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Missed connections are inherently everywhere: they exist within the passerby on the street and the one sitting next to us on our daily commute. Perplexingly, the most overlooked of all missed connections exist within the very buildings we inhabit on a daily basis. At this human scale, an inexplicit absence of the anthropogenic identity has become rooted by the hyper-perfection and immediate gratification of chasmic, value-engineered buildings; ones which ultimately fail to bridge the synapses of memory. As the experience that one feels when occupying a building begins to mediate among the realms of the temporary and the eternal; an inherent irony stems from the idea that maybe, the most immutable memory of a building may rise from the most impermanent of places. Perceived through the lens of a decommissioned textile factory serving both a college town and a greater metropolitan corridor, this thesis recaptures vicissitudes of timely breadths; interjecting them back into the edifice. The proposal, an episodic vessel in triptych form intends to house: A museum to preserve past textile identities. A marketplace and restaurant to promote current anthropogenic stories. A rail station to propose a transient future. The mental photographs of a built environment, intrinsically developed on an evocative film are seldom a mass of ubiquity: they are the fixture, they are the detail; they are the past, they are the present; they are the immediate, lineal, and future place… …they are the missed connections. / Master of Architecture / This thesis seeks to navigate the world of "missed connections" - moments throughout the built environment which are often overlooked, forgotten, taken for granted, or ignored as one becomes lost in the hustle and bustle of today's tribulations. As it encompasses a vast number of timelines; some past, some immediate, and others future, missed connections make their way into every day life. One example may be the way a door is hung; another, the way a beam meets a column; the way a material is utilized, or even, the way one passes through or inhabits a space. Beyond these constructed landscapes, missed connections arrive as those we meet on a morning commute; the person we share a drink with in a crowded bar, or even those encountered as a passerby on the streets of the modern city. Through the lens of a decommissioned textile factory, this project attempts to interject missed connections back into the architecture through an observance of various construed appropriations. Historically, appropriation holds a negative connotation, yet the vessel of the built identity hopes to reclaim appropriation as it becomes unraveled through three primary intertwined programs. Dispersed throughout the "ruinscape," they are the museum, the restaurant and marketplace, and the transit hub. As one takes moments to pause and consider the very way that buildings are assembled, hopefully an analysis and re-introduction of the missed connections into the building moves the profession of architecture towards a future where it can be appreciated by architects and non-architects alike beyond mere aesthetic values.

My architectural thesis began with a desire to investigate the relationship between old and new in architecture. Each city has a history of its own, with old structures and new structures that are in constant dialogue, perhaps directly next to or within one another. The questions that arise from this dialogue captivated me to investigate what my own architectural response would be in such a context. I looked to the architectural joint at various scales, from the parti at the scale of the city, to the point where your hand makes contact with the building. The study of the detail provided an opportunity to heighten the architectural experience and capture a moment that would show the true nature of time. I searched my architectural imagination for answers (and more questions) through the scope of a proposed renovation and addition to an existing duplex structure located in the Le Droit Park neighborhood in NW Washington, DC. The program is a residence, studio, and gallery for a professional potter. / Master of Architecture

Data network resource management and capacity planning are critical for network design, operation, and management. Equipment vendors often provide good information for traffic management and control and associated tools, but this information and the tools are based on independent, individual switches or routers rather than the whole network. There is a critical need for tools to monitor general resource usage in a network as a whole. In this research, we develop a toolkit to collect ATM Call Detail Records (CDRs) from two types of ATM switches from IBM and FORE Systems. Data records collected by the toolkit can then be used to assess network resource utilization and traffic characteristics with the objective of predicting future needs, making proper network management decisions, and ultimately, assisting in the ability to provide reliable quality of service (QoS) in the network. In addition, we examine current call detail records and requirements for more comprehensive network management and make recommendations for a standardized CDR. / Master of Science

Almost every New England town with colonial roots has a manicured Main Street, or some thoroughfare that is meticulously cared for in attempt to preserve and display its history through its architecture. Buildings range in age from as old as the town to as new as yesterday. However, in most cases, Main Street is not a true reflection of the complete history of a town. After a certain point in time, it was no longer acceptable to build in a manner reflective of the current conditions. If a new building was to be erected, only eclectic adaptations of past styles were deemed suitable, to achieve scenographic coherence. Resultantly, any significant truth to Main Street's architecture ceased to develop. A true reflection of the actual societal institution as manifested through the architecture of the town was lost. It is this loss that I refer to as "truth". This thesis is about finding, and restoring, truth through the design of a new house on Main Street in Glastonbury, Connecticut. Glastonbury is a town full of colonial history, with more than 150 houses built before 1800, many of which exist on Main Street. The design for this house is not a direct condemnation of historic eclecticism; rather, it is an attempt to demonstrate how a house can be designed to reflect the true connection between time and place in the institution of "the house". The design acknowledges history through proportion, form, and scale, and it admits contemporary values through abstraction of details, use of materials, and organization of space. The product is a statement about how to design a house that comprehensively and truthfully reflects the spirit of its setting. / Master of Architecture

The residential designs of Fay Jones embody the ideals of organic architecture in the highest degree. Working in the tradition of Frank Lloyd Wright, Jones produced a wide range of houses that represent an intensely personal endeavor. Although the chapels and public pavilions designed by Jones are his most famous works, the meticulous construction detailing and elaborate material joints in Jones' houses reward long-term residents, who discover new details and new compositions of light and shadow for years after moving into their homes. The careful working and reworking of details contribute to a unifying generative idea that enforces the part-to-whole relationship of organic building, but it is also an outpouring of Jones' belief that caring is an “imperative moral issue.” It is difficult to occupy a Jones building or study the work without getting swept up in Jones' notion that “[one] must idealize, even romanticize, what [one] is doing.” Through a consideration of clients' relationships with Fay Jones and the spaces they occupy, this study reflects on Jones' hope that “perhaps the inhabitants can be more comfortably and more meaningfully integrated into the natural forces of life.” Jones' thoughts about architecture, recorded in his journals and lecture notes, reinforce the accounts of key, residential clients who benefited from Jones' earnestness about building and living. The carefully arranged joint details of Jones' designs form a physical representation of the close relationships of Jones, his clients, and the craftsmen who built the work. / text

BIM, Building Information Modelling, är inget nytt begrepp för byggbranschen och ämnet är välutforskat i teorin. Den praktiska tillämpningen har dock inte nått ut till hela den svenska branschen och lägst implementation finns idag hos förvaltningen. För att BIM ska nå ut till denna del av branschen, behöver beställarna förstå vilken funktion BIM kan bistå med och ställa BIM-krav i sina projekt. Då det inte finns någon övre gräns på hur mycket information en modell kan innehålla, behöver beställarna också definiera vilken information som är nödvändig för sökta funktioner. Denna studie ämnar att tydliggöra hur informationsinnehållet i en modell påverkas av olika detaljeringsnivåer. Genom en sammanställning av befintliga standarder och nivåsystem har en utbildningslokal på 150kvm modellerats med hjälp av Autodesk Revit Architecture. Med hjälp av denna modell och sammanställd teori dras följande slutsatser. Det är möjligt att säkerställa informationsbehoven hos beställarens organisation med hjälp av ett detaljeringsnivåsystem. Olika fastigheter har olika funktionsbehov och kräver olika detaljeringsnivåer. En generell nivå på vilken information som ska ingå i dessa modeller borde gå att fastställa. En förutsättning för lyckade BIM-projekt är att tydliga anvisningar och krav upprättas inför modellering och att dessa är förankrade i byggprojektets och förvaltningens informationsbehov. / BIM, Building Information Modelling, is not a new concept for the construction industry and the subject is well reviewed in theory. The practical application has not yet reached out to the whole Swedish construction industry and the lowest implementation of BIM can be found in facility management. For BIM to reach this part of the industry, clients’ needs to understand the functions that BIM can assist with and set BIM requirements for their projects. Since there is no upper limit on the level of information a model may contain, clients also needs to define which information is necessary for the sought functions. This study aims to clarify how the information content of a model is affected by different levels of detail. Through a compilation of existing standards and level system has an education facility of 150sqm been modeled using Autodesk Revit Architecture. With the help of this model and the compiled theory, following conclusions has been drawn. It is possible to ensure the information needs of the client's organization with the help of a system for level of development. Different buildings have different functional needs and require different levels of detail. A general level of detail to be included with these models should be possible to determine. A prerequisite for successful BIM project is that clear instructions and requirements are established for the modeling process and that these are anchored in the needs of the project and management.

Este trabalho aborda o detalhe como configurador da qualidade e do caráter da arquitetura. Para a construção desta proposta, elaboram-se questões que conceituam o detalhe como elemento arquitetônico, enfatizando sua relação com a obra construída e sua existência dentro do contexto histórico da arquitetura. Aborda-se, também, a relação entre a representação gráfica e sua execução, mostrando a materialização das idéias do autor do projeto. Com o aprofundamento destes conceitos, desenvolveu-se uma análise de como o detalhe pode conferir caráter e qualidade à arquitetura, abordando a obra de cinco arquitetos, representantes de diferentes linhas projetuais: Mies Van Der Rohe, Alvar Aalto, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvaro Siza e Norman Foster. Com isso, alcançamos a apresentação de nossa pesquisa sobre um trabalho pratico, que explicita a criação e a representação do detalhe dentro do processo projetual, até alcançar a obra executada. / This work deals with detail shaping quality and character in architecture. To construction this proposal, work with questions which helps to conceptualise the detail as an architectural element, to define its connection to the construction and its existing context both historical and architectural. It us presented as well the relationship between detail\'s representation and its building as to show the author\'s idea and its materialisation. With these concepts worked out, it is analysed how detail grants quality and character to architecture. In this sense, it is approached the work of five outstanding architects, representing different projection tendencies: Mies Van Der Rohe, Alvar Aalto, Frank Lloyd Wright, Álvaro Siza e Norman Foster. Before this framework, it is afforded to demonstrate the links between practical work and its creation process where detail inside the project action reaches the work done.

<p>This thesis is focused on the improvement of an existing implementation of a waveform visualizer. The problem area handled in this work has its focus on how to reduce the number of points to be plotted. The given waveform visualizer was extended by the use of two additional algorithms. First, a Level Of Detail (LOD) algorithm that gives the subset of points that are necessary to plot the waveform in the current zoom level. Second, a straight line identification algorithm to find a series of points aligned in a straight line, only leaving the end points and then drawing a line between them. These two optimizations are the main focus of this work.Additionally, an exporting functionality was implemented to export the plot data into several different data formats. Also some improvements of zooming, panning, some GUI design, and a new drag and drop functionality was constructed.</p>

In recent years, multiresolution models have progressed substantially. At the beginning, discrete models were employed in graphics applications, due mainly to the low degree of complexity involved in implementing them, which is the reason why nowadays they are still used in applications without high graphics requirements. Nevertheless, the increase in realism in graphics applications makes it necessary to use multiresolution models which are more exact in their approximations, which do not call for high storage costs and which are faster in visualization. This has given way to continuous models, where two consecutive levels of detail only differ by a few polygons and where, additionally, the duplication of information is avoided to a considerable extent, thus improving on the spatial cost offered by most discrete models.Advances have been made in the use of new graphics primitives which minimize the data transfer between the CPU and the GPU, apart from trying to make use of the connectivity information given by a polygonal mesh. For this purpose, graphics primitives with implicit connectivity, such as triangle strips and triangle fans, have been developed. Many continuous models based on this type of primitives have been recently developed. In these last few years, graphics hardware performance has evolved outstandingly, giving rise to new techniques which allow the continuous models to accelerate even more. In this work, we have improved the interactive render of polygonal meshes. To tackle the problem, we firstly studied fundamental techniques to efficiently render polygonal meshes and we later made use of geometry simplification and level of detail techniques. Thus, we defined a multiresolution model that represents a polygonal mesh at any given resolution. This approach is able to manage continuous level-of-detail by smoothly adapting mesh resolution to the application requirements. Moreover, the model was modified to take the maximum advantage of the recent GPU features. We also created a modified version of the model for being used in deforming meshes. Finally, we developed an independent library to integrate our model in real-time applications.