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Aquatecture: Designing Water Adaptable Architecture in Ko Kret, Thailand as a Flood Solution
(2014-06-16)This paper will address a new approach towards architecture reflecting on the consequences of the city’s land based building practice in ecology that is predominantly water based. There is a need for opportunities to work ... -
Architectural flexibility: an evolution towards a more flexible architecture
How can architects redefine the way we design and construct buildings? Currently, buildings are too restrictive and do not allow for the ease of flexibility and/or change. The main reasons for the inflexibility of current ... -
Architectural Spaces Promoting Active Learning and Progressive Educational Delivery for the Primary School Student
Education in the United States is failing the next generation. Students today advance through their education without the skills or passion for learning they will need to be marketable in their careers. And, our current ... -
Architecture and Sexuality: Process of Constructions
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Architecture for Socio-Economic Revitalization: Sustainable Reformation of Ship-Decommissioning Industry in Chittagong, Bangladesh
The current volume of global shipping stands over 1.8 billion tons per year; an enormous amount of waste is being generated from and of the old ships. The large amount of waste is created by the shipping industry is becoming ... -
Architecture of repose: Creating moments for retreat and intimacy
The fast-paced nature of contemporary culture acts as a catalyst for anxiety due to overstimulation. This paper explores how the built environment can be designed in order to bring people from a state of overstimulation ... -
Artspark: community engagement in the visual and performing arts
Dance and architecture are two creative disciplines that share a special connection. These disciplines have a major overarching intent, the creative exploration of space. Dance can be defined as the movement of bodies ... -
ASIS Stress Reaction in Female Basketball Player
Background: A 19 year-old NCAA Division I female basketball player (188cm, 61kg) reported proximal Quadriceps femoris (Quad) and hip discomfort for several days in her right leg whilst running 300 meters. Initially, the ... -
The Austrian Myth: Victimization and Nationalism in the Post-War Period
(2012-04-23)The words of the Moscow Declaration of 1943 allowed Austria to claim itself as a victim of Hitler, rather than a contributor to the Nazis in WWII. In the years following the war, this distinction would define the attitude ... -
Automated Livestock Barn System
The objective of this project is to provide monitoring of livestock, automated animal care, and user safety. It has several systems to meet these objectives: fire detection, watering system, feeding system, temperature ... -
Automated Wire Stripper
For our groups ENT 498 Senior Design Project we decided to design and build an automated wire cutter and stripping machine. Our final machine can automatically feed, cut and strip wires to a given length and quantity. ... -
Battlebot
Battlebots are machines that have been popular to niche crowds over the past two decades. The show Battlebots first aired in the year 2000 and is still creating new episodes today. There are other similar robot fighting ... -
Because You Can, You Should: A Beauvoirian Ethics of Food
The freedom to act in humans and the inability to act in nature imposes the moral responsibility on humans to return to nature that which they have used or ruined and improve upon it for future generations and the preservation ... -
Before the Numbers Disappeared: Media and Perception of the 1937 Soviet Census
This thesis surveys the 1936 All-Soviet Census and its importance to national image under Stalin as an explanation for its suppression shortly after completion. The census served as a vital data collection tool for the ... -
Behind the Man, the Kneel, and the Protest
Pictures are apparently worth a thousand words, and for the picture Michael Zargaris captured during the 2016 football season of a sole player kneeling justly before an NFL game, one could say that this photo is not only ...