Double-skin facade Essays

  • Exterior Facade Smart Materials and Technology

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    provides an opportunity to assess the supportive material as related to a planned proposal. It may also perform the opposite role as one seeks to uphold a studied proposition. This literature review provides insights to the use of double skin facades. Double skin facade relates to the somewhat limited comfort range of the human body, and depends on activity and environmental circumstance. It must examine the broad spectrum of human and environmental needs. Fairly, all available materials are assessed

  • 41 Cooper Square Essay

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    Responding to its urban context, the sculpted facade establishes a distinctive identity for Cooper Square. The building’s corner entry lifts up to draw people into the lobby in a deferential gesture towards the institution’s historic Foundation Building. The façade registers the iconic, curving profile of the central atrium as a glazed figure that appears to be carved out of the Third Avenue façade, connecting the creative and social heart of the building to the street.

  • Light Importance In Architecture

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    While walking down a narrow lane, you see a repetition of openings in the facades and across the lane you see the same openings, which perforate the plaster façade. You start to wonder, what is the main reason for designing a façade like that? How important are the windows in the façade for the interior spaces behind it? How does light coming through these openings affect the perception of a space? What is its significance in architecture? Light makes us see everything around us by its reflection-

  • Binaries and Identities in Amiri Baraka's Dutchman

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    control and deception through her white skin, represents one significant driving force. Clay, who faces manipulation from the oppressive white presence of Lula and the others on the train, has to step up and become an opposing force. Throughout these characters transformations from individuals to powers, they express a combination of double consciousness and self-consciousness to reveal their true identities. The majority of the play focuses on the double-consciousness aspect using actions like looking

  • Analysis of Brazil, Directed by Terry Gilliam

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    Brazil, Directed by Terry Gilliam As a child develops into an adult there are critical developmental steps that are necessary for a complete and successful transition. The physical transition is the most obvious change, but underneath the thick skin and amongst the complex systems, exists another layer of transitions. Ideas, rationales, ideologies and beliefs all dwell within this layer of each being. It could be said that a nation can also fit this transitional framework. A nation grows in both

  • Image Essay On Marilyn Monroe

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    is the epitome of sexy; however, when taking a closer look at the gray-scaled image something catches the audience's eye. The tray of food carefully placed alongside her scarcely covered body, hints at another side to Marilyn Monroe's come-hither facade. In today's society, a woman of Miss Monroe's mature stature would not be caught dead next to a serving dish filled to the brim, this suggests a first question: when did the definition of "sexy" shift from a healthy weight, to that of a size negative

  • Harmful Chemicals in Cosmetics

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    known as a plasticizer and can be found in the material to make rain coats and garden hoses, and its purpose is to make plastic more flexible but still strong (“Controversy Over Phthalates in Cosmetics” par 1) .When phthalates are absorbed into the skin, they could harm the fetus and, in baby boys, they could cause irregular genitals. Another ingredient, methylisothiazoline (or MIT for short), can be found in everyday shampoos and body washes such as Head and Shoulders, Suave and Pantene Hair conditioner

  • Lack Of Trust In The Scarlet Letter

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    Titans.” Hawthorne, throughout his novel, distinctly displays the complexities and difficulties that come with a lack of trust through Reverend Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale, led by the internal struggle of his sin of adultery, embraces a perfect facade in order to avoid exclusion and condemnation from the Puritan society particularly due to his status. Yet due to the magnitude of the sin on his heart, Dimmesdale subtly distances himself from his community and begins to trust no one. Consequently

  • Case Study: The Shodhan House By Corbusier

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    their neighbours with an opulent design. Corbusier worked with this challenge by creating a double height ceiling and mezzanine which were design elements in many of the buildings in the area, but also exhibited the opulence of the owners. Corbusier made this building unique, but used elements common in many of his modernist designs. A flat roof (with garden), a parasol (to shade from the sun), an open facade, and the piers elevating the floor, and a ribbon window. These were the elements used in many

  • True Identity In Passing By Nella Larsen And The Bluest Eye

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    of another person exposing her true identity when she does not want others to know about who she truly is. If not for the time in which she lives in, the 1920s, Irene should not have to worry about what color her skin is. However, Irene does live in this era in which having darker skin means people are bound to be more prejudicial towards others. Therefore, Irene must stick true with her gimmick of passing in order to protect herself from what may be a potential bigot. In contrast, is Pauline from

  • Death In The Book Thief

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    Death, a concept shielded from the youth, denied by the mature and feared by the elderly. The concept of death has shaped itself into a monstrous being, swallowing up the best, dragging down the young and tearing apart the soul; it crumples to nothingness. Yet, in a world with poverty, destruction and loneliness that cripples the knees, death is sometimes a welcome necessity. In the picture “You too belong to the Fuhrer” by Bundesarchiv Koblenz there is a girl in a Nazi Youth uniform who is smiling

  • Essay On Skyscrapers

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    residents of Taipei. The building was first pitched in a competition in 2010 as an eco-friendly living community. According to the Parisian architect who designed the complex, Vincent Callebaut, claims that he hopes it will build a better tomorrow. The double helix design includes 23,000 trees and shrubs on the exterior

  • The Portrayal of African American Women in Recent Films

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    opportunity to vote and had the right for equal treatment. As such, this allowed for the empowerment of African American women, allowing them the opportunity of more work options and given the freedom of decision-making. However, the negativity that skin colour represented in the past still pervades, hence, film has become a platform for the exposure of the oppression and restrictions faced by women of colour, and allow for the exploration of the disadvantages that plague them. This has brought about

  • Essay On Eureka Tower

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    With it being one of main attractions in Melbourne, Australia, The Eureka tower is the highest residential building in the world, standing at a height of 300m. It opened up on the 11th of October 2006 and took 4 years and 2 months to complete. There are many elements to the building which are quiet vital to its appearance and the history from where the idea comes from. The main materials used within the building are gold coated glazing and power coated aluminium windows. The name of the building

  • Post Modern Design Of Architecture

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    ‘The Architectural Technologist draws design inspiration from the development over time of diverging architectural genres’ The objective of this report is to explore the above statement in relation to a building of my choice, the building can be modern, post modern or post-post modern. In doing this I am required to discuss the historical formation of the movement and analyse the building I chose with particular reference to technologies. The ‘History of Architecture’ module itself and the topic

  • Essay on the Evils of Capitalism Exposed in Catch-22

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    Evils of Capitalism Exposed in Catch-22 "That's some catch, that Catch-22" (47). Some catch indeed, for Catch-22 "is the best there is" (47). A strange paradox preventing men from being grounded under any circumstances, Catch-22 eventually evolves into a justification for doing virtually anything. After all, it "says [anyone] can do anything [that] we can't stop them from doing" (416). A less obviously stated, but equally powerful, validation for one's actions is the guarantee of profit. "It

  • Egyptian View of the Afterlife

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    help preserve the body and keep it intact. The tomb was also a place where family members could come and visit the deceased. In the early years, tomb structures were very simple; they consisted only of one chamber (Grajetzki, 2003: 3-4). Later on, façade tombs were built— which consisted of two parts; an “underground chamber for the dead and the superstructure built above the ground, over the shaft and the burial chamber” (Grajetzki, 2003: 8). Next, the Egyptian tombs and ... ... middle of paper

  • The Disadvantages Of Using Sandwich Composites: Advantages And Consites

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    The advantages of using sandwich composites is that they provide mechanical properties to much lower weight than other materials like metals and concrete. They have high stiffness which gives high flexural rigidity, high tensile and compressive strength, good impact resistance, better surface finish, etc. Sandwich composite materials also enable designers to engineer with extreme precision to their loading requirements. Core is one of the variables in a sandwich composite that enables this due to

  • Analysis Of George Henry Durrie's Holiday In The Country, The Cider Party

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    The artwork starts outside the barn. The left bottom of the painting holds a brown and white pig walking towards the barn in front of the resting dog lying just inside the barn’s open double doors. The pig’s ears are brown while its engorged nipples suggest it had piglets. As the pig strolls in front of the barn it encounters the remains of animal bones while patches of green grass and dirt highlight the way to the barn. On the opposite

  • The Beauty Of Cherry Blossom Festivals

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    Introduction Only in springtime will it grow. For less than a month, it stands in utter adoration atop a pedestal of growth and beauty. When its time reaches the end, it graciously falls back to the earth in a light flurry of rosy snowfall. The short-lived life of the Japanese cherry blossom, or sakura, has become a symbol of fleeting beauty to the Japanese, and its blossoming is an occurrence widely celebrated throughout the country of Japan. Hanami, or flower viewing, is a tradition of the Japanese