Anagnou, Eleni (Date of defense: 2014-07-02)
Being a fundamental element of the commercial process, the importance of a proper visual presentation of shop windows is critical. The present research analyzes this everyday urban element in the city ...
Sanabra Loewe, Marc (Date of defense: 2014-11-28)
Post-tensioning precast elements is a very usual practice in civil engineering. However, it is a much more unusual practice in building construction. Here is presented a new construction system to build ...
Fernandes, Eloisa Pizarro (Date of defense: 2014-10-17)
A través de esta tesis se investiga las soluciones utilizadas por el arquitecto Joao Filgueiras Lima - Lelé en los hospitales de la Red Sarah, situados en ciudades brasileñas. Sus proyectos cumplen con ...
Casas Portet, Anna (Date of defense: 2014-11-06)
Domestic architecture is the nerve centre within which human development takes place. Based on that premise, the evolution of spatial perception and the concept of intimacy in human dwellings throughout ...
Genís Vinyals, Mariona (Date of defense: 2014-09-23)
The theoretical, technical, and multidisciplinary specificity of the Architectural Restoration education often entails the knowledge fragmentation and makes the student lose the necessary global and ...
García, Katia Regina Punhagui (Date of defense: 2014-09-23)
This study aims to analyze whether the increased use of wood for housing construction can mitigate carbon dioxide emissions and reduce embodied energy in the civil construction sector in Brazil. The ...
Romo-Orozco, José M. (Date of defense: 2014-06-20)
The principie of this research answers to the interest to procure a value for silence. This argument was added to the expectation generated by the "Documento básico de Protección Frente al Ruido (DB-HR) ...
Señís López, Roger (Date of defense: 2014-06-30)
The Dissertation's main aim is to establish a procedure for the optimization of space grid as a framed tube (spatial mesh) structural typology envelope for tall buildings given the increasing interest ...
Niampira Daza, Andrea (Date of defense: 2014-12-04)
This thesis approach the improvement of the sound insulation action in façade buildings with the barrier protection against to exterior airborne noise focuses specifically in the research of the acoustic ...
Muñiz Martín, Ernesto (Date of defense: 2014-12-15)
Traditionally, the dynamic analysis of Multi degree Systems are based on the study of modal Shapes or energy balances given an established oscillation figure. The expert user of those methods could ...