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Bill -n- (kris'tl) at OSB, Chicago
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
Can the individual be implicated in the mega-scale environment by mediating the barriers and marginal zones of the urban landscape? This investigation engages the megalopolis and its full grotesqueness in terms of scale ...
Interactive agent generated architecture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
The thesis explores architectural form generation through two behavior based artificial intelligence approaches: the communication of agents in an unpredictable simulation system, and the codification of information within ...
A bioclimatic approach to integrated design : form, technology, and architectural knowledge
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
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 ...
Transparency and place : a visitors' center in Sydney Australia
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
An exploratory design project is used as a vehicle to understand and identify approaches towards the notion of "place" and more precisely "visiting a place". The inquiry begins from the design challenge of an architectural ...
Developing a paradigm for visualizing architecture using computational methods : an analysis of the Havana Project by Lebbeus Woods
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
This thesis is concerned with developing a more detailed and efficient process for visualizing architectural forms with computational tools. The thesis will examine the origins of computer visualization and its current ...
Levels of dependence : a drug rehabilitation facility for mothers and their children
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
Contemporary society is faced with an increasing problem of substance abuse and addiction. The public consequences of this private problem are experienced in the increasing costs in the healthcare, penal and welfare systems ...
Novel affordances of computation to the design processes of kinetic structures
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
This paper is a discourse into the relationship between the process, computational tools and the role which symbolic structure can play in both. I argue the relationship of the process and tools is dialectic, whereby the ...
Metered energy consumption and analysis of energy conservation techniques in desktop PCs and workstations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
This thesis investigates potential energy savings due to the application of power managed PCS, monitors, and workstations. The basis of this effort includes electric metering of such equipment at six preliminary and one ...
Structural quality assurance of wood light-frame construction subject to extreme wind hazards
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
Piranesi's Campo Marzio plan : the palimpsest of interpretive memory
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
This paper examines Piranesi's use of imagination in the ichnographic reconstruction of the Campo Mania area of Ancient Rome. This plan was issued in 1762, but as the structures in the plan appear non-Roman and without ...