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Krishna, Anirudh. "Flexible Housing: An Adaptable Prototype for Modern Urban Dwelling." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554210856250899.
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Tivnan, Shannon. "Domestic Spaces in Transition: Modern Representations of Dwelling in the Texts of Elizabeth Bowen." Scholar Commons, 2015. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5787.
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In much of the writing of twentieth century Anglo-Irish author Elizabeth Bowen, houses, and in particular family homes, often reflect the psychological and social status of their inhabitants. They can be understood as the structural embodiments of the vast cultural and economic network taking shape as the forces of urbanization and industrialization changed the landscape. Yet, even as these domestic spaces represent the predominant social relations characterizing the first half of the twentieth century, the family homes also can play a key role in character development and gender identity, defining the lives of those who inhabit them, by perpetuating these same previously established and codified social roles and relationships. The family home in Bowen is often characterized by the furniture and objects that fill and structure its interior space, and the resulting pattern of experience functions to confine and represent the lives and expectations of its residents. As a result, for each of these families, this domestic space and the memories with which it is associated exert a strong and compelling force on the family members’ present psychological and emotional states, as well as their expectations for the future. Although the social conventions of the family home can be suffocating in their definition of these expectations, especially for the women of the house, these conventions also supply a stability and constancy that is perhaps conducive to the very formation of a stable identity. The security promised by the inner order of the home comes to determine the psychological stability of the inhabitants’ subjective reality, though the many upheavals that inundated the first half of the twentieth century succeeded in revealing that spatial security as an illusion. If Bowen’s characters are to succeed in achieving a self-determined identity in the new, precarious reality of the modern century, they must not only reconcile themselves to the legacy of the family home and the past traditions that it embodies, but also determine a new basis for self-realization as a twentieth century subject outside of the prescribed roles defined and perpetuated by a more traditional domestic space.
In order to determine the extent to which these modern family homes reflect the dominant social discourses of the period and perpetuate their codes of identity and behavior, it will be necessary to acknowledge and take into consideration the political and cultural environment in which Bowen’s representations of domestic space exist. For example, Bowen’s depiction of the Anglo-Irish Big House Danielstown in The Last September must be understood in light of the declining political and economic power of the Ascendancy that occurred throughout the early twentieth century. In a further effort to examine the significance of homes in Elizabeth Bowen, I will also focus on selected texts from her short fiction. The moments of dispossession that are scattered throughout Bowen’s texts appear to suggest the possibility of the fictions that lie behind the stability of both the family home and the identities of family members attached to that space.
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Bennett, Helen Margaret. "Interpreting the Modern: Flatland in Brisbane 1920-1941 Living in Multiple-Occupancy Dwellings in Interwar Brisbane." Thesis, Griffith University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365620.
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This thesis investigates the fundamental social, cultural, demographic, economic and political changes that precipitated and encouraged the first significant wave of multiple-occupancy dwelling in Brisbane: the residential flats of the interwar period of the twentieth century.
Brisbane’s earliest ‘flats’ had emerged by the 1910s, the product of converting large, obsolete nineteenth-century residences into multiple dwellings. Often not fully self-contained, they differed only marginally from the traditional rooming-house, and were widely considered as a short-term expedient in the face of a severe housing shortage.
In the 1920s Brisbane residents were introduced to the purpose-designed, modern urban flat. Acceptance was gradual, but by the second half of the 1930s, new flat construction in Brisbane was booming. The emergence of the purpose-built flat represented, physically and culturally, the city’s introduction to a distinctively twentieth century, modern lifestyle. The shift to flat-living created: vigorous community debate over the fear of slum creation; formal responses to these concerns in the form of local ordinances controlling the construction and licensing of flat buildings; and substantial change to the character of inner-suburban Brisbane.
Defining, accounting for, deriving meaning from, and exploring the significance of, the fashion for flat-dwelling in interwar Brisbane – in particular the popularity of the purpose-designed, purpose-built blocks of flats – are the objectives of this research. The fashion for living in flats in Brisbane is considered within three broad frameworks: the continuity of the urban experience across time and place; the democratisation of modernity and notions of what it meant to be ‘modern’ in Brisbane in the 1920s and 1930s; and the cultural legacy.
In pursuing these objectives the study considers contemporary debates about the nature of urban living and the need for town planning initiatives in Queensland; the inter-relationship between the compact flat and the lifestyle it generated; generic profiles of those who occupied and invested in purpose-built flat developments; interwar controls (overt and covert) on new flat construction; and the resultant environmental impact in terms of location, form, scale, materials and neighbourhood character. In conclusion, the cultural value of Brisbane’s interwar flats as a distinctive built form is addressed.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Humanities
Arts, Education and Law
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Gressett, Michael James. "From Krishna cult to American church the dialectical quest for spiritual dwelling in the modern Krishna movement in the West /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0024749.
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Phillips, Curtis N. "Modern Technology and an Aging Population: Can the Use of Wii Fit Gaming System Improve Functional Balance in Community Dwelling Seniors?" DigitalCommons@USU, 2013. http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1536.
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Seniors are a growing segment of the population of the United States. By 2030 they will make up nearly 20% of the general population. Senior citizens face many health challenges as they age. Injury due to falling is a major concern for many in this age group. Research shows that approximately one third of seniors will fall each year. Injuries that result from falls have been identified as the number one cause of accidental death in this age group each year. While falls have been studied by researchers for a number of years, and some progress has been made in finding ways to improve balance in seniors, the high incidence of falls continues to plague this demographic. Many of the current treatments to improve balance are too expensive, not accessible, or not motivating for seniors. This research project explored the effect of using a readily available video-game system to address these barriers. The Wii Fit gaming system was used with participants three times each week for 30 minutes and the resulting changes were documented. The Berg Balance Scale and Timed Up and Go test, both frequently used by professionals to assess balance in seniors, were used to document balance change. Every participant showed improvement. The Activities-specific Balance Confidence scale, which is used to measure a person's fear of falling, was also used to assess the participant's confidence in their balance as well as the level of fear associated with falling. The results of this test were positive but not to the extent of the balance tests. Finally, each participant was interviewed to assess how easy to use the participants felt the Wii Fit was as well as the motivational qualities of the Wii Fit as a balance tool. Answers given by the participants in the interview were generally positive. These results indicate that the Wii Fit gaming system may be beneficial for improving balance in seniors.
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Caprio, Antonio Amilton. "Análise do desempenho técnico-construtivo de edifícios de apartamentos localizados no bairro de Higienópolis entre as décadas de 30 e 60 na cidade de São Paulo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16132/tde-19092007-104608/.
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Esta dissertação tem como base de estudo a produção da habitação coletiva no Bairro de Higienópolis, na cidade de São Paulo, e por meio de uma reunião de projetos arquitetônicos significativos da evolução e transformação da arquitetura moderna paulistana entre as décadas de 30 e 60, quando surgem os primeiros edifícios de apartamentos, transformando de forma radical a sua configuração espacial. É dentro deste contexto que o esforço concentra-se em constituir um raciocínio crítico, aplicando a metodologia da análise do desempenho técnico-construtivo de edifícios em função das suas patologias construtivas originadas pelas deficiências do projeto, execução da obra, materiais utilizados na época de sua implantação e sua situação atual de manutenção, considerando seus reflexos e influências nos itens de desempenho dos materiais e técnicas construtivas utilizadas em cada órgão/elemento do edifício que será analisado segundo os Requisitos dos usuários - ISO 6241.This master thesis deals with the analysis of collective dwelling construction in Higienópolis neighborhood, city of São Paulo, by means of several architectural designs which represent the most important transformation of the modern architecture in São Paulo, from 1930´s and 1960´s. In this contexts there was an effort to create a critical thought applying the technical-constructive performance analysis of buildings and theirs construction pathologies resultant from lack and deficiencies of design, materials, construction works, and building maintenance. The reflex and influences of construction pathologies on the performance requirements were studied based on general principles of performance analysis methodology first published in ISO 6241.
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Regino, Aline Nassaralla. "Eduardo Kneese de Mello | Arquiteto: análise de sua contribuição à habitação coletiva em São Paulo." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2006. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/2658.
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Previous issue date: 2006-08-14The theme of this work is the professional life of Eduardo Kneese de Mello (1906-1994) presented through his architectonic activity and focusing on the works and projects of collective dwelling. It marks the architect as an active character, indispensable to make public the power of the Modern Brazilian Architecture that happened in São Paulo as of 1940. It shows his contribution to the Brazilian architecture, linking the quality of his work to the texts he wrote and his fierce effort in the process of expanding the teaching of Architecture and Urbanism, including the defense and legal consolidation of the professional responsibilities of the architect. Through the analysis of eight projects, this work shows Eduardo Kneese de Mello´s, at times pioneer, contribution to collective dwelling in São Paulo.
Este trabalho tem como tema a trajetória profissional do arquiteto Eduardo Kneese de Mello (1906 1994), apresentada através de sua produção arquitetônica e com foco nas obras e projetos de habitação coletiva. Caracteriza o arquiteto como um personagem ativo e fundamental para a divulgação e afirmação da Arquitetura Moderna no Brasil, condição verificada em São Paulo, com maior intensidade, a partir de 1940. Expõe sua contribuição para a arquitetura brasileira relacionando a qualidade de sua obra, com os textos que produziu e com seu aguerrido empenho no processo de expansão do ensino de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, inclusive na defesa e consolidação legal das atribuições profissionais do arquiteto. O trabalho demonstra por meio da análise de oito projetos a contribuição de Eduardo Kneese de Mello, por vezes pioneira, para a habitação coletiva em São Paulo.
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Ferreira, Fernando Gobbo. "Residências em Ribeirão Preto (1955 a 1980): discussão sobre uma produção moderna através de uma perspectiva urbana." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16132/tde-29062017-142421/.
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No século XIX, a cidade de Ribeirão Preto (distante 314 kilometros de São Paulo) concentrou riqueza com as lavouras de café, sendo cenário de arquiteturas que em nada deviam ao de outras cidades importantes no interior do Estado de São Paulo. São poucos os exemplares de casarões e palacetes que restaram na cidade, porém, devidamente tombados ou em processo para garantir seu legado. A preservação de tais arquiteturas está constantemente em foco na mídia, conscientizando a população sobre sua importância. A preservação da arquitetura de Ribeirão Preto, não recebe a mesma atenção quando focamos na produção de residências modernas, do início da segunda metade do século XX, cobrindo as décadas de 1950, 1960 e 1970. Esta dissertação se apoia no levantamento, discussão e questionamento da preservação dessas obras, através de suas representações: registros fotográficos, entrevistas com arquitetos e moradores, projetos de aprovação na prefeitura do município e bibliografia. Caminhando pela cidade nos dias atuais, encontramos bairros com arquiteturas residenciais que ainda conservam suas características originais. Essas casas são de autoria dos primeiros profissionais arquitetos da cidade, em bairros, no princípio, estritamente residenciais. Um exemplo dentro dessa produção, são as primeiras casas projetadas pelos arquitetos Cássio Pinheiro Gonçalves e Ijair Cunha, formados nas primeiras turmas da FAU Mackenzie (1950) e FAUUSP (1952), que ditam relações diferentes entre o público e privado, casas em consonância com uma vanguarda de projetos residenciais modernos produzidos na época, principalmente na cidade de São Paulo, cujos sistemas construtivos, relações com o entorno e plasticidade estavam em conflito com os padrões arquitetônicos de seu tempo. Em Ribeirão Preto, nos bairros Jardim Sumaré e Alto da Boa Vista essas arquiteturas residenciais projetadas por jovens urbanistas, persistem como memória de uma cidade possível, idealizada, que não se consolidou. Hoje, essas casas passam despercebidas ao olhar rotineiro de quem cruza esses bairros, cada vez mais ocupados por edifícios comerciais que descaracterizam suas conformações de outrora. Quando essas residências começam a ser demolidas, cabe ao levantamento fotográfico, apoiado pela rede social Arquigrafia, planejado e registrado sempre da perspectiva de quem observa essas arquiteturas da rua, garantir que esse legado possa ser preservado. Um primeiro levantamento geral, criando o escopo dessa produção nunca antes divulgada, é o primeiro passo de um modelo de levantamento que poderia ser replicado, que garantiria um banco de dados de representações de projetos arquitetônicos, na figura da rede social Arquigrafia, para futuros estudos e entendimento do real escopo da produção arquitetônica modernista brasileira, além da arquitetura \"oficial\". Como são projetos pouco divulgados, sua exposição, através de documentos originais, fotografias e desenhos, bem como de registros orais das pessoas envolvidas em suas construções, contribui para a história da arquitetura brasileira, para a construção de conhecimento sobre projeto, representação, e imaginário urbano moderno no Brasil. Sendo a residência unifamiliar o programa mais comum em nossas cidades, seu estudo contribui para o esclarecimento dos caminhos que levaram nossa profissão a seu atual papel na produção da paisagem urbana contemporânea.In the XIX century, the city of Ribeirão Preto (314 kilometers from São Paulo) gathered wealth within Coffee agriculture crop, establishing a peculiar architectural basis compared to other important cities in the São Paulo State. That are only a few dwellings and \"palacetes\" that remain in the city, nevertheless rightly preserved or in the process to guarantee it\'s legacy. The preservation of such pieces of architecture is constantly in the media\'s focus, raising the population awareness about its importance. Even though the preservation of Ribeirão Preto\'s modern residential architecture from the 1950\'s, 1960\'s and 1970\'s decades has not been given the deserved importance. This dissertation is supported by a discussion and questioning about the preservation of such production through its representations: photographs, interviews with architects and dwellers, approval projects in the city hall and bibliography. Walking by the city, one can find neighborhoods with dwellings that still preserve their original characteristics. The prime architects to work in the city, in strictly residential neighborhoods, author these dwellings. Good examples are the dwellings designed by the architects Cássio Pinheiro Gonçalves and Ijair Cunha, graduated in the first classes of Architecture and Urbanism in the Mackenzie Presbyterian University (1950) and the University of São Paulo (1952), which dictated different relations with public and private spaces, projects in consonance with the Avant-garde modern architecture designs produced in that period of time, mainly in the city of São Paulo, whose constructive systems, relation with the surroundings and aesthetic were in conflict with the architectural patterns of it\'s time. In Ribeirão Preto, in Jardim Sumaré and Alto da Boa Vista neighborhoods, these architecture dwellings designed by young urbanists, persist as a memory of an idealized city that has not consolidate itself. Nowadays, these houses are unnoticed to the population\'s sight, in neighborhoods that are occupied by commercial buildings that demeanor the original residential landscape. Once these dwellings begin to be demolished, photographic registers, backed up by the collaborative social media Arquigrafia, planned always by a street view perspective, guarantee that this legacy can be preserved. A general research creating a scope of this never yet disclosed architectural production, is the first step to a research model that can be replicated, that guarantees a representation databank of architectural design such as the social media Arquigrafia, to future studies of the real scope of such Brazilian modern architectural production, beyond the \"official\" architecture. The disclosure of original documents, photographs and drawings, as well as oral registers of people involved in its constructions, contribute to the modern architecture history, to the construction of knowledge about project, representation and modern urban imaginary in Brazil. The single-family dwellings are the most common architectural program in the cities and its studies clarify one of the architectural professional paths and its current role into the contemporary urban landscape.
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Kiaer, Ian. "Endless house : models of thought for dwelling." Thesis, Royal College of Art, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.602325.
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The following thesis is a 38,400 word document of a part-time PhD by project undertaken at the painting department of The Royal College of Art between October 2002 and September 2008. The purpose of this research has been to reflect on how an expansive interpretation of the architectural model operates as a mode of fragmentary thought for dwelling. I extend critical / theoretical approaches to the use of the model within my art practice, and its equivalent, 'the essay form,' in the written component of the thesis. I begin by deflning the use of the model within a speciflc work I made early in the project, and also discuss the model's ability to operate between more rigidly deflned disciplines of knowledge. I use Benjamin's notion of immanent critique to reflect on the poeticised potential of the model form to unfold information, by probing the rapport between materials and motifs, groupings and spacings and the made and the found. I also show how the process of thought through the material development of the work, informed an equivalent fragmentary approach to writing. In the four main chapters, I attend to a critical pairing four Bruegel paintings and four particular buildings to understand how both painting and building can be revealed as a thought model for dwelling. The chapters in the following order read Bruegel's Fall of Icarus in relation to Casa Malaparte, Procession to Calvary with Melnikov's Cylindical House Studio, The Tower of Babel with Kiesler's unbuilt notion of The Endless House, and flnally the two dwellings initiated by Wittgenstein with Hunters in the Snow. I conclude by returning briefly to a recent piece of my own work to consider how the model of thought for dwelling has developed within my current practice.
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Ramos, Tânia Liani Beisl. "Os espaços do habitar moderno-evolução e significados : os casos português e brasileiro." Phd thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UTL-Universidade Técnica de Lisboa -- IST-Instituto Superior Técnico, 2003. http://dited.bn.pt:80/30454.
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Weir, Simon. "The discontinuity of matter : Salvador Dalí, painting and architecture / Simon Weir." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2010. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28849.
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Salvador Dali, is known primarily as a Surrealist painter, dandy and provocateur. His theoretical works are far less known. Dali’s theories, interspersed throughout his eleven books and numerous essays and interviews range across the fields of art, architecture, psychology and science. In this thesis I examine these ideas, in particular Dali’s paranoiac
critical method, for their potential application in contemporary issues regarding representation and architecture.
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Silva, Maristela Siolari da. "Os periódicos de arquitetura e a formação da arquitetura moderna brasileira: tecnologia e habitação econômica (anos 1920 e 1930)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/18/18142/tde-27112008-105251/.
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Neste trabalho pretendeu-se identificar nos discursos arquitetônicos dos periódicos de Arquitetura publicados no Rio de Janeiro e em São Paulo, entre 1920 e 1940, a presença de um pensamento tecnológico relacionado aos processos construtivos, ao estudo dos materiais, à recepção das concepções modernas, à problematização da habitação econômica, às possibilidades de uma arquitetura nacional e à propugnação das novas possibilidades construtivas, articuladas a um contexto propício à conformação da arquitetura moderna brasileira. Verificou-se que houve desenvolvimento tecnológico e introdução de indústrias de materiais de construção nacionais e que a consolidação da arquitetura moderna brasileira ocorreu de forma paralela, articulada, mas não dependente, ora se apropriando dos recursos tecnológicos já disponíveis, ora demandando novas soluções que respondessem às preocupações de linguagem, ora também operando no interior das dificuldades técnico-construtivas e, apesar destas, sendo realizada. Nesse processo, a questão habitacional se manteve à margem dos debates presentes nos periódicos do período, não conformando um novo programa vinculado ao novo estatuto da nova arquitetura.This work aims at identifying, in the architectonical speeches of Architecture magazines published in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo between 1920 and 1940, the presence of a technological thinking related to the constructive processes, as well as to the material study, reception of modern conceptions, problematization of the economic dwellings, possibilities of a national architecture and to the propagation of new constructive possibilities, articulated to a propitious context for the conformation of the Brazilian modern architecture. It was verified that there was a technological development and the introduction of national building material industries, and that the consolidation of the Brazilian modern architecture occurred in a parallel and articulated way, but not in a dependent one, sometimes taking hold of the already existent technological resources, sometimes demanding new solutions that would fulfill the language worries, sometimes operating in the inner of the technical-constructive difficulties, and despite them, being successfully performed. In this process, the housing matter stayed outside of the debates present in the periodical of the researched time, not conforming to a new program bounded to the new statute of the new architecture.
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Quinn, Kelly Anne. "Making modern homes : a history of Langston Terrace Dwellings, a New Deal housing program in Washington, D.C. /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/7177.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.Thesis research directed by: American Studies. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Cowan, Gregory John. "Nomadology in architecture : ephemerality, movement and collaboration." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2002. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARCHM/09archmc8742.pdf.
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Bibliography: leaves 138-149. This thesis investigates the theoretical and practical importance of nomadic ways of life for architecture. Nomadology is a construction of Deleuze and Gattari's 'counter-philosophy' challenging authenticity and propriety, in this case, in the context of architecture. It describes how nomadology may challenge static, permanent, heroically solitary ways of working and dwelling, and suggests strategies - diagramming, ephemerality, movement, and collaboration - as ways of reconciling nomadism and architecture.
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Killip, Ian Richmond. "Radon levels in dwellings in chalk terrain : development and analysis of distributional and causal models." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246824.
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This thesis investigates the range, distribution and causes of high radon levels in dwellings in the Brighton area of Southeast England. Indoor radon levels were measured in more than 1000 homes. The results show that high radon levels can arise in an area previously considered to offer low radon potential from local geological sources. Climate and building-related factors were found to affect significantly the radon levels in dwellings. Multiple regression was used to determine the influence of the various factors on indoor radon levels and an empirical model developed to predict indoor radon levels. The radon hazard, independent of building-related effects, was determined for each surveyed location by adjusting the radon measurement to that expected on the ground floor of a 'model' dwelling. This standardised set of radon levels was entered into a geographical information system (GIS) and related to surface geology. The geometric mean radon level for each lithological unit was plotted to produce a radon hazard map for the area. The highest radon levels were found to be associated with the youngest Chalk Formations, particularly where they meet overlying Tertiary deposits, and with Clay-with-Flints Quaternary deposits in the area. The results were also converted to the radon activity equivalent to that expected from the NRPB's standard dual-detector dwelling survey method and analysed by lognormal modelling to estimate the proportion of dwellings likely to exceed the UK Action Level of 200 Bq/m3 for each lithological unit. The likely percentages of dwellings affected by radon thus obtained were mapped to lithological boundaries to produce a radon potential map. The radon hazard map and the empirical radon model facilitate the prediction of radon levels in dwellings of comparable construction and above similar geology and should further the understanding of the behaviour of radon gas in buildings to allow indoor radon concentrations to be controlled. The radon potential map is directly comparable with those produced by NRPB and BGS and can be used to assist in environmental planning and development control.
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Hatherley, Simon. "An examination of development models for innovative, low carbon, ecological dwellings for rural areas of Wales." Thesis, Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10369/9191.
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The provision of housing in rural areas has been identified as crucial for the long term sustainability of rural communities. However, there are questions about how rural developers are responding to legislative requirements to reduce carbon emissions, whether the fulfilment of a need for affordable housing in rural areas can be reconciled with higher energy performance and whether higher energy performance will affect thermal comfort when climate change is taken into account. To understand these issues a review of published and monitored case studies in rural areas of the UK was undertaken which highlighted a number of development models that might be applied by house builders in the Welsh context. An analysis of two exemplar projects in Pembroke Dock, West Wales, examined the following: the social, economic and legislative context of rural development; the significance of energy and carbon used to construct rural houses; and the quantity of energy required to keep rural dwellings at a comfortable temperature in a typical year. Dynamic thermal modelling was then used to investigate a number of design approaches highlighted in the earlier studies as significant including: increasing thermal mass; increasing south facing glazing; adjusting building form and the layout of the site; and higher levels of insulation. The application of these approaches on a housing scheme in West Wales established the benefits of incorporating thermal mass into the building fabric, maintaining a compact form and, where reasonable, using passive solar gain, to reduce heating load. This study identified that these approaches, if carefully combined, could achieve significant (i.e. 16.4%-29.8%) reductions in heating load without compromising the affordability of the original scheme. However, the study also identified that one possible consequence of improving the energy performance would be a reduction in thermal comfort as a result of higher internal temperatures. To gain a better understanding of this further modelling examined the potential for overheating using the following: current and future climate files; an algorithm based on window opening behaviour; detailed simulation of airflow; and bivariate data analysis techniques. The results from this study identified that thermal mass and ventilation techniques could be employed to address the issues of overheating.
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Nunes, João Pedro Lopes de Oliveira Silva. "Planeamento urbano e arquitectura de habitação em Olivais Sul (1959-1969)-acção, comunicação e poder na construção moderna da cidade." Master's thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UNL-Universidade Nova de Lisboa -- FCSH-Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, 2000. http://dited.bn.pt:80/29197.
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Farinha, António Manuel Correia. "Habitação de realojamento-conceito, modelo e relações com o comportamento patológico social no concelho de Lisboa." Master's thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UTL-Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, 2000. http://dited.bn.pt:80/29123.
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Ucci, Marcella. "The psychrometric control of house dust mites : testing the validity in UK dwellings of two combined hygrothermal population models for beds." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2007. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1445682/.
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Beds are a crucial source of house dust mite (HDM) allergens, which play a major role in allergic disease, particularly asthma. HDM require a specific combination of hygrothermal conditions to thrive. These bed conditions depend on a number of interacting factors, such as: external climate; building characteristics; heating, ventilation and moisture-producing habits; mattress properties; etc. Because of the complexity of the many interacting factors occuring in real dwellings, a modelling approach is required, whereby the models' predictions have to be consistent with field results. This thesis tested the hypothesis that a combined HDM population-hygrothermal model for beds can adequately predict field data and that the model can be a valuable tool for scenario modelling and intervention studies focused on the psychrometric control of house dust mites in UK housing. Two combined models were considered: a simple steady-state one-dimensional model (BED/MPI), and a complex transient three-dimensional mode (Lectus/Popmite). A combination of fieldwork and scenarios modelling was carried out, which involved hygrothermal and mite monitoring of 25 beds, utilising a novel technique whereby live mites were caged in mite bags and installed in monitored beds and bedrooms (82 sets of mites bags). The work was carried out as part of a multidisciplinary project aimed at developing and testing the models. Good agreement was found between field data and the models predictions, particularly when the uncertainties due to input variables and measurements were taken into account. The results showed that under borderline conditions for HDM growth, simple steady-state predictions may not be accurate. Temperature, not only RH, is a critical variable for HDMs. Areas for model improvement were also identified. In particular, factors other than hygrothermal conditions may be crucial for a beds mite carrying capacity, requiring further investigation: food, space availability, and mite movement. Despite these uncertainties, it can be concluded that greater ventilation, increased thermostat settings and reduced moisture rates can decrease mite levels in beds. The ventilation rates provided by some mechanical ventilation with heat recovery systems may be inadequate to sufficiently control moisture and reduce mite growth. Scenarios modelling suggests that there is considerable potential for the psychrometric control of house dust mites in UK dwellings.
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Hu, Huafen. "Risk-conscious design of off-grid solar energy houses." Diss., Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/31814.
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Thesis (Ph.D)--Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010.Committee Chair: Godfried Augenbroe; Committee Member: Ellis Johnson; Committee Member: Pieter De Wilde; Committee Member: Ruchi Choudhary; Committee Member: Russell Gentry. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.
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Wittmann, Tobias. "Agent-based models of energy investment decisions /." Heidelberg : Physica, 2008. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/549538003.pdf.
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Fougberg, Tove, and Linda Zacharias. "Hållbart byggande : En modell för beslutstagande av stommaterial vid nybyggnation av flerbostadshus." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-40203.
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In Sweden housing shortage is a rising issue. Within a ten year period scientists predict that the Swedish population will increase from 10 to approximately 11 million people. Due to this increase in the Swedish population, the production of multi-dwelling buildings should be expanding, though instead building development is now decreasing. The Swedish government recently stated upon a climate strategy, to have no excessive emissions of greenhouse gases until the year of 2045. Regarding this climate strategy and the increasing need for housing, the need to build time-efficient, low cost buildings that have minimal environmental impact is in a greater demand than ever before. The purpose of this degree project is to elucidate the environmental effects, costs and assembly time for multi-dwelling buildings with prefabricated wooden and concrete frames. The study, based on literature and interviews, displays that prefabricated cross-laminated timber frames are more expensive than prefabricated concrete frames. However, choosing a timber frame does not necessarily result in a higher production cost compared to a concrete frame. Due to the dehydration time with concrete frames, wooden frames are almost 20 % more time efficient to assemble. Although wooden frames take less time to assemble, they often need more post-production work to withhold quality demands in comparison to concrete frames. The difference in environmental effect between the two materials is significant. Wood is an organic and renewable material and therefore has a low environmental impact. Concrete, which is a non-renewable material, has a higher environmental impact because of its cement component. Today 90 % of the newly developed multi-dwelling buildings are constructed with concrete. To reach the climate strategy in 2045, an increase of wooden constructions is one solution to lower the greenhouse gas emissions. Regarding that most of today’s construction building companies are using concrete as their primary frame material, this way of construction will have to change. Due to this future change, a decisionmaking model for selecting framework material has been developed. The model aims to guide clients and construction companies in an early process to get a first indication on what type of material that would be most beneficial to use in a project. The model is based on three different key factors; environmental effect, investment cost and time. When using the model, these key factors will be compared to each other and prioritized in a hierarchy setting. The outcome specifies the most preferable material to use in a project.
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Kleyn, Philippa May. "Mapping and prediction of archaeological sites of habitation by modern humans using GIS and expert mapping on the south coast of South Africa." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018662.
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South Africa contains many archaeological resources including shell middens from the Middle Stone Age (MSA) and Later Stone Age (LSA). These shell middens give researchers insight into the behaviour of modern humans where the first fossil evidence appears in Africa around 200 000 years ago (Klein, 2008). Research into shell middens is therefore vital to understand the origin of human kind. This study investigates whether Geographical Information Systems (GIS) is a useful tool for predicting locations of unknown shell midden sites using the characteristics of known areas of modern human habitation. This was done using suitability analysis and expert mapping techniques. Ground truthing of the results of the desktop analysis revealed that GIS is not a useful tool for predicting sites of modern habitation as the characteristics that determine human habitation are too variable.
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Simões, Mariana Parreira. "Novos modelos de habitar a cidade para a zona industrial de Âlcantara." Master's thesis, Faculdade de Arquitectura de Lisboa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/5443.
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Marseille, Gilles. "Urbanisme et architecture domestique de l’Entre-deux-guerres à Nancy et dans son agglomération." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LORR0366/document.
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Cette étude porte sur l’architecture domestique à Nancy et dans les 19 communes de son agglomération de 1919 à 1939. L’ampleur du corpus (6 600 édifices) et du territoire étudiés permet de mettre en exergue les processus urbains et architecturaux qui concourent à la production de la ville. Les relations entre les municipalités, les lotisseurs, les organismes de logement social et les sociétés savantes sont scrutées pour retracer le chemin qui mène du projet à la réalité urbaine. La Reconstruction, les lois encadrant l’urbanisme ou les habitations à bon marché (loi Loucheur) et l’effet de la crise des années 1930 sur la promotion foncière et immobilière sont réinterrogés en profitant des outils techniques (SIG) et théoriques actuels. Les confrontations avec les modèles nationaux (voire internationaux) inscrivent l’étude dans une perspective plus large où l’agglomération nancéienne devient un support de réflexion sur ce moment de l’histoire des villes françaises. Par ailleurs, le recensement exhaustif permet de s’intéresser à l’ensemble de la production bâtie, sans hiérarchie. Cette étude du grand nombre, mêlant banal et exceptionnel, met en exergue les permanences et hybridations. L’héritage éclectique et Art nouveau côtoie la diffusion des nouveaux courants que sont le Mouvement moderne et l’Art déco. L’examen du cas nancéien contribue à la redéfinition de ce dernier style et à une meilleure connaissance de son évolution après 1930. Enfin, cette étude est l’occasion de montrer que l’architecture domestique s’apparente à une transcription matérielle de l’ordre social, qui transparaît dans la qualité des espaces intérieurs et des façades comme support de représentationThis study concerns the domestic architecture in Nancy and the 19 towns of its suburbs from 1919 to 1939. The important size of the corpus (6600 buildings) and of the area studied highlights the urban and architectural processes that contribute to the creation of the city. The relationships between the city council, developers, social housing organizations and intellectual societies are analyzed to trace the path that leads from the plan to the urban reality. The post-war reconstruction project, the law controlling urbanism or social housing (Loucheur Act) and the effects of the 1930’s crisis on the land and housing development are looked back on using modern technical (GIS) and conceptual tools. The comparisons with national (even international) models place the study in a broader perspective where Nancy and its suburbs become a medium for reflection on this moment in the history of French cities. In addition, the exhaustive inventory allows looking at all the building production without hierarchy. This study, combining the mundane and the outstanding, highlights permanencies and hybridisations. The legacy of Eclecticism and Art Nouveau coexists with the diffusion of new trends such as the Modern movement and Art Deco. The examination of Nancy’s case contributes to the new definition of the latter style and of a better understanding of its evolution during the 1930’s. Finally, this study is the opportunity to show that domestic architecture is a physical transcription of a social order, which is reflected in the quality of interior design and building facades as medium of representation
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Barbosa, Itaquê Santana. "O Estado e a produção habitacional pública." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8131/tde-05082009-155014/.
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Este trabalho busca contribuir no debate acerca dos movimentos sociais, especificamente no do movimento de moradia. Oferece uma análise das dinâmicas estatais de desenvolvimento das políticas e produções habitacionais em três esferas de governo: o Governo Federal, o Governo Estadual paulista, e a Prefeitura Municipal de São Paulo. O estudo aborda a atuação destes níveis de governo desde suas origens até 2002. Ele analisa os diferentes períodos do desenvolvimento desta atuação, examinando os modelos habitacionais que os caracterizaram. Esta análise focou-se na variação da distribuição das atividades fundamentais, à produção habitacional financiada por fundos públicos, presente nos diferentes programas habitacionais realizados ao longo do tempo. Assim ela procurou identificar as continuidades e descontinuidades da ação estatal. Expõe desta forma as preferências demonstradas pelo Estado em sua ação. Isto permitiu delinear o papel do movimento de moradia em alguns dos modelos habitacionais surgidos desde a Nova República.This study intends to contribute to debate of social movements which gather dwellings. It approaches an analysis on State-oriented dynamics to develop policies and dwellings production into three branches of government: Federal, local State of São Paulo and São Paulo county level. The policies and action of these three levels are made accessible from its origins to 2002. An effort to analysis of different moments into the process of the public action is made. The models for habitation produce are under examination. The approach focuses changes in the distribution from the basic actions up to habitation produce financed by public funds. This has been found in different dwelling programs produced through all the time. The analysis attempts to identify continuities and discontinuities into the public action. It exposes by this way the preferences shown by the State performance. Such an approach allowed to outline the role of the gather dwellings movement in some of the habitation produce models that were developed since the New Republic arrival
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Turlat, Christine. "Etude sur maquette de la convection naturelle dans l'habitat par interferometrie holographique : determination des regimes d'ecoulements parietaux." Toulouse 3, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987TOU30018.
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Etude du transfert de chaleur et des regimes d'ecoulement d'un local avec une paroi chauffee, une paroi opposee froide, et les quatres autres paroi isothermes. Resultats d'une maquette a l'echelle 1/4
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Mathieu, Clémence. "L'habitat de la petite noblesse dans la partie nord de l'ancien comté de Hainaut, 15e-18e siècles: architecture, modes de vie et manières d'être." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209656.
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Cette étude s’attache à comprendre ce qu’est un habitat seigneurial secondaire en Hainaut à la fin du Moyen Age et aux Temps Modernes. La disparition de la plupart des résidences de la haute noblesse en Hainaut, nous a amenée à nous pencher sur l’étude des habitats de la petite noblesse, dont le manque de reconnaissance, entrainant la démolition ou les transformations irréversibles de ces habitats, rend ces édifices sujets à l’oubli. Ajoutons à cela que, victimes d’une tradition castrale héritée du 19e siècle, archéologues et historiens de l’art ont bien souvent eu leur attention d’abord attirée par les grands châteaux et donc la haute noblesse, laissant de côté toute une tranche de la population noble et de leurs possessions. Notre étude a comme objectif majeur de comprendre comment ces habitats ont fonctionné comme structures de vie, mais aussi comme des architectures à travers lesquelles et par lesquelles les habitants pouvaient exprimer leurs identités. Dans cette optique, après avoir considéré les différents types architecturaux (types de plans, types de corps de logis, types de tours), suivant une typo-chronologie, nous considérons les matériaux utilisés et la distribution intérieure de ces édifices. Ce sont ensuite les entourages de l’habitat en tant qu’espace construit, leur situation dans le paysage, et par rapport au relief, à l’hydrographie, aux villages, aux terres de cultures, et aux réseaux de communication, qui occupent une grande partie de l’étude. Les liens avec leurs habitants, ces membres de la « petite noblesse » sont ensuite considérés. Leurs fonctions, leurs origines et leurs zones de déplacements sont abordés, afin de mieux percevoir le rôle et la détermination de ce groupe social, qui s’avère être en rupture avec la haute noblesse. L’opposition traditionnelle entre villes et campagnes est dépassée, de même que la question des maisons principales et secondaires, au profit d’une approche plus fluide, favorisant une interaction entre villes et campagnes, et considérant les mouvements de population émergeant de l’un ou l’autre milieu.
La partie interprétative suit ensuite, permettant d’aboutir à une caractérisation de ce type d’habitat. Le but est notamment de mettre en lumière la relation entre les aspects défensifs et résidentiels des édifices. Pour ce faire, les éléments de défense active et passive sont examinés, ainsi que le degré d’efficacité de ces structures.
La suite de cette partie a pour but de replacer les habitats de la petite noblesse dans le contexte des types architecturaux des campagnes, de la haute noblesse et des villes du Hainaut et des anciens Pays-Bas, afin de mieux dégager les liens ou les ruptures entre les différents groupes sociaux et architecturaux. Les rapports avec les habitats ruraux sont établis en ce qui concerne les diverses composantes que sont les douves, les pont-levis, les orifices de tir, les espaces verts et les aménagements hydrographiques d’agrément, la basse-cour, les tours, les typologies des plans et de maisons, les matériaux et leur qualité de mise en œuvre, les intérieurs, les ouvertures et les styles, les armoiries et les millésimes. La catégorie intermédiaire que sont les habitats des élites rurales, est également abordée, puisqu’elle développe des types architecturaux ambigus et se rapprochant davantage des habitats de la petite noblesse que des autres ruraux. Cette catégorie est examinée d’un point de vue architectural et social./This research is aiming at understanding what is a gentry’s settlement in the County of Hainault at the end of the Middle Ages and during the Modern Times. The disappearance of most of the castles of the high nobility in Hainault, led us to study the gentry’s settlement. The lack of recognition of this kind of building is often leading to their destruction and irreversible transformations. There is also the fact that the archaeologists and art historians often inherited from the 19th century tradition, whose attention was mostly attracted by the main castles and the high nobility, forgetting by the same occasion a side of the nobility –the gentry- and his settlement.
The main objective of this research is to understand how these settlements were linked with their inhabitants, expressing their identities, ways of living and behaviours. In this framework, we first analyse the architectural typologies (plans, residential buildings, towers) in connection with the chronology, the materials, and the inner organisation of these buildings.
Afterwards, we consider the surroundings of the buildings, the location in the landscape, the relief, hydrography, the village, the lands, the communication net. The lesser nobility is also studied, through its functions, origins, movement areas, in order to have a better understanding of the role and definition of this social group which is distinctly separated from the high nobility. The traditional opposition between cities and countryside, and between the main and secondary housing, is overstepped, in order to reach a more flexible approach. We therefore consider the topic through an interaction between cities and countryside, and their inhabitants.
The rest of the research is dedicated to the interpretations, in order to draw the characterists of the gentry’s settlement. First, the relationships between the defensive and residential aspects are considered. The active and passive defensive elements are studied, as well as the efficiency of these structures.
Secondly, we replace the gentry’s settlement in the context of the other architectural types of the countryside, high nobility and cities of the county of Hainaut and the Southern Low Countries, in order to have a better understanding of the links and breaks between the different social and architectural groups. The link with the rural settlement is established concerning the following elements :drawbridges, moats, arrow slits, green spaces and water structures, farms, towers, plans and houses typologies, materials and their quality, interiors, openings and styles, coats of arms. The intermediate category of the settlement of the rural elites is also considered, as the architectural types are close to the gentry’s settlement. This category is examined on an architectural and social point of view.
The link with the settlement of the cities and the high nobility is also studied, allowing to see a lack of link between the different categories at least until the end of the 17th century.
In the last chapters, the gentry’s settlement of Hainault is replaced in the context of the Southern Low Countries, through a comparative approach. We also consider the link with this kind of settlement and the tradition and the modernity, as well as the link with the social status of their inhabitants and builders.
The conclusion is the occasion to remind all the characteristics of the gentry’s settlement in Hainault, and the evolution of the architectural types through the centuries. Some comparisons with the same kind of settlement in surroundings countries are also established, opening new research perspectives. In the epilogue, we consider the buildings on a conservation, restoration and preservation point of view. The state of the art of the legislative situation is given, and prescriptions for a better future conservation are drawn, in order to avoid a disappearance of the architectural information, together with an important part of the history.
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Cheng-Shuan, Kao, and 高政軒. "Dwelling and Construction of Modern Architecture: on the Anit-materiality of Mies van der Rohe." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96647127432419453083.
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From the many divergent discourses of architectural aesthetics responding to the need for orthodoxy per se, we can see that the creation of architectural form is related to the judgment of morality. That is to say, the judgment of the moral intention inherent in form has a critical influence on the development of aesthetics. For this reason, much of the discourse on this issue since the 1970s admitted that the aesthetic derived from modern architecture is un-human. It tries to free itself from the previous decade''''s focus on architectural function and create new forms and aesthetics by turning to the discussion of ethics. Nevertheless, these studies share a synchronic viewpoint, which disregards changes in the nature of ideology itself, and treats architecture as a static artifact. As a result, the main approach of these studies is imperative and focuses only on form itself. These studies address questions such as: “Under a certain morality, which architecture is moral?” while disregarding the more fundamental question of: “How can the moral intention of architectural form be judged in the constantly changing current of history?” This formal-centric approach has stirred up a lot of interest and debate among scholars of various schools, but it fails to make any real contribution to the purpose of research, which is to reflect on modern architecture. The central question of this thesis then is “how to judge the morality of certain materials, form, and other substantive elements in architecture.” The methodology adopted is, first, to illuminate the problems of the established approaches by means of two currents of discourse. These two currents of discourse are paradoxical but concerned with same elements or form of architecture. Second, I proceed analytically from common knowledge to a determination of the supreme principle and then back again synthetically from an examination of this principle and its sources to common knowledge where its application is found, in order to examine the relation between moral judgment and form or materials. For that purpose, I focus on Mies and critiques of him because Mies is a major figure in the development of contemporary architecture, and the critiques of him have been popularized. Above all, these two sources are the foundation of many divergent tendencies after modernism. Each of these two currents of discouse tries to explain the moral intention in Mies’ architecture by means of certain architectural devices such as form or materials. Of course they also propose their own interpretation of moral architecture. Nevertheless, from further analysis we find that on the one hand, the critics of Mies adopted a priori methods of critique, which simply confused knowledge and values. On the other hand, Mies himself confronted architecture and conflicts with opponents based on his personal inclinations. The law that Mies and the critics of him contributed does not carry with it absolute necessity. If we adopt other points of view, the devotion of critics to return “back to the human dwelling,” would be reduced into the “exclusion of the authenticity of the human by the universality.” On the other hand, the “overcoming of alienation,” as stated by the Mies, would be inverted as “becoming an eternal alienation.” (Form, which is moral for Mies is immoral for the critics, and vice versa. Nevertheless, these moral theories are founded on principles of mere experience─even a precept that may in certain respects be universal─insofar as it rests in the least on empirical grounds can indeed be called a practical rule, but never a moral law.) The author argues that there is absolutely no way by means of experience to make out with complete certainty a single case. On the other hand, when moral value is being considered, the concern is not with actions, which are seen, but rather with their inner principles, which are not seen. We must concede that the ground of obligation here must therefore be sought not in the nature of man nor in the circumstances of the world in which man is placed, but must be sought a priori solely in the concepts of pure reason.
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Cuthbertson, Hazel Claire. "Situating Nukain Mabuza's rock garden: a study of a landscape dwelling through multiple explanatory frameworks." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/23857.
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A research report submitted to the
Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg,
in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree
Master of Arts (History of Art) by coursework and research report
March 2017In the 1960s and 1970s, farm worker Nukain Mabuza created a painted hillside rock garden on a farm between Barberton and Kaapmuiden, Mpumalanga, South Africa. He transformed his dwellings, and rearranged and painted the surrounding rocks according to a unified scheme of geometric and animal motifs with a carefully selected colour palette. This altered environment went far further aesthetically, and lasted far longer in time, than the signs and scars that might typically result from a farm worker’s dwelling upon the land. His work arguably bears some of the hallmarks of an inhabited ‘total work of art’. I challenge the dominant ‘outsider art’ explanatory framework adopted by JFC Clarke and re-evaluate the fragmentary archive of Mabuza’s life and work. Working from the likelihood that no single context will offer sufficient grounds for situating Nukain Mabuza’s particular creative practice, I assess the relevance of cultural, historical and religious contexts, which might have shaped Nukain Mabuza’s personal vision and contributed to the form of his expressive environment. Nukain Mabuza’s altered landscape has suffered considerable damage – there is no longer any trace of the two dwellings and the stile, and the paintings on the rocks have all but disappeared. My project seeks to contribute to the scholarship on Nukain Mabuza’s work by extending, analysing, interpreting and situating his inhabited painted environment within the worldview of southern African Bantu-speakers, as a unique personal creative expression, and as an expression of the artist’s modernity.
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Helikarová, Kateřina. "Domy s malými byty Ústřední sociální pojišťovny a obce pražské, realizované menzi lety 1932 a 1939, na "Zelené lišce" v Praze, na Pankráci." Master's thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-348626.
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This thesis aims to analyse the development and planning of the construction of the blocks of small flats at the Zelná liška residental district in the Pankrác area of Prague in the years from 1932 to 1939. The first chapter focuses on how the architectural trends in the country and worldwide at that time impacted the development and the area planning. The second chapter deals with the description of flats being built at that time, which were small in size but practical and hygienic, and the main purpose behind their construction. In particular, it deals with the new look of the apartment houses, with the changes of their ground plans and the law regulations related. The following two parts are dedicated exclusively to the development of the area around Pankrác. The objective is to provide its demarcation and a brief overview of the area's development at the time just before the Capital of Prague was established, and the regulation. The chapters also include a detailed summary of the competition to construct the new municipal houses the new municipal houses in the Zelená liška area between two competitors - the Central Social Insurance Company and the City of Prague. The result of the competition influenced the developer's decision on the choice of type of the houses and flats. Some of these flats are...
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Goad, Philip James. "The modern house in Melbourne, 1945-1975." 1992. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/2854.
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This dissertation reveals the method by which architects in Melbourne have designed the single family house in the period 1945 - 1975 and thus extends Robin Boyd's attempt in 1947 to describe a regional architectural manner for the state of Victoria. Critical to the study is an initial outline of a local tradition of condoned eclecticism in 1930s domestic architecture and the presence of an evolving housing stock that was mixed rather than predominantly that of the single family house. Modernism in 1930s Melbourne architecture is found to be part of a compositional tradition rather than emerging from ideological imperatives. Robin Boyd’s idea of a so-called Victorian Type is also found to be part of this compositional tradition. The study then examines the suppressive effect of World War 2 on this tradition and its eventual re-emergence during the ensuing three decades.The circumstances which encouraged the adoption of the language of modern architecture and its subsequent effects are examined via prevailing architectural themes. These include: the post-war Victorian Type; structural experiment; geometry; the influence of the East Coast Bauhaus and Frank Lloyd Wright; the continuing idiosyncratic assimilation and reformulation process (albeit under the guise of the Modern Movement) which described the modern house in Melbourne of the 1950s and 1960s; the renewed interest in texture, exposed materials and compartmented planning in the 1960s; and the eventual re-emergence of artifice in the composition of space, form and detail and a renewed variety and intricacy in choice of texture and materials. (For complete abstract open document)
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Chang, Hung-Wen, and 張紘聞. "Discovering the Features of Spatial Configuration of Japanese Traditional Sukiya and Modern Dwellings Through Morphological Analysis." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/49121710598733059389.
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碩士逢甲大學
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The main purpose of this research is to discover cultural concepts and spatial composition theories of Japanese dwellings from traditional to modern ones, and to try to establish a more complete method and model of morphological analysis in dwellings’ research. This research further aims to understand what makes the structural forms and behavior patterns of dwelling spaces in different periods and ideas evolve. Furthermore, this research discusses what spatial composition features are reserved and what features are transformed in the spatial structures of both traditional and modern dwellings, and then tries to anatomize and explain the embedded power of society and cultural content on dwelling design. This research uses the external and internal morphological analysis, 「Geometrical Configuration Analysis」 and 「Space Syntax」, to find out the features of spatial structure of traditional and modern dwellings in Japan through 3 traditional Sukiya dwelling cases, 3 modern middle corridor dwelling cases, and 20 residences designed in the early, middle and late stages of the Metabolic architects in order to make the relationship of residential behaviors between artificial and natural environments clearer. In this way, this research may reveal the Eastern cultural ideas and spatial values embedded in Japanese architecture and understand the connotations of Japanese traditional architecture and its influences on modern architects’ designing styles. In addition, this project analyzes in detail how the original strength of traditional values and ideas transformed and influenced the Modernism style and how contemporary architects transform the characteristics of the traditional Japanese dwelling spaces into modern designing methods. This research will recognize and decode these issues: 1. Understanding the morphological configuration features of traditional and modern architecture, and setting up configuration rules of external forms of architectural substance elements through external morphological analysis. 2. Clarifying the differences in morphological construction features of the behavior patterns of residents in traditional and modern dwellings, and setting up composition models of the inner spaces of the same dwelling genotypes through inner morphological analysis. 3. Looking for the same spatial configurations in traditional and modern dwellings, and looking for the power of and the reasons behind the sustainability of these configurations. 4. Discovering the changes between the traditional and modern dwellings, and trying to understand the evolving power and the reasons behind the evolution. 5. Comparing the morphology of Japanese dwellings through configuration rules of external forms and construction models of inner spaces to tease out the relationship and the concerns of architecture and cultural identity under the influence of the times and society. This research hopes to find, by examining traditional and modern residences, the shared architectural knowledge and models of the different periods or regions. It also wishes to find the external and internal architectural composition rules and logic of socio-spatial functions. Finally, it discusses what power time and society have to push the dwellings from the past to the present and make them evolve and transform.
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Xiao, Ya-Jing, and 蕭雅菁. "Analysis of the Spatial Configuration Differences on Traditional and Modern Dwellings in a Rural Village in Lukang." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/53435498744448755700.
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Abstract Following the globalization development, rural houses of Taiwan are transforming constantly, especially in the last decade, which lets the rural residential housing present different appearances. These changes are mostly related to residents who live there. In the earlier stage, the elders own the right to decide how their courthouses spaces should be rearranged to cope with the change of their family structure. Changing inside living space or outside appearance tends to be hardly accepted by the elders and thus space is relatively slow to change. However, changes could be drastically once the younger generation takes over the economic production works of the household. Due to information circulates fast in modern society, the younger generation often receive the external thought of pursuing a modern living style, thus they are eager to change. Nowadays, under the changes of space-time, the rural modern buildings of private residences in Taiwan have already emerged to look quite different from the traditional courtyard dwellings. Clearly, life styles and attitudes are both important factors that transform building models. However, are there distinctive differences on the space arrangement between different production life styles, such as farming vs. non-farming productions? Moreover, Does the common basic prototypes exist among those various dwelling types, such as traditional courthouse vs. mixed types or modern ones, under similar production life style? This research at first differentiates from the traditional space syntax convex break-up mode and deploys the space use function definition instead to deconstruct the spatial structure. For instance, a unique convex space of kitchen-dinning room will be divided into two separate space units. Space use behavior of residents will be recorded under random visits and observation depending the dwellers’ allowance of interview. It is hoped that the above two questions can be answered from the research methodology mentioned above. The research finds firstly that the space network relation of the dwelling types of courtyard houses and mixed ones shows more shallow rings and the modern dwellings turn out to be quite deep tree. Despite the above noticeable difference, this study discovers two main findings. The first is that there does exit a common shared prototype among those different dwelling types regardless of their production and living styles. The research results show that the public space of dinning room (or in some cases, living room) and the transitional space of exterior corridor (or in some cases, threshold of staircase) are often located at the node of spatial network and exhibit high accessibility in the whole system. It is exactly in these spaces where one finds social interactions occurred. The second finding is that there also exits difference on part of the spatial configuration between the different production living styles. The open court space in the farming production living family type seems to turn out to be highly accessible within the whole system and plays an important role of multiple functions use, such as leisure activities, farming production, etc., regardless of the differences of building types. However, the open court space in the non-farming production live style, tends to become less accessible than other spaces and locates in segregated area where one often finds garden for visual appreciation or car park only.
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Boland, John William. "Mathematical modelling of heat flows in domestic dwellings / by John William Boland." 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/18656.
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Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library.
This thesis describes the construction and process of solution of the differential equations in a mathematical model of heat transfer in domestic dwellings.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Applied Mathematics, 1996
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Yuan-Chi, Chang, and 張元吉. "Preliminary analysis of new construction models of public space for urban-dwelling indigenous people – a case study of the Indigenous People Theme Park in Taipei City." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/79997947686676381053.
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In this research, observations have been made on the living circumstances of urban-dwelling indigenous people who are adapting to living in environs foreign to them. Through interviews, subjects were asked to provide suggestions regarding public space allocated for themes on Taiwanese indigenous peoples’ culture in the Taipei area. An attempt will be made to understand how indigenous people engage in cultural activities while living on the marginal edge of mainstream society after moving to the city, by interpreting the subjects’ perspectives of cultural activities after examining their ideas of “memories of life in the old home town”. For the purpose of this paper, analyses of three case studies of public space constructed on themes of indigenous people’s culture examined the content that has been created with these constructions and how to faithfully present a cultural environment that would be accepted by indigenous people living in cities. We will be looking at a design strategy that focuses on creating a learning environment that combines elements of park and daily life to develop an experimental case, entitled “Urban-dwelling Indigenous Peoples’ Activity Center”. The design strategy involved in the construction of this activity center has been developed from determining the needs of indigenous people in their cultural and traditional life styles to recreate genuine interaction in authentic scenarios of indigenous people’s daily lives. The objective of this research is to vitalize public space and environments for urban-dwelling indigenous people to participate in interaction and learning so that these public spaces will become an appropriate venue for them to engage in cultural activities. There are two underlying premises in the planning strategies: 1. Public space constructed on aboriginal cultural themes should reflect an appropriate interpretation of indigenous people’s traditional cultural environment. 2. The construction of “Urban-dwelling Indigenous People’s Activity Center” should involve indigenous people’s participation during the design stage; the living space created in the activity center should be constructed gradually in the manner that resembles the learning process of traditional construction. This vitalized public space is not merely a concrete presentation of aboriginal culture; it should be a space that offers authentic experiences of traditional lifestyles and learning of aboriginal culture. By having the urban-dwelling indigenous people take part in the design and construction of such public space, we will be able to provide static and dynamic learning experiences that will, in turn, enhance cultural understanding and awareness of traditional lifestyles. In addition, this will allow us to create a learning environment for urban-dwelling indigenous people to experience their culture from the “memories of lifestyles in the past”. Finally, based on the analyses of interviews and case studies, the following discoveries were made: 1. The “home town life scenarios” created by urban-dwelling indigenous people in their attempt to design and construct public space allows them to engage in traditional daily exchanges. 2. Existing public facilities built on aboriginal culture themes are lacking in terms of relevance to the daily lives of urban-dwelling indigenous people. 3. Existing BOT projects of public facilities are apparently inadequate to recreate environments of independent learning for urban-dwelling indigenous people.
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"HK residential design model, model of variation, tectonics of tower." 2002. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5891327.
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Mok Chung To Gabriel & Tam Sin Lung."Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2001-2002, design report."
"HK Residential Design Model Morphology of Hong Kong Residential Design by Nelson S.L. TAM and Gabriel C.T. MOK advised by Prof. Vito D. Bertin, Tectonic Studio, 2001 - 2002" --- p.P1 - P3
"Model of Variation Experimenting Tectonics in Residential Design by Nelson S.L. TAM advised by Prof. Vito D. Bertin, Tectonic Studio, 2001 - 2002" --- p.P4 - P6
"Tectonics of Tower Exploration on Highrise Residential Space by Gabriel C.T. MOK advised by Prof. Vito D. Bertin, Tectonic Studio, 2001 - 2002" --- p.P7 - P9
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Pohunková, Iva. "Způsoby využití pískovcového podloží v českém rurálním prostředí." Master's thesis, 2020. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-415300.
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The thesis discusses settlement relics and other traces of landscape use in sandstone bedrock of northern Bohemia from medieval ages up to 1st half of the 20th century. Three polygonal areas of interest covering an area of 1 km2 each were selected: area of hamlet Lešnice in the region of Roverské skály, area of Truskavna village in the region of Kokořínsko and area of Podkost village in the Český ráj region. The thesis compares these area and types of object found by field survey from 2015 and 2017-2019. It includes a detailed listing of documented objects, plans of chosen sites and detailed maps for each polygon. Keywords sandstone, field survey, small monuments, rock dwellings, Middle Ages, Modern period, everday life