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Sontag, Ralph. « Learning Technology Systems Architecture - LTSA ». Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2000. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-200000613.
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Gemeinsamer Workshop von Universitaetsrechenzentrum und
Professur Rechnernetze und verteilte Systeme (Fakultaet fuer
Informatik) der TU Chemnitz.
Workshop-Thema: Infrastruktur der ¨Digitalen Universitaet¨
Der Vortrag führt in den in Entwicklung befindlichen
Standard IEEE1484 ein. Die Standardisierung im Bereich computer-
und netzgestützter Kurse ist Voraussetzung für Datenaustausch
und Verbreitung.
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Dwityabaswara, Dionisius M. « Voluntary movement in architectural representation the exploration of video game technology in architecture / ». Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1206627219.
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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Cincinnati, 2008.Advisors: John E. Hancock Dr (Committee Chair), David G. Saile PhD (Committee Member), Jose M. Kozan MS. Arch (Committee Member) Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Sept. 7, 2008). Includes abstract. Keywords: Architectural representation; real-time rendering technology; voluntary movement; virtual reality; video game Includes bibliographical references.
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DWITYABASWARA, DIONISIUS M. « Voluntary Movement in Architectural Representation : The Exploration of Video Game Technology in Architecture ». University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1206627219.
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Oliveira, Antonio Manuel. « Relearning architecture : sense, time, place and technology ». Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2018. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/620215/.
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This research reflects the vision of the architect starting from an interpretation of some philosophical principles, which guide the structure of this thesis, related to the actual issue of architectonic creation, and has as a case study architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, applied to and explained by the project of Quinta da Malagueira, in Évora. I will be researching a specific period, line of thinking, school of architecture and architecture project, and the in-between modern and post-modern thinking, inbetween a regime and democracy, in-between modernity and tradition, global and individual, abstract and imagery, and also the present, the past and the future. The in-between is the route that has not yet been submitted to rigid and intellectualised principles and has not yet been brought into academia. This thesis analyses the role of the architect in contemporary society, considering the questions put in its various sectors, its relationship with the constructed world, and the implications in the structure of the present architecture with its new methodological strategies. In this context, it will try to understand the interactions between the built world, the natural, the humane, technology and space-time dialectics, achieving through this interaction, an instrumental re-reading of the whole process. So, using studies not only at a local (background) level but also in the scope of contemporaneous architectural intervention, this study will suggest an instrumental re-reading and re-learning which will favour the first creative act. Based on these phenomenological values, in this thesis a genetic connection between the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira's project 'Quinta da Malagueira' in Évora (Portugal), Siza in the context of the 'Porto School' and the work of Le Corbusier is traced. From an examination of this period (after the 1974 revolution in Portugal), poised between the Modern Movement and Post- Modernism, but with its own specific space-time, this thesis will also present an understanding of the present situation, and (acknowledging existing variety), will propose a different direction for architectonic creation, which embodies continuity and rupture, accumulation of experience and knowledge and also new ways of thinking. In order to understand how space can transgress the connection between spatiality and temporality it becomes necessary to understand the essential starting point. At a moment when society understands space and is understood in space, the author asserts the importance of new perspectives for society based on some other paradigm, in order to determine the role of individual action, and the artistic framing and ranging of both the architect and architecture.
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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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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1994.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 204-210).
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.
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Kersey, David Nathaniel. « Improving landscape architectural problem solving : integrating giscience and technology educational objectives in landscape architecture curricula ». Thesis, Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1078.
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Li, Zhen. « Reconfigurable computing architecture exploration using silicon photonics technology ». Thesis, Ecully, Ecole centrale de Lyon, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015ECDL0001/document.
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Les progrès dans la fabrication des systèmes de calcul reconfigurables de type « Field Programmable Gate Arrays » (FPGA) s’appuient sur la technologie CMOS, ce qui engendre une consommation des puces élevée. Des nouveaux paradigmes de calcul sont désormais nécessaires pour remplacer les architectures de calcul traditionnel ayant une faible performance et une haute consommation énergétique. En particulier, optique intégré pourrait offrir des solutions intéressantes. Beaucoup de travail sont déjà adressées à l’utilisation d’interconnexion optique pour relaxer les contraintes intrinsèques d’interconnexion électronique. Dans ce contexte, nous proposons une nouvelle architecture de calcul reconfigurable optique, la « optical lookup table » (OLUT), qui est une implémentation optique de la lookup table (LUT). Elle améliore significativement la latence et la consommation énergétique par rapport aux architectures de calcul d’optique actuelles tel que RDL (« reconfigurable directed logic »), en utilisant le spectre de la lumière au travers de la technologie WDM. Nous proposons une méthodologie de conception multi-niveaux permettant l'explorer l’espace de conception et ainsi de réduire la consommation énergétique tout en garantissant une fiabilité élevée des calculs (BER~10-18). Les résultats indiquent que l’OLUT permet une consommation inférieure à 100fJ/opération logique, ce qui répondait en partie aux besoins d’un FPGA tout-optique à l’avenirAdvances in the design of high performance silicon chips for reconfigurable computing, i.e. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), rely on CMOS technology and are essentially limited by energy dissipation. New design paradigms are mandatory to replace traditional, slow and power consuming, electronic computing architectures. Integrated optics, in particular, could offer attractive solutions. Many related works already addressed the use of optical on-chip interconnects to help overcome the technology limitations of electrical interconnects. Integrated silicon photonics also has the potential for realizing high performance computing architectures. In this context, we present an energy-efficient on-chip reconfigurable photonic logic architecture, the so-called OLUT, which is an optical core implementation of a lookup table. It offers significant improvement in latency and power consumption with respect to optical directed logic architectures, through allowing the use of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) for computation parallelism. We proposed a multi-level modeling approach based on the design space exploration that elucidates the optical device characteristics needed to produce a computing architecture with high computation reliability (BER~10-18) and low energy dissipation. Analytical results demonstrate the potential of the resulting OLUT implementation to reach <100 fJ/bit per logic operation, which may meet future demands for on-chip optical FPGAs
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Mantena, Anup V. (Anup Verma) 1977. « Technology Enabled Active Learning : system architecture & ; implementation ». Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/84307.
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Stanley, Theban. « A robust architecture for human language technology systems ». Master's thesis, Mississippi State : Mississippi State University, 2006. http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/ETD-browse/browse.
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Nitch, Matthew Paul. « The architecture of enabling technology in the critical care setting the role of architecture in addressing the health care - technology paradox / ». Connect to this title online, 2006. http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1175184999/.
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Kagelmacher, Falk. « Technology transfer centre ». Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25948714.
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Hwang, Sohin. « Resisting technology : self-transformation and its catalysts ». Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65549.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 78-79).
As with utopian promises, where technology contributes to the convenience and welfare of human society, technology also has the contradictory consequences of enforcing humans to conform to a biased politics often without negotiation. How do I, as an individual, challenge such unwanted enforcement? Can I meet this challenge without producing yet another coercive technology? In this thesis, I argue that technologies for transforming the self can function as emancipatory strategies against such coercive technologies, without reproducing them. My hypothesis is that these technologies for transforming the self can be achieved through strategizing and experimenting with the self. This strategizing and experimentation involve identifying and exploring the following conditions: standing on the border of both sides of ambivalence in the self-technology relationship, taking the risk of failure in this position, and expanding these conditions to multiple selves. The repetition of strategizing and experimenting with the self can generate constant self-transformations. To test/experiment this hypothesis, I design and activate performative situations for self-transformative experiences of an individual, and a group. In these situations, objects act as catalysts and structures for action and dialogue, while revealing the ambivalence in them-as technologies of coercion and freedom.
by Sohin Hwang.
S.M.
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Andersson, Thord. « Learning in a Reactive Robotic Architecture ». Licentiate thesis, Linköping University, Linköping University, Computer Vision, 2000. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-53408.
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In this licenciate thesis, we discuss how to generate actions from percepts within an autonomous robotic system. In particular, we discuss and propose an original reactive architecture suitable for response generation, learning and self-organization.
The architecture uses incremental learning and supports self organization through distributed dynamic model generation and self-contained components. Signals to and from the architecture are represented using the channel representation, which is presented in that context.
The components of the architecture use a novel and flexible implementation of an artificial neural network. The learning rules for this implementation are derived.
A simulator is presented. It has been designed and implemented in order to test and evaluate the proposed architecture.
Results of a series of experiments on the reactive architecture are discussed and accounted for. The experiments have been performed within three different scenarios, using the developed simulator.
The problem of information representation in robotic architectures is illustrated by a problem of anchoring symbols to visual data. This is presented in the context of the WITAS project.
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Sharp, Leslie Noel. « Women shaping shelter technology, consumption, and the twentieth-century house / ». Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004:, 2004. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-06072004-131349/unrestricted/sharp%5Fleslie%5Fn%5F200405%5Fphd.pdf.
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Wasinski, Amber. « Screening Architecture ». University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1561989873853347.
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Moon, Kyoung-Sun. « Dynamic interrelationship between technology and architecture in tall buildings ». Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33058.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2005.Page 230 blank.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-229).
The interrelationship between the technology and architecture of tall buildings is investigated from the emergence of tall buildings in the late 19th century to the present. Through the historical research, a filtering concept is developed - original technology and remedial technology - through which one can clearly understand the interrelationship between the technological evolution and architectural esthetic and further stylistic transition of tall buildings. More desirable visions for the future can be constructed based on this concept. Contemporary design practice of tall buildings is reviewed, and design guidelines are provided for new design trends. Investigated in depth are the behavioral characteristics and design methodology for diagrid structures, which emerge as a new direction in the design of tall buildings with their powerful structural rationale and symbolic architectural expression. Moreover, new technologies for tall building structures and facades are developed for performance enhancement through design integration, and their architectural potentials are explored. Special emphasis is placed on the research on the structural dynamic motion control using double skin facades / distributed tuned mass dampers. Design integration among architecture-related disciplines is emphasized throughout the research process as a means to more effectively overcome or at least minimize contemporary technological limitations and to create architecture of higher quality.
(cont.) While each study makes its own contribution theoretically and in a particular design situation, from a wider viewpoint, the contribution of this thesis is to create more constructive relationships of architecture-related disciplines to produce better architecture through synergistic effects.
by Kyoung-Sun Moon.
Ph.D.
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Lui, Suk-fai. « Hong Kong Centre of Environmental Technology ». Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25945051.
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Willow, Diane. « Gardening the elements in a landscape of technology ». Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70658.
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Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1992.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-65).
Gardening the Elements in a Landscape of Technology discusses three multisensory environmental sculptures: Wave Garden, Eyes of the Wind, and Thermal Delight. Each of these installations explores the relationship between people, nature and technology. It is my thesis that technology can be used to enhance the intimacy of our experiences with natural phenomena. Each of these interactive sculptures is inspired by my encounters with common natural phenomena. The form, materials and choice of technology which comprise these environmental sculptures are guided by the quality of sensory experience inherent in the phenomena which they explore.
by Diane Willow.
M.S.V.S.
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Canat, Mert. « Enterprise Architecture Success Factors ». Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-247884.
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Enterprise architecture aligns organizations business processes, information systems andtechnical layers. Its role has become more challenging than ever before with the modern dayrapidly changing environment and technological advances. Considering these aspects, this thesistries to evaluate the success factors that affect enterprise architecture management.The thesis is done at Volvo Cars, in collaboration with Ferrologic. Twelve success factorssignificant for Volvo Cars’ enterprise architecture management are defined after a series of semistructuredinterviews with architects working at the company. This is followed by a surveyevaluating the factors sent to architects throughout Sweden. In the end, the factors are dividedinto four groups according to their impact level. The survey reveals that the businessunderstanding of the technical side, requirement definitions & handling requirement changes,high-level management involvement, and cross-functionality are perceived to be most impactfulsuccess factors for the industry professionals, in no particular order.Enterprise Architecture är skapat för organisationens affärsprocesser, informationssystem ochtekniska lager. Dess roll har blivit mer utmanande än någonsin tidigare med modern tid somsnabbt förändrande miljö och tekniska framsteg. Med tanke på dessa aspekter försöker dennaavhandling utvärdera framgångsfaktorerna som påverkar företagsarkitekturhantering.Avhandlingen görs hos Volvo Cars, i samarbete med Ferrologic. Tolv framgångsfaktorer som ärbetydelsefulla för Volvo Cars företagsarkitekturledning definieras efter genomförandet avhalvstrukturerade intervjuer med arkitekter som arbetar hos företaget. Detta följs av enundersökning som utvärderar de faktorer som skickas till arkitekter. I slutändan delas faktorernain i fyra grupper beroende på deras påverkanivå. Undersökningen visar att ett bra förståelse avden affärs sidan för den tekniska sidan, kravdefinitioner, förändring i hanteringskrav,engagemang och överfunktionalitet är dem största framgångsfaktorerna.
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Al-Masalha, Sami. « Technology, Time and Form ». Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36648.
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As architects in our life we should acknowledge our
problems and use them to create art. This study
acknowledges a cultural and architectural crisis that
exists today in most of the developing world as well
as in Jordan. It is focused on three pertinent aspects,
technology, time, and form, which havebecome
diverse and contradictory in ways unprecedented in
history. Technology by definition is a set of methods
a society employs to satisfy its building requirements.
In the past a state of harmony existed between
incoming values and technology, because of the slow
interaction which allowed the receiving culture
sufficient time for adaptation. In such cultures with
rich architectural tradition and heritage, the main
reason for the gap between existing and incoming
cultures is that they did not prepare to absorb
western exported aesthetic values and technology.
The main cause of this is during this century modern
technology has become too advanced to be
compatible with the capability of local building
technology, and the local tradition no longer has the
economic appeal it had before. The need for rapid
and large scale advancement in the developing
countries was made possible by modern technology,
not just for its economic appeal but also for the
prestige it carries with it. Nowadays, Jordan among
other nations contains a cultural heritage, and an
architectural legacy of great value that is suffering
from imported architectural fashions. However, the
problem is that it fails to distinguish aesthetic values
of western architecture when implementing them into
its culture. It was my intention throughout my studies
to create a bridge between western architectural
technology and traditional architectural forms and
technology in Jordan.Master of Architecture
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Ulian, Deborah A. 1959. « Communication and information technology in construction management : are corporate owners of real estate focusing on technology to speed the delivery of buildings ? » Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70309.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1998.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 53-54).
An exploratory study was conducted to determine the importance of communication and information technology in speeding the construction of buildings. Five corporate owners of real estate were interviewed with the purpose of determining their needs and priorities as related to managing their construction projects, and whether communication and information technology had a role in addressing these needs. The hypothesis tested was that communication and information technology could be used to construct buildings faster. Research results showed that, among the five companies studied, there was not proof to support a definitive conclusion. Among the five companies, speed in construction was a common goal. However, four of the five companies were concentrating their efforts on people issues such as accountability rather than on information technology issues. Organizational issues such as ownership of processes seemed more important than speedy exchange of information. Research explored issues of accountability that arose in each of the case studies, and explored the emphasis of one of the five companies on technology to speed the delivery of buildings. Analysis of the cases showed a common priority of accountability, in varied states, among the companies. Included in the analysis is an examination of a relevant paper by John D. Macomber entitled, Beyond Fast-Track: Next Steps in Speed. It was presented at Harvard University on June 25, 1998 as part of the IDRC Executive Symposium: Infrastructure Challenges for Fast- Growth Companies. The premise of the paper is that corporate owners of real estate should be looking to information technology as a tool for dealing successfully with compressed project schedules. In particular, the paper speculates that use of Web based project communication systems would improve accountability among project team members. By providing greater information access, organization and accountability the delivery of buildings would be accelerated. The relevance of Macomber's premise to the five companies studied is discussed, and an analysis and comparison of the major ideas identified in the paper with the issues that arose in the case studies is presented.
by Deborah A. Ulian.
S.M.
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Kinnunen, John. « [TECH]nology in architecture ». PDF viewer required Home page for entire collection, 2007. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Rosenberg, Alice (Alice S. ). « Planning ahread [sic] : the emergence of clean energy technology ». Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/57772.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2010.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-69).
The solar industry is bourgeoning in the United States, with new developments in photovoltaic research. This emerging field, abetted by government funding and subsidies, needs the capacity to explore new ideas and expand on existing technologies through facilities that enable and facilitate research and production. With increased threats of global warming, imminent climate change, and rising oil prices, solar power will be a critical component of America's future, and will require significant investment in the near term. To facilitate the solar industry and emerging clean energy technologies, this thesis project proposes an incubator for start-up companies involved with silicon-based technologies, thin-film technologies, or organic PVs to occupy and invest in. The premise of the program is to provide a series of shared spaces - wet labs, clean rooms, conference spaces, reception areas, and other communal resources - along with private spaces, including offices, research facilities, and meeting rooms. The project is both a R&D facility as well as a demonstration laboratory for new technologies. Located 12 miles north of Boston at the Industr-Plex Superfund site in Woburn, Massachusetts, the design aims to revitalize and environmentally reinvigorate the local area.
by Alice Rosenberg.
M.Arch.
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Taylor, Paki (Paki A. ). 1974. « Applications of sustainable technology to retrofits in urban areas ». Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70341.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2001.Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-205).
Energy Losses from old buildings comprise a significant percentage of the total residential energy consumption in the United States. Retrofitting buildings for conservation can greatly decrease the present energy demand and help prevent an eventual depletion of the world's natural resources. This investigation analyzes energy efficient measures applicable to retrofits in residential buildings in New England. The project estimates the likely performance of the latest sustainable technology and rates them according to cost-effectiveness for an average homeowner. Various retrofit measures and applications of sustainable technology are assessed according to relative importance and net savings. Improvements include a building envelope upgrade, an installation of a ground source heat pump and renewable energy systems. The analysis determines the energy savings relative to two base case models: a Cambridge Code and 1920s standard. The retrofit measures are analyzed at present and future energy rates.
by Paki Taylor.
S.M.
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Noel, Vernelle A. A. (Vernelle Aletia). « Trinidad Carnival : improving design through computation and digital technology ». Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/84166.
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Thesis (S.M. in Architecture Studies)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2013.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-178).
This thesis explores the integration of computation and digital technology to support design in the Trinidad Carnival. I argue that computation can contribute to design in the Trinidad Carnival by (1) addressing the dying art of wire bending, (2) improving design, and (3) by fostering a more inclusive design process. My study is motivated by the current design problems in the Trinidad Carnival. They include the dying art form of wire bending, the lack of time and resources to generate design alternatives, the lack of an inclusive design process, and the lack of community involvement in "making" in Carnival. To address these problems, I develop support based on a comprehensive study of the existing situation, and explore the integration of computational tools and digital technology in the design process. To that end, I (1) develop the Bailey-Derek wire bending grammar to capture the unique, traditional art form of wire bending, (2) propose a new, more inclusive design process, (3) use computation and digital technology to enable the generation of design alternatives and create "objects to think with" in the design process, and (4) add to the understanding of a design process outside the domains of product, industrial, architecture, and engineering design. These explorations are significant because: 1. The wire bending shape grammar can be used as an educational tool to address the current absence of a system to pass on this dying art form; 2. A digital tool can be developed from the encoding of the visual design features in wire bending further supporting this art form; and 3. The integration of computation and digital technology in the design process can improve design by creating a more inclusive design process, allow the generation of design alternatives, and creating "objects to think with" in design. The Carnival of Trinidad has spawned more than 70 carnivals around the globe. It is the most copied, but yet most understudied carnival in the world. This thesis fills a gap in current literature by taking a computational and design perspective to this phenomenon.
by Vernelle A. A. Noel.
S.M.in Architecture Studies
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Magie, Robert M. « Building the machine in the woods : reconciling technology and architecture ». Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68253.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1991.Includes bibliographical references (p. 100-107).
Given the fact that, to some degree, all buildings are technological phenomena; first, how do we select the appropriate technologies for a given set of requirements; and, more importantly, how do we find architectural and landscape forms which express the pragmatic reality of the technologies as well as their temporal and symbolic implications? In so doing, are there ways in which the dynamism of the activities within the place can inform the making of the place and are reciprocal levels of information between the two possible? Can the processes of the architecture and construction of a building reflect processes within it? The position is put forward that siting and form-making decisions which integrate the technologies inherent in building construction and building operation are possible and desirable. The implications of this position promote the utilization of all parts of a building in the creation of space, light and texture. They suggest that buildings can be created that reveal the way they are built and operate without denying the technology which created them or reveling in it. They encourage that the lines between the artifact, the technology which created it and the technology which operates within it be removed to render a more comprehensive understanding of its use and making. The intention of this undertaking is to understand what roles the technologies inherent in the construction processes and building operations can play in informing and empowering the architectural and landscape decisions. Additionally, an effort will be made to understand the legacy of technology in the landscape and how this phenomena affects the resultant architecture. The vehicle for this investigation will be the design of a teaching center for ceramic, glass and sculptural arts to be located at the edge of a school campus in western Massachusetts. The center is currently being planned to allow for the expansion of other visual arts disciplines in existing facilities. The school is located along both banks of the Connecticut river where Vermont, Massachusetts and New Hampshire join together. The specific site is along a powerful stream and falls within a deep ravine at the base of the Pisgah Mountains.
Robert MacGregor Magie.
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Jenek, Waldemar. « Designing Media Architecture with virtual reality in Architecture Studio Education ». Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2022. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/235153/1/Waldemar%2BJenek%2BThesis%281%29.pdf.
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Virtual reality can refine the methods and tools of existing design processes of Media Architecture. Architecture does not have to be static anymore. Architecture designs can be interactive and temporary and capable of shifting in a short time to address different problems or needs by incorporating media into architectural structures. Media Architecture can be understood objects with dynamic properties, such as interactive light sources or moving elements, which embody the physical space on an urban scale. Traditionally, architecture is designed with static design tools such as sketches, drawings and physical models. There is little research about how to employ design tools to capture interaction media design in an architectural context. Besides, in higher education, virtual reality design tools, such as real-time visualisation software, can refine traditional teaching approaches while discovering new ways of design thinking and creating design solutions in architecture schools
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Siridhara, Siradol. « AHS Maglev System Architecture ». Diss., Virginia Tech, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29219.
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In the period between 1993-1998 a vision was presented of an Automated Highway System developed under a contract naming Virginia Tech one of the three ITS Research Centers of Excellence in the United States by the Federal Highway Administration. The AHS envisioned would consist of a guideway constructed in the rights-of-way of the Interstate Highway System which would utilized magnetic levitation ("maglev") to propel closely-space, individual vehicles at high speeds with full longitudinal and lateral control. In this dissertation the system architecture is described in detail.
The system architecture is organized according to system structural, system operational, and vehicle subsystem technological elements. The structural aspects are concerned with the decision making capability allocated between a vehicle and the guideway, the characteristics of the control and sensing equipment contained within the guideway, the traveling unit configuration, and certain of the vehicle's structural and equipment considerations. The operational aspects are concerned with vehicle entrainment policy, system fleet mixture, network type and control functions, and guideway lane separation requirements. The vehicle subsystem and the vehicle longitudinal and lateral control subsystem.
The operational architecture concentrates on developing and evaluating strategies for forming platoons of vehicles on the guideway since the average platoon sizes determine the practical capacity of the guideway as well as the safety of operation. It is instructive to review how platoons form naturally on conventional highways as a prelude to developing a strategy for forming platoon on the AHS Maglev Guideway. A novel, non-linear car-following model called "car maneuvering" is explored by defining the stimuli on the right-hand side of the model in terms of several vehicles ahead of the response vehicle. In order to add still more realism in developing a strategy for platoon formation in a guideway under automatic control, an additional spacing dependent term is introduced to achieve a "magnetic coupling headway" between platooned vehicles. Once vehicles are magnetically coupled, the desired intraplatoon headway is maintained through attraction and repulsion.
In this dissertation the term "architecture" is interpreted in the broadest possible sense based on the assumption that any transportation system intended to serve society throughout the 21st Century and beyond must address a hierarchy of goals and issues ranging from the strategic (sustainable development) to the tactical (the concept of operations) and including the in-between (interfacing with the existing transportation system). In the past, transportation planning, policy, investment and operating decisions have been made in isolation from each other with incomplete information inputs from a broad base of disciplines and sectors, without a synthesizing instrumentality. A new approach is described to promote the best informed decisions governing planning and management. The approach features a realistic framework for allocating public sector-private sector effort, an instrumentality for generating the knowledge needed to conceive and implement the new transportation paradigm, and a strategic vision for rallying support.
The new approach to the problem begins with a strategic vision for society's AHS infrastructure. We believe that the strategic vision must be based on the concept of "sustainable development." To affect this new strategic vision, higher budgets will be a necessary, but not a sufficient condition. A fundamental Decision Support System (DSS) with knowledge bases with contributions from the braid spectrum of science and engineering disciplines, and a methodology based on system dynamics capable of synthesizing these contributions is proposed.
The AHS Maglev Alternative is compared to a "Do-Nothing" Alternative and a "Traditional Expansion" Alternative using user and nonuser benefit analyses. The advantages of AHS Maglev are seen to be overwhelming. Moreover, the ability of AHS Maglev to alleviate airport congestion by reducing short and medium range of flights, and to serve as a structuring device for rational population distribution is shown.Ph. D.
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Smedsén, Martin. « Holmsund Hackerspace : Space as the conduit between technology and humans ». Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-159756.
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In 1901, Nikola Tesla had a grand idea of constructing a large tower that would service the people of the world with wireless free electricity, using the earth as a conductor and the tower as the transmitter. This idea might seem like something dreamed up by a mad scientist in his laboratory, or something that you read about in a science-fiction novel, not something that was based in actual scientific research. But the spirit of free thinking that surrounded the environment in which Tesla was conducting his research, made this kind of experimentation possible. This environment was the famous inventor Thomas Edison’s workshop in Menlo Park, New Jersey, where he was first hired as an assistant, and worked in his early career. Edison’s workshop was the space that facilitated the tools, the equipment, the inspiration and the encouragement that Tesla needed to carry out his research in the best possible way.The architecture of the workshop is basically user experience design on a physical and spatial level. Space is the medium and the built structure act as the interface and the framework – the conduit – between humans and technology. The physical space is the one essential element that both can interact with, where people of the community, the engineers, programmers, artists, designers, makers and thinkers find new ways of using, and existing together with new ideas and technology.This framework is the hackerspace. In essence, a hackerspace is a community-led grassroots movement where democratic ideals are emphasized in the way it is used, organized and managed. It is an open workshop where the tools and knowledge are shared and co-managed between users in both the physical, as well as the digital, space. The hackerspace ultimately represents the democratization of the design process, where future collaborators can work together without prejudice and limitations.Holmsund Hackerspace supports the humanistic approach to digital sciences and how we use technology today, and in the future. For us as humans to make sense of new technology, we very much need a physical space as a frame of reference, as we are physical beings first and foremost. The hackerspace is the blank slate and the foundation on which you carry your inspiration beyond the walls of the structure. Much like Tesla did in Edison’s workshop back in the day.
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G-Chandorkar, Tripti (Gore-Chandorkar). « Users, technology and space in libraries in the digital age ». Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33023.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 60-62).
This thesis is a user research study of emerging issues in the use of libraries as public spaces and as information repositories in the digital age. Till recently strong physicality was attached to the library with the only access to its information resources being visiting the library premises. The availability of the Internet, digital documents and wi-fi has brought about unprecedented changes in the function, use and operation of libraries today. The environment of evolving technologies is bringing about a variety of new user practices that creates ambiguity for the future of the library as an institution as well as an architectural space. This study attempts to identify various issues in the use of library spaces today through the means of qualitative and quantitative data collection methods. Four libraries differing in the technology and quality of space provided have been chosen as case studies. The shifting physical form and meaning of the library's architectural space and its implications for the design of future libraries will be examined. A set of recommendations for better user experience in present and future library spaces will be part of the research.
by Tripti G-Chandorkar.
S.M.
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Cardoso, Llach Daniel. « Builders of the vision : technology and the imagination of design ». Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77775.
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Thesis (Ph. D. in Design and Computation)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-208).
This dissertation identifies and documents a "technological imagination of design" emerging around the reconfigured discourses of design and design representation by the culture of technology production in the Computer-Aided Design Project, a Cold War era research operation funded by the US Air Force at MIT, tracing it into its contemporary deployment in the technology project known as Building Information Modeling. Exploring the discursive and technological linkages between these two sites, the dissertation outlines the ongoing project of construing technological centrality and universality as the dominant trope in discourses about design production. An expanded critical perspective on design is thus developed that looks at technological systems -such as software- and the cultures that produce them, with their histories and regimes of power, as crucial participants in, rather than as neutral vessels for, the design and production of our built environment. The dissertation ranges from examining the politics of representation, participation and authorship in the systems imagined by members of the Computer-Aided Design Project -in particular that of Steven Coons and Nicholas Negroponte's "man-machine" design systems- to discussing the culture of BIM coordination through an ethnographic portrait and data-visualization of its practice at Gehry Technologies, in two large-scale projects in the United Arab Emirates. As this study demonstrates, technological discourses and artifacts act as brokers for culturally dominant conceptions of design, representation, and work.
by Daniel Cardoso Llach.
Ph.D.in Design and Computation
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Griendling, Kelly Ann. « Architect : the architecture-based technology evaluation and capability tradeoff method ». Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/42880.
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The use of architectures for the design, development, and documentation of system-of-systems engineering has become a common practice in recent years. At the same time, acquisition guidance has been recently reformed to move from the bottom-up approach of the Requirements Generation System (RGS) to the top-down approach mandated by the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS), which requires the use of DoDAF to support acquisition. Defense agencies have had difficulty adjusting to these new policies, and are struggling to determine how to meet new acquisition requirements. This research has developed the Architecture-based Technology Evaluation and Capability Tradeoff (ARCHITECT) Methodology to respond to these challenges and address concerns raised about the defense acquisition process. The methodology integrates existing tools and techniques for systems engineering and system of systems engineering with several new modeling and simulation tools and techniques developed as part of this research to fill gaps noted in prior CBAs. Additional criteria for the methodology were developed by leveraging lessons learned from similar fields, including management science and cognitive psychology. A suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) mission is used to demonstrate the application of ARCHITECT and to show the plausibility of the approach. Overall, it is shown that the ARCHITECT methodology results in an improvement over current CBAs in the criteria developed here.
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Sissing, Donovan. « Information technology architecture and related strategic factors supporting business advantage ». Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2007. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_1476_1255527907.
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Information Technology (IT) architecture is not restricted to technology, but may also address the views of business activities
their processes
data sets and information flows
applications and software
and technology. The objective of this study is to understand the role of IT Architecture and related factors that support competitive business advantage. This study investigates the null hypothesis: IT architecture enhances the competitive advantage of business. This study sets out to explore IT architecture and strategic factorsthat support business advantage. The study findings indicated that business advantage is supported by a sound architecture, by IT and business alignmentand by the enablers of organisations..."
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Bradley, Randy V. Byrd Terry Anthony. « Strategic valuation of enterprise information technology architecture in healthcare organizations ». Auburn, Ala., 2006. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2006%20Summer/Dissertations/BRADLEY_RANDY_34.pdf.
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Berdugo, Albert. « A MULTIPLEXER/RECORDER ARCHITECTURE FOR USE WITH CONVENTIONAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGY ». International Foundation for Telemetering, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/604913.
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ITC/USA 2005 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-First Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 24-27, 2005 / Riviera Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, NevadaInstrumentation recorders have evolved continuously over the years. Their growth has primarily been driven by technology advancements. The latest recording equipment generally utilizes hard disk, disk array, or solid-state storage technology, which results in greater capacity and performance. Most recorders integrate storage media with multiplexer electronics resulting in a highly efficient yet inflexible and physically large recording system. This paper describes an instrumentation multiplexer/recorder system using an open architecture between the multiplexer and the storage media that allows insertion of conventional recording technologies. This approach provides a generalized solution with enough flexibility and scalability to address the majority of instrumentation recording needs. This system is based on the latest IRIG-106 chapter 10 standard, thus supporting interoperability throughout the flight test community.
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As, Imdat 1976. « Emergent desing : rethinking contemporary mosque architecture in light of digital technology ». Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/63221.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2002.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-80).
In the digital age many notions which we take for granted, such as distance, time and space have changed dramatically. This change in perception introduces new metaphors and understandings which require a new mosque architecture to evolve that corresponds to the 'spirit of the time.' The virtual space creates opportunities for new kinds of interaction and communication. Now the 'village well' is the computer interface which connects us with the rest of the world. How can these emerging notions enrich and shape mosque architecture? How would it affect and/or change existing metaphors? How can new mosque architecture transform existing practices and rituals without falling astray to theological teachings? What kind of social, cultural and religious implications would it bear? The thesis is divided in three main parts; first it questions the holistic mosque paradi~ i'~nd explains the accumulation of religious architectural elements over centuries, second it investigates the Kocatepe Mosque experience in Turkey in more detail, which shed light onto the evolutionary process of the praying space and finally proposes a new mosque paradigm which converges virtual and physical spaces.
by Imdat As.
CDROM contents: 3D-model.dwg -- Animation.mov -- Original-drawings folder -- Orthagonal-renderings folder -- Thesis-Booklet.pdf.
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O'Connell, Matthew J. (Mathew Jere). « A bioclimatic approach to integrated design : form, technology, and architectural knowledge ». Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/11236.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1996.Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-175).
This thesis explores a holistic design process through which architectural elements can engage the dynamic forces of natural phenomena and integrate the spatial and temporal experience of building form with its physical environment. The framework for this exploration is a contextual mapping of dynamical systems and complexity theory to the processes of architectural design. By incorporating concepts and methods from the study of non-linear dynamics, a broad base of scientific knowledge aimed at understanding physical behavior in nature, this thesis proposes a synthetic relationship between architectural elements, their physical performance in the context of natural phenomena, and their contribution to a coherent spatial structure. Modern technological imperatives have rephrased the sensible relationships between architecture, climate, and inhabited space as a problem for "environmental controls". The contemporary urban office building, under economic pretenses, exhibits a particular over-dependence on external machinery for light, ventilation, and thermal comfort, often to the detriment of physical experience. This thesis emphasizes the use of scientific knowledge and computational tools in the early processes of design in an attempt to investigate the manifestations of physical energy -- light, air, and heat --in the building's final form. By addressing these physical performance criteria as spatial influences during preliminary design, this thesis supports an integrated framework for professional collaboration and examines a cultural context for the application of architectural knowledge. A bioclimatic approach to design, therefore, is a synthetic response to the dialectic between the tectonics of physical experience and the dynamics of the natural environment.
by Matthew J. O'Connell.
M.Arch.
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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.
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Yee, Susan 1966. « Building communities for design education : using telecommunication technology for remote collaborative learning ». Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8749.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2001.Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-280).
The design studio, as both a learning environment and a social place, is one of the major components of architectural education. Traditionally, the studio has been considered a place for individual design work and one-on-one mentoring between an instructor and a student. With the integration of new information and telecommunication technologies, the nature of the design studio and the learning processes within it are being altered. This new landscape of the design studio offers opportunities for globally distributed collaborative work as well as new interpretations of design processes and studio practices. The technologies and the studio system are interwoven and their symbiotic relationships need to be understood if these technology-mediated long-distance collaborative design studios are to be common, valuable, and creative occurrences in architectural education. In this study, the consequences of integrating telecommunication technologies into the design studio are examined through ten cases. The new studios involve multidisciplinary design participants from separate and distant physical and social environments that are electronically connected for sharing design ideas, creating a common understanding of design practices, and co-constructing design objects. With technology use, changes occur in the studio's participants and relationships, the design content and processes, and the events and organization. I argue that the changes to the studio can create an enriched environment for design learning. The successive case studies represent a dynamic pedagogic strategy in which both students and teachers are active participants in constructing their new technology-mediated learning environment through creative experimentation. The findings of these cases provide a comprehensive description of the technical and social characteristics, conditions, and practices of remote collaborative design studios. In these new virtual design studios, there are rich opportunities for building innovative and effective communities for design education in which the traditional boundaries of time, culture, language, discipline, and institution are blurred and new configurations for design learning become possible.
by Susan Yee.
Ph.D.
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Chaudhry, Rajive. « Development of design & ; technology package for cost effective housing in Gujrat ». Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65047.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1996.Includes bibliographical references (p. 129).
Purpose: Improve quality of life in rural areas through intervention of infrastructure and housing improvement. Provide methods of building better and cost-effective houses at a quicker pace. Devise strategies of withdrawing support to avoid dependency by the villagers on the program, while transferring skills and technology to facilitate self-administration. Procedure: List observations from field studies and available reports. Identify built form, building types, materials of construction, skilled labor and environmental conditions. Analyze space utilization patterns and structural efficiency of major systems and building types in selected villages. Assess the priorities and affordability of households of different economic classes. Summarize the problems and potentials. Recommendations: Strategies for improvements in housing and infrastructure. Develop a design and technology package for cost-effective housing to improve quality of life.
by Rajive Chaudhry.
M.S.
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Wallace, Peggy. « Earth Sheltered Housing in Warren County, Kentucky : Description of Housing Units & ; Determinants of Residents' Satisfaction ». TopSCHOLAR®, 1988. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2944.
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The known population of earth sheltered houses in Warren County, Kentucky were studied (a) to document building materials and techniques utilized, (b) to describe the residents demographically and document their attitudes regarding satisfaction with earth sheltered housing, and (c) to determine reasons for building and resources utilized in financing and planning, as well as problems encountered in regard to the earth sheltered house.
Data on 21 housing units were collected through personal interviews. Data analysis was accomplished using contingency tables, chi-squares, Pearson's product-moment correlation, and multiple stepwise regression.
The earth sheltered house found to provide residents with high satisfaction was generally a chambered elevational structure which had cast-in-place concrete walls at the earth contact points with an exposed wood frame roof and a concrete floor. Amounts of soil coverage on the exterior varied, as did the use of insulation below grade. Waterproofing systems usually included drainage tile, swale(s), plastic sheeting, and a built-up asphalt or pitch coating applied to the exterior walls. A wood stove and central heating system were the most frequently used sources of heat. Air conditioning was utilized by most residents in the summer, although a window air conditioning unit often provided adequate cooling of the entire house. Ventilation was not a concern and dehumidification was seldom a concern for the residents. All 19 original owners (90% of the house owners in the study) acted as their own contractors, hiring professionals for such tasks as soil testing and subcontracting, and most reported no difficulty with financing and planning the earth sheltered house. Information on building the earth sheltered house was most often obtained from family and friends. The most common reasons for choosing this housing alternative were energy conservation and low cost.
Resident satisfaction was high for most aspects of the earth sheltered house included in the study. All residents reported high overall satisfaction with the earth sheltered house and most of the housing systems investigated. Significant (p < .01) contributors to residents' computed total satisfaction score (TSS) were satisfaction with lack of mildew and satisfaction with natural lighting in the house (90% of variance explained). The addition of satisfaction with lack of condensation on windows, satisfaction with exterior appearance, and satisfaction with performance of the waterproofing system to the regression equation brought the explained variance to 98%. Significant (p < .01) to residents' self-reported overall satisfaction with their earth sheltered houses were satisfaction with heating and cooling expenses and satisfaction with interior surface temperature (59% variance explained). None of the other variables, housing related or demographic, added significantly to explained variance in the TSS or self-reported overall satisfaction with earth sheltered housing.
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Sarhan, Ahmed. « The utilisation of games technology for environmental design education ». Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2012. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12664/.
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In recent years, the architectural design process has witnessed a mounting demand for qualified practitioners who can resolve the highly complex social, cultural, technological, and economical issues associated with ‘Sustainability’. Designers are thus faced with wider pallet of challenges, developing conceptual designs that are sustainably effective. Pressure is mounting on educational institutions to prepare architects that are well accustomed to the environmental design concepts and parameters, aiming to reduce the impact on the environment and preserve valuable natural resources to bring the building’s interior to comfortable living conditions. However, architectural education has been notably slow to respond effectively to the requirements introduced by sustainability. Evidently there are a number of pedagogical challenges that clearly impede the consistent endorsement of sustainability in the design curricula and thus hinder any potential values and opportunities that can result from its effective integration. This research project examines these challenges and investigates more into their nature and attributes. Accordingly, it proposes a method that endeavours to overcome the noted challenge and attempts to improve the design students' motivation and acceptance to incorporate sustainability. In essence, this method aims to mould the technical nature of Building Performance Simulation applications into the cognitive design process. In order to achieve this, the proposed method utilizes 3D games technology, incorporating Multi-Agent System and Data Mining techniques, to assist design students in achieving higher levels of motivation, engagement, and comprehension of the environmental design concepts. The research discusses the rationale for electing the employed technologies and discusses the methodology for developing the proposed tool. Following its development, the tool is presented to number of stakeholders for evaluating the pedagogical and conceptual basis. The recorded results and the provided feedback from these sessions are presented to assess the potential effectiveness of this method for improving students' understanding of various concepts surrounding sustainable design.
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Winter, Stephen Charles. « A distributed reduction architecture for real-time computing ». Thesis, University of Westminster, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.238722.
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Castro, Robert M. « Integrating Place and Technologically Mobile Culture Through Architecture ». University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1368024616.
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Sadones, Alexandre. « Design and Implementation of anIPv6 Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks ». Thesis, KTH, Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-33513.
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The Diaforus project is a collaborative initiative aiming at building a framework for in-network reasoning in a Wireless Sensor Network. The focus of this thesis is located between the network layer and the application layer, articulated in two distincts parts. The first part aims at providing an API for communication to the embedded application, that must be as simple as possible. Hence, the application needs not to have any knowledge about the network's topology. Thus, an IPv6-based network layer has been developed on top of the Wavenis API provided by Coronis, using an adaptation layer, 6LoWPAN, in order to adapt the IPv6 standard to the constraints inherent to the WSNs, in particular reducing the power consumption of the nodes by compressing the IP headers. Moreover, a routing protocol, RPL, has been implemented, that also takes into consideration the optimization aspects of the network. Finally, the second part focuses on the design of an interface for the management and the monitoring of parameters on the node from a standard network. It has been realized through a RESTful architecture, optimized for WSNs using a newly specifed protocol, CoAP. The adaptation to the HTTP standard RESTful environments is achieved using a simple gateway.
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Xu, Lifeng. « Parallel Computing based on GPGPU using Compute Unifed Device Architecture ». Thesis, KTH, Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-51066.
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The demand of processing a huge amount of data within a limited time and the developing of computing capability of Graphic Process Unit (GPU) lead us to the world of parallel computing on General Purpose GPU (GPGPU). Because of the exposed parallelism, GPGPU could assign processing tasks to multiple threads and execute these threads simultaneously. This feature could speedup heavy data com- putation to a level, which we would never imagine in the past. In this thesis, we use a very important algorithm in image processing(DCT/IDCT) to present parallel computing on GPGPU, and implemented it both on the sin- gle GPU and multi-GPU system. The parallel computing technology is based on Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) and OpenMP. Furthermore, some optimization strategies are discussed in the thesis and results will be compared. The final results show that the parallel computing could accelerate the processing from dozens of times to almost five hundreds of times. The potential factors that might affect the performance are also discussed. Therefore, it is more effective to use GPGPU to do parallel computing, and it is more power efficient.
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Ramachandran, Gopal (Gopal Sebastian). « Modular architecture in biological networks ». Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39734.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, 2007.Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-207).
In the past decade, biology has been revolutionized by an explosion in the availability of data. Translating this new wealth of information into meaningful biological insights and clinical breakthroughs will require a complete overhaul both in the questions being asked, and the methodologies used to answer them. One of the largest challenges in organizing and understanding the data coming from genome sequencing, microarray experiments, and other high-throughput measurements, will be the ability to find large-scale structure in biological systems. Ideally, this would lead to a simplified representation, wherein the thousands of genes in an organism can be viewed as a much smaller number of dynamic modules working in concert to accomplish cellular functions. Toward demonstrating the importance of higher-level, modular structure in biological systems, we have performed the following analyses: 1. Using computational techniques and pre-existing protein-protein interaction (PPI) data, we have developed general tools to find and validate modular structure. We have applied these approaches to the PPI networks of yeast, fly, worm, and human.
(cont.) 2. Utilizing a modular scaffold, we have generated predictions that attempt to explain existing system-wide experiments as well as predict the function of otherwise uncharacterized proteins. 3. Following the example of comparative genomics, we have aligned biological networks at the modular level to elucidate principles of how modules evolve. We show that conserved modular structure can further aid in functional annotation across the proteome. In addition to the detection and use of modular structure for computational analyses, experimental techniques must be adapted to support top-down strategies, and the targeting of entire modules with combinations of small-molecules. With this in mind, we have designed experimental strategies to find sets of small-molecules capable of perturbing fimctional modules through a variety of distinct, but related, mechanisms. As a first test, we have looked for classes of small-molecules targeting growth signaling through the phosphatidyl-inositol-3-kinase (PI3K) pathway. This provides a platform for developing new screening techniques in the setting of biology relevant to diabetes and cancer. In combination, these investigations provide an extensible computational approach to finding and utilizing modular structure in biological networks, and experimental approaches to bring them toward clinical endpoints.
by Gopal Ramachandran.
Ph.D.
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Angélil, Marc Angélil Marc M. Angélil Marc M. Angélil Marc M. « Technique and formal expression in architecture : theory in architectural technology from the Renaissance to the Age of reason / ». [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1987. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=8322.
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Angélil, Marc M. « Technique and formal expression in architecture theory in architectural technology from the Renaissance to the Age of Reason / ». [S.l. : s.n.], 1987. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/cgi-bin/show.pl?type=diss&nr=8322.
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Chepko, Ariane (Ariane Brooke). « Technology selection and architecture optimization of in-situ resource utilization systems ». Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/50605.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2009.Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-78).
This paper discusses an approach to exploring the conceptual design space of large-scale, complex electromechanical systems that are technologically immature. A modeling framework that addresses the fluctuating architectural landscape (an inherent feature of developing technology systems) is applied to the design of a lunar in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) oxygen plant. Four optimization methods using genetic algorithms are compared on both a quadratic-based test function and the ISRU plant design with the goal of balancing the resources spent on exploiting individual architectures and exploring a broad selection of architectures. These include two dual-level approaches that address the discrete architecture design space differently from the continuous sizing design space and two combinatorial approaches that address both the discrete and continuous simultaneously. It was found that the single-level, combinatorial approaches worked better on the real-world ISRU case study, providing a balance between computation time spent on optimizing sizing and performance of each architecture and time spent searching a large number of architectures. For the ISRU architecture search, the single-level approaches on average covered ~300 architectures with ~5000 function evaluations. A heuristic-based dual-level approach covered ~266 architectures with ~5,500 function evaluations.
(cont.) A nested dual-level approach with gradient-based optimization of internal continuous variables nested within a heuristic search of discrete architecture variables would have required on the order of 300,000 function evaluations. The ISRU plant architecture search found that a 300 kg mass ISRU oxygen plant can produce around 1500 kg O₂/year, which is about the amount needed to sustain a crew of four for one year on the lunar surface. These preliminary results also indicate that ISRU plants exhibit an economy of scale of .78, implying that fewer, larger plants would be less costly than many smaller plants in building up a high production capacity.
by Ariane Chepko.
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