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Browsing by Subject "architecture"

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    Conservation Design for Commercial Properties
    (2008) Hills, Soraya
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    Does sustainable school design matter?
    (2012-02-27) Turner, Elizabeth
    There is a growing trend toward building “green schools” which promote the environmental, but also economic and social, sustainability of the communities they support through design strategies such as green roofs and geothermal heating, but also programmatic components like urban farming and student-run cafes. In many cases, the educational goals of the academic institution drive innovative and sustainable construction practices which serve as a “living laboratory” for students. This research begins with case studies of sustainable learning environments, from pre-K facilities to Universities, with particular attention paid to sustainable design strategies and student engagement in the design process. The project then analyzes the specific priorities of Great River Montessori Junior/Senior High in St. Paul and proposes a “sustainable” design based on the school’s interpretation of Maria Montessori’s educational philosophy and input from students, faculty and staff. The next step will be an evidence-based research project, which will examine the possibilities for schools to maximize potential for students to learn about sustainable systems through the design, construction, and maintenance of learning environments.
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    Green Infrastructure Systems as part of the Solution for Flooding in Panama
    (2020-12) Aizpurua Miranda, Nathaly
    This study aims to find solutions to mitigate the problem of flooding in Panama City. This was conducted in order to create a support containing Green Stormwater Infrastructures methods and proposals to guide the community towards more sustainable development. Panama has been notoriously affected by climate change, especially in terms of rainfall. There have been alterations in the rainfall regime that together with other factors such as pollution by disposals have caused serious problems of flooding in the capital city.However, there are limitations such as the lack of soil studies and non-easily accessible environmental information, among other things, which complicate the collection of information for a more in-depth study on which methods would be more feasible according to the sector. Hence, one of the areas most affected by the floods (Juan Diaz Township and Domingo Diaz Av) was chosen as a case study, thus demonstrating that despite being an already developed area, small changes can be made to generate a great impact. The paper can also be improved by collecting site-specific data, such as the percentage of evapotranspiration, more in-depth studies on types of plants that benefit green infrastructure systems, among others, but more time and money would have to be invested to obtain quick results . Future researchers can use this work as a starting point for the application of these systems in Panama.
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    Performance Study of a Concurrent Multithreaded Processor
    (1997) Tsai, Jenn-Yuan; Jiang, Zhenzhen; Ness, Eric; Yew, Pen-Chung
    The performance of a concurrent multithreaded architectural model, called superthreading [15), is studied in this paper. It tries to integrate optimizing compilation techniques and run-time hardware support to exploit both thread-level and instruction-level parallelism, as opposed to exploit only instruction-level parallelism in existing superscalars. The superthreaded architecture uses a thread pipelining execution model to enhance the overlapping between threads, and to facilitate data dependence enforcement between threads through compiler-directed, hardwaresupported, thread-level control speculation and run-time data dependence checking. We also evaluate the performance of the superthreaded processor through a detailed trace-driven simulator. Our results show that the superthreaded execution model can obtain good performance by exploiting both thread-level and isntruction-level parallelism in programs. We also study the design parameters of its main system components, such as the size of the memory buffer, the bandwidth requirement of the communication links between thread processing units, and the bandwidth requirement of the shared data cache.
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    Problematizing the model-building duality: Examining the New Sacristy at S. Lorenzo, Florence, Italy
    (Higher Education Press, 2023) Christenson, Mike
    This reflection paper considers the epistemological implications of constructing a digital model of an existing building. The paper compares, in detail, three distinct approaches to constructing a digital model of the New Sacristy at S. Lorenzo in Florence, Italy. Each of the three approaches explores the effects of problematizing the model-building duality. This problematization implicates two conventional assumptions about existing-building models, namely, that they must be geometrically accurate and semantically predictable in order to be useful for research purposes. Proposed counterstrategies of “frictional reciprocity” and “emergent semantics” draw attention to often-overlooked knowledge-production capacities of existing-building models. Thereby, the paper aims to highlight and recommend these strategies as necessary to visioning possible futures, as a viable alternative to conventional modelmaking approaches.
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    Raising the Bar: A Trauma-informed Multi-site Qualitative Case Study of Secure Juvenile Treatment Facilities’ Design
    (2022-05) Meghdari, Nima
    Through sensory processes, perception, and cognition, the built environment can influence occupant attitudes and behaviors. The influence of the built environment on occupant behaviors has been widely investigated in both educational and healthcare settings. Comparatively, settings dedicated to treating individuals with violent and disruptive behaviors, such as corrections facilities, have received little attention, and research has primarily focused on developing treatment methods. To expand upon this body of knowledge, this dissertation research project examines the design of four secure juvenile treatment facilities in order to inform future research, design, and post-occupancy evaluations of this facility type.
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    Technical Report of the Minneapolis Historic and Architectural Resources Study.
    (1982) Borchert, John R.; Gebhard, David; Lanegran, David; Martin, Judith A.
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    Visualizing Ancient Greek Rhetoric in Immersive Virtual Reality
    (2012-06-13) Kim, Kyungyoon; Jackson, Bret; Thorson, Lauren; Graff, Richard; Rabbani, Azadeh; Johnstone, Christopher L.; Keefe, Daniel F.
    The goal of this project is to reconstruct ancient Greek rhetorical sites in virtual environments, including simulating architecture, sound, crowds, to better understand how the physical settings structured and constrained the interactions that took place in them. Our work makes use of the large-format, head-tracked stereoscopic display at MSI, and our preliminary results include an immersive visualization of the Thersilion at Megalopolis, a site where speeches were once given to 10,000 people.
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    Women's Advocates Shelter: An Evaluation.
    (1982) Robinson, Julia W.; Shippee, B. Warner; Schlimmgen, Jennifer; Solow, Razel