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Housing is one of the most critical design challenges of the 21st century. Sparked by increased urbanization, issues around affordability, density, development, and displacement create stress on people and the urban environment. In Washington D.C., an inadequate supply of housing for families forces them to leave the city in search of more comfortable and affordable options. However, families are essential dwellers in a healthy urban fabric. This thesis explores how architecture and empathic design-thinking can begin to address these issues and contribute to the health of the family unit and a healthy community. My thesis begs the question… what lifestyles are we encouraging by the way we design? Dwelling is a more appropriate, personal, and empathic term for housing. Dwelling should meet the needs of its inhabitants and support three vital organs of urban life: social activity, peaceful refuge, and theatrical celebrations. A healthy city and a healthy dwelling should include all three. My goal is to re-imagine urban dwelling for families living in the city and how architecture can create intentional moments of connection between people and the city they are a part of – especially how ideas of transparency and movement or air, light and people can be agents of a healthier urban dwelling. A new mid-rise multi-family dwelling in Adams Morgan, a colorful, diverse, artistic, and eclectic neighborhood in Washington D.C., creates a home that enhances the experience of dwelling for families. My thesis project supports the primary functions of dwelling and secondary functions of food creation through a kitchen incubator. The intention of the building is that it will serve as a space for growth, for individuals and for growing families, that it will be successful as both a well-designed home and a food lab that fosters collaboration and community for chefs and entrepreneurs who are growing their businesses and connections in the city. The building aims to incorporate living elements with nature integrated into the architecture in various ways. This home will be a space that understands the needs of its inhabitants, respects the context of the neighborhood, and supports a healthier framework of the larger city of Washington D.C. / Master of Architecture / Housing is one of the most critical challenges of the 21st century facing the architecture, engineering and construction industry. A lack of suitable housing is a result of increased urbanization and issues around affordability, density, development, and displacement. These challenges create stress on people and specifically the structures where they live. In Washington D.C., an inadequate supply of housing for families forces them to leave the city in search of more comfortable and affordable options. However, families are essential dwellers in the city - they should be supported in the modern urban environment. This thesis explores how architecture and empathic design-thinking, a deep understanding of the problems and realities of the people being designing for, can begin to address these issues and contribute to the health of the family unit and a healthy community. My thesis asks the question…what lifestyles are we encouraging by the way we design? Dwelling, the way and act of living, is a more appropriate, personal, and empathic term for housing. In the architect's mind, dwelling should meet the needs of its inhabitants and support three important facets of urban life: social activity, peaceful refuge, and theatrical celebrations. A healthy city and a healthy dwelling should include all three. The goal of this thesis is to re-imagine what urban dwelling feels and looks like for families living in the city and how architecture can be designed to create intentional moments of connection between people and the community they are a part of. A new mid-rise multi-family dwelling in Adams Morgan, a colorful, diverse, artistic, and eclectic neighborhood in Washington D.C., creates a home that enhances the experience of dwelling for families. My thesis project is foremost a dwelling, a space for living, but also a space for food creation through a community kitchen incubator. The intention of the building is that it will serve as a space for growth, for individuals and families, and that it will be successful as both a well-designed home and a food lab that fosters collaboration for chefs and entrepreneurs who are growing their businesses and connections in the city. This thesis seeks to discover how architecture can empower families and communities to have healthier, more inclusive and connected urban city lives.

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This paper deals with the ceramics of Alvastra pile dwelling. The main question are what the ceramics represent, what it was used for, if it was manufactured in the pile dwelling and if there is any resemblance to other places of interest. The essay uses ceramic material from shaft F and the Western shaft. The result shows four different ceramic groups, a few probably made in the pile dwelling and the purpose was food storage and offering.

The aim of this diploma thesis is provide comprehensive view on dwelling unit owners associations from accounting and tax perspectives. The beginning of thesis acquainted with term dwelling unit owners association and summarized reasons for legislation regulation of these entities. After that the work deals with legislation of this organization. The specifics of economic aspects and ways of financing are mentioned at next chapter. The main part of this diploma thesis focus on accounting and tax specifics of this organization. Each specific accounting issue are explaining theoretical as well from practical point of view for better understanding these issues.

Esta pesquisa trata da moradia urbana no Brasil, notadamente no período que vai da segunda metade do século XIX até meados do século XX, tendo como norte as transformações decorrentes da busca por modernidade, salubridade e conforto e sua relação com os estilos arquitetônicos adotados. Para tanto analisa as residências construídas na região central da cidade de Teresina, fundada para tornar-se capital do Estado do Piauí, o que, juntamente com fatores sociais e econômicos, limitações técnicas e condições climáticas locais, originou uma arquitetura de características muito peculiares. Busca, assim, compreender e caracterizar as transformações ocorridas, bem como a sua difusão na cidade, com foco nos agentes envolvidos nesse processo e na apropriação da sociedade teresinense das diversas tipologias residenciais. Toma por base principalmente documentação consultada em arquivos locais e particulares - como almanaques, jornais, relatórios, legislações e imagens de época -, levantamentos, entrevistas, além de bibliografia de historiadores locais, com destaque para Teresinha Queiroz, Monsenhor Chaves e Odilon Nunes. A fim de embasar as análises, busca ainda sustentação teórica em autores consolidados como Carlos A. C. Lemos e Nestor Goulart Reis Filho. Contribui, desse modo, para ampliar o conhecimento da produção de moradias urbanas em Teresina-PI, tão pouco presente na historiografia da arquitetura brasileira. / This research is about the urban dwelling in Brazil, notedly from the second half of the 19th century until the beginning of the 20th century, guided by the changes that occurred due to the search for modernity, salubrity and comfort and their association with the architectonic styles adopted. For this purpose, the study analyses the houses built in downtown Teresina, city which was founded to become the state capital of Piauí, a fact which, together with social and economic factors, technical limitations and local climatic conditions, generated a very peculiar architecture. Therefore, this work aims to comprehend and characterize the transformation that happened, as well as how it spread through the city, focusing on the characters involved in the process and the appropriation of the residential typology by the society from Teresina. It is based on documentation found in public and particular archives, as almanacs, newspapers, reports, laws and images from the time, and also in interviews and researches, besides the bibliography of local historians, speciallyTeresinhaQueiroz, Monsenhor Chavez ansOdilonNunes. In order to support the analysis, it finds theoretical basis on consolidated authors as Carlos A. C. Lemos and Nestor Goulart Reis Filho. As a result, contribution is given to amplify the knowledge of the urban dwelling in Teresina-PI, poorly present on the Brazilian architecture historiography.

Esta pesquisa trata da moradia urbana no Brasil, notadamente no período que vai da segunda metade do século XIX até meados do século XX, tendo como norte as transformações decorrentes da busca por modernidade, salubridade e conforto e sua relação com os estilos arquitetônicos adotados. Para tanto analisa as residências construídas na região central da cidade de Teresina, fundada para tornar-se capital do Estado do Piauí, o que, juntamente com fatores sociais e econômicos, limitações técnicas e condições climáticas locais, originou uma arquitetura de características muito peculiares. Busca, assim, compreender e caracterizar as transformações ocorridas, bem como a sua difusão na cidade, com foco nos agentes envolvidos nesse processo e na apropriação da sociedade teresinense das diversas tipologias residenciais. Toma por base principalmente documentação consultada em arquivos locais e particulares - como almanaques, jornais, relatórios, legislações e imagens de época -, levantamentos, entrevistas, além de bibliografia de historiadores locais, com destaque para Teresinha Queiroz, Monsenhor Chaves e Odilon Nunes. A fim de embasar as análises, busca ainda sustentação teórica em autores consolidados como Carlos A. C. Lemos e Nestor Goulart Reis Filho. Contribui, desse modo, para ampliar o conhecimento da produção de moradias urbanas em Teresina-PI, tão pouco presente na historiografia da arquitetura brasileira. / This research is about the urban dwelling in Brazil, notedly from the second half of the 19th century until the beginning of the 20th century, guided by the changes that occurred due to the search for modernity, salubrity and comfort and their association with the architectonic styles adopted. For this purpose, the study analyses the houses built in downtown Teresina, city which was founded to become the state capital of Piauí, a fact which, together with social and economic factors, technical limitations and local climatic conditions, generated a very peculiar architecture. Therefore, this work aims to comprehend and characterize the transformation that happened, as well as how it spread through the city, focusing on the characters involved in the process and the appropriation of the residential typology by the society from Teresina. It is based on documentation found in public and particular archives, as almanacs, newspapers, reports, laws and images from the time, and also in interviews and researches, besides the bibliography of local historians, speciallyTeresinhaQueiroz, Monsenhor Chavez ansOdilonNunes. In order to support the analysis, it finds theoretical basis on consolidated authors as Carlos A. C. Lemos and Nestor Goulart Reis Filho. As a result, contribution is given to amplify the knowledge of the urban dwelling in Teresina-PI, poorly present on the Brazilian architecture historiography.

Being concerned with the questions of housing is one of the priorities of each society. Housing develops with reference to traditions, geographical conditions and it is subject to economic level of a society. The aim of doctoral thesis is to analyze the approaches to architectonic dwelling production. This is based on investigation and analysis of the particular buildings in the chosen historical periods of society. The analysis of the dwelling architecture in individual historical periods of society development should contribute to clarification of the dwelling architecture conception, clarifying which urbanistic, functional and constructional approaches contribute to creating a well operating housing complex or dwelling-house. Thanks to the analysis and understanding the dwelling construction building-up of the last hundred years we can define the positive and negative principles of designing dwelling constructions proved with the benefit of hindsight. It is not the aim to solve the contemporary insufficiency in dwelling design simply by returning to principles which came into existence under different social, economic and technical circumstances. However, we can learn from those principles and try to employ them when answering the up-to-date problematic questions of housing. The principles should be contemporary, in accordance with present society and technical advance, local traditions and geographical givenness of the Czech Republic.