• Expressive quality of water"in Architecture : an examination of its role in enhancing spatial progression 

  Hasanthai, RGS [Thesis-Abstract]
• A housing strategy for the urban poor 

  Lankatilleke, ALB [Thesis-Abstract]
• User perception in Architecturre : an examination of the relationship with special reference to housing after disaster 

  Edirisinghe, DC [Thesis-Abstract]

  As a human being, each professional has specific duty for their society. It should be done in very sensitive and proper manner to the current user. There is poor relationship and mutual understanding between "professional ...
• Territoriality in Urban settings : a study on owner/user perception on territoriality with special reference to selected areas in Colombo 

  Perera, CBH [Thesis-Abstract]

  Human is a territorial animal. Therefore territoriality is one of the basic psychological needs of the human beings. Animals or humans who belong to certain territory (it may be an area, culture, society, or group) feel ...
• Social spaces in built environment an examination of their utilization in tertiary educational institutes with special reference to technical colleges in Sri Lanka 

  Navaratne, NMNS [Thesis-Abstract]

  Social spaces have been created and existed form the beginning of the early settlements of human beings through the history up to the present days in order to have securing of own being, social interaction, exchanging and ...
• Place making for the disabled: a critical analysis of the architectural intervention in rehabilitating the Sri Lankan disabled soldier 

  Jayalatharachchi, I [Thesis-Abstract]

  Architecture is a physical, emotional and intellectual experience. It facilitates man's bodily comfort, emotionally attaches him in to it and as a work of art through symbolic communication leads him towards a higher realm ...
• A Study of the city form of Negombo and it's evolution pattern. 

  Welagedara, CSS [Thesis-Abstract]

  City as a complex human settlement has different origins and evolution patterns. Each city has it's own origin due to many reasons. They have come to their present city form after many changes to the original city form. ...
• Physical aspects of Buddhist sacred place in congested urban context: examination of contemporary Buddhist architecture in Western Province 

  Jayawardana, P [Thesis-Abstract]

  Image and the Imageability are the main physical aspects which can be identified in a place. Capacity of image making of a 'place' is called as the imageability of the place. That ability of a place is determined by its ...
• Geometry & house form : An examina tion of its correla tion with User satisfaction, with special reference to User inflicted modifications on urban Housing schemes 

  Jayatilake, MD [Thesis-Abstract]

  " It seems very unaccountable that the generality of our late architects dwelt so much upon the ornamentation, and so slightly pass over the geometrical, which is the most essential part of architecture..." Christopher ...
• A Study of the implications of urban growth in relation to traditional city 

  Gamage, GKU [Thesis-Abstract]

  City is a collection of manraade structures organized for human habitation. The organized structure of the city resembles the sacredness by the people. Therefore, the expansion of the built environment also must have ...
• Architecture and the essence of materials: with special reference to the relationship between the essence of materials and spirit of place 

  Jayawickrama, DDL [Thesis-Abstract]

  Architecture is a combination of materials. A material consists of physical qualities and an essence. The physical quality of a material is its strength, texture, surface and colour. The physical quality of a material ...
• The Influence of structural timber on architectural form and space: an illustrative study 

  Lokuliyana, DS [Thesis-Abstract]

  Timber could be defined as the conversion of prepared wood. Wood is obtained from the trunks and larger branches of the tree by forming it to various shapes and sizes. Timber has been one of the most popular building ...
• The Bio - climatic approach to urban public space: a thermal evaluation of 'streets' 

  Perera, NGR [Thesis-Abstract]

  Public spaces are the heart of civic life in a city; the common ground where people carry out the functional and ritual activities that bind a community, whether in the normal routines of daily life or in periodic festivities. ...
• Eco friendly architecture in eco tourism: an illustrative study of eco tourist architecture in the tropical environment with special reference to Sri Lankan context 

  Rajapakse, DS [Thesis-Abstract]

  The pace of development in countries within the tropical region is among the fastest in the world. Yet many of these nations still depend heavily on their natural resources. This today has led to a conflict: rapid development ...
• New architecture in Kandy: study of the use of essential characteristics in new development 

  Seneviratne, TMEGL [Thesis-Abstract]

  Aesthetic intention and the creation of better surroundings for life are the two permanent characteristics of architecture. These aspects emerged from any significant attempt to explain the city as the human creation. But ...
• Monumentality in the man - made environment: an examination of its manifestations on urban form 

  Ranasinghe, WMDD [Thesis-Abstract]

  The man-made environment, its architecture, urban design are all manifested through this thinking. Further, the quality achieved and one intended are both a result of this thinking in the present-day environment. ...
• The Impact and implication of the Energy Efficient Building Code in Sri Lankan context 

  Amarakoon, AMGD [Thesis-Abstract]

  Being a scared resource energy conservation is becoming an important issue today It believes that the new energy conservation regulations considerably contribute to solve the problem generating because of the scarcity of ...
• Place and consciousness: an analysis of organizing principles and elements as generators of consciousness in place 

  Weerasinghe, CA [Thesis-Abstract]

  Space is fundamental material in all architectural creation. It is space that is being manipulated by the designer to create built form. In this sense he gives space some interpretation; interpretation matching his ...
• Sri Lankan vernacular architecture as an appropriate response to the basic forces in built environment: a case study on vernacular architecture in Ratnapura district 

  Wimalaweera, APS [Thesis-Full-text]

  It is widely achieved that the built environment is made as a resulting of three basic forces; namely social technological and environmental. This has the conformed by the well-known researcher Amost Rapoport too. Early ...
• Applicability of the building envelope requirements of 'Energy Efficient Building Code (EEBC) for commercial buildings in Sri Lanka' 

  Ratnam, R [Thesis-Abstract]

  This study is focused on the recently published 'Energy Efficient Building Code (EEBC) for Commercial Buildings in Sri Lanka' and its applicability for Sri Lankan office buildings. It attempts to examine the Building ...

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