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A study of the application of the 'salvage' concept as a material usage in architecture

Kulatunga, KM [Thesis-Full-text]

The word 'Material' is a key term in Architecture. The word 'Salvage' is a significant term in materials. A deeper meaning of these terms involve in what we can do to contemporary architecture. 'Material' means that from ...
Adaptation to disaster : housing in flood prone areas with special reference to the colombo district

Sepalage, W [Thesis-Full-text]

Water is a precious commodity and considered a source of life. This life giving water appears as a common thread woven through the religion, literature and art of every culture. Architectural compositions too, are greatly ...
An Analytical study of indirect reuse and its impact on spatial quality

Wickramanayaka, RS [Thesis-Full-text]

The incompatibility between architectural elements, buildings, and urban contexts arisen, has created an inability to identify contexts. Because the link of new buildings with existing buildings is lost. To get back that ...
An Analytical study of the spatial orchestration patterns in Sri Lankan vernacular cave temples : with special reference to Kandyan period

Athapattu, KMSB [Thesis-Full-text]

"In my approach to architecture I think my first concern is the arrangement of spaces, how this related to the site and the needs of the movement constrains there are." Geoffry Bawa (1995 interview by arch. Channa Dahaswattha ...
An Examination of conflicts and constraints in adopting vernacular architectural elements in domestic buildings in Sri Lanka

Samarakoon, BWS [Thesis-Full-text]

From the ancient times, in every region of the world, the indigenous, folk, vernacular architectural tradition has gradually developed with some differences such as region, culture, religion, climate, topography etc. After ...
An Examination of impact of new buildings on historic built fabric : with special reference to Colombo & Galle Forts

Kumari, WADS [Thesis-Full-text]

Development of a city is a unique historical process, which has grown up over centuries, and derived its shape and appearance. The physical structure of a city is considered as the order of the built form, which is a ...
An Examination of probable impacts of the development proposals on the historic city of Galle

Dahanayake, H [Thesis-Full-text]

City of Galle had been a center of power and administration of colonial power for four and half centuries before independence. It had been a battleground and a place for liberation leaving behind many emotional historic ...
An Examination of the concept of "Spirit of the Place" case study : urban spaces in Colombo Fort

Kalyani AM [Thesis-Full-text]

Place is the basic psychological need of the man and the structure of the place facilitates orientation and identity of man which are the two basic needs of dwelling. If not, he gets alienated. Dwelling is of vital importance ...
An Examination of the liveability in high-density multy-story housing, with special reference to luxury apartments complexes

Wickramarathna, PWAH [Thesis-Full-text]

With the technological advancement of mankind the world over, the severe constraints on the ever-depleting resources have contributed to man changing his lifestyle. His adaptation to this changing pattern of the environment ...
An Examination of the relationship between climate, culture and built form with special reference to hot-humid climate

Navarathne, NMRK [Thesis-Full-text]

It is the need for protection form climate that compelled man to build shelter. Since t h e m , his endless thirst for comfort evolved this basic skeleton into new forms thus creating architecture. Human comfort is ...
An Examination of unity as a guiding principle in architectural composition with special reference to contemporary Sri Lankan Architecture

Attanayaka, SD [Thesis-Full-text]

Architecture is primary an art. In the simplest sense it is the art of articulation of space in a meaningful way. According to Antoniades (1980), " Architecture is a discipline aimed at synthesizing, organizing, and ...
Application of interpersonal relationships in the development of multistory apartments

Gunatilake, MDCH [Thesis-Full-text]

Physical space is highly congruent with social and conceptual structure. People cluster to gather because they share unwritten rules and non verbal communicating devices. Clearly the effectiveness of traditional settlements ...
Architectural photography: photography, as a method of appreciation of three dimensional architectural phenomina by two dimensional visual language

Rathnamalala, RMBSCK [Thesis-Full-text]

The term "Photography" is defined to be the re-creation of the three dimensional universe on a two- dimensional surface using light as the medium. In this re-creating process, identification of the three dimensional aspects ...
Architecture and the essence of materials: with special reference to the relationship between the essence of materials and spirit of place

Jayawickrama, DDL [Thesis-Full-text]

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 ...
"Architecture for discipline" : examination and analytical study through military architecture, with special reference to "officer mess buildings" in Sri Lankan army camps

Kulatunga, MUK [Thesis-Full-text]

Architecture is the art of creating built environment, the thoughtful structuring of spaces and articulations of hollows to inhabitant by the man. It is conscious change to the environment, which leads to man's physical ...
Architecture in harmony with nature : an examination of implications of "physical context" in creation of form

Jayasekera, P [Thesis-Full-text]

"Architecture" - "Many things in one". (Balance harmony of visible, invisible, tangible, intangible things) Antoniades,(J980:18) - "It should satisfy mans natural needs, Environment adjusting capabilities and his ...
Attitudes and influences of modernism on Sri Lankan architecture

Kumara, SAS [Thesis-Full-text]

This dissertation examines Modernism in Sri Lanka by the way of what kind of attitudes and how to influences on Sri Lankan architecture as the criteria for evaluating in architecture. It studies the period identified as ...
City imageability through architecture : an examination of the contribution of architecture in achieving city imageability

Karunarathna, NP [Thesis-Full-text]

The city is not a resent evolution, and created by human organisms as an expression of themselves, contains and tires to conserve the essence of the people who built it as well as lived in it. Man builds cities for his. ...
Cognizant streets : an analytical study of architectural psychology in relation to the six senses with special reference to urban streets

Mallawaarachchi, SK [Thesis-Full-text]

The designers of built environment, the place makers have always be concerned with generating the 'appropriate place'. So many theories, visions and paradigms have been formed through analysis and visionary of numerous ...
Colour and the psychology of user ; an examination of colour expressions and its impact on user, in the contemporary Sri Lankan office buildings

Sirithunga, KAS [Thesis-Full-text]

"Colour in particular is so much part of our lives that we often take it for granted – until such time as we are deprived of it." Parikh A. (1996) P 13 All of natural environment and built environment is colourful. We ...

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