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    Urban vertical garden: ways to improve living conditions by applying green façades in buildings refurbishment at semi-arid climate 

    Bagheri Moghaddam, Faezeh (Date of defense: 2022-01-24)

    This dissertation aims to improve work conditions in office buildings by implementing vertical greenery systems, such as green façades and living walls in semi-arid climates. Since building energy performance is characterized ...

    El espacio a partir del plano: el neoplasticismo en la arquitectura contemporánea 

    Díez Blanco, María Teresa (Date of defense: 2022-02-07)

    The Dutch De Stijl group was born at a time of common interest among avant-garde artists and architects of the first half of the 20th century in the purification of the means of expression, based until then on a tradition ...

    La Seu Episcopal d’Ègara : el projecte d’un conjunt cristià al segle V 

    González Pérez, Francisco Javier (Date of defense: 2022-07-19)

    The aim of this research about built heritage is to understand how were the buildings placed in the monumental ensemble of Saint Peter of Terrassa configured, from middle 5th century to second half of the 6th century. To ...

    La arquitectura moche del Perú : análisis, interpretación y relación con la arquitectura peruana (1924-2020) 

    Alva López, Florentino Gerardo (Date of defense: 2023-02-27)

    (English) The latest archaeological discoveries and research on the Moche or Mochica culture (circa 200 A.D.-800 A.D.), developed in the northern coast of Peru, has allowed us to have a better vision and understanding of ...

    The value of urban community public space - from Barcelona to Chongqing 

    Xu, Ti (Date of defense: 2023-04-27)

    (English) The community is the main urban space for expressing public space, and it is quite related to the daily life of everyone. In China, the community associated with housing became much more complex than before in ...

    Masía urbana: el papel arquitectónico y urbanístico de la masía en el área suburbana de Barcelona durante el siglo XX 

    Park, Jeongsoo (Date of defense: 2023-06-27)

    (English) This thesis is based on a new concept of the ‘Urban Masia’ applied to the city of Barcelona between from the 1860s to the present. *(Although ‘‘masia’’ usually translated as 'farmhouse' in many cases, this term ...

    Residential outdoor spaces and thermal stress : courtyard design approach to thermally enhance outdoor spaces in single-family houses in the desert climate of Riyadh 

    Alkhoudiri, Ahmed Salah M. (Date of defense: 2023-07-21)

    (English) The typological shift of single-family houses in Riyadh during the 20th century has negatively impacted the inhabitants. The shift from attached houses with courtyards to detached houses with setbacks created ...

    Architectural identity for digital corporations: new architectural design strategies based on green values 

    Jawad I Alhelal, Abdulhadi (Date of defense: 2024-02-06)

    (English) The thesis reveals new corporate and architectural identity relationship developments in the twenty-first century. The study unpacks that relationship by examining digital corporations' approach to exploiting ...