Essays about: "Vernacular Architecture"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 31 essays containing the words Vernacular Architecture.

  1. 6. Re-adapting the Laundry : Inquiring about culture-graded buildings By Participatory Action Research

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Ture Askvall; [2022]
    Keywords : Participatory Action Research; Culture-Grades; Participatory design; design inquiry.;

    Abstract : According to the Stockholm City municipality’s publication The City Museums Cultural and Historical Classifications[Stadsmuseets kulturhistoriska klassificering], culture-graded buildings in Stockholm are classified by The Stockholm CityMuseum, according to a model of evaluation created by the National Heritage Board, seeking to define what cultural heritage brings to the table (Stockholm City, 2022). As it says in the Swedish National Board of Housing´s Building and planning publication Corruption Prohibition, to ensure the preservation of the positive impacts culturally significant buildings provide for their surroundings, the municipalities enforce laws that affect the development process of the built environment (Boverket, 2021). READ MORE

  3. 7. A Seamless City : female textile workers in the urban fabric of Malmö

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Sara Saleh; [2022]
    Keywords : textile industry; autoethnography; industrial landscape; Malmö strumpfabrik AB; Marabou; recreation; factory workers; architecture; urban planning; site analysis; urban history; Malmö; Sundbyberg; landscape architecture; industrial development;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how the historical presence of female textile industry workers can be envisaged in the urban landscape of Malmö. With the background of Malmö’s urban history and transformation from an industrial town to a “City of Knowledge”, and an autoethnographic method based on a framework of Critical Normativity, two case studies are performed. READ MORE

  4. 8. Hikes, Huts and Houses: A Study of Hiking Community’s and Derelict Building Owners’ Perceptions towards a Potential Establishment of Travelers’ Huts Network in Lithuania

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik

    Author : Karolina Zelve; [2022]
    Keywords : backcountry cabins; hikers; abandoned buildings; adaptation; rural tourism; sustainability; Lithuania; travelers huts;

    Abstract : This paper presents a master’s thesis research project that aimed to explore the attitudes of members of Lithuanian hiking community and derelict building owners towards the possibility of adapting country’s abandoned rural buildings into a network of recreational ‘travelers’ huts’. Participants’ opinion on the need of such network as well as their management, location, building age, type, and other preferences were considered. READ MORE

  5. 9. Adaptive reuse of the vernacular log building

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Christine Bergström; [2022]
    Keywords : vernacular architecture; log house; multi generational home; rammed earth; adaptive reuse; Sundborn; Dalarna; rural; log building;

    Abstract : This thesis project is an attempt to learn from vernacular building traditions when designing sustainable homes for families in a contemporary rural setting. My proposal is a multi-generational home consisting of reused old log houses, which would otherwise be torn down, joined together through a composition of local materials for new rammed earth structures. READ MORE

  6. 10. Creative Christiania - A Call For A New Vernacular

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

    Author : Malin Markkanen; [2021]
    Keywords : Urban planning; architecture; urban politics; Copenhagen; Scandinavia; Denmark; cities; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : Christiania is a historically and culturally interesting district in the middle of Copenhagen, Denmark. This work is an investigation into the possible ways and methods through which Christiania could be developed in the future. READ MORE