Nature and architecture : an urban library. A study of the process of designing a new type of public architecture in the urban park context.Research question 1: In an urban park context, how to design a library that will includes and infiltrates its natural surroundings by all ways?Research question 2: And how to bring people a unique atmosphere of reading and studying, through the interaction and integration between architecture and nature.

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Nature and architecture : an urban library. A study of the process of designing a new type of public architecture in the urban park context.Research question 1: In an urban park context, how to design a library that will includes and infiltrates its natural surroundings by all ways?Research question 2: And how to bring people a unique atmosphere of reading and studying, through the interaction and integration between architecture and nature.

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Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, the architecture industry has experienced an enormous revolution of its own. The application of new materials and industrialized production methods created plenty of architecture with new functional typologies. Numerous architecture projects were constructed as monuments, and gradually the public come to see architecture as a profession that created symbols reflecting power and wealth. Now, it seems that architects have forgotten the modern ar...

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Masters

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2015

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Wang, Zhengyang

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https://hdl.handle.net/10652/3275

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Western Park (Ponsonby, Auckland) / Ponsonby Road (Auckland, N.Z.) / Hopetoun Street (Ponsonby, Auckland) / libraries / library architecture / architecture and nature / parks / urban spaces / Architectural Design

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