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Space In Transition: A Design Exploration Of A Transition Space In Ban Plainern, Tengzhou Feng

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This thesis concerns a methodology to study transition spaces in traditional Thai houses. The author questions how to inherit and develop traditional architecture for the future generations. Transition spaces of Thai houses are chosen as the places to observe how materials, proportions, spatial compositions, light, shade and shadow affect architecture itself. They represent a relationship between man-made and nature with respect to environment, culture and time. Literature reviews are a supplement to the analytical methods to study architectural spaces and forms of Colin Rowe, Peter Eisenman, Le Corbusier and Juhani Pallasmaa. Then, the methodology is applied to analyse two case …

Analysis Of The Variability Of Project Cost And Schedule Performance In The Design-Build Environment, Yunping Liang, Baabak Ashuri, Wei Sun

Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction: Faculty Publications

Design-build (DB) projects are getting more implementations in the United States. Several studies indicate that the DB project delivery system has advantages in project cost and schedule performance. Despite having comparative advantages, DB projects are found to be far from immune from cost overruns and schedule delay in those studies. It is critical to understand the effects of various factors underpinning the cost and schedule performance of DB projects. The overall objective of this research is to utilize cluster analysis and statistical analysis to identify factors with significant potentials to describe the variability of project cost and schedule performance in …

Option Value Of Contingent Finance Support In Transportation Public-Private Partnership Projects, Yunping Liang, Baabak Ashuri

Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction: Faculty Publications

Uncertainties about construction cost and operational revenues are two major risks in transportation public-private partnership (P3) projects. These uncertainties put projects at risk of being unable to fulfill annual debt repayment obligations. When a project generates insufficient cash flow to service the debt in a certain year, it normally has to go for short-term financing by borrowing short-term loans. With the help of revenue risk-sharing mechanisms, supported projects may be able to get rid of unexpected interest disbursement. The objectives of this paper are twofold: (1) evaluate the refinancing cost of P3 highway projects caused by cash flow shortage and …

Madame Chrysanthemum’S Sisters, Elizabeth Emery

Department of World Languages and Cultures Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

English translation of two articles published in the newspaper Le Temps by Adolphe Brisson in April and May 1900. They are dedicated to the twelve "geishas" brought from Japan to perform at the Panorama du Tour du monde, the "sisters" of Pierre Loti's “Madame Chrysanthemum” (the model for Puccini's Madama Butterfly). Brisson's interviews with a number of figures important for Japonisme (Hayashi and Bigot, in particular) provide insights into Franco-Japanese relations in 1900 and to the living and working conditions of foreign performers at the Paris Exposition.

Implementing Eco-Friendly Housing Techniques In Western Montana: Green Home Montana: Eco-Friendly Housing And Living Practices - Final Capstone Portfolio, Nicolas Ray Ream, Karlyn Roberts, Savannah Willison, Dylan Trent

Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts

While the green building movement is common practice in the commercial realm, it is not yet widely popular with residential buildings. We considered the question “How can residents of western Montana adopt eco-friendly housing practices that are locally appropriate and relevant?” There is an opportunity to increase green living practices among renters and homeowners in western Montana through retrofitting, gardening, composting, and similar behaviors. By considering climatic factors relevant to the region, suggestions for relevant eco-friendly practices can be made available to homeowners and renters alike. We will research green living practices used in other countries with similar climatic factors …

สภาพที่พักอาศัยของนิสิตจุฬาฯที่อยู่หอพักโดยรอบพื้นที่จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย, นันท์ณภัส ถิรสิริเมธีกุล

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

งานวิจัยฉบับนี้จัดทำขึ้นเพื่อศึกษาสภาพที่พักอาศัยของนิสิตจุฬาฯที่อยู่หอพักโดยรอบจุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย รวมถึงลักษณะเศรษฐกิจ สังคม ภูมิลำเนา ไปจนถึงปัจจัยในการตัดสินใจเช่าหอพักและอพาร์ทเม้นท์ของนิสิตจุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย เพื่อนำเสนอแนวทางการจัดการที่พักอาศัยให้เหมาะสมกับความต้องการของนิสิตจุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย จากผลการศึกษาพบว่า นิสิตส่วนใหญ่มีภูมิลำเนามาจากต่างจังหวัด ซึ่งส่วนมากมีความต้องการเช่าหอพักภายในมหาวิทยาลัย แต่ปริมาณหอพักไม่เพียงพอต่อความต้องการของนิสิต จึงจำเป็นต้องอยู่หอพักโดยรอบมหาวิทยาลัย เพื่อความสะดวกในการเดินทาง อีกทั้งนิสิตยังต้องคำนึงถึงปัจจัยด้านอื่นๆ เช่น ราคา ความปลอดภัย และสิ่งอำนวยความสะดวกของที่พักอาศัย เป็นต้น โดยหอพักที่นิสิตเลือกพักอาศัยมักอยู่ในบริเวณมหาวิทยาลัยที่อยู่ในเขตปทุมวัน เขตราชเทวีและเขตบางรัก เป็นต้น ซึ่งราคาที่นิสิตเลือกเช่าพักอาศัยที่มีลักษณะเป็นห้องสตูดิโอที่มีห้องน้ำภายในและมีระเบียง ขนาดห้อง 21-30 ตารางเมตร จะอยู่ในช่วงราคา 7,000-10,000 บาท ราคาจะขึ้นอยู่กับปัจจัยหลายอย่าง เช่น สิ่งอำนวยความสะดวกภายในห้องพัก ขนาดห้องพักและทำเลของหอพัก เป็นต้น ด้วยรายได้ครัวเรือนของนิสิตส่วนใหญ่อยู่ในช่วง 50,000-100,000 บาทต่อเดือน ซึ่งทำให้มีผลต่อ รายได้ต่อเดือนของนิสิตที่ได้รับ น้อยกว่า 10,000-20,000 บาทต่อเดือน จึงทำให้นิสิตจำเป็นต้องมีผู้ร่วมพักอาศัยที่เป็นเพื่อน เพื่อหารเฉลี่ยค่าใช้จ่ายของราคาห้องพัก ค่าน้ำ และค่าไฟ เพราะห้องพักมีราคาสูงพอสมควร จากการศึกษาได้ข้อสรุปว่า นิสิตต้องการอยู่หอพักในบริเวณมหาวิทยาลัย มีราคาถูก พร้อมสิ่งอำนวยความสะดวกครบครัน และพื้นที่ส่วนกลางภายในพอพัก เช่น ห้องทำงาน,ห้องออกกำลังกาย,ห้องทำอาหารและห้องบอร์ดเกมส์ เป็นต้น รวมทั้งภายในห้องพักมีความเป็นส่วนตัว มีเฟอร์นิเจอร์เพียงพอสำหรับนิสิต เช่น โต๊ะทำงาน,ตู้เสื้อผ้าและตู้เก็บของ เป็นต้น จึงทำให้ผู้วิจัยสามารถออกแบบห้องพักให้ตรงตามความต้องการของนิสตจุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย

Kim Gordon: The Bonfire, Annie Dell’Aria

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.

An Experiential Online Training Approach For Underrepresented Engineering And Technology Students, Arefeh Mohammadi, Kevin Grosskopf, John Killingsworth

Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction: Faculty Publications

Workforce pipelines are essential to sustain a productive workforce in an increasingly competitive, high-tech environment. Advanced automation, sensors, materials and data analytics will increase the need for highly skilled workers in the manufacturing (and manufactured construction) sector. Attracting and developing the next-generation workforce is not without its challenges; however, students are often deficient in technical skills and generally have negative perceptions about manufacturing and construction. As a result, new education and training models have been developed to provide instruction at all levels of the educational system, with a focus on both traditional students and non-traditional students, including ethnic minorities, women, …

Sustainability, Urban Planning And Development: Sustainable And Self-Reliant Urban Development In Post- Pandemic Nepal, Ambika P. Adhikari, Keshav Bhattarai

Himalayan Research Papers Archive

COVID-19 pandemic is affecting many aspects of the society, economy and the way people live. The pandemic is also disrupting the process of physical planning and development in the cities. It will perhaps permanently change the way planners and policy makers think about the city and plan for its development. The residents and visitors will also find the city to be different from the pre-COVID-19 era. The emerging situation would likely require new ways of moving, working and living in the city, and building the different physical components of the city.

Cities around the world are experiencing varieties of unexpected …

Impact Of Ambient Stable Stratification On Gravity Currents Propagating Over A Submerged Canopy, Jian Zhou, Subhas K. Venayagamoorthy

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The structure and propagation of lock-release bottom gravity currents in a linearly stratified ambient with the presence of a submerged canopy are investigated for the first time using large-eddy simulations. The canopy density (i.e. The solid volume fraction), the strength of ambient stratification and the canopy height are varied to study their respective effects on the gravity current. Both denser canopies and stronger ambient stratification tend to switch the horizontal boundary along which the current propagates from the channel bed towards the canopy top (i.e. The through-To-over flow transition). It is found that the dilution of the current density is …

A Framework To Assess The Rehabilitation Of Historic Cave Dwellings In Libya Using Modernization Theory And Technology Acceptance Model, Salaheddin Mohammed Ali Ebrahim

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation examines the associations between the technology acceptance model and modernization theory with Libyans’ perceptions of cave dwellings in the Nafusa Mountains region, West of Tripoli. The researcher formally tested hypotheses linking cave dwelling's ease of use, usefulness, and the perceived intention to live in a modernized cave dwelling with the education, income, age, gender, and employment categories of Libyan participants in the study. A framework for constructing modernized cave dwellings that are attractive to local residents for temporary and permanent living is then provided.

Using 450 responses from Libyans worldwide, this study found that the technology acceptance model …

Empire And Ruins In Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Adin Becker

Pomona Senior Theses

Modern Egypt began as a site for academic exploration and exploitation. Its tremendous archeological riches, indisputable centrality within the world of Islam, and complex multifaceted cultural makeup have piqued the interests of academics worldwide. For centuries, scholars have fantasized about “what lay beyond the water,” a land where they knew “colossal relics of the oldest-known human civilization were concentrated along the Nile in crumbling piles between two vast, usurping deserts, amidst a modern population that professed faith in Islam.”1 Absent material motives, however, Egypt long remained a land of mystery for the West, ripe for discovery and exploration. Egypt’s obscurity …

Can The Integration Of Bim And Gis Enhance Information Management For Large Scale Linear Infrastructure Projects?, Bim Tudublin, Brendan Kennedy

Capstone Reports

The integration of BIM and GIS is the subject of considerable research, particularly as the two coalesce for the purpose of information management. Large scale infrastructure projects require best practice in terms of how information is managed given the volume of information generated throughout the project lifecycle and the numerous parties requiring access to project content. This paper investigates whether the integration of BIM and GIS can enhance information management on large scale linear infrastructure projects. The research comprised a literature review and interviews with a number of BIM/GIS professionals actively working on linear infrastructure projects across the world. Some …

A Framework For Implementing Integrated Project Delivery In Architecture Design Firms In Egypt, Ayman Ahmed Ezzat Othman, Lamis Yasser Wagih Youssef

Architectural Engineering

Purpose

This paper aims to develop a framework for implementing the integrated project delivery (IPD) approach during the design process in architecture design firms (ADFs) in Egypt.

Design/methodology/approach

A research methodology consists of literature review, case studies and survey questionnaire was designed to achieve the abovementioned aim. First, literature review was used to identify and categorise the challenges of implementing IPD during the design process. Second, four case studies were analysed to investigate the values delivered to the client or missed due to the use of IPD or traditional procurement approaches, respectively. Finally, a survey questionnaire was carried out with …

An Investigation Into Solid Waste Problem In The Egyptian Construction Industry: A Mini-Review, Ahmed Osama Daoud, Ayman Ahmed Ezzat Othman, Herbert Robinson, Ali Bayyati

Architectural Engineering

Solid waste management (SWM) is one of the most critical global challenges nowadays. It has a severe negative effect on the triple bottom line of sustainability. Construction and demolition waste (CDW) contributes about 50% of the total global annual generated SW. In the particular case of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region including Egypt, the SW problem has become a major challenge, and the need to find sustainable solutions is overwhelming. However, the region faces several challenges that hinder the development of an effective and efficient SWM system. This has resulted in the predominance of unsustainable SWM practices …

Original Bauhaus: The Centenary Exhibition, Morgan Ridler

Art Inquiries

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Design Hub: Activating Community By Design, Ed Williams

Theses and Dissertations

MOTIVATION

At the turn of the century, Robert Putnam (2000, 27) wrote “...a powerful tide bore Americans into ever deeper engagement in the life of their communities, but a few decades ago that tide reversed and we were overtaken by a treacherous rip current.” Putnam is describing a loss of “social capital” throughout American society. Research suggests that many of our contemporary issues are the result of a decline in “social capital,” or “community.”

This pervasive lack of community is thought to be detrimental to “educational performance, safe neighborhoods, equitable tax collection, democratic responsiveness, everyday honesty, and even our health …

Taking The Water, Alison Ho

Theses and Dissertations

“The baby boomer generation is about to transform into the largest elderly population in human history, changing how everyone lives, large and small. All of this will directly affect recreation and leisure professionals especially in leisure programming” (Sperezza & Banerjee, 2010, p. 197). In 2012, there were 43.1 million people in the United States that were aged 65+ and it is predicted that by 2050, that number will rise to 83.7 million (Ortman, Velkoff, Hogan, 2014). Baby boomers are more physically active than previous generations and many will now live 20% - 25% of their lives in active retirement. There …

Food Park, Houria Boumzairig

Theses and Dissertations

If climate change and population growth progress at their current pace, in roughly 50 years farming as we know it will no longer exist (Despommier, 2009). This means that the majority of people could soon be without enough food or water. But there is a solution that is surprisingly within reach: Move most farming into cities, and grow crops in tall, specially constructed buildings. It’s called vertical farming. “There is a close relation between the beginning of agriculture and the birth of architecture. Our cities were shaped by food” (Precht, 2019). The agricultural revolution ended our presence as hunters and …

Applying Lca-Bim Integration For A Sustainable Management Process, Ayman Ahmed Ezzat Othman, Dalia Morsi Ahmed Morsi, Walaa S E Ismaeel, Ahmed Ehab Abd El Hamed

Architectural Engineering

This work investigates the benefits of performing Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) using Building Information Modelling (BIM) techniques on a case study management process. This provides insights for reducing the environmental impacts of building materials and elements along the life cycle of a concrete residential project in Egypt. The study follows the LCA ISO 14040 and 14044 guidelines, local materials database, Revit modelling and One-Click LCA plugin. The result outlines that most of the environmental impacts occur during the operation and manufacturing phase. It also shows that slabs and beams result in most of the environmental loads. In terms of the …