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Full-Text Articles in Architecture
Architecture Amidst Smog, Hui Sheng
Architecture Amidst Smog, Hui Sheng
Architecture Thesis Prep
This thesis is an investigation on smog and architecture.
Challenging The Pattern, Gary Thurston
Challenging The Pattern, Gary Thurston
Architecture Thesis Prep
Christopher Alexander and Yona Friedman suggest the architect is necessarily limited in his or her ability to construct the built environment for all people, or should be limited in favor of participation of the non-architect. While I agree that all parties of the world should take part in design and construction, I assert that architects through their training are better equipped to design and construct our built environment and in this sense, I am directly challenging the claims made by Alexander, et al.
Regenerative Refugee Housing: Creating Temporary Housing With Low Environmental Impact, Erika Guldner
Regenerative Refugee Housing: Creating Temporary Housing With Low Environmental Impact, Erika Guldner
Architecture Thesis Prep
Refugee settlements often have a negative environmental impact; by promoting options for sustainable development from the outset, this can be avoided. A plan for a refugee settlement was made, along with a plan for the individual residential units. To expedite the construction process, units were divided into components. These components could be easily assembled on site. Once the refugee settlement is no longer needed, components can be used for other purposes, such as, affordable housing or the components themselves can be broken down to be either recycled or used for other purposes.
Urban Archtifice: Regenerating Residential Facades Through Acupuncture, Ran Mei
Urban Archtifice: Regenerating Residential Facades Through Acupuncture, Ran Mei
Architecture Thesis Prep
To legitimize and make use of weirdness in the Chinese cultural fascination of symbolism and objectified architecture, I decide to put it in the most function-oriented program in the city _ collective housing, or more specifically, the transformation and regeneration of existing housing types in Chinese megacities. To inject iconicity into the most banal and repetitive structures of Chinese cities, the residential high-rises, I aim to create a human layer that parasites the faceless facades of housing blocks; to take advantage of the novelty value of collectively generated iconicity to legitimize the personal appropriation of “public” space; to bring back …
We Die As We Live, Yücel Güven
We Die As We Live, Yücel Güven
Architecture Thesis Prep
Each person is made up of different characters that build his/her complete identity. It is possible to identify these individual personas and design a different mausoleum to each one, specific in architectural language and function. The mausoleum should architecturally be unique to the persona and functionally serve the same purpose.
The "D.A.R." Object, Zhe Wang
The "D.A.R." Object, Zhe Wang
Architecture Thesis Prep
The D.A.R. Object discusses a method, which to redesign a selected object through Disassembling - Analyzing - Reconstructing, 3 main process. When the method of "D.A.R." is adopted, the inherent form logic of an object will still be kept. Because designing like this way will make challenge to the original object ideologically. This challenge is embodied in the dramatic conflict between the process, which has a strong relationship with the object's inherent logic, and the result, which will blur the original reality of the object.
And my method of "D.A.R." initially comes from my study of structuralism and deconstruction. More …