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Zhvillimi I Sherbimeve Turistike “Hotel”, Rrona Gacaferi

Theses and Dissertations

Të jetosh në një qytet të rrethuar nga malet, do të thotë ta ngresh kokën lartë ngado që ecën, të magjepsesh nga pamja piktoreske, të të vijë vullneti e dëshira ta ftosh gjithë botën ta shoh, e ta përjetoj dhe ta vlersojë bashkë me ty gjithë këtë pamje e potencial që ka. Në anën tjetër të jetosh në një qytet që krahas këtyre tipareve, ka hapësira të cilat paraqesin rrezik për banor apo turistë, të shtyn të punosh dhe të mundohesh që te zhvillohet tutje dhe të bëhet një qytet i qetë, i sigurt, dhe atraktiv për vendasit dhe vizitorët. …

Resort, Nuhi Lutfiu

Theses and Dissertations

Ndër faktorët kryesor për ndërtimin të këtij projekti është fluks i madh i turistëve anembar Kosovës te cilët me një kureshtje të madhe e vizitojn cdo vjet ne stinën e dimrit këtë bukuri të rallë natyrore qe posedon Kosova.Po ashtu nuk është vetëm një vizit e thjesht por kjo ndodh për shkak se me të vërtet Brezovica është më e veqant krahasim me vendet të tjera pasi që gjenden shum pista të skijimit,lartësia e maleve,dendësia me lisa dhe klima perfekte gjatë sezonës së dimrit e bënë këtë pjesë një atraksion shumë të mirë turistik jo vetëm nga Kosova por edhe …

Objekti I Komunës Në Deçan, Ardit Shehu

Theses and Dissertations

Qëllimi kryesor i kësaj Teme të Diplomës,qëndron në projektimin dhe dizajnimin e një objekti administrativ siç është Objekti i Komunës,duke marrë për bazë rregulloren e projektimit të këtyre llojeve të objekteve në Arkitekturë si dhe kushteve rregullative të komunës ku objekti është paramenduar të vendoset.Projektimi i objekteve administrative në përgjithësi në ditët e sotme,duhet të bazohet në dizajn modern arkitektural,sepse dita-ditës administrate po e humb rëndësinë,që dikur e ka pasur,pasi që me zhvillimin e teknologjisë dhe avancimin e pajisjeve teknologjike adekuate konsumatori,pra në këtë rast qytetari i thjeshtë mund të pajiset shumë lehtë në mënyrë elektronike me dokumentet që i …

The Professional Constructor, Full Issue, Volume 43, Number 02

The Professional Constructor

No abstract provided.

V.1 Fall 2018, Center For Arts & Language, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

v.1 is a publishing platform for the ongoing work, ideas, discussions, debates, and aspirations of students at the Rhode Island School of Design. The Fall 2018 issue contains articles on art writing and the place of the self, student reflections on politics, practice, and dogma across generations. Articles look back on historic manuscripts, to past projects and recent events, and forward. This issue's content presents the various expressions of truth that artists and designers work within.

Atmospheres And Bureaucracy: Challenging Everyday Perception And Regulation Of Public Space, Philip Claghorn

Architecture Senior Theses

It is common for us to overlook the everyday elements encountered in the city such as public Wi-Fi beacons, aestheticized benches, bike-sharing stations, and other items which have colonized street-scapes. In reality, these components are cosigned by business investment districts, private businesses, and city governments who stand to profit by maintaining control of public space. This struggle between formal and informal urbanism has been played out globally. The best example of informal urban contention can be found in street vending policy. An increasingly congested sidewalk, in conjunction with convoluted policies in places such as New York City, has made street …

Relink Tangible And Intangible, Weibin Lao, Xiaobai Zhao

Architecture Thesis Prep

Syracuse, as part of the Upstate New York used to be an essential economic center of the United States. This not only was resulting from its once influential salt industry and its easily accessed canal infrastructure, but also was heavily influenced by the industrial innovation. Without trained engineers, the people in Syracuse designed machines for excavating the earth and building the Erie Canal. And with easy transportation, goods and industrial products created and produced from Syracuse were shipped and transported. This brought prosper and wealth to the Syracuse. With new transportation technology development including the railways for trains and highways …

Transitional Spaces: Re-Thinking Of Disaster Relief Housing, Evelyn Brooks

Architecture Thesis Prep

Natural disasters such as tornadoes, wildfires, earthquakes, and hurricanes destroy our infrastructure, civic buildings, public amenities, and homes. These disasters create problems of homelessness, but they also create environments within the city that are unlivable due to a lack of electricity and potable water. People displaced by disasters often find themselves living in a government-or non-profit-run evacuation shelter, at the mercy of bureaucratic organizations for assistance to begin the recovery process. People forced to evacuate neighborhoods where they have perhaps been established for decades often also lose their ability to attend school. These shelter environments are repurposed public buildings like …

2047 City, Mike Liu, Raul Sadhwani

Architecture Thesis Prep

Hong Kong has always been colonial; its existence is shaped from the confluence of East and West. After 158 years of British rule, Hong Kong's handover to the Chinese Government, catalyzed by the expiration of its 99-year lease of the New Territories, began in 1997 whereby the city operates under a "one-country-two-systems" policy. These events have created a culture and identity of disappearance as the people of Hong Kong have scrambled to define their identity due to the imminence of its disappearance, as discussed by Ackbar Abbas. This is exemplified in the Umbrella Revolution in 2014 when citizens, mainly students, …

Gender Segregation: What Does Dividing Space Across Gender Mean?, Mikayla Hope Starr

Architecture Thesis Prep

A Utopia is an idea of an ideal form of society that rethinks current power structures and dynamics at play in the world and subverts them. In proposing a new perfect society, one is critiquing the current society and questioning what can and should be done to improve the status quo. To start creating a Utopia, designers must first consider what faults exist in the world that they wish to remove or improve.

In this Utopia, the focus will be on equality for all gender identities, through spatial design. The specific elements being studied are those spaces clearly delineated on …

Growing Syracuse: The Architect's Role In Improving Syracuse, Ny's Food Environment, Stephanie Wagner

Architecture Thesis Prep

Urbanism requires community, and community requires a platform of public space. Underutilized spaces within the urban fabric can be activated by small scale architectural interventions to create formal spaces for community gathering, interaction, and commerce. The positioning and connectivity of these interventions can lead to the creation of new urban corridors that encourage growth within and between underdeveloped parts of the city.

It is the role of the architect to develop an architecture that is contextually relevant to a community, while addressing larger-scale urban issues, in order to create an accessible and beneficial built environment and lifestyle for users. The …

Drone Mapping The 140: A Narrative Of Architecture In The Conflict Zone, Rasan Taher

Architecture Thesis Prep

Since the Kurdish regional government in Iraq was established in 1991, the border between the federal government and the KRG has shifted and is in constant dispute. In 2003, under the new Iraqi constitution, article 140 identifies the mechanism to settle the disputed areas through the restoration of all demographic changes and by referendum to decide land claims, to be held no later than 2007. Since then, many attempts to change the demographics and the cultural characteristic of the disputed area have been attempted by both governments in order to secure their political and economic interest in the area. The …

Techne Issue 05, Ting Chin, Michael Duddy, Jason Montgomery

TECHNE

INTRODUCTION: TING CHIN, MICHAEL DUDDY, AND JASON MONTGOMERY

As the Department of Architectural Technology at the New York City College of Technology embarks on its path to achieve accreditation by the National Architecture Accrediting Board (NAAB) for a Bachelor of Architecture, this issue of TECHNE- decidedly focused on architectural education. Over the last two years through countless discussions within our department and college, and with architecture faculty from other universities and currently practicing architects, we have been questioning the value, purpose, and means of an architectural education. As educators in architecture we are responsible for exposing students to a multifaceted …

A “Self-Made Town”: Semi-Annual Furniture Expositions And The Development Of Civic Identity In Grand Rapids, 1878–1965, Scott St. Louis

Peer Reviewed Articles

In the later decades of the nineteenth century, prominent business figures in the city of Grand Rapids had reason to be both ambitious and optimistic. Striving to pull every last cent of profit out of available resources, they rationalized production workflows and integrated the latest technologies into their factories. They also perceptively discerned that a maturing railroad network connecting Grand Rapids to an emerging Victorian consumer economy would empower the city to achieve new levels of prosperity and fame through an industry on the verge of unprecedented growth: domestic furniture production.

These entrepreneurs acted upon their hopes for the community’s …

Soft Tectonic/Adaptive Joint, Kuo Jui Lai

Architecture Senior Theses

In Taipei, more than 70% of buildings are older than 30 years. 1 The rate of illegal additions to existing buildings (wei zhang jian zhu) in Taipei is over ten percent.2 Excluding legal issues, illegal construction can potentially lead to significant safety issues. As a response, the Taiwan government is undergoing demolitions on illegal additions throughout the city. In recent years, the number of demolished building additions has surpassed the number of that being constructed. Despite this radical effort, Taipei city is finding that illegal additions continue to be a mainstream practice.3 Illegal additions and the issue of renovating old …

Kind Gestures: Longtime Aci Members Shape The Career Of Younger Generations, Anahid A. Behrouzi

Architectural Engineering

In this article, an Assistant Professor at California Polytechnic State University describes how her involvement with ACI has helped her to embark on projects that, as a young faculty member, she could have never envisioned. She also tells of her first ACI convention in Spring 2013, her first interaction with ACI Committee 133, Disaster Reconnaissance, in 2014, and using the ACI 318 Building Code in the classroom.

Using Skype As A Qualitative Interview Medium Within The Context Of Saudi Arabia, Maryam Alkhateeb

The Qualitative Report

This research note reports the results of using Skype as a medium to conduct semi-structured interviews in qualitative studies within the context of Saudi Arabia. Skype audio-only interviews were used to explore the concept of privacy from the perspective of female users in the context of the spatial design of contemporary Saudi houses. The use of Skype audio-only, although accidental, turned out to be fortuitous. The researcher’s study design called for all face-to-face interviews, but due to the location of the researcher and participants and study time frame, some of the interviews were conducted face-to-face and the others were audio …

The Bridge Newsletter Winter 2018, Missouri University Of Science And Technology

The Bridge Newsletter

-Pouring the cornerstone for the ACML
-Showalter selected as Kiewit Faculty Scholar
-Ma tests a low-cost method of strengthening concrete

Durability And Frost Resistance Of Concrete Composition With Complex Chemical Additive Kj-3

The Scientific-Practice Journal of Architecture, Construction and Design

Основными задачами современного материаловедения являются разработка способов направленного формирования высоко долговечной структуры композитных материалов, получение бетонов с заданными эксплуатационными свойствами при максимальной простоте технологии производства и экономии сырьевых ресурсов. При этом создание энергосберегающей технологии бетонов на основе местного сырья и вторичных ресурсов занимает особое место.

Основными направлениями совершенствования эксплуатационных характеристик бетонов является улучшение технологичности, повышение прочности и долговечности. Для решения данной задачи большое внимание отдается разработке новых комплексных химических добавок, позволяющих одновременно, целенаправленно регулировать сразу несколько свойств бетонов на основе гидравлических вяжущих веществ.

В настоящее время в Узбекистане и за рубежом бетоны практически всех составов разрабатываются и производятся с химическими …

Growing A Sustainable City: The Question Of Urban Agriculture, Hamil Pearsall

Sustainability Seminar Series

This presentation examines urban agriculture in Philadelphia and highlights the challenges of institutionalizing this historically informal urban activity into formal city policy over the last two decades. Urban agriculture has become a symbol of Philadelphia’s economic revitalization, sustainability, and increasingly, its gentrification. Often characterized by advocates as an urban panacea, gardening and farming seem to promise solutions to many different urban problems, such as blighted vacant lots, food insecurity, stormwater runoff, and neighborhood decline. However, questions of land tenure, the use of economic resources, and the long-term viability of urban agriculture shape the political discourse about the future of growing …