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Kapur, Jyoti. "Smells: olfactive dimension in designing textile architecture." Licentiate thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-12906.
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Designing with non-visual attributes challenges ways of representation. This research explores methods for designing with invisible materiality within the research practice, as well as ways of representation through textiles when designing spaces. Exploring textiles and smells within a space, the research program investigates spatial interactions. This research focuses on designing embodied experiences using tangible materials as expressions of smells. Through the spatial installations and performances Sight of smell, Touch of smell, and Smell, space, and body movement, haptics were explored as one of the methods of interaction with smells through textiles. Through the sense of touch, this research also investigates ways of revealing, activating, and disseminating smells within a space. Smells were purposely added through the methods of dyeing, coating, and printing to the textile materials that did not inherently embody any smells, As a result, tactile surfaces create non-visual expressions of smell. Further ideas of research in this area would explore another perspective of designing with smells in spaces. As an example, by designing textiles being smell absorbers, dividers, and re ectors, could compliment the spatial concepts and deals with the already existing smells in a living environment. In this licentiate thesis thinking through the olfactive dimension to design textiles is not only novel for the textile design eld; but also, its proposal for application in the spatial design is quite unique, and o ers a new dimension for spatial design.Horizon 2020 MSCA ITN
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Shaikh, Sumayyah. "Tactile Textile." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28129.
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The study is focused on the roles and principles of textiles, textile manipulation and its potential relationship with landscape architecture. Tactility bonds the two worlds of fashion and landscape together. It changes in scale, intimacy and movement. The study explores how textiles perform in relation to the following principles; movement, climate, reaction, light, transformation, scale and communication. The etymology of the word TEXTILE is derived from the Latin 'texre' meaning to weave or to construct. The word text is related to communication and the word 'tek' is related to building or architecture. The study has been conducted via various different media upon a range of different materials. These consist of film and media, light and shadow studies, projections, etching and transferring of textures, pattern cutting, stitching, and the making of paper and textile from plant material, to name a few. The act of textile manipulation and the product of these techniques is then used in the conventional site analysis that a landscape architect would conduct. These techniques being, a pleat, knot, veil, seam, weave, drape, dart and skirt. Each of these are broken down into their structural, functional and landscape roles. For example, a Veil is structurally light and semi opaque. Functionally it is aimed at concealing that which is behind it, yet it is not completely enclosed, thus revealing the object behind. In landscape design, a veil can be translated into a row or cluster of trees that is aimed at concealing objects in the background. Taking this process, a step further, these textile manipulation terms are then translated into verbs. These verbs of weaving, pleating, knotting etc. is then used as tools to analyze the site and its context in context of the act -of textile manipulation itself. From this, the area of study is broken up into pattern pieces. This unlocks a new perspective on how each of these pieces' work -or do not work- together. This then begin to set out a set of opportunities and constraints for the site and its surroundings. Are there potential seams or connections that have not yet been realized? Are there opportunities in the converging topographic darts?. As previously mentioned many of the design principles and ideas we know in architecture have been influenced and have influenced textiles and fashion. This study is focused on the act of textile manipulation and the properties of different materials.
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Dominique, Matilda. "The Architecture of Threads." Thesis, Konstfack, Textil, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-4751.
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Most people might not reflect upon textiles as anything more than the soft material in our clothes. As a crafts practitioner, I gain knowledge of woven materials that go beyond that. The knowledge of weaving and materials is developing the ideas that form the concept of this project. From the tacit knowledge, derived from years of practically working with textile materials, an intellectual understanding of materials and the worlds they construct is growing. In this project, I decipher my own ideas of the woven structure in order to invite others to experience the universe within textiles. I look at the weave as a structure, built up by small particles in forms of threads. If seeing the weave from a distance, each repeated pattern can in turn be perceived as the smallest element. By seeing woven materials from more than one perspective, I believe that the understanding of the construction itself can develop. As this understanding grows, so does the ability to judge the quality of the material. In this line of thought, the tools used to reflect upon what materials are, how they are made and what they signify, becomes greater. To visualise the knowledge I have of the textile structures I make, I work with a waffle weave structure, together with a dyeing technique called Ikat. I also draw connections between the woven structure and that of a map – as a tool that humans use to understand their surroundings. The use of perspectives and scale is another tool that is used to widen our perception of the world around us. In order to create an experience of the universe within textiles and to invite others into that world, I draw parallels between the miniature scale of the woven material and larger, architectural structures. The final outcome of this project is a textile installation, consisting of three weavings that together form a larger construction. The construction is open for people to enter and experience. Inside the construction a smaller woven piece is presented as a map over the woven world. This weaving initially contains the same information as the large structure, but on a much smaller scale.Image no. 16 has been removed due to copyright reasons. A link to the image can be found in the List of References
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Tessmer, Lavender. "Textile precision for customized assemblies." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123603.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2019Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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With the potential to configure patterns and materials with stitch-level control, textiles are becoming an increasingly desirable method of producing mass customized items. However, current textile machines lack the ability to transfer three-dimensional information between digital models and production with the same level of control and accuracy as other machines. Designers are accustomed to generating three-dimensional objects in a digital model then converting these into instructions for machines such as 3D printers or laser cutters, but current design interfaces and production machines for textiles provide no comparable workflow for producing items that rely on precise control of physical size and fit. Customized assemblies-such as footwear or architectural projects with complex geometries--increasingly integrate textile components with parts produced through a variety of other industrial processes. Furthermore, there is growing interest in the use of three-dimensional data, such as 3D body scanning, to aid in the production of custom-fit products. As mass customization becomes more widespread as an alternative to mass production, general-purpose machines are increasingly capable of generating customized items with high efficiency, relying on design-to-machine workflows to control geometric changes. However, current textile machines are unable to adapt to changing geometric information with the same efficiency. The challenges to dimensional precision in textiles are wide ranging, affected by computational interfaces, production machines, and material technique. Addressing these problems, this thesis demonstrates a design-to-fabrication workflow that enables the transfer of three-dimensional information directly to a device for textile production. The proposed workflow seeks a solution to the material, mechanical, and computational bottlenecks related to spatial accuracy in textile production.
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S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture
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Ingvert, Erik. "Wearing Architecture." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-169604.
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Wearing Architecture is my search of the real potential in combining architecture with clothing design. In a world where our mobility is constantly increasing, this spatial investigation looks for ways to carry your personal space with you, on you. The project consists of making and analyzing 13 full-scale prototypes, to test spatiality applied on clothes. The main themes of research have been wearable structures for space and collective clothing. The project started as a personal challenge. Two fields of great interest, architecture and clothing design, both serving as cover for the human body on different scales and with different properties. What potential lies in the combining of the two fields? Could there be more than superficially talking about clothes as “architectural”? How could one work along that border? My method of research has been continuously making simple prototypes in full-scale, where I’ve been able to quickly test different approaches to the subject of investigation. The method has been good in immediately trying out ideas, but the process also gave insights to take with me in my future as an architect.Wearing Architecture är min jakt på potentialen i att kombinera arkitektur med kläddesign. I en värld där vår rörlighet ständigt ökar letar denna undersökning efter sätt att bära med sig sitt personliga rum. Projektet gick ut på att göra och analysera 13 fullskaliga prototyper, för att testa rumsligheter applicera på klädesplagg. De huvudsakliga temana var bärbara strukturer för rumsligheter och kollektivt bärande. Projektet började som en personlig utmaning. Två områden av stort intresse, arkitektur och kläddesign, båda skydd för den mänskliga kroppen på olika skalor och med olika egenskaper. Vilka möjligheter kan finnas i att kombinera de två fälten? Kan där finnas mer än att ytligt tala om kläder som ”arkitektoniska”? Hur skulle man kunna arbeta längs gränsen? Skapandes enkla prototyper i skala 1:1 har jag snabbt kunnat testa olika angreppssätt, men arbetssättet har också gett insikter som jag kan ta vidare i mitt arbete som arkitekt.
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Raubenheimer, Hendrieka. "WARP + WEFT : translating textiles into interior architecture - in search for inspiration and continuation of African textile traditions." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30222.
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WARP and WEFT is a textile making guild, intricately woven into KNOOP, the proposed Clothing and Consumer Science building for the University of Pretoria. This building is situated in Hatfield next to the railway line, in close proximity to the Gautrain station and Rissik Station. KNOOP was designed in 2008 by Korine Stegmann in fulfilment of her MArch(Prof) at the University of Pretoria. Therefore, the building in which the intervention is proposed is, to date, only an architectural proposal and has not yet been built. The project was initiated due to a fascination with textiles and the relevance of textiles in interior architecture. This fascination with textiles is ascribed to the following: The first intriguing aspect of textiles is the structure and the underlying construction principles of textiles. The second aspect is the unique character of textiles compared to other building materials. Another interesting notion is the current international textile trend and current re-focus on textiles as a construction material after a long period of being neglected. The current hype about textiles is ascribed to the tactile qualities of textiles, which opposes an increasing movement towards virtualism. The raw and organic production process of handmade textiles is desirable and opposes automated production. Similarly to the Arts and Crafts movement, designers are once more interested in handmade products. Fourthly, textiles used in architecture has the intriguing ability to create an architecture which better relates to fashion in terms of fashion’s ability to easily change and adapt; fashion’s fleeting nature. Lastly, handmade textiles of a specific region have the ability to convey the identity of that specific region. This is a crucial ability to resist globalization and monotony in cultural identity. Appropriately, the fascination of this dissertation is with traditional African handmade textiles and its relevance in interior architecture. The contemporary unbuilt building was selected to demonstrate the value of a collaborative approach between an architect and interior architect prior to construction. The analysis of the architectural proposal shows that the interior architect can effectively recognize the strengths and weaknesses of a building from an interior perspective and enhance and improve these aspects. The aim is also to show that two programmes can function collaborative in one building and that intervention is possible within a building with a fixed programme. The site was selected due to the location and framework it falls within. The location of the site allows for exposure due to the pedestrian demand on the site. Also, the site is advantageously located within close proximity to main transportation nodes. The site falls within the extended Arcadia Arts and Cultural Corridor. The vision for this corridor is a lively and multicultural precinct which hosts a variety of arts and cultural facilities. The vision for these facilities is to portray the zest of local culture, especially to those disembarking the Gautrain. The textile making guild, WARP + WEFT is an important project within this precinct, due to the core concept of the guild to celebrate African textiles. The aim of the guild is to produce contemporary woven textiles which portray the identity of traditional African woven textiles. The vision for WARP + WEFT within the precinct is to exhibit textiles, expose the textile making processes and to create a unique African textile experience for both the public and the users of the guild. The interior intervention will celebrate African textiles by demonstrating how textiles are used to solve and embrace aspects identified through the analysis of the architectural proposal. These aspects include acoustic absorption, solar screening, adding softness, texture and colour to an environment predominantly defined by cold, hard, smooth and monotone surfaces, as well as providing versatile branding elements. The use of textiles in the interior intervention introduces the unique design question of how to design with textiles for a textile related programme, opposed to textiles being used for another programme, such as a theatre or a hotel. It is a matter of “textiles for textiles” instead of “textiles for music” or “textiles for sleeping”. The solution to this unique design problem is to differentiate between spaces which celebrate textiles by acting as a background or blank canvas for the exhibition and production of textiles and spaces which celebrate textiles by becoming textile-like. To create these spatial variations, the exclusive use of textiles is not sufficient. Textiles need to be translated into interior architecture which will be achieved through the following five methods: Translation through metaphor, translation through structure, interpretation of actual textiles, engagement through text and the translation of the unique qualities of textiles. Thus, the aim of the investigation is to celebrate textiles through the application of textiles and through the translation of textiles in interior architecture.Dissertation MInt(Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2012
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Wong, Chee Chiew. "Modelling the effects of textile preform architecture on permeability." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2006. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10294/.
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Liquid Composite Moulding (LCM) processes are identified as one of the most potentially advantageous manufacturing routes. The challenge currently is to increase their reliability and expand their applicability. To that end, it was perceived that there was a lack of an advanced integrated simulation tool for the manufacture of three-dimensional, multi-layer textile composites. The tools for the analyses of fabric forming and subsequent flow during LCM processes were simple and immature, with the latter suitable to describe flow in thin structures only. Another noted deficiency was that the simulations provided a single answer to any given problem. Industrial experience has shown that during mould filling, due to the nature of statistical variation in the material properties, the filling patterns and arising cycle times are rarely the same between a given set of identical mouldings. This thesis focuses on permeability prediction of textile reinforcements for LCM processes. The issue of textile variability was also explored through the use of the permeability models' predictive capability. Two novel and efficient numerical approaches were developed to predict textile permeability based on the fabric architecture. The objective was to reduce the complexity of the flow domain and hence provide a faster method to fully characterise the permeability of a textile. Within a wider context, these models were implemented within an integrated modelling framework encompassing draping, compaction and impregnation, based on the TexGen textile schema. TexGen is a generic geometric textile modeller that can be used to create a wide range of textile models. Several validation studies were performed using a range of reinforcements including woven and non-crimp fabrics. A stochastic analysis technique was developed to account for the effect of material variability on permeability. The study based on this technique provided important insights into permeability variations. It was shown that the permeability distribution is a strong function of the textile architecture. The permeability models developed from this work can be used to account for the effects of fabric shear/compaction and statistical variations on permeability. These predicted permeability data can complement experimental data in order to enhance flow simulations at the component scale.
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Souter, Benjamin John. "Effects of fibre architecture on formability of textile preforms." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.275070.
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Kortenhoeven, Nicola. "Expressive space textile art centre /." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05182005-112346.
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DeRose, Haley Nicole. "Coconut Coir as a Vertical Textile in Soilless Growth Systems." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1619537140131192.
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Anomasiri, Namkhang. "The Final Cut : Transformations of laser-cut textile surfaces for placemaking." Thesis, Konstfack, Inredningsarkitektur & Möbeldesign, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-7844.
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My project explores the possibilities of shaping space using lightweight textile-based elements. The focus is on the transformation of surface patterns into three-dimensional forms, using analogue parametric design with laser-cut beds as a main testbed. The result is a smorgasbord of prototypes: spatial configurations that divide and define space. Each design is a permeable three-dimensional form that projects a unique pattern of shadow and light. The basis of my project comes from an initial investigation of Uppsala public libraries’ needs for flexible solutions. The libraries have housed many civic activities that I have experienced in recent years since moving to Uppsala in 2018. With their requirement of multiple types of use, I propose using fabric infrastructure as configurable room dividers. I use discarded textile (used carpets, fabric remnants) as the starting point for each prototype. The material itself imposes certain restrictions on the work. Each new piece of fabric acquired a problem waiting for a solution. In this sense, the finished prototype constitutes a solved puzzle. One key objective is to create designs that are flexible while still being robust enough to be portable. Another key objective is to create inviting and organic designs. While I used laser cutters to cut the fabric into precise patterns, I allowed gravity and light to create an imperfect and organic end-result. However, the outcome of my experimental exploration is a system and a technique for making use of discarded textile materials to create atmospheres and spaces.
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Persson, Ingrid. "Tactile constructions : Building with textile, sensual mathematics." Thesis, Konstfack, Inredningsarkitektur & Möbeldesign, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-5832.
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In my thesis work I choose to define textile as a way of constructing, before seeing it as a material. I have explored the possibilities of building with the tension that is formed between the threads in weaving and knitting. By mixing the two techniques in the same fabric, I can benefit from their different qualities as the material produced creates the shape of the space. As a textile designer studying spatial design, I have carried out this investigation to raise the importance and impact of textile in interior, and as an interior. By challenging the hierarchy of building construction materials and giving textile more value, I can acquire more sensual, tactile and maybe even unexpected qualities in the interiors I create.
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Azran, Aymeric. "Intégration de fonctions sur matériaux composites innovants pour l'aéronautique." Thesis, Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015CLF22625.
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L’industrie aéronautique est basée sur le compromis entre les performances et les prix. L’objectif principal est de réduire la masse dans le but d’augmenter le rayon d’action ou la masse utile. Ce document présente une façon innovante de concevoir des matériaux composites basée sur une nouvelle technologie textile et par conséquent une nouvelle stratégie de conception. Je vais me focaliser sur deux applications industrielles qui consistent à ajouter de nouvelles fonctions à des matériaux composites pour réduire le nombre de pièce et donc la masse globale. La seconde application est orientée vers les pièces aux surfaces non développables. Dans cette application, je montrerai comment il est possible d’ajouter des propriétés mécaniques à de nouvelles architectures textiles dans le but d’obtenir un meilleur rapport masse/performanceAeronautical industry is made of compromises between the performances and the costs. The main goal is to reduce the mass in order to increase either the flight range or the useful mass. This document presents the innovative way to design composite materials based on a new textile technology and as a consequence a new way of design strategy. I’ll focus on two industrial applications which consist in adding new features to composite materials in order to reduce the number of parts and so on the global mass. The first application is the conception of a thermally conductive composite material which could allow a new way to design on flight computers andelectronic devices. The second application is focused on the non developable shape parts. In this application, I’ll show how we have added mechanical properties to new textile architectures in order to obtain a better mass/performance factor
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Lawrence, Rebekah Hope. "An Uncomfortable Memorialization: Remembering Textile Industrialization in the South." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83545.
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This thesis explores landscape's framing role in memorialization through a discussion of southeastern United States mill villages. This paper moves the preservation discussion from the architectural realm of an isolated textile mill building to the scale of the landscape encompassing the entire infrastructure of mill life. The beginning of the 20th century witnessed the transformation of the piedmont region of South Carolina from a farmland of sharecroppers to the cotton textile center of the nation. This rapid industrialization altered rolling landscape and winding creeks into a series of mill villages and dammed waterways connecting larger cities of neighborhood mills. The beginning of the 21st century is witnessing another transformation, the shuttering of those mills because of globalization and a trend toward adaptive reuse into luxury apartments. While this form of preservation rescues a portion of the deteriorating memory infrastructure, it threatens to distort or erase the unique relationship between mill and mill village by romanticizing mill life and brushing over the complex history of labor present in those spaces. The landscape reveals that the mills channeled not only human labor, but also the work force of nature through dams regulating waterways. Like the social restructuring of the mills, this restructuring of nature had impacts: disturbed ecologies, toxic sedimentation, and altered waterways. Investigation proceeds through a research and design process. Research includes creating a spatial data set of the mills in the South Carolina piedmont region from a list in the 1930 edition of Clark's directory of southern textile mills. This mapping along with watershed analysis determines a specific mill site for intervention along a waterway where dams have impaired the natural ecology. The design explores the potential of revising or removing the mill dam, a piece of memory infrastructure, and wrestles with the balance of preservation and ecological restoration.Master of Landscape Architecture
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Cooper, Alyson Valda. "The Manchester commercial textile warehouse, 1780-1914 : a study of its typology and practical development." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.292734.
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De, Flamingh Francois. "The role of textiles in sustainable South African residential architecture." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1321.
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Thesis (MTech (Design))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2011Sustainable architecture prescribes the conscious consideration and active contemplation of ways of meeting the housing needs of humans while attempting simultaneously to prevent our consumption patterns from exceeding the resources at our disposal. Sustainability in the built environment is infinitely complex as the very nature of modern architecture is based upon the extraction and exploitation of finite natural resources to feed a linear system ultimately ending in the depletion of those resources and the destruction of the ecosystem from which they are excavated. When considering built environments, the most visible and measurable components of any sustainable design is its ecological and economic sustainability. Social sustainability, on the other hand is of an unquantifiable nature, making it a most contentious topic in design and development discourse. This thesis uses a systems approach to sustainable architecture as a lens to focus on the practical applications of structural concepts made possible by the integration of textiles in the built environment and examines possibilities of adapting and incorporating vernacular and low-tech textile-based construction methods into contemporary sustainable architecture. More specifically, it explores the possibilities of using architextiles, or textiles in the building industry, as a vehicle for advancing sustainable development within the emerging economy of South Africa with its unambiguous diversity in all three bottom lines of sustainability; environment (ecology, resources, geography, built environment), society (community, culture, politics) and economy (employment, wealth, finance, industry, infrastructure, consumer behaviour).
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FINKIELSZTEJN, BEATRIZ. "TEXTILE MODULAR SYSTEMS AS NATURAL FIBERS USE: A SUSTAINABLE ALTERNATIVE IN ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2006. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=9570@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROO aproveitamento sustentável de fibras naturais na construção de membranas estruturais arquitetônicas constitui a questão principal desta dissertação. A conjugação entre os Sistemas Modulares Têxteis e o estudo das interações entre as fibras naturais, tecnologias e o meio permite incorporar técnicas artesanais têxteis e parâmetros ambientais de sustentabilidade às estratégias de concepção e confecção de objetos de Arquitetura & Design. Impactos ambientais e sociais percebidos, tecnologias artesanais e industriais de aproveitamento de fibras naturais e suas relações com o meio físico e social, e as estratégias aprendidas na Natureza e reproduzidas através de experiências em Arquitetura & Design, são aqui investigados. A metodologia experimental com a realização de protótipos permitiu elaborar os princípios que fundamentaram as bases dos Sistemas Modulares Têxteis. As investigações realizadas contribuem para o aperfeiçoamento e adequação de tecnologias artesanais têxteis e fibras naturais disponíveis e pouco padronizadas, adaptando-as a diversos contextos através dos Sistemas Modulares Têxteis.
The natural fibers sustainable use in architectonic structural membranes construction is the main question of this dissertation. The association between the Textile Modular Systems and the inter-actions studies between natural fibers, technologies, and environment, aloud to incorporate into conception and manufacturing strategies of Architecture & Design objects , textile craftsmanship technologies and sustainable environment parameters. Social and environment footprints perceived, industrial and craftsmanship technologies of natural fibers uses, their relations to the social and material environment, and the strategies learned from Nature and reproduced through experiences in Architecture & Design, are investigated here. The consumation of the Experimental Methodology through prototypes aloud to elaborates the principles that conceived the basis of the Textile Modular Systems. The investigations accomplished contribute to improve and adequate the textile craftsmanship technologies and the available non-patterned natural fibers, adapting them to several contexts through the Textile Modular Systems.
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Newell, Troy W. "Emerging Concrete Technologies: Architectural Implications." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1428069190.
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Verghese, Kandathil Eapen. "Effects of fiber architecture and through-the-thickness stitching on permeability and compaction of textile preforms." Thesis, This resource online, 1996. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08292008-063741/.
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Aidas, Nina. "Responsive Textile Geometries : Vanadisbadet Revised." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-34793.
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How can principles found in textile behaviour be translated into architectural expression? With water as a program in context of a new bath in Vanadislunden, Stockholm, this project studies how a rigid material can be percieved as soft and flexible.
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King, Bradley. "Data Center Conversion: The Adaptive Reuse of a Remote Textile Mill in Augusta, Georgia." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1459438392.
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Lindskog, Ellen. "Danvikens Hospital - A speculative investigation." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-298799.
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This thesis project is an investigation of time and endurance. Temporality and change. It is an intuitive journey through the past. By collecting, redrawing and speculating I have explored the past and present of a site and a building. The hospital institution Danvikens Hospital dates back to the 16th century, and the current building from 1719 can be seen as the first monumental hospital building in Sweden. The site went through irreversible infrastructural changes at the beginning of the 20th century, with the excavation of Hammarby canal. Following this, the building has had short identities as an archive, workshop and hotel. This project work with findings from the past, using textile to create a new identity and life for the building.
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Nocito, Christophe. "Développement d’un textile intégrant des cellules photovoltaïques pour application de protection solaire store enroulable." Thesis, Lille 1, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010LIL10195/document.
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Le développement de matériaux permettant la fabrication de bâtiments à « énergie positive » est une préoccupation importante. Les solutions existantes consistent soit à économiser de l’énergie, soit à la produire. Nous proposons de développer un store photovoltaïque rassemblant ainsi les deux fonctions : diminuer la consommation d’énergie en apportant une régulation thermique et la production de l’énergie électrique.Le produit ainsi conçu, peut aussi être utilisé dans des domaines autonomes (camping-cars, bateaux) afin de favoriser une utilisation nomade ou des domaines connectés au réseau électrique (résidentiels). Le développement d’une telle application nécessite l’utilisation de panneaux photovoltaïques souples, légers, fins, dont les rendements de production surfaciques sont les meilleurs possibles. La possibilité de rangement du panneau photovoltaïque autour d’un tube cylindrique permet d’améliorer leur intégration architecturale et un encombrement minimum.A cette fin, il est utile d’intégrer des capteurs photovoltaïques au textile. L’intégration des cellules photovoltaïques est réalisée par un procédé de lamination continu différent des procédés conventionnels.Afin de s’assurer de la faisabilité d’un tel produit, des prototypes ont été réalisés pour connaître les difficultés rencontrées lors des étapes successives de montage. De plus, ceux-ci ont permis d’effectuer des mesures dans des conditions réelles et comparer ainsi la solution développée aux solutions existantesDeveloping new materials to make positive energy buildings is an important issue. Solutions currently in existence are either energy saving or energy production. We are proposing a photovoltaic awning which has both functions: decreasing the energy consumption and producing the electricity.This new product can be used as an off-grid system (RV-awning, marine) for nomad use or as an on-grid systems (residential). Such application development needs the photovoltaic technology thin, light, flexible and as efficient as possible. The storage space around the cylindrical roll allows improving the architectural integration and minimal size.In order to realize this novel product, the bonding of photovoltaic cells to the textile structure (lamination) is necessary. This part of the project has been realized with a new roll-to-roll process different from the conventional one.Prototypes have been made in order to acquire knowledge and experience related to difficulties that may occur at the next step of the realization. Moreover, various tests have been done to compare other technologies to the photovoltaic awning
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Wahlberg, Hanna. "The Afterlife of Clothes." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnad (ABE), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-280010.
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The clothes and textiles sold in Sweden is mostly manufactured in countries outside of the EU. The production requires large areas of land and vast amount of water. The environmental impact is big during the production phase in terms of water usage, chemicals and transports. In general, the consumption of new textile is increasing in Sweden, but so is also reused textil. In 2016 the consumption of textile in Sweden was nearly 14 kg per person and year, which equals the weight of 14 t-shirts, 5 pairs of jeans, 7 hoodies and 2 coats. At the same time 5 kg textile per person and year is thrown in the the household waste and nearly 60 % of the thrown textile is in good condition and could be used again. The amount of clothes given to charity organisations is almost 4 kg per person and year but 70 % of the collected textile is exported. The collection and recycling of non-reusable textiles in Sweden today is low. Current recycling techniques are mainly energy recovery through incineration. The reasons for this has to do with limitations in the sorting and collection of consumer textile waste or limitation of optional recycling processes. In fact, there is no large scale industrial process to recycle textile into new textile, which leads to an open loop system where input of new materials is required. But there are upcoming technologies that meets the challenges today. This project explores the dynamics of current ways of treating textile waste. Through learnings from existing system, in combination with new technologies, alternative ways of structuring processes of production, consumption, usages and disposal is proposed with the aim of establishing a new relationship to contemporary urban production.
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Reinholtz, Sara. "Mantras for miracles." Thesis, Konstfack, Textil, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-3986.
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The thesis paper Design takes place in our lives, naturally and sometimes invisibly, but how can we become alert to its impact on us? How can we as designers elaborate on our role in creating tools for people’s lives? A handmade metal wire toy I found in my parents’ house made me discover the world of mandalas; a Buddhistic symbol and a tool for spiritual enlightenment. Mandalas speak of the relation between us and the world and balance between body and mind. In my Master’s project, the act of playing is explored as a tool for altering perspectives on our physical environment. Inspired by the mandala, an alternative approach to functional form is visualized, connecting our bodies and minds in closer relation to a playful and imaginative state of being. By investigating our physical environment and encouraging interaction, new mantras for our everyday lives may be created. The design process Using the metal wire mandala as my starting point, I have explored spatial forms with possibilities in transformation. Different combinations of the same parts; half circles of bent metal wire which connected can move and therefore change the other shape of the construction, creates different kinds of space with more or less clear practical application. The ambition of this project has been to investigate the metal construction as foundation and frame for textile in and as architecture; building a whole space, as visual room dividers indoor or outdoor and as sun screen. The design is based on transformation and reuse of the same parts to build new forms. The textiles have been designed and produced with the metal construction as frame. The textiles are knitted with nylon thread, hand dyed and mounted onto the construction. The technique of partial knitting makes it possible to create the round shapes with an even elasticity in all directions, and an open centre for the next piece overlapping. When knitting, no waste material I generated since nothing is cut away after production. Using punch cards, patterns and structure is added to the surface. The need to create smaller spaces within a larger space is present in many places; indoors as well as out doors. The public environment in which we live, controls and shapes our lives. By creating more intimate sites, with the possibility for visual and mental rest, we can come closer one another and hold other types of conversations. This will create new patterns of behaviour; new mantras for everyday life. During the Konstfack Degree Exhibition 2013, I displayed one of the possible forms in full scale with textiles, along side a smaller size model of the same shape and one other possible shape with closer resemblance to the original wire toy. On site in the exhibition, visitors could meet and try the space in a real setting.Thesis uppsats Formgivning sker i våra liv, naturligt och ibland osynligt, men hur kan vi bli uppmärksamma på dess inverkan på oss? Hur kan vi som formgivare utveckla vår roll i att skapa redskap för människors liv? En handgjord leksak av metalltråd som jag hittade i mitt föräldrahem fick mig att upptäcka mandalans värld – en buddistisk symbol och ett redskap för andlig upplysning. Mandalan vittnar om förhållandet mellan oss och världen och jämvikt mellan kropp och själ. I mitt masterarbete utforskas lekaktivitet som ett redskap för att ändra perspektiv på vår fysiska omgivning. Med inspiration från mandalan åskådliggörs en alternativ infallsvinkel på funktionell form som förenar våra kroppar och sinnen mer intimt med en lekfull och fantasifull tillvaro. Genom att undersöka vår fysiska omgivning och uppmuntra samspel kan vi skapa nya mantra för vardagen. Designprocessen Med leksaken av metalltråd som utgångspunkt, har jag utforskat rumsliga former med möjlighet till transformation. Olika kompositioner av samma byggstenar; halvcirklar av böjd metalltråd vilka sammanlänkade kan röra sig mot varandra och på så vis förändra den yttre formen, skapar olika typer av rumsligheter med mer eller mindre definierad praktisk användning. Projektets ambition har varit att utforska metallkonstruktionens möjligheter som stomme för textil i och som arkitektur; som skapande av hela rum, som visuella rumsavdelare inomhus eller utomhus samt som solskydd. Designen bygger på förvandling och återanvändning, där samma delar kan användas till att sätta samman nya former. De textila materialen har arbetats fram med metallkonstruktionen som utgångspunkt och ram. Textilierna är stickade i nylon, färgade och monterade i konstruktionen. Tekniken att delsticka på stickmaskin möjliggör att de runda formerna med jämn elasticitet åt alla håll, och ett hål lämnas i centrum för nästa överlappande del i den monterade konstruktionen. I stickningen skapas heller inget spillmaterial eftersom ingenting klipps bort efter tillverkningen. Med hjälp av hålkort integreras mönstringar och strukturer. Behovet av att skapa mindre rum i större rum finns många platser; inomhus såväl som utomhus. De offentliga platser vi rör oss på styr vårt beteende och formar våra liv. Med intimare mötesplatser och möjlighet till visuell och mental vila kan vi komma närmare varandra och föra andra typer av samtal vilket kan skapa nya mönster av beteende; nya mantran. Under Konstfacks vårutställning 2013, visades en av de möjliga formerna i fullskala med textilier, samt en mindre modell av denna samt en annan form med tydlig anknytning till mandala-leksakens ursprungliga form. På plats i utställningen kunde besökare pröva rummet i ett verkligt sammanhang.
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Flaherty, Kristen R. "Fragments of Narrative: Hidden Voices of the Archival Process." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1336742036.
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Li, Chenchen, and 李晨辰. "Sustainable industrial landscape : an opportunity to integrate textile industry with environment and inhabitant in Hangzhou, China." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/207144.
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Crisis of water pollution in Yangtze River Delta
Nowadays, more and more incidents that is regarding the pollution of blue-green algae are reported to the public by media, and the water pollution becomes worse and worse, even in some area which has large amount of population, there is happening with the shortage of water because of the poor water quality. Exploring the culprit, the undue development of industrialization is one of the important factor. Especially in Yangtze River Delta, what the most serious water pollution causer is the textile industry, in the meantime, it is one of the pillar industry in Yangtze River Delta. However how to balance the environmental aspect with the textile industry would be the challenge for us as well as local government.
So in this thesis, taking Hangzhou as an example to really figure out the way of integration environment, textile industry and inhabitant in rural area, mainly constructing water treatment system after biochemical treatment in textile mills for degradation of toxic substance involve in waste water, and try to reutilize on-site component such as abandoned channel, fishponds, farmland and demolished poor textile mills, transforming them into components of water treatment system, phytoremediation are introduced to help treatment system, providing an opportunity to integrate these three parts, and improving life quality of textile industrial gathering zone in Hangzhou.published_or_final_version
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Zakanycz, Zena A. "Some Form Of Blue." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4195.
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Through my art process and material selection, I investigate how interior spaces long to accumulate memories and possessions. I am interested in encroaching floor to ceiling build-up of collected goods kept in the homes of individuals unable to discard or part with possessions. These individual’s daily movements through their space and their denial of the surrounding mass informs my work. My work is larger than human scale, made of multiple units, and dense; yet understated by the subtle use of color and repeated materials. When I make an installation it often begins with creating a wall or a floor that delineates itself from the actual architecture of a room. I procure discarded domestic fragments such as carpet, shingles, and blinds. I select one material for each project to emphasize excessive quantities. I seek out donated goods and trash piles, heaps on the edge of consumer waste. The sourcing of these materials is serendipitous. I elevate these mundane materials by taking them out of their original context. The cycle of regeneration moves from material to “art object” back to material again as the work is displayed and dispersed back into the cycle of waste. In this thesis I will discuss how through my process and materials, I investigate interior spaces where memory and possessions accumulate.
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Kubo, Aiko. "Some thirty inches from my nose." Thesis, Konstfack, Textil, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-3700.
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This essay is written in order to better understand the relationship between the air around body (bubbles) and the external environment. Bubbles are explored as a mixture of feelings, emotions, imagination and thoughts, which we carry with us and which are formed by our perception of our environments. I will suggest that the formation of our bubbles is different at every moment, depending on how we feel about our external situation. Bubbles are used in the protection of ourselves, as the invisible wall that forms our territory. Within this essay I attempt to put forward the notion that we live in our own interpretations of our environments. Through a close analysis of my previous work, as well as through an analysis of two workshops that I was involved in, and through a close look at the work of the artist Cocky Eek, I aim to lay the ground for the way I will work with bubbles in my master project.
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Arnaiz, Barrio Beatriz. "Fundamentos de la morfogénesis de tensoestructuras: Membrane House." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/672413.
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The fundamental objective of this thesis is to delve into the process of generating the shape of tensioned membrane structures, from the conjunction of the theoretical foundations presented and practical experimentation, applied in the case of the Membrane House prototype.
In Chapter 0, we start from the concept of light architecture associated with the current architectural context and the evolution of the profession, to transmit the need to open up the field of architecture to new ways of creating, building and living. Part of the work of this thesis consists of the study of light architecture, and specifically of textile architecture, in order to demand the recognition of this non-conventional architecture, at a professional and academic level, which is contained in the technical part of Chapter 1.
The focus of this thesis seeks to emphasise the importance of the design process characteristic of tensile structures, providing with this research generative programme content, as opposed to the productive programme, of which there is more content developed today in the field of textile architecture. This is the line along which the collection of theoretical discourse references in Chapter 1 and their application to the original content in Chapter 2 is developed.
In these chapters, a theoretical content is generated accompanied by practical experimentation, which can provide a basis for proposing a pedagogical programme from which textile architecture is introduced into learning and architectural practice, enhancing its dissemination and application. This will allow us to position textile architecture as a hinge for understanding new generative processes, applicable to design beyond tensile structures, and which will become part of the discursive content of architecture, as a design tool, not only as an unusual product.
This content is developed in the thesis from two methodological perspectives that are constantly converging: documentary [reproductive] process and experimental [productive] process. In the structure of the thesis, these two lines are distributed throughout chapters in order to organise the content, although the aim is to point out the turning points that bring together the two axes, generating a discourse that links the practical and theoretical fields.
In Chapter 3, the approach to this discourse is reinforced by means of a concrete practical experience: the process of generating the form and development of the Membrane House prototype. This prototype is the protagonist of the research because its development process has meant the consolidation of the discursive approaches to morphogeneration, and it has been a laboratory in which to experiment from the inconclusive.
In Annex I, another series of practical examples are presented, which support the discourse, and which are enriching pedagogical or experimental experiences for all the participants.
The transdisciplinary work, the criterion of efficiency and the search from the capacity of agency of the material are fundamental vertebrae of the path of this research, and the tensile structures gather in their process of morphogenation, calculation and construction these characteristics in an intrinsic way. The introduction of the membrane as a structural element implies starting the design process from the material, activating its potential and working with it until it finds its most efficient position in a lightweight, integrally balanced structural system. This process has been defined and nurtured through interdisciplinary research and experimentation, which in current practice, taking a further step, is interested in reverting to transdisciplinary work, among other future lines of research opened up in this thesis.El objetivo fundamental de la presente tesis es profundizar en el proceso de generación de la forma de las estructuras de membrana tensada, desde la conjunción de los fundamentos teóricos que se exponen y la experimentación práctica, aplicada en el caso del prototipo Membrane House. En el Capítulo 0, se parte del concepto de la arquitectura ligera asociado al contexto arquitectónico actual y al devenir de la profesión, para transmitir la necesidad de abrir el ámbito de la arquitectura a nuevas formas de crear, construir y habitar. Parte del trabajo de esta tesis consiste en el estudio de la arquitectura ligera, y en concreto de la arquitectura textil, en reclamo del reconocimiento de esta arquitectura no convencional, a nivel profesional y académico, contenido que se recoge en la parte técnica del Capítulo 1. El enfoque de esta tesis busca enfatizar la importancia del proceso de diseño característico de las tensoestructuras, aportando con esta investigación contenido de programa generativo, frente al programa productivo, del cual hay más contenido desarrollado hoy en día en el ámbito de la arquitectura textil. Esta es la línea en la que se desarrolla la recopilación de referentes de discurso teórico del Capítulo 1 y su aplicación al contenido original en el Capítulo 2. En estos capítulos, se genera un contenido teórico acompañado de experimentación práctica, que pueda sentar una base para plantear un programa pedagógico desde el que se introduzca la arquitectura textil en el aprendizaje y la práctica arquitectónica, potenciando su difusión y aplicación. Que permita colocar a la arquitectura textil como una bisagra para entender nuevos procesos generativos, aplicables al diseño más allá de las tensoestructuras, y que entre a formar parte del contenido discursivo de la arquitectura, como herramienta proyectual, no sólo como producto inusitado. Este contenido se desarrolla en la tesis desde dos perspectivas metodológicas que confluyen constantemente: proceso documental [reproductivo] y proceso experimental [productivo]. En la estructura de la tesis, estas dos líneas se distribuyen por los capítulos para organizar el contenido, aunque se busca señalar los puntos de inflexión que cohesionan sendos ejes, generando un discurso que vincule el campo práctico y teórico. En el Capítulo 3, se refuerza el planteamiento de este discurso mediante una experiencia práctica concreta: el proceso de generación de la forma y el desarrollo del prototipo Membrane House. Este prototipo es protagonista de la investigación porque su proceso de desarrollo ha supuesto la consolidación de los planteamientos discursivos de morfogeneración, y ha sido un laboratorio en el que experimentar desde lo no concluyente. En el Anexo I, se exponen también otra serie de ejemplos prácticos, que sostienen el discurso, y que son experiencias pedagógicas o experimentales enriquecedoras para todos los participantes. El trabajo transdisciplinar, el criterio de la eficiencia y la búsqueda desde la capacidad de agencia del material, son vértebras fundamentales del recorrido de esta investigación, y las tensoestructuras recogen en su proceso de morfogeneración, cálculo y construcción estas características de manera intrínseca. La introducción de la membrana como elemento estructural implica iniciar el proceso de diseño desde el material, activar su potencial y trabajar con él, hasta que encuentra su posición más eficiente en un sistema estructural ligero y de equilibrio integral. Este proceso se ha podido ir definiendo y nutriendo desde un trabajo de investigación y experimentación interdisciplinar, que en la práctica actual, dando un paso más, interesa revertir en trabajo transdisciplinar, entre otras de las líneas de investigación futuras abiertas en esta tesis.
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Nakad, Zahi Samir. "Architectures for e-Textiles." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/11084.
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The huge advancement in the textiles industry and the accurate control on the mechanization process coupled with cost-effective manufacturing offer an innovative environment for new electronic systems, namely electronic textiles.
The abundance of fabrics in our regular life offers immense possibilities for electronic integration both in wearable and large-scale applications.
Augmenting this technology with a set of precepts and a simulation environment creates a new software/hardware architecture with widely useful implementations in wearable and large-area computational systems. The software environment acts as a functional modeling and testing platform, providing estimates of design metrics such as power consumption.
The construction of an electronic textile (e-textile) hardware prototype, a large-scale acoustic beamformer, provides a basis for the simulator and offers experience in building these systems.
The contributions of this research focus on defining the electronic textile architecture, creating a simulation environment, defining a networking scheme, and implementing hardware prototypes.Ph. D.
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Ambrosová, Katarína. "MERINA 2.0." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-400694.
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The aim is to create a vision for the future development of a problematic brownfield near the city center of Trenčín. The territory of former MERINO textile factory next to the military barracks, park and railway station is for long neglected, but still valuable in terms of urbanism, industrial heritage and new urban potential. The project will focus on the realistic spatial restructuring of the area and on the search for its new functional content.
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Horáková, Terezie. "Muzeum průmyslového dědictví v areálu bývalé textilní továrny v Prostějově." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-216062.
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The factory premises of the former factory OP Prostějov is the challenge for the future generations how to appraise today unused buildings which were build in 1950's. My design is counting with formation of new part of town, which disposes with centralizing the town-hall administration in one place allowing simple moving between individual authorities. Next there is designed the habitation as the small flats for old people and also big flats with interesting view. In some buildings there is designed the business incubator and in other building there is even the school. There are all facilities, services and leisure activities provided in the area. The Museum of Industrial Heritage is located in the middle of all events. It has three parts - exhibition, auditorium and deposit with administration. The old heating plant nearby is used as library and médiatheque with archives in connection with the museum. Shops, restaurants and other services are placed around.
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Bardese, Cristiane Ikedo. "Arquitetura industrial. Patrimônio edificado, preservação e requalificação: o caso do Moinho Matarazzo e Tecelagem Mariângela." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16133/tde-19012012-135043/.
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A pesquisa versa sobre a preservação do patrimônio arquitetônico industrial na cidade de São Paulo, através do estudo de caso de dois conjuntos, Moinho Matarazzo e Tecelagem Mariângela, importantes exemplares da arquitetura industrial datados do fim do século XIX e início do século XX, localizados no bairro do Brás. Esses conjuntos se destacam por sua qualidade arquitetônica, importância histórica, soluções técnicas, organização e interação dos espaços, inserção no tecido urbano e sua condição de referência para a memória local. Mesmo com um debate complexo, a pesquisa busca discutir questões ligadas ao patrimônio industrial, propondo diretrizes para sua preservação, a partir da análise desses conjuntos, pretendendo demonstrar que é possível aliar ações contemporâneas à sua salvaguarda, levantando também, novos temas para discussão.This research deals with the preservation of industrial architecture in the city of São Paulo, through two study cases, Matarazzo Mill and Mariangela Textile Industry, important examples of industrial architecture of the end of 19th Century and the beginning of 20th Century, in the Bras district. Those complexes stand out because of their architectural quality, historical importance, technical solutions, organization and integration of the spaces, their insertion in the urban space and their reference for the local memory. Even with a complex debate, this research will discuss questions related to industrial heritage, proposing guidelines for their preservation, through the analysis of those cases, showing that it is possible to ally present actions and their preservation, and proposing new subjects for discussion.
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Davis, Felecia. "Softbuilt : computational textiles and augmenting space through emotion." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113943.
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Thesis: Ph. D. in the field of Architecture: Design and Computation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2017.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-284).
When we inhabit, wear, and make textiles we are in conversation with our pre-historical and historical past and in a sense already connected to what is to come by the structure of fabric that operates as a mode of understanding the world. Textiles bind us together as a species in every culture on the planet, though we humans may use and make this material in different ways. In architecture, textiles made of animal skins or plant fibres were probably used to make the first shelters, as both protective clothing and enclosing space. As a liminal space between the body and environment these textiles became places of exchange and communication of information between people and their communities through shelter and clothing. This communication is an expression of personality and mood which makes an impression on those who would look upon the shelter or clothing. This communication is directly related to the expression of the material. The hypothesis of this dissertation is that textiles communicate emotion through material expression via vision and touch. Furthermore, computation augments what designers can communicate about emotion to people by the evocative power of transforming textile expressions. I present four experiments in this dissertation that explore the emotional and expressive attributes of computational textiles - textiles that respond to their environment via programming and sensors. Two experiments begin to define computational textiles through the acts of making the textiles. Two experiments with architectural textile panels begin to look at emotions communicated to people through vision and touch using computational textiles. Softbuilt refers to things and places made using methods that connect computational material expression, space and emotion. The contributions of the dissertation are the framework, Softbuilt, for understanding what computational textiles are, methods of fabrication for computational textiles, and an understanding of emotions communicated to people from computational textile expression.
by Felecia A. Davis.
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Trabelsi, Wassim. "Approches multiéchelles d'expérimentation et de modélisation pour prédire la rupture d'un composite textile : Critère de classement des architectures tissées." Thesis, Paris, ENMP, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013ENMP0087/document.
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Cette thèse s'inscrit dans le cadre d'un projet globalde collaboration avec le groupe Cobra Europe. La motivation principale estde comprendre et de modéliser les mécanismes physiques de dégradations etde rupture d'un tissu préalablement conçu pour répondre à un cahier des charges identifié.Ce travail poursuit alors les acquis de la thèse de Piezelen s'intéressant aux mécanismes de dégradation conduisantà la ruine d'un tissu et en introduisant des grandeurs susceptibles d'être une aide à leur conception. Un travail d'investigation expérimentale multi-échelle sur tissus vierge et endommagé est d'abord mis en œuvre afin d'analyser et de caractériser les phénomènes dedégradation qui peuvent y apparaître. Les essais mécaniques de traction résiduelle (avec ou sans cyclage préalable) sont réalisés sur bande (échelle macroscopique) pour déceler une chute de la contrainte à rupture. Les observations par tomographie très haute résolution permettent d'accéder au cœur même des constituants du tissu (échelle mésoscopique). Elles ont révélé la cause principale de la ruine d'un tissu :la rupture des fils de chaîne, avec des informations telles que sa localisation ainsi que l'orientation de la normale à la surface de rupture. Un travail de modélisation multiéchelle est ensuite mené sur le tissu afin de rendrecompte des mécanismes de dégradation observés au préalable. Sous des sollicitationsmacroscopiques représentatives des conditions de service avec lesquellesle tissu considéré est utilisé (traction/flexion), la cellule périodiquedu Volume Elémentaire Représentatif est investiguée. Notammentune analyse très complète de l'état de contraintes (hétérogénéité, gradient, triaxialité, orientation préférentielle) est faite dans les fils de renfort.De cela, des grandeurs jugées pertinentes pour analyser n'importe quel tissu sont identifiées.Ces grandeurs sont en accord avec les observations expérimentales. Elles ontpermis finalement de comprendre et d'expliquer le processus de ruine du tissu.Egalement, avec l'expérience acquise tout au long de ce travail, ces mêmesgrandeurs ont été utilisées en vue d'effectuer le classement de deux types d'architectures tissées. Ceci ouvre la voie pour la troisième thèse qui systématisera et affinera la démarcheThis PhD work is part of global collaboration project with Cobra Europe company.The main motivation is to better understand in order to model the physical degradation mechanisms of woven composite with a well specified design.The present work takes benefit of the results issued from Piezelthesis. It aims at investigating the mechanisms of degradation leading to the failure of woven fabrics but also at introducing relevant parameters dedicated to their design.A multiscale experimental investigation on virgin and degraded samples of fabric is first carried out in order to analyze and characterize the damage phenomena observed within these samples.Tensile tests (with or without pre-cycling) were performed on the composite material (at the macroscopic scale) to detect a decrease in the stress at failure. Tomographic inspections with high resolution allowed for observations inside the constituents of the fabrics (mesoscopic scale)Thus, the main origin of the failure of the fabric was revealed : the warp yarn break with its localisation and information about the orientation of the normal to the fracture surfaces. A multiscale modeling was then performed, motivated by the degradation mechanisms observed previously. Under macroscopic loading representative of in service solicitationapplied to the present woven fabric (tension/bending), the periodic cell of theRepresentative Volume Element was investigated. Namely, a complete analysis of the stress state (heterogeneity, gradient, triaxiality, orientation) is carried out within the reinforcing yarns. It turns out that relevant parameters able to analyze any woven fabric were identified. Their characteristics were in good agreement with the experimental evidences. Furthermore, they allowed for a better understanding of the failure process of the fabric. With the experience acquired during the present work, these parameters were utilized to classify two specific woven architectures.This opens the perspective of a third thesis dedicated to refine and render systematic the present approach
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Malayattil, Sarosh Aravind. "Design of a Multibus Data-Flow Processor Architecture." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31379.
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General purpose microcontrollers have been used as computational elements in various spheres
of technology. Because of the distinct requirements of specific application areas, however, general purpose microcontrollers are not always the best solution. There is a need for specialized processor architectures for specific application areas. This thesis discusses the design of such a specialized processor architecture targeted towards event driven sensor applications. This thesis presents an augmented multibus dataflow processor architecture and an automation framework suitable for executing a range of event driven applications in an energy efficient manner. The energy efficiency of the multibus processor architecture is demonstrated by
comparing the energy usage of the architecture with that of a PIC12F675 microcontroller.Master of Science
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Narayanaswamy, Ramya Priyadharshini. "Design of a Power-aware Dataflow Processor Architecture." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34192.
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In a sensor monitoring embedded computing environment, the data from a sensor is an event that triggers the execution of an application. A sensor node consists of multiple sensors and a general purpose processor that handles the multiple events by deploying an event-driven software model. The software overheads of the general purpose processors results in energy inefficiency. What is needed is a class of special purpose processing elements which are more energy efficient for the purpose of computation. In the past, special purpose microcontrollers have been designed which are energy efficient for the targeted application space. However, reuse of the same design techniques is not feasible for other application domains. Therefore, this thesis presents a power-aware dataflow processor architecture targeted for the electronic textile computing space. The processor architecture has no instructions, and handles multiple events inherently without deploying software methods. This thesis also shows that the power-aware implementation reduces the overall static power consumption.Master of Science
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Dunnett, Graham J. "Texture mapping architectures for high performance image generation." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363363.
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Sadi, Sajid H. (Sajid Hassan). "subTextile : a construction kit for computationally enabled textiles." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37402.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2006.Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-89).
As technology moves forward, electronics have enmeshed with every aspect of daily life. Some pioneers have also embraced electronics as a means of expression and exploration, creating the fields of wearable computing and electronic textiles. While wearable computing and electronic textiles seem superficially connected as fields of investigation, in fact they are currently widely separated. However, as the field of electronic textiles grows and matures, it has become apparent that better tools and techniques are necessary in order for artists and designers interested in using electronic textiles as a means of expression and function to be able to use the full capabilities of the available technology. It remains generally outside the reach of the average designer or artist to create e-textile experiences, thus preventing them from appropriating the technology, and in turn allowing the general public to accept and exploit the technology. There is clearly a need to facilitate this cross-pollination between the technical and design domains both in order to foster greater creativity and depth in the field of electronic textiles, and in order to bring greater social acceptability to wearable computing.
(cont.) This thesis introduces behavioral textiles, the intersection of wearable computing and electronic textiles that brings the interactive capability of wearable electronics to electronic textiles. As a means of harnessing this capability, the thesis also presents subTextile, a powerful and novel visual programming language and development. Design guidelines for hardware that can be used with the development environment to create complete behavioral textile systems are also presented. Using a rich, goal-oriented interface, subTextile makes it possible for novices to explore electronic textiles without concern for technical details. This thesis presents the design considerations and motivations that drove the creation of subTextile. Also presented are the result of a preliminary evaluation of the language, done with a sample chosen to represent users with varying capabilities in both the technical and design domains.
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Lakshmanan, Karthick. "Design of an Automation Framework for a Novel Data-Flow Processor Architecture." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34193.
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Improved process technology has resulted in the integration of computing elements into multiple application areas. General purpose micro-controllers are designed to assist in this integration through a flexible design. The application areas, however, are so diverse in nature that the general purpose micro-controllers may not provide a suitable abstraction for all classes of applications. There is a need for specially designed architectures in application areas where the general purpose micro-controllers suffer from inefficiencies. This thesis focuses in the design of a processor architecture that provides a suitable design abstraction for a class of periodic, event-driven embedded applications such as sensor-monitoring systems. The design principles of the processor architecture are focused on the target application requirements, which are identified as event-driven nature with concurrent task execution and deterministic timing behavior. Additionally, to reduce the design complexity of applications on this novel architecture, an automation framework has been implemented. This thesis presents the design of the processor architecture and the automation framework explaining the suitability of the designed architecture for the target applications. The energy use of the novel architecture is compared with that of PIC12F675 micro-controller to demonstrate the energy-efficiency of the designed architecture.Master of Science
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Prasad, T. V. (Thyagarajan V. ). ""Reading into" texture : preparatory understanding of design in urban settings." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69264.
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Dahlquist, Kirsten Lee. "Women and Architecture: Re-Making Shelter Through Woven Tectonics." Scholar Commons, 2010. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1606.
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Weaving and architecture, conceived simultaneously with cave paintings, are two ancient forms of craft used to enclose space and provide shelter harmoniously with nature. In its basic composition, a useable textile is the interlacing of two members, warp and weft, at right angles to create structure and surface respectively. Textile artist Anni Albers of the Bauhaus attributes the organization of weaving to the skills of an ancient goddess. Her understanding of prehistoric cultures further links women closer to the overall creation of structure, though perceived as a masculine endeavor. Consequently, early advancements in architecture, the structural organization of shelter, are a result of feminine inventions. Moreover, it has been the female who has been entrusted with emotional and sensual elements of shelter since prehistory. Through the creation of a home, woman’s mastery of the domestic realm strengthened and led to gender-defining ideologies. Suburban typologies of the post-war United States heightened the feminine domestic role through social and environmental isolation of the gender. The suburbs ironically conditioned an alternative sentiment of the built environment featuring ideals of tradition, sustenance, and continuity with nature.
In the modern era, weaving and architecture have devolved to be similarly designed and chosen for aesthetic qualities only. Textiles are produced for an indoor existence with weaving traditions unchanged and innovation seen in synthetic fibers. Modern shelter is chosen and constructed using inefficient practices popularized in the 1950s, with advancements only in materiality. Both disciplines overlook their feminine link and mutual advantages of protection, flexibility, user connection, tactile engagement, and environmental impact.
As a result of this disregard, the capacity of the planet suffers due to outdated and unsustainable residential building practices, while quality of life degrades due to the inabilities of built spaces to nurture and engage inhabitants effectively. Based on eco-maternalist philosophies within architecture and the structural, spatial, and tactile qualities of weaving, these crafts can again interlock into a modern, efficient construction of shelter. The time has come to rethink building design and the feminine integration of weaver and architect provides a foundation for the discovery of an appropriate assembly for the next generation.
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Nanda, Gauri. "Accessorizing with networks : the possibilities of building with computational textiles." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33890.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-75).
What is a conversation like between a handbag and a scarf? How can you mediate their conversation and when is your skirt allowed in on the discussion? As a woman is about to leave her house, her handbag may solicit the weather forecast from the humidity sensor on its fellow smart curtain. It might deliver the news of an impending downpour by saying 'I think it might rain. Go get your umbrella." And after deliberating with her coat pocket, the handbag may use ambient light to caution the user if she's forgotten her cell phone. This work presents a prototype network embedded in fabric that allows, for example, sensors in a scarf to communicate with a handbag and vice versa. Novel materials and technology are integrated into a set of fabric blocks that can be configured into familiar garments and accessories that borrow and share sensory data. The system is designed to afford anyone the ability to build, rip apart and reconfigure intelligent objects. Because the user is able to 'accessorize' as desired, digital behaviors can always be changed to meet individual evolving needs.
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Splitstoser, Jeffrey, Dwight D. Wallace, and Mercedes Delgado. "New Evidences for Early Paracas Textiles and Ceramics at Cerrillos, Ica Valley, Perú." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/113559.
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Cerrillos is an Early to Middle Paracas civic-ceremonial site located in the upper Ica Valley of Perú. The site is known for its finely plastered adobe architecture, beautifully decorated ceramics, and complex textiles, many of which are decorated with camelid hair. Cerrillos was located in a strategically important place where the mountains meet the coastal desert and the Ica River bends south, a likely intersection in a road system that connected Cerrillos to contemporary sites in the Paracas region and beyond. This paper focuses on several early textiles, ceramics, and other artifacts, including ceramic palettes used for gold working and wooden earspools, that suggest that Cerrillos was involved in a cultural phenomenon or interaction sphere that linked sites as far away was Chavín de Huántar through the interchange of goods, beliefs, and practices. The paper presents a complete description of the textiles excavated at Cerrillos between 1999 and 2002, focusing on two fabric fragments with images of the Staff Deity and one with an abstract Chavín-like design. The ceramics discussed in the text demonstrate the wide variety of styles found at Cerrillos, including some that resemble the Janabarriu of Chavín de Huántar and several others that are either not Paracas or an Early Paracas style that has never been previously described.Cerrillos es un sitio cívico-ceremonial con ocupación entre las épocas Paracas Temprano y Medio, localizado en el valle alto de Ica, Perú. Es conocido por su arquitectura de adobe enlucida de manera fina, cerámica bellamente decorada y textiles complejos, muchos de ellos decorados con fibra de camélido. Estuvo localizado en un lugar de importancia estratégica, donde las montañas se encuentran con el desierto costero y el río Ica gira hacia el sur, una probable intersección en un sistema de caminos que lo conectaba con sitios contemporáneos en la región de Paracas y más allá. Este artículo se enfoca en diversos textiles, cerámica y otros artefactos tempranos, entre ellos paletas de cerámica usadas para trabajar el oro y aretes en forma de argollas de madera, lo que sugiere que este complejo estaba involucrado en un fenómeno cultural o esfera de interacción que vinculaba sitios tan lejanos como Chavín de Huántar mediante el intercambio de bienes, creencias y prácticas. Este artículo presenta una completa descripción de los textiles excavados en Cerrillos entre 1999 y 2002, y se enfoca en dos fragmentos textiles, uno con imágenes del Dios de las Varas y el otro con un diseño abstracto parecido al chavín. La cerámica tratada en el texto demuestra la amplia variedad de estilos encontrados, entre ellos algunos que se parecen al Janabarriu de Chavín de Huántar y varios otros que no corresponden al estilo Paracas o que semejan un estilo Paracas Temprano que nunca antes ha sido descrito.
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Romero, Mier y. Teran Andrés. "Real-time multi-target tracking : a study on color-texture covariance matrices and descriptor/operator switching." Phd thesis, Université Paris Sud - Paris XI, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01002065.
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Visual recognition is the problem of learning visual categories from a limited set of samples and identifying new instances of those categories, the problem is often separated into two types: the specific case and the generic category case. In the specific case the objective is to identify instances of a particular object, place or person. Whereas in the generic category case we seek to recognize different instances that belong to the same conceptual class: cars, pedestrians, road signs and mugs. Specific object recognition works by matching and geometric verification. In contrast, generic object categorization often includes a statistical model of their appearance and/or shape.This thesis proposes a computer vision system for detecting and tracking multiple targets in videos. A preliminary work of this thesis consists on the adaptation of color according to lighting variations and relevance of the color. Then, literature shows a wide variety of tracking methods, which have both advantages and limitations, depending on the object to track and the context. Here, a deterministic method is developed to automatically adapt the tracking method to the context through the cooperation of two complementary techniques. A first proposition combines covariance matching for modeling characteristics texture-color information with optical flow (KLT) of a set of points uniformly distributed on the object . A second technique associates covariance and Mean-Shift. In both cases, the cooperation allows a good robustness of the tracking whatever the nature of the target, while reducing the global execution times .The second contribution is the definition of descriptors both discriminative and compact to be included in the target representation. To improve the ability of visual recognition of descriptors two approaches are proposed. The first is an adaptation operators (LBP to Local Binary Patterns ) for inclusion in the covariance matrices . This method is called ELBCM for Enhanced Local Binary Covariance Matrices . The second approach is based on the analysis of different spaces and color invariants to obtain a descriptor which is discriminating and robust to illumination changes.The third contribution addresses the problem of multi-target tracking, the difficulties of which are the matching ambiguities, the occlusions, the merging and division of trajectories.Finally to speed algorithms and provide a usable quick solution in embedded applications this thesis proposes a series of optimizations to accelerate the matching using covariance matrices. Data layout transformations, vectorizing the calculations (using SIMD instructions) and some loop transformations had made possible the real-time execution of the algorithm not only on Intel classic but also on embedded platforms (ARM Cortex A9 and Intel U9300).
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Hersch, Roger D. Hersch Roger-David Hersch Roger-David Hersch Roger-David. "Architecture pour système d'impression de texte graphique et images numérisées /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1985. http://library.epfl.ch/theses/?nr=591.
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Horton, Mark Lloyd. "Light, texture and sound in a training centre for the blind and visually impaired." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5988.
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Includes bibliographical references.KENGO KUMA suggests that fashion driven architecture is a thing of the past as occupants begin to demand more from the space that they inhabit. This project aims for an architecture that connects building and occupant through the use of light, and materials, and the connection of them and the human body. Programme: a training centre for the blind and visually impaired that aims to assist the reintegration of the non-sighted and sighted communities through their economic independence. The building would also offer spaces such as a cafe and a conference centre that would generate funds, making the running of the building itself self-reliant.
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Żerdzicki, Krzysztof. "Durability evaluation of textile hanging roofs materials." Thesis, Orléans, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015ORLE2039/document.
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L’objet de ce travail est l’évaluation du processus de vieillissement et de la durabilité des tissus techniques utilisés en ingénierie de construction. Deux types de tissu en polyester enduit de PVC ont été testés: VALMEX vieilli naturellement et AF9032 soumis au vieillissement accéléré. L'impact du processus de vieillissement a été observé en analysant les changements des valeurs des paramètres des modèles constitutifs: linéaire par morceaux, viscoélastique de Burgers et viscoplastique de Bodner-Partom. La comparaison de tissu VALMEX utilisé pendant 20 ans à l’Opéra de la Forêt à Sopot et du même tissu stocké à l’abri a montré que la matière, après 20 années de fonctionnement, a conservé ses propriétés mécaniques et pourrait être encore utilisée pendant plusieurs années. Le vieillissement dû aux conditions environnementales d’exploitation a provoqué une augmentation de la rigidité du revêtement (PVC), alors que la raideur des fibres en polyester est restée pratiquement inchangée. Le tissu AF9032 a été soumis au processus de vieillissement accéléré. Les échantillons de tissu ont été placés dans une chambre thermique à 80 et 90 °C durant 12 semaines. Les variations des paramètres des modèles constitutifs en fonction de temps de vieillissement ont pu être exprimées par des relations linéaires. Les résultats de vieillissement thermique accéléré ont été extrapolés d’après la méthode d’Arrhenius pour obtenir des valeurs correspondantes au vieillissement naturel. Pour les deux cas de vieillissement, les changements plus importants se sont produits dans la direction de la trame. Pour les fils de chaîne, les différences sont beaucoup plus petites et parfois négligeablesThis thesis describes the investigation on the durability of technical fabrics that are commonly used as the constructional-covering material for engineering structures. Two types of polyester reinforced PVC coated fabrics have been subjected to the exploitation ageing (VALMEX fabric) and the artificial, laboratory ageing (AF9032 fabric). The influence of the ageing process has been presented as the parameters evolution of the following constitutive formulations: the piecewise, the viscoelastic Burgers and the viscoplastic Bodner-Partom models. The comparative analysis between two types of the VALMEX fabric (the material used for 20 years on the structure of the Forest Opera roof and the not used one – kept as a spare material) have been conducted. The obtained results have shown the very good performance of the material used outdoor and indicated that it could still work satisfactorily for the next several years. The accelerated ageing of the AF9032 fabric has been performed at the elevated temperature of 80°C and 90°C in a thermal chamber for up to 12 weeks. The achieved parameters values versus ageing time have been approximated by linear functions. The results of the thermal ageing have been extrapolated using the Arrhenius methodology. The both types of ageing have significant influence on the mechanical properties of the tested fabrics for the fill direction while the warp direction is free of this effect. As a result of the performed identifications the parameters of three constitutive models have been obtained. They can be implemented for the numerical simulation of the polyester reinforced PVC coated fabrics performance and help to predict their life span under service conditions
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Arrowsmith, Michael John. "A hybrid neural network architecture for texture analysis in digital image processing applications." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 2002. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/9731/.
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A new hybrid neural network model capable of texture analysis in a digital image processing environment is presented in this thesis. This model is constructed from two different types of neural network, self-organisation and back-propagation. Along with a brief resume of digital image processing concepts, an introduction to neural networks is provided. This contains appropriate documentation of the neural networks and test evidence is also presented to highlight the relative strengths and weaknesses of both neural networks. The hybrid neural network is proposed from this evidence along with methods of training and operation. This is supported by practical examples of the system's operation with digital images. Through this process two modes of operation are explored, classification and segmentation of texture content within images. Some common methods of texture analysis are also documented, with spatial grey level dependence matrices being chosen to act as a feature generator for classification by a back-propagation neural network, this provides a benchmark to assess the performance of the hybrid neural network. This takes the form of descriptive comparison, pictorial results, and mathematical analysis when using aerial survey images. Other novel approaches using the hybrid neural network are presented with concluding comments outlining the findings presented within this thesis.