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Straw insulation materials to address heating fuel requirements, thermal comfort, and natural resource depletion in developing regions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
In modem society, major stresses are placed on the natural environment in an attempt to make the location comfortable for the human occupants. For many developing regions with cold winters such as northern Pakistan, new ...
Assembling smallness : the American Small Industries Exhibition, Ceylon 1961
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
The American Small Industries Exhibition was the first instance during the Cold War wherein the USA assembled a solo exhibit outside the framework of an established trade fair. It toured three nonaligned nations between ...
Mitigating floods : reconstructing Lives : rehabilitating Thatta
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Pakistan was struck by floods in July 2010, the effects of which left 20.36 million people affected and 1.9 million homes damaged or destroyed'. In the province of Sindh in Pakistan, most of the affected population of the ...
New methods for measuring spectral bi-directional transmission and reflection using digital cameras
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
Advanced fenestration systems are increasingly being used to distribute solar radiation purposefully in buildings. Distribution of visible light and near infrared radiation can be optimized to enhance daylighting and reduce ...
A generative grammar for 2D manufacturing of 3D objects
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
Much of the current research in Design and Computation for Architecture proposes to automate the production of construction information as a means of freeing architects from the sticky and inconvenient contingencies of ...
Dross : re-genesis of diverse matter : a design post-praxis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
The word "dross" refers to matter that is foreign, worn out and impure, such as the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals. Based on a perception of material impurity, this thesis encompasses the generative ...
Sustainability in architecture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Current standard practice in architecture does not take into account the external societal costs that a building creates. To understand the total consequences of a building, one must consider all of the ecological and human ...
Women places and spaces in contemporary American mosque
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
There is an ever-present demand for Mosques in American cities to accommodate the more than 8 percent of the American population that are Muslims; the majority of which are American-born Muslims or American converts. ...
Valuable bridges : cable-stayed bridges and value engineering in American civil engineering culture, 1969-1979
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
A history and theory of cable-stayed bridges in the context of a cultural discourse on civil construction projects' value, this thesis studies the significance of cable-stayed bridge designs to 'value engineering' objectives ...
Cerda and Barcelona : research and plan
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
The Industrial Revolution had a huge impact on nineteenth century cities had plans to expand the "old city". Due to its historical controversy a plans developed during that time was the Eixample plan in Barcelona. The ...