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Leyburn, Boyd Harlan III. "The body in fantasy : how the human body informs science fiction set design." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/22980.
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Almousa, Sukaina. "Temporary architecture : an architectural mirage tracing mind/body journey in installation art." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14281/.
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Architecture and arts practices were arguably kept apart during the first half of the 20th century, resisting an emerging overlap that was conducted by both artists and architects. Installation art has subsequently emerged as an art practice but has shared many qualities with architecture because of its creation of spatial territory. Thus, in contemporary art, installation art has been moving in the fluxes between art and architecture. In the case of installation art, a temporary space is created along with a new kind of engagement and perception of the places around us. It motivates the spectator’s imagination when they are inside, experiencing a shelter that is new to the context. At the same time, it motivates memories of that experience after the installation space is removed. Mediating architecture with a spatial medium like an installation invites a new reading of the space to be applied. This reading opposes the interpretation of architecture as still signs, objects or still images, mainly because of the continuous unfolding of the art installation and the close involvement of the viewer in the spectating journey. Consequently, mediating the exhibition space through an installation creates narratives that are subjective and context-specific, while their transition through other mediums continues to alter the original narrative after the work is dismantled. Driven from the proposition that the event of a temporary installation can be articulated by the ‘event’; a concept that French philosopher Gilles Delleuze addresses in his study: The Fold, which considers the accumulated influence of a number of perceptions of space, the thesis discusses the alternative scenarios of reading the temporary architectural space while focusing on the narrative of these architectural happenings by referring mainly to Mieke Bal’s ‘narratology’ as an approach to this new understanding. Before experiencing examples of installation art, a methodological technique; collage- de-collage-re-collage, is presented as a tool to negotiate the narratives collected from the case studies. It is formulated after a theoretical structure is set to investigate the case studies where a need to develop tools of analysis and representation becomes obvious to the work. The study then tests the proposed theoretical framework on three examples, each of which represents a level of temporality in space. As they unfold, the study tracks the encounters that may be further used as instruments to extend the understanding of installation art in particular and temporary spaces in general.
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Kersey, David Nathaniel. "Improving landscape architectural problem solving : integrating giscience and technology educational objectives in landscape architecture curricula." Thesis, Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1078.
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Ergun, Eser. "Rethinking The Architectural Design Process Through Its Computable Body Of Knowledge." Master's thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609577/index.pdf.
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This thesis assumes the architectural design process as a systematic study,
in which knowledge is stored, organized and operated on by computational
methods. From this perspective, the study explores the efforts for
systemizing the architectural design process. Firstly, the focus is on the early
approaches of systemizing design in the Design Methods Movement. The
thesis identifies and evaluates the use of a number of critical concepts in this
movement and in recent architecture practice, in order to see the
development and transformation of design methods in terms of computing
knowledge in a systematic way.
The thesis evaluates the features that make design systematic within the
Design Methods Movement and inquires whether such features like
complexity, hierarchy, feedback loops and selection are influential in recent
computational design methods of architecture. The thesis looks into two
generative design methods, namely evolutionary design and shape
grammars, which have been studied by designers since the 1960s, the start
of the Design Methods Movement. These two methods exemplify current
systematic approaches to design and according to the thesis these are the
instances of how recent architecture employs the features discussed as
characteristic in the Design Methods Movement.
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Politakis, Charalampos. "The human body as a building architectural colossi and their metaphors." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2013. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/855/.
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The human reception of architecture is interpreted through the human body. The form of the human body has therefore been used as a model and metaphor for architecture since antiquity. The research will be based on the relation of the human body and architectural structures and especially how the human body has been the inspiration for the exterior form of architectural colossi and buildings. The investigation examines the human body in architectural history and theory, the role of Platonic and Cartesian philosophy and how through phenomenological approach philosophers such as Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and theoreticians such as Frascari and Pallasmaa have seen, described and analysed the human body and the role of architecture and perception. The references and the literature review were considered important for the researcher in order to investigate the role of human body and its relation to colossal architecture and sculpture. The research employs theoretical ideas of Venturi and others to consider the examples of anthropomorphic colossal monuments of Claes Oldenburg, the architecture of Frank O. Gehry and the skeletal forms of Santiago Calatrava. Therefore, the paradigms of the architectural and artistic practice of the selected case studies were chosen based on the use of the human body to shape the exterior form of the structures. The analysis focuses on the contemporary practice of the phenomenon of anthropomorphism in architecture and also identifies the contemporary application in society of the metaphor and imitation of the human body through the artistic, architectural and philosophical practice and perspective.
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Sinnamon, Catherine. "How body awareness interventions can enhance the architectural digital design process." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/209146/1/Catherine_Sinnamon_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis investigates the potential for the architectural design process to be positively impacted using a simple intervention designed to reinstate through conscious awareness, the advantages of the once traditionally physical components of the design process, that are less activated in the digital design process of architecture. This study explores the impact of increasing architects’ conscious awareness of their own movement and body function so as to individually maximise and improve their cognitive, emotional and physical function, including motor skills, to support their architectural decision-making.
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Volz, Kirsty. "Architecture, the body and authority in performance." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2015. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/89742/1/Kirsty_Volz_Thesis.pdf.
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This is a theoretical investigation seeking to learn more about architecture by looking at architectural practice through another discipline. In this research architecture is investigated by examining its relationship with bodies through performance and theatre set design. This thesis aims to build on existing architectural theory, in which an absence of discourse on the body has been identified, by analysing representations of architecture and the body in performance. The research specifically examines the relationship between the body, architecture and authority in performance through the analysis of several performance works.
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LeBaron, Curtis Dale. "Building communication : architectural gestures and the embodiment of new ideas /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Horuz, Semra. "The Book, The Body And Architectural History In Peter Greenaway'." Master's thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612644/index.pdf.
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This thesis is an attempt to explore the &ldquoaxis of innumerable relationships&rdquo
of the book which Jorge Luis Borges touches upon. In doing this, it deals with the questions of &ldquo
whats&rdquo
, &ldquo
whos&rdquo
, &ldquo
whens&rdquo
and &ldquo
wheres&rdquo
of the reading activity. While scrutinizing these aspects of reading, the main concern is to reach the &ldquo
whys&rdquo
and &ldquo
hows&rdquo
of it. Referring to Roger Chartier&rsquo
s definition of reading, there are three main components of this activity, as the content of the book, the material form of the book and the practice itself and they are aimed to be analyzed in detail. In this context, the questions of &ldquo
wheres&rdquo
and &ldquo
whens&rdquo
and their various answers create an intertwined area of history of reading and history of architecture. Within this theoretical framework, the scope of the thesis is shaped by Peter Greenaway&rsquo
s cinematography. The questions of &ldquo
who reads/writes what book&rdquo
, &ldquo
where and when&rdquo
are searched in the director&rsquo
s three films
The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover (1989), Prospero'
s Books (1991) and The Pillow Book (1996) by devoting one chapter to each film. Accordingly, the question of &ldquo
who&rdquo
orients the study to the bodies of the books/readers/writers, and those of &ldquo
where&rdquo
and &ldquo
when&rdquo
to architectural history. In connection to the director&rsquo
s multidisciplinary interests, the thesis seeks to trace how this topic is intertwined not only with history of architecture but also with the history of art and literature. Hence, it is an attempt to utilize Greenaway&rsquo
s cinematography as a tool to juxtapose the two/three dimensional representations of the book, the body and the spaces onto each other.
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Williams, Tamara Lynn. "Dance/movement therapy and architecture : an investigation of modern dance as an informative discipline and theories of the body in architectural design." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/21612.
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Martinson, Jared Lee. "An Architectural Investigation of the Haptic Sense: A Material Exploration of the Balance Between Building, Body, and Landscape." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34045.
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Missing from much of civic/public spaces today is the potential choreography between body, imagination, and the built environment. This is often a result of a diminished sensation between ourselves and the coupling of constructed and natural spaces. It is precisely this miscommunication which led to an exploration of the haptic sense and a material investigation of the choreography between our bodies, our buildings, and our landscape.
In order to create a memorable space or in the case of this exercise, create place from path, a conservation of the spirit of the players/pieces is necessary. The experience of being in a place occurs in time, is much more than visual, and is as complex as our bodies and as immense as our imaginations.
The movement of our bodies traversing a built environment gives value to the spaces we inhabit. Through the investigation of a little league baseball park along the Potomac River in Alexandria, Virgina, a series of haptic patterns with distinct pauses and progressions in which the body and mind responds to the situation presented is created.Master of Architecture
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Abdullah, Mohammad. "An examination of the perceived need and recommended body of knowledge for architectural internship programs in Kuwait." Texas A&M University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/5925.
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This study stresses and reflects a professional concern for the state of architecture
in Kuwait, with a specific emphasis on the development of competence of architectural
students and recent graduates on professional knowledge areas/skills. Professional
practice in Kuwait is perceived as a recent phenomenon that reflects the development of
architecture and architects in the country. The apparent problem of the evolution of a
professional base for the education and practice of architecture in Kuwait is the lack of
professional development systems. Internship (being one professional development
system) is not a requirement for graduation from the architectural program at Kuwait
University or to practice architecture in Kuwait and to earn professional status. No
formal internship model exists within the architectural field (education and practice) in
Kuwait.
Therefore, this study assesses the importance (perceived value, perceived need,
and recommended time period) of internship programs in Kuwait and proposes
recommended knowledge areas/skills for this architectural internship experience, before
and after graduation from college. For the purpose of this study, the internship experience during college is defined as academic internship and the internship
experience after graduation as practical training. The knowledge areas/skills
recommended in this study could act as a base of information for designing local
curricular guidelines for the initiation of future internship programs in Kuwait as integral
parts of a professional architectural practice model.
The study utilizes a descriptive survey design, which was quantitative in nature
(utilizing a self-administered questionnaire) with an introduction of elements of
qualitative research procedures (follow-up interviews) to support the objective data in a
subjective manner. Based on the results of the study, four conclusions were drawn: (1)
internship programs are perceived to be of value for students and recent graduates, (2) a
perceived need exists for internship programs in Kuwait, (3) the recommended time
period for an academic internship program ranges from 2-10 months and the
recommended time period for a practical training program ranges from 1-2 years, and (4)
agreement exists among the surveyed population on several knowledge areas/skills
necessary for architectural internship programs in Kuwait.
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Helms, Brittany Faye. "Finding Form." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461157156.
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Ashurian, Nicole. "Bodyscapes : body to body, body to city, body to self." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118683.
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Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2018.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-107).
Our modern spaces are a result of a history of architects losing agency to technology. In the era of climate control spaces and the digital interfaces of social media, a sense of place and association with others is lost to enclosed spaces of satellite conversations detailed with attention to standardization rather than customization. These desires for comfort and control manifest in the lack of friction in our built realm. Spaces mirror the scaleless quality of the digital, impose no physical friction of environment and allow for isolation between bodies in the same room. Boarded in these spaces with the disappearing digital threshold, our friends fall in the same political silos as ourselves, empathy for others falters, context is arbitrary and we never have to be 'alone' when we have our phones. The tech industry tries to offer solutions to alleviate these problems with apps and devices. However, without a violent change in environment - engaging the physicality of the body, its senses and its association to others and site, the problems will persist. 'Bodyscapes' is a series of provocations at varying scales that subvert the language of corporate standardization to allow new opportunities for human interface where the public and private realm meet.
by Nicole Ashurian.
M. Arch.
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Chung, Myung Duk. "Liberate the body of architecture." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103467.
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Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2016.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Architecture is not a machine. It is part of the body; it contains life. This project is to invent a new system of architecture which grants people the freedom of space, structure, and material. Inspired by the Statue of Liberty in New York, the system liberates the body of architecture from architectural authority by exploring new construction methods. Stitched laminate fabric which is filled with earth materials is inflated according to the gravity of material. After hardening a layer of earth material and fabric, the filled sand is pulled out. Consequently, the mass, volume, and properties of the material form a space naturally. This is an architectural dream that everyone can tailor their own house built from what is beneath their feet.
by Myung Duk Chung.
M. Arch.
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Cheung, Thomas. "Architecture for the Moving Body." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34622.
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The human body is designed for movement. It has to move, it desires to move. Our bodies will find a way to express that desire. The way we as humans inhabit the built environment reflects our ability and desire for our bodies to move. Architecture has always been designed with that in mind, whether intentionally or unintentionally. This thesis is an investigation to reveal the various ways the human body moves in the built environment and how architecture and design can accommodate or dictate human movement.
The thesis project of a physical therapy facility on an existing park in Washington, D.C. alludes to the opportunities for varying movements of the body. It also provides an extensive program that largely posits a myriad of relationships between the varying functions of architectural space and human movements.Master of Architecture
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Cosovic, Daniela. "FABRIC ARCHITECTURE: BODY IN MOTION." Master's thesis, Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002606.
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Wehri, Jonathan. "Implacing the body." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2005. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Meyers, Rachel-Yoon K. "Treatise of body/space." This title; PDF viewer required Home page for the entire collection, 2008. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Fortkamp, Sarah. "Body. Emotion. Architecture. a phenomenological reinterpretation /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2005. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=ucin1112128327.
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Thesis (Master of Architecture)--University of Cincinnati, 2005.Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Jul. 10, 2006). Includes abstract. Keywords: Body, Emotion, Experience, Phenomenology. Includes bibliographical references.
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Karadsheh, Mais. "The fashion of architecture skin + body /." PDF viewer required Home page for entire collection, 2007. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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McEwen, Indra Kagis. "Vitruvius : writing the body of architecture." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=37779.
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Vitruvius dedicated his, the only work on architecture to have survived from classical antiquity, to Augustus Caesar, the first Roman emperor, and claimed repeatedly that he was "writing the body of architecture (corpus architecturae)." A detailed examination of meaning of this claim, read in the specific imperial context that brought De architectura to light in ca. 25 B.C., is the principal focus of this study, which has been undertaken less as an effort to come to positive terms with the relevance (or irrelevance) of Vitruvius' normative prescriptions for Roman building practice than in the attempt to try to understand what he was trying to say about architecture and why.The exegesis is developed in four parts. The first deals with the corporeal identity of the book itself: a ten-scroll "angelic" messenger, whose written form proves to be as significant an index of its meaning as its content. The second part assesses Vitruvius' presentation of his treatise to Augustus in the preface to Book 2 of his treatise as the emperor's Herculean body: at once the agent and proof of Roman conquest and, like Hercules, the philanthropic purveyor of the benefits of civilisation to conquered peoples. The third unravels what Vitruvius meant when he said that buildings, temples especially, were to be put together in the same way that nature puts together the bodies of beautiful men. The fourth part concludes that the beautiful body, in question is the body of the king: that of the emperor himself, whose body---corpus imperii---was, at that historical juncture, imagined as congruent with the body of the Roman world. For Vitruvius, through architecture---as architecture---this kingly body was to be the chief agent of the empire's enduring coherence.
That the project of Roman world dominion so consistently shaped this first self-conscious attempt to give a comprehensive account of architecture raises troubling questions about the discipline itself. It is in raising such questions that Vitruvius' De architectura acquires more than antiquarian interest.
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FORTKAMP, SARAH A. "BODY. EMOTION. ARCHITECTURE. A PHENOMENOLOGICAL REINTERPRETATION." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1112128327.
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Bauer, Paul Charles. "The body image diviner." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23405.
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Carlson, Jessica Jean. "Building about the body: architecture as dress." Thesis, Montana State University, 2011. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2011/carlson/CarlsonJ1211.pdf.
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The body is the most significant factor in architecture. We foremost build to house people. We mediate external climatic factors with the outermost architectural layer to provide a comfortable interior for human habitation. However, over the centuries, architecture has become less about responding to human need and more about abstract ordering principles and surface articulation. Building skin is archispeak for the outermost architectural layer where this surface articulation predominantly occurs. It also is the most contemporary - and skewed - example of the anthropomorphic building as body analogy that, although is the oldest theme in architectural theory, is deeply flawed. By having buildings be bodies, the true connection with the body of the dweller is lost. Redirecting building as body to building as about the body allows architecture to refocus its emphasis on the true body / building relationship: the original formulating concept and process of the first architecture - the primitive hut. We first wore clothing to protect our bodies. The origins of architecture is the transition between shelter as clothing to shelter as including space. Gottfried Semper's bekleidung - dress principle - acknowledges this. The outermost architectural envelope is a layer of dress - not skin, a comfort extender one degree removed from our clothing and two from the body. Thinking about architecture as dress enforces the base principle of buildings being about the body. Architecture is synergetic shelter; of the body, by the body, for the body.
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Drake, Scott, and n/a. "A well-composed body: anthropomorphism in architecture." University of Canberra. Design & Architecture, 2003. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060713.101839.
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Since the writings of Vitruvius in the first century AD, the use of the human body as a
metaphorical and symbolic referent has provided what is perhaps the most prolific trope for
architectural theory. The image of �Vitruvian Man,� with limbs outstretched to touch the
circle drawn from its navel, took on particular significance during the Renaissance, as
architects such as Alberti, Filarete, di Giorgio, Colonna, and Serlio published their own
interpretations of Vitruvius� Ten Books. For these writers, the body, as microcosm, was
the best available means for representing the order of the cosmos, the world as a whole.
Yet just as the idea of the body as architectural referent was being reinterpreted, the body
itself was being transformed by Renaissance anatomy. The unity and integrity of the body
was jeopardised as anatomists studied the body through the dissection of corpses. The
published results of these studies, the most notable being Vesalius� De Humani Corporis
Fabrica, were highly influential, with the anatomical methods of observation and partition
emerging as the fundamental tenets of modern science. Several centuries later, the
transformation of the body from a symbol of the world to an object amenable to scientific
observation and control was all but fully realised, as the discoveries of Pasteur were put to
use in the conquest of disease. These changing medical conceptions of the body led to
concomitant transformations of the sense of self, as the body as object was increasingly
divorced from the operations of the mind, in both its conscious and unconscious forms.
This thesis will examine how these changing conceptions of the human body have been
interpreted within architectural theory since Vitruvius. Beginning with the idea of ornament
as trope of sacrifice, it will examine how interpretations of the relation between the body as
whole and as part have affected ideas of architectural composition. Further, it will examine
the ethical implications of the trope of building as body, such that a building which reflects
the proportions of a �well-composed� body (Francesco di Giorgio), is itself an injunction to
�composure,� or appropriate behaviour. It will argue that modern architecture, while
rejecting classical anthropomorphism, was nonetheless influenced by ideas and practices
arising from anatomy. Then, in contrast to the object-body of anatomy, the thesis will
examine phenomenological and hermeneutical conceptions of the body, which interpret the
body as lived. From Merleau-Ponty�s study of perception to Scarry�s reading of the
significance of pain, the contribution of the body to the sense of self will be explored, giving
rise to a renewed conception of anthropomorphism as the manifestation not only of human
form, but of human sentience. Further, to the modern fragmentation of both the body and
architecture will be opposed integrative strategies of selfhood, such as the formation of
narrative identity (Ricoeur), the engagement with a community through practice (MacIntyre),
and the idea of the �monstrous� body (Frascari). These strategies will be used to explore
ways in which the form of the body can be understood other than in purely material terms,
and how this is translated into architecture.
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Rengering, Jeffrey A. "Body in Motion: activating architecture through movement." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1306518586.
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Bubb, Cynthia Lynne. "Sequence as Structure: Ordering the Body, Space and Architecture." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2006. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=ucin1155843083.
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Thesis (Master of Architecture)--University of Cincinnati, 2006.Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Oct.10, 2006). Includes abstract. Keywords: sequence; cinema; tschumi; manhattan transcripts; promenade architecturale; situationists; ferry terminal; boston Includes bibliographical references.
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Weate, Jeremy. "Phenomenology and difference : the body, architecture and race." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1998. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2472/.
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The aim of the thesis is to consider the position of phenomenology in contemporary thought in order to argue that only on its terms can a political ontology of difference be thought. To inaugurate this project I being by questioning Heidegger's relation to phenomenology. I take issue with the way that Heidegger privileges time over space in "Being and Time". In this way, the task of the thesis is clarified as the need to elaborate a spatio-temporal phenomenology. After re-situating Heidegger's failure in this respect within a Kantian background, I suggest that the phenomenological grounding of difference must work through the body. I contend that the body is the ontological site of both the subject and the object. I use Whitehead and Merleau-Ponty to explore the ramifications of this thesis. I suggest first of all that architecture should be grounded ontologically in the body, and as such avoids being a 'master discourse'. Secondly, by theorising the body and world as reciprocally transformative, my reading of Merleau-Ponty emphasises the ways in which his thinking opens up a phenomenology of embodied difference. It is on the basis of these themes that I develop this thinking in the direction of race, exploring the dialectics of visibility and invisibility in the work of Frantz Fanon and James Baldwin. I argue that embodied difference attests to variations in the agent's freedom to act in the world. If freedom is understood through Merleau-Ponty as being the embodied ground of historicity, we must ask after unfreedom. I suggest that the "flesh" ontology of a pre-thetic community should be rethought as a regulative ideal, the ideal of a justice that can never be given. In this light, phenomenology becomes as much as poetics. Beyond being though of as conservative, phenomenology henceforth unleashes the possibility of thinking a transformative embodied agency.
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Hajric, Elma. "Embodiment - Architecture, Body and Mind (Inhabiting Urban Markers)." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30816.
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What a human being can experience and how can it make sense of that experience depends not only on oneâ s body, but also on its interaction with the environment. It is through our embodiment that we inhabit the world and through our body that we act within it. Embodiment is not about the body per se, but about the culture. According to Merleauâ Ponty, â the body is never isolated in its activity, but always already engaged in the world.â Our embodiment is always mediated by our interaction with other human and/or non-human bodies.
Embodiment is experienced through substance, quality, as well as existence associated with specific space and time. Bodies are pre-consciously aware of their existence and consciously ask questions regarding their own being and that others. Bodies also have to be aware of their own historical development and their boundaries. This can only be applied to human beings, because only human beings are capable of asking questions and being aware of things. For non-human beings their existence is only experienced by its â showingâ to us.
My thesis concentrates on the connection between the human body, its activity, and of the world. It examines what effect our bodily experience has on our understanding of the world by exploring how our body is positioned in space relative to the environment around us.
This thesis is studied through a series of four specific design interventions or embodiments. When the diamond of Washington D.C. was surveyed in 1791, mile markers were placed to manifest the invisible boundary. For the sites, I am using the four Corner-Stone locations of this boundary. By using such modest monuments as locations for my sites, I am hoping to extend public awareness of the historical importance of these markers that has been lost over time. These individual markers work together in order to embody one thing - the district. By elaborating spaces around them, the public would have a chance to explore the spatial quality of the environment; as well as their relation to the cultural and historical embodiment of the city. Through this project I studied architectural embodiment through the making present of the invisible survey line of the district boundary.Master of Architecture
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Choe, Michelle H. "An Architecture of the Body: The Garden Spa." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/23268.
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The Garden Spa explores the healing and sensual qualities of a space. It offers a place of relaxation for the body to be restored through an atmosphere of tranquility. The spa rooms are an intimate place of rest, and the garden is a place to wander through sculptural forms. Curvilinear forms are used to bring pleasure to the eye and touch, creating harmonies with the bodyMaster of Architecture
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Nayak, Smritilekha. "Dance and architecture body, form, space and transformation /." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/8777.
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Thesis (M.Arch.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.Thesis research directed by: School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Architecture. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Krupitzer, Craig. "Body mind spirit mediating the (meta)physical tradition /." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2004. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Chua, Matthew Jian. "Hosting wellness : devices for healing the body." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/42448.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-109).
In today's global economy, expenditure on the promotion of health is steadily rising across continents. With many nations spending over 10% of their GDP on public health, we are now seeing many medical practices achieving miraculous breakthroughs, making the impossible possible through healing. Modern health care is has given individuals the ability to live longer and survive sicknesses, which were fatal not very long ago. Paradoxically, as our dependence on modern science increases, there is also a growing dissatisfaction with conventional medical techniques. Western scientific medicine tends to alienate patients by prioritizing the illness above the individual, in 5 search for the quickest remedy. In 2006, 250 billion dollars was spent on medicated drugs in the United States, exemplifying the social and medical trend to overmedicate patients, or quick curing. In contrast, Eastern medicine, with its holistic philosophies, tends to search for the source of illness, while providing a method of continuous maintenance on the body, or prolonged curing. Rather than living longer, health care should aid us in living better. As all forms of medicine seek to ease human suffering, the hypothesis is that in bonding of the two most prominent and practiced forms of medicine, new medical techniques and practices will evolve, producing a more balanced and thorough method of living with illness and wellness. The future of health care lies in the productive dialogue between Eastern and Western medical technology, bonding together to produce a more satisfactory form of global of medicine. Through the evolution of healing, Hospitals will no longer be perceived and a place for the ill, but rather as a place for the promotion of wellness - a host for wellness.
by Matthew Jian Chua.
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Barrett, Katie E. "Aligning Mind, Body, and Spirit Through Breath in Architecture." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33014.
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At the root of all living beings is our breath -- without it, we are not alive.
Eastern practices such as yoga and meditation are conveyed through the awareness of our breath and the encouragement to be present in what our physical bodies are telling us. This awareness is a huge influence in architectural design. Building well and thinking well are in turn living well, and this architectural thesis served as a journey in discovering how human health can manifest itself in a physical building.
The architectural project is an Institute for Being and is located in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, DC. The program of this project consists of spaces to encourage people to seek their own path in spiritual grounding within the otherwise hectic urban context.Master of Architecture
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Ippolito, Charles Peter. "Boat, body, building: a critical synthesis of form." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23321.
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Voiland, Luke (Luke A. ). "RISK COMPLEX : preparing the body for new hardware." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/43847.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, June 2008.Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-94).
Today's citizen navigates a vast society engaged in the explicit of wealth and implicit creation of risks. Each transaction inhere es both wealth and risk within the system. In 1986 Utrich Beck explanation for this emerging post modern condition. His work, Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity, sketches the outlines of a society the management and reduction of risk. Beck recognizes that a reach a point where efforts to increase wealth will be supersede to avoid risk. The organization of society will shift from the pro distribution of goods and services, to the redistribution and r risk. Through play activities the RISK COMPLEX will prepare cit risk society. The RISK COMPLEX seeks to provide a space that empowers the individual within the complicated web of risk connections. Visitor to the RISK COMPLEX learn about methods and technologies that allow their individual risk. In the same way a child uses play to simulate ... empower individuals within the Risk society. Sited on Coney island the RISK COMPLEX taps into historical plays cape that include the beach and boardwalk. The architecture links to the existing amusement infrastructure but seeks to carve out a seperate matrix of simulated risks that individuals can engage.
by Luke Voiland.
M.Arch.
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Klingenberg, Katrin Alexandra. "The disappearance of the body as a necessary friction." Virtual Press, 1996. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1033633.
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The first part states the reasons for the disappearance of the body: the influence of modern technology, effects on self-perception and on the perception of reality. It questions how to deal with the shift from physical reality as reference of existence toward an infinite spectrum of virtual realities. The second part concerns a way of thinking - a fiction to explain the phenomena of disappearance - in drawing a parallel to recent thinking models in physics formulating the disappearance of matter. This shift of thinking is so fundamental that it literally reverses our notion of body and materiality. The thesis tries to imagine and to explain a reappearance of the body, the birth of the concrete out of the immaterial. The last part images and models necessary, ambiguous spaces in a world where inside and outside, weight and lightness, solid and immaterial are no longer clearly defined positions but zones, uncertainties, overlays.Department of Architecture
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Arshad, Ifrah. "Body, Building and Being." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1428047448.
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Mitchell, Lauren Coleen. "Movement in Architecture: A Spacial Movement Theory." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34210.
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As the body moves through space ephemeral lines of movement are created. These lines of movement are influenced by body tendencies. We learn from the body by watching the path and patterning of movement. From the study of the movement of the body, theories of spacial movement were developed. The goal of my project is to draw from spacial movement theory to create an architectural expression that motivates movement of the body on my site and through my building. The focus of my thesis is the movement theory of Rudolph Laban (1879-1958), a modern dance pioneer and a spacial movement theorist.Master of Architecture
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Riskin, Seth. "Light Dance : light and the nature of body movement." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/46405.
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Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1989.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 37-39).
Light Dance is a conscious transfiguration of the body, its movement and the encompassing space; a transposition of matter to light exalted in the dance. This corresponds to the conceptualized spirit of the performer whose body is "consumed" by light. A transposition occurs between the performer and audience. The audience experiences the dissolution of the body into light. In this thesis I assemble fragments of visible and inner light experiences and concepts of the body by an intuition of the spirit . The purpose is to equate visible and inner light. The writing is based on light as the physical self of the spirit; the significance of the body and movement. Specific examples are cited to create a contextual fabric for the inspired design of Light Dance.
by Seth Riskin.
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Mounajjed, Nadia. "Relational interfacings : body, memory and architecture in the digital age." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.487621.
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In history, anthropomorphism was central to architecture. From Vitruvius to Le Corbusier, the human body served as a measure for proportion in the architectonics of embodiment. Some argue that Le Modulor represented the end of the body metaphor. However, contemporary theory points to new analogies between body and building, which are based on relationality rather than transprojections or physical emulations. With postmodemism and post-structural feminism, the humanist body was replaced with extendibility and a crossbreeding between body and environment. With this came a shift in body theory from objectification to an emphasis on SUbjectivity - where the body of the user is seen as measure again. However, this measure is based on the performativity and sensibility of a conscious subject who performs an act. Simultaneous to this development, emerged the notion of interface. With cyber culture, the interface is not only defined as a technological element but as an aspect of embodiment. In this context, I suggest an ana(ogy based on 'Relationallnterfacings', where a sensible and locational interface intervenes with a virtual construction (or a map) in architectural site. This in tum allows for a particularisation of memory, site-mapping and suspension of boundaries. Relational interfacings, I argue, promise to redirect the forces from monumentality to intimacy in architecture, and from a passive body to a conscious user in action. Three interventions test the affects of relational interfacings on users performativity, sociality and site-specificity. These interventions took place in real architectural sites and involved using intuitive and locational technologies to produce a virtual map on site. In the course of examining these interventions, I discuss the development of an Intervention Protocol as a diplomatic framework to guide the interventions design and analysis. This protocol helps to mark a crucial intersection of discourses and practices and sites, which locate the intervention within a definite social/architectural formation. It also promises to secure a shift from body objectification to subjectivity. The intervention protocol involves three main processes: (a) site-mapping to study memory, sociality and site-specificity, (b) ethnographic mapping where body movement becomes a measure of performativity, and (c) the possibility of a horizontal replication. In the conclusion, I revisit the postmodem body and discuss the body of user as a possible measure in architecture. I also redefine the interface as an aspect of embodiment, and discuss the impact of virtuality and interfacings in the body-architecture analogy. The thesis ends with a discussion of the interventions' development and of the outcomes, usefulness and possible applications of the interventions.
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Huang, Emily Rai-Pi. "Body in space : the sensual experience of architecture and dance." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67399.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1991.Includes bibliographical references (p. 88-89).
Dance and architecture are two disciplines of creativity that share a special relationship. Both disciplines define and use space as the main medium for creative interpretation. Dance is movement of the human body through space over time. Architecture and its spatial qualities are experienced by the human body through movement over time. To think about space created for and by the body as the common linkage between dance and architecture. I utilized the dance performance theatre as a vehicle of design investigation. By employing spatial concepts as perceived in dance to inform the design of architectural space. I can address the creative process of design through the interchange of ideas from two artistic disciplines. The intent of this thesis is to find an architectural solution for the dance performance theatre that informs the users of dance and allows dance to inform the definition of the architectural space. In this reciprocal dialogue. I hope to expand the vision and interpretation of both architecture and dance.
by Emily Rai-Pi Huang.
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Kim, Dongkeon. "A Public Bath in Alexandria, Virginia: Body, Water, and Architecture." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35044.
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This thesis investigation and design project were driven
by the desire to develop and understand how body
relates nature through tectonic objects. I explore how
body reacts to different thermal and moisture condition
from architectural elements in order to examine the
relationship between body and objects. Any physical
form will be meaningless if it cannot transmit the presence
of nature and cosmos by way of image and totality
of experience into the human habitation with concrete
objects. Furthermore, when the body perceives the cosmos
through tangible objects then those objects become
significant life form. Through the process of experience
on different types of water treatment, it reveals the way
of transforming and communicating between invisible
sense in body and tangible substance in cosmos. The
bathhouse design is a record of the process that exposes
the connections between human perception and universal
materiality through tectonic objects.Master of Architecture
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Aulery, Alexis. "Architecture of Ultra Low Power Node for Body Area Network." Thesis, Lorient, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LORIS419/document.
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Le réseau de capteurs porté est une technologie d’avenir prometteuse à multiple domaines d’application allant du médical à l’interface homme machine. Le projet BoWI a pour ambition d’évaluer la possibilité d’élaborer un réseau de capteurs utilisable au quotidien dans un large spectre d’applications et ergonomiquement acceptable pour le grand public. Cela induit la nécessité de concevoir un nœud de réseau ultra basse consommation pour à la fois convenir à une utilisation prolongée et sans encombrement pour le porteur. La solution retenue est de concevoir un nœud capable de travailler avec une énergie comparable à ce que l’état de l’art de la récolte d’énergie est capable de fournir. Une solution ASIC est privilégiée afin de tenir les contraintes d’intégration et de basse consommation. La conception de l’architecture dédiée a nécessité une étude préalable à plusieurs niveaux. Celle-ci comprend un état de l’art de la récolte d’énergie afin de fixer un objectif de budget énergie/puissance de notre système. Une étude des usages du système a été nécessaire notamment pour la reconnaissance postures afin de déterminer les cas d’applications types. Cette étude a conduit au développement d’algorithmes permettant de répondre aux applications choisies tout en s’assurant de la viabilité de leurs implantations. Le budget énergie fixé est un objectif de 100µW. Les applications choisies sont la reconnaissance de posture, la reconnaissance de geste et la capture de mouvement. Les solutions algorithmiques choisis sont une fusion de données de capteurs inertiels par Filtre de Kalman étendu (EKF) et l’ajout d’une classification par analyse en composante principale. La solution retenue pour obtenir des résultats d’implémentation est la synthèse de haut niveau qui permet un développement rapide. Les résultats de l’implantation matérielle sont dominés principalement par l’EKF. À la suite de l’étude, il apparait qu’il est possible avec une technologie 28nm d’atteindre les objectifs de budget énergie pour la partie algorithme. Une évaluation de la gestion haut niveau de tous les composants du nœud est également effectuée afin de donner une estimation plus précise des performances du système dans un cas d’application réel. Une contribution supplémentaire est obtenue avec l’ajout de la détection d’activité qui permet de prédire la charge de calcul nécessaire et d’adapter dynamiquement l’utilisation des ressources de traitement et des capteurs afin d’optimiser l’énergie en fonction de l’activitéWireless Body Sensor Network (WBSN) is a promising technology that can be used in a lot of application domains from health care to Human Machine Interface (HMI). The BoWI project ambition is to evaluate and design a WBSN that can be used in various applications with daily usage and accessible to the public. This necessitates to design a ultra-low power node that reach a day of use without discomfort for the user. The elected solution is to design a node that operates with the power budget similar to what can be provided by the state of the art of the energy harvesting. An Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) solution is privileged in order to meet the integration and low power constraints. Designing the dedicated architecture required a preliminary study at several level which are: a state of the art of the energy harvesting in order to determine the objective of energy/power budget of our system, A study of the usage of the system to determine and select typical application cases. A study of the algorithms to address the selected applications while considering the implementation viability of the solutions. The power budget objective is set to 100µW. The application selected are the posture recognition, the gesture recognition and the motion capture. The algorithmic solution proposed are a data-fusion based on an Extended Kalman FIlter (EKF) with the addition of a classification using Principal Component Analysis (PCA). The implementation tool used to design the architecture is an High Level Synthesis (HLS) solution. Implementation results mainly focus on the EKF since this is by far the most power consuming digital part of the system. Using a 28nm technology the power budget objective can be reached for the algorithmic part. A study of the top level management of all components of the node is done in order to estimate performances of the system in real application case. This is possible using an activity detection which dynamically estimates the computing load required and then save a maximum of energy while the node is still
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Sanders, Susan. "Architecture/body/camera (the war on poverty of the IMAGE-nation)." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23091.
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Nadeau, Phillip Michel. "Multi-channel ultra-low-power receiver architecture for body area networks." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66476.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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In recently published integrated medical monitoring systems, a common thread is the high power consumption of the radio compared to the other system components. This observation is indicative of a natural place to attempt a reduction in system power. Narrowband receivers in-particular can enjoy significant power reduction by employing high-Q bulk acoustic resonators as channel select filters directly at RF, allowing down-stream analog processing to be simplified, resulting in better energy efficiency. But for communications in the ISM bands, it is important to employ multiple frequency channels to permit frequency-division-multiplexing and provide frequency diversity in the face of narrowband interferers. The high-Q nature of the resonators means that frequency tuning to other channels in the same band is nearly impossible; hence, a new architecture is required to address this challenge. A multi-channel ultra-low power OOK receiver for Body Area Networks (BANs) has been designed and tested. The receiver multiplexes three Film Bulk Acoustic Resonators (FBARs) to provide three channels of frequency discrimination, while at the same time offering competitive sensitivity and superior energy efficiency in this class of BAN receivers. The high-Q parallel resonance of each resonator determines the passband. The resonator's Q is on the order of 1000 and its center frequency is approximately 2.5 GHz, resulting in a -3 dB bandwidth of roughly 2.5 MHz with a very steep rolloff. Channels are selected by enabling the corresponding LNA and mixer pathway with switches, but a key benefit of this architecture is that the switches are not in series with the resonator and do not de-Q the resonance. The measured 1E-3 sensitivity is -64 dBm at 1 Mbps for an energy efficiency of 180 pJ/bit. The resonators are packaged beside the CMOS using wirebonds for the prototype.
by Phillip Michel Nadeau.
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Martin, Matthew Haines. "The Cambridge Swimming Club : an exploration of body, landscape, and architecture." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68271.
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Lara, Gengler. "Towards an adaptive architecture : When the human body explores a space." Thesis, Konstfack, Inredningsarkitektur & Möbeldesign, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-5554.
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Exploring a space with our body is a strong experience; it is not like looking at a pic- ture of a space or listening to a detailed description of it. Being somewhere physically is a fundamental element involved in our unique and personal perception of a room. However, I often feel constrained by social and cultural rules in my bodily explora- tion of spaces. My aim throughout the project is to engage people into sharing their feelings and experiences about space, in order to better understand the relationship between the human body and the architecture in western societies. Through an experimental process I am articulating and reflecting upon a design meth- od to dialogue and engage with a large range of people. By using some tools from the field of interior architecture, I am building physical artefacts used as a means to challenge the bodily engagement of the users. The analysis of the interaction between the user and the artefacts, constituted the basis for me to elaborate on the two design proposals. The process also gives me the opportunity to reflect on my influence and responsibility as an interior architect into promoting, challenging and inviting people to more bodily engagement in space.The full thesis contains copyrighted material which has been removed in the published version
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Fang, Bing. "A Framework for Human Body Tracking Using an Agent-based Architecture." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77135.
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The purpose of this dissertation is to present our agent-based human tracking framework, and to evaluate the results of our work in light of the previous research in the same field.
Our agent-based approach departs from a process-centric model where the agents are bound to specific processes, and introduces a novel model by which agents are bound to the objects or sub-objects being recognized or tracked. The hierarchical agent-based model allows the system to handle a variety of cases, such as single people or multiple people in front of single or stereo cameras. We employ the job-market model for agents' communication. In this dissertation, we will present several experiments in detail, which demonstrate the effectiveness of the agent-based tracking system.
Per our research, the agents are designed to be autonomous, self-aware entities that are capable of communicating with other agents to perform tracking within agent coalitions. Each agent with high-level abstracted knowledge seeks evidence for its existence from the low-level features (e.g. motion vector fields, color blobs) and its peers (other agents representing body-parts with which it is compatible). The power of the agent-based approach is its flexibility by which the domain information may be encoded within each agent to produce an overall tracking solution.Ph. D.