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Wang, Qi. "Towards the built environment linguistics." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2008. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10508/.
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In the history of the built environments theoretical development, the architecture, city and landscape have all been considered as language. Differing from subjects and scholars, various built environment languages have existed, durably or ephemerally. Some stressed the structure of languages and extracted the built environment dictionaries; some emphasized the linguistic characteristics of language and compiled the built environment grammar. They are all great achievements in built environment theory; however, since the connatural difference between the tangible buildings and the intangible spoken & written languages, this concept - the built environment languages - are still esoteric and intricate for the public. Facing this problem, this research intends to probe an integrated built environment language and to uncover the essence and mechanism of the built environment language. Undoubtedly, a comprehensive literature review is the foundation before any further development. Through careful study about both the structural linguistics - semiology system and previous built environment language studies, it is conspicuous that a universal built environment linguistics framework can be established referring to the knowledge of structural linguistics and semiology. Hereinto, firstly the built environment can be looked as a 'langage' that contains the corresponding 'langue' and 'parole' then other binary linguistic concepts, including the "signifier & signified"‚ "isologic sign & non-isologic sign", "syntagmatic axis & systematic axis" and "synchronic aspect & diachronic aspect", can be introduced into this new field. Therefore, based on this framework, not only can the essence and mechanism of built environment linguistics be explained, but also all the previous studies about the languages of architecture, urban planning and landscape can be seamlessly embedded inside. After the theoretical analysis, a discreetly designed simulation test is prepared to verify the practicability of built environment linguistics. Its results can then provide strong support from pragmatic dimension. Finally, the foundation of a theory of universal built environment linguistics can be achieved, but to be same as all other scientific researches, what is completed here is just a beginning rather than an end.
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Dunbar, Susan C. "Built to last : designing for a referential continuity in the built environment." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65675.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1991.Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-134).
This thesis is about exploring a way of understanding, designing and building architecture which acknowledges that we are a part of a world which is always changing and becoming, without denying or forgetting the past, and still fulfilling the needs and potentials of the present. It is about continuing the collective understanding of how we relate to an evolving built environment. Current trends in commercial architecture tend to build neutral spaces which are then sold as a commodity to be filled with whatever use the consumer desires, rather than building for specific needs as they are required. This has contributed to a lack of definition in the cumulative built environment which has reduced the information available as a reference for evaluating and interpreting one's surroundings in ways which enrich and further its potential use. What I am proposing to explore are some issues of design that respond to a specific site, which will be able to meet the long-term concerns of growth and/or change in use and technology, while providing a referential continuity; a continuity in the understanding of how a building and its surroundings have evolved. As change is an inevitable fact of existence, designing with that as a goal is redundant and leads only to an undefined, passive building as opposed to a more specific definition which positively influences how it is inhabited. The analysis of existing buildings which have been renovated generates some basic principles about the qualities which seem to endow a structure with the capacity to be reinterpreted without losing its initial character in the existing environment. These principles will then be applied to the design of a new building as an illustration of how buildings which are not designed for the possibility of multiple inhabitations over time, need not be neutral in their organization, but may actually contribute substantially to their surroundings and their interpretation.
by Susan C. Dunbar.
M.Arch.
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Onishi, Yoko 1963. "Prototype and attractiveness in the built environment." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/277213.
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The present study hypothesized that (1) perception of the built environment is organized around a prototype, the notion extensively studied by Rosch and others, and, (2) judgement of attractiveness of the built environment is influenced by that structure. 37 subjects rated prototypicality of 51 slides of houses and an independent sample of 33 subjects rated attractiveness of the same slide set. Results showed that people perceived some residential houses as more prototypical than others. Also a significant correlation between prototype rating and attractiveness rating was found. People found the high level prototypicality most attractive, as opposed to the low prototypicality stimuli. It was also found that the residential prototype could be identified by physical features.
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Cilliers, Pieter Lafras. "Usurping architecture : sculptural resistance to the built environment." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8206.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 70-71).Usurping Architecture is a study in three parts. Part One explores the historical and theoretical basis that has informed my body of work. In this section, I explore the perfection of the depiction of the three-dimensional structure on a two-dimensional plane. This is specifically related to architecture. I then examine the role of geometric abstraction, as developed on the two-dimensional format, in sculptural strategies and their insertion in the lived, everyday environment.The role of geometric formalism is expanded on in the chapters on minimal art, where I explore the role of Gestalt psychology in creating a phenomenological response in the viewer. In the following chapters I indicate how the strategies employed by the minimal artists were used in subsequent decades as a response to the architectural environment. Part Two deals with the methodology related to my art-making processes. The first chapter of this section informs the reader about the general use of concrete as a material. The second chapter explains how I use this material in the construction of cast concrete sculptures. It describes the technical aspects of the process in detail. Part Three comprises a list of each work submitted for examination. The works are represented photographically and are accompanied by a short explanatory text.
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Yılmaz, Ebru. "Determination of the place concept in reproduction process of built environment: process of built environment: Kordon, İzmir as a Case Study/." [s.l.]: [s.n.], 2004. http://library.iyte.edu.tr/tezler/doktora/mimarlik/T000486.doc.
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Zhang, Zhujing M. ArchMassachusetts Institute of Technology. "Komorebi : embedding dappled sunlight in the built environment." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129914.
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Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, February, 2020Cataloged from student-submitted thesis.
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Humans are increasingly disconnected from nature. Urbanization, resource exploitation, and changes in ways of living have diminished people's access to nature. Exposure to nature is beneficial to human beings in many aspects. Researches in environmental psychology and public health have shown the positive impacts of nature connections for people's happiness, concentration, and restoration. In creating the living environment with the connectedness to nature, various researches have been invested, such as the study of green space in the living environment, the application of virtual nature in psychiatric and medical care, the implementation of natural scenery in augmented reality. However, the idea of imitating natural phenomena in the built environment via tangible building systems has not been explored yet. This thesis aims to provide people with the perception of connectedness to nature in the built environment by embedding the sensory experience of nature, Komorebi, in the building system. Komorebi is a Japanese term that describes the dappled sunlight filtered through tree foliage. Through analysis of this visual effect and experimenting with various materials and actuators, a daylight-filtering system is developed to bring the dappled light phenomenon into the built environment. Environmental performance simulations of the Komorebi system is conducted in comparison with no-shading and the Venitian blind. The system builds on the existing infrastructure to integrate elements of improvisational nature into the building system, creating natural sensory experiences in the built environment. In practice, it would have great potential at places where natural connections are limited, and relinking occupants to nature would be highly beneficial. The impact of this work includes 1) creating a port for people who have limited access to nature due to work demand or mobility limitation, 2) invoking people's memories in nature, and encouraging more exposure to nature.
by Zhujing Zhang.
M. Arch.
M.Arch. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture
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Horn, Patricia. "Application of a Green Roof on the College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture." The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623464.
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Sustainable Built Environments Senior Capstone ProjectIn the United States, commercial rooftops are too often an afterthought, serving only to house HVAC systems and other utilitarian building components. Rooftops are the most underutilized valuable spaces in buildings. They comprise a great deal of real estate that could help boost a building’s energy efficiency, aesthetics, and even the wellness of occupants. Buildings are the leading contributors to energy consumption in the country, and implementing green roofs could significantly mitigate this energy use, so costly to society in so many ways. This proposal studies the benefits of implementing a green roof on the College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA) in Tucson, Arizona. Extensive research was conducted on the implementation of a green roof in this hot arid region, as well as a survey among a pool of 50 occupants. The conclusions drawn: a green roof would be utilized by occupants, and would bring about benefits including cleaner air, an expanded roof lifespan, and reduced heat island effect. Conclusions also demonstrate that the cost of implementing a green roof might not be offset by energy savings alone, but when considering the benefits and costs to society, a green roof ultimately proves beneficial economically as well.
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Lolli, Alyson C. "Architecture + physical activity encouraging movement in the built environment /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2006. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=ucin1148055793.
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Thesis (Master of Architecture)--University of Cincinnati, 2006.Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed July 24, 2006). Includes abstract. Keywords: physical activity; ideal city; desert architecture. Includes bibliographical references.
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LOLLI, ALYSON C. "ARCHITECTURE + PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: ENCOURAGING MOVEMENT IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1148055793.
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Cross, Alexander F. (Alexander Francis) Carleton University Dissertation Canadian Studies. "Built for profit: sources of form in the Canadian residential built environment, 1900-1960." Ottawa, 1994.
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Powell, Michael John Vivian. "Built environment and biblical theology : making connections : discerning relationships." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272991.
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McBrien, Brandon James. "Social Architecture: A Study of Society & the Built Environment." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/244434.
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In 2009, the American Community Survey revealed that social equality gaps in the US had reached the highest on record. Never has there been more need for social equality than now, and many experts predict that social divisions are only going to worsen. Furthermore, with the current state of the economy, the amount of resources available to non-profit organizations that attempt to mitigate social inequality has drastically shrunk. Organizations, such as TOMS Shoes, American Apparel, the One Percent, and many others have adopted corporate social responsibility practices into their business model to try to make a positive difference in the world. Currently, there is room in the arena of architecture to do what other industries have done in adopting socially responsible practices. The connection that the built environment and society share can offer a way unique way for architects to begin to promote social sustainability. Alain de Botton, author and philosopher, said society is, "for better or worse, different people in different places. Architecture's task is to render vivid to us who we might ideally be." This observation of the relationship that humanity and the built environment share with one another is one of extraordinary insight and attests to the fact that the built environment has the ability to establish a platform for values that become part of our culture. Botton's words illustrate the underlying premise of this capstone: to discover what architecture should and can be. Architecture for the public good must not merely stimulate but must also inspire and serve. Architecture that achieves both can exist as a beacon of hope for renewed prosperity and social equality. This project seeks to use the shared connection of society and the built environment to offer a unique approach to provide the basic human need of shelter, while simultaneously providing an innovative process for giving back to charitable human service organization. Furthermore, this project seeks to demonstrate that there is a strategic way to design and construct buildings that mitigate the social impact of new construction and, through this process, extend the scope of sustainability beyond energy savings into human equity.
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SEKAVEC, DANIEL JAMES. "CONTROL OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT IN THE INFORMATION AGE." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1179351863.
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Sherman, Sandra Anne. "Healing effects of the built environment." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3321036.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University, 2008.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed Aug. 1, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 120-127).
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Bertrand, Raymond docteur en droit. "Meaning and the built environment : an ethnographic approach to architectural programming." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61260.
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The importance of programming the built environment is increasingly recognized, mostly because of the growing complexity of architecture. Nevertheless, little attention has been paid to the meaning of architecture for its users. This thesis reviews the research on meaning in architecture, and proposes new directions in the investigation of meaning within the process of architectural programming.
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Langdon, Paul. "Built environment education : a curriculum paradigm." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40377.
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The expansion of Built Environment Education into art programs is a relatively recent phenomenon but very timely. The need to develop in students an understanding of their living environment is urgent as they inherit a world that is experiencing the depletion of its resources and erosion of its ecological balance.There is a fundamental need for more comprehensive curriculum planning in built environment education. The goal of this research is to develop a curriculum paradigm that can be used to create curriculum plans and instructional designs for built environment education as part of the art class in secondary schools.
The built environment content of this curriculum paradigm is based on the active investigation of the students' internal world with all its different perceptions and lived experience and how this affects their understanding of the greater built environment. Through a more intense investigation of the greater built environment, the students will then analyze the effect that this environment has on their own perceptions and living habits. By developing a more conscious understanding of the built environment, the students will be better equipped to make informed decisions on how to better adapt to or change their environment.
A guiding principle for the curriculum paradigm was to ensure that the introduction of a new subject area, such as built environment education, into art education curriculum involved processes of creativity and discovery along with self-reflective and participatory action for both the teacher and students. To be effective, the content material must not only be accessible through the traditional modes of academic literature research but also made valid through observation, reflection and interaction with the particular built environment of the teacher and students themselves.
Vigilance and active participation in the process of urban change are vital. These changes can only be effective and enduring if we acknowledge the capacity of the built environment to enrich our lives as private and communal beings.
One of the essential goals of this curriculum paradigm is to capture the excitement and potential that the built environment offers as a pervasive agent for understanding and celebrating constructed past, present and future.
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Garcia, Ghislaine L. "Sensory Kinematics: Interactive Architecture and Its Influences on the Built Environment." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491306229421311.
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Feltes, Vince. "Toward sustainable building : green building design and integration in the built environment." Online access for everyone, 2007. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2007/v_feltes_050307.pdf.
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Lee, Steve M. Arch Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Empathy with the built environment : exploration through the design of a museum." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68305.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1995.Includes bibliographical references (leaves [60]-[61]).
How can we build to allow empathy with the physical environment? The term empathy is understood primarily from sociology referring to an association with another person. In terms of architecture, empathy can be understood as a positive association with the built environment. Association, whether positive or negative, is subjective to some extant; however, this is not the aim of the thesis. There are behaviors of the physical environment that are positively associative to all people, in spite of race, culture, and differences in personal experience. The more people can associate with the built environment the better they are able to understand the world they live in. The aim of this thesis is to look at two ways of building this association with the physical world. The first aspect of this topic is to reveal the making of the buildings we live in. The second aspect of this subject is size relationships. The understanding of the built environment by revealing building systems may be contrary to advocates of neutral gallery spaces. Minimization of the setting in the dialogue between art and viewer results in undifferentiated and non articulated spaces and surfaces . This enhances the disassociation of the viewer from the physical environment. How can we build museums to allow association between the built space that we inhabit and the requirements for a museum?
by Steve Lee.
M.Arch.
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Wilhelm, Martin. "Technical image and the built environment : ideas for a possible design agenda." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70703.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1996.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 69-71).
Vilem Flusser introduces in his 'Into the Universe of the Technical Images' this universe as attracting the' existential interest of future humans'. He describes the technical images as re-assemblies of bits of truth that are leftovers: The universe of texts abstracted the world thoroughly. It also abstracted the orthographic rules of logic and reasoning until only disconnected bits of information remained. The technical images compute these bits in an attempt to make the world understandable again and to provide the possibility to communicate its possibilities dialogical. The consequence for the built environment sounds very simple: It has as its first task to serve the existential interest of future humans, their search for the sense of life. The present environment reflects the sense of life in a universe of texts: The shelter is brought to a state where it serves the physical human needs perfectly, and the forms of the shelters reflect the enterprise of science and technology, of progress towards a linear goal of an industrial society appropriately. The environment of the emerging universe has to change its focus. It has to enable the existential human need to experience the infinity of possibilities, explore them, change them, in a mutual exchange of at the same time challenge and reaction, appreciation, with the colleagues with the same specificity: consciousness. The sense of life can only be found in this permanent dynamic, dialogical experience. Five elements could symbolize this environment: The lonely tower, the element of contemplative moods, that cannot be failed to notice; The dense tubes, the continuously busy and productive element; The flat planes, the experimental element with a maximum of edges and contrast between environments and individuals, around which the confrontation with the linear goal is fought; The big connector, the symbol for the element that is only functional as infrastructure but inevitable as audience; And the refined capsule, the volume for best most facilitated exchange and common experience. Together they form an 'Institute for Culture', for sense-seeking. Site for some sketches is Pier 40 on the Hudson River Water Front in Manhattan.
by Martin Wilhelm.
M.S.
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Lister, Matthew J. (Matthew James). "Towards a new real estate : innovative financing for a better built environment." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/42031.
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Thesis (S.M. in Real Estate Development)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2007.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
"September 2007."
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The real estate industry has evolved significantly over the last century. This evolution has enabled the rise of real estate to be one of the largest and most important asset classes in American investment. Yet this evolution has also produced a system of development that has grown to compromise rather than facilitate the creation of places of enduring value. First, this thesis explores how the evolution of the industry led to this system. Second, this thesis asserts that the real estate industry has continued to evolve, and is on the verge of adopting a new system of development, a New Real Estate, that will again facilitate the creation of places of enduring value. Following the current paradigm shift in American city planning, the New Real Estate acknowledges the significant benefits of developing walkable mixed use urbanism. Despite the significant advances made in the industry to design and entitle walkable mixed use urbanism, there has been little effort made to facilitate it's development in the field of real estate finance. Key to the continued evolution of the New Real Estate, is the introduction and acceptance of several innovative financing concepts. This thesis examines the potential roles of Patient Equity, Real Options Analysis, and the emerging U.S. Real Estate Derivatives market in the evolving real estate industry.
by Matthew J. Lister.
S.M.in Real Estate Development
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Hällgren, Nina. "Designing with Urban Sound : Exploring methods for qualitative sound analysis of the built environment." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-240078.
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The licentiate thesis Designing with Urban Sound explores the constitution and qualitative characteristics of urban sonic space from a design-oriented and practice-based perspective. The act of lifting forth and illuminating the interaction between architecture, the creation of sound and a sonic experience aims to examine and develop useful tools and methods for the representation, communication and analysis of the exterior sonic environment in complex architectural spaces. The objective is to generate theoretical and practical knowledge within the field of urban sound planning and design by showing examples of different and complementary ways of communicating and analyzing sound than those which are commonly recognized.Licentiatavhandlingen Designa med stadens ljud undersöker det urbana ljudrummets konstitution och kvalitativa egenskaper utifrån ett designorienterat och praktiknära perspektiv. Avsikten med arbetet är att utveckla verktyg och metoder för representation, kommunikation och analys av stadens exteriöra ljudmiljö genom att synliggöra interaktionen mellan arkitektur, ljudbildning och upplevelse. Genom att visa exempel på andra sätt att kommunicera och analysera ljud i staden än dagens vedertagna metoder, är syftet är att bidra till kunskapsutvecklingen inom fältet för urban ljudplanering- och design.
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Mikellides, B. "Emotional and behavioural reaction to colour in the built environment." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.233455.
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Hritzay, Anne Elizabeth. "Designing at the edge : exploring the interface between the built and natural environment." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67374.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1986.MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH.
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Architectural form embodies layers of cultural meaning which reveal people's attitude about their connection to their world. Architectural form has the capacity to contain a plethora of statements about the individual identity of the builders and occupants, as well as a general statement about their place within the continuum of human history. Traditional architectural forms have shown past civilizations to be much more responsive to their natural context, deriving ordering and building systems from the immediate environment. Increasingly however, architectural forms have arisen from more abstract concepts of order. The past few decades have witnessed rationalist expression of building forms underscoring the disconnection from the greater natural cycle of existence as a generative basis of form making systems. This attitude denies the opportunity for buildings to express cultural meaning about people's natural interconnection, in addition to formal geometric expressions. The "modern architectural movement", set within the framework of our current state of cultural development in a technological age, has contributed to alienating people from the natural world in which they are integrally entwined. In order to bridge the gap formed between natural ordering systems and current design expression in a technological age, this thesis explores design as an integration of built and natural form. The design of a retreat center in a dominant natural setting is the vehicle for this exploration. It embodies both functional (programmatic) and physical (architectural form) aspects through an integrated order which can facilitate people's reconnection to the natural order.
by Anne Elizabeth Hritzay.
M.Arch.
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Peck, Rose. "Kensington Center for Health: An Exploration of Health, Wellness and the Built Environment." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3842.
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This is a project that explores how design can integrate medical treatment and community support. The high prevalence of chronic disease is creating a national healthcare crisis. Chronic disease is the leading cause of death and disability in the United States. Consideration of a holistic sense of well-being that focuses on disease resistance, resilience, and self-management is necessary to realize and sustain health outcomes. Community engagement is imperative to improve adherence rates for lifestyle changes. This project aims to design a community wellness space that is focused on prevention, resilience and self-management. A new typology of a community-anchored wellness clinic could provide an environment to support positive change. This clinic will be a new model of care by combining the necessary access to fitness, healthy food and health care while fostering community, and providing patient education and emotional support.
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Al-Hokail, Abdulhakeem Abdulrahman. "Socio-cultural contradictions in the Arab-Islam built-environment : the case of Arriyadh City." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1635.
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Since the beginning of this century, inacculturation which is the full acceptance of foreign ideas and concepts, have produced a negative impact on the Arab/Islamic socio-cultural milieu. Instead of the synthesised approach to the transfer of ideas and concepts or in another word acculturation the inacculturation approach resulted on many socio-cultural contradictions on the Arab/Islamic built environment. Every built-environment consists of distinctive features that relates to social, cultural, economical and environmental parameters inherent in that particular built-environment. Before the 1950s, the built-environments of the country of Saudi Arabia were a natural continuation of city-building techniques throughout history. The most significant period that affected that urban continuity was the advent of the religion of Islam. However, since the 1950s, fast and dramatic changes had occurred in the built-environment that had affected it in social and cultural terms. These urban changes were not synthesised with the socio-cultural norms and ways of life of the residents of these built-environments. In another word, the process of urban inacculturation instead of acculturation had been taking place in the urban spatial structures of the country’s cities and towns. This study attempts to understand and explain the process of urban change that had occured since the 1950s. The city of Arriyadh was chosen for an in-depth investigation as a case study for this research. The case study approach starts by analysing the city urban development from the traditional to the contemporary. Then, using both quantitative and qualitative approaches, it examines the socio-cultural contradictions, urban identity and perceptions of the built-environment. The study reveals that the traditional built-environment had less socio-cultural contradictions, clear urban identity and perceived in positive terms. While the contemporary built environment resulted in socio-cultural contradictions, and ambiguous and distorted urban identity and perceived as containing negative social, cultural, and environmental and economical handicaps.
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Morabito, Giovanni V. "Architecture and Neuroscience: Designing for How the Brain Responds to the Built Environment." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1460729866.
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Turan, Irmak. "From sink to stock : the potential for recycling materials from the existing built environment." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106425.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2016."June 2016." Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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This thesis examines the prospect for new local recycling schemes for concrete and masonry waste within an existing urban environment. Using Lisbon, Portugal as a case study, I propose three context-specific material recycling scenarios to make use of mineral construction waste generated as city's aging residential building stock is replaced over the next 30 years. The objective of the work is to explore whether the existing stock, as it is overturned, can feed the future built environment and to what degree. What happens to construction waste when obsolete buildings are demolished? In the case of Lisbon, most of it is used as backfill or disposed in landfill. Little of the mineral waste's material value is recovered. Nonetheless, the urban built environment maintains the alluring prospect of being a source for our impending resource needs. The concept of urban mining and the circular economy movement bolster this proposition as a path towards more efficient, localized resource use within cities. I compare the three recycling proposals, along with standard landfill disposal, in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, land use, and cost. The results show that from both an environmental and economic standpoint, recycling is not always the optimal solution. The impacts depend not only on the recycling processes and end uses, but also the avoided and added burdens consequent to changes in the existing system. Through this analysis, I identify both the limiting factors and potential opportunities for improvement in the current paradigm of material use and reuse in construction, in Lisbon and beyond.
by Irmak Turan.
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Fakhraldeen, Sukaina. "Redefining (interior)scapes: integrating the natural and built environment." Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13650.
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Master of Landscape ArchitectureDepartment of Landscape Architecture, Regional and Community Planning
Mary Catherine (Katie) Kingery-Page
In the temperate Midwest, interiorscapes are seldom a feature of public schools. The interior spaces of school environments tend to be dull, uninspiring, and do very little to nurture the wellbeing and needs of students. Interiorscapes can greatly influence the overall productivity of users by creating healthy, pleasant environments. Schools fail to create richer indoor environments for a number of reasons, such as lack of resources as well as knowledge about the design, implementation and benefits of interiorscapes. In addition students today “are not the outdoor-living [children] they were 100 years ago, and as much as 90% of [their] time may be spent indoors” (Manaker, 2). Healthy and stimulating school environments have the potential to enhance students’ productivity and creativity. Therefore the question at hand is: how can a Manhattan Kansas’ high school integrate the natural and built environment to create richer interior spaces? In this Master’s report, I explore the potential benefits of designing an interiorscape that integrates the natural and built environments within a school setting. Using Manhattan High School West Campus as the project site, I analyzed the effect and design of existing interiors on students through passive observation. Numerous research precedents identified valuable information on design processes and methodologies for designing interiorscapes and evaluating user interaction with existing places. Following a thorough analysis of the typology and characteristics of each precedent, I considered unique facets that were directly applicable to my project site. I then went to test the aspects selected from these precedents by incorporating them into the design for the selected project site; north courtyard and adjacent interior dining space. Based upon the precedent research and literature review, design goals and objectives evolved. The end product is a schematic design for Manhattan’s High School cafeteria area and north courtyard. The plan encompasses desired characteristics of an interiorscape and needs of its potential users. Ultimately, this proposal presents ideas for ways of implementing interiorscapes to enhance the overall productivity of users, while simultaneously strengthening the relationship between the natural and built environments.
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Alnuaimi, Abdulla N. "The Outside-In Method for Sustainable Design Within the Built Environment Spatial Layers." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10281527.
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The expression “no man is an island” is intended to represent human isolation in its most extreme form depicting man as an isolated body of land. Contrary to the statement, an element unnoticed within this expression frequently is the existence of that Island. The expression is intended as an example of articulating absolute isolation of the human in existence. However, the idea of the human being a location being the island is still declared. As humans who inhabit this earth, we cannot exist without space. There is an undeniable link between the spaces and the inhabitants within them. As a result of Modernity, the majority of the human inhabitants of the world exist throughout their entire lives within the Built Environment. The Built Environment holds an assortment of spaces that have been composed in order to accommodate our existence. A practice of engaging the composition of these spaces for human inhabitance is commonly what is known as Architectural Design. Spaces will continue to exist and Architecture is a mean of addressing the design of them. Understanding these spaces through their Concepts, Conditions, and Components allows for a classification of common spaces that exist within the Built Environment. The classification of these spaces within the Built Environment arrives at the mutual dialogue of the Built Environment Spatial Layers. The ever-demanding human population that is growing exponentially cause many ecological, economical, and social dilemmas through our modern interpretations of spaces composed within the Built Environment. Understanding the Built Environment through the Built Environment Spatial Layers allows for the acknowledged design surrounding these spaces that yield the greatest sustainability through energy efficiency and minimizing environmental impacts without denying the humanity of that concept.
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Purwani, Ofita. "Javanese power : silent ideology and built environment of Yogyakarta and Surakarta." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9885.
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Yogyakarta and Surakarta are two cities on the island of Java, Indonesia, which are considered as the centres of Javanese culture. That identity has resulted from the existence of the royal court or kraton in each of them. Both cities have shared a similar history as descendants of the Mataram kingdom, the greatest kingdom in Java, which was divided into two in 1755. Both also share a similar physical layout of the palace, shown not only in the layout of the kraton compounds, which consist of seven hierarchical courtyards, but also in the names and the functions of the courtyards and buildings. They also share similar city layouts in which the palace located at the centre, two squares each at the northern and southern end of the kraton compounds, and a royal road, create a north-south axis which is claimed to be cosmological. However, the kratons have suffered different fates in the modern era. Since Indonesian Independence in 1945, Yogyakarta has been considered to be a ‘special region’, with its territory awarded a status equivalent to a province. Also the king is automatically appointed governor, while Surakarta is only recognised as a city, which is a part of the province of Central Java. While the kraton of Yogyakarta holds importance in Yogyakarta, with the acknowledgement of territory and the king’s political role as governor, the kraton of Surakarta has no influence in the city of Surakarta. The mayor of Surakarta city is elected by the people, and even in the 2010 election a candidate from the royal family of the kraton of Surakarta lost 10:90 to a non-kraton-related candidate. The kraton of Yogyakarta has its land and property acknowledged by the state, while the kraton of Surakarta has its land and properties appropriated by the state, except the palace and some of its noble houses. The description above shows that there is a difference in power levels between both kratons. This thesis examines the background process of power, particularly those related to architecture and the built environment including arts, rituals, and culture integrated with them. Based on Bourdieu’s theory of structure/agency, I focused myself on the silent ideology of the built environment, which embodies a power structure in people’s unconsciousness through experience, in order to find out why differences in power levels occurred in two places that share a similar history and physical layouts. Using a comparative analysis, I examine in detail the silent ideology in terms of landscape, in both urban and architectural context. This silent ideology, with the support of cosmological narratives and colonial discourses, together with the accumulation of history in each of them, has a determining role in reproducing the existing power structure and continuous effort as this silent ideology helps to make sure that the existing power structures last.
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Taha, Elhag Elsiddig. "Sustainability in the rural built environment : vernacular architecture of the Gezira Area/Sudan." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/683.
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The Gezira area of the Sudan saw the construction of one of the major agricultural schemes in Africa in the beginning of the twentieth century (1925). The construction of this scheme led to a development of two different rural models of settlement: the colonial model established by the British Governors at the time and the traditional vernacular model built organically by the local people; the farmers who are the main stakeholder of the scheme. Through time the local settlements have been subjected to changes in many aspects of housing design and quality. In the Sudan, the need to reorganize the organic villages is a critical issue, but government planning initiatives failed to pay attention to the simple planning issues of the organic settlements within their planning processes. The recognition of the simplicity and humbleness of the rural traditional villages may be itself a merit to those settlements that adapted themselves to changing conditions of many factors such as changing environment, changing socio-cultural behaviour and changing spatial arrangements and persist in competing with the planned organized agricultural scheme, which has exerted influential limitations on their development. These architectural changes - in settlement patterns, structure, and in the external appearance of the local houses - indicate the complexity of their causes. We are trying to understand the changes that the relationships of spaces and society have conveyed. The basic focus will be on the relationship between the socio-cultural factors and the built environment at three levels of development: regional settlement, local settlement and dwelling. To achieve this aim a systematic approach is used to investigate the relationship of socio-cultural behaviour with the built environment as it has evolved in the Gezira area of the Sudan. The analytical approach includes aspects of history and sociocultural factors that could expose the complex relationships between the settlement patterns, houses and their users. A second important feature of this research is its comparative character. The comparative characters of the planned settlement of the agricultural scheme, the organic settlement and the new extension of the organic village may explain the socio-cultural relationships. The research, also, contributes to explain the impact of built environment infrastructures and the planning interventions processes carried out by the Government to organise the organic vernacular settlements on the Gezira settlements. The research explores a wide range of literature and information resources to address these issues and draw a conceptual framework. The Gezira area is taken as a case study as it is characterised by different types of settlements that have emerged within the fabric of a developed agricultural scheme. Data collected for a case study of two space domains representing two types of settlements is used to consolidate the information used in the research. The thesis provides evidence that, working empirically; people are well able to navigate themselves to shape resources nearer to the realisation of their values. Evidence that at least tells us there are many ways in which to make a home meaningful, sustainable and far from rural deprivation. These ways could be reflected within the traditional vernacular architecture.
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Al-Said, Fahad A. M. "Territorial behaviour and the built environment : the case of Arab-Muslim towns, Saudi Arabia." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1992. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6829/.
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This study attempts to explore the effect of human territorial behaviour on shaping the Arab-Muslim built environment in the past, present and future. Also, the study establishes a continuity between the traditional and contemporary Arab-Muslim built environment, the case of Saudi Arabian neighbourhoods. To achieve these objectives the study starts by a critical review of the existing body of theoretical knowledge about human territorial behaviour phenomena in order to rationalise it and match it with the dynamic nature of the Arab-Muslim built environment. The thesis sees human territoriality as a spatial behaviour and traces it to its roots in the behavioural sciences, mainly Psychology and Sociology, and design as the art of space making. It proposes the human territorial behaviour phases (Allocation, Attainment, Maintenance, and Abandonment) in parallel to the built environment space design cases/stages (Nesting, Stringing, and Clustering).The study, then, reviews the historical knowledge about the traditional Arab-Muslim built environment, and investigates the origin and process of Arab-Muslim territoriality, and its effect on the built environment. This study looks at the Islamic law (Sharicah) ownership system and built environment easement rights as parameters for defining the Traditional Arab-Muslim built environment's various territorial types (Public and jurisdictional, semi public, semi private, and private and personal space). This distinction verified the common belief that the Arab-Muslim built environment is a result of its resident's continuous territorial encroachment on the available public spaces. The study not only depends on the theoretical and historical critique review, but also depends on analysing aerial photos of the Saudi built environment dated from 1935 until now. This analysis leaves little space for speculation about the process by which the Saudi built environment was formed and transformed. The study ends up with the possible notions which might be suggested by way of re-establishing a sense of continuity between the past, present, and future effect of human territorial behaviour upon the Arab-Muslim built environment in the case of Saudi Arabia towns. This is achieved through the re-introduction of the traditional Fina concept into the contemporary built environment as a means for realising its forgotten transformation characteristics at the street scale. This release is seen as a way of recycling the contemporary city spaces and governed by the designer, the neighbourhood local authority, and the city municipality.
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Almogren, Nawaf Bin Ayyaf(Nawaf Bin Abdulaziz Bin Ayyaf). "Diriyah narrated by Its built environment : the story of the first Saudi State (1744-1818)." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127856.
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Thesis: S.M. in Architecture Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, May, 2020Cataloged from the official PDF of thesis.
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Diriyah is a parched settlement in the arid deserts of Central Arabia. It went, very swiftly, from not differing much compared to its local sphere, to assuming the role of a beacon capital which controlled Arabia almost in its entirety. From its ambitious emergence in 1744- which stemmed from a historical pact between political authority and religious influence, until its punitive downfall in 1818- after assuming the role of a bunker under siege for six long months, Diriyah witnessed numerous political stages which effected its built environment. Between a dire need to defend and fortify at one point, and an eager desire to show luxuriousness and grandeur at another, Diriyah's built environment became a shimmering pond reflecting the ever-shifting political status of the state at any given time. By relying on historical textual accounts, infused with visual means of analysis, this thesis explores, and narrates, the urban development history of Diriyah during the timeframe of the First Saudi State (1744-1818), through using its built environment as a main examination tool. Accordingly, Atturaif historic district in Diriyah, was chosen as an urban model which directly stemmed as a result of establishing the state under the double weight of politics and religion. Located on an elevated majestic plateau, Atturaif became the center of power, and the decision-making hub of the ever-growing ambitious state. Hence, its urban form was examined, its core elements investigated, and notions of its symbolism analyzed. Eventually, the project described herein argues that the urban story of Diriyah presented an interesting model to analyze. How a strategic pact between the two different entities of politics and religion came together to turn a small patch of land, amongst ever-battling tribally-ruled settlements, into a capital of a State which possessed the largest extent of influence in the Arabian Peninsula since the 7th century.
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Kline, Lorrin E. "A User Centered Design Application in Eye Tracking Technologies: Children's Perceptions Within the Built Environment." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1553613673437902.
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Yzurdiaga, Katherine P. "Reconsidering Firmitas: Durability as an Integral Function of the Sustainably Built Environment." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/111.
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Architecture is an inherently functional art – buildings have functions, some more vital than others, beyond the objective of sheer aesthetic appeal. Yet at the same time, aesthetic appeal is an integral part of the human experience that many agree is vital to sustainability objectives, including those of the built environment. Ideally, a building would be able to embody and honor both principles, both form and function, but some contend that in the current architectural climate, the emphasis on beauty has surpassed the importance placed on functionality. This discussion is particularly relevant to sustainability in the built environment: Sustainability as a function, some argue, is often compromised or sacrificed for the sake of the vision of the architect, and faddish concepts of beauty. This, many contend, results in the commodification of our buildings, and quite possibly of sustainability as well. In this thesis, I argue that we can avoid this outcome by employing site-specific and culturally informed design principles, knowledge of sensory perception shaped by the social sciences, and spatially flexible design principles to create architecture that inspires us, roots us, and lasts for multiple generations. Ultimately, this is the core function of a sustainable approach to design – taking into account the entire lifecycle of a product. A new, loose functionalist approach that stresses durability, and is informed by a multidisciplinary approach involving both the humanities and social sciences, could be the key to overcoming the quick obsolescence of styles in a consumptive, aesthetically driven society.
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Villalon, Rachelle B. (Rachelle Bentajado). "Data mining, inference, and predictive analytics for the built environment with images, text, and WiFi data." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115448.
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Thesis: Ph. D. in Architecture Design and Computation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, June 2017.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. "February 2017."
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What can campus WiFi data tell us about life at MIT? What can thousands of images tell us about the way people see and occupy buildings in real-time? What can we learn about the buildings that millions of people snap pictures of and text about over time? Crowdsourcing has triggered a dramatic shift in the traditional forms of producing content. The increasing number of people contributing to the Internet has created big data that has the potential to 1) enhance the traditional forms of spatial information that the design and engineering fields are typically accustomed to; 2) yield further insights about a place or building from discovering relationships between the datasets. In this research, I explore how the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry can exploit crowdsourced and non-traditional datasets. I describe its possible roles for the following constituents: historian, designer/city administrator, and facilities manager - roles that engage with a building's information in the past, present, and future with different goals. As part of this research, I have developed a complete software pipeline for data mining, analyzing, and visualizing large volumes of crowdsourced unstructured content about MIT and other locations from images, campus WiFi access points, and text in batch/real-time using computer vision, machine learning, and statistical modeling techniques. The software pipeline is used for exploring meaningful statistical patterns from the processed data.
by Rachelle B. Villalon.
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Andersson, Jonas E. "Architecture and Ageing : On the Interaction between Frail Older People and the Built Environment." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Arkitektonisk gestaltning, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-40483.
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This doctoral thesis deals with the type of architecture that materializes when age-related problems become a long-term condition (LTC) and gradually restrain the individual’s ability to perform activities in daily life (ADL). Their life situation necessitates a support from relatives or municipal eldercare staff in order for them to continue to participate in everyday living. In addition, the architectural space requires a close adjustment to the personal panorama of cognitive or functional impairments. The habitat can be a flat appropriated many years previously or in a residential care home for dependent and frail seniors. Architecture for ageing with dependency demonstrates how space can be used either to affirm or oppress the older person’s attempts to maintain an independent life style. By use of design theory, case study methodology and a heterogeneous research strategy, this study uses a threefold approach—a retrospective, a contemporaneous, and a future-oriented approach—to explore frail older people’s interaction with the architectural space of residential care homes. This has resulted in seven papers that focus on aspects of these human interactions with the built environment. Based on twelve exemplary models, the research paper I concludes that national guidelines result in a homelike, a hotel-like or a hospital-like environment. Research paper II is a retrospective study that examines the use of architecture competitions as a socio-political instrument to define architectural guidelines. Research paper III focuses on dependent seniors’ spatial appropriation of the communally shared space of a ward in a residential care home. Research paper IV employs two environmental assessment methods from the architecture profession and gerontological research (TESS-NH) in order to evaluate the use of interior colouring when refurbishing two residential care homes while the residents remained in place. Research paper V displays a municipal organizer’s considerations to opt for an architecture competition as a means of renewing architecture for the ageing population. Research paper VI examines competition documentation of three municipal architecture competitions organized during the period of 2006 to 2009. Research paper VII, the final study, explores notions concerning the appropriate space for ageing found among a group of municipal representatives, and people from organizations defending older people’s right. It supplies a model for understanding the appropriate space for ageing. This study illustrates the absence of older people with frailties in the public discussion about appropriate architecture for ageing. During the 20th century, the multi-dimensional idea of an architectural space with a homelike appearance has been used to contrast the negatively charged opposite—the complete and austere institution. The overarching conclusion of this study is that architecture for dependent and frail seniors constitutes a particular type of built space that requires an extended dialogue involving dependent seniors, architects, building contractors and care planners in order to conceive appropriate architecture for the ageing society.QC 20110921
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Eccles, Timothy Stephen. "The English building industry in late modernity : an empirical investigation of the definition, construction and meaning of profession." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2009. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2733/.
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This thesis describes the methods by which individuals and associations give meaning to the concept of profession within the English building industry in the late modern period. The hypothesis is that professional associations control occupations. Whilst this might be accepted in a wider literature, building professionals identify with a far bleaker, late modern, interpretation of profession. The literature portrays a 'backwards' industry without a determinant authority, characterised by fragmented and servile professional associations. The thesis utilises Burrage's (2006) four-goal-framework to structure its investigation through semi-structured interviews with professionals and their associations. This proposes that associations control admission and training, define and defend a jurisdiction, set up a system to govern their own members and seek to improve their corporate status. This work concludes that professionals and associations strategically engage with these issues. There are problems facing professions, but their demise is not one of them. Indeed, rather than be defensive, associations are enhancing their controlling systems. This involves a looser coupling between associations and their membership, which creates some fracturing to the construction of identity. However, the result is new forms of occupational provision, in alliance with both clients and the state, that establish clear dialogues for identity and very specific types of service that are well separated from external 'quacks'. Faced with an environment that is ostensibly deeply sceptical, associations are selective in how they defend and enhance both their status and control systems. This has led, for example, to a withdrawal from controlling entry in the face of government demands to widen participation, to be replaced with strong regulatory schemes for members. This creates standardisation and practical guarantees of competency, a powerful executive in a quasi-judicial regulatory role, and clear rules of behaviour and permanent training through CPD. The result is 'competent', 'safe', 'good' and 'ethical' occupational jurisdiction.
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Lueder, Christoph. "Diagrams as instruments for conceiving and negotiating space and cities." Thesis, Kingston University, 2018. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/42585/.
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This narrative is retrospective and reflective as well as projective. The thesis of a PhD by publication does not inherently align with a principal proposition. The building, books, chapters and articles collected in this PhD have been shaped by interaction with varied professional, academic and cultural environments and milieus. Professional contexts that have triggered research questions and enriched research methodologies range from architectural practice to scholarly research and collaborative field research undertaken internationally; cultural milieus include Germany, Switzerland, the UK, and, recently, countries of the Global South. The work was not produced with a singular destination in sight; rather, it proceeds along a set of distinct, but interdependent vectors, through changes in direction, displaced vantage points, and transposition between corporeal, architectural and urban scales. This narrative juxtaposes, confronts and discusses the work collected in the portfolio, but does not seek to unify through imposing a singular thesis. The portfolio comprises of a building project, introductory essays to three edited books, three book chapters and nine journal articles, designed and built, written and published over a period of eighteen years from 1998 to 2016. The narrative reconstructs successive questions about diagrams that led to the building project, books, and articles, and the contexts which prompted the questions and frame the work. Rather than aligned to a linear narration, the work is presented along four parallel but interrelated paths of enquiry (Sections A, B, C, D) in which one output led to another, sometimes directly, at other times over detours and longer intervals. The work is introduced through four themes that cut across those paths. While framing and consolidating a retrospective view, the narrative of this PhD also exposes previously unrecognized resonances. New meaning arises from juxtaposition, grouping, contextualising and ordering of outputs and trajectories. In this sense, the retrospective view becomes prospective and projective.
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Moreira, da Silva Fernando Jose Carneiro. "Colour/space : its quality management in architecture : the colour/space unity as a unity of visual communication." Thesis, University of Salford, 1999. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/14758/.
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In external city environment areas there is a poor understanding and often no conscious use of colour. The experts that work with colour, in terms of the built environment either as projectmakers, or as managers (decision-makers), are poorly prepared to deal with it. As an answer they minimise the problem of colour in architecture, especially in exteriors, simply by omission; or, they introduce colour mostly without criteria - in some projects colour plays only a cosmetic role - supposedly aesthetical. Most project-makers do not consider colour as an integral part of the global design process. Colour theory and teaching courses have been considered supplemental to the mainstream of architectural education; for most part of the students of architecture or landscaping architecture, colour remains a matter of individual taste. People in general are very conscious of colour and texture in the built environment and they really like variations (as some studies done in Sweden (Koller 1981; Mahnke 1993) have already showed). They are negative and critical of austere, colourless environments in our cities; also colour has psycho-therapeutic effects that can be utilised to meet the physiological needs of people living in crowded environments. Colour is one of the basic components of the environment which influences life quality and it can be approached from different perspectives and different disciplines. This research addresses the issue of colour in the architecture of the built environment analysing the behaviour of the unity which results from the straight relationship between colour and space(as quantity of colour): the Colour/Space Unity. The investigation shows not only the existence of this unity, but also that it is a unity of visual communication. In terms of allocating the findings and interpretations through a review of the relevant theory, the author uses a survey methodology - a full test response questionnaire to a wide range of members of society (to test theory) and semistructured interviews with a panel of experts(as a feasibility test of the questionnaire design and contents). The questionnaire findings are used to test the theoretical position through further comments from the expert panel. The research presents as results, not only the existence and importance of the colour/space unity, as a visual communicational one, such as the levels of articulation of the messages in the built environment or the contrast in the relationship between qualification and quantification in colour/space language; but it demonstrates the major importance of the colour/space unity in the architectural project and in the colour planning management within the built environment.
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Tyana, Santini Salzano. "ROBERT B. HALL'S GEOGRAPHIC STUDIES ON THE JAPANESE BUILT ENVIRONMENT." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/202808.
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Boudiaf, Bouzid. "Physical, cultural and cognitive interactions in the conception and production of the built environment." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/113456.
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Architecture has been pushed towards the realms of theorization, conceptualization and design methodologies. It is apparent that design is becoming interrupted and more associated with the manufacturing of ideas. It has lost its essence as a phenomenon whose roots are embedded in history and man’s relationship with his specific habitat. Hence, the aim of the thesis is to redirect architectural attention to Ecology and its various implications on design. The study puts forward the notion that human achievements are an outcome of the interaction between ecology, Culture and Cognitive Structure. These relationships are thought to set the principles behind environmental qualities of stability, compatibility and fitness. Once designers arrive at an understanding of these principles, they will be able to manipulate their design ideas to accommodate ever changing circumstances of their physical and cultural environments. The title “Physical, cultural and cognitive interactions in the conception and the production of the built environment” implies a significant theme which could indicate major traits that characterize modern practices and theorisation within the area of Architectural and Environmental Design Studies. In this work, it will be seen why and how: First, a lack of consideration for the physical environment, its requirements and its role in producing diversified architectural forms. The most significant outcome of a such position lies in divorcing nature, its laws and the ecosystems on which man has spent the preceding history elaborating building patterns on the basis of utilising them for his interest free of charge and without consequences to his survival. The fact is that different cultures, ways of life and differentiated built environments, which can only be attributed to man’s adaptation to different ecological conditions, have been widely swept away under the mythical notion of “International style”. Second, because the architects and theorists of the contemporary architecture admire mental constructions and abstract philosophies of their own, they have advocated an alien and distorted meaning of the concept of culture. The most likely interpretation of this vital concept is that it is viewed as related to a kind of abstract intellectual capacity in the human brain that does not lend itself to variation in the physical setting. Tragically, the adoption of such view has resulted in sweeping away subcultures which have been developed in remote areas in accordance with their geographical setting. The most acceptable meaning of culture has been to imply the role of physical environment in shaping social relations, the modes of thought, norms, beliefs, ways of life, the ideologies and the total range of customary behaviour, all of which have been influenced by people’s adaptation to their environment. Therefore, building forms, patterns of growth, town morphology, in short, architectural phenomenon, has, like culture, evolved characteristics from its natural habitat. We now often observe that such an argument is totally diminishing in the present architecture and in the environmental activities of those in charge. Third, the interruption of continuity and flow of human cognitive knowledge by introducing techniques and thoughts whose practical values, aesthetical capacities and meanings do not correspond with people’s knowledge of the environment, building behaviour or activities associated with the history of people’s relation to their own habitat. This work is structured in two main parts; the first one will deal with the contribution of the different disciplines such as Ecology, Culture, Economy, Psychology, Architecture and Urban Design from the theoretical point of view in the development of the different concepts. In the second part, we will discuss the impact of these disciplines on the production of our built environment and we will end up by suggesting a model highlighting the interactions of these disciplines in the evaluation and the production of our built environment through a chosen case study which is Algiers. The main methods used in this study are: Descriptive for the first part which is dealing with the review of the current literature on Ecology, Culture and Cognition; Analytic for the proposed model and the case study; the third method is predictive and concerns the last part of this work.
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Barahona, Luis Felipe. "New trends in health architecture for children and the effects of the built environment on young patients." FIU Digital Commons, 2001. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1510.
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The objective of this thesis was to investigate the effects of the built environment on the outcome of young patients. This investigation included recent innovations in children's hospitals that integrated both medical and architectural case studies as part of their design issues. In addition, the intervention responded to man-made conditions and natural elements of the site. The thesis project, a Children's Rehabilitation Hospital, is located at 1500 N.W. River Drive in Miami, Florida.
The thesis intervention emerged from a site analysis that focused on the shifting of the urban grid, the variation in scale of the immediate context and the visual-physical connection to the river's edge. Furthermore, it addressed the issues of overnight accommodation for patient's families, as well as sound control through the use of specific materials in space enclosures and open courtyards. The key to the success of this intervention lies in the special attention given to the integration between nature and the built environment. Issues such as the incorporation of nature within a building through the use of vistas and the exploitation of natural light through windows and skylights, were pivotal in the creation of a pleasant environment for visitors, employees and young patients.
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Widstrand, Ellen. "Experiencing the Built Environment : Architectural Aesthetics and User Preferences." Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-286111.
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Social hållbarhet är ett ämne som är mer aktuellt nu än någonsin, även om det sällan diskuteras i samband med estetik i den bebyggda miljön. De miljöer vi bygger är också de platser där vi tillbringar majoriteten av vår tid, och de påverkar hur vi mår. I takt med att städer växer och blir tätare så blir gestaltningen av dessa platser allt viktigare. Estetiken utgör en stor del av den bebyggda miljön och vår upplevelse när vi rör oss i städerna. Studier visar på att människor föredrar vissa estetiska element framför andra, och att både kropp och hjärna reagerar på estetiska stimuli. I den här uppsatsen utforskas sambandet mellan vad den forskning som finns kring exteriör byggnadsestetik säger, och hur estetiska preferenser inkluderas och diskuteras i stadsbyggnadsprojektet Rosendal i Uppsala i Sverige.Social sustainability is discussed more today than ever before, but seldom in the context of aesthetics in the built environment. The environments we build are where we spend most of our time, and they affect our wellbeing. With cities growing faster and becoming denser, how we design our home becomes more and more important. Aesthetic variables are a large part of what the built environment is, and constitute much of what we experience on a daily basis when moving around our city. Studies suggest that some aesthetic elements are preferred over others, and that both body and brain respond to aesthetic stimuli. This thesis explores the relationship between what has been found on the subject of building exterior aesthetics so far, and how evidence on aesthetic preferences is addressed in the development project of Rosendal in Uppsala, Sweden
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Charnofsky, Lindsay Wile. "The Interrelationship Between Human Behavior and Sustainability in the Built Environment." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1335632623.
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Steinert, Anne Delano. "Standing Right Here: The Built Environment as a Tool for Historical Inquiry." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1613686270648078.
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Kidess, Charles I. "Towards an ideology of urban form : open space in the built environment with particular reference to the arid urban environment in the Middle East /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1991. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARCHM/09archmk46.pdf.
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Hauer, Marina. "A game-based learning approach to building conservation education in UK undergraduate built environment degrees." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2012. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/a-gamebased-learning-approach-to-building-conservation-education-in-uk(065a1b5d-dc9f-4d4e-bed3-6b5aa7cf1d00).html.
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Across the globe, the historic (built) environment is counted among a country's most precious cultural commodities, which despite its popularity remains exceptionally vulnerable and in constant danger of deterioration and decay. Due to an unusually high density of historic structures in need of protection coupled with a strong property and construction sector, this issue is more prominent in the UK than in other developed country. Built environment professionals regularly encounter historic and protected structures in their professional practice and exhibit a general tendency towards principle support of the concept of conservation. Nonetheless, the heritage discourse and with it the discussion of architectural conservation principles, issues and implications in relation to other built environment professions is, by and large, woefully absent from formal professional education at the tertiary level. This thesis investigated various forms of conservation education in respect to their nature and extent in the context of UK undergraduate built environment degrees in a mixed-methods research approach. The findings suggest that while practitioners as well as educationalists and building conservation specialists all agree to the importance of conservation to both cultural fabric and built environment sector, neither shows concrete tendencies to introduce the heritage discourse into (built environment) higher education on a wide scale. Conservationists prefer to focus their heritage appreciation programmes on young children, while practitioners and built environment educationalists claim building conservation education to be of little relevance to their professional education. In between, the average built environment student is released into professional practice woefully unprepared for encounters with historic, let alone protected structures. This thesis proposes to include adult learners at tertiary level into the built heritage discourse on a much wider scale by suggesting the development of a curriculum for novice conservation education and a subsequent Conservation Game as a custom-created digital teaching and learning tool building on the principles of experiential and game-based learning to be implemented in higher education institutions across the UK. Modelled on Dawid W. Shaffer's Epistemic Games, the theoretic and conceptional background behind the Conservation Game is laid out as an interactive and engaging simulation of conservation practice to introduce conservation novices to concept and practice in a risk free, fun environment with the aim to increase baseline building conservation understanding and appreciation in young UK built environment practitioners.
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Letoao, Nthoesele. "Using GIS to evaluate the impact of the built environment on health in “Brown’s Farm” Philippi." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13333.
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Includes bibliographical references.This thesis uses a spatial epidemiology approach to investigate clusters of diseases across formal and informal built environments in "Brown’s Farm" Philippi. Health data were analysed using cluster detection methods in geographic information systems to identify diseases hotspots. The identified clusters were then examined against environmental, spatial, and socio-economic variables. Data from the Desmond Tutu HIVIAIDS Foundation database, census and questionnaires were used. Even though most of the disease clusters were found in the informal part of the study area, the data showed very limited variation in the distribution of diseases clusters across the study area.