Leung Wai Yin Phyllis. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 1998-99, design report." / In double-leaves format. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 68). / PREFACE --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENT --- p.iii / Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2. --- Proposition --- p.3 / Chapter 3. --- Background Exploration --- p.9 / Chapter 4. --- Project Brief --- p.19 / Chapter 5. --- Design Process --- p.31 / Chapter 6. --- Final Design --- p.45 / Chapter 7. --- Conclusion --- p.60 / Chapter 8. --- Appendix --- p.62 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.67

Lai Ho Mun Hemans. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2000-2001, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 51). / acknowledgments --- p.P.2 / introduction --- p.p.3 / researches --- p.p.4 - 19 / Chapter I. --- hongkong and density / Chapter II. --- extends of nature / Chapter III. --- essence of control / Chapter IV. --- building envelope / design concept --- p.p.20 - 27 / site analysis --- p.p.28- 32 / project program --- p.p.33- 34 / design developments --- p.p.35 - 43 / phase I / phase II / phase III / final design --- p.p.44 -50 / bibliography --- p.p.51 / appendix

Wong Chi Hang Francis. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2000-2001, design report." / On double leaves. / Chapter 1.0 --- INTRODUCTION / Chapter 1.1 --- Genesis / Chapter 1.2 --- Initial association / Chapter 1.3 --- Definition of main issue / Chapter 1.4 --- Site selection / Chapter 2.0 --- ANALYSIS / Chapter 2.1 --- Historical analysis / Chapter 2.2 --- Intricate meanings of 'Hill' to present people / Chapter 2.3 --- Comparative analysis of small hill and commercial hill / Chapter 3.0 --- CONCEPTION / Chapter 3.1 --- Project value / Chapter 3.2 --- Objective and new role of hill / Chapter 3.3 --- Definition of planning issue / Chapter 4.0 --- EXPLORATION / Chapter 4.1 --- Analogy of principle of clinical microbiology with the urban-hill phenomenon / Chapter 4.2 --- "Intrinsic quality of hill as journey, height or out look" / Chapter 4.3 --- Reading what 'Hill' is / Chapter 5.0 --- DEVELOPMENT / Chapter 5.1 --- Meaning of issue / Chapter 5.2 --- Thesis argument / Chapter 5.3 --- Programmatic mean / Chapter 5.4 --- Client profile / Chapter 5.5 --- Users profile / Chapter 5.6 --- Schedule of accommodation / Chapter 6.0 --- FINAL DESIGN / Chapter 6.1 --- Planning Strategy / Chapter 6.2 --- Site plan design / Chapter 6.3 --- Architectural design

Li Tsz Kwan Esther. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2005-2006, design report." / Includes bibliographical references. / Chapter 0.0 --- abstract / Chapter 1.0 --- Introduction / Chapter 1.1 --- seasons / Chapter 2.0 --- thesis statement / Chapter 2.1 --- city - architecture - nature / Chapter 2.2 --- "architecture, intermediate between city and nature" / Chapter 3.0 --- reviews of authors / Chapter 3.1 --- Glaston Bachelard : The Poetic of Space / Chapter 3.2 --- Tadao Ando: nature - architecture / Chapter 3.3 --- Jurgen Mayer Hermann - Condensation wall / Chapter 4.0 --- design approach / Chapter 4.1 --- elements expression / Chapter 4.2 --- journey - nature / Chapter 4.3 --- journey - city / Chapter 4.4 --- design program / Chapter 5.0 --- prellmenary design / Chapter 5.1 --- site - shatin / Chapter 5.2 --- inhabitable bridge / Chapter 5.3 --- journey-city / Chapter 5.4 --- nature - community / Chapter 6.0 --- conclusion / Chapter 7.0 --- bibliography

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Thesis (M.Arch. (Professional))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2016. / Forests, and the products we harvest from them, are vital to our economy and built environment, yet we have spiritual and emotional connections to trees which are at odds with these economic realities. This thesis explores how architecture can act as a filter between the real and ideal worlds by looking at the nature of indigenous forests in South Africa, the abundant plantations so necessary to construction and trade, and the problem of invasive trees which act as destroyers of our fragile ecosystems. The building is a centre for sustainable forestry in the Outeniqua forest outside Knysna - progressively removing invasive trees, turning them into useful wood products, and re-planting with scarce indigenous trees. In a social context of high unemployment this didactic building aims to connect ancient woodworking craft to modern fabrication technology for the purposes of skills training, reforestation and economic upliftment. The woodcutter kills the tree, but brings us wood - a material of infinite uses: pliable, strong, beautiful in its variety – a material for the craftsman to shape, sand, and join. The tensions between destruction and creation, natural and man-made, and industry and craft are brought to the fore in the search for the diverse, the specific, and the beautiful. / EM2017

Climate change is a clear indication that humanity’s innate affiliation with nature has been suppressed, and that our detrimental anthropogenic activities on the earth’s natural resources and systems, have exceeded the earth’s ecological capacity to cope and regenerate. This threatens environmental sustainability, which subsequently has social and economic implications. Environmental conservation is humanity’s aim towards re-affiliating its deep rootedness in nature, in order to ensure a sustainable co-existence with other species and natural systems, and thus convince responsive lifestyles, which allows humanity to match natural-resource extraction to the rate at which the earth can regenerate. The role of environmental sustainable architecture, towards mitigating humanity’s impact on global warming, still leaves a disparity between human relationships and interactions with the natural environment. The notion of a phenomenology-guided design inquiry, an application of enhanced multi-sensory experiences is identified, to re-affiliate humanity with nature and to provoke a sense of urgency for greater protection of the natural environment, through an immersive experience of enhanced human-nature interactions with nature. Furthermore, this notion is applied in the programme of eco-tourism and qualitative ecological research; the proposed site choice; the concept design approach and technical resolution of the project. The research recognises the conservation of sensitive ecosystems such as the iSimangaliso Wetland Park in northern KwaZulu-Natal, as one of the core strategies for environmental sustainability, and its appropriateness as a site for immersed experiences with nature and the sharing of ecological knowledge for the benefit of the wider communities in South Africa and internationally. The research proposes an environmentally responsible and contextually appropriate architectural design, for a wetland, estuary and marine conservation centre in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park. Furthermore, the programme responds to the key contextual issues concerning the park by assisting with the ecological conservation and growth, as well as the social and economic sustainability of the iSimangaliso Wetland Park and surrounding communities. This is achieved by proposing an architectural programme which functions as an interface and mediator for the key issues concerning the park, that is of research, education, tourism and community participation, through which the most concerning issue of ecological conservation occurs.

Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1982. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH / Bibliography: leaves 99-100. / by Elemuel Arthur Watts. / M.C.P.

Shum Hoi Chun. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2004-2005, design report." / Chapter Part 1 --- Preface / Chapter Part 2 --- Thesis Statement / Thesis Statement / Thesis Objective / Chapter Part 3 --- Research Study / Local Case Studies / Chapter - --- "The Beverly Hills, Tai Po" / Chapter - --- "Kwun Mun Fishermen, Sai Kwun" / Foreign Case Studies / Chapter - --- Garden City / Chapter - --- The Sea Ranch / Chapter - --- Ch limark Residence / Chapter - --- House Party / Chapter Part 4 --- Intervention / Site Selection / Design Methodology / Design / Chapter Part 5 --- Bibliography

Bibliography: leaves 209-232.