357 research outputs found
City Recovery Garden: Integrate Urban Farm into the AMC Amsterdam
No full textWith the medical services becoming decentralized and even remoted via tele-therapy,the traditional exclusive AMC with such a massive building needs a newposition and identity. This proposal aims to turn the AMC into a city recovery garden that promote the culture of health by integrating urban farming and promoting new identity of health awareness and illness prevention.Architecture, Urbanism and Building Science
ARCHI-NATURE: Renovate in-between space to convert AMC into a natural healing community
No full textIn order to meet the needs for future hospital, the AMC requires a better healing environment with nature elements. In addition, the AMC building will transform from closed medical machine to a public welcome community. My project is to renovate the in-between space of AMC by ‘Archi-Nature’, and convert it into a natural healing community. Archi-Nature means creating the sense of nature experience by using architectural language. And in my research paper, I mainly focus on structure design. For my project, I will create the sense of nature experience by architecture language. The whole intervention include three levels. First step is to create nature atmosphere by new archi-nature structure. Next is to plug in new program. Last one is to redesign the entrance thereby to increase the accessibility. With the new intervention, AMC will create a better healing environment, and it will become a more public building and make profit by the new function.Architecture, Urbanism and Building Science
The creation of a biophilic environment in the rehabilitation area of AMC: Renovation of AMC into a biophilic hospital
No full textThe project act as an example of how biophilic design can be applied into the rehabilitation area of a hospital.The aim of the project is to achieve a faster recovery rate of patients, a better performance of staff and to create a unique experience for the visitors in AMC . Many researches have showed the benefits of using biophilic design in hospital building. Therefore, biophilic design principles were taken as the key strategies for the project. In the research phase the linkage between biophilic design solutions and energy efficiency was being studied. In the design phase the site constraints and operational requirements of AMC were considered. The chosen biophilic design solutions was modified to create the optimum biophilic environment in the rehabilitation area of AMC.AMC RenovationArchitecture, Urbanism and Building Science
AMC Amsterdam as green lung for its inhabitants and environment
No full textThe Academic Medical Center (AMC) is one of the largest hospitals in the Netherlands and it is located in the Bijlmer district. The complex was built in 1981 and consists of 64 hectares of land. The complex is surround by a green belt where also the former psychiatric center was located. The AMC can be seen as a stand-alone city, with daily facilities, the hospital, the university en its big variety of users. The characteristic feature of the AMC monolith, that it manifests itself as an inner city, with large streets and squares and a wide range of facilities, is why it can be compared to a big city as Amsterdam. Where life takes place inside the city. As a result, the AMC has never been built with a connection to its surroundings and is there no connection with the new park to be built near the main entrance. The main entrance is an unclear element from the parking space and also creates a certain boundary between inside and outside. When patients, employees, visitors and students enter the AMC through the main entrance, they enter the city through a dark, depressed corridor, which makes people feel even more inclined to feel ill. In particular, a hospital such as the AMC should contribute to the well-being of its patients and inhabitants.Climate change is an important point of attention for the whole world. Especially in big cities as Amsterdam, which is one of the most polluted cities in the Netherlands. Global warming is dangerous for the living environment in the cities and are in densely populated cities as Amsterdam a real thread and is one of the greatest effects of climate change. A second problem is the disappearance of greenery in the city, and the increasing air pollution. Nature, such as parks, shrubs, plants and trees (green) can contribute to creating a healthier living environment in the city. But instead of more green being realised in the city, it disappears by the fact that cities are getting overcrowded. In the past centuries parks were built to enhance the urban climate. Meanwhile the urban ground is developed in such a high density, and the costs for sites have risen so quickly that (new) parks are very rare in the urban structure. Urban parks disappear and they are transformed into “stamp” parks. The result: the city becomes more and more polluted and gets warmer. This report attempts to evaluate the positive effects of integration of nature on building scale. Research shows that green/nature can filter this air pollution and make a positive contribution to counteracting the rising temperature. The integration of a green façade and green roof in the built environment can play an important role in this. The green elements have besides an esthetically value, also psychological and energetic benefits. When these elements are designed correctly, the building can contribute to a healthier living environment.AMC Renovation | AMC HospitalArchitecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Intectur
UKMARC AMC: Draft Rev 4.0: UK MARC format for archives and manuscripts control (UK MARC AMC)
No full textThis draft is the first attempt to establish a UK MARC specifically for Archives and Manuscripts Control since the British Library indicated that it would countenance such extensions to the national UK MARC format. In order to keep consistency with the general UK MARC format, standard UK MARC subject fields are not included in this document, since they should be taken from the latest version of the UK MARC manual. {A note of them should perhaps be included in UK MARC AMC.} {NB Text in braces is intended to be explanatory material for readers of this draft}. Certain other fields have not been included that might occasionally be used in the cataloguing of archival materials but would generally only be used for such materials in organizations which were combining archive
databases with library databases. This MARC version is intended for use with descriptions of archive or anuscript material that follow, or fit, the traditional style of cataloguing: we assume that these will normally relate
to paper or parchment originals. It is not intended for use with descriptions of other kinds of material. For these, fields may be drawn from the appropriate UK MARC document. MARC versions for use with archives in special formats should be developed, in order to complete the full range of facilities available to archivists and curators
Parametric Healing Environments in the AMC building: Computational design in the context of healing spaces
No full textThe following project is an exploration of computational tools, parametric design and robotic fabrication in the context of the AMC hospital. This multi-functional and complex structuralist building is due for renovation, both in terms of sustainability but also innovation, technology and place-making. It was an ideal testing ground for the way these new technologies can improve the healing qualities of space, quantitatively and qualitatively (i.e thermal comfort, acoustics, light properties, vegetation, ergonomics, etc). My design consists of a parasitic intervention or pavilion within the public areas of the AMC that integrates several parameters through variable scales and porosity and can be materialized through additive manufacturing. It also displays the interesting dynamic of how non-standard architecture can enhance standard architecture. The research and methods utilized can be transferred to other fields as well, since the scripting and algorithms developed are applicable through a wide array of projects.Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Robotic Buildin
A Festive AMC: A Transformation Program for the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam
No full textThe project is based on the proposed transformation program for the AMC. The redesign happens in the public squares of the monolith, including a multi-skylight environment design and the reorganization of the public space by a simple intervention of a wooden surface structure.Architecture, Urbanism and Building Science
Physical Optics Modeling of AMC Checkerboard Surfaces for RCS-Reduction and Low Backscattering Retrodirective Array
No full textabstract: Artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) surfaces have the unique electromagnetic property that the phase of the reflected fields imitate those of perfect magnetic conductors (PMCs). When a perfect electric conductor (PEC) and an AMC surface are placed on the same plane and illuminated by a plane wave, destructive interference occurs between the fields (due to 180 degrees phase difference between the reflected fields of each surface).
In this dissertation, a design procedure is introduced where a refined algorithm is developed and employed on single-band AMCs leading to a 10-dB RCS-reduction bandwidth of 80%. The AMC circuit model is judiciously utilized to reduce the substrate thickness while simultaneously increasing the bandwidth of the AMC surfaces. Furthermore, dual-band AMC surfaces are synthesized and utilized in combination with single-band AMC surfaces to extend the 10-dB RCS-reduction bandwidth from 80% to about 99%. Employing the proposed design procedure, a 99% bandwidth of 10-dB RCS-reduction bandwidth is achieved while reducing the thickness of the substrate by 20%.
The second topic of this dissertation aims at analytically modeling the scattering of planar checkerboard surfaces. The high-frequency asymptotic method, Physical Optics (PO), is utilized to analyze the scattering characteristics of complex structures since the PO is computationally efficient and provides intuitive physical insight. Closed-form formulations developed using PO are used to predict the scattering patterns of checkerboard planar surfaces. The PO-based data compare well, along and near specular directions, with simulations by the full-wave Finite Element Method (FEM).
Finally, a Van Atta retrodirective reflector with low backscattering is designed and developed using a microstrip antenna array. Conventional retrodirective reflectors are sensitive to interference by the fields scattered by the antenna structure. By using a virtual feeding network, structural mode scattering is identified and canceled using AMC technology.Dissertation/ThesisDoctoral Dissertation Electrical Engineering 202
The Analysis of Chinese AMC Corporate Governance
No full text我国四家金融资产管理公司已经成立并运行五年多,但是法人治理结构的缺陷严重影响了它们处置银行不良资产的效率。本文先从金融资产管理公司法人治理结构的概念结构和美国RTC的成功经验入手,进而深入分析了我国金融资产管理公司法人治理结构的缺陷所在,最后提出了优化我国金融资产管理公司法人治理结构的最优策略和次优策略。Four AMCs of china have been founded and run for more than five years ,but their disfigurement of corporate governance has badly affects on the efficiency of disposing banks non-performing assets. In this article, the author firstly introduce the conception of AMC corporate governance and the successful experiences of RTC in America, then go deeply into where the problem is about AMC corporate governance in our country, at last further advance the optimal and second-best strategy to optimize corporate governance of AMC in the end
Reviving the hospital building: A sustainable renovation of the Academisch Medisch Centrum (AMC) in Amsterdam
No full textIn the Netherlands, there is a large amount of buildings that are outdated according to today’s standards. Those existing buildings represent about 70% of the building stock in 2050. Updating these buildings in terms of functionality but mostly in terms of sustainability is therefore a highly relevant task at hand. To quote Prof. Mauro Overend in one of his lectures: “The most sustainable building is the one that has already been built”.Among those buildings, what we could call brutalist buildings from the 1970’s and 1980’s represent a large part of our cityscapes. Those buildings are mainly built of concrete, are in general structurally sound, but although they are not to everyone’s taste, would cost a lot of energy to tear down. What’s more, due to poor insulation and dated climate systems, their energy efficiency is generally atrocious.One good example of those brutalist buildings is the Academic Medical Centre (Academisch Medisch Centrum) in Amsterdam. Built at the beginning of the 1980’s, it is a concrete megastructure, Europe’s largest at the time of completion.This graduation project is approaching the AMC building as a case study of how the brutalist buildings of the 1970’s and 1980’s could be renovated in a sustainable fashion.The project has two components of sustaianability: the spatial design aims to introduce a social aspect to the layout of the research facility of the AMC ; the climate design introduces natural ventilation as a means to make the building more sustainable.The education in the field of medicine has received new insights as to the advantages of exchange between researchers of different specializations. The current research facility is however not at all fit for such socializing. Where the official meeting rooms are already scarce, the informal meeting spots are practically inexistant. The spatial design of this project addresses that issue by creating informal meeting spaces, re-thinking the work floors’ layout and offering an inviting route to connect those spaces.The climate system of the AMC, an all-air system with central air handling units, generates a high energy demand. By exploring the possibility of retrofitting natural ventilation couple with passive thermal treatment of the air, this design aims to show that very sustainable solutions are possible for apparently very un-sustainable buildings.Architecture, Urbanism and Building Science
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