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Creating Observational 3D Sculptures
(International Symposium on Electronic Art, 2015)
Technology has been used to assist in communication and concept development by artists, designers/inventors, engineers, clients, manufacturers and others. [1-3] The use of technology to aid artists capture what they see ...
An Introduction to the Development of a Product Brand: An Evidence-Based Template for Use with First Year Undergraduate Industrial Designers
(Engineering Design Graphics Division, 2015)
The aim of this paper is to provide education practitioners with a template to facilitate the introduction of brand construction to first year undergraduate industrial design students through the visual and physical ...
The Jazeera Al Hamra Digital Heritage Project: A Model for Digitally Preserving the Heritage of the Arabian Peninsula
(Common Ground Publishing, 2015)
The digital environment offers an opportunity to establish a museum model that supports contemporary museum thought in regard to collective memory strategies, inclusivity, and equity of tangible and intangible cultural ...
Linear Domesticity: The Hong Kong Single Occupancy Strip
(University of Cambridge, Department of Architecture, 2015)
The Hong Kong Single Occupancy Strip (HK:SOS) project is a response to a growing housing crisis in Hong Kong, in which the domestic environments of the future are becoming more unaffordable and less habitable. In reaction ...
VR Panoramic Photography and Hypermedia: Drawing from the Panorama's Past
(International Symposium on Electronic Art, 2015)
Since the 1787 patent of the immersive 360-degree painted panorama by Robert Barker, the panorama has been used as a narrative storytelling tool. With VR (virtual reality) panoramic photography in tandem with the notion ...
Glass Selection for High-Rise Buildings in the United Arab Emirates Considering Orientation and Window-to-Wall Ratio
(Elsevier, 2015)
This paper is the continuation of a previous paper published by the authors. Both papers are for a study that considers the relationship among the glass thermal characteristics, its cost, and the price of electricity. This ...
Comparison of Energy Efficiency Strategies for Mosques in the United Arab Emirates
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)
As public buildings that are typically financed by charities, mosques are commonly designed, built, and operated using very limited resources. Hence, failure to design energy efficient mosques either affects occupants' ...