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Carta, Humberto. "Organização e estrutura na obra inicial do O.M.A. : 1972-1992." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/182655.
Full textRem Koolhaas and his Office for Metropolitan Architecture projects can be considered, without the risk of exaggeration, one of the most influential body of works of the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. Influential professionals in contemporary architecture worked at the office and learned from Koolhaas’s teachings, several magazines dedicate entire issues to his works, and his international recognition became indisputable after he was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2000. Although Koolhaas and his office were internationally recognized, the path that led to this recognition-from its foundation in 1972 to its first works being built and subsequent success with specialized critics in 1992-is relatively unknown, with most of the available material being spread out among different magazines. It is also noteworthy that the critics who analyze Koolhaas’s work projects tend to approach the work through its symbolic or socio-economic value, with a tendency to directly relate the biography of Koolhaas and his texts to the forms of his designs. This dissertation aims to organize, systematize and categorize information on the first two decades of OMA’s production — from 1972 to 1992, coinciding with the period covered by Koolhaas in his book S, M, L, XL. Through a formal analysis of his works, focusing on the different types of structure utilized in projects throughout the years, this dissertation intends to clarify the office’s transformation of design strategies and reaffirm the continuation of the modern tradition present in Koolhaas’s work.
Makimoto, Norito. "Analysis of the Los Angeles metropolitan office market." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68308.
Full textLynch-Lloyd, Mary (Mary Patricia), Ching Ying Ngan, and Maya Shopova. "Collective Home Office." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115616.
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Collective Home Office is a collaborative practice whose working process tests the propositions it makes through architecture. As a group of friends, willing test subjects, a union of producers, a jury, a family, or an army, CHO explores the frictions and benefits of collectivity in both method and content. The three words that form its name provide a framework through which the practice engages with its context, questioning how the meanings of collective, home and office have been historically shaped. Targeting the agents most implicated in defining the current moment, namely the proto-state corporations, platforms and institutions that constitute Big Tech, CHO pitches a series of unsolicited projects to clients who are radically changing how we live and relate to one another. CHO believes that not only should these agents be held responsible for the drastic social and urban impacts they exert, but that they may become willing partners in designing new ways of living that respond to the social estrangement, imminent technological unemployment, and chronic housing crisis that have resulted from their unregulated conquest of market share. Far from neglecting the notion of collectivity, the tech world has appropriated its surplus value and replaced sharing with a sharing economy and then with a gig economy. The "capitalist collective" fails to recognize its misuse of the word; collectives differ greatly from memberships rosters. CHO believes that collectivity is a shared motivation towards a common goal. Fundamentally ideological, it is accrued over time through social intimacy built on shared experiences, both positive and negative. Spatially, this notion of the collective requires a new organizational strategy. Modeled on both the city and the home, forms of domestic urbanism are fostered by intimate encounters occurring at overlapping scales of interaction, redefining the notion of household. CHO focuses its practice on how this unlikely partnership can be used as an opportunity to rewire the collective with new priorities. Using the home office as a device, CHO emphasizes the increasing importance of care work and social grooming as means of coping with transitional post-work lifestyle no longer based on the binary of home and work.
by Mary Lynch-Lloyd, Ching Ying Ngan [and] Maya Shopova.
M. Arch.
Östergren, Hannah. "Layers of Office." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-231995.
Full textTang, Wencan M. C. P. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Office rent and labor availability in the Chicago Metropolitan Area." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45368.
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This paper provides an empirical analysis of office rents using data from the 2000 U.S. Census and TWR office building data in the Chicago Metropolitan Statistical Area. The results indicate that rent levels respond to variables measuring labor availability. The relationship between spatial supply of office space and labor availability is also explored. Balanced scenarios are estimated in each unit area, and areas with an under-supply of office space demonstrate development opportunities. Land use regulation is suggested to explain the difference between the model results of the office rent and of the supply of office space.
by Wencan Tang.
M.C.P.
Kempf, Simon. "Development of hedonic office rent indices for German metropolitan areas /." Köln : Immobilien-Manager-Verl, 2008. http://d-nb.info/990659291/04.
Full textTeas, Wendy Ann. "Landscape viewing in metropolitan Boston." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70179.
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This thesis recognizes the importance of landscape viewing, especially as a solitary act of contemplation. It suggests the creation of a place from which to gaze upon a vast landscape. It postulates that an observation structure can act as a border between the natural world and the constructed world in order to accentuate their differences and to acknowledge the importance of each. In addition, this thesis shows why Route One next to the Lynn Woods Reservation in Metropolitan Boston is an excellent place for a landscape viewing structure. The resulting design is an observation wall located between Route 1 and the Lynn Woods Reservation in Saugus. It is composed of two parts. The primary structure of the composition is two tall, tapering concrete walls that rise from beneath the ground. The walls curve through the landscape, disappearing and reappearing. Their character is a complement to the contours of the land. The secondary structure is a light wood and steel frame construction. This system supports the act of solitary landscape viewing by providing individual viewing lookouts in conjunction with a gallery space, a small library, and a small kitchen. The design is organized as a series of episodes along a continuous ramp. The interplay of the two construction systems is meant to evoke combined feelings of transience and persistence as well as the contrast that exists between the two types of landscape on either side of the walls.
by Wendy Ann Teas.
M.Arch.
Dandridge, Cyane Bemiss. "Energy efficiency in office technology." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/12261.
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This thesis, directed toward a wide variety of persons interested in energy efficiency issues with office technology, explores several issues relating to reducing energy use and improving energy efficiency of office equipment. Chapter 2 compares policies and programs in several European countries and the United States that could enhance the energy efficiency of office technology. Different programs are examined, including federal government programs where in some cases target values for power usage of office equipment have already been set. Large customer procurement programs, industry involvement, with emphasis on voluntary labeling programs, and research projects are also examined. Procedures that provide energy consumption measurements of various types of equipment are important for providing information to emerging procurement programs. Two sets of proposed test procedures for testing energy consumption of copiers, fax machines and printers are examined and compared. In Chapter 3, comparisons are made of the electrical power and energy used by computers, displays, copiers, printers and facsimile machines, both while operating and while idle. Technology options for reduced energy and power consumption and improved energy efficiency are examined. As the capability of office equipment has increased, there has been a trend toward increased electrical power requirements and energy consumption while equipment is in active operation. Computer power continues to grow rapidly. These factors will combine to exert an upward pressure for electrical power. However, some emerging technologies are lessening or in some cases reversing this trend, with little or no penalty in performance or production. The overall balance between increased service and efficiency is uncertain. Chapter 3 also examines the embodied energy of paper and office equipment. I compare it to the total energy required to produce a printed page of information, or required over the lifetime of the machine. Many difficulties were encountered in collecting and comparing data on power requirements of various machines. Procedures for testing the energy usage of office equipment are needed to make valid comparisons between machines. This thesis describes in Chapter 4, modifications to the procedure issued by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) to test energy consumption in copiers, to account for energy saver modes and double-sided copying. It also presents new procedures submitted to the ASTM committee for printers and fax machines. A fourth procedure is also presented here, one to test the energy consumption of personal computers. Typically, office equipment is not in use for much of the time it is turned on. Use of power management in office equipment can considerably decrease overall energy consumption. While energy saver modes are more prevalent in copiers, those printers that have incorporated this feature achieve more dramatic power reductions. Fax machines do not seem to utilize this technology at all, even though many have high power consumption when they are idle. How energy saving modes effect the overall energy consumption of machines is largely determined by operating profiles of the machines. The effect of operating profiles on energy usage with imaging equipment has not yet been examined. Methods of determining operating profiles of office equipment are presented in Chapter 5. A comparison is made between the energy use predicted by the ASTM procedures, energy use predicted by the ASTM procedures and actual operating profiles, and the actual energy usage of several copiers and printers. For copiers, the ASTM rated energy use per page was from 10-161 % different from the actual measured energy use per page. The use of the ASTM method with the measured operating profiles of the machine gave a 7-22% difference in energy use per page. For printers, the rated values using the ASTM method gave 61-317 % difference from the actual measured energy use per page, while using actual usage profiles with the ASTM method gave 0-6% difference. This thesis provides information on a variety of subject in the area of energy use and energy efficiency in office technology. The results provide information for emerging programs and provide a strong basis for a variety of further research.
by Cyane Bemiss Dandridge.
M.S.
Troukens, Philippe 1969. "Demand for serviced office space." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/32207.
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The work environment has experienced tremendous change in the past few decades. The need for global communication, enabled by technology, has been the prime catalyst to transform the traditional demand for office space from a historically inflexible asset into one that includes more flexible solutions. Serviced offices combines office space, technology and support into a global network of fully furnished, staffed and equipped offices and meeting rooms, that can be occupied or vacated on flexible terms, and tailored to the specific business needs of the users. This thesis explores the objectives of these users and the physical characteristics of their requirements for serviced office space. Two case studies further illustrate and verify the analysis. In the pursuit for greater flexibility, serviced office space plays a growing role in the corporate real estate portfolio. This is however an evolution rather than a revolution.
by Philippe Troukens.
S.M.
Petrow, Stefan. "Policing morals : the Metropolitan Police and the Home Office ; 1870 - 1914 /." Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1994. http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/27782429X.pdf.
Full textPinsker, Alan Mark. "The place for highrise housing in metropolitan Atlanta." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23073.
Full textAllison, Jordan Lloyd Norman. "After Exodus : re-occupation of the metropolitan wall." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72630.
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The title "Exodus alludes to a restricted exclave encircled by a forbidding wall -- effect, a prison on the scale of a metropolis, and one in which people sought refuge voluntarily. Over the past forty years, similar walls have grown in the city of Belfast in an increasing effort to divide its Catholic and Protestant populations. Although the troubles have subsided, the walls continue to grow creating interface zones along their edges, where civic infrastructure becomes abandoned and left to ruin. Such zones become the stage for a new urban culture invigorated by invention and subversion, each with an objective of territorial gain through a type of architectural warfare that stakes its claim on the conterminous ruins along its edge. The result is manifested in adaptive architectural typologies that reinforce the edge condition of the wall through the re-appropriation of critical infrastructure, forced to confront its intersection with barrier lines.
by Jordan Lloyd Norman Allison.
M.Arch.
Sheehan, Kevin T. (Kevin Thomas). "The value of contractual terms in office leases." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37445.
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This paper uses a comprehensive data set to develop a hedonic model of office rent that estimates values of contractual terms such as tenant improvement allowances, leasing commissions, and options. The model includes variables to control for building characteristics and market conditions, as well as basic lease terms. Although other studies have used a similar approach, the prior work in this area was limited by the lack of data regarding contractual terms. The results show that there is a consistent, upward-sloping, convex term structure of rent. Furthermore, there is an insignificant "size premium" but the "proportion discount" is significant. In general, other variables, such as location variables and qualitative variables behave as expected, with the exception of the expense type dummy variables. Tenant improvement allowances and leasing commissions paid by the landlord do not have a predictable impact on rent at low levels. But high levels of allowances and commissions result in significant rent premiums. These results indicate that lower levels of allowances and commissions may be expected by the market. At higher levels, however, these contractual terms are clearly priced into rent levels.
(cont.) Renewal options appear to have positive impacts in some years and negative impacts in other years. Renewal options may represent amenities that are granted to tenants as inducements in weaker leasing markets but are priced in stronger markets. Termination options and rights of first offer/refusal appear to have negative impacts on rent that are somewhat consistent in all years. This is counterintuitive because these options are thought to benefit the tenant. One explanation is that these options are in fact beneficial to the landlord. Further study is necessary to understand the value of these options. Overall, more information about options terms would be beneficial. Information such as the renewal rent, the termination fee, and the size of the offer/refusal space would help us to understand the economic arrangement between the parties and to predict the corresponding impact on rent.
by Kevin T. Sheehan.
S.M.
Manandhar, Sanjay. "Activity server--a model for everday office activities." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/13917.
Full textCase, Keith William. "You give me fever : practical protection for metropolitan neuroses." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/57514.
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The emergence of Swine Flu in the past six months has once again heightened the world's fears of a coming flu pandemic. Although H1N1 is only slightly more pathogenic than the common seasonal flu, which kills approximately 30,000 Americans each year, its rapid transmission around the globe is nonetheless alarming and once again reveals the deficiencies in the government's detection, prevention and response. Currently few governments are adequately prepared for a possible outbreak. After a century of reliance on antibiotics and vaccines, new and reemerging drug-resistant diseases expose the necessity of domestic biosecurity in addition to the national and international policies. Much like social unrest, wars and illnesses have in the past, the new pandemic crisis will shape architecture and urbanism dramatically. It will require a responsive and adaptable architecture that provides a nuanced relationship between living, working and socializing in a manner that does not forsake community for quarantine.
by Keith William Case.
M.Arch.
Petrow, S. "Policing morals : the Metropolitan Police and the Home Office in London, 1870-1914." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1987. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/273103.
Full textZheng, Xijia Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Metropolitan Area Network architecture design for Optical Flow switching." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99798.
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Optical Flow switching (OFS) is a key enabler of future scalable all-optical networks for the large traffic flows. In this thesis, we provide design concepts of efficient physical topology and routing architectures for an all-optical Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) that supports OFS. We use all-to-one stochastic flows to model inter-MAN traffic demands and adopt Moore Graphs and Generalized Moore Graphs as the physical topology. We found good MAN architectures are coupled intimately with media access control protocol designs and must be optimized jointly. Two routing architectures that represent extreme cases were proposed and examined: Quasi-Static Architecture (QSA) and Dynamic Per Flow Routing Architecture (DPFRA). The performance and costs are compared to provide an economical architecture building strategy. We find for the MAN, DPFRA always has the lower queueing delay and lower blocking probability than that of QSA at the expense of more complexity in scheduling, switching, and network management and control. Our analysis based on Moore Graphs and Generalized Moore Graphs indicates that QSA becomes cheaper when the product of the average offered load per node and the normalized delay are equal to or larger than ~ 2 units of wavelengths, with both architectures essentially meeting the same delay or blocking probability requirements. Also, the cost boundary shows that DPFRA with shortest-queue node first routing strategy (sq-first strategy) is preferred only when the delay requirement is stringent and the offered load is low, while QSA is much more suitable for the all-optical MAN to accommodate modest to heavy network traffic. Since OFS is only going to be used in heavy load situations brought on by elephants in the traffic, QSA is the preferred architecture. We have shown the hybrid architecture of QSA and DPFRA is impractical and thus it should be avoided.
by Xijia Zheng.
S.M.
Culver, Kyrre. "Suburban office space : an exploration of continuity and difference." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65458.
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Anonymous boxes whose primary architectural features are stacked floor plates and horizontal bands of reflective glass predominate the suburban office landscape, These objects, scattered across fields and along freeways, are outdated images of the industrial age when capital was the most important business resource. As architecture, they represent the values of this past age: their homogenous and hermetic character depicts an efficient regimented workplace where the office is isolated from the community and work is separated from the rest of life. In today's information society and global economy, people have replaced capital as the key business resource, and thus the values of the workplace are shifting. Efficiency is being replaced by effectiveness - doing the right things with the right people in the right way - and separation is being countered by corporate participation in the community and by company support of their employees' lives both within and beyond the workplace. The thesis is that suburban office space ought to reflect these new values and proposes the exploration of two relationships: continuity and difference, as the means to this end. Continuity is chosen for it's possibilities in defining relationships of connection and difference is chosen as a way of promoting the varied activities of the new workplace.
by Kyrre Culver.
M.Arch.
Rask, Walter S. "Northern Boulevard office district : urban design analysis and projections." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76859.
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This thesis takes as its premise the proposition that the pattern of street rights-of-way (and, by implication, utility alignments), blocks and parcelization are together the strongest and most persistent determinants of urban form. Certain design objectives are postulated--among them, clearly defined street space--and three street patterns are tested with a program combining two building types (office and parking structure). One alternative is elaborated with illustrative diagrams. The hypothesis is that the street pattern will be sufficient to achieve the postulated design objectives. The thesis concludes that additional controls are required.
by Walter S. Rask.
M.Arch.
Hurt, Tom H. (Tom Hamilton). "Work, worship and performance : integrating the office building development." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67382.
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This thesis is the design of an office building which uses the air-rights to an existing church/performance hall. In the design, I try to acknowledge and express underlying economic relationships -- in particular, the funding of cultural facilities by revenue-generating office space. I give a form to each of the major partners of an economic venture and then I intersect and juxtapose them. In the resulting development, the forms integrate in a way that suggests interdependence of the parts. After describing the essential history of the church, the thesis takes the reader graphically through the design starting with the office building. It then describes the block of worker amenities, the shared church/performance hall and their lobby. Finally, it explains the coming together of all the parts on a prominent Boston street corner.
Tom H. Hurt.
M.Arch.
Nakamura, Taichi. "Office employment growth analysis in the Boston metropolitan area, focusing on differences among industries." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69384.
Full textHansen, David John S. M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Developing a total replacement cost index for suburban office projects." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37441.
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Understanding the components of replacement costs for office developments, and how these components combine to create total development costs is essential for success in office real estate development. Surprisingly, the term "replacement cost" does not enjoy a standard definition in the industry. This study explores the components of total replacement cost, and ultimately creates a market-level index industry professionals can utilize when creating or reviewing office development budgets.
by David John Hansen.
S.M.
Swamidasan, Chittaranjan David Leonard. "The daylit array : strategies for daylighting the deep-plan office." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77852.
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This thesis is basically concerned with improving the environment in which office workers go about their business. In the first chapter - The office environment - the extent of the problem and the necessity for improving the environment is discussed. Deep-plan buildings and associated interior layouts like the "bull-pen" and open planning are defined. Chapter 2- Daylighting - deals with issues relating to the incorporation of daylighting into buildings. Here, the advantages of daylighting- both in quantitative measurements as well as qualitative aspects - are put forward; and the implications on interior planning discussed. . Chapter 3 - The courtyard array - brings together the ideas of the preceding chapters and proposes a broad, low building with multiple atria as a solution to the problem of daylighting the deep-plan office. Earlier studies dealing with illumination, thermal comfort, view content, acoustics and economic evaluation are discussed in relation to the proposed array. A discussion on the importance of physical scale models in the evaluation of a building's lighting performance is at the beginning of Chapter 4: Daylighting models. This chapter continues with a description of the models made; and ends with tables of illumination measurements and daylight factor calculations from the physical models. These measurements show the validity of the day lit array concept for day lighting a deep-plan building. In Chapter 5 - Economic evaluation - the thermal performances of a non-daylit and a daylit building are compared, using the computer program Solar 5. The operating costs of the two alternatives show the extent of potential savings from the use of day lighting. The concluding chapter of this thesis puts in perspective issues relating to the day lighting of deep-plan offices. It discusses the economic trade-offs inherent in the design of a different type of building form. The final question - whether the non-daylit module or the day lit module will be built - can only be decided by the management of the office. The purpose of my thesis is to give them an idea of what daylighting can mean to their company: in creating a better work environment and lowering operating costs.
by Chittaranjan David Leonard Swamidasan.
M.S.
Chan, Pak Kin M. Arch Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "The gerontic turn : re-imagining the metropolitan collective of the centennial generation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103459.
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Coined as the 'longevity revolution', the global developed countries have witnessed an unparalleled extension to human longevity during the past 50 years. This dramatic increase in elongated morbidity, coupled with a declining fertility rate, will persist to see the world's elderly population of 60 and above reaching 2 billion by 2030. Beyond the concerns of economic pressures, broken pension schemes and infrastructural inadequacies, this magnitude of demographic shift only serves to exacerbate a much more fundamental problem with regards to how our institutions have socially constructed old age and death. While the institutionalization of retirement was legitimized in 1935 upon a meta-narrative of the golden years spending social security funds to indulge in sheer leisure at retirement homes, the upcoming generation of 60+ strives to remain healthy, active, engaged, and contributing members of society. The Boomers' retired lifestyle has undergone radical transformation since the 1980s, as activities previously considered exclusive to young adults - sports, sexuality, education, work, networking - are increasingly defined as prerequisites of successful aging. In other words, the socio-cultural imaginary of aging is increasingly elongated, pluralistic, unpredictable, but potentially purposeful, meaningful and fulfilling. The proposed thesis argues for a reexamination of the architectural and urbanistic production of spaces in the second half of life that continue to uncritically endorse the outlived paradigm of monastic hedonism. Instead of rationalizing the burden of distributing resources to take care of the elderly, how can we transform our urban environments to enable the motivated elders as proactive contributors of society? What are the programmatic combinations and typological reinventions that can engender new forms of productivity, social interactions and collectivity between the elderly and the rest of the populace? What are the spatial innovations in mobility and urbanity necessary to address the consequences of the aging process throughout time? This thesis will test new ideas of aging-in-the- city in South End, Boston, an increasingly gentrified and high-cost neighborhood occupied by a rapidly aging population with decreasing income levels. As more seniors elect to remain in Boston while another influx of suburban seniors yearn to move into the city, the urbanism and architecture of Boston will need innovative ways to sustain and empower its demographic diversity.
by Pak Kin Chan.
M. Arch.
Kaufman, Peter Ross. "A comparison of central business district versus suburban office space performance." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75529.
Full textEngels, Joanne Daria. "An examination of leading indicators in the apartment and office markets." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73294.
Full textMcMahon, Catherine F. (Catherine Fae). "Between nature and artifice : The Landscape Architecture Research Office (1966-1979)." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49726.
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Cambridge in the 1960s was a locus of experimentation and research in new computing technologies -from the production of transportation models for New England to the design of war games simulating the vagaries of the terrain in Vietnam. One research group, working in the nascent field of computer cartography, was formed in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University. The Landscape Architecture Research Office (1966-1979) represented a radical departure from existing practices within the discipline. At this time, NASA was making its first moves towards erecting image infrastructures in space-able to beam back streams of pictures describing the earth in seemingly infinite detail. The instrumental extension of man into outer space served to remake an imagination of landscape; and the research office, banking on the promise held out by satellites and computers, was preparing a technological ground to receive this new vision. This thesis will examine two of their early projects, the first a study that utilizes a computer mapping program (GRID), to draw multiple disciplinary objectives, from physical geography to governance to aesthetics, into the same syntactical register-using the map as a technological armature to craft a new theory of landscape. The second project was an experimental studio run by two of LARO's researchers, Carl Steinitz and Peter Rogers, in which they attempt to simulate the function of an imagined computer system able to model all the interconnected processes of urbanization.
(cont.) Using maps and students as analogue parts they proceeded to deploy game theory to play-act the computer's operational roles. By doing this, Steinitz and Rogers sought to delimit the role of designer or architect within the mechanisms of a representational system. While the work of LARO was influential in the development of what is known as GIS today, I wish to pull this historical episode out of the technological continuum-looking instead at this moment of profound indeterminacy and speculation over the role that technology could play in the process of design.
by Catherine F. McMahon.
S.M.
Hammond, Gregory L. (Gregory Linford) 1958. "The California energy crisis and cogeneration investment opportunities for office landlords." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8190.
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For the past eight months, California has been beset by an energy crisis. An inadequate supply of electricity has not been able to keep up with the growing demand. Vital transmission lines are operating at or near capacity. The installation of cogeneration systems into office buildings can play an important role in the overall solution. Cogeneration is a form of on-site generation that can provide electricity to office landlords and tenants that is less costly and more reliable than that provided by the utilities. There are several ways that office cogeneration systems can ease the pressure on California's electric generation and transmission infrastructure. First, office buildings consume 26% of all electricity nationwide. They place an equally great demand on California's generating capacity. With widespread application, the siting of cogeneration systems in office buildings can reduce the demand placed on California's centralized power plants (CPPs). Reducing the demand for electricity that is centrally generated and delivered via transmission lines reduces the risk of blackouts and the cost of wholesale and retail electricity. Second, because transmission lines are already operating at or near their capacity, it will be problematic to deliver the new centralized generation capacity that is coming on-line. It will be many years and billions of dollars before the transmission lines are fully upgraded. On-site cogeneration reduces the electrical congestion on these power lines, enabling more of the new centralized generation to get delivered. Third, office cogeneration systems can be deployed in one-fifth of the time it takes to place a large CPP into operation. The quicker more generation can be added, the sooner a healthy supply/demand balance can be struck. Because of their small-scale and relatively simple component parts, office cogeneration systems can be completely permitted, installed and in-operation within 90 to 180 days. By contrast, it takes up to two and one-half years to permit, construct and place a large CPP into operation. When fuel such as natural gas is combusted at a CPP, only 33% of the energy that is released via the combustion process actually reaches the remotely located end-users (e.g., homes and businesses) in the form of electricity. The conversion efficiency of an office cogeneration system is 75%, twice that of the CPP. Consequently, a cogeneration system can produce the electricity needed by a given office building while using only half the amount of fuel that a CPP would require. As these office cogeneration systems are located on-site, not only is the cost of transmitting electricity over long distances eliminated, so are the expenses associated with the maintenance and repair of the power grid. The fuel and transmission cost savings are what primarily enable office cogeneration systems to deliver electricity to office landlords and tenants at a fraction of the cost of power provided by the CPPs. The resultant price differential is what creates the investment opportunity for office landlords.
by Gregory L. Hammond.
S.M.
Shpuza, Ermal. "Floorplate Shapes and Office Layouts: A Model of the Effect of Floorplate Shape on Circulation Integration." Diss., Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006, 2006. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-03172006-111654/.
Full textJenkins, Lloyd. "Geography and architecture : materiality and the Parisian commercial office building." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.633112.
Full textDanielsson, Christina. "Office environment, health and job satisfaction : an explorative study of office design's influence." Licentiate thesis, KTH, School of Technology and Health (STH), 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-472.
Full textThe present thesis investigates environmental factors impact on office employees. More specifically, it investigates: 1) perception and experience of office environments, 2) satisfaction with office environments, and 3) health status and job satisfaction in connection to office environment. It is based on an empirical study with 491 office employees from twenty-six companies and divisions in larger companies. Each one respectively represents one of seven identified office-types in office design: cell-office, sharedroom office, small open plan office, medium open plan office, large open plan office, flex-office and combi-office. This study takes its basis in architecture, although an interdisciplinary approach from organizational and management theory, environmental psychology, and social and stress medicine has been used. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used.
In Article I a review of the different research fields that investigate environmental influences are presented with a focus on office environments. Different perspectives on the environmental impact on office employees are investigated.
In Article II an analysis of office environment based on the employee’s perception and experience of the architecture is done based on in-depth interviews using a method originally developed by Kevin Lynch (1960). The method measures the "imagebility" of a space, rated by the users with following elements: landmark, node, path, edge and district. The result showed that the method, based on employees’ perception and use of space, is a possible tool in the design process to get a better understanding of where the elements that reinforce "imageability" most likely will appear in an office environment. The method thus gives a better idea of the future "imageability" of a space and could be useful as guidance in the design process of how the architectural design will be received by the users in the end.
In Article III employees’ satisfaction with the office environment in different office-types is investigated. The article focuses on three domains: 1) Ambient factors, 2) Noise and Privacy and 3) Designrelated factors. The statistical analysis was done using a logistic regression model with multivariate analysis. Adjustment was done for: age, gender, job rank, job satisfaction and market division. The results show differences in satisfaction with the office environment between employees in different office-types, many of which were statistically significant. When differences persist in the multivariate analysis they can possibly be ascribed to the office-type. Results show that employees in cell-offices are prominently most satisfied followed by those in flex-offices. Cell-offices rate only low on social aspects of Design-related factors. A major finding is internal differences between different office-types where employees share workspace and facilities. The medium and large open plan offices could be described as high-risk officetypes.
In Article IV differences between employees in different office-types with regard to health, wellbeing and job satisfaction are analyzed. A multivariate analysis of the data was done with adjustment for the confounders: age, gender, job rank and market division. The results show that there are risks of ill health and poor well-being in medium and small open plan offices. Employees in these office-types show significantly higher risks compared with those in other office-types. In medium open plan and combioffices the employees show the highest prevalence of low job satisfaction. The best chance for good health status and job satisfaction is among employees in cell-offices and flex-offices; there are, however, internal differences in distribution on different outcome variables for job satisfaction. The major finding of these studies is that there are significant differences with regard to satisfaction with office environments as well as health status and job satisfaction between employees in different office-types; differences that can possibly can be ascribed to the office-types as they persist after adjustment for important confounders.
Dayer, Carolina. "EROS: Desire in Architecture." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30890.
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Meyer, Brian S. (Brian Stewart). "Office leases & landlord investment in energy efficiency." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58634.
Full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-50).
What is the relationship between the structure of leases in the Boston office rental market and how much landlords invest in energy efficient building systems for their existing buildings? I am drawn to this question because it seems to me that there is technology available that would allow the operation of for-rent office buildings to be more efficient in their consumption of energy than they currently are. I investigate this question with the hope that by characterizing the problem, we can start to solve it. To this end, I interview 35 players in the real estate market in Boston in order to determine the relationship between leases and landlord investment in energy efficiency, and if there is any way to increase such investment. The most significant finding of this study is that the lease does not determine the way the market works, rather the market determines the way the leases are written. The result at this time for the Boston market is that leases simply do not incentivize the landlords to make investments in energy efficiency because the tenants do not want to pay for the landlords to do it. The landlords are unable to make significant profit from these upgrades due to existing recapture clauses and operating expense allocation in existing leases, and the payback period on many of these investments does not satisfy the investment horizon of many commercial landlords. They lack pressure and motivation from their tenants, as evidenced by the tenants' refusal to pay higher rents for more efficient buildings. Finally, there is no perception of a premium, in the form of a lower cap rate, paid by the capital markets at the time of sale.
(cont.) This is a very complex issue, with no single, clear resolution. There have been many suggestions as to how this problem may be solved, ranging from a complete change in lease structure, to government intervention through efficiency mandates or taxes, to a laissez faire stance that will allow the market to take care of the problem. I think that none of these in isolation will solve the problem, but that a combination of them all may ameliorate many of the issues. Perhaps the best combination would be to mandate performance or to tax excessive consumption while at the same time developing leases that better address how to share costs and benefits. By doing this, we will set appropriate minimum goals, and provide suitable tools to achieve them. Without both of those pieces, it seems unlikely that much progress will be made.
by Brian S. Meyer, Jr.
S.M.in Real Estate Development
McMurrin, Sterling James. "A plan for Metropolitan State Hospital : imagery as a therapy for an institution." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79163.
Full textIncludes bibliographical references (p. 166-167).
This thesis is both text and illustration to describe the process of transforming a state mental institution from an outdated, outmoded, conventional hospital into a living community. The goal of the project is to develop an institution not restricted by rigid forms or designs - a flexible, responsive environment of the type required by rehabilitation therapies and medical practices that are constantly evolving. Emphasis is placed on environmental factors that impact the personal daily life on campus, including facilities for work, communication, learning, recreation, and enjoyment of the wider landscape environment The project is to transform Metropolitan State Hospital in Belmont, a Boston suburb, into a therapeutic transitional and educational community. This work is a diary from a journey of discovery through moral, political, and economic territory. It is a guidebook to help in the process of architectural form making. The images are suggestions and questions.
by Sterling James McMurrin.
M.Arch.
Seckman, John. "Applying information technology to commercial office building operations : new tools and techniques." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70219.
Full textMakmoen, B. Chandra Maulana. "Analysis of demand and investment outlook in office market in Jakarta, Indonesia." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68282.
Full textStarkie, Edward H. (Edward Howard). "Office development linkage in San Francisco : exacting the social costs of growth." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70208.
Full textPulugam, Sandhya Reddy. "A novel self healing ring architecture for metropolitan area networks (MANs)." abstract and full text PDF (UNR users only), 2009. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1464423.
Full textMartin, Michael Ronald Charles. "Establishing the benefits of implementing an I.T. project management office in the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan area." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/558.
Full textRoberts, Mark G. (Mark Gerard). "Supply-side analysis of the commercial office market and a replacement cost index." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69731.
Full textDee, Rocelyn Sy 1976. "Financial analysis of energy-efficient façade systems for application in commercial office developments." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65729.
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Advocates for sustainable development have been campaigning for the implementation of green features in developments. New and high-technology energy-efficient technologies, such as photovoltaic cells and double skin façades, have been difficult to incorporate in developments even though they carry with them the promise of better performance and greater environmental impact. While some proponents of green development would have us believe that energy-efficient technologies are worthwhile investments, the truth is that the benefits do not always outweigh the costs. The key is promoting mass applications of these technologies is by providing an instrument for decision-makers to understand performance implications of building systems choices as represented by financial costs and benefits. It is through this holistic comprehension, as opposed to a dissection of development components, that risk perception can be mitigated and well-informed decisions can be made. This proposal presents a financial analysis of the implications of different façade. These systems will be applied to a similar base building with same performance specifications for a controlled comparison. The building type will be limited to commercial offices. It is important to note that the objective is not to arrive at an absolute cost valuation, but rather to cognize the relative efficiencies of one against the other. By using currency-based values as a representation of advantages and disadvantages, we are communicating in a common language familiar to decision-makers. This thesis hopes to achieve a better understanding of the efficiencies, or inefficiencies, of using high-technology façades. While the primary goal is to achieve a more accurate picture of the financial performances of high-technology energy efficient systems against conventional systems, the analysis will also give us a good understanding as to what barriers stand in the way, and what conditions have to exist for them to achieve widespread application. In the end, this could be the more valuable contribution.
by Rocelyn Sy Dee.
S.M.
Dunn, Gavin Neil. "Air conditioning in UK office buildings : measured energy and carbon performance." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2005. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/55391/.
Full textBartlett, Janet Lea. "Daylighting in office spaces an energy saving technique." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23168.
Full textBingham, Neil R. "Victorian and Edwardian Whitehall : architecture and planning 1865-1918." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364535.
Full textDerby, Gregory A. (Gregory Alan) 1966. "Base building capital expenditures in the office sector : historical incidence and implications for forecasting." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65707.
Full textAlturk, Emre. "Xxl, Metropolis As The Object Of Architecture." Master's thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12604898/index.pdf.
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object&mdash
building&mdash
to the city either by locating the two within the general processes of material production or through analogies. Yet, despite such continuity, architecture&rsquo
s relationship with the city was conceived as the projection of an internal economy onto the city and remained unilateral. Architecture operated from the small scale to the large scale, radiating its &lsquo
specificity&rsquo
through the city via building. It became obvious in the late 20th century that it was not the &lsquo
architectural specificity&rsquo
to penetrate into modern metropolis but vice versa. Being a complex agglomeration of cultural systems&mdash
including design itself&mdash
metropolitan multiplicity resists the determination of significance of built environment through the specific codes of any institutionalized practice. Acknowledging such a complex system of relationships, namely &ldquo
metropolitan non-design,&rdquo
this study offers a reassessment of &lsquo
architectural design&rsquo
within the contemporary &lsquo
metropolitan condition.&rsquo
Departing from the disjunction(s) between the significance attributed through design and its appropriation through metropolitan non-design, work at hand aims to elaborate a new mode of &lsquo
architectural intervention&rsquo
compatible with the metropolitan instability. Through a cross-examination of Rem Koolhaas&rsquo
s &lsquo
Delirious New York&rsquo
and OMA&rsquo
s &lsquo
Parc de la Villette,&rsquo
concepts such as &lsquo
program,&rsquo
&ldquo
void,&rdquo
&ldquo
Bigness&rdquo
and &lsquo
architectural scale&rsquo
will be reassessed. Moreover, the goal is to replace the conception of architecture-metropolis relationship that is formulated through a duality with one that is conceived in terms of interacting, contiguous signifying structures.
Smit, Gerrit. "Green building guidelines at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1010974.
Full textBivans, Brett Alan. "The office of the metropolitan bishop a comparison between the 1917 and 1983 codes of canon law /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.
Full textParris, Emily. "The fittingness of fitness : the movement of architecture at a human scale: a reinvention of the typical workplace /." Online version, 2007. http://digitalcommons.rwu.edu/archthese/4/.
Full textThompson, William Paul 1955. "Effects of seaport trade on metropolitan commercial real estate with a concentration on the port of Miami." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70186.
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