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Methods Of Adaptive Reuse In Alexandria’S Buildings With Heritage Values, Mina Nader Morkos
Methods Of Adaptive Reuse In Alexandria’S Buildings With Heritage Values, Mina Nader Morkos
BAU Journal - Creative Sustainable Development
Due to the rapid progress in the digital technology, using 3D modelling and augmented reality in architecture, now we can transform, create qualitative and sustainable changes in the interior architecture of our architectural heritage, to achieve sustainable cities, this study of the interior architectural solutions developed between architectural heritage, digital registration processes, and parametric construction and fabrication systems. Also using of Information Systems in recording and documenting buildings and archaeological areas.
It helps in designing through computer systems “Virtual Reality” to determine methods of conservation and dealing with archaeological areas and buildings. Using information networks to exchange information globally and …
Urban Memory : Beijing City Wall Ruins Reconstruction & Exhibition, Yuan Jin
Urban Memory : Beijing City Wall Ruins Reconstruction & Exhibition, Yuan Jin
Masters Theses
The question of how to renovate the Beijing City Wall Ruins Park raises issues that engage exhibition, architectural, landscape, and urban design, not to mention cultural relics protection. It demands that we consider our attitude towards history. The walls and towers that used to surround the city have disappeared over years of changes and demolition. Except for the Zhengyangmen Tower and Deshengmen Tower, only a fragment exists: a section of Ming Dynasty wall in the southeast corner of the inner city.
The length of the project site is about 1.5km, which includes the wall fragment. By using the tools of …
Generating Tension : Memorial Of Sexual Slavery, Mary Park
Generating Tension : Memorial Of Sexual Slavery, Mary Park
Masters Theses
War crimes, such as slavery and rape can lead to hatred between countries of perpetrators and victims, souring political relationships for generations. Memorials of these atrocities are the physical indication of an effort, however nascent, to continue the dialogue and keep questioning the tragic history. The memorial as a reminder of a specific incident, not only changes the relationship of surrounding spaces within the site but also between different groups that are engaged in that specific history.
In South Korea, the history of sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II has been a major cause of …
Dialogue Across Time : Atlanta, 1996 And 2020, Qianyu Liu
Dialogue Across Time : Atlanta, 1996 And 2020, Qianyu Liu
Masters Theses
In the opening ceremony of the Atlanta Centennial Olympic Games of 1996, millions of people watched Muhammad Ali as a cultural icon carried the Olympic flame torch to light the cauldron. He was shaking from his Parkinson’s, and it was an emotional moment for many people. Atlanta Cauldron Tower was designed by a pioneer contemporary artist, Siah Armajani, who produced a monolithic uninhabited sculpture you cannot climb. The tower of 106ft is still prominent when we look back to the historic photographs today.
However, the tower lost the context it relied upon along with the partial demolition of Centennial Stadium …