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Some applications of three-dimensional input
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980)
Three-dimensional, six degree of freedom input is explored in an interactive computer graphics environment. A particular device, the ROPAMS of Polhemus Navigational Sciences, Inc. is an accurate, unencumbering device based ...
Space coast : notes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978)
Utilité publique : architecture, urbanism, and aesthetic reform in turn of the century France
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
This dissertation documents how the aesthetic dimension of architecture came to be seen as an object of public utility in late nineteenth and early twentieth century France. It examines the work of a network of architects, ...
Time-varied daylighting performance to enable a goal-driven design process
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Due to the overwhelming number of decisions to be made during early stage design, there is a need for intuitive methods to communicate data so that it is quickly and easily understood by the designer. In daylighting analysis, ...
Urban temporal storage : re-thinking the public domain using interstitial space in NYC
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
This thesis aims to rethink the notion of public space and civic duty in the city. By using interstitial, underused spaces, without disputing present urban and legal status, the thesis wants to accomodate services for the ...
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 ...
Procedures for automated building energy model production for urban and early design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
This research is meant to facilitate a wider use of energy simulation in urban and schematic building design. The major contribution is the development and validation of software algorithms that can manage, automatically ...
An educator in the landscape : a new identity for American wilderness architecture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
This thesis dispenses with the traditional, now nostalgic, "rustic" style typically associated with the American wilderness, in favor of proposing a new identity - that of Educator in the Landscape. By blending bio-technology ...
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 ...