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Herman, Hilker Trevor(Trevor Nathaniel). "Other stories." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129916.
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Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, February, 2020Cataloged from student-submitted thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (page 121).
As the third millennium of the Common Era has unfolded into a new chapter of social, political, technological, and ecological complexity, the question of the Architect's capacity to address our futures implores a connection to the ability of one to navigate our pasts. As Canon rises to the surface of history--through the work we champion and the stories we espouse--it is accompanied by the ideological Mythologies it entangles. It is our responsibility not to idly assume the mantle of these Myths, and to be critical of our role in their perpetuation--a task that appeals for the investment in other stories. This thesis reflects upon our relationship to Canon, with the intention of destabilizing the relationship between an "Act" of Architecture, and the ideological ephemera with which such an Act is implicated.
Specifically, Other Stories attends to a Canon of American domesticity, and the Modern Mythologies that this Canon complicitly perpetuates--among many, a Myth of Progress, a Myth of Anthropocentricity, and a Myth of Family. Engaging through modes of curation (bookmaking) and re--presentation (drawing), the first chapter of this thesis forages for the seeds of alternative Mythologies within stories that, while belonging to this Canon, have been neglected, or forgotten, or erased. This pursuit is underpinned by an imploration for something Other: alternative threads for navigating our futures and our histories than the myopia of "Progress" and "Anthropocentricity" and "Family". The second chapter of Other Stories offers a series of conjectures that re-imagine the tenets of an American domestic Architecture through the lens of alternative Mythologies.
Taking on Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House as site, the investigation anticipates three "Other Farnsworths" that supplant "Progress" and "Anthropocentricity" and "Family" with Myths of Entropy, Rhizome, and Kin, respectively. These speculations become testing grounds for new modes of making, and communicating, architecture.
by Trevor Herman Hilker.
M. Arch.
M.Arch. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture
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Callahan, Anne (Anne Alexandra). "Other means of communication." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81656.
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Thesis (S.M. in Art, Culture and Technology)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-68).
"Introduction," pgs. 15-20, see Leo Steinberg, "Other Criteria," in Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art (London: Oxford University Press, 1972), 55-91 and Nelson Goodman, "When Is Art?" in The Arts and Cognition, ed. David Perkins and Barbara Leondar (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977): 11; "Art in the Garden," pgs. 21-34 (I-- H------- F-----), see also Yale Union, "A series of I-- H------ F----- exhibitions," July 2012-July 2013 in Portland, Oregon, accessible online at yaleunion.org; "A brief history of pop, v., with or without out," pgs. 35-44 (persuasive images): "Color will pop with realism"; "In or on the desktop," pgs. 45-52, see Margaret A. Hagen, Varieties of Realism: Geometries of Representational Art (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986); "Post" "Script," pg. 55; Illustrations, pgs. 56-64; Bibliography see bibliography..
by Anne Callahan.
S.M.in Art, Culture and Technology
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Angles, Zachary (Zachary John). "Narrative tactics for making other worlds possible." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115724.
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Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2018.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. "February 2018."
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Be they childhood games of make-believe, sophisticated literary projects, or political inventions (a "Great America") authors have taken advantage of a world-building imagination creating their own worlds, and theorizing what they were doing. From the 1960s onwards, fictional worlds were studied from a philosophical point of view, using "possible worlds" theory and modal logic, which consider the ontological status of fictional worlds, the nature of their functioning, and their relationship with the actual world. These ideas have been combined with literary theory, setting the foundation for the study of imaginary worlds. Architects and Urbanists have used facets of world-building arguably for as long as the disciplines have existed. Though modernity launched a highly conscious tradition of imagining worlds in literature and creative culture, it also stained imagination and dreaming with a connotation of frivolity and a wastefulness that was antithetical to modern projects of utility and rationality. In the later half of the twentieth century there was an increase in number of architects exploring the irrational and imaginative in defiance of the reign of rationalism. A chasm tore through the discipline: grounded and rational practitioners on one side and imaginative inventors of form, indulgently entrapped in their fantasies, on the other. World-builders have developed robust methods for producing visions for futures, pasts, and other worlds. A study of worldbuilding and narrative methods and their possible application to architectural and urban design has remained largely unaddressed. This thesis proposes methods for design and tests these methods through a case study. The case study is the city of Boston in the year 2100 being changed by many factors not least of which are the effects of sea level rise. A story has been authored, the world surrounding that story has been structured, and designs within that world have been represented. This thesis seeks to combine methods from storytelling, world-building, and scenario planning in order to allow imaginative explorations of, and design for speculative environments, in response to, and preparation for, challenging situations. And, in the end it seeks to provide tools to tell better stories and see better worlds.
by Zachary Angles.
M. Arch.
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Pence, Tara Leigh. "In an other sense : architectural order and building narrative in three museums." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/21698.
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Yildiz, Arzu Emel. "Mobile Structures Of Santiago Calatrava: Other Ways Of Producing Architecture." Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12608211/index.pdf.
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This thesis conceptualizes the term movement as a design medium for producing architecture. The Deleuzian discourse which defines movement as mobile section of duration comprises the theoretical frame of the study. Santiago Calatrava’
s architectural thinking and practice constitute the pragmatic ground on which the Deleuzian formulation of movement is constructed. Mobile structures of Calatrava are analyzed to introduce some design tools that are used to utilize movement as a design medium. These design tools are unfolding, rising, and revolving, which provide actual movements
rhythm and shape, which provide bodily movements
structural illusion, representation of nature, and figura serpentinata, which provide visual movements. Other than these, virtual movement, a term borrowed from Greg Lynn, is discussed as another design tool that is related with movement but produces perceptions of immobility rather than implications of mobility. This discussion emphasizes both the employment of movement issue as a design medium in the architectural production and the uniqueness of Calatrava in the way of conceptualizing the matter architecturally.
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Srinivasan, Chitra. "Interoperability Between AWSOME and Other Tools Using Model Driven Architecture." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1295038834.
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Binjaku, Xhulo, and Milap Dixit. "Other equators : measures for an international tribunal for the Rights of Nature." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122518.
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Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2019Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Pages 166 and 167 blank.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-165).
In 1997, the Kyoto Protocol institutionalized carbon offsetting as a "market solution" to emissions, allowing companies and states to offset every tonne of carbon dioxide emissions with an equivalent tonne of carbon dioxide sequestered somewhere else. This logic of equivalence was enabled by a set of global metrics (such as the definition of "forest" under international law) that financialized the Earth's capacity to absorb carbon. Equatorial mountains became prime targets for the production of carbon credits through pine and eucalyptus plantations. In 2008, Ecuador became the first country to recognize the Rights of Nature, extending its jurisdiction to the scale of the planet and granting legal personhood to nonhuman entities such as mountains. More than a decade since it was first recognized, the Rights of Nature remains an elusive notion, easily absorbed into the logic of practices that reduce Nature to its exchange value.
The Rights of Nature lacks an institution to specify and guarantee its functions, to measure and account for its violations, and to summon the "Nature" for whom it claims to speak. In 2018, Ecuador requested proposals for an International Tribunal with the authority to invoke universal jurisdiction for global cases related to the Rights of Nature. The Tribunal would be deployed territorially across a site of planetary significance: the Equator itself, which intersects the Avenue of Volcanoes, a group of twenty mountains recognized as legal persons under Ecuadorian law. The buildings of the institution make mountains legible as witnesses in courts of law by framing, measuring and collecting "units" of Nature to be used as evidence. They are the architectural expression of a paradox that underlies the very idea of the Rights of Nature: that the infinite value of Nature has to be assigned finite values in order to exist as a legal category.
The legal and spatial logics used to define units of "Nature" begin to erode when they encounter the specificity of terrain, allowing the mountains to speak for themselves.
by Xhulio Binjaku, Milap Dixit.
M. Arch.
M.Arch. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture
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Tennberg, Hannes. "WOODEN : in other forms." Thesis, Konstfack, Inredningsarkitektur & Möbeldesign, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-6347.
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Gordon, Elizabeth Sara. "GRUE : an architecture for agents in games and other real-time environments." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2005. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28736/.
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This thesis presents an architecture, which we call GRUE, for intelligent agents in real-time dynamic worlds. Such environments require agents to be able to flexibly adjust their behaviour to take into account changes in the environment or other agents’ actions. Our architecture is based on work done in robotics (Nilsson, 1994; Benson and Nilsson, 1995; Benson, 1996), which also deals with complex, dynamic environments. Our work focuses on goal arbitration, the method used by the agent to choose an appropriate goal for the current situation, and to re-evaluate when the situation changes. In the process, we have also developed a method for representing items in the environment, which we call resources, in terms of their properties. This allows the agent to specify a needed object in terms of required properties and use available objects with appropriate properties interchangeably. We show that the GRUE architecture can be used successfully in both a typical AI test bed and a commercial game environment. In addition, we have undertaken to experimentally test the effects of the features included in our architecture by comparing agents using the standard GRUE architecture to agents with one or more features removed and find that these features do improve the performance of the agent where expected.
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Golden, Saul Manuel. "Beyond architecture : other influences on approaches to practice and shared urban space." Thesis, Ulster University, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.685439.
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The future of the architectural profession faces continued uncertainty in the twenty-first century. Changes in the next 20 years are likely to leave the profession with a smaller and less defined centre, finely balanced between competing art and commercial roles, and those architects who are able to maintain a generalist building design/management approach. Based on existing trends, and personal experience in the profession, this thesis finds the influence of traditional practices will become limited to small scale and niche projects - should the title of architect survive continued government scrutiny. With or without title protection, the findings here suggest that the architectural field will continue to be characterised by more rather than less rapidly changing satellite functions, and roles in all areas competing for economic, Cultural, and - increasingly important in creative sectors and urban growth - knowledge capital. Relative to the increasingly contested, compromised, and privatised nature of architecture practice, this thesis focuses on debates and practice frameworks outside the mainstream of building -centred architecture. It investigates selected accounts by architects, of their practice trajectory since the late twentieth century, to reveal and analyse different approaches to architectural agency, focusing on influencing better quality shared environments. The thesis aim is to reveal a better understanding of architects' evolving professional identities and practice roles. It sets out a unique framework by which architecture and urban space can be conjointly characterised and evaluated as reciprocal outcomes of more critical and transformative practice. It contributes new knowledge about architects' personal strategies and practice frameworks that advocate greater open-ness and use-value for shared civic space, in contrast to more objectified and controlled exchange-value outcomes. The methodology combines sociological and architectural theories. It adapts concepts from key treatise including Bourdieu's agent-field analysis and Unger's philosophy of transformative vocation, interpreted with Till's proposals for critical spatial practice in architecture, and Perez-Gomez's concepts of architectural praxis as conscious applications of architects' knowledge and ethics to practice. The thesis analyses and locates architects career accounts as new practice frameworks within the background of shifting traditional architectural norms and the broad field of contemporary architecture practice. In-depth interviews with selected architects collect narratives about architects' knowledge and skill, examining them for lessons about better shared civic activity and how creative knowledge can include critical and transformative motives while satisfying more instrumental issues of survival, and also gaining esteem and influence. The analysis focuses on professional-identity claims and diverse practice approaches rather than individual projects in isolation, to examine thresholds of architectural knowledge, key moments of action, personal values, and identity. The broader context of how the professional field of architecture and its governing bodies, including the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), debate practice futures is also set out and discussed. The thesis argues that different critical practice trajectories share a combination of personal intention and motivations that are conceptualised as a form of professional habitus and compared with established professional norms. It questions existing understandings of participation and place, and argues for architects to (re)balance their instrumental and transformative design knowledge in response to changing professional and social contexts. Conclusions support (re)framing architects creative knowledge toward a more socially-driven critical design praxis, to effectively engage in an increasingly globalised and interconnected urban society.
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Padilla, Mercedes A. (Mercedes Angeles). "The effects of oil prices and other economic indicators on housing prices in Calgary, Canada." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33193.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2005.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-49).
This thesis aims to answer: (1) to what extent can oil prices and other economic indicators predict the changes in housing prices and rent in the Calgary single family housing market and (2) to determine what the lag time is between them. Implications of this study from a macro perspective are multiple. This study can be used as a simplified case study in isolating the effects of the boom and bust cycles of economic industries and quantify its impact to real estate performance. Results found an astonishing correlation. Oil prices, exchange rate, interest rate and employment levels can determine up to 98% of the changes in house prices and rents. Oil prices, representing economic viability of the city, affect the real estate industry with a lag of 7 quarters of approximately two years, while interest rates representing the financial well-being of the city affect house prices and rents with a lag of 2 1/2 years. Foreign exchange rate to the dollar, representing the relative global prosperity, affects real estate prices in one year. House prices seem to be equally sensitive to a positive or negative shock in oil prices, exchange rate, and interest rates. At which, $25/barrel oil price seems to be the "breakeven" level at which house prices remain stable, all else equal.
(cont.) Above which, prices will continue to appreciate, below which, prices will fall. Not surprisingly, this is the same estimate of the "breakeven" point at which the oilsands in Calgary become economically viable. Rents are more sensitive to positive shocks in oil prices, not exchange rate. Inversely, they sensitive to negative shocks in exchange rate, not oil prices. Rents are not sensitive to interest rates.
by Mercedes A. Padilla.
S.M.
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Bignon, Jean-Claude. "MODÉLISATION, SIMULATION ET ASSISTANCE À LACONCEPTION-CONSTRUCTION EN ARCHITECTURE." Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Université Henri Poincaré - Nancy I, 2002. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00145570.
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Ce mémoire présente un bilan des travaux de recherches que j'ai dirigé au CRAI (Centrede Recherche en Architecture et Ingénierie) depuis environ dix ans. Avant de développer
les deux grandes problématiques qui ont structuré ces années, je voudrais remettre
rapidement en perspective mon travail global de recherche dans le vaste mais encore très
récent domaine de la recherche en architecture.
1.1. LA RECHERCHE EN ARCHITECTURE, QUELS
SYSTÈMES DE CONNAISSANCES ?
Jusqu'au milieu des années 1960, l'architecture est avant tout un art, c'est-à-dire une
pratique reposant largement sur l'expérience, fondée sur des grands traités et infléchie par
quelques maîtres.
Au niveau le plus empirique, le terme de recherche ne désigne rien d'autre que la pratique
quotidienne du concepteur en situation de création pour inventer un dispositif spatial en
réponse à des exigences explicites ou implicites.
Comme le musicien, le peintre ou le sculpteur, l'architecte est une sorte de « chercheur de
formes », un inventeur de langages, un constructeur de sens.
Dans cet univers de la recherche-action, le concepteur utilise et produit des connaissances
qui relèvent plus d'un savoir-faire que d'un véritable savoir. À cette recherche, tout ancrée
dans la projetation, nous donnons le nom de recherche architectonique.
Dans ce dispositif, le terme d'architecture désigne donc à la fois un domaine de production
(essentiellement les édifices et les espaces urbains) et un savoir-faire largement issu et
opératoire dans la pratique du projet. Mais pour être efficace, cette économie de la
production architecturale a besoin d'un discours régulateur et légitimateur destiné à
permettre des choix tout au long du processus de conception, évaluer les solutions
partielles ou globales proposées et juger la qualité des œuvres produites. C'est le rôle des
traités, parfois nommés théories.
Les traités d'architecture de Vitruve à Le Corbusier bien que théoriques par le recul qu'ils
prenaient par rapport aux pratiques de leurs époques respectives ne peuvent pas
cependant être considérés comme des théories au sens scientifique du terme. Ce
deuxième type de connaissances, auxquelles nous donnons le nom de doctrine est un
système de préceptes et d'axiomes transmissibles, orientés par l'action vers l'action. Par
différence avec les connaissances souvent singulières et peu externalisables des savoir-
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Ricci, Natali. "The Psychological Impact of Architectural Design." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1767.
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The interplay between architectural design and human psychology is significant, yet it remains largely unnoticed or even ignored both in and outside the design industry. Moreover, the relationship between design and psychology is not only consequential, it is bidirectional. On the one hand, successful design has been shown to have clear psychological and physiological impacts; on the other, psychology, human experience, and the function of our neurological systems all play a significant role in what we perceive to be successful design. This thesis endeavors to create an understanding of how that complex relationship evolved and how it works in today's world. It does so by first exploring how the human brain and nervous system is structured and functions, how that structure and function benefited our human ancestors, and how modern society impacts that function. With that knowledge as a background, the interrelationship – both positive and negative – between design, psychology and our nervous system is explored. Successful design patterns are reviewed, including those that evoke the same sense of security sought by our human ancestors, as well as those whose specific patterns have a meaningful psychological basis. Similarly, reasons why some design forms and themes have not been successful are explored, as is the modern-day challenge of human stress that results from those poorly designed buildings and spaces. Finally, the importance of incorporating nature into the human built environment to take advantage of its positive psychological impact and restorative properties is explored.
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Paine, Ashley I. "Ocular occupations : painting and other spatio-visual strategies for making and inhabiting architecture." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/19222/.
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Many writers have suggested that our capacity to occupy space meaningfully has been undermined by our contemporary ocular-centric culture, which distances us from reality and corrupts our physical and embodied experience of the world. This study challenges these claims within an architectural context, by examining the fundamentally visual nature of architecture and inhabitation as well as the spatio-visual practices, acts and strategies that we use to occupy space. Drawing on theory and practice-based methods from outside the professional limits of architectural practice, the study implements visual acts of occupation to establish a new and expanded conception of architecture as a performative spatio-visual practice – a conception that engages and connects its practice with the purportedly ocular-centric spatial conditions in which it is made and occupied.
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Orens, David M. "an end to the 'other' in landscape architecture: poststructural theory and universal design." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30523.
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Accessibility in the landscape has gained increased attention in recent years, and the practice of Universal Design, rather than providing ‘accessible’ accommodations as separate, distinct elements within the landscape, attempts to address social issues such as segregation by proposing an integrated accessibility and design for a diverse society. However, while proposing integration, it can be criticized as designing to the lowest common denominator and clinging to the idea of a ‘disabled’ population which must be designed down to. It frequently fails to address the complexities arising from conflicts between the needs of individuals with different disabilities and lacks a theoretical framework which would place the philosophy’s ideals within a broader social and cultural context. The poststructural project is posited as such a theoretical framework, and a means for evaluating the principles of Universal Design along with the social and cultural beliefs upon which the accessibility issue rests. Poststructuralism is used to challenge the idea of separate ‘able’ / ‘disabled’ populations on the basis that this dichotomous opposition is based on limiting conceptions of disability and fails to acknowledge the complexities which comprise the diverse fabric of society. The project is explored here as an alternative means for advancing the ideals of Universal Design within the realm of landscape architecture. Using a matrix of poststructural practices, social concepts such as normality and disability are examined and ‘deconstructed.’ Ultimately a reconstruction of the paradigm, a Critically Integrated Design, is proposed based upon the reconceptualization and resituation of accessibility and social conditions.Master of Landscape Architecture
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Rostro-Gonzalez, Horacio. "Computing with spikes, architecture, properties and implementation of emerging paradigms." Phd thesis, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00850264.
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In this thesis we study at a concrete practical level how computation with action potentials (spikes) can be performed. We address the problem of pro- gramming a dynamical system modeled as a neural network and considering both, hardware and software implementations. For this, we use a discrete- time spiking neuron model, which has been introduced in Soula et al. (2006), and called BMS in the sequel, whose dynamics is rather rich (see section 1.2.4). On one hand, we propose an efficient method to properly estimate the parameters (delayed synaptic weights) of a neural network from the observa- tion of its spiking dynamics. The idea is to avoid the underlying NP-complete problem (when both weights and inter-neural transmission delays are con- sidered in the parameters estimation). So far, our method defines a Linear Programming (LP) system to perform the parameters estimation. Another aspect considered in this part of the work is the fact that we include a reser- voir computing mechanism (hidden network), which permits us, as we show, to increase the computational power and to add robustness in the system. Furthermore these ideas are applied to implement input-output transforma- tions, with a method learning the implicit parameters of the corresponding transfer function. On the other hand we have worked on the development of numerical implementations permitting us to validate our algorithms. We also made contributions to code methods for spike trains statistics analysis and simu- lations of spiking neural networks. Thus, we co-develop a C++ library, called EnaS, which is distributed under the CeCILL-C free license. This library is also compatible with other simulators and could be used as a plugin. Finally we consider the emergent field of bio-inspired hardware im- plementations, where FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) and GPU (Graphic Processing Unit) technologies are studied. In this sense, we evalu- ate the hardware implementations of the proposed neuron models (gIF-type neuron models) under periodic and chaotic activity regimes. The FPGA- based implementation has been achieved using a precision analysis and its performance compared with that based on GPU.
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Manyak, Greg D. "Fault Tolerant and Flexible CubeSat Software Architecture." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2011. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/550.
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The CubeSat pico-satellite is gaining popularity in both the educational and aerospace industries. Due to a lack of experience and constrained hardware capabilities, most of the university missions have been educational in nature. Cal Poly's project, PolySat, has gained significant experience from the launch of five CubeSats and has designed an entirely new hardware platform based on the knowledge gained from these missions. This hardware is a significant upgrade from what the previous missions used and has greatly increased the capabilities of the software, including supporting the use of the open source operating system Linux.
Leveraging the previous PolySat experience, a new design approach has been followed for the development of a fault tolerant and flexible software architecture. As a result, a set of processes and custom libraries that run within Linux have been designed and implemented. Furthermore, an emphasis has been placed on fault tolerance with two features: a software watchdog and digital command signing capability. Lastly, a survey of related CubeSat projects and software fault tolerance papers has been conducted to determine that this new system is sufficient to meet the desired goals.
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Köhler, Fredrik. "Network Virtualization in Multi-hop Heterogeneous Architecture." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-38696.
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Software Defined Networking is a technology that introduces modular and programmable networks that uses separated control- and data-planes. Traditional networks use mostly proprietary protocols and devices that needs to communicate with each other and share information about routes and paths in the network. SDN on the other hand uses a controller that communicates with devices through an open source protocol called OpenFlow. The routing rules of flows can be inserted into the networking devices by the controller. This technology is still new and it requires more research to provide evidence that it can perform better, or at least as good as, the conventional networks. By doing some experiments on different topologies, this thesis aims at discovering how delays of flows are affected by having OpenFlow in the network, and identifying overhead of using such technology. The results show that, the overhead can be to large for time and noise sensitive applications and average delay is comparable to conventional networks.
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Shylichava, Lizaveta. "Everyday Urban Architecture : Urban blocks, building typology, architectural elements; reading into the urban form of Stockholm." Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-296221.
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With the growing role of cities, rapid urbanization, transformation under shifting economic, environmental, social and demographic conditions, the purpose of architecture is changing too. The legacy of the modernist decades left a broken urban fabric of isolated buildings from the urban landscapes of streets, plots, and blocks. In its aftermath, professionals sought to revive the traditional city fabric starting from the block, as the basic element. Although recent developments produce blocks, the livability of streets and other public spaces remains questionable. With a newfound focus into the block, as the fundamental structural element in planning, architectural typologies become the starting point to translate the qualities of urban life. The relationship between two scales, the urban and the architectural, will be examined in this thesis. Architectural elements and typologies have the ability to enhance public life, fostering positive social relations through meaningful design. The following research will explore architecture in Stockholm from the scale of an urban block, to the building typologies, and finally to the modest details within a single building. The fundamental idea is to extract building types and architectural elements that have an impact on the daily life of individuals in the city of Stockholm.
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Koziolek, Anne [Verfasser]. "Automated Improvement of Software Architecture Models for Performance and Other Quality Attributes / Anne Koziolek." Karlsruhe : KIT Scientific Publishing, 2014. http://www.ksp.kit.edu.
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Yonesu, Masaaki. "Learning from each other : citizen participatory community design in the United States and Japan, and the role of the architect." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70679.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1994.Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-111).
This thesis explored principles of community design for future development both in the US. and Japan by examining the organizational structures, levels of participation and processes of community designs. Three cases in the US. and two cases in Japan were chosen for case studies. The method of research included a critical review of the literature, personal interviews and neighborhood visits. At the same time, the roles of architects in design processes were discussed as well as the roles of other participants: community residents, city officials and other professionals who were involved in the projects. Levels of participation are defined by the distribution of power in decision-making, and each case is summarized in terms of levels of participation in each stage of chronological progression of the design process: use, pre-design, design, construction and habitation phase. The US. and Japanese cases were compared by means of seven criteria: contextual consistency, spatial configuration, consideration of the family variation, achievement, citizens' levels of participation, involvement of institutions and the relationship between the community and the government. Findings clarified that the social background of each nation, attitude of city officials toward urban redevelopment, technical skills of professionals and attainability of financial support affect the success and effectiveness of participatory community design. In conclusion six principles of participatory design were suggested to promote creative ways of including communities. Change in the role of architect were mentioned.
by Masaaki Yonesu.
M.S.
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Kanarinka. "Engineering serendipity : Terra Incognita and other strange encounters with global news." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95597.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2014.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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There is a significant body of research that shows that people tend to congregate with others like them and favor information that confirms their existing views. With declining global news coverage and the rise of personalized news feeds and social media, there is concern that our forms of information consumption do not support encountering sufficient information about other cultures and places to make us effective citizens of the world. This thesis reviews these arguments and proposes a design intervention called "Terra Incognita: 1000 Cities of the World" to help address the geographic dimension of information diversity. Terra Incognita brings together aspects of serendipitous information discovery, personal informatics and "nudge" applications to provide users with multiple daily opportunities to explore faraway cities by reading global news recommendations. This study shows that while Terra Incognita did not shift user behavior in aggregate towards reading about more diverse places, it did make them curious about new places, prompted them to reflect and broadened their horizons. The final chapter offers guidance for designers who might aspire to create applications at the intersection of personal behavior change and news media.
by Catherine D'Ignazio.
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Charles, Curtis B. "The use of daylight in the design of a controlled environment for food production in the Caribbean and other equatorial climates." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34306.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1989.Title as it appeared in M.I.T. Graduate List, June 1989: The use of daylighting in the design of a controlled environment for food reduction in the Caribbean and other equatorial climates.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 219-224).
This thesis addresses the use of daylight in the design of a controlled environment for food production in the Caribbean and other Equatorial climates. An expanding population has put a tremendous burden on the food production industry in these climates. The increasing population in these climates means that existing fertile land is being taken-over for housing and infrastructure. Furthermore, the fishing industry is also a victim of over-fishing due to a need for alternative foods. This design proposes a technological solution to this social problem. Presented is one answer to improve the fishing industry, through a controlled environment for intensive aquaculture production. To improve crop production due to depleting fertile land and flooding, this thesis proposes hydroponic cultures in multi-stories. In addition, the success of this farming complex is dependent on appropriate research by staffed scientists, seeking to continually improve the end products of this facility. Within this ecosystem, far greater yields will be attained than traditional forms of agriculture, and, aquaculture. The challenge here is to present the most economic solution. As a result, the design of this facility is based on a three-level hydroponic (crops growing in a nutrient solution) facility, a fish hatchery, indoor fish ponds, and, research laboratories within the aquaculture and hydroponic facilities. This thesis presents two design solutions :one on land, that addresses the issues of flooding and a depletion of available fertile land, and one at sea, that addresses a time in which the population has grown to such a degree that food production at sea becomes an economic reality. There are many ways to introduce natural daylight into this proposed farming complex. Intensive research has indicated that these methods can often range from the very simplistic to the very intricate, as displayed in new emerging technologies such as the Himawari system developed by La Foret Engineering, of Japan. However, the following are techniques that will be applied in this thesis to bring daylight into the buildings of this proposed farming complex : 1. Optical lighting Himawari system); 2. Perimeter lighting; 3. Reflective lighting; 4. Top/Core lighting. Research has indicated that even during the rainy season (July to December)- in some of these equatorial climates there is adequate available diffused sunlight to reach the crops and aquatic life within this proposed controlled environment. This thesis also addresses the energy and cooling load requirements that result from the use of daylighting. Once again the most economic design is presented in this case study. However, the resulting economic solution ( to meet the cooling loads ) that is presented for the proposed site in Trinidad, may not be the most desirable solution for other equatorial climates. Consequently, wind energy, solar energy, co-generation, and traditional electricity, are all analyzed.
by Curtis B. Charles.
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Säfwenberg, Andreas. "Specific Competence : Collaboration With Other Craftsmen." Thesis, Konstfack, Inredningsarkitektur & Möbeldesign, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-5191.
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To use others specific competence in a boathouse Interior architects and specialists that cooperate, find more possible choices than the prevailing standardised solutions, and are able to break the norms that dominate their respective fields. Both of us use our specific tools and learn from one another when we meet. This leads to architecture that is more multifaceted as well as a greater understanding of our respective skills. The investigation regarding the power of collaboration will be conducted in the context of a houseboat: a specific building, with specific functions. It is logical to come into contact with scents, lights, sounds, details and functions in that specific building. We will create parts that could be situated in that kind of building.Att använd andras specifika kunskaper i ett båthus Inredningsarkitekter och specialister som samarbetar hittar fler möjliga val än gängse standardiserade lösningar och får möjlighet att bryta de normer som råder inom respektive fält. Båda använder sina specifika verktyg och i mötet lär vi av varandra. Det leder till en mer mångfacetterad arkitektur och ökad förståelse för våra respektive kompetenser. Undersökningen av samarbetets kraft sker inom ramen av ett båthus. En specifik byggnad, med specifika funktioner. Det finns en logik i att du möter de dofter, ljus, ljud, detaljer och funktioner just där i den specifika byggnaden.
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Liang, Qizhen. "Preparation and properties of thermally/electrically conductive material architecture based on graphene and other nanomaterials." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/44846.
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With excellent electrical, thermal and mechanical properties as well as large specific surface area, graphene has been applied in next-generation nano-electronics, gas sensors, transparent electrical conductors, thermally conductive materials, and superior energy capacitors etc. Convenient and productive preparation of graphene is thereby especially important and strongly desired for its manifold applications.
Chemically developed functionalized graphene from graphene oxide (GO) has significantly high productivity and low cost, however, toxic chemical reduction agents (e.g. hydrazine hydrate) and raised temperature (400-1100°C) are usually necessary in GO reduction yet not preferred in current technologies. Here, microwaves (MW) are applied to reduce the amount of graphene oxide (GO) at a relatively low temperature (~165°C). Experimental results indicate that resurgence of interconnected graphene-like domains contributes to a low sheet resistance with a high optical transparency after MW reduction, indicating the very high efficiency of MW in GO's reduction.
Moreover, graphene is usually recumbent on solid substrates, while vertically aligned graphene architecture on solid substrate is rarely available and less studied. For TIMs, electrodes of ultracapacitors, etc, efficient heat dissipation and electrical conductance in normal direction of solid surfaces is strongly desired. In addition, large-volume heat dissipation requires a joint contribution of a large number of graphene sheets. Graphene sheets must be aligned in a large scale array in order to meet the requirements for TIM application. Here, thermally conductive fuctionalized multilayer graphene sheets (fMGs) are efficiently aligned in a large scale by vacuum filtration method at room temperature, as evidenced by SEM images and polarized Raman spectroscopy. A remarkably strong anisotropy in properties of aligned fMGs is observed. Moreover, VA-fMG TIMs are prepared by constructing a three-dimensional vertically aligned functionalized multilayer graphene architecture between contact Silicon/Silicon surfaces with pure Indium as a metallic medium. Compared with their counterpart from recumbent A-fMGs, VA-fMG TIMs have significantly higher equivalent thermal conductivity and lower contact thermal resistance.
Electrical and thermal conductivities of polymer composite are also greatly interested here. Previous researches indicated that filler loading, morphology of fillers, and chemical bonding across filler/polymer interfaces have significant influence on electrical/thermal conductivity of polymer composite. Therefore, the research also pays substantial attention to these issues. First, electrical resistivity of CPCs is highly sensitive on volume or weight ratio (filler loading) of conductive fillers in polymer matrix, especially when filler loading is close to percolation threshold (pc). Thermal oxidation aging usually can cause a significant weight loss of polymer matrix in a CPC system, resulting in a filler loading change which can be exhibited by a prompt alteration in electrical resistivity of CPCs. Here, the phenomena are applied as approach for in-situ monitoring thermal oxidation status of polymeric materials is developed based on an electrical sensors based on conductive polymeric composites (CPCs). The study developed a model for electrical resistivity of sensors from the CPCs as a function of aging time at constant aging temperature, which is in a good agreement with a Boltzmann-Sigmoidal equation. Based on the finding, the sensors show their capability of in-situ in-situ monitor and estimate aging status of polymeric components by a fast and convenient electrical resistance measurement.
Second, interfacial issues related to these thermal conductive fillers are systemically studied. On the one hand, the study focuses on relationship between morphology of h-BN particles and thermal conductivity of their epoxy composites. It is found that spherical-agglomeration of h-BN particles can significantly enhance thermal conductivity of epoxy resin, compared with dispersed h-BN plates, by substantially reducing specific interfacial area between h-BN and epoxy resin. On the other hand, surface of high thermal conductive fillers such as SiC particles and MWNTs are successfully functionalized, which makes their surface reactive with bisphenol A diglycidyl ether and able to form chemical bonding between fillers and epoxy resin. By this means, thermal conductivity of polymer composites is found to be significantly enhanced compared with control samples, indicating the interfacial chemical bonding across interface between thermal conductive fillers and polymer matrix can promote heat dissipation in polymeric composites. The finding can benefit a development of high thermal conductive polymer composites by interfacial chemical bonding enhancement to meet the demanding requirements in current fine pitch and Cu/low k technology.
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Barabas, James. "Holographic television : measuring visual performance with holographic and other 3D television technologies." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/91863.
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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2014.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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We are surrounded by visual reproductions: computer screens, photographs, televisions, and countless other technologies allow us to perceive objects and scenes that are not physically in-front of us. All existing technologies that reproduce images perform engineering tradeoffs that provide the viewer with some subset of the visual information that would be available in person, in exchange for cost, convenience, or practicality. For many viewing tasks, incomplete reproductions go unnoticed. This dissertation provides a set of findings that illuminate the value of binocular disparity, and ocular focus information that can be provided by some three-dimensional display technologies. These findings include new experimental methods, as well as results, for conducting evaluations of current and future display technologies. Methodologies were validated on an implementation of digital holographic television, an image capture and reproduction system for visual telepresence. The holographic television system, allows viewers to observe, in real-time, a remote 3D scene, through a display that preserves focus (individual objects can be brought into optical focus at the expense of others), and horizontal motion parallax (depth and other geometry of objects appears natural over a range of head movement). Holographic television can also emulate other precursor 2D and 3D display technologies. This capability was used to validate the evaluation methodologies (meta-evaluation) by comparing visual performance on simulations of conventional displays to results of past studies by other researchers.
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Levitsky, Maria. "Invisible Cities: Photographic Fictions of Architecture." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1457.
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The artist's process in which she examines the built environment through the medium of black and white photography. By tracing the trajectory of her awareness of architecture from her early career as a dancer, to the making of photographic images, the artist illuminates the process of deconstructing architectural and pictorial space into fragmented yet illusionistically convincing photographic montages. Influenced by the urban localities in which she dwells, she tells the story of being captivated by the post-industrial landscape of Williamsburg, Brookyn, NY, followed by landing in New Orleans and her fascination with post-Katrina architecture. Grounded in the analog techniques of traditional black and white photography, Levitsky describes the various means by which she alters her images to create visionary reconstructions of buildings in transitional states.
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Segura, Dobjanschi Nicolas. "Beauty and Politics, With Special Reference to Politics." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2112.
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The paper aims to examine the nature of the relationship between beauty and the city. I examined this relationship by first providing a summary of relevant philosophers and their thoughts concerning aesthetics. Second, I compared their thoughts to my own creating my own abstract framework. Third, I implemented my abstract framework through the lens of architecture. This art form is the most organic to study the relationship of beauty within the city because it merges elements characteristic of one’s being like political discourse with the longing for some type of excitement or stimulation which might transfigure one’s self to a higher understanding, something that can only be achieved by experiencing beauty. In other words, buildings and the spaces around them drive the way in which humans interact with each other and their surroundings. I found that the beautiful is desirable and at a point becomes essential to a person’s happiness. To achieve a sense of beauty within the city, the ruling class must possess practical wisdom. A type of knowledge that allows them to pursue the appropriate and promote a kind of creativity that not only respects tradition but also aims to unveil some new form of experience.
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Anderson, Heather Christine. "Amphibious Architecture : Living with a Rising Bay." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2014. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1258.
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Over the past century, sea level has risen nearly eight inches along the California coast and climate scientists suggest substantial increases in sea level as a significant impact of climate change over the coming century. This project explores the concept of creating a sustainable living environment for seaside residents in Redwood City as an alternative to permanent construction on land in the event of a substantial rise in sea level.
This project will generate a flood-resilient design solution that is capable of rising and falling with the water. In order to ensure the well-being of the inhabitants, I will analyze a number of case studies, notably the Netherland’s water dwellings, New Orleans’s amphibious residences and Sausalito’s floating communities, for the purpose of identifying key themes that will facilitate the construction of a single-family amphibious residence in Redwood City.
This project is a response to environmental design challenges raised by ongoing atmospheric events such as the gradual rise in sea level and disastrous events such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 where extreme flooding due to failed coastal defenses exhibited catastrophic effects on coastal residences, its inhabitants, and the surrounding ecosystem.
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Milani, Ernest J. "A fractional proposal for architecture." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/46261.
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"It has neither name nor place. I shall repeat the reason why I was describing it to you: from the number of imaginable cities we must exclude those whose elements are assembled without a connecting thread, an inner rule, a perspective, a discourse. With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams are made of desires and fears, even the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else." "Cities also believe they are the work of the mind or of chance, but neither the one nor the other suffices to hold up their walls. You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours."Master of Architecture
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Patrick, Adrian James. "An Information Systems and Communications Architecture using Power Line Carrier -and other Media for Remote Metering and other Telemetry Services in the Electricity Supply Industry." Thesis, Open University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.502395.
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Pri.or to 1990, and the advent of deregulation in the UK, the Electricity Supply Industry (ESI) was a state-owned, vertically integrated monopoly. For the first time the way was opened for the introduction of competitiveness into the many and varied aspects ofthe market. This brought with it diversity and additional requirements for customer and engineering services. This new business-driven, customer-orientated environment led to the re~assessment of the utility's customer communication systems. In order to take full advantage of this new environment, an integrated communications and information systems infrastructure is required. This thesis addresses the design and development of an efficient and reliable communications system for the collection and distribution of data within the ESI. Although the communications architecture proposed focuses on meeting the requirements of a specific Regional Electricity Company, SWEB, it is generic and hence may be used in any electric utility. This architecture, based on an open systems approach, provides bearer services to existing and emerging engineering and business applications. The open system aspect permits the deferred design of system components, thereby providing maximum system flexibility and simplicity. An overview ofthe operational systems in the ESI as they existed in 1997 is given. This review considers the power engineering and distribution networks, metering and tariffs, together with SWEB's specific IT and data communication systems. There then follows a review ofthe business and technical environments in the industry, in terms ofthe potential benefits of value-added services and the emerging applications, together with a brief analysis of the post-privatisation growth ofthe telecommunications industry in the UK. A review was carried out on the media used for different communication services involving Power Line Carrier technology (PLC), Telephony, Fibre Optic Cable (FOC), Twisted Pair and Coaxial cable. These media are examined as to their suitability for data communications for the electric utility industry. Various modulation techniques including AM, FM and Spread Spectrum systems were investigated with respect to their transmission characteristics, and a comparison made ofthe modulation techniques used in PLC systems. The 1990s saw considerable interest in utility communications resulting in many trials being carried out throughout the world. A number ofthese are reviewed in this thesis in support of the proposed architecture. The cardinal factor in the design and development of any modern communication system is the compliance with internationally agreed standards and recommendations. The Open Systems Interconnection model is introduced. together with the standards, protocols and profiles particularly relevant to utility communications. The Utility Communications Architecture (UCA) profile, developed by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) is also introduced. The programme ofwork outlined in this thesis was driven by two objectives. The first of these was the aim of utilising the considerable copper infrastructure in the ESI distribution systems for communication purposes. The second was to investigate the feasibility of the provision ofvalue-added services. The generic architecture presented here, based on powerline carrier and other media technology, clearly satisfies the first ofthe above objectives. However PLC inherently lacks the bandwidth for some ofthe value-added services considered, and this may lead slow data transfer rates for certain applications such as downloading large text, image and audio files from internet websites.The second objective was pragmatically modified to address the problems of Remote Metre Reading. To this end a protocol is proposed which requires a minimum data rate transfer thereby conserving network bandwidth.
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Ahmed, Nizamuddin. "Formulation of design criteria for industrial architecture in Bangladesh in light of the developments made in the United Kingdom and other developed countries." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339376.
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ibrahim, sameh mohamed. "A Transient Community for a Transient Lifestyle." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3685.
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The project suggests an alternative means for living in Qatar. It proposes the development of a transient, floating community a man-made, transitory archipelago of floating housing units located at the ‘soon to be abandoned’ docks a short distance from the Museum of Islamic Art and the Doha Corniche. The design, through a variety of bespoke dwelling options, can provide both more and less nomadic housing to accommodate a variety of dif- ferent lifestyles and social units. Clustered around three permanent islands (containing a cultural/activity center, three adaptable ‘work-unit’ towers, and a park/commercial area), the design provides a wide set of adaptive layout patterns within which the mobile units can be arrayed. Directly plugged into the city, the community functions as a floating appendix to downtown Doha: an adaptable and flexible city-supplement that can expand or contract ac- cording to need, whether to aid in the accommodation of guests for various large-scale sporting or other events, or merely to provide an alternative locale for long or short stay visitors to Doha alike.
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Koziolek, Anne [Verfasser], and R. [Akademischer Betreuer] Reussner. "Automated Improvement of Software Architecture Models for Performance and Other Quality Attributes / Anne Koziolek. Betreuer: R. Reussner." Karlsruhe : KIT-Bibliothek, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1017321884/34.
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Jones, Susan Hicks. "Creating a tradition: Early campus planning at Hampton Institute, 1868-1893." W&M ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539618513.
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The goal of this study was to explore the beginnings of higher education for freed slaves after the Civil War as reflected in the development of the built environment of one of the earliest and most prominent of the historically Black colleges, Hampton Institute. The main purpose was to study the way in which campus planning was implemented at Hampton, its intentions and effects. The study had three hypotheses: (1) a master plan for the development of the campus of Hampton Institute was created by its founder, (2) this master plan was followed by the administration and builders during the early stages of the school's development and (3) the founder of Hampton Institute was aware of the symbolism of the architecture and used it intentionally to create a sense of specialness and to inspire strong attachment among the students of the school.;The study of numerous original documents available in the Hampton University Archives revealed answers to these questions. First, there is ample evidence that a master plan did exist for the development of Hampton's campus and that it was, to a large degree followed. The architectural intentions of Hampton's principal revealed a great deal about the beginnings of Negro education and the controversy which existed concerning the type of education which was best suited to the needs of Blacks. They also reflect the unique mission of the early Black schools. Hampton was the model for many schools which espoused one view of the type of education which would best prepare Blacks to take their place in post war society and, therefore, was an appropriate subject for this study.;The study also revealed certain common characteristics which, when present, produce coherent, consistent campus planning. This information is important for present day administrators trying to promote effective decision making regarding campus growth.;The extension of this study to include other prominent Black schools would provide valuable insights into the evolution of higher education for Blacks. These schools were shaped by their unique mission which was in turn shaped by the unique educational needs of the group they were founded to serve.
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Driscoll, John Charles. "Fractals as Basis for Design and Critique." PDXScholar, 2019. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5183.
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The design profession is responding to the complex systems represented by architecture and planning by increasingly incorporating the power of computer technology into the design process. This represents a paradigm shift, and requires that designers rise to the challenge of both embracing modern technologies to perform increasingly sophisticated tasks without compromising their objective to create meaningful and environmentally sensitive architecture. This dissertation investigated computer-based fractal tools applied within a traditional architectural charette towards a design process with the potential to address the complex issues architects and planners face today. We developed and presented an algorithm that draws heavily from fractal mathematics and fractal theory. Fractals offer a quantitative and qualitative relation between nature, the built environment and computational mechanics and in this dissertation serve as a bridge between these realms.
We investigated how qualitative/quantitative fractal tools may inform an architectural design process both in terms of generative formal solutions as well as a metric for assessing the complexity of designs and historic architecture. The primary research objective was to develop a compelling cybernetic design process and apply it to a real-world and multi-faceted case study project within a formal architectural critique. Jurors were provided a platform for evaluating design work and weighing in as practicing professional architects. Jurors' comments were documented and discussed and presented as part of the dissertation. Our intention was to open up the discussion and document the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of the process we presented.
First we discussed the history of generative and algorithmic design and fractals in architecture. We begin with examples in ancient Hindu temple architecture as well as Middle Eastern architecture and Gothic as well as Art Nouveau. We end this section with a discussion of fractals in the contemporary architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Organic school.
Next we developed a cybernetic design process incorporating a computer-based tool termed DBVgen within a closed loop designer/algorithm back and forth. The tool we developed incorporated a genetic algorithm that used fractal dimension as the primary fitness criterion. We applied our design process with mixed results as discussed by the jurors whose feedback was chunked into ten categories and assessed along with the author/designer's feedback. Generally we found that compelling designs tended to have a higher FD, whereas, the converse was not true that higher FD consistently led to more compelling designs.
Finally, we further developed fractal theory towards an appropriate consideration of the significance of fractals in architecture. We articulated a nuanced definition of fractals in architecture as: designs having multi-scale and multi-functional representations of some unifying organizing principle as the result of an iterative process. We then wrapped this new understanding of fractals in architecture to precedent relevant to the case study project. We present and discuss fractals in the work of Frank Lloyd Wright as well as Dean Bryant Vollendorf. We expand on how a theory of fractals used in architecture may continue to be developed and applied as a critical tool in analyzing historic and contemporary architecture as well as a creative framework for designing new architectural solutions to better address the complex world we live in.
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Petersson, Alina. "Sustainable architecture, technology and place : An in-depth case study exploring how architecture navigates the complex relationship between the construction of technologies and relation to place." Thesis, KTH, Urbana och regionala studier, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-289203.
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Today’s greatest global challenges include managing the environmental crisis and promoting sustainable development. Within architecture, the measures and approaches taken to address these challenges vary. While some promote self-sufficiency, others promote technological advances, creating tensions between technological and social solutions. This study, inspired by actor-network theory (ANT) investigates how global, technological measures of sustainability interact with specific local and social conditions. The aim is to further our understanding of the challenges of creating a built environment that responds not only to global measures of sustainable development but also to our local and social relation to place. A focus on technology is a commonplace feature of sustainable architecture and provides a window into understanding how universal sustainability principles relate to specific contexts. This thesis contributes to socio-technical studies of sustainable architecture by comparing and contrasting local conditions and the application of sustainable technologies related to energy efficiency, self-sufficiency and climate resilience. A theoretical framework was developed and applied to a case study, the ‘Climate House’, a recent sustainable building project in southern Thailand with a strong emphasis on technology. The case study methodology consists of a desk-based study of documents and semi-structured interviews combined with site visits and observations. Social constructivist theory and ANT are used to understand the selected case. The findings illustrate different and sometimes competing logics that negotiate the local and global dynamics of sustainable architecture. The case study brings to light the difficulties of implementing sustainable technologies in local contexts without relating to the particular conditions of place and people. Overall, the study finds that conventional sustainable architecture is based on technologies that are universal and placeless. Future studies could therefore explore what exactly sustainable technologies aim to sustain – development or life on earth.
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Almahmoud, Shaikha. "THE MAJLIS METAMORPHOSIS: Virtues of Local Traditional Environmental Design in a Contemporary Context." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3880.
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In the Arabian Gulf countries, the majlis is a central part of the house. The most public space within it, the majlis represents the household’s occupants to society and its social and economic status. As the house reflects culture and civilization, so the family is understood as a micro-level society of individuals raised in its institutions. Hence, the house is a manifestation of family structure, religious beliefs, and individual needs and desires, reflecting the family’s economic, cultural, and social backgrounds and aspirations. The majlis offers a unique space in Arab societies, articulating cultural and social factors that directly impact identity Accordingly, the design of the majlis and meanings associated with its constituents are essential to the discussion about Qatari culture and society from past to present (Rapoport 1969).
Since the discovery of oil in Qatar, there has been a noteworthy change in the way that houses have been designed, with a major transformation in the use of house and majlis over the last few generations, including social factors such as family social structure, the role of women, kinship and its relationship with privacy and proximity, and economic factors such as the availability of disposable income.
This research explores the evolution of house architecture in Qatar with a focus on the design and social impact of the majlis. The physical and social changes in the period between pre-oil discovery until today have created gaps between the built form, climate, and sociocultural activities. This research attempts to bridge this gap, concentrating on the majlis.
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Peck, Rose. "Kensington Center for Health: An Exploration of Health, Wellness and the Built Environment." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3842.
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This is a project that explores how design can integrate medical treatment and community support. The high prevalence of chronic disease is creating a national healthcare crisis. Chronic disease is the leading cause of death and disability in the United States. Consideration of a holistic sense of well-being that focuses on disease resistance, resilience, and self-management is necessary to realize and sustain health outcomes. Community engagement is imperative to improve adherence rates for lifestyle changes. This project aims to design a community wellness space that is focused on prevention, resilience and self-management. A new typology of a community-anchored wellness clinic could provide an environment to support positive change. This clinic will be a new model of care by combining the necessary access to fitness, healthy food and health care while fostering community, and providing patient education and emotional support.
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Boyd, Kelly Elizabeth. "Mme. de Pompadour: Self Promotion and Social Performance through Architecture and the Decorative Arts." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/90.
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The structure of this thesis relies on the physical locations of Mme. de Pompadour. Although the chapters are roughly chronological, beginning with her arrival at Versailles in 1745 and ending with her death in 1764, this work makes no attempt to comprehensively chronicle the entirety of her involvement in the decorative arts. Rather, it focuses on several specific aspects of her patronage, with the goal of illuminating her social position and public image, and how she worked to control the two. Chapter One deals with the first rooms Mme. de Pompadour inhabited, from 1745-1750. These upper apartments characterize her early attempts to convey meaning through décor and to shape social interactions within a constructed environment. Chapter Two follows Mme. de Pompadour’s move downstairs, to the lower apartments in 1750. This move parallels an important evolution in her role at court and seeks to explore how her newly political functions were expressed through these interior spaces. Chapter Three is more expansive, examining three architectural projects undertaken by Mme. de Pompadour and Louis XV on her behalf, over the course of her nineteen years at court. These independent homes represented an opportunity for Mme. de Pompadour to actively work to change public perception of herself and her role, an opportunity that she did not waste.
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Barry, Marie Porterfield. "Lesson 11: Bosch and Other Scenes of the Apocalypse." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/art-appreciation-oer/12.
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NEVES, JULIANA DUARTE. "ON PROJECTS FOR ALL THE SENSES: CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ARCHITECTURE TOWARDS PROJECTS DIRECTED TO THE OTHER SENSES BEYOND VISION." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2011. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=19246@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIORPROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
O presente trabalho aborda os sentidos sob o ponto de vista projetual. Seu principal objetivo é trazer contribuições teóricas e metodológicas à pesquisa na área de Design Emocional para o desenvolvimento de projetos dirigidos aos demais sentidos além da visão. Primeiramente, investiga o design de experiências em espaços físicos, questão atual e crucial das disciplinas projetuais tratadas pelo recente campo da arquitetura de atmosferas, a qual, por sua vez, tem como uma de suas principais estratégias contemplar todos os sentidos humanos. Em seguida, traz considerações sobre a importância de o designer expandir sua atenção para além dos aspectos visuais de seus produtos, apontando alguns motivos pelos quais a visão vem sendo tratada como o sentido hegemônico perante os demais. Discorre sobre e ilustra o papel de cada um de nossos sentidos na percepção do meio construído com base nos ensinamentos do psicólogo James Gibson (1966). Descreve, ainda, três importantes espaços físicos projetados com o propósito de promover experiências a seus visitantes e que, para tanto, se valeram de estratégias com foco em todos os sentidos: o Thermal Baths, o Blur Building e o Museu dos Judeus de Berlim. Por fim, esta pesquisa confirma a importância dos sentidos na expansão das respostas emocionais do usuário ao meio projetado.
This work deals with the senses from the point of view of projects. Its main goal is to bring theoretical and methodological contributions to the research field of Emotional Design for the development of projects directed towards the other senses beyond vision. First, it investigates experience design in physical spaces, a current and crucial question studied by the recent research field of architecture of atmospheres, which in turn has as one of its main strategies to consider all the human senses in its designs. Then, this work brings some thoughts on the importance of the designer to expand his attention beyond the visual aspects of his products, pointing at some of the reasons why vision is held as the hegemonic sense before the others. It broaches on and illustrates the role each one of our senses plays on the perception of the constructed environment, based on the teachings of psychologist James Gibson (1966). It also describes three important constructions which were designed with the intention of promoting experiences for their visitors that have used strategies focused on all the senses: Thermal Baths, Blur Building and the Jewish Museum Berlin. Last, this research confirms the importance of the senses in the expansion of the emotional responses of the user towards the designed environment.
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Wickerson, Erica Harriett. "Towards an architecture of narrative time : telling subjective time in selected works by Thomas Mann and other writers." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708875.
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Platanias, Efthymios. "Software Architecture for a Cyber-Physical Ecosystem in support of Open Innovation - : Balancing Open Innovation and Governance through Software Architecture." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för datavetenskap (DV), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-68417.
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This is a qualitative exploratory study of Software Architecture in Cyber-Physical Ecosystems. Software Architecture plays a pivotal role to Software Ecosystems and, apart from Functional and non-Functional requirements, it is affected by factors of a different nature. The purpose of this paper is to identify these factors and describe their relationship with the ecosystem’s architecture. Several owners of Cyber-Physical systems are in the process of setting up new ecosystems by sharing functionalities of their proprietary platform with third-party developers. This makes Architecture that supports Open Innovation critical to this endeavor. We believe that the application of Software Ecosystem best practices to the domain of Cyber-Physical Systems is an interesting subject. An exploratory literature study was conducted to create a conceptual model which describes the relationship of architecture with the factors presented above. This study resulted in a conceptual model which supports the decision making process of the platform owner during the various stages of the ecosystem’s lifecycle.
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Livermon, C. R. "A proposed design methodology : introducing the poetics of architecture to an engineered structure." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/11701.
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Hawkins, Timothy G. "STUDIES AND RESEARCH REGARDING SOUND REDUCTION MATERIALS WITH THE PURPOSE OF REDUCING SOUND POLLUTION." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2014. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1277.
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Noise can be defined as unwanted sound. There are many cases and applications that reducing noise level is of great importance. Loss of hearing is only one of the effects of continuous exposure to excessive noise levels. Noise can interfere with sleep and speech, and cause discomfort and other non-auditory effects. High level noise and vibration lead to structural failures as well as reduction in life span. The importance of noise issue could be well understood by looking at regulations that have been passed by governments to restrict noise production in society. Industrial machinery, air/surface transportation and construction activities are main contributors in noise production or "noise pollution". Noise Pollution is not only an annoyance; it is an environmental health hazard. Noise can be found anywhere that life exists, in forests, in the workplace, in homes acrossAmericaand even under water. A lot of research has been done about noise pollution in the last 40 years, but yet there is still more to learn about how to control and lessen the affects that noise has on human and animal life. Noise control is a major factor in the planning, design, and construction of transportation corridors. Architects, acoustical engineers and transportation planners are searching for creative ways to eliminate or greatly reduce noise levels. The challenge lies in attaining desired sound levels while simultaneously maintaining or enhancing the visual environment. I will be setting up an experiment to determine what kinds of materials absorb sound waves of varying frequencies most effectively.
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Jones, Benjamin S. "The Other Side of the Fence." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/843.
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I pull from what I see in my urban surroundings. There is always a sense of dread fused with optimism that prevails. Is it beautiful? Fragments of low-riders and tricked-out cars become symbols of desire and the glowing red lens of a stop light becomes a Cyclops poised to defend his garden. Candy-coated, blooming, dripping and seductively slick confronts you with the obvious warning: STOP! You could be next
The grass really is greener on The Other Side of the Fence. At least until winter comes.
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Yeroulanou, Marina. "The architecture of Greek treasures and other foreign dedications : stylistic developments and the role of dedicating states and workshops." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391056.
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Mahmoudi, Ramzi, and Ramzi Mahmoudi. "Real time image processing : algorithm parallelization on multicore multithread architecture." Phd thesis, Université Paris-Est, 2011. http://pastel.archives-ouvertes.fr/pastel-00680735.
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Topological features of an object are fundamental in image processing. In many applications,including medical imaging, it is important to maintain or control the topology of the image. Howeverthe design of such transformations that preserve topology and geometric characteristics of the inputimage is a complex task, especially in the case of parallel processing.Parallel processing is applied to accelerate computation by sharing the workload among multipleprocessors. In terms of algorithm design, parallel computing strategies profits from the naturalparallelism (called also partial order of algorithms) present in the algorithm which provides two main resources of parallelism: data and functional parallelism. Concerning architectural design, it is essential to link the spectacular evolution of parallel architectures and the parallel processing. In effect, if parallelization strategies become necessary, it is thanks to the considerable improvements in multiprocessing systems and the rise of multi-core processors. All these reasons make multiprocessing very practical. In the case of SMP machines, immediate sharing of data provides more flexibility in designing such strategies and exploiting data and functional parallelism, notably with the evolution of interconnection system between processors.In this perspective, we propose a new parallelization strategy, called SD&M (Split Distribute andMerge) strategy that cover a large class of topological operators. SD&M has been developed in orderto provide a parallel processing for many topological transformations.Based on this strategy, we proposed a series of parallel topological algorithm (new or adaptedversion). In the following we present our main contributions:(1)A new approach to compute watershed transform based on MSF transform, that is parallel,preserves the topology, does not need prior minima extraction and suited for SMP machines.Proposed algorithm makes use of Jean Cousty streaming approach and it does not require any sortingstep, or the use of any hierarchical queue. This contribution came after an intensive study of allexisting watershed transform in the discrete case.(2)A similar study on thinning transform was conducted. It concerns sixteen parallel thinningalgorithms that preserve topology. In addition to performance criteria, we introduce two qualitativecriteria, to compare and classify them. New classification criteria are based on the relationshipbetween the medial axis and the obtained homotopic skeleton. After this classification, we tried toget better results through the proposal of a new adapted version of Couprie's filtered thinningalgorithm by applying our strategy.(3)An enhanced computation method for topological smoothing through combining parallelcomputation of Euclidean Distance Transform using Meijster algorithm and parallel Thinning-Thickening processes using the adapted version of Couprie's algorithm already mentioned.
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Casey, Erin E. "The Richmond Maker Museum: The Evolution of Process." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3839.
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The Richmond Maker Museum is a working museum design, offering an inside look at past achievements, juxtaposed with the unlimited future possibilities of an evolving, active maker culture. It is a dynamic place designed to allow makers to showcase skills, take risks, engage the public, and grow their craft in real time. The museum displays finished pieces, introduces makers, demonstrates the processes they employ in their work, and invites the community to meet the artisans who, through skill, ingenuity, and hard work, make the artifacts on display. This type of educational museum experience does not currently exist on this scale in Richmond. While other local museums invite visiting artists and offer lectures, the Richmond Maker Museum takes interaction to a new level, introducing visitors to the routines and procedures of each artisan’s daily practice.
Maker culture is a tightly woven network of craftsmen—woodworkers, metalworkers, glassblowers, etc. It celebrates traditional fabrication techniques, while also introducing modern technologies such as laser cutting and three-dimensional printing. The social and educational aspects of the maker movement have created a revolution, revitalizing public appreciation for the role of the maker and the importance of craftsmanship.