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Seegmullser, Rainer Karl. "Shelley and architecture : Romanticism and the semiotics of the architectural descriptions in Shelley's letters from Italy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.306809.
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Bāo, Chén. "Écrire l'idée [Xie Yi] : entre l'écriture idéographique et l'écriture architecturale." Phd thesis, Université Toulouse le Mirail - Toulouse II, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00736206.
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Un bâtiment ne parle pas, mais il communique d'une autre manière des messages qui sont le reflet des idées des architectes. Si l'architecture est un langage, si elle est une " écriture d'idées ", alors comment rendre l'idée visible ? Comment peut-on, dans un sens métaphorique, faire parler un bâtiment ? Nous proposons alors une hypothèse analogique : " Si le bâtiment parlait alors il parlerait chinois ". Cette hypothèse oriente nos recherches vers l'étude des rapports entre langage architectural et langage naturel. À l'intérieur de ce champ interdisciplinaire, l'écriture graphique et idéographique chinoise devient notre objet référentiel. Les caractères chinois unifient la forme et le sens en même temps, ils proposent une figuration des idées fondée sur le système idéographique. De par sa logique combinatoire et ses procédés rhétoriques, le processus de figuration des caractères chinois est un processus de transformation de formes simples vers des formes complexes, passant de significations limitées à des significations riches. Ce processus de conception de caractères montre également une série de schèmes idéographiques qui pourrait constituer un système méthodologique de sémantisation pour la représentation architecturale. Ainsi, l'écriture idéographique et l'écriture architecturale, pris comme deux processus de figuration peuvent parallèlement se comparer, et l'écriture idéographique pourrait proposer un outil conceptuel pour l'écriture architecturale. Il s'agit d'examiner un nouveau modèle linguistique qui pourrait être utile pour la conception de l'architecture contemporaine.
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Touzjian, Richard. "From Film to Architecture:An Extended Cinematic Design Process based on Architectural Interpretations of Narrative Film." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/151991.
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Mello, Ricardo Bianca de. "A cultura da crença: uma reflexão sobre o espaço simbólico e o simbolismo na arquitetura religiosa." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16138/tde-19092007-143534/.
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Esta dissertação tem por objetivo explorar a espacialidade simbólica em arquitetura. Para tanto, principia expondo de maneira sucinta conceitos fundamentais de semiótica arquitetônica, situando o debate do simbolismo em arquitetura dentro de uma abordagem comunicacional do fenômeno arquitetônico. Em seguida expõe algumas considerações acerca da questão mais ampla do sentido em arquitetura, da qual entende-se que a questão do simbolismo em arquitetura faça parte. Apesar de partir inicialmente de uma visão vulgar do conceito de símbolo, baseada livremente na conceituação dada por Charles Peirce, esta dissertação explora também diferentes abordagens oriundas da semiótica, da lingüística, da psicanálise, da filosofia e da própria arquitetura, de forma a encontrar novos elementos que a auxilie a alcançar uma posição particular em relação ao símbolo, adequada ao seu uso em teoria da arquitetura. Partindo desta exploração do conceito de símbolo, a dissertação prossegue analisando a construção do símbolo em arquitetura ? seus mecanismos e aplicação. Trata então do simbolismo estrutural, implícito e identificado com o edifício em si, e do simbolismo aplicado, explícito e aposto à edificação. Para tanto parte da distinção que Venturi, Brown e Izenour fazem do simbolismo do ?pato? e do ?galpão decorado?. Em sua segunda parte a dissertação oferece exemplos do simbolismo em arquitetura religiosa, não se limitando a uma tradição ou a um contexto específico. A intenção é ilustrar o debate teórico desenvolvido na primeira parte ao mesmo tempo em que se aprofunda a questão de um simbolismo arquitetônico específico ? aquele da arquitetura religiosa. Além de uma introdução geral ao simbolismo do edifício religioso são analisadas as diferentes escalas de manifestação do símbolo no edifício: em sua localização, implantação, forma e conteúdo. A dissertação conclui com uma reflexão acerca de algumas das questões suscitadas e uma especulação acerca de caminhos possíveis para futuras pesquisas.The aim of this dissertation is to explore the symbolic quality of space in architecture. Hence, it begins showing in a concise way basic concepts of architectural semiotics, placing the debate of the symbolism in architecture inside a communicational approach of the architectural phenomenon. After that it displays some considerations about the broadest question of the meaning in architecture, of which one understands that the question of architectural symbolism is a portion. Despite starting out from a vulgar concept of symbol, based freely in its given conceptualization by Charles Peirce, this dissertation explores also different approaches deriving from the semiotics, the linguistics, the psychoanalysis, the philosophy and the architecture itself, in such a way to find new elements that assist it to reach a particular position in relation to the symbol, proper for its use in architectural theory. Leaving from this exploitation of the symbol concept this dissertation goes on analyzing the construction of the symbol in architecture ? its mechanisms and application. It deals then with the structural symbolism, implicit and identified with the building in itself, and with the applied symbolism, explicit and attached to the building. For that, it parts from the distinction that Venturi, Brown and Izenour make of the symbolism of the \"duck\" and of the symbolism of the \"decorated shed\". In its second part this dissertation presents examples of the symbolism in religious architecture, not limiting itself to a tradition or a specific context. The intention is to illustrate the developed theoretical debate of its first section altogether deepening the debate of a specific architectural symbolism ? that of the religious architecture. Beyond a general introduction to the symbolism of the religious building, the different scales of manifestation of the symbol in the building are analyzed: in its localization, implantation, form and content. This dissertation concludes with a reflection concerning some of the stirred up questions and a speculation about possible paths for future researches.
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Lo, Elsa, and n/a. "Chinese architectonic code : a semiotic study of shop signs in Sydney's Chinatown." University of Canberra. Communication, 1994. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060818.132847.
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This study aims to furnish a semiotic reading of Sydney's Chinatown by
analysing the environmental meanings codified in that particular context.
The basic unit of analysis is the shop sign. Some features underlying sign
formations in Sydney's Chinatown are identified and the communication
process involved in its organisation of meanings and space is explored.
The thesis is organised into three parts. The first part gives an
introduction to the background of study and examines theories on
architectural semiotics and its relation to visual communication. It consists
of three chapters. Chapter 1 defines the scope of the study and outlines the
objectives and goals of research. Chapter 2 focuses on two related fields of
architectural semiotics, viz. semiotics of objects and semiotics of space.
Evaluation of semiotic approaches and behavioural science approaches to
the study of objects and space is made. Some of the theories discussed are
applied to give a profile of shop signs from a visual semiotic perspective. In
Chapter 3 a description of the methods of research and an outline of the
analytical framework of this study are given.
The two chapters of Part Two provide some background information
on various conceptions of "Chinatown". Chapter 4 discusses the
development features of Chinatowns in North America, which reveal that
there are divergent perceptions of Chinatowns. Chapter 5 describes the
development of Sydney's Chinatown and underlines some of its distinctive
features.
In Part Three the results of the study are presented. Chapter 6 focuses
on the codification of meanings realised in Sydney's Chinatown. Chapter 7
is concerned with elements of sign formations and examines the
communicative functions of shop signs in the Chinatown context. The
analyses made in these chapters are intended to identify some features of
sign formations in Sydney's Chinatown within an architectonic system.
The thesis concludes with a summary of the study and a discussion of
the applicability of architectural semiotic theories. It is suggested that
further study can be pursued in the direction that contributes to an
understanding of architectonic systems and social communication.
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CLARKE, JOSEPH. "INDEXING THE ARBITRARY." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1148058132.
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Walker, Paul Joseph. "Semiotics and the discourse of architecture." Thesis, University of Auckland, 1987. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/8812775.
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This thesis addresses a problematic of meaning and of semiotics in architecture by considering a number of questions. Why have meaning and semiotics been of concern in architectural discourse? How did semiotics enter that discourse? How does it operate there? The first chapter explores the notion of meaning in art, assuming this to have bearing on meaning in architecture. Functionalism is investigated as an implicitly semantic view of architecture: it is proposed that it is the failure of functionalism in practice which underlies the recent concern with meaning. Chapter 2 introduces the work of eight semioticians: Saussure, Peirce, Morris, Mukarovsky, Jakobson, Levi-Strauss, Barthes, and Eco. Chapter 3 poses the question of why semiotics has been attractive to architects. Attention is given to Tafuri's notion that semiotics serves both to bolster the current status of architecture (by blockading investigation of its discursive characteristics) and as radial criticism. Work by Norberg-Schulz and by Jencks is shown to be blockade; that by Agrest and Gandelsonas more nearly critical. It is proposed that semiotics and the discourse of modern architecture are epistemologically analogous, which circumstance has facilitated and been conditional to the entry of semiotics into architecture. The fourth chapter examines Eco's and Preziosi's rigorous semiotic theories of the built. Both have been posited, however, as theories of architecture; as such they impede rather than foster theorizing with respect to architectural discourse. Chapter 5 assumes a (semiotic) model of architecture as a hierarchy of codes (building, language, drawing, photography). The role of language in architecture is shown to be more important than is generally conceded. Architectural discourse is also shown to be dependent on photography, and, by implication, on other graphic modes. While bearing in mind the links between the postmodern and radical strains of semiotics, the final chapter surveys architecture in culture's present postmodern moment. If the problematic of meaning in architecture has been motivated by the 'emptiness' of the built world constructed under the aegis of functional architecture, this problematic cannot be taken as a recuperation. Rather, the advent of semiotics in the discourse of architecture may signify its transposition to an unknown discursive configuration.Subscription resource available via Digital Dissertations only.
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Yamamoto, João Carlos Amaral. "Entre Eisenman, Berlim e o Memorial." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16134/tde-28072014-102026/.
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A pesquisa lançou um olhar sobre a produção arquitetônica de Peter Eisenman e sobre a cidade de Berlim, buscando centrar-se na análise de uma obra específi ca, o Memorial dos Judeus Assassinados da Europa. O texto construído é uma reunião de instantâneos de percurso, de fragmentos de uma narrativa imaginada e interpretada pelo verbal. Tentando construir uma análise que contemplasse de alguma maneira a dimensão da experiência da obra, foi promovido o cruzamento com comentários e análises escritas em outros momentos, com refl exões feitas a partir de achados de pesquisa, com recortes de textos e imagens e desenhos analíticos feitos ao longo do trabalho. Assim, o conjunto de três capítulos procura desenhar um percurso análogo ao desenvolvido ao longo da pesquisa, procurando permanecer atento ao suporte texto/imagem de uma dissertação e condensando o processo de três anos no relato fi ccional de uma jornada de um dia. No primeiro capítulo é feita uma espécie de panorâmica cronológica da obra de Eisenman que, no entanto, não conta a sua história, mas a do pesquisador seguindo a trilha deixada pelo arquiteto. No segundo capítulo a jornada ganha tempo e espaço com a sequencia que narra a chegada à cidade de Berlim e o percurso até o Memorial dos Judeus Assassinados da Europa, cuja análise é feita no terceiro capítulo.This research takes an overview of the architectural output of Peter Eisenman and more generally, the city of Berlin. The research then focusses on an analysis of a single specifi c work, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. The text itself is constructed from moments in a perambulation of the work and fragments of an imagined narrative. As an attempt to construct an analysis which contemplates the physical experience of the work, this method interlaces commentaries and analyses made at different times, refl ections on fi ndings of the research and snippets of text, images and drawings made during the course of the research. As a whole, the three chapters seek to illustrate the route taken during the research. Whilst remaining aware of the need to support the text/images of a dissertation, the text aims to condense the process of three years of research into the fi ctional story of a single day. The fi rst chapter gives a chronological overview of the works of Eisenman. This is not recounted as a history of the works, but as an account of the researcher following the trail left by the architect. The second chapter gains time and space with a sequence that narrates the arrival of the researcher in Berlin and the journey to the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. The analysis of the Memorial itself is contained in the third chapter.
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Tan, Chekfoung. "Organisational semiotics inspired abductive methodology in developing information architecture for healthcare organisations." Thesis, University of Reading, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.694644.
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O'Brien, Maeliosa. "Intersecting spaces : exploring architectural students' meaning-making through a social semiotic multimodality lens." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/20592/.
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Intersecting spaces is a qualitative case study that examines a third-year group of undergraduate architectural students’ meaning-making in an Irish Higher Education(HE) Institute of Technology (IoT) through a social semiotic multimodality lens. Architectural students face many challenges in their studies but a core undertaking concerns their capacity to address the rhetorical component of making architecture. The research addressing architectural communication through a social semiotic multimodality lens, particularly in an Irish architectural education setting, is limited. My constructivist leanings underpinned my decision to develop a case study, and use four research tools, a focus group, observation, a questionnaire, and semi-formal interviews. My main research question considers to what extent the multimodal communication resources the participants use, during an observed review, work together to enact meaning? The research forming the frame for this study embodies five intersections between the architectural and social semiotic multimodality domains, namely ‘the environment’, ‘rhetorical component’, ‘resources’, ‘multimodality’, and ‘communication and learning’. Several main findings emerge. The participants’ level of insider knowledge relates directly to their ability to access and participate fully in the shared knowledge and skill base repertoire of the community of practice at the research site and shapes their rhetorical meaning-making. The participants’ multimodal literacy levels regarding choosing and using multimodal resources across the analogue and digital environment influences their ability to make rhetorical meaning. The dynamic nature of the orchestrated ensemble in the observed review underlines the performative aspect of the participants’ rhetorical meaning-making from the social semiotic multimodality angle. In foregrounding the overlapping architectural communication and social semiotic multimodality aspects of the architectural participants’ meaning-making, this study addresses my main research question. The study builds on architectural design and communication research by exploring the issue through an unfamiliar lens and contributes as an exemplar to the limited social semiotic multimodality research focused on meaning-making in the Irish architectural education context.
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Price, Christine Rosalie. "Redesigning landscape architecture in higher education: a multimodal social semiotic approach." Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32967.
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This investigation is a case study of landscape architectural design education in South Africa. Current forms of landscape architectural education are influenced by Global North perspectives and often, if not consciously, privilege particular ways of meaningmaking, and exclude or marginalise experiences or ways of knowing that are different. The aim of this research is to develop a landscape architectural pedagogy for diversity that fosters multiple perspectives and valorises resources that students bring to their learning environment, in order that students may both access and challenge the dominant landscape educational discourse. In grappling with these concerns, this research finds resonance with a multimodal social semiotic approach. Instead of labelling students as (in) competent or (under)prepared, a multimodal social semiotic approach emphasises the interest, agency and resourcefulness of the student as meaning-maker. The research thus reframes landscape architectural design processes through a multimodal social semiotic lens, providing new insights and clarity to these processes. The approach foregrounds interpersonal and social meanings of space and, to some extent, challenges traditional landscape architectural design practices that tend to value compositional and conceptual meanings. The methodology centers around a spatial model project in the second half of a first-year landscape architectural design studio subject. The data includes students' texts and their presentations. The research develops a methodological framework that outlines a range of ideational, interpersonal and textual meaningpotentials of landscape spatial and visual texts and applies this framework to the analysis of students' 2D and 3D texts. Through careful analysis of students' design trajectories, this research uncovers the types of resources students draw on, including semiotic, experiential, social, interactive and pedagogical resources. The analysis shows that students' transformation of resources results in innovative spatial designs, and expands on what and how landscape spaces can mean. Through the investigation, tenets for a multimodal pedagogy for diversity are developed: recognition of the rich and diverse resources students bring to their learning environment; acknowledgment that these resources are apt ‘precedent' for landscape architectural design processes; and explicit attention to multimodal moments and activities that may prompt re-(inner) conceptualisation in design trajectories. This pedagogical approach begins to address past educational imbalances and inequalities, and ensures that diverse, Global South perspectives contribute to the production of knowledge.
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Hanna, Mirna. "Une approche sémiotique de l’architecture domestique à Beyrouth au XXème siècle. Étude comparative de deux cas typologiques." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040076.
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L’analyse sémiotique de l’architecture domestique a pour but de voir comment se manifestent, à travers le langage architectural, les comportements codés qui remplacent la communication linguistique, en postulant qu'il y a un déterminisme de l'architecture par les valeurs macro-sociales, et que le signe architectural doit être considéré comme un marqueur anthropologique. L’approche pluridisciplinaire qui allie des champs aussi divers que l’architecture, la sémiologie et l’anthropologie, a pour ambition de contribuer d’une part, à la sémiotique de l’architecture en proposant une méthodologie pour l’analyse et le découpage d’un corpus architectural, et d’une autre, d’élargir le champ de la géographie urbaine à de nouvelles disciplines, et enfin, de proposer une lecture inédite du paysage urbain à Beyrouth à travers l’étude comparative de deux typologies architecturales. L’approche sémiotique proposée peut être appliquée en tant qu’outil de la géographie urbaine à des corpus architecturaux ou des pans du tissu urbain afin d’appréhender les mécanismes de production et d’obsolescence des formes, et par extension de la villeThe purpose of a semiotic analysis of architecture is to see how non verbal codes manifest themselves through the architectural language, based upon the idea that such a language is conditioned by macro-social values, and therefore the architectural sign should be considered as an anthropological marker. This multi-disciplinary approach combining different fields such as architecture, semiotics and anthropology, is aimed on one hand at contributing to semiotics by proposing a methodology for the analysis of an architectural corpus, and on the other hand, to broadening the field of urban geography to new disciplines, and finally, to providing a new analysis of Beirut’s urban fabric through the comparative case study of two architectural typologies. The proposed semiotic approach can be applied as a tool of urban geography to architectural corpuses and urban fabrics in order to understand the mechanisms of production and obsolescence of form
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Malhis, Shatha Ramez. "Constructing the semiotic and syntactic structures of forms : villa design in West Amman." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340871.
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Ferraresso, Ivan. "La maison en Lorraine, du Moyen Âge à la Renaissance (XIIIe-XVIe siècles)." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LORR0353.
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La maison des XIIIe-XVIe siècles n’avait jamais fait l’objet d’une enquête approfondie en Lorraine. Jusqu'ici, seule l'architecture civile de la ville de Metz a manifestement attiré l'attention. Dans le reste du territoire régional, le bâti domestique hérité du Bas Moyen Âge n'a pas acquis la même notoriété. Il n'a apparemment pas laissé de traces suffisamment prégnantes dans le paysage architectural pour engendrer des recherches significatives. Cet état de conservation a priori constitue un verrou méthodologique qui nous invite à changer de paradigme. Différents concepts, hérités de la sociologie, de la sémiologie architecturale et des logiques de temporalité permettent d'appréhender le sujet sous un angle anthropo-historique. L'examen de la bibliographie régionale souligne que les travaux antérieurs, même ponctuels, suivaient déjà cette orientation. Aujourd'hui, la recherche profite d'une documentation qui s'est très largement enrichie. Elle s'appuie sur un recensement approfondi, des études architecturales et diverses interventions archéologiques. L’ensemble de ces traces matérielles constitue un répertoire inédit dont la spatialisation semble refléter, pour partie, les évolutions de l’écoumène lorrain des XIIIe-XVIe siècles. Pour mieux entrevoir sa résonance socioculturelle, l’architecture a été interrogée selon trois orientations : sa survivance patrimoniale, ses formes délaissées et les savoir‑faire locaux. Ce biais microhistorique participe à la définition d'un archétype de la maison des XIIIe-XVIe siècles tout en démontrant sa part d'héritage en LorraineUntil now the buildings of the 13th-16th centuries in the Lorraine region have not yet been investigated systematically by modern building research. Only the profane architecture of the city of Metz has been studied occasionally. In the rest of the study region, the domestic building constructed during the late Middle Age is remaining still largely unknown, without any doubt resulting from a lack of its visibility. It is evident that the bad state of conservation is remarkably hampering modern methodological building research. This has forced us to modify our scientific approach by integrating sociological concepts, the architectural language and the evidence of important chrono-historical developments. The regional bibliography dealing with this subject is evidencing that the anthropo-historical approach has largely influenced former studies and analysis. Today, modern research is taking profit from a much more developed scientific documentation, which is based on a systematic inventory, architectural studies and results from archaeological excavations. The stock of the inventoried buildings is without any doubt reflecting the socio-political developments of the Lorraine region between the 13th and the 16th c. AD. In this work the building’s architecture was studied from three different viewpoints to understand their today’s socio-cultural value: the surviving and persisting elements deriving from older architectural practices, the abandonment of practices and techniques and, not to forget, the local architectural and technical Know-how. This approach has allowed identifying the archetype of the domestic building in the Lorraine region between the 13th and 16th centuries and its heritage within the known historical building stock
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Stenglin, Maree Kristen. "Packaging curiosities : towards a grammar of three-dimensional space." University of Sydney. Linguistics, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/635.
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Western museums are public institutions, open and accessible to all sectors of the population they serve. Increasingly, they are becoming more accountable to the governments that fund them, and criteria such as visitation figures are being used to assess their viability. In order to ensure their survival in the current climate of economic rationalism, museums need to maintain their audiences and attract an even broader demographic. To do this, they need to ensure that visitors feel comfortable, welcome and secure inside their spaces. They also need to give visitors clear entry points for engaging with and valuing the objects and knowledge on display in exhibitions. This thesis maps a grammar of three-dimensional space with a strong focus on the interpersonal metafunction. Building on the social semiotic tools developed by Halliday (1978, 1985a), Halliday and Hasan (1976), Martin (1992) and Matthiessen (1995), it identifies two interpersonal resources for organising space: Binding and Bonding. Binding is the main focus of the thesis. It theorises the way people�s emotions can be affected by the organisation of three-dimensional space. Essentially, it explores the affectual disposition that exists between a person and the space that person occupies by focussing on how a space can be organised to make an occupant feel secure or insecure. Binding is complemented by Bonding. Bonding is concerned with the way the occupants of a space are positioned interpersonally to create solidarity. In cultural institutions like museums and galleries, Bonding is concerned with making visitors feel welcome and as though they belong, not just to the building and the physical environment, but to a community of like-minded people. Such feelings of belonging are also crucial to the long-term survival of the museum. Finally, in order to present a metafunctionally diversified grammar of space, the thesis moves beyond interpersonal meanings. It concludes by exploring the ways textual and ideational meanings can be organised in three-dimensional space.
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Stenglin, Maree K. "Packaging curiosities towards a grammar of three-dimensional space /." Connect to full text, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/635.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2004.Title from title screen (viewed 14 May 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.
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KLEMAN, DREW T. "PSYCHOTIC/SEMANTIC: OF SIGNS, STIGMATA, AND THE HISTORICAL ASYLUM." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1147909874.
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Morris, De'Sean B. "Finding A Lost Style: Study 01_Questioning Relationships Between Black Architecture, Black Film, and Black Communities in the United States." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1627661571907818.
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Pitera, Daniel W. "The manipulation of age : the tale of the ruin." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23123.
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Jander, Fabian. "Culturally Friendly Design Method based on Machiya System of Kyoto." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/174916.
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Scoz, Eduardo. "Arquitetura efêmera: o repertório do arquiteto revelado em obras temporárias." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16134/tde-10032010-162419/.
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Esta dissertação visa entender as implicações do projeto arquitetônico no momento da execução de obras efêmeras, bem como busca elucidar os paradigmas essenciais a este projeto frente ao estágio avançado de depredação dos meios naturais em que o planeta se encontra. Entretanto, ainda que com a escassez de referências bibliográficas sobre o tema, na busca por esse pensamento analisaremos três pavilhões de verão da Galeria Serpentine executados por arquitetos de grande importância no cenário atual acreditamos que o conceito em arquitetura fica plasmado na obra. A leitura desses objetos, organizados não verbalmente, necessita de um referencial capaz de elucidar a sintaxe do pensamento que o orienta, revelando através de dados icônicos e indiciais o repertório de seu projetista. Neste momento mostra-se fecunda a teoria da semiótica de Charles Sanders Peirce, não apenas para revelar o repertório do arquiteto e os paradigmas de projeto que o orientam, mas também para pesquisar de que maneira estes profissionais materializam seus pensamentos através da linguagem não-verbal da arquitetura. Por outro lado, o que se vê à exaustão em eventos comerciais é a utilização de semelhantes sistemas construtivos industrializados, dos quais o OCTANORM é o mais conhecido, o que garante a continuidade do processo moderno e a elevação da capacidade de montagem e desmontagem como valor principal da obra. As hipóteses aqui levantadas tomam estes sistemas como uma manifestação da continuidade e apontam para outras arquiteturas, ainda efêmeras, mas alheias a essa dinâmica e com especificidades que caracterizam um campo particular de estudo. A base epistemológica deste trabalho veicula muito a semiótica peirciana e a bibliografia fundamental que dá orientação à pesquisa tem origem na filosofia da arquitetura e na psicologia da percepção com diversos teóricos.This dissertation intends to understand the architectural project implications in the moment of the execution of ephemeral works, and tries to elucidate the essential paradigms to this project due to the advanced stage of depredation found within the planets natural resources. However, even facing a bibliographic shortage on the theme, searching this thought, we will analyze three summer pavilions inside Serpentine Gallery, executed by well-known architects we believe that the concept in architecture remains in this work. The reading of these objects, non-verbally organized, needs a reference capable of elucidating the thought syntax that guides it, revealing the designer repertory through iconic and inkling data. In this moment, Charles Sanders Peirces theory is shown to be abundant, not only to reveal the architectural repertory and the projects paradigms that guide it, but also to find the way that these professionals turn their thoughts into matter through non-verbal architectural language. On the other hand, what is exhaustively seen throughout commercial events is the use of similar industrialized constructive systems, from which OCTANORM is the most known, what guarantees the continuity of the modern process and the elevation of the mounting an dismounting capability as the main value of the work. The hypotheses raised in here consider these systems as a manifestation of continuity and point to other architectures, still ephemeral, but disconnected to this dynamic and owners of specificities that characterize a particular field of study. The basis of this work, regarding the use of epistemology, features peircians semiotics a lot and, the fundamental bibliography, that gives the research an orientation, has its origin in the architecture philosophy and in the psychology of perception defended by many theorists.
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Thiburce, Julien. "Le dialogisme urbain : de l’usage tacite des espaces publics aux formes d’appropriation narrative et affective de la ville." Thesis, Lyon, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LYSE2113/document.
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Cette recherche vise à montrer le passage de l’usage ordinaire des espaces publics à l’énonciation d’un récit de la ville où se réalise un engagement réel des acteurs sociaux dans le projet partagé d’une urbanité en devenir. Au-delà d’une pure préoccupation esthétique, le dialogisme urbain répond à la centralité de la ville comme lieu privilégié de l’élaboration des enjeux sociaux. En s’intéressant aux modalités d’appropriation de l’espace urbain durant des balades urbaines guidées, nous verrons en quoi elles constituent un rôle de catalyseur d’un déconditionnement pour les participants dans leur rapport à la ville. Le projet suit ainsi trois perspectives d’investigation. Il y a d’abord le passage de l’hétérogénéité pure des styles urbains – entre le bâtiment classé au patrimoine institutionnel et l’anomie du terrain vague – aux entrelacements dialogiques entre esthétiques en compétition. Nous pourrons ainsi cerner l’interaction des langages, la cohabitation de formes institutionnelles et d’expressions plus individualisées et temporaires, exprimées par une citoyenneté changeante. Ensuite, il s’agit d’observer la transformation des itinéraires fonctionnels aux déplacements selon des parcours électifs qui choisissent des passages par des éléments caractéristiques, permettant une prise affective à chaque fois renouvelée de la ville.Enfin, cette étude constitue une analyse ne se limitant pas à une taxonomie des pratiques. Elle cherche plutôt à rendre compte des gestions du sens dans l’interaction. Une forme d’interaction où l’appropriation de la ville et de ses objets n’est plus seulement intime, mais observable parce qu’explicite, socialisée et attestée par l’expérienceThis research study aims to show the transition from the ordinary use of public spaces to the enunciation of a city narrative in which the social actors are committed in the shared project of an urbanity in the making. Beyond a pure aesthetic preoccupation, the urban dialogism responds to the centrality of the city as a privileged space for the elaboration of social issues. By focusing on the appropriation of urban space during guided urban walks, we will see how they constitute a catalyst for deconditioning participants in their relationship to the city. This research project thus follows three investigation perspectives.First, there is the transition from the pure heterogeneity of urban styles – from a building classified as institutional heritage to the anomie of a vacant lot - to the dialogical interplay between aesthetics in competition. We will be able to understand the interaction of languages, the cohabitation of institutional forms and more individualized and temporary statements, expressed by an ever-changing citizenship picture.Then, it is a question of observing the transformation of the functional itineraries to the displacements according to elective courses going through characteristic elements, allowing an ever-renewed affective grip on the city.Finally, this study constitutes an analysis that is not limited to a taxonomy of practices. Rather, it seeks to account for the management of meaning in interaction - a form of interaction where the appropriation of the city and its objects is not only intimate, but observable because explicit, socialized, and attested by experience
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Alves, Gilfranco Medeiros. "Cibersemiótica e processos de projeto: metodologia em revisão." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/102/102132/tde-07012015-105828/.
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A tese propõe uma abordagem cibersemiótica para processos de projeto a partir da perspectiva da mediação digital e de suas relações com a arquitetura contemporânea. Apresenta uma revisão dos processos digitais de projeto, com base na constatação de que a atuação de arquitetos e designers, em função dos modos de vida contemporâneos, passa a exigir atualmente uma postura diferenciada em relação ao gerenciamento das informações, assim como uma reflexão crítica em relação ao método projetivo utilizado na arquitetura da era digital. A tese utiliza como fundamentação teórica, os principais referenciais que tratam da Cibersemiótica, conforme proposta pelo filósofo dinamarquês Søren Brier, e de suas duas bases conceituais: a Semiótica de Charles Sanders Peirce e a Cibernética de Segunda Ordem, proposta por Heinz von Foerster. A tese propõe uma estrutura (framework) para análise de projetos a partir do olhar cibersemiótico, assim como propõe também uma estrutura (framework) para os próprios processos digitais de projeto. O trabalho é dividido em duas partes. A primeira parte, aborda processos de concepção e de produção digitais e as teorias utilizadas como fundamentação. Também define o quadro contextual que compara alguns projetos selecionados no recorte proposto e propõe uma estrutura de análise cibersemiótica destas referências. A segunda parte, apresenta estratégias para projeto digitais e propõe uma estrutura cibersemiótica para processos digitais de projeto. Acredita-se que a relevância da contribuição da tese se dá na direção da expansão do paradigma teórico cibersemiótico assim como na sua capacidade de potencializar processos digitais de projeto. Se outras espacialidades e interconexões deverão surgir a partir da atualização dos níveis de comunicação estabelecidos entre os diferentes sistemas, e de novos desafios sociais e culturais, é imprescindível que os arquitetos estejam atentos à compreensão das teorias e dos processos que estão disponíveis, para a otimização de todo o seu potencial de projeto na busca por ampliar as possibilidades para a Arquitetura e Urbanismo.The thesis explores the Cibersemiotic approach to design processes from the perspective of digital mediation and its relationship with contemporary architecture. It presents a review of existing digital design processes, based on the assumption that the practice of architects and designers, according to the contemporary modes of life, currently requires a different position in relation to the management of information, as well as a critical reflection on the design methods used in the architecture of the digital age. The thesis\' theoretical foundation is based on the Cibersimiotic work produced by the Danish philosopher Søren Brier, which unifies two important conceptual frameworks: the Semiotics by Charles Sanders Peirce and the Second Order Cybernetics proposed by Heinz von Foerster. The thesis proposes a structure (or framework) to analyze existing designs from the cibersemiotic point of view, as well as a structure (or framework) for the digital design processes themselves. The work is presented in two parts. The first examines the digital processes and production as well as the theories they are based on. This part also presents the theoretical context for the structure (or framework) used to analyse selected existing designs and introduces the framework. The second part presents strategies for digital design and proposes the cibersemiotic framework for digital design processes. It is believed the thesis contributes towards the expansion of the Cibersemiotic theoretical paradigm as well as provides a working framework for the increasingly complex processes of digital design. Assuming other spatialities and interconnections will arise from the update levels established from communication between different systems as well as new social and cultural challenges, it is essential that architects are aware of available theories and processes for optimizing design potential and expand the possibilities for Architecture and Urbanism.
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Noujaim-Le, Garrec Souraya. "Poétique des palais nasrides de l’Alhambra : parcours, lecture, symboles." Thesis, Paris 10, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA100021.
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A la fin du XIIIème et au XIVème siècle, s’est développé, sur les murs des palais nasrides de l’Alhambra de Grenade, un art de l’épigraphie d’une variété extrême, combinant virtuosité plastique, qualités visuelles, message poétique et politique. Bandeaux, frises et médaillons inscrits, structurent le programme ornemental des palais. Aux inscriptions votives se mêlent des calligrammes dont les lettres, adossées à un fin réseau sculpté d’entrelacs végétaux, génèrent des silhouettes architecturées. S’y ajoutent des poèmes, sculptés sur les murs, indissociables du pouvoir qu’ils soutiennent.A l’Alhambra la parole devient construction, les mots eux-mêmes se transforment en structures imaginaires : façonnant le mythe, ils constituent le socle d’une dynastie culturellement brillante mais en perte de puissance. Œuvres de trois vizirs poètes, Ibn al-Jayyab, Ibn al-Khatib et Ibn Zamrak, ces poésies sultanesques, qasa’id sultaniya, exaltent, sous la forme de panégyriques, la grandeur de la dynastie nasride. Ils affirment la mission des souverains et célèbrent en images exaltées la majesté du lieu : c’est un exemple unique dans l’art ornemental arabo-islamique. Ils rassemblent, de manière synthétique, des renseignements sur les problématiques soulevées par le corpus épigraphique. Pour autant, ce travail ne prétend pas être exhaustif. Il veut plutôt explorer et présenter, sous la forme de bilan analytique, le programme ornemental des palais, suivre le fil conducteur d’une approche contextuelle historique et artistique, voire psychologique, contribuer à l’analyse des liens qui unissent données littéraires et poétiques, symbolisme décoratif et leurs antécédents préislamiquesFrom the late thirteenth and especially fourteenth century, grew on the walls of the Nasrid palaces of the Alhambra of Granada, a scriptural art of great variety, combining plastic virtuosity, visual qualities, poetic and political messages. Bands, epigraphic friezes and medallions underline the ornamental program of the palaces. The votive inscriptions are mingled with calligrams whose letters, backed by a fine carved network, generate architected silhouettes of plant-like interlacing Added to this poems, carved into the walls, closely linked to the power it underlines. Thus speech becomes construction and the words themselves also become imaginary buildings: therefore constituting the basis for a dynasty culturally brilliant while politically in decline.Works of three viziers poets of the end of the Nazari dynasty, Ibn al-Jayyab, Ibn al-Khatib and Ibn Zamese “sultanistic” poems qasa'id Sultaniya exalt in form of eulogies the greatness of the dynasty. They claim the religious mission of Nasrid sovereigns and celebrate through exalted images the majesty of the place representing a unique example in the Arab-Islamic ornamental art.Inseparable from the architecture they adorn, thirty poems were specially written and inscribed on the walls of the Alhambra with certain texts tracing the origin to now extinct palaces of the XIth century. They bring together, in summary form, information on the issues raised by the epigraphic corpus. However, this work does not claim to be exhaustive. It rather wants to explore and expose, in the form of an analytical assessment, the decorative program of the palace, following the thread of a historical and artistic, even psychological, contextual approach, contribute to the analysis of the links between literary and poetic facts, decorative symbolism and their pre-Islamic origins
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Gurgel, Adriana. "Espacialidades do habitar: percursos de comunicação urbana em Icapuí, Ceará." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2009. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/5174.
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The intent of this research, based on the study of Icapuí s (Ceará) porched loam houses, and through the understanding of architecture as a language, is to comprehend the resources utilized by home builders and residents to communicate and create meaning, with the purpose of investigating the existing relationship between the construction of the home space and its representations (spatialitys) and the urban and communicative sociability originated from the interactive exchange of values, which start within the private area and expands into the public space. Through the understanding of architecture as a language, this research analyzes Icapuí s porched loam houses to comprehend the resources utilized by home builders and residents to create and communicate meaning. The research investigates the existing relationship between the construction of the home space and its representations (spatialitys) and the urban and communicative sociability originated from the interactive exchange of values that start within the private area and expand into the public space. The object of this paper is, therefore, Icapuí s porched loam houses and the relationship that this architecture establishes with the habitants and the city, especififically how the home becomes the means of communicating everyday habits, values and specifific and not transferable behaviors. It will be necessary, along this analysis, to document a specifific architectonic typology and indentify the values, implicit or explicit, that justify this typology s endurance or that stimulate its disappearance. Apart from identifying these values, it is necessary to investigate the mediation processes that prompted the value transmission and also indentify how the changes on the way of living influence the characterization of the communicability of the home values. It was found, so far, that home building and home inhabiting constitute a mediation to a communicative sociability, and that the typological changes in the architecture of the Icapuí s porched loam houses (multiples and mutant spatialitys) characterize sociability and meaning changes in the communication processes. The methodology consisted in the characterization of the object (through a fifield research, realized within 2006 and 2008) and the confrontation and analysis of the obtained data (based on C.S. Peirce Semiotic), from a plural and theoretical perspective that provides a dialogue between communication, space and culture. Concepts such as space, spatialitys and urban sociability (l. Ferrara), means and mediation (M.Mcluhan, J.M-Barbero), inhabit and live in (M.Heidegger, N.Leach), and communicate, transmit and methodology (R.Debray), are fundamental to the development of the research
A pesquisa pretende, a partir do estudo das casas de taipa alpendradas de Icapuí / Ceará, e através da compreensão da arquitetura como linguagem, estudar o repertório utilizado por aquele que constrói e aquele que habita para comunicar e constituir sentido, a fifim de investigar as relações existentes entre a construção do espaço do habitar e suas representações (espacialidades), e a sociabilidade urbana e comunicativa decorrente das trocas interativas de valores, que se dão no âmbito privado, e expandem-se para o espaço público. O objeto de estudo deste trabalho consiste, portanto, nas casas de taipa alpendradas de Icapuí e nas relações que esta arquitetura estabelece com os habitantes e a cidade, ou seja, no modo como o habitar se transforma em meio que produz um ambiente comunicativo e um cotidiano com hábitos, valores e comportamentos específificos e intransferíveis. Será necessário, ao longo deste percurso, documentar uma tipologia arquitetônica específifica e identifificar os valores, implícitos e explícitos, que justifificam sua permanência ou estimulam seu desaparecimento. Ao perceber tais valores, deve-se ainda investigar os processos de mediação através dos quais sua transmissão se deu e continua ocorrendo -, bem como identifificar como as alterações no modo de morar influenciam a caracterização da comunicabilidade dos valores do habitar. Verififica-se, até então, que os processos do habitar constituem uma mediação para uma sociabilidade comunicativa, e que as alterações tipológicas na arquitetura das casas de taipa alpendradas de Icapuí (múltiplas e mutantes espacialidades) caracterizam alterações na sociabilidade e nos modos de signifificação dos seus processos de comunicação. A estratégia metodológica consiste na caracterização do objeto (a partir de pesquisa de campo, realizada entre 2006 e 2008), comparação e análise dos dados obtidos (a partir da Semiótica de C.S. Peirce), partindo de um horizonte teórico múltiplo que permita o diálogo entre a comunicação, o espaço e a cultura. Conceitos como espaço, espacialidade e sociabilidade urbana (L. Ferrara), meio e mediação (M.McLuhan, J.M-Barbero), habitar e morar (M.Heidegger, N.Leach), e comunicar, transmitir e mediologia (R.Debray), são fundamentais para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa
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Galeotti, Anamaria Amaral Rezende. "A espuma, um modelo possível para os elementos de linguagem do design audiovisual e suas relações." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16134/tde-24062015-092831/.
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Esta pesquisa trata dos elementos de linguagem do Design Audiovisual, pensados como um sistema de signos auditivos, visuais e verbais, simultaneamente transmitidos, enfatizando suas relações e composição transversal no tempo e espaço. Como disciplina nova do Design, o Design Audiovisual nasce do cinema, se desenvolve com a televisão, incorpora os elementos do Design Gráfico e se aperfeiçoa com a informática, tendo seu processo agilizado pela da tecnologia digital emergente pós anos 1990. A evolução da tecnologia de pré-produção, produção e pós-produção nos meios audiovisuais, mais especificamente no cinema, e a crescente possibilidade da criação de um design audiovisual digital complexo, levou-nos a discutir e constatar a necessidade de um modelo para demonstrar esta pluralidade de elementos, frágeis e imprevisíveis, como bolhas de uma espuma. Para tanto, foi proposto o Modelo da Espuma Audiovisual. A tese fundamenta-se, principalmente, na teoria de Lucia Santaella, em Matrizes da linguagem e pensamento, que forneceu ferramentas para a análise destas relações; e do filósofo alemão Peter Sloterdijk, que suportou a proposta do Modelo da Espuma pelo seu caráter metafórico, sistêmico e complexo. Como procedimento empírico, foram realizados estudos de caso de Design Audiovisual de Créditos de Abertura de filmes e, ao final do processo, desenvolveu-se o projeto experimental do Modelo da Espuma Audiovisual, que se transformou em uma Instalação 3D Imersiva, denominada \"Paixão e Violência\". Visa contribuir para a formação ou atualização de designers inseridos no início de século XXI, em meio ao cenário contemporâneo, por isso seu caráter abrangente. Os resultados esclarecem sobre as características dos elementos de linguagem do Design Audiovisual, não apenas como elementos \"emprestados\" de outras linguagens, mas portadores de identidade própria, híbrida, complexa, frágil e única.This research deals with Audiovisual Design language elements, elaborated as an audio/visual/verbal system that simultaneously transmits all its elements, emphasizing their relationship and their transversal composition in time and space. Originally from Cinema, Audiovisual Design originate a new discipline in Design, develops along with Television, feeds from Graphic Design elements and improves with Informatics; it has its own process expedited by emergent digital technology post-1990. The evolution of pre-production, production and post-production in audiovisual mediums, more precisely in Cinema, plus an expanding perspective of creating more complex digital Audiovisual Design, leads us to a discussion yp identify the need of a model that would be able to demonstrate the plurality of these frail, unpredictable, \"bubbles in the foam\"-like elements. That was the beginning of the Audiovisual Foam Model thesis. The thesis fundaments come mainly from Lucia Santaella\'s theories of Language and Thinking Matrix, which are tools for understanding the mentioned relationships; and from the Dutch philosopher Peter Sloterdijk\'s work, that supported the Foam Model because of its metaphoric, systemic and complex character. As an empiric procedure, some study cases were made based on Audiovisual Design of Open Titles, and by the end of this process an experimental Project of the Audiovisual Foam Model was developed, leading to a 3D Immersive Installation named \"Passion and Violence\". This research aims to contribute to the academic formation and updating of designers in beginning of the XXI century, in the middle of its contemporary scenario, and to presents a comprehensive approach. The results brings about a clearer vision of the language elements of the Audiovisual Design, not only as \"borrowed\" elements from other disciplines but also as unique, hybrid, complexes elements on their own identity.
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Castilho, Clarissa Silva de. "O espaço escolar como mediador simbólico: cultura, experiência e sentidos." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/48/48134/tde-08122014-131828/.
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A partir do construto de mediação simbólica de Vigotski, entendida como intrínseca ao processo de desenvolvimento psíquico e cultural humano, esta pesquisa, de cunho qualitativo, investigou o espaço escolar enquanto mediador de significados e sentidos sobre a escola, tanto pelo que propõe sua configuração arquitetônica quanto pelas experiências e usos que possibilita ou que se faz desse espaço, com especial atenção para a sua ressignificação pelos usuários das escolas, principalmente os alunos. A pesquisa foi desenvolvida em duas dimensões: análise do referencial teórico e pesquisa empírica. A pesquisa teórica percorreu autores de diversas áreas do conhecimento (Educação, Arquitetura, Psicologia, Filosofia e Geografia) que trouxeram importantes contribuições para esta reflexão. A pesquisa empírica foi realizada numa escola pública estadual da cidade de São Paulo, construída no período da Primeira República e com 104 anos de existência e tombada pelo CONDEPHAAT (Conselho de Defesa do Patrimônio Histórico, Arqueológico, Artístico e Turístico da Secretaria da Cultura do Governo do Estado de São Paulo) pelo valor histórico, cultural e arquitetônico de seu prédio. Foram utilizados como procedimentos de coleta de dados a observação em campo e o registro iconográfico (fotografias e desenhos), entrevistas livres e registro de depoimentos espontâneos dos funcionários da escola e uma entrevista semiestruturada e em grupo com alunos do 8º ano do Ensino Fundamental todos com o objetivo de identificar e compreender a constituição, organização, uso, vivências cotidianas, apropriações e significados do espaço escolar. Desta forma, compôs-se uma reflexão que traz contribuições para o entendimento do espaço como construção humana e, como tal, lugar que carrega significações não aleatórias, mas passíveis de serem transformadas e recriadas por meio da diversidade de apropriações que pessoas reais fazem dele; lugar que impõe constrangimentos (conformando corporeidades e mentalidades) e impinge controle e disciplina ou que pode estar aberto à experimentação criativa; lugar impregnado pela(s) cultura(s), mas que também é habitado por percepções e vivências pessoais; e, no caso da escola, materialidade que propõe, ainda, sentidos sobre a escola e o conhecimento e sobre sua função em nossa sociedade.From Vygotskys construct of symbolic mediation, understood as intrinsic to the human psychological and cultural development, this qualitative study has investigated the school environment as a mediator of meanings and senses of school, both by means of what the schools architectural configuration proposes and by the experience and uses that it allows, and has focused on the schools resignification by its users, especially students. The study included two dimensions: an analysis of the theoretical framework and empirical research. The theoretical research included authors from different areas of knowledge education, architecture, psychology, philosophy and geography , who brought important contributions to this discussion. The empirical research was conducted in a state public school in Sao Paulo city. Built 104 years ago, during the First Republic, such school was listed by Conselho de Defesa do Patrimônio Histórico, Arqueológico, Artístico e Turístico (CONDEPHAAT Council for the Defense of Historical, Archaeological, Artistic and Touristic Heritage) of São Paulo State Department of Culture, for the historical, cultural and architectural value of its building. As for data collection, I used field observation and iconographic records (photographs and drawings), free interviews and recording of spontaneous comments from school officials and a semi-structured group interview with 8th grade students, aiming to identify and understand the constitution, organization, use, and daily experience and meanings of the school space. Thus, I have written a reflection that brings contributions to the understanding of space as a human construction and, as such, as a place that carries meanings that are not random and can be transformed and recreated through the diversity of appropriations by real people; a place that imposes constraints (conforming mentalities and corporealities) and enforces control and discipline or that may be open to creative experimentation; a place impregnated with culture(s), but also inhabited by our personal perceptions and experiences; and, in the case of school, materiality which also proposes senses of school and knowledge and about its role in our society.
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Reilly-Sanders, Erin F. "Drawing Outside the Bounds: Tradition and Innovation in Depictions of the House in Children's Picturebooks." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1398851009.
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Carpentier, Kévin. "Scénarisation personnalisée dynamique dans les environnements virtuels pour la formation." Thesis, Compiègne, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015COMP2169/document.
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Nos travaux portent sur la scénarisation dans les environnements virtuels pour la formation. Nous nous intéressons particulièrement à la formation dans des environnements sociotechniques complexes comme par exemple la gestion des risques. Dans ces environnements, la variabilité des situations que les opérateurs peuvent rencontrer rend difficile la mise en place d'une formation exhaustive. Il est pourtant crucial d'offrir les moyens permettant l'entrainement à ces situations et les environnements virtuels peuvent apporter des solutions efficaces. En effet, ils peuvent offrir une grande liberté d'action et permettre un apprentissage de type essai-erreur. Le contrôle pédagogique de ces environnements peut alors permettre de personnaliser et d’adapter les contenus à chaque apprenant. Cependant, il est difficile pour les concepteurs d'environnements virtuels d'imaginer, de concevoir et décrire toutes les séquences d'actions et d'événements menant aux situations d'intérêt tout en autorisant une grande liberté d'action pour les apprenants. L'approche de description exhaustive se révèle trop coûteuse, voire vouée à l'échec. Pour palier au goulet d'étranglement de l'écriture et du codage des contenus, nous proposons de générer dynamiquement l'enchainement des situations d'apprentissage au sein d'une simulation. L'architecture TAILOR que nous proposons permet la scénarisation dynamique de chaque session d'apprentissage, en accord avec un modèle du parcours d'apprentissage, en utilisant des modèles à base de connaissances. Pour cela, nous avons tout d'abord proposé le langage \textsc{World-DL} permettant de produire du contenu scénaristique reconfigurable, adaptable et générique pour des environnements virtuels pour la formation. Ce langage permet à la fois de décrire le modèle du monde, les objectifs scénaristiques ainsi que de maintenir la base de connaissances liée à la simulation.Afin de ne pas s'appuyer sur une élicitation du domaine d'apprentissage, nous avons proposé un modèle de l'apprenant opérationnalisant la théorie de la Zone Proximale de Développement. Celui-ci repose sur un espace vectoriel de classes de situation auxquelles sont associées des valeurs de croyance sur la capacité de l'apprenant à gérer les situations qu'elles décrivent. La scénarisation que nous proposons est essentiellement intra-diégétique : elle s'intègre au monde simulé par l'environnement virtuel. Pour cela, nous proposons une méthode de génération dynamique et adaptative de situations d'apprentissage s'appuyant sur des modèles de l'activité et de la causalité inspirés d'analyses ergonomiques. Par ailleurs, les situations d'apprentissage générées sont articulées sous la forme d'une fiction grâce au processus de diégétisation inspiré du courant structuraliste de la sémiologie. Les travaux sur l'architecture TAILOR ont donné naissance au moteur du même nom au sein de la plateforme logicielle HUMANS. L'approche a été appliquée dans un environnement virtuel pour la formation des assembleurs en aéronautiqueThis work addresses the issues of the specification of the scenario in virtual environment for training. We especially address adult lifelong training in complex domains where technical systems are difficult to apprehend and human factors are critical. Workers have to be trained to react to a wide range of situations. Virtual environment can provide this kind of training by offering them the possibility to experiment different behavior in a situation. Yet to foster learning, such environment should provide a wide range of appealing scenarios adapted to learners’ need. The design and the production of all possible scenarios and of all their adaptations is a tedious task. It requires designers to imagine and describe every possible sequence of events which leads to interesting learning situation. Such a descriptive approach conflicts with the need for a smoother production process.To tackle the authoring bottleneck, we propose the TAILOR architecture to dynamically generate sequences of learning situations in a simulation. It takes into account a learner profile and expert knowledge informed in semantic models. We used a space of classes of situations coupled with a belief model to represent the Zone of Proximal Development of a learner. Each point of the space images the ability of the learner to handle a kind of situation. As we are essentially dealing with intra-diegetic orchestration, i.e. what is happening in the world depicted by the simulation, we propose to use expert model of the domain. We distinguished three kind of knowledge: world knowledge, activity knowledge and causality knowledge. They are used at runtime to procedurally generate a learning situation which will enlarge the Zone of Proximal Development of the learner.To this end, we design the WORLD-DL language to author scenario content for virtual environment for training in a reconfigurable, adaptable and generic way through an ontological representation. This language is used both to describe scenario objectives and to maintain a knowledge-based world state. Moreover, we operationalize structuralist view of narrative to build a story upon generated learning situation through an automated diegetization process. This process relies on abstract story model describe in the ontological metamodel DIEGETIC.This work have been implemented in the TAILOR engine used in the HUMANS platform. It was used both for aeronautic assembly virtual training and for baby sitter virtual training
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TAYLOR, SHAWN. "SPEED AND RESOLUTION IN THE AGE OF TECHNOLOGICAL REPRODUCIBILITY." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3888.
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The rate of acceleration of the biologic and synthetic world has for a while now, been in the process of exponentially speeding up, maxing out servers and landfills, merging with each other, destroying each other. The last prehistoric relics on Earth are absorbing the same oxygen, carbon dioxide and electronic waves in our biosphere as us. A degraded .jpeg enlarged to full screen on a Samsung 4K UHD HU8550 Series Smart TV - 85” Class (84.5” diag.). Within this composite ecology, the ancient limestone of the grand canyon competes with the iMax movie of itself, the production of Mac pros, a YouTube clip from Jurassic park, and the super bowl halftime show. A search engines assistance with biographic memory helps our bodies survive new atmospheres and weigh the gravities that exist around the versions of an objects materiality. Communication has moved from our vocal chords, to swipes and taps of our thumbs on a screen that predicts the weather, accesses the hidden, invisible, and withdrawn information from the objects around us, and still ducks up what we are trying to say. This txt was written on a tablet returned to stock settings and embedded with content to mine the experience in which mediated technology creates, communicates and obscures new forms of language. Life in a new event horizon — a dimensional dualism that finds us competing for genetic and mimetic survival — we are now functioning as different types of humans.
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Altenberger, Iris. "A neighbourhood through the viewfinder : an autodriven photo-elicitation of a housing estate undergoing renewal." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/20415.
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This thesis explores the ongoing regeneration of Raploch council housing estate, in Stirling, focusing on the lived experiences of the established residents who reside in the pre-regeneration council housing estate, or had family or historical links with the area, as well as new residents, who have moved into the new owner occupied houses that were built in the regeneration. Key informants who have worked in a professional capacity in the area were also consulted to broaden the perspective. The regeneration was a response to a long history of deprivation, segregation and stigmatisation, which led to the demolition of council housing on one side of a main road within the area. The demolition site was redeveloped by a partnership of private developers and a social housing provider. As a consequence of the regeneration there were various physical and social changes in the area, caused by the construction of new homes, as well as other changes to the built environment, and the influx of owner occupiers into the new housing. A visual research method, 'auto-driven photo elicitation', was utilised, which allowed an insight into these changes from a unique perspective. Participants made photos of the area, of places they wanted to discuss, which became the starting point of a subsequent interview process; allowing participants to focus on issues relevant to them. The findings showed that the participants attached a great importance to the history of this specific place, but also that there was segregation between the new residents and the established community. Further fragmentations, religious and historic territorial divisions, within the communities were visually reinforced by the regeneration process. The participants also attached great significance to the linguistic and semiotic landscape, which they interpreted in the context of this place.
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Söder, Tove, and Erika Eliasson. "Vad visar den plan som säger mer än tusen ord? : Illustrationsplanens betydelse utifrån tydlighetskravet i Plan- och Bygglagen." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för fysisk planering, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-21630.
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Studien syftar till att undersöka illustrationsplaners betydelse som ett förtydligande dokument till detaljplanen, samt i vilken utsträckning illustrationsplaner uppfyller tydlighetskravet i 4 kap 32 och 33 § § Plan- och bygglagen (PBL). Studien har framtagits med avsikt att uppmärksamma en problematik vars effekter kan påverka det faktiska medborgarinflytandet. En brist på forskning har observerats inom ämnet och studien avser därför bidra till att fylla den kunskapsluckan i samhällsplaneringen. Tydlighetskravet innebär att detaljplanens regleringar tydligt ska redovisas för att säkerställa medborgarnas förståelse för planens innebörd och konsekvenser. I avsikt att uppnå tydlighetskravet används ofta illustrationsplaner som kommunikationsverktyg för att förmedla detaljplanens syfte och planbestämmelser till allmänheten. Detta beror på att detaljplanen ofta kan upplevas svårtydd eftersom detaljplankartans utformning tydligt skiljer sig från hur kartor brukar illustreras i andra sammanhang. Genom kvalitativ innehållsanalys ämnar undersökningen besvara i vilken utsträckning illustrationsplaner uppfyller tydlighetskravet i PBL. Vid undersökningen jämfördes detaljplanekarta och planbestämmelser med tillhörande illustrationsplan för att gradera hur tydliga illustrationsplaner är. Detta genomfördes genom ett antal uppställda påståenden som illustrationsplanen kunde svara mot. Påståendena baseras bland annat på tidigare domslut kring illustrationer samt semiotikens syn på hur bilder kan tolkas. Undersökningen kompletterades med ett antal intervjuer från branschkunniga personer, detta för att få en mer kvalitativ och djupgående förståelse för resultatet samt illustrationsplaners betydelse som kommunikativt verktyg. Undersökningens resultat visar på en bristfällighet hos de undersökta illustrationsplanerna vad gäller tydlighet. Svårtolkade illustrationsplaner försvårar medborgarens möjligheter att uppfatta detaljplanens konsekvenser och deras möjlighet att lämna relevanta synpunkter under planprocessen minskar därmed ytterligare. Denna syn på illustrationsplanens potentiella konsekvenser delades med de personer som intervjuades i samband med studien. Med undersökningen och intervjuerna som grund har ett antal ställningstaganden och förslag sammanställts som anses inneha praktisk relevans för samhällsplaneringen. Ett exempel på detta är att en mer gedigen vägledning bör tas fram, till förmån för en nationellt enhetligare användning av illustrationer. Vägledningen hade kunnat utformas på olika sätt, bland annat genom att bristfälliga planer sammanställs för att påvisa vilka konsekvenser som kan följa av en otydlig illustrationsplan. Därtill har även annan typ av vägledning samt andra förslag lyfts fram i studiens slutsatser.
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Perombelon, Brice Désiré Jude. "Prioritising indigenous representations of geopower : the case of Tulita, Northwest Territories, Canada." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:71e14c26-d00a-4320-a385-df74715c45c8.
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Recent calls from progressive, subaltern and postcolonial geopoliticians to move geopolitical scholarship away from its Western ontological bases have argued that more ethnographic studies centred on peripheral and dispossessed geographies need to be undertaken in order to integrate peripheralised agents and agencies in dominant ontologies of geopolitics. This thesis follows these calls. Through empirical data collected during a period of five months of fieldwork undertaken between October 2014 and March 2015, it investigates the ways through which an Indigenous community of the Canadian Arctic, Tulita (located in the Northwest Territories' Sahtu region) represents geopower. It suggests a semiotic reading of these representations in order to take the agency of other-than/more-than-human beings into account. In doing so, it identifies the ontological bases through which geopolitics can be indigenised. Drawing from Dene animist ontologies, it indeed introduces the notion of a place-contingent speculative geopolitics. Two overarching argumentative lines are pursued. First, this thesis contends that geopower operates through metamorphic refashionings of the material forms of, and signs associated with, space and place. Second, it infers from this that through this transformational process, geopower is able to create the conditions for alienating but also transcending experiences and meanings of place to emerge. It argues that this movement between conflictual and progressive understandings is dialectical in nature. In addition to its conceptual suggestions, this thesis makes three empirical contributions. First, it confirms that settler geopolitical narratives of sovereignty assertion in the North cannot be disentangled from capitalist and industrial political-economic processes. Second, it shows that these processes, and the geopolitical visions that subtend them, are materialised in space via the extension of the urban fabric into Indigenous lands. Third, it demonstrates that by assembling space ontologically in particular ways, geopower establishes (and entrenches) a geopolitical distinction between living/sovereign (or governmentalised) spaces and nonliving/bare spaces (or spaces of nothingness).
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Bremner, Lindsay Jill. "Architectural semiotics: a critical assessment of the work of Diana Agrest and Mario Gandelsonas." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/20920.
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A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Architecture, University of the Witwatersrand,
in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Architecture.
Johannesburg 1991Since the late 1950's, research into architecture by many theoreticians has focused on its capacity to convey meaning. As well as traditional approaches to this question, mathematics, communication theory, semiotics, discourse analysis and deconstructive criticism have been used. The work of Diana Agrest and Mario Gandelsonas in the 1970's drew on a number of sources from the broader semiotic field to analyse architecture as a system of meaning. They focused on the processes involved in this aspect of architectural production. This dissertation examines their thesis, in order to ascertain whether the semiotic approach adequately explains how meaning is conveyed in architecture.
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Chan, Danny Cheong-Yin. "Semiotics of structural frames in modern architecture." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11664.
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Structural semiotics often plays an important role in contributing to the overall architectural
expression of a building. Semiotics is defined as the meaning behind or expression of an object. A
structure having a semiotic message is one that communicates beyond its functional purposes. It has in
itself extraordinary inspirational and expressive values. These values are rooted in the historical, cultural
and social contexts, and reflect a sensibility to the built environment and human ways of living. With
careful observation of structural semiotics, these values can be elicited. Structural semiotics is also the
common language of architecture and structure. Its proper execution prevents a structure from becoming
merely subordinate to the architecture. Rather, the structural design can be integrated with the
architectural principles of form, space and order, so that structure and architecture truly become one and
constitute to a unified theme of design.
In this thesis, the structural semiotics of skeletal frame construction is dwelled upon. The
structural frame is the most common yet most representative of all types of construction in modern
architecture. It emancipates the facade and partitions from their structural responsibilities, thus promoting
greater freedom in shaping forms and organizing space. It also utilizes the structural potentials of steel
and reinforced concrete, and allows buildings to be constructed economically by means of repetition and
pattern. In the interior of the building, the frame often supplies in three dimensions a neutral grid of
space, one that not only accommodates but also reshapes human activities of contemporary life. These
unique qualities of structural frames and their corresponding semiotics will be examined in this thesis
from both architectural and engineering perspectives. They are illustrated through a series of case studies
of Modernist architecture. It can be shown that, by a sensible choice of structural system, materials and
construction method, by proper proportioning and detailing, and by careful observation to the contextual
and programmatic requirements, even the most commonplace structural frames can become architecture.
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Lee, Chih-jen, and 李志仁. "The semiotic analysis of the wood carving in the traditional architecture —Subject on ancient architecture in Changhua city－." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/63583272189645029376.
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The craving decoration of traditional architecture has gradually developed according to the history background, the material of building and the tool of the usage. In the Shang dynasty, it started having the appearance of the wood carving decorations, and the East Chou Dynasty was period to decorate the beam, column and architrave by adopting the skill of the carvings broadly then. Immediately after Chin and Han Dynasty was after, the ruling class put forward the higher adornment to beautify the need to its need to its building. These pieces of carving not only reflected times, the local area and the delivery of specific style, but also the mental and social level of the mankind’s cultural environment. Therefore, the wood carving in the traditional architecture constructs not only in decorative beautification need, but also the trace to converse the people’s dream and the emotion and culture into substance form. So these traces also make the tradition architecture own the tense of thought the content. Learns with the attitude of science, the semiotics develops the logic and careful way, and is able to analysis the structure and inside meaning of sign within the cultural system, for example social customs, the rite system, and all phenomenon that etc. is cultural about. Hence, the tradition architecture of wood carving also can be seen as a form of the symbol. Like other sign, it has the complete sign system such as particular phrasing and the principle of organizing, and the function of expression and symbol. The purposes of this research are to establish the symbolic system of traditional culture of carving wood, the conceive of the topic and the distribution in carving for an artisan, the inner meaning and the reaction of the audience. This dissertation tries to get the structure of the wood carving from the point of semiotic. Starting with the intention of artisan, the method of carvings, the concrete present and the expression of the meaning, and has the outcomes that： 1.The principle of phasing and organizing of the wood carvings： To observe the connection between the original idea, the material and the skill of the artisans from the rule of evolution form deep structure to the form structure. 2.The skill of the idea and its meaning of the wood carvings： To observe the skill and the meaning of these articles from the original idea, the material and the skill from picture marks, indicate marks and symbolize marks. 3.The process of producing effects for audience of the wood carvings： To analyze the interrupting and interpreting methods in the process of accepting the original information. At last, this research is not only emphasis in the aspect of theory, but also to observe the spirit and of carving wood shown and its future development by means of exciting of related theories and the case of the countryside investigates. Deducing the deeper life of artisan and the meaning of symbol of the carving wood through structure, meaning and usage through the syntactic, the semantic, and the pragmatic. And then to re-realize and re-interpreting the deeper trace between artisan and carving wood and then to feel deeply.
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Hall, Kelvin Brian. "A study of environmental semiotics in the production of a mixed-income housing complex." Thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/14022.
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Our present society does not actively promote ideas of segregation. We all confront one another at some point in time, regardless of race, sex, or financial status. However, the majority of designs for today's housing complexes does not reflect the balance of the societal structure. Residential segregation is plentiful. By disregarding present-day norms, and by analyzing different housing typologies with various densities and income statuses, a synthesis of ideas will produce a more financially-diverse housing complex. The concepts of private and public space, territory, boundary, extension, and interaction suggest spatial situations that will enhance the entire site in terms of design to maximize security, identity, and neighborly friendliness.
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Agnefeldt, Anton, and Atle Heidarsson. "Att kommunicera och förstå gränser : Om territorialitet, semiotik och tolkning." Thesis, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-18169.
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This essay seeks to examine the role of territorial boundaries and why they can be interpretable. In the essay, the divided residential city block, and its intention to eliminate barriers to create courtyards that are both semi-private and semi-public, is problematized. The division of the block does not mean that barriers cease to exist, but that they enter a more complex state where people themselves must interpret the territorial extents. This has led to conflicts between residents and outsiders, which raises the idea that they have interpreted the territorial boundaries differently. To analyze how boundaries can be interpreted, the essay includes field studies at two residential city blocks of divided character and where territorial conflicts have occurred. The study is carried out with a semiotic framework: by likening boundaries to semiotic sign system, social and cultural qualities can be read. With the help of geosemiotics and landscape semiotics we can conclude that boundaries can be more than just physical barriers, but also social codes that are active in the entire mental world.
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鄭翼雲. "The research of the semiotics to analyzed the formative sign form of architecture-to take the example of the elevator housing of Taipei." Thesis, 1991. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67593649227988510577.
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Williamson, Micheal. "unplanned wanderings: and the discovery of a pier." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/3089.
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My question here revolves around my orientation with my own work; my own frustrations and inability to so often answer the question “can a meaningful place be designed?”
This journey examines the theory of semiotics. Through this, three strategies have been developed to explore the branches of semiotic research in Landscape Architecture.
The first strategy allows meaning to develop through time, and it is with the repeated usage of people that meaning will accrue. The second strategy shows how meaning can be determined before the design through mapping current and desired locations of meaning in space. And, the third strategy reflects on how meaning emerges from the earth when no interference from designers or users occurs.
The result of the three individual strategies is a combination of solutions, illustrating how to create places of true richness. This new space will engage visitors, pull in new visitors, and help create something memorable for those engaging in a space.October 2008
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Brunel, Celeste. "Fashioning spatial identity: a work environment and showroom for a fashion marketer with Thrombocytopenia Absent Radius Syndrome: Düsseldorf, Germany." 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/2840.
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This study looks at human movement in order to formulate a principle that can potentially enrich the understanding of interior design and spatial awareness within it. It considers the spatial identity of the dis/abled body by looking at the importance of the embodied experience in relation to environment. The body has dynamic abilities; therefore it is an instrument for creating form. This tangible form in context with interior design can inform our understanding of spatial needs and be used as a design-informing tool.
Specifically this project uses spatial identity as a theory to guide the conceptual ideas and as a practical tool to design a work environment and showroom for a client with Thrombocytopenia Absent Radius (TAR) syndrome.October 2007
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Strydom, Cornus. "Modulayer-Berea Park Learner's Resource Centre." Diss., 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29604.
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The designed building is a proposed Learner's Resource Centre situated in Berea Park. The development will be funded by the European Union and managed by a section 21 company of tertiary institutions and government departments. It creates a community facility that is needed in the Pretoria inner city, addressing lack of study space and urban parks in the CBD. The main building includes a digital library, offices, auditorium, conferencing facilities and a restaurant. This building forms the focus of the investigation, while the rest of the campus development forms part of an Urban Design scheme proposed for the Pretoria inner city. The functions included on the campus are overnight facilities, workshops, classrooms and a multi purpose hall. The thesis is introduced by an investigation into the theory of the meaning in architecture. This includes research in the fields of semiotics and visual culture and the conclusion of that theory into a designed building.Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2005.
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Andrews, Chad Michael. ""Minds will grow perplexed": The Labyrinthine Short Fiction of Steven Millhauser." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/4023.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)Steven Millhauser has been recognized for his abilities as both a novelist and a writer of short fiction. Yet, he has evaded definitive categorization because his fiction does not fit into any one category. Millhauser’s fiction has defied clean categorization specifically because of his regular oscillation between the modes of realism and fantasy. Much of Millhauser’s short fiction contains images of labyrinths: wandering narratives that appear to split off or come to a dead end, massive structures of branching, winding paths and complex mysteries that are as deep and impenetrable as the labyrinth itself. This project aims to specifically explore the presence of labyrinthine elements throughout Steven Millhauser’s short fiction. Millhauser’s labyrinths are either described spatially and/or suggested in his narrative form; they are, in other words, spatial and/or discursive. Millhauser’s spatial labyrinths (which I refer to as ‘architecture’ stories) involve the lengthy description of some immense or underground structure. The structures are fantastic in their size and often seem infinite in scale. These labyrinths are quite literal. Millhauser’s discursive labyrinths demonstrate the labyrinthine primarily through a forking, branching and repetitive narrative form. Millhauser’s use of the labyrinth is at once the same and different than preceding generations of short fiction. Postmodern short fiction in the 1960’s and 70’s used labyrinthine elements to draw the reader’s attention to the story’s textuality. Millhauser, too, writes in the experimental/fantastic mode, but to different ends. The devices of metafiction and realism are employed in his short fiction as agents of investigating and expressing two competing visions of reality. Using the ‘tricks’ and techniques of postmodern metafiction in tandem with realistic detail, Steven Millhauser’s labyrinthine fiction adjusts and reapplies the experimental short story to new ends: real-world applications and thematic expression.