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Bridging across Nicosia's divide : from a "no man's land" to a shared public realm
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
This thesis addresses the issue of creating a new urban identify for Nicosia, Cyprus, by rebuilding the Buffer Zone -the "no man's land" that presently divides the city- in a way that encourages the sharing of the urban ...
City form and changing process : the case of the North End, Boston, 1860-1930
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
This thesis originated from the assumption that the effects of time on city form involve complex processes and are closely related to different physical and social factors where human beings as changing agents play only a ...
Scale model studies of displacement ventilation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
Displacement ventilation is an air conditioning method that provides conditioned air to indoor environments with the goal to improve air quality while reducing energy consumption. This study investigates the performance ...
Reinventing the golden age ballpark and the pastoral ideal : a new home for the Boston Red Sox on Fort Point Channel
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
Despite of the relationship between the development of the American city, the pastoral ideal (a longing for a more rural and simple past) and the game of baseball, the urban ballpark has been the focus of little attention, ...
Design a house typology : a case study of Boston's Back Bay
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
This thesis aims at establishing a set of rules for the design of a house type in Boston's Back Bay. The theory of which this study is based on is built-form theory which undertake the morphological development of the ...
Mother Earth's Museum for Children, Boulder Colorado : harmounious design, an identity with setting
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
Natural phenomenons are conceived of the Earth and appropriate to their setting. Architecture designed harmoniously with its setting belong. to the Earth and, through this association, appropriately contributes to the ...
Experiencing an aerial landscape : hang gliding park on a cliff
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
This thesis is an exploration of architectural space as a contrasting and changing experience from the ground and from the ai r. It focuses on how architectural interventions may offer spatial experiences which may be ...
Center for craft : design for expeditionary learning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
"Grow into what you are ... there is more in you than you know. If we can come to discover this, we may never again settle for anything less." - Kurt Hahn, Founder - Outward Bound. (1920) "Hours spent by the true craftsman ...
Ventilative cooling
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
This thesis evaluates the performance of daytime and nighttime passive ventilation cooling strategies for Beijing, Shanghai and Tokyo. A new simulation method for cross-ventilated wind driven airflow is presented . This ...
Body in space : the sensual experience of architecture and dance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
Dance and architecture are two disciplines of creativity that share a special relationship. Both disciplines define and use space as the main medium for creative interpretation. Dance is movement of the human body through ...