scholarly journals Ideal Architecture Unit: Vacant Offices into Desirable Student Housing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jenneke Kurtz
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Student Housing ◽  
Rite Of Passage ◽  
Specific Design ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Copy And Paste ◽  
A Site

<p>The architectural quality of student housing in new Zealand is a growing concern. Students often accept living in damp and mouldy flats as “a rite of passage”. Student Housing highlights that the environment students live in directly impacts how they think and feel, and ultimately how they succeed at university. Those students fortunate enough to live in University Halls rather than private accommodation are only provided with basic facilities that cater to the ‘typical student’ rather than their individual field of study and personal differences. This research proposes that we exceed current expectations and practice, firstly through designing accommodation based on students area of study and, secondly, through prefabricated design of a single ‘Ideal Unit’ adapted to suit a specific site. Specific design for architecture students will be explored, due to higher housing demands than most students. establishing what makes architecture students different from other students is essential in order to cater to these needs. These are both physical and intellectual needs, ranging from facilities such as workshop, pin up space and drawing boards to the need for architectural delight. Prefabrication allows faster construction and lower costs, however this design method has resulted in ‘copy and paste’ architecture that is monotonous and without excitement. An ‘Ideal Unit’ with a small number of variations allows no two users to have the exact same experience. The work of Le Corbusier is explored, in particular the Modulor. This thesis argues that the Modulor is applicable to modern design and should be used, to ensure we build for the human body rather than arbitrary measurements. The desired outcomes of this research is a site specific design located in Wellington. A prefabricated unit is modified for the site with the ability to be applied in another location. Overall this research will comment and critique on current institutional student housing practices, both locally and internationally. While advocating for a change not just to architecture student accommodation but to all student accommodation. What we study and how we live are so intertwined that we can no longer ignore the needs associated with what we study, we must design for it.</p>

scholarly journals Ideal Architecture Unit: Vacant Offices into Desirable Student Housing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jenneke Kurtz
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Student Housing ◽  
Rite Of Passage ◽  
Specific Design ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Copy And Paste ◽  
A Site

<p>The architectural quality of student housing in new Zealand is a growing concern. Students often accept living in damp and mouldy flats as “a rite of passage”. Student Housing highlights that the environment students live in directly impacts how they think and feel, and ultimately how they succeed at university. Those students fortunate enough to live in University Halls rather than private accommodation are only provided with basic facilities that cater to the ‘typical student’ rather than their individual field of study and personal differences. This research proposes that we exceed current expectations and practice, firstly through designing accommodation based on students area of study and, secondly, through prefabricated design of a single ‘Ideal Unit’ adapted to suit a specific site. Specific design for architecture students will be explored, due to higher housing demands than most students. establishing what makes architecture students different from other students is essential in order to cater to these needs. These are both physical and intellectual needs, ranging from facilities such as workshop, pin up space and drawing boards to the need for architectural delight. Prefabrication allows faster construction and lower costs, however this design method has resulted in ‘copy and paste’ architecture that is monotonous and without excitement. An ‘Ideal Unit’ with a small number of variations allows no two users to have the exact same experience. The work of Le Corbusier is explored, in particular the Modulor. This thesis argues that the Modulor is applicable to modern design and should be used, to ensure we build for the human body rather than arbitrary measurements. The desired outcomes of this research is a site specific design located in Wellington. A prefabricated unit is modified for the site with the ability to be applied in another location. Overall this research will comment and critique on current institutional student housing practices, both locally and internationally. While advocating for a change not just to architecture student accommodation but to all student accommodation. What we study and how we live are so intertwined that we can no longer ignore the needs associated with what we study, we must design for it.</p>

A site-specific design of a fixed-pitch fixed-speed wind turbine blade for energy optimization using surrogate models

2016 ◽  
Vol 88 ◽  
pp. 112-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arturo Del Valle Carrasco ◽  
Delia J. Valles-Rosales ◽  
Luis C. Mendez ◽  
Manuel I. Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Turbine Blade ◽  
Energy Optimization ◽  
Surrogate Models ◽  
Wind Turbine Blade ◽  
Specific Design ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
A Site ◽  
Fixed Pitch

Towards the Development of a Site-Specific Water Quality Objective for Atrazine in the Yamaska River, Quebec, for the Protection of Aquatic Life

1995 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.-Y. Caux ◽  
R.A. Kent
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Biological Effects ◽  
Quality Parameters ◽  
Control Site ◽  
Aquatic Life ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Quality Guidelines ◽  
Phytoplankton Communities ◽  
A Site

Abstract The biological effects of xenobiotics in aquatic environments are often a function of the water quality of these systems. The aquatic green alga Selenastrum capricomutum was exposed to 11 concentrations of the herbicide atrazine in the range of 0.8 to 882 μg/L. The incubation media consisted of water collected from the Yamaska River Lac Brome (control) site in the spring and fall. Algae incubated in fall water displayed a significant increase in the intensity of fluorescence as compared to those incubated in spring water. This effect (Kautsky effect) was observed for six intermediate atrazine concentrations which are representative of those found in the field. In situ investigations were also performed on the water quality of four Yamaska River sites to measure both biotic and abiotic (physicochemical) parameters. Of the 35 water quality parameters analyzed, 32 differed significantly spatio-temporally. Of these, only atrazine levels (max. 40 μg/L) exceeded national water quality guidelines for the protection of aquatic life (2 μg/L). Two Yamaska tributaries experienced a reduction in populations of chlorophytic algae immediately following the atrazine application period in early June. These investigations show that herbicide spring “pulse” in river systems may alter the normal succession of phytoplankton communities. Local environmental biotic and abiotic variables likely affect the toxicity of atrazine in the Yamaska River. These results provide the initial basis towards the establishment of a site-specific objective for atrazine in this river basin.

Antipodean Aftershocks: Group Settlement of Hebridean and non-Hebridean Britons in Western Australia following World War One

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-203
Author(s):  
Roy Jones ◽  
Tod Jones
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
The Sun ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
A Site

In the speech in which the phrase ‘land fit for heroes’ was coined, Lloyd George proclaimed ‘(l)et us make victory the motive power to link the old land up in such measure that it will be nearer the sunshine than ever before … it will lift those who have been living in the dark places to a plateau where they will get the rays of the sun’. This speech conflated the issues of the ‘debt of honour’ and the provision of land to those who had served. These ideals had ramifications throughout the British Empire. Here we proffer two Antipodean examples: the national Soldier Settlement Scheme in New Zealand and the Imperial Group Settlement of British migrants in Western Australia and, specifically, the fate and the legacy of a Group of Gaelic speaking Outer Hebrideans who relocated to a site which is now in the outer fringes of metropolitan Perth.

Reproduction of the Roman snail (Helix pomatia L.) from a local natural population in farm conditions and in a natural habitat

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maciej Ligaszewski ◽  
Przemysław Pol
Keyword(s):  
Natural Population ◽  
Natural Habitat ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Helix Pomatia ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Animal Reproduction ◽  
Snail Helix Pomatia ◽  
June July ◽  
A Site

AbstractThe aim of this study was to compare the quality of clutches and reproduction results of two groups of Roman snails (Helix pomatia) from the same local population, laying eggs simultaneously in semi-natural farm conditions and in a natural habitat. The study material were Roman snails aged 2 or more years which had entered the third phenological season of their life and thus the first season of sexual maturity. Observations were conducted at an earthen enclosure in a greenhouse belonging to the experimental farm for edible snails at the National Research Institute of Animal Reproduction in Balice near Kraków (Poland) as well as at a site where a local population naturally occurs in the uncultivated park surrounding the Radziwiłł Palace. In the June-July season, differences among such parameters as weight of clutch, number of eggs in clutch, mean egg weight, and hatchling percentage when compared to the total number of eggs in the clutch were compared. It was determined that clutches of eggs from the natural population laid in the greenhouse were of lesser weight (P<0.01), contained fewer eggs (P<0.05), and the mean weight of individual eggs was less (P<0.05) than in clutches laid simultaneously in a natural habitat. Both in the greenhouse and the natural habitat, in the first phase of laying eggs (June) the weight of the clutch and number of eggs its contained were greater than in the second phase (July). However, only for snails laying eggs in the greenhouse were these differences statistically significant (P<0.05) and highly significant (P<0.01), respectively. Statistically significant differences were not observed in hatchling percentage between eggs laid in the greenhouse and the natural habitat. The lower number of eggs laid in the farmed conditions of the greenhouse was successfully compensated for by the absence of mass destruction by rodents which occurred in the natural habitat.

ANALISIS VISUAL PADA SAMPUL DEPAN MAJALAH DESAIN GRAFIS “CONCEPT” EDISI ULTAH PERDANA (Sebuah Kajian Semiotika)

DeKaVe ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Prayanto WH
Keyword(s):  
Graphic Design ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Specific Design ◽  
Design Work ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Content Information ◽  
Magazine Cover

Magazine is one of the forms of mass media that has fungsikomunikasi to convey information to mass audiences. The cover is an important element because it is through cover / cover one can guess the contents of the magazine, as well as further interested to know further information contained therein. On a magazine cover consists of drawings and writings are arranged in such a way that looks interesting and has meaning Press publications, especially magazines, today's not enough just to rely on the quality of news or manuscript, although verbal aspect is very important. It must be recognized that the visual aspects (design) as the cover / envelope has crucial role to capture the prospective reader. For the cover of a magazine is a window that shows the content information, can be either a text or photographs, illustrations, and design elements. The function of a magazine cover is to attract, dazzle prospective readers, by way influence the thoughts flow in a short time. So it's no wonder much current the magazine publisher who made the cover of such a way as to attract the attention of prospective readers. Thus the task of designers to magazine cover to create designs that attract the attention of the reader becomes increasingly severe. This study tries to analyze a visual on the front cover Magazine Graphic Design 'Concept' birthday inaugural edition by using the Roland Barthes' semiotic approach. As Roland Barthes (1984), any simple "design work (magazine cover)" continue to play in management of the sign. So that will generate a message (image) specific. Design cover, usually contains the elements of the sign in the form of objects, context of the environment, people or other beings who provide meaning to objects, and text (of writing) that reinforce the meaning.Keyword: cover, magazine Concept, semiotics

COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF PMB and CRMB WITH PARTIAL REPLACEMENT OF BITUMEN (VG-30) USING MARSHALL MIX DESIGN METHOD-A REVIEW

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
N. SATHEESHKANNA
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Mix Design ◽  
Partial Replacement ◽  
Comparative Performance

Waste generated from industries and from various places around us not only contains rubber or plastics but contains lot many harmful pollutants whichare hazardous if disposed continuously in open and leftto degrade in our environment.Our project aims to study properties of different materials which may help in utilising the waste as well as improve the quality of roads and make them efficient, stable, durable and long lasting. Some of the materials that we have studied and considered to be tested in the partial replacement of bitumen are PMB and CRMB.

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