This thesis is a study of a journey in the deep mystery of the eastern harbor on the Mediterranean sea in the city of Alexandria. For Herodotus, the four major elements for civilization's development overtime are water, air, land, and fire. In this project, the effort is made to connect three of the four elements within an architectural context: "Underwater museum". The building orientation, shape and location allow a discovery of the building elements and shape consequently while participating in the building visit. From street level, the building can be seen as a simple curved wall on the harbor facing the sea. While pursuing the passage in the journey, the building shape and components start to build the experience. Different lighting conditions, vertical and horizontal circulation methods, building form and structure are used to direct the journey starting from sky and land, through water, to underwater, then finally discovering the ruins at the seabed. / Master of Architecture

How can water influence the rhythm of Architecture? Water is referred to as the blood of the earth, the liquid that runs through the veins of the earth. At times rain falls calmly to the earth's surface bringing life to plants, animals, and people. At other times, rain falls in a fury and causes the rivers to swell and flood, destroying life. In the film Rivers and Tides Working with Time Andy Goldsworthy states, "the thing that brings it to life is also the thing that causes its death." The essential element of water is needed by all living things. Vitruvius stated that "without the influence of moisture living creatures will be bloodless and having the liquid element sucked out of them will wither away." Every living thing includes a percentage of water, without which life would not be possible. However, when the vengeance of a storm comes water can become an unforgiving force. A force more powerful than life can sustain. Water can provide life for years, nourishing our bodies, souls, and minds, but it can take life away in an instance and leave nothing but destruction and death behind. The architecture of the proposed building has be inspired by the ebb and flow of the Potomac River. By using the tide and seasonal changes of the river the architecture will reacted and embraced this element of the Alexandria, Virginia. The project is for the Alexandria Sculpture Museum. This Museum will provide a forum for the public to be able to enjoy the dynamics of a museum in the downtown area as well as the public interaction between the city, the land, and the river. / Master of Architecture

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This thesis adopts a primarily process-based methodology to put a museum in its place as a site of knowledge-making. It examines the practices of space which were productive of a government-funded (‘national’) museum in Edinburgh. Taking a spatial perspective, and recognising that place is both material and metaphorical, the thesis explores how the Museum’s material and intellectual architectures were produced over the period 1854-1939. The thesis is concerned to bring into focus the dynamic processes by which the Museum was in a continual state of becoming; a constellation of tangible and intangible objects constantly being produced and reproduced through mobility of objects, people and ideas. Its concern is to chart the flows through space which produced the Museum. The thesis comprises nine chapters. An introduction and a literature review are followed by chapters concerned, respectively, with the built space of the museum and with the people who worked there. A further three chapters consider the nature of that work and the practices of space which constituted the processes of collecting, displaying, and educating, whilst another focuses on visiting. The final chapter discusses how the analysis has constructed the museum as constituted through a complex diversity of material and metaphorical settings on a variety of geographical scales. This critical scrutiny of the museum has, in turn, brought to the fore the place of the Museum in contributing to civic and national identity. Through a case-study of a particular museum, the concern has been to explore how critical geographies of science may be applied to the examination of a museum. In particular the thesis examines how contextual concepts developed largely in conscribed sites such as laboratories apply to a public site such as a museum. The thesis suggests that the ordering terms ‘space’ and ‘place’, combined with a focus on practice and performance, may have more general application in constructing an historical geography of museums as sites of production and consumption of scientific knowledge.

Die Universität Leipzig unterhält drei Museen und zahlreiche Sammlungen, wobei auch letztere teilweise für die interessierte Öffentlichkeit zugänglich sind. Universitäre Sammlungen zeichnen sich dadurch aus, dass sie neben den klassischen Museumsaufgaben des Sammelns, Bewahrens, Erschließens, Präsentierens vordringlich Lehre und Forschung dienen. Bei der Ausbildung der Studenten ermöglichen Sammlungsstücke ein Begreifen im doppelten Sinne. Trotz moderner Wissensvermittlung auf audiovisuellem Weg kann in vielen Fachgebieten auf ein Lehren, Lernen und Forschen anhand konkreter Sammlungsobjekte nicht verzichtet werden. Die Stücke in unseren Museen und Sammlungen sind nicht totes Inventar, sondern Anschauungsobjekte, die ihre Geschichte und Geschichten erzählen.

O termo difundido internacional historic house museums une duas categorias: casas históricas e casas-museus. No Brasil, os termos utilizados são museus-casas ou, ainda, casas-museus. Estes se constituem em espaços abertos ao público, reunindo características de conservação e apresentação das obras exigidas pelo Conselho Internacional de Museus (ICOM) e apresentando relação entre a casa (espaço arquitetônico), o acervo (conteúdo) e o proprietário (habitante). O presente estudo consiste em uma análise de três modelos de museus-casas/casasmuseus, na cidade de São Paulo, sendo eles: Fundação Maria Luísa e Oscar Americano, Fundação Cultural Ema Gordon Klabin e Museu da Casa Brasileira. Essa análise levantará os principais itens relativos à arquitetura dos seus projetos, com ênfase nas plantas, o desenho das casas e sua transformação para museu. Trata-se, portanto, de uma reflexão sobre a tipologia dos museus-casas, baseada nas principais características observadas diretamente nas instituições selecionadas, utilizando, para tanto, textos que abordam aspectos históricos, sociais e técnicos, o Projeto de Classificação dos Museus-casas, elaborado pelo DEMHIST (Comitê Internacional de Museus-Casas Históricas, do Conselho Internacional de Museus, 1998), bem como a revisão dos trabalhos já realizados sobre o assunto por diversos autores, visando a um entendimento global das questões já levantadas a respeito do tema. / The spread out term international historic house museums joins two categories: historical houses and house-museums. In Brazil, the used terms are museum-houses or, still, housemuseums. These if constitute in open spaces to the public, congregating characteristic of conservation and presentation of the workmanships demanded for the International Advice of Museums (ICOM) and presenting relation between the house (space architectural), the quantity (content) and the proprietor (inhabitant). The present study it consists of an analysis of three models of museum-houses/house-museums, in the city of São Paulo, being they: Foundation Maria Luisa and Oscar Americano, Cultural Foundation Ema Gordon Klabin and Museum of the Brazilian House. This analysis will raise the main relative item to the architecture of its projects, with emphasis in the plants, the drawing of the houses and its transformation for museum. It is treated, therefore, of a reflection on the kind of the museum-houses, based in the main characteristics observed directly in the institutions selected, using, for in such a way, texts that approach aspects historical, social and technician, the Project of Classification of the Museum-houses, elaborated for the DEMHIST (International Committee of Historical Museum-House, of the International Advice of Museums, 1998), as well as the revision of the works already carried through on the subject for diverse authors, aiming at to a global agreement of the raised questions already regarding the subject.

Lau Ka Yan, Jessie. / Subtitle on added t.p.: Movement in city, city in movement. / At head of title on added t.p.: Film museum at Yau Ma Tei Fruit Laan. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2009-2010, design report." / "May 2010." / Includes bibliographical references. / Text in English with some Chinese. / Chapter 00 --- Research --- p.10 / Abstract / Research Framework / Introduction / Chapter 01 --- Physical Reality --- p.19 / Film List of HK Space Study / Archetypal Space / Archetypal Space in HK Film / Chapter 02 --- Mental Reality --- p.56 / Screen / Eye of Camera / Cinematography / Techiques of illusion / Chapter 03 --- Site Analysis --- p.70 / Chapter 04 --- Case Study --- p.84 / Berlin Jewish Museum / Temple Bar / Pallazza Del Cinema / Comparison / Chapter 05 --- Film Facility in HK --- p.102 / Chapter 06 --- Design Idea --- p.112 / Chapter 07 --- Research and Design --- p.124 / Chapter 08 --- Physical Reality vs Mental Reality --- p.124 / Chapter 09 --- Space and Activities --- p.124 / Chapter 10 --- Presentation --- p.124 / Chapter 11 --- Bibliography --- p.124

Lau Hing Ching. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2010-2011, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 33). / Prolog --- p.4 / Preliminary Study - Tree & Human Body --- p.5 / Case Studies - Christian Kerez --- p.7 / """Function""" --- p.12 / Program --- p.13 / Site --- p.17 / Structural Idea --- p.18 / Museum Design --- p.20 / Epilogue --- p.27 / Appendix --- p.28 / Reference --- p.33