Search for dissertations about: "adaptive design"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 382 swedish dissertations containing the words adaptive design.
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1. Transtructures : prototyping transitional practices for the design of postindustrial infrastructures
Abstract : This dissertation is about 'transtructures', a term coined to describe new kinds of infrastructures that are more attentive and responsive to the needs of contemporary society, its emerging economies and technological capabilities. The purpose of this inquiry is to begin to explore the character and possibilities of a design practice that could guide responsibly and ethically the transition of existing industrial infrastructures towards these new configurations: what processes it could follow, and what materials it could include. READ MORE
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2. Spatial Design for Circularity - Exploring Spatial Aspects in Housing Design with Focus on the Kitchen
Abstract : The building industry and especially multiresidential buildings are responsible for a large portion of environmental impact, energy use and resource exploitation. Hence, there is a need to shift towards more sustainable design solutions for such buildings, which might be achieved by adopting circular economy strategies. READ MORE
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3. Staging urban emergence through collective creativity: Devising an outdoor mobile augmented reality tool
Abstract : The unpredictability of global geopolitical conflicts, economic trends, and impacts of climate change, coupled with an increasing urban population, necessitates a more profound commitment to resilience thinking in urban planning and design. In contrast to top-down planning and designing for sustainability, allowing for emergence to take place seems to contribute to a capacity to better deal with this complex unpredictability, by allowing incremental changes through bottom-up, self-organized adaptation made by diverse actors in the proximity of various social, economical and functional entities in the urban context. READ MORE
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4. Perceived Quality of Cars. A Novel Framework and Evaluation Methodology
Abstract : The supremacy of the automotive manufacturers today is no longer driven by them achieving a superior manufacturing quality but increasingly depends on the customer’s quality perception. Average car consumers see a car’s quality as a fancy mixture of design, aesthetics, their own previous experiences and performance characteristics of the vehicle, unlike a combination of mechanical parts, software pieces, advanced materials, cutting-edge manufacturing processes, with technical knowledge, skills and high production volumes – all ingredients involved in the modern car creation. READ MORE
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5. Adaptive structural design - Integration of computational tools for CAD, adaptive FEM and optimization
Abstract : BackgroundConstruction is one of the largest industries with major impact on economy, environment and society. Improved structural design is important since the decisions made during the design process strongly influence all later stages, i.e. READ MORE
