Building Technology Program: Recent submissions

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    • Houses in Heaven are made of steel : understanding change in Ecuadorian amazon Secoya structures 

      Arboleda, Gabriel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
      This thesis explores the change in the building structures of a Northeastern Ecuadorian group, the Secoya of the Aguarico River. In the context of environmental activism and cultural survival there are many reasons to ...

    • Model identification with application to building control and fault detection 

      Armstrong, Peter Ross, 1950- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
      (cont.) may still be solved as an unconstrained linear least squares problem. To enforce the constraint on system eigenvalues, the problem is formulated as an unconstrained mixed (linear and non-linear) least-squares ...

    • FLUX : adaptable architecture for a dynamic society 

      Greene, Aaron Steven Wendel, 1978- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
      (cont.) Perhaps a more functional architecture that is kinetic, transformable, capable of disengagement, and reassembly could keep up with the occupants' need to have multiple programs taking place in one space, maintain ...