible, the abject. Through this process of substitution, the the letters (symbolically) venture towards carnality, enacting rites of death, wish-fulfillment, and regeneration. The letters thus provide a way establishing communion, limitlessness, and transcendence.<br>(cont.) As its title suggests, MetaFormances is a project that investigates the in-between, restructuring authorship as vector; content as traversion; form as process. This thesis explores various topics related to the notion of an epistolary game. For instance, in my examination of the suppression of the body within writing, I draw example from Julia Kristeva's notion of "obscene language", Jacques Derrida's "ecriture batarde", and Doris Sommer's "bilingual aesthetics." In investigating both the historicity and affective aspects of a scriptural economy, I consider literary critics (Barthes, Derrida) and cultural historian Francis Barker. I draw from film theorist Giuliana Bruno and the psychoanalytic perspectives (Freud, Lacan, Kristeva, Zizek) to consider object-relations such as the substitute, the fetish, the specter, the transubstanciate. I conclude by comparing the eschatological figures of (in)finitude in the writing of Kristeva, Bataille, Foucault, and Derrida.<br>by Maris Jahn.<br>S.M.
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Harrod, William Owen. "Bruno Paul the life and work of a pragmatic modernist /." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3037021.
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Paek, Seung-Han. "Korean Commercial Architecture: An Alternative Narrative of Modern Architecture." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1218735985.
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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Cincinnati, 2008.<br>Advisors: Nnamdi Elleh (Committee Chair), Patrick Snadon (Committee Member), Kimberly Paice (Committee Member). Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Apr. 18, 2010). Includes abstract. Keywords: Korean Commercial Architecture; Alternative Narrative; Modern Architecture; Everyday Life; Modernity. Includes bibliographic references.
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Taylor, Aaron. "Shelf life addressing consumption, permanence through adaptability /." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2006. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Hsu, Sophia Lisbeth. "Improving the quality and transparency of building life cycle assessment." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68414.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2011.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 54-60).<br>Life cycle assessment, or LCA, is a powerful method for measuring and reducing a building's environmental impacts. Its widespread adoption among designers would allow the environmental component of sustainability to gain more traction in design philosophy and client goals. Currently, the stakeholders in building design-both design professionals and clients-have few resources for proper LCA education and use, and there are no common metrics agreed upon for reporting the results of LCAs for buildings. This thesis assesses the strengths and weaknesses of resources available to design practitioners for performing LCA, including a pilot credit in the United States Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ratings system. A case study performs an LCA comparing two structural materials in an office building. The study aims to be as transparent and repeatable as possible, in order to set a good example on which to model future building LCAs. Based on the critical review of LCA resources and the lessons learned from the case study, eight key points are proposed for improving the quality and transparency of building life cycle assessment projects.<br>by Sophia Lisbeth Hsu.<br>S.M.
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Griff, Adam M. (Adam Michael) 1974. "Open space : theater and public life on the Central Artery." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29299.
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Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2003.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 89).<br>In the light of changes to the composition of society and the emergence of new technologies, conventional understandings of public space and inherited spatial forms no longer apply. Yet, for all the pessimism about whether these spaces will continue to exist, people still flock to places where they can be together. At the heart of this urge lies a crucial understanding of the modern city. Instead of being a closed community the modern city is cosmopolitan, a place for the gathering and living together of strangers. The city is the place where one goes to know people different from one self. Consequently, the city's reason for being is to socialize- for information, for business, for the development of the self. Like any place for socializing, it has its roots in pleasure. Located on the North End parcels of the central artery, my thesis project employs those programs that emerged right as this new understanding of the city dawned -- hotels, clubs, coffee shops, public promenades, restaurants, theaters, and pubs- to create spaces for socializing within the city. Social interaction is discursive, based on communicating, instead of being a visual relationship. The goal of the design is to create those moments where individuals can approach each other instead of being passive spectators to one another. Despite its lightheartedness, socializing and pleasure are serious because they set the terms on which different people can communicate and relate to one another, which ultimately is the basis for any democratic politics.<br>by Adam M. Griff.<br>M.Arch.
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Taneda, Makoto. "Application of life cycle costing method to a renovation project." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70276.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1996.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 115-116).<br>In this study, we have examined the application of Lee analysis method to the construction and renovation stages of a building project. The application of the Lee analysis is currently limited to the very early stages of a project life, namely at the concept and design stages. We propose application of the Lee method, with several modifications, to the construction and renovation stages. The simplified Lee method is proposed and examined in the first two case studies. The simplified method limits the range and complexity of data inputs, and is intended to be an Lee used by engineers practicing in the construction industry. In the third case study, the "Lee per square-foot", which implements the concept of the "square-foot" cost estimating, is proposed. This method is intended to be used to assess the residual value and to estimate running costs of an existing building. Necessary modifications of the Lee, as well as the accuracy and limits of these new methods are examined through three case studies.<br>by Makoto Taneda.<br>M.S.
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Bungey, Darleen. "Arthur Boyd : a life." Thesis, Kingston University, 2007. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/20249/.
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Jamie Boyd walks into the kitchen. He has the same intensely blue eyes as his father. He has the same gentle expression. His hospitality is ingrained. He immediately offers: Coffee? Cake? Tea? Bread? He has the same stammering, hesitant sentence patterns as his father, all commas, dots and dashes, the odd full point offering a rare conclusion. But when I say, "I would have liked to have known your father", his reply is swift and succinct. "There are the paintings." Arthur wrote a clutch of personal letters in his lifetime. He kept no diary. Loathed speech making. Avoided interviews. Mistrusted words. He revealed so little of himself that his youngest daughter, Lucy, confessed, "I'm not sure how well I really knew him". Jamie believed his father was "... a bit of a mystery ... reclusive by nature ... partly hiding something in himself'. Polly, his first born, labelled him "an enigma, probably one of the most secret people on earth". And his wife, Yvonne, admitted her husband would never tell her "how, or what, he felt". In the most revealing letters Arthur Boyd ever wrote, love letters to Yvonne in his early twenties, he warned her (and no doubt any future biographers) that his letters were "only a shadow of me, I'd hate any person to judge me by them, they are a weak shadow".l Vincent van Gogh's letters to his brother, Theo, filled a book. But in Vincent's undelivered dispatch, found on his body after his suicide, he told Theo he had reached the conclusion, " ... the truth is, we can only make our pictures speak". Many would agree, believing that a painting tells us all we need to know about the artist. However, when we look at the wide-open, light-filled, last landscapes that Vincent painted from the window of his room in the sanatorium at Saint-Remy, it changes our perspective to discover that he deleted the bars. Biography, too, is based on distortion; the most brilliantly shining facts always clouded by perception, time and place. Peter Porter, in his 2004 National Biography Award lecture.' said he believed all appearance to be a mystery, all stories partial, and any biography, in the end, no more than a biopsy. A brush stroke transforms, a memory transforms, as a word transforms. Yet, despite the inadequacy of the words' jet down in the following pages, they are driven by a need to make connection. Just as we attempt to understand the land, sea and sky and make maps to find our way, we search for tracings in other lives to help us navigate our own.
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Gerasimov, Vadim 1969. "Every sign of life." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28776.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2003.<br>MIT Institute Archives copy: pages 151-[182] bound in reverse order.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-150).<br>Every Sign of Life introduces an approach to and motivational schema for personal health monitoring. It is an exploration of how to make information collected by personal health-monitoring devices fun and engaging, and consequently more useful to the non-specialist. In contrast to the common methodology of adding game elements to established biofeedback systems, the Every Sign of Life approach is to design and build games that use biosensor information to effect the game environment. This work tests the hypothesis that fun (the joy of learning, achieving, competing, etc.) is a way to achieve the goal of self-efficacy; to induce people to take care of their own health by altering their habits and lifestyles. One result is a basic architecture for personal health-monitoring systems that has led to an approach to the design of sensor peripherals and wearable computer components called "Extremity Computing." This approach is used to redefine biosensor monitoring from periodic to continuous (ultimately saving data over a lifetime). Another result is an approach to adding implicit biofeedback to computer games. This has led to a new genre of games called "Bio-Analytical Games" that straddles the boundary between sports and computer games. A series of studies of how to present health information to children and adults have demonstrated the ability of consumers to use bioinformatics without involving professionals.<br>by Vadim Gerasimov.<br>Ph.D.
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Robinson, Joel David. "Life in ruins : modern architecture and the question of death." Thesis, University of Essex, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.442803.
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Thorne, David. "A semantic architecture for visualisation applications in the life sciences." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.705542.
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Elena, Yanushkevich, Agieieva Galyna, Янушкевич Олена Андріївна, Агєєва Галина Миколаївна, Янушкевич Елена Андреевна, and Агеева Галина Николаевна. "Passenger terminal architecture: utilizing national cultural and everyday life elements." Thesis, КНУБА, 2017. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/31290.
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In the development of the city of Zaporizhzhya, considerable attention is paid to tourism. The land is rich for historical monuments. One of them is one of the primary cultural pearls of Ukraine - the «Khortytsia» National Historic Reserve. Within the city and in the region there are many famous tourist attractions, among which are the Stone Graves and the famous Popov Manor. The city authorities see Zaporizhzhya as a modern tourist center, where spiritual values are respected, and the traditional hospitality that prevailed in Zaporizhzhya from time immemorial is preserved. The «Zaporizhzhya» airport has a favorable economic and geographical position and looks promising for use by tour operators. The construction of a passenger terminal at the Zaporizhzhya airport is part of the priority tasks of the Targeted State Program for the Development of Airports for the period up to year 2023. The creation of the diploma project «Bachelor» aimed at creating expressive architecture for the passenger terminal, three-dimensional planning, and constructive and engineering solutions that would ensure the implementation of modern technologies for servicing passengers of international and domestic airlines at a rate of 400 passengers per year.<br>У перспективі розвитку міста Запоріжжя значна увага приділяється туризму. Край багатий історичними пам'ятками. Насамперед, це одна з головних культурних перлин України - Національно-історичний заповідник «Хортиця». На території міста і області розташовані відомі туристичні об'єкти, серед яких Кам'яні могили, відома Садиба Попова. Міська влада бачить Запоріжжя сучасним туристичним центром, де поважають духовні цінності, бережуть традиції гостинності, яка панувала на запорізькій землі споконвіку. Аеропорт «Запоріжжя» займає вигідне економіко-географічне положення і є перспективним для використання туроператорами. Будівництво пасажирського терміналу в аеропорту Запоріжжя - складова першочергових завдань Державної цільової програми розвитку аеропортів на період до 2023 року. Розроблення дипломного проекту ОС «Бакалавр» мало на меті створення виразного за архітектурою пасажирського терміналу, об’ємно-планувальні, конструктивні та інженерні рішення якого забезпечили би реалізацію сучасних технологій обслуговування пасажирів міжнародних та внутрішніх авіаліній на рівні 400 пас/год.
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Li, Haifei. "Automated e-business negotiation model, life cycle, and system architecture /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2001. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0000327.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Florida, 2001.<br>Title from title page of source document. Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 117 p.; also contains graphics. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Volicer, Nadine (Nadine M. ). "Life in the woods : production and consumption of the urban forest." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70101.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2012.<br>This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.<br>Page 203 blank. Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-202).<br>The use of wood is fraught with paradox. Wood as a building material is embraced for its naturalness, while the cutting of trees is indicted as a destruction of nature. Wood is lauded for its structural properties and visual appearance, but challenged for its lack of durability and dimensional stability; all traits tied to the original tree. The controversial field of transgenics further complicates matters as scientists now work to genetically modify trees for improved yield and performance. Many environmentalists argue that the risk of infecting native tree populations is too great, while others see potential for sparing native populations by using purpose-grown alternatives. Both camps claim to be working to halt global climate change. How can we locate today's wood industry within this disparity? Dilemmas inherent to wood use are entangled with conflicting attitudes towards nature. The urban forest is uniquely poised to address this debate through an opportunity to intersect nature and industry within the public realm. Phasing phytoremediation, timber and biomass production over time, the strategy of this thesis is to co-opt a network of underutilized and contaminated parcels in Boston's developing Innovation District as a system of productive landscapes. Transgenic trees are here considered as a means of stretching a given species' function and yield, and offer new opportunities for design. Initial years of tree growth provide plots that double as public green space while improved parcels are open for future development. On one such plot, the project envisions a wooden architecture that accounts for its own material, energy, and even the soil upon which it is built. By integrating systems of production and consumption into the public life of the city, the relationship between people and natural resources can be reestablished; the paradox made public<br>by Nadine Volicer.<br>M.Arch.
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Treadway, Joshua Holden. "The Civic Life of the City Block." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78248.
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Town planning and political interaction of citizens are the main factors that affect civilizations on the most basic level. My study comes from an understanding of a need for a society to develop politically active citizens that are ascetic in nature, less they wish for a more despotic government. This study makes an attempt at understanding the basic elements that make civic structure of a city at the scale of a block. These elements are broken down into: Site, Boundary, Axis, Residence, Commerce, and Civic. The major focus being on Civic and the engagement of making a virtuous citizen through the study of the self and the formal decisions that make the Architecture. Civic structure comes after the forming of the city and its managerial needs, so before civic can reside within a city other formal decisions must be made to create structure for the greater need of the civilization. I will attempt to layout the structure needed and my projection of this structure and the preceding Civic Life that comes from this architectural study.<br>Master of Architecture
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Gunnarsson, Jonathan. "Sub-urban Family : Rethinking family life in the city center." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-160018.
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Artan, Tülay. "Architecture as a theatre of life : profile of the eighteenth century Bosphorus." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/14456.
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Steinberg, Shira Judith. "A transitional home in the city : rebuilding the layers of daily life." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70178.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1990.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-93).<br>This thesis explores how the architecture of a place can be informed by an understanding of psychological needs. The project is the design of a transitional home in the South End of Boston. A transitional home is a place where homeless families reside during their difficult journey from crisis shelter to permanent housing. It is a place that offers physical and psychological protection, two essential components of shelter. The architectural layering of territories is examined as a way to ease the effect of the crisis, or make the emotional transition of its residents a smoother one. The suggestion is that the architectural form of the home might be designed by applying an understanding of the emotional crisis of homelessness. The thesis is organized into two general sections. The first discusses the crisis of homelessness, the relationship between the transitional home and the broader community, and the programmatic and emotional needs of the residents. The second defines three psychological stages of crisis. It is the interpretation of these three stages and the needs associated with them that drives the design exploration, in an attempt to make the building more sensitive to the needs of the residents.<br>by Shira Judith Steinberg.<br>M.Arch.
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Mann, Hili Sonia 1962. "Perceptions of quality of life held by Tubac residents: A further exploration of qualitative approach to quality of life research." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278672.
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This study explores: (1) Attitudes and perceptions of Tubac residents that may have an impact on their QOL--both personally and at the community level; and (2) QOL measurement techniques that may contribute to the utilization of QOL indicators as a tool for studying and monitoring human communities toward a sustainable future. Informal interviews were conducted with seventeen Tubac residents followed by the distribution of a questionnaire in a "snowball" sampling method (Bernard, 1994). Fifty-two responses were compiled and compared for similarities and differences. Results demonstrate the majority of Tubac residents are extremely satisfied with the QOL and feel fortunate to live in a community they believe is unique--mostly for its surrounding natural scenery. Results also support the idea that qualitative approaches to QOL measurement techniques are necessary for further comprehension of the complexities of human communities.
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Fay, Mark Roger. "Comparative life cycle energy studies of typical Australian suburban dwellings /." Connect to thesis, 1999. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00000382.
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RIBEIRO, MARCELO BLOIS. "WEB LIFE - A MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS IMPLEMENTATION ARCHITECTURE FOR THE WEB." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2002. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=3672@1.
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FUNDAÇÃO DE APOIO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>A resolução de problemas distribuídos com o uso de sistemas
compostos de vários agentes, agrupados em organizações, e
que visam objetivos comuns vem ganhando grande atenção da
comunidade científica. Este interesse evidencia-se pelo
número crescente de iniciativas para a criação de métodos
de desenvolvimento e plataformas de implementação de
sistema multi-agentes. Algumas plataformas concentram-se no
suporte a aspectos específicos destes sistemas, enquanto
outras preocupam-se com a criação de uma infra-estrutura
completa que permita o desenvolvimento dos agentes e suas
organizações. O Web Life é uma arquitetura para a
implementação de sistemas multi-agentes para a Web, que
auxilia a criação dos agentes e suas organizações,
oferecendo toda a infra-estrutura de comunicação,
coordenação, tomada de decisões e realização de tarefas
necessária a atuação dos agentes. A arquitetura procura
aproveitar diversas iniciativas de padronização e de
criação de ferramentas para resolução de certos aspectos do
problema, agrupando-as sob um framework integrado. A
arquitetura promove a evolução da Web no sentido de
se tornar uma Web de conteúdos semânticos aptos ao
tratamento automático por mecanismos de software - a Web
Semântica.<br>The resolution of distributed problems by applying computer
systems composed by agents and organized towards a common
objective is attracting the scientific community s
attention. This is shown by the increasing number of
initiatives for the development of methods and platforms to
help constructing multiagent systems. Some platforms
concentrate efforts on supporting some multi-agent
systems aspects while others try to offer a complete
infrastructure for the agents and organizations
development. The Web Life architecture offers an
implementation platform for developing Web-based multi-
agent systems. The architecture is focused on the provision
of a complete multi-agent infrastructure with native
support for communication, coordination, decision-taking
and task-oriented behavior. The incorporation of current
under development standards and tools for solving specific
problems in multi-agent systems is one of the main
objectives of this work. These standards and tools are
integrated by the Web Life framework. The architecture try
to help the evolution of the Web into a Web with semantic
contents that may be automatically processed - the Semantic
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Wang, Qin. "Emotional Architecture for Everyday Life. Architectural Design for Senior Living Oriented by the Psychological Pattern of Elderly People." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/398150.
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Facing the challenges to address complex issues associated with global environmental change and population ageing in the 21th century, architecture design in the developed or developing regions and countries all needs to play a role as a cost-effective tool for sustainable development of our human society rather than a creation only for the sake of art or consumption. This means a substantive ideological change to assess the essential value of architecture according to its long-term impact on people’s health and well-being instead of its metaphysical beauty, and more urgently, calls for some effective and efficient approach for architectural research and practice to integrate all the ethical, aesthetic, environmental, technological and economic considerations into an appropriate architectural model. Beyond an intuitive assumption that the design of built environment affects people’s Health and well-being, and can have long-term implications for the quality of life, this research tends to provide an evidence-based theoretical and methodological orientation to entail architecture with such positive effects, and hence started from a hypothesis that positive emotional effect is the key linkage to correlate aesthetic experience in and of architecture to human subjective
well-being (SWB), which is a predominant indicator for measuring general well-being.
Accordingly, emotional architecture for everyday life was coined as a special term in this research to represent such an architectural model that functions as a motivation generator for increasing positive human-environment interactions as well as an affective environment for enriching and regulating human emotional state on a basis of daily life. An interdisciplinary framework involving the research fields of environmental aesthetics, positive psychology and emotional design was formulated as theoretical foundation to direct this research.
This qualitative research has combined two research strategies of bibliographical review and field study in order to capture the pluralistic qualities of this research in relation to the multiple disciplines of psychology and neuroscience, social science, gerontology, and the professional areas of elderly care and care facility development. Seven research methods including close and extensive reading, access to official documents and statistics, field study notes and photography, semi-structured interviews, participant and non-participant observations have been used for data collection; and narrative, descriptive and interpretative analysis have been respectively employed regarding each research objective. Such a mixed method approach was considered to accumulate diversified research materials and perspectives as much as possible.
The theoretical research to identify the general concept and methodological model of
emotional architecture for everyday life and the applied research to test its applicability in the specific domain of architecture design for senior living have been conducted and sequentially presented as Part I (Chapter 1 & 2) and Part II (Chapter 3, 4 & 5) in this thesis. In Chapter 1, the related philosophical and psychological theories about the role and functioning mechanism of emotions in influencing people’s perception, motivation and behavior for formulating ethical ideology, aesthetic appreciation, environmental interaction and subjective well-being have been reviewed and taken as evidence to study why and how emotional design approach is possible to comply user experience of a product or environment with user’s long-term well-being. Chapter 2 shows a filtering process to discern the exemplary qualities and design mechanism of emotional architecture for everyday life from the previous architectural design theories and practices by synthesizing the multidisciplinary knowledgereviewed in Chapter 1.
Chapter 3 interprets the main influential factors that affirm or oppress design quality and efficacy of senior living architecture in a global context. Chapter 4 explores the essential spatial implications responsive to elderly’s psychological needs for
everyday life through a series of field studies in a selected public care facility in Barcelona.
Chapter 5 presents case studies on four selected architectural projects for senior living in order to generalize the applicable design methods for positive emotional effects.
An inherent difference in aspect of the cognitive process for aesthetic appreciation has been found among artists, design professionals and non-professional users/appreciators, which implies an empathetic thinking with the users and/or occupants of architecture is necessary for architectural designers to filter the effective emotional stimuli and design approach for positive emotional effects in the design process. A general distance between the actual efficacy of senior living architecture and its socio-political target of promoting social and individual well-being has been detected to emerge because that (1) an inherited mind-set of relying on social manifestation and engineering measures has resulted in a bureaucratic formula of architecture design to apply the standardized configurations and technologies; and /or, (2) aesthetic design associated with traditional formal and stylistic aesthetics of architecture does not respond to a user-centered design thinking and evidence-based design methodology at psychological level.
With regard to achieving the substantive quality of senior living architecture in an aged
society as being perceived as safe, healthy, appealing and healing environment for all ages, technical design measures for compensating physical/mental frailty and disabilities need be fused into a humane backdrop rather than being highlighted as indifferent devices. Hence, a methodological model for designing emotional architecture for everyday life and a working model of emotional architecture design for senior living have been established and associated as a practical approach to enhance reciprocal improvement of architectural research and practice with an inclusive vision of human health and well-being.
The overarching conclusion of this research has been that strong potential of architecture design to comply with the socio-political paradigm for general welfare goal lies in an integration of reality-based and future-oriented aesthetic philosophy of everyday life, scientific understanding of multidisciplinary knowledge on human factors, and the application of emotional design approach to adapt various targeted users, and existing cultural/natural context and economic/technical conditions.
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Ockrim, Moira Anne Rudolf. "The life and work of Thomas Harrison of Chester 1744 - 1829." Thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390319.
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De, Wolf Catherine (Catherine Elvire Lieve). "Low carbon pathways for structural design : embodied life cycle impacts of building structures." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111491.
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Thesis: Ph. D. in Building Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2017.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-174).<br>Whole life cycle emissions of buildings include not only operational carbon due to their use phase, but also embodied carbon due to the rest of their life cycle: material extraction, transport to the site, construction, and demolition. With ongoing population growth and increasing urbanization, decreasing immediate and irreversible embodied carbon emissions is imperative. With feedback from a wide range of stakeholders - architects, structural engineers, policy makers, rating-scheme developers, this research presents an integrated assessment approach to compare embodied life cycle impacts of building structures. Existing literature indicates that there is an urgent need for benchmarking the embodied carbon of building structures. To remediate this, a rigorous and transparent methodology is presented on multiple scales. On the material scale, a comparative analysis defines reliable Embodied Carbon Coefficients (ECC, expressed in kgCO2e/kg) for the structural materials concrete, steel, and timber. On the structural scale, data analysis evaluates the Structural Material Quantities (SMQ, expressed in kg/m²) and the embodied carbon for existing building structures (expressed in kgCO2e/m²). An interactive database of building projects is created in close collaboration with leading structural design firms worldwide. Results show that typical buildings range between 200 and 550 kgCO2e/m² on average, but these results can vary widely dependent on structural systems, height, size, etc. On the urban scale, an urban modeling method to simulate the embodied carbon of neighborhoods is proposed and applied to a Middle Eastern case study. A series of extreme low carbon case studies are analyzed. Results demonstrate that a novel design approach can lead to buildings with an embodied carbon as low as 30 kgCO2e/m² which is an order of magnitude lower than conventional building structures today. Two pathways are implemented to lower the embodied carbon of structures: choosing low carbon materials (low ECC) and optimizing the structural efficiency of buildings (low SMQ). This research recommends new pathways for low carbon structural design, crucial for lowering carbon emissions in the built environment.<br>by Catherine De Wolf.<br>Ph. D. in Building Technology
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Berrigan, Caitlin (Caitlin Elizabeth). "Life cycle of a common weed : reciprocity, anxiety and the aesthetics of noncatharsis." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/54201.
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Thesis (S.M. in Visual Studies)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2009.<br>This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.<br>Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-100).<br>This document is a condensation of research into an artistic practice of transation and dialogue. Through the staging of an artwork, I offer encounters with fractured biopolitics and forms of social engagement. Written in three parts, this document may be read as separate yet interdependent components of a distributed narrative. The first section begins with a straightforward description and documentation of an artistic concept that evolved during my time at MIT. The artwork, Life Cycle of a Common Weed, is a fertile encounter between plants and humans. The material transfer of nutrients is the critical locus of this exchange: blood from a human body nourishes dandelions with nitrogen and the root and leaves of the dandelion provide nutritious and medicinal sustenance to the human. Liminally present in the exchange are pathogenic viruses and empathy. Life Cycle of a Common Weed is not an object-based artwork, and as such exists as a performance, visual documentation, an event, and a perpetual cultivation. In the second section, I describe the emergence of Life Cycle of a Common Weed from a rhizomatic web of embodied knowledges, multispecies encounters, cultural symbols and practices, dialogues and lateral transfers. I have infected the philosophical abstractions of the artist's statement genre with a situated ethnography that joins the artwork to nodes of questions and contexts, but by no means circumscribes its entire network of connectivity. The final section identifies the work of other artists as important antecedents, as well as audience encounters that provoked reflection on my approach.<br>(cont.) In relation to my other work and the unfolding narrative of its creation, Life Cycle of a Common Weed is situated as a turning point within my artistic practice.<br>by Caitlin Berrigan.<br>S.M.in Visual Studies
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Rielly, Elizabeth W. "Invertebrate colonization and plant architecture: The influence of two non-native milfoil species." VCU Scholars Compass, 2009. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5604.
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The purpose of this study was to determine if the complexity and surface area of a macrophyte’s
structure has an influence on invertebrate colonization, and to determine the influence of two non-native species on invertebrate colonization. Three plant architectures were compared. Floating leaved plants were represented by the following species: Nuphar lutea, Nymphaea odorata, and Brasenia schreberi. Moderately dissected leaved plants were represented by Potamogeton natans, and highly dissected leaved plants were represented by two non-native species, Myriophyllum spicatum and Myriophyllum heterophyllum. The number of invertebrates/g dry biomass and the number of individuals/m², diversity, evenness, and richness were calculated for comparison. The density of invertebrates was significantly different among the different plant architecture types for both individuals per m² and individuals per/g dry biomass (ANOVA, F=33.53, p < 0.0001; ANOVA, F=194.41, p < 0.0001). The highly dissected milfoils had the greatest density of individuals per gram dry plant biomass compared to the moderately dissected plants, and the moderately dissected plants had a greater density of individuals per gram dry mass than floating leaved plant. There were also differences in terms of invertebrate community diversity (H'), (ANOVA, F=l7.08, p < 0.001), and richness (ANOVA, F= 35.52, p < 0.001), but not evenness (ANOVA, F = 1.83, p = .0961). When the number of invertebrates/g dry plant biomass was examined in lakes where the highly dissected plants were ”rare/not observed", there was a lower density of invertebrates per gram dry biomass. This was significantly lower than in lakes where the highly dissected plants were both ”common” and ”dominant” (ANOVA, F=3.31, p = 0.0393). Data analysis was strongly affected by the density of the oligochaete Sty/aria and the amphipod Hyallela azteca, as evident in the Principle Component Analysis. Parameters associated with the two axes, principle component 1 and principle component 2, explained 86% of the variation in epiphytic invertebrate density.
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Clarkson, Brian Patrick 1975. "Life patterns : structure from wearable sensors." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8030.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, February 2003.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 123-129).<br>In this thesis I develop and evaluate computational methods for extracting life's patterns from wearable sensor data. Life patterns are the reoccurring events in daily behavior, such as those induced by the regular cycle of night and day, weekdays and weekends, work and play, eating and sleeping. My hypothesis is that since a "raw, low-level" wearable sensor stream is intimately connected to the individual's life, it provides the means to directly match similar events, statistically model habitual behavior and highlight hidden structures in a corpus of recorded memories. I approach the problem of computationally modeling daily human experience as a task of statistical data mining similar to the earlier efforts of speech researchers searching for the building block that were believed to make up speech. First we find the atomic immutable events that mark the succession of our daily activities. These are like the "phonemes" of our lives, but don't necessarily take on their finite and discrete nature. Since our activities and behaviors operate at multiple time-scales from seconds to weeks, we look at how these events combine into sequences, and then sequences of sequences, and so on. These are the words, sentences and grammars of an individual's daily experience. I have collected 100 days of wearable sensor data from an individual's life. I show through quantitative experiments that clustering, classification, and prediction is feasible on a data set of this nature. I give methods and results for determining the similarity between memories recorded at different moments in time, which allow me to associate almost every moment of an individual's life to another similar moment. I present models that accurately and automatically classify the sensor data into location and activity.<br>(cont.) Finally, I show how to use the redundancies in an individual's life to predict his actions from his past behavior.<br>by Brian Patrick Clarkson.<br>Ph.D.
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Allan, Ian B. "The life and work of Herbert Luck North 1871-1941." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.250293.
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H.L. North was an architect so little known in 1980 that the research aimed at first to establish the nature and quality of his work before proceeding to locate him historically. The historical picture which was constructed, and which is described here, was the main achievement of the work undertaken. North was thirty in 1901. His spheres of architectural achievement are in the movements of that time: the arts and crafts cottage house, the arts and crafts church, and the school of Anglo-Catholic church furnishing founded by Ninian Comper. As part of his personal idiom for the cottage house, Gothic tone and character set him apart. His churches (and private chapels) were built late, and renounce his early designs of a more detailed and familiar Gothic type for a forceful structural simplicity which aligns him with \aI.R. Lethaby and E.S. Prior. In church furnishing he made original use of the example of Comper throughout his life, and installed what was probably the first 3nglish altar in \-lalesas early as 1903. The output of North's country practice was modest, and almost all of it was imbued in some way with Gothic character. He was not a church architect who also built houses. He was a Gothic architect both in his own estimation and in almost all aspects of his work. This gives him a special position in the history of architecture in Britain in the early t\ofentieth century. In Wales, North was the leading figure in his day in the development of the taste for old Welsh building, as described in chapters twelve and thirteen, which are located so that this aspect of his achievements can be met with subsequent to the account of his architectural career. There was no arts and crafts movement in ,.,Tales.North's role in his house work there was to assimilate continuing vernacular methods of construction to the advanced idiom he had started to learn with Lutyens. His success gave him the false reputation with posterity of actually being the leader of the arts and crafts movement in \o/ales. His real significance is better seen at a less provincial level. It shows him conspicuous as a Goth with a particular feeling for what he called early Pointed, and with a corresponding economical style, at a time when the Gothic revival had been repudiated, and when classical and neo-Georgian were becoming increasingly the idioms of the day.