The Garden Spa explores the healing and sensual qualities of a space. It offers a place of relaxation for the body to be restored through an atmosphere of tranquility. The spa rooms are an intimate place of rest, and the garden is a place to wander through sculptural forms. Curvilinear forms are used to bring pleasure to the eye and touch, creating harmonies with the body / Master of Architecture

Diploma thesis deals with design and creation of framework for modern web applications. The goal of the thesis is to create a fast, modern and modular MVC framework designed to create modern SPA-like web applications that has all the advantages of SPA but minimize or completely eliminate its disadvantages. The theoretical part explores existing MV* frameworks mainly from Node.js, but also from PHP or ASP.NET. It also deals with the analysis of the requirements for modern web frameworks to incorporate the technologies that are really used or replace bad or obsolete ones. The work itself deals with the design and implementation of the new MVC framework for Node.js, including the client part and some development support tools. An integral part of the thesis is the creation of a sample application in the created framework. At the end of the thesis there is summary of the created solution and the results of the comparison.

Project tries to answer the question what place does municipal baths have in contemporary society on a specific case of baths with relationship to river and surrounding neighbourhood. This baths are a place for recreation and socialization with accent on social apects. Baths build on proven experience from local baths tradition (european/roman) as well as exotic (arabic, asian). In the same time it articulates them in contemporary language and adjusts them to conditions of contemporary society.

„this church was at one tome the object of much abuse having been built by a coxcomb enough to alter the ground plan contrary to the rule. We were acquainted with that master builder and we liked him well, even if he was some what dissolute.“ vladislav vančura - “the capricious summer” beginning of the homonymic movie - director jiří menzel

Architectural Expresion of theis building coming out his neighbourhood. Masses of this building are oriented to the valuable views (silhouette of castle Špilberk, silhouette of cathedral St. Peter and Paul and figure of Red Hill). Entrance part creat end of the Rabářská street - and there is very valuable view to the castle of Špilberk.

New City Baths in Brno The form follows its program and location. Mutual shift of both buildings creates garden's intimate atmosphere. Baths and winter garden are situated in building's upper part, services like hairdresser's, cosmetics and restaurants are available on the ground floor. Car parking lot is underground.

Portable electric spas are typically the largest electrical load in homes that have one. In recent years, the California Energy Commission’s California code of regulations, Title 20 has been revised to regulate the maximum allowable standby power for a portable electric spa based on the spa volume. The goal of this regulation is to require improvements to the lowest performing models, for which simple and cost effective improvements are readily available, without eliminating average or better performing products. In this research, the standby power of twenty seven portable electric spas was measured and compared to the Title 20 requirement. These tests resulted in nine of the twenty seven spas not meeting the allowable standby power. Analysis demonstrates that simple and inexpensive improvements to these nine spas would likely cause the spas to pass the Title 20 requirement. Additionally, temperature normalization developed in this research have been adopted by the California Energy Commission and included in revisions to Title 20.

Med uppgiften att skapa ett ”hus för folket” och en hybridbyggnad skapades Tångbrunnen. En plats som kombinerar spa, restaurang, tångproduktion, konferens och co-working vid Nickstaviken i Nynäshamn. Hybridprogrammet knyts samman av tången, som används både i spa och restaurang som en viktig komponent.  Tången odlas längre ut i Nickstaviken där den bidrar till att motverka övergödning i Östersjön och skapar boplats åt vattenlevande organismer. Tången skördas kontinuerligt och bearbetas sen i byggnaden och blir genom processer som torkning och kokning till spaprodukter och livsmedel som sedan används i spa och restaurang, eller förpackas och säljs i Tångbrunnens butik.  Byggnaden är belägen i slänten av Nickstahöjden och möter landskapet med en strandpromenad som löper längs den sydöstra fasaden mot havet. I förslaget har viken även fått ett tillskott i form av en anlagd våtmark, ritad med Minghu Wetland Park (Turenscape) som referens, som ska skydda mot framtida översvämningar och öka den biologiska mångfalden.  Byggnaden är i trä och bärs av limträpelare. Byggnaden består av tre huvudplan, där det nedre är spa och foajé, det första planet är restaurang med två uteplatser samt gemensamma kontor och utrymme för bearbetning av tången. Det övre planet består av ett internt kontor samt byggnadens konferensutrymmen. De tre våningsplanen knyts samman av en generös trappa med utsikt mot Nickstaviken och våtlandsparken. / Tångbrunnen is a hybrid program-building made with the purpose of creating a “house for the people”. The space combines spas, restaurants, kelp production, conference centres and co-working areas, located by Nickstaviken, Nynäshamn. The hybrid program is tied together by kelp, which serves multiple purposes in the spas and restaurant. The kelp is farmed nearby in Nickstaviken where it contributes to the fight against eutrophication in the baltic sea while also aiding the natural habitat of the aquatic fauna. The kelp is continuously harvested and processed at Tångbrunnen through drying, curing and cooking to be made into skin care and food products which are utilised in the centre or packaged and sold in Tångbrunnens shop. The site is located on the slope of Nickstahöjden leading down to the bay. The building connects with the landscape by a boardwalk which runs along the south eastern side of the building. In the project the bay also contains the addition of a wetland park which seeks to minimise the risk of flooding while also increasing biodiversity in the area. Wood is the main construction material of the centre, which is supported by glue laminated columns. There are three main floors. The ground floor houses the foyer and spa. Floor 1 contains the restaurant which has two attached outdoor patios as well as the co-working spaces and kelp processing areas. The final top floor contains organisational offices and the conference centres. The floors are tied together by a large staircase with views overlooking Nickstaviken as well as the wetland park.

This work deals with the topic spas in the Czech Republic and in the Federal Republic of Germany. The first part is devoted to terminology. Other chapters describe the history of this industry in both countries, their spa resorts and in the end various spa statistics in the Czech Republic and in the Federal Republic of Germany are compared.

Orientador: Karina Lilia Pasquariello Mariano / Banca: Maria Orlanda Pinassi / Banca: Marcos Tadeu Del Roio / Resumo: Este trabalho é um estudo a respeito da Revolução Bolivariana na Venezuela. Para concretizálo partimos da configuração político-social da década anterior quando as políticas neoliberais foram implementadas de maneira sistemática, acentuando déficits sociais históricos e gerando grandes mobilizações populares, como o Caracazo ocorrido em 1989. Foi neste contexto histórico que emergiu o movimento bolivariano, sob liderança de Hugo Chávez, como uma alternativa à ordem estabelecida. Em um primeiro momento, a Revolução Bolivariana se concentrou na realização de reformas de conjuntura buscando amenizar os efeitos das políticas neoliberais. Porém, com o desenvolvimento e amadurecimento do processo, as reformas transcenderam a conjuntura e passaram a tocar na estrutura da sociedade venezuelana. Hugo Chávez foi reeleito em 2005 com a promessa de conduzir o país rumo à construção do socialismo. Propostas como a consolidação de instâncias de democracia direta e de controle dos meios de produção pelos trabalhadores associados vieram à tona e passaram a ser concretizadas. Entendemos que tais experiências, ainda que incipientes, tocam em dois pontos fundamentais do sistema sociometabólico do capital: o Estado e o trabalho assalariado. É por este motivo que consideramos a Revolução Bolivariana como aquilo que István Mészáros conceituou como "ofensiva socialista": um processo de transformações estruturais engendrado por um movimento de massas que constrói condições objetivas e subjetivas para um enfrentamento ao capital e para a consolidação duradoura de uma ordem sociometabólica alternativa. Assim, buscamos apontar neste trabalho como ocorreu a construção da ofensiva socialista venezuelana / Resumen: Este trabajo es un estudio referente a la Revolución Bolivariana en Venezuela. Para concretizarlo partimos de la configuración político-social de la década anterior cuando las políticas neoliberales fueron implementadas de manera sistemática, acentuando déficits sociales históricos y generando grandes movilizaciones populares, como el Caracazo ocurrido en 1989. Fue en este contexto histórico que emergió el movimiento bolivariano, bajo liderazgo de Hugo Chávez, como una alternativa al orden establecido. En un primer momento, la Revolución Bolivariana se concentró en la realización de reformas de coyuntura buscando amenizar los efectos de las políticas neoliberales. Sin embargo, con el desarrollo y maduración del proceso las reformas trascendieron la coyuntura y pasaron a tocar la estructura de la sociedad venezolana. Hugo Chávez fue reelecto en 2005 con la promesa de conducir el país rumbo a la construcción del socialismo. Propuestas como la consolidación de instancias de democracia directa y de control de los medios de producción por los trabajadores asociados surgieron y pasaron a ser concretizadas. Entendemos que tales experiencias, aunque incipientes, tocan dos puntos fundamentales del sistema sociometabólico del capital: el Estado y el trabajo asalariado. Es por este motivo que consideramos la Revolución Bolivariana como aquello que István Mészáros conceptualizó como "ofensiva socialista": un proceso de transformaciones estructurales engendrado por un movimiento de masas que construye condiciones objetivas y subjetivas para un enfrentamiento al capital y para la consolidación duradera de un orden sociometabólico alternativo. Así, buscamos apuntar en este trabajo como ocurrió la construcción de la ofensiva socialista venezolana / Mestre