Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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This doctoral thesis commences, as any other research would, from an intuition that becomes a hypothesis and, therefore, a vehicle that governs the development of an entire argument. In this case, the initial intuitions ...
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme predicts that by 2030, the number of inhabitants in urban self-produced settlements (slums for UN-HABITAT) will reach 2 billion. These places have a classic definition: ...
Buildings bear social and physical thres holds that hold together albeit in constant tension elements that might be conflicting but meaningful to human living. This thesis explores those thresholds and aims to understand ...
Purpose of the research: The research aims to explore the chances of improving environmental conditions for users of collective housing buildings by developing common areas as places for social relationship located between ...
La presente tesis estudia las estrategias que utilizan los arquitectos para conseguir encargos, para vender proyectos, para construir obras. Aunque sus modus operandi pueden parecer meras técnicas de marketing no se puede ...
Manabí es la tercera provincia del país, por el número de población y la cantidad de rentas que aporta, sólo superada por Pichincha y Guayas. (...) En materia de arquitectura viviendística ha desarrollado muestras de ...
The present thesis couldn't have been unaffected by the recent economic crisis. Even before this crisis, it was well-known that architecture was languishing in its traditional boundaries. In the countries that didn't suffer ...
This research presents the work of the Japanese architect Kazuo Shinohara (1925-2006) and studies five of his residential designs as epitome of his oeuvre. lts development is understood as a continuous quest to reconcile ...
The thesis "The form of living in modern Belgian architecture" is a travel through the most industrialized cities of Belgium. lts main objective is to investigate the history of the social habitat in this country, with the ...
Las obras del arquitecto Gordon Bunshaft, desarrolladas mientras trabajó en la empresa multinacional S.O.M. - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill - agrupan una serie de atributos constructivos y formales que reflejan la modernidad ...
The main issue of the thesis is to discuss the method of building relationships between architecture and city through analyzing projects by Barcelona architects. There are two hypothesizes of the thesis: fragment and ...
Este estudio se ha centrado en las diversas fases de proyecto y la primera etapa de la construcción del Camp Nou, entre 1954 y 1957. Con la intención de ampliar al máximo la capacidad de localizar variables e indeterminaciones ...
Between 1953 and 1957 Giovanni Ponti (Mlan 1891-1979) designed, from his studio in Milan (Italy), a single family house on the top of a hill in the outskirts of Caracas (Venezuela) for Mr. and Mrs . Planchart. His clients ...
El objetivo de la presente investigación es entender, a través del análisis de los discursos sobre el habitar, el pasar del tiempo en el interior de la arquitectura doméstica portuguesa, durante la década de 1960. Después ...
The city of Antonio Prado, located in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil started to be built at late nineteenth century by immigrants from the northern region of Italy, who left their homeland in the pursuit of new opportunities ...
This thesis presents "Eurythmy as visible speech", the art of movement which was developed by Rudolf Steiner (1863-1925), as a tool which can enable architects to recognize and create architectural forms from the sources ...
La tesis recupera la idea de la arquitectura que parte de procesos de colaboración entre arquitecto y artista; rescatando aquellas obras que en México revolucionaron y traspasaron las concepciones tradicionales de los ...
This thesis approaches the study of seaside hotels as imagined by Jose Antonio Coderch at the beginning of mass tourism in Spain, when small, traditional, family-run hotels scattered along the coastline were transformed ...
The Costa Brava is not just a place within the territory, nor can it be summed up in an image, or approached through a single aspect. The complexity of its multifaceted landscape, makes it unattainable. A landscape that ...
