The aim of the Diploma Thesis is a multifuncional building design. The Design Documentation deals with a four-storey multifunctional building. This multifunctional building is separately standing building. The building is designed as a newly constructed four-storey multifuncional building, without basement. The strucural system is desinged in a walled technology of POROTHERM system. Ceilings are made of prestressed concrete ceiling panels. The roof is shed, made of asphalt felts. The house will be founded on monolithic concrete continuous footing strips.

This work describes graphplan, satplan and real-time adaptive A* planning algorithms. Through implementation of these algorithms, functionality and assumed attributes (real-time calculation, parallelism) are tested. These tests take place in nontrivial domains. Graphplan and satplan algorithms were tested in block-world, tire-world and bulldozer domains. Results of these tests were compared and displayed in graphs. Real-time adaptive A* algorithm was tested in tire-world domain. Results of these tests were compared with classic A* algorithm. Advantages and disadvantages of these algorithms are also described in this work.

Diploma thesis solves newly built pension in the village Jestřabí v Krkonoších - Křížlice. The pension is separately standing in a sloping terrain. It has a cuboid shape with gable roof, three aboveground floors and an underground floor with partial basement. The house is designed for accomodation of persons including families with children in the summer and winter season, with possibility of conferences and corporate training courses in off-season. As a part of pension there is a flat for its owner. Structural system is transversal, wall, technology of masonry. Horizontal load-bearing structures are combined. Gable roof is made by timber truss girders with metal roofing. Staircase is straight, two-arm with landing, monolithic. Foundation structures are shallow, foundation strips are monolithic, rectangular shaped, made from plain concrete.

The subject of this diploma thesis is the design of a new library and the elaboration of project documentation for the construction. The library is located on the outskirts of the village Jiříkovice on a flat plot. The building is designed as a detached building with an underground floor and two above-ground floors. The individual floors are connected by staircases and a lift. The above-ground part of the building contains library, office part and café. The underground part of the building contains archive, stores and technical facilities. The structural system of a building is designed from cast-in-place concrete frame with filling from ceramic blocks. Horizontal structural system is from cast-in-place reinforced concrete point-supported slabs. Part of facade is from wood and part is with contact thermal insulation system with mineral wool insulation. Roof construction is designed as flat green roof.

The aim of the master´s project is to provide designs for building permission for a nearly zero-energy veterinary clinic. It is a detached building with two aboveground floors. There are three clinics, one operating rooms, laboratory and staff facilities in the building. First part presents the design of building structure, The superstructure is based on strip foundations made of reinforced concrete in combination with pre-cast permanent formwork made of concrete blocks. The structural system is designed as a masonry system from clay masonry with columns from reinforced concrete. The external walls are load-bearing and covered with thermal insulation and ventilated facade. The floor and roof bearing structure is made of prefabricated concrete slabs. The building is covered with a warm flat green roof. Second part includes the design of building services as lighting, heating, heat recovery ventilation unit. These processes are together shown in a global scheme. Third part is focused on Life cycle assessment of three different flat roof assemblies to compare how they affect the environment. It uses a functional unit 1m2 of a flat roof to define parameters and show how big impact they have on the environment. The project was elaborated using Revit, AutoCad, Deksoft, Building design, GaBi a Lumion software.

This diploma thesis is focused on the design of a kindergarten and the processing of the design documentation for construction. The kindergarten is located on a large plot in a town Ostrava, an interface of boroughs Poruba and Třebovice. This object is free-standing with a partial basement. The building is divided into three functional objects – two single-storey parts and one double-storey part. There are two classes for the smallest children and a kitchen with a school canteen on the first floor. On the second above-ground floor there is a class for twenty-four children in early childhood. A class for pre-primary education and a principal’s office are also included. Vertical supporting structures in the above-ground floor are made of ceramic blocks Porotherm. In the basement there are reinforced concrete structures. Horizontal load-bearing structures are made of prestressed hollow core slabs Spiroll. The building is based on concrete strip foundations. Single-storey parts are roofed with a warm flat roof. The double-storey part is roofed with a cold flat roof with a timber truss girder. Close to the building there are two car parks – the first one is intended primarily for parents and teachers and the second one for personnel included cleaners and cooks.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This project responds to previous available literature on the subject of heroism, which tends to deal with either an isolated work or with genre- and archetype-specific analysis, and applies their concepts to case studies of Frank Miller’s various heroic models. In particular, this project addresses the film Sin City and the graphic novel The Dark Knight Strikes Again, arguing that DK2 serves as a departure of sorts from Miller’s ideals of heroism in his middle years (such as those presented in Sin City), as the protagonist becomes more of a revolutionary engaged in revamping society than the vigilante or “lone wolf” on the fringes of society. With the aforementioned sources as a general background, it is evident that Miller’s heroic ideals shift in their active capacity and scope but remain more or less steady in their strong individual sense of ethical duty. In addition, these sources aid in establishing the comparisons Miller actually invites to traditional, “archetypal” understandings of the hero as well as to the particular heroic form of Ayn Rand, which he explicitly references in DK2. Miller’s response to these previous models bolsters the assertion that theories of heroic ideals are inherently political as they deal with representations of the kind of person a hero must be, in turn involving issues of gender, ethnicity and class.

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In an attempt to practice inclusive planning, this research project explores whether Broadway Avenue functions as an ethnic commercial strip and identifies social, physical, and economic components that contribute to the Latino neighborhood/ barrio. Using pilot studies Loukaitou-Sideris (2000), Loukaitou-Sideris (2002), Rojas (1993), Manzumdar et al. (2000), Main (2007), and Fernando (2007) as a foundation, this research uses a single case study in addition to several research methods: 42 random surveys, literature review and analysis, site observations/pictures, and land use survey. Various scholars write that barrios have unique physical, social, economic, and political attributes. A new aesthetic, art, symbols, type of businesses, music, community events, and vendors all add to social ambiance and physical design of the neighborhood (Rojas,1993). The findings reported in this case study highlight that the majority of the people who are present at any given time on Broadway Avenue are Latino immigrants from a lower socio-economic background. They visit Broadway’s Latino commercial strip from across Los Angeles County to shop, work, and for leisure purposes. Broadway Avenue is a festive, popular, spiritual, and political public space for many Latino immigrants. Many of the study participants are attracted to Broadway’s diversity, architecture, aesthetics, culturally themed stores and restaurants; showing that this Latino commercial strip possesses deep social, physical and economic significance. Contributions of this study include a detailed description about Broadway Avenue beyond the existing literature review. Survey results provide valuable information about what study participants would like to be preserved for Broadway’s future. This information provides user-driven recommendations for preservation and change on Broadway Avenue. Broadway Avenue between Second Street and Olympic Boulevard in downtown Los Angeles is the focused area of this thesis project to provide a qualitative description of the environment of a Latino commercial strip. This thesis provides recommendations to urban planners as they attempt to preserve cultural elements of Broadway’s Latino commercial strip.

In response to the events on September the Eleventh, various media attempted to make sense of the seemingly radical altered political landscape. Comic books, though traditionally framed as low brow pulp, were no exception. This thesis is a work of rhetorical criticism. It applies Walter Fisher's Narrative Paradigm to a specific set of artifacts: John Ney Rieber and John Cassaday's six-part comic series, collectively titled Captain America: The New Deal (2010). The question that is the focus of this thesis is: Does The New Deal, framed as a response to the events surrounding September the Eleventh, form a rhetorically effective narrative? The analysis that follows demonstrates the importance of meeting audience expectations when presenting them with controversial viewpoints. / Graduation date: 2012