The plan and design of a large housing development project by itself was a difficult task in the past, the energy issue made the options very limited, and the planner and/or engineer deal with the solution more often technically intended with or without considering the energy problem. This study is centered on the energy issue as part of the design decision making process. This study tries to integrate the energy use effects as part of the basic planning process, such as land use and building style dependent on the land contour as well as solar exposure; and the passive solar energy utilization as part of the design process where the solar use is not an add on solar system but an integrated part of the basic design scheme. A development summary of the analysis and process guideline is introduced for medium-low density housing project in an urban setting with an actual site as a case study to illustrate the process. / Master of Architecture

The wider use of cold-formed steel framing is hindered by the lack of generic sections. This study puts forth an effort to develop a performance section designation code without specifying the geometry of the sections. A PC-based program to analyze C-section was developed and used to produce typical Performance Section Tables for both wall studs and joists. For curtain walls the <i>Uniform Lateral Load Capacity Tables</i> and for bearing walls the <i>Axial Load with Specified Lateral Load Tables</i>, the <i>Strong Axis Axial Load Capacity Charts</i>, and the <i>Weak Axis and Torsional Axial Load Capacity Charts</i> were developed. The typical design aids for roof/floor joists include the <i>Uniform Load Capacity Tables</i> for single and two continuous spans, the <i>Moment-Shear Interaction Capacity Charts</i>, and the <i>Web Crippling Capacity Tables</i>. Design examples are provided to illustrate the usage of the above tables and charts. / Master of Science

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The thesis is to design a house that captures the essence of solitude by using the principles of Hierarchy, Axis, Passages, and Spirals. / Master of Architecture

Master of Architecture

l seek to investigate space, material and harmonious order. A building should celebrate the continuity of space in three dimensions. Walls should not confine space, but expand perceptible limits. Architectural space should be active. A building should be an integration of material and order. Materials define the unit order from which the building develops. Materials should be handled naturally and correctly. Nothing in a building should be superficial. Ornament should grow from the natural pattern of construction and structure. To dwell in a house is the experience of passage in familiar surroundings. A house must emphasize not only place, but spatiality. Space outside should not be shut out, but become a part of the space within the house. The spaces of this house overlap and intersect inside and outside the walls. This continuity of space brings dynamic forces into the life of the individual. / Master of Architecture

This thesis is an attempt to express certain realities pertaining to Architecture: The realities of Man and his need for an aesthetic dwelling rich in sensory characteristics; the realities of the building's materials and their behavior; and the realities of the Earth with its changing forces. With an awareness and sensitivity to these existing realities, real Architecture can result as a celebration of all three. / Master of Architecture

Architecture is an act of making. A student of architecture must respond to the findings in the practice of architecture, the making. Theories are only signified through and after the making of a work of architecture. These theories develop from discussions among others and within oneself of ideas and objects in the artistic framework Finding the similarities and differences within objects and ideas begins the · dialogue. A reduction takes place. Ideas and objects are catalogued to ideas already structured in the architect’s mind from previous perceptions. This is not to say that the perceptions are brought down to similar experiences, but to ideas and things that have their own structure within the one world. Things and ideas no longer hold in our experiential context, they are reduced to perceptions that are not sensed in the initial apprehension of the phenomena; Perceptions that the architect understands through the making of objects. Something that was not revealed initially is unconcealed giving the architect a sense of being in the world. / Master of Architecture

thesis, architecture, study of architecture. learning, growing, seeing, building. vehicle - house. framework. what makes it architecture - reality? the house shelters day. dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. house is home, a place to learn, to teach, about world, life, connection, and separation. individuals within a community. the link of bonding into one of a community of individuals. to know the two paths must cross and eventually end in union. / Master of Architecture

The existential significance of buildings is considered with the aim of discovering an ahistorical paradigm for architecture based on the assumption of an ultimate or primary reality which is innate and unchanging. Particular attention is paid to the cosmogonic functioning of buildings through their role as places. Two aspects of the concept of place are considered: that of an inhabited realm which is set apart within undifferentiated space; and, that of an axis mundi about which a habitable world may become ordered. A vocabulary of architectural elements consisting of a chimney, plynth, wall, and roof is then used to pursue these ideas within a design project. / Master of Architecture