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Financial analysis of energy-efficient façade systems for application in commercial office developments
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
Advocates for sustainable development have been campaigning for the implementation of green features in developments. New and high-technology energy-efficient technologies, such as photovoltaic cells and double skin façades, ...
Tactility and architecture : Peter Zumthor's Thermal baths in Vals and the hybridization of the two motifs of tactility-materiality and movement
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
Tactility holds a unique position in modem architectural discourse. Oftentimes, it has been evoked "as an alternative to two-dimensional vision. However, the notion of tactility sometimes denotes ambiguous and often ...
While (true) : computation and time : dynamics of stillness
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
As the use of digital technologies and computation becomes prominent in Architectural design, there arises a need to transpose the creative process into that new medium intact. The goal of this thesis is to investigate the ...
Coupling of a multizone airflow simulation program with computational fluid dynamics for indoor environmental analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
Current design of building indoor environment comprises macroscopIC approaches, such as CONT AM multizone airflow analysis tool, and microscopic approaches that apply Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). Each has certain ...
Merge : the hybridization of architecture, infrastructure, and landscape
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
The evolution, revitalization, and densification of many urban centers in the United States often involve the intensification of the diverse components of the city. As city centers continue to grow and continue to experience ...
The Independent Group's encounters with logical positivism and searches for unity in the 1951 Growth and Form Exhibition
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
This study analyzes the intellectual and historical milieu of the Independent Group. Its point of departure is Growth and Form, an exhibition of scientific imagery, largely conceived and designed by Richard Hamilton, and ...
Palmera : an information augmented museum visit device
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
This thesis tries to develop a new museum guide device with the combination functions of digital cameras and palms as a tool that maps information onto digital images to support a real-time contextualized learning that ...
When home is work : grounding the virtual worker in an actual world
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
In our increasingly wired society, the numbers of people who work from their homes is rapidly growing. However, few have the luxury of living in a space designed for office work and as such suffer from a number of problems, ...
Houses undergoing psychoanalysis :
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
The objective of this thesis is to explore the relationship between the self and the house. In approaching the subject, my assumptions were that the basic condition of the house-self relationship is of tension and animosity ...
Discourse on Cabin 3
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
An adaptation of the Unabomber's cabin placed on four automobile wheels, Cabin 3 was installed as a hybrid cabin-vehicle-writing device on the elevated plaza in front of 105 Massachusetts Ave on MIT's campus. Inside the ...