College of Architecture Theses and Dissertations
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Parking policies for resurging cities: An Atlanta case study
(Geomrgia Institute of Technology, 2016-08-01)Parking policies lie at the intersection of land use and transportation. Although often overlooked by traditional planning and engineering methods, parking can serve as an amplifier for an area’s success or failure. The ... -
The impact of occupant modeling on energy outcomes of building energy simulation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-08-02)The reported performance gap between predicted and real building energy consumption has drawn keen attention from the building simulation community and related stakeholders. Alongside other research efforts to identify, ... -
LANDSCAPE ANTHROPOMETRICS: A MULTI-SCALE APPROACH TO INTEGRATING HEALTH INTO THE REGIONAL LANDSCAPE
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-07-20)This research creates a consistent, scalable approach for incorporating health considerations into regional land planning. A prototypical framework is presented for the Atlanta region. Determinants of healthy places from ... -
Accuracy, validity and relevance of probabilistic building energy models
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-08-02)Residential and commercial buildings consume 41% of total U.S. energy consumption. Since improving energy efficiency is still the most cost efficient energy saving option in the U.S., it is not surprising that many new ... -
APPLICATION OF INVERSE MODELING TO PERFORMANCE-BASED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN IN THE EARLY STAGE
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-31)The architecture, engineering, and construction community is taking action to reduce energy consumption. Fulfilling energy performance requirements entails complex decision-making at the architectural design stage, when a ... -
Solar Shift: A Perspective on Building Energy Performance under Haze Pollutions in China
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-31)The severe haze pollution in China has arisen concerns among the public and government officials, due to its impacts on pubic health, visibility, climate and agriculture. To augment these findings of the negative impacts ... -
Power Performance Assessment of Building Energy Systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-20)Buildings are the main consumers of electricity across the world. In the past research, the focus has been on evaluating the energy performance of buildings whereas the instantaneous power consumption of systems and ... -
Meta-modeling Design Expertise
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-23)The general problem that this research addresses is that despite the efforts of cognitive studies to describe and document the behavior of designers in action and the evolution of computer-aided design from conceptual ... -
Measuring the impacts of hospital nursing floor and patient room layouts on patients’ experience with care in a major teaching hospital
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-07-30)While a growing body of literature suggests that the layout of inpatient hospitals impacts a range of outcomes such as noise, falls and mortality, the research has not yet established systematic association between layout ... -
How modest, incremental site-driven interventions differ in their impact on slum upgrading from iconic projects
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-05-20)Urban informal settlements have increased dramatically over the last decades throughout major cities in developing countries. Post war industrialization, increased economic opportunities and social freedoms continue to ... -
A STUDY OF FABRICATION METHODS AND DESIGN OUTCOME ON STUDENT PERSPECTIVE IN AN ACADEMIC INDUSTRIAL DESIGN STUDIO
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-05-15)The construction of models is an important component in the innovation and final production phase of a design project. They are the key to testing a concept to identify and correct design or usability problems. Models at ... -
RETHINKING THE WORK SPACE
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-05-15)The idea of the open plan workspace has been a popular model for office design since the 1960’s. The openness was thought to encourage collaboration and group thinking while also allowing for more supervision and a more ... -
Comparing and exploring new text entry and edit methods for Smart TV
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-05-11)Smart TV is becoming an increasingly important multimedia device for home entertainment now. One of the most important interaction between users and a smart TV is text entry and edit. For example a user may need to input ... -
Sustainable energy in military base design & layout
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-10)The purpose of this study is to exlpore the possibilities of power generation using human and mechanical means. This paper will introduce alternative means, methods, and procedures for the implementation of cutting edge ... -
Application of the functional scenarios method on alternative settings
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-09)Goals of this study are to set up the frame-work for analyzing residential buildings using the functional scenarios method and to tests the applicability of the method on large scale projects. The metrics for the analysis ... -
Manufacturing compliance analysis for architectural design: a knowledge-aided feature-based modeling framework
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-03-29)Given that achieving nominal (all dimensions are theoretically perfect) geometry is challenging during building construction, understanding and anticipating sources of geometric variation through tolerances modeling and ... -
The flow of city life: An analysis of cinematography and urban form in New York and Los Angeles
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-01-14)This dissertation uses quantitative data on city cinematography and the morphological study of filming locations to identify how differences in ways of seeing cities, as shaped by cinematographic choices, are anchored both ... -
Performance measures for residential PV structural response to wind effects
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-05-27)This thesis applies structural reliability measures for the performance based design of residential PV system structures. These measures are intended to support designers in delivering systems with quantified and consistent ... -
A simplified BIM data representation using a relational database schema for an efficient rule checking system and its associated rule checking language
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-12-29)Efforts to automate building rule checking have not brought us anywhere near to the ultimate goal to fully automate the rule checking process. With the advancement in BIM and the latest tools and computing capability, we ... -
Toward semantic model generation from sketch and multi-touch interactions
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-11-11)Designers usually start their design process by exploring and evolving their ideas rapidly through sketching since this helps them to make numerous attempts at creating, practicing, simulating, and representing ideas. ...
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