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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)This thesis aims to develop a design solution for the adaptive reuse of the American House Hotel that answers an architectural design challenge with technical responses. The process of actualization has been pushed a bit ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)This thesis studies the creation of a series of forms to provoke physical sensations and emotional responses from the user. Designs were made that strengthened the meaning of the forms, and the emotional responses they ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)Founded by the art critic Georg Fuchs and built by the architect Max Littmann in 1908, the Munich Artists' Theater is famous for its shallow "relief stage." Reworking the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and Richard Wagner in ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)How can we build to allow empathy with the physical environment? The term empathy is understood primarily from sociology referring to an association with another person. In terms of architecture, empathy can be understood ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)The CMBS market has been in existence since the mid 1980s; however, it was during the mid 1990s that the market began to grow. A combination of favorable interest rate environment, entry of new players in the market and ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989)This thesis explores housing through the filter of enabling, an Elizabethan word which has come to be associated with inhabitant empowerment. It proposes the existence of basic cultural, economic and constructional as well ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)In this thesis I will examine how residents of East Los Angeles use their front yards and streets to create a sense of "place." The environment created in this way I call "enacted." People are both users and creators of a ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)The thesis examines the physical and symbolic spaces of the eruv through a textual and visual engagement. An eruv is a synthetic single private domain to facilitate carrying in a city, which is otherwise only allowed within ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This thesis proposes a new civic building type for journalism, playing out a scenario in which the production and maintenance of an archival record has become the primary function of the post-corporate professional ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)In the past two decades, displacement ventilation has been increasingly used in Scandinavia and Western Europe to improve indoor air quality and to save energy. By using a detailed computer simulation method, this study ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)The Hunza Valley, a remote area of mountainous northern Pakistan, is undergoing rapid change culturally, socially, and architecturally. Many of these changes are linked to the exchange of information and commerce facilitated ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)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 ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)Daylighting is a powerful design element which can have a dramatic impact on people's perception of space, physical and psychological well-being as well as a building's annual and daily energy requirements. Understanding ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)This thesis claims to develop alternative energy-harvesting systems by looking at their implementation at the residential scale in order to facilitate the economical autonomy of a community and thus improve its living ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)As the electric utilities face ever increasing peak power production requirements, (mostly from the commercial sector) scheduled "time-of-day" pricing schemes have become imperative. At present, most conservation strategies ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)As innocent observers of the world around us, we have an instinctive reaction to the natural qualities of the places we encounter. A place that leaves a lasting impression on us is able to orient us to our larger environment ...
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