74 research outputs found
Farshid Moussavi
No full textIn this lecture, Farshid Moussavi will argue that architecturally speaking, politics is about people’s attachment to buildings- how buildings alter what people see, hear and do in and around them. This is not a question that is settled in advance through representation, but has to be evaluated in its irreducible singularity each time.
Alongside leading an award-winning architectural practice, Farshid Moussavi Architecture (FMA), she lectures regularly at arts institutions and schools of architecture worldwide and is a published author. Moussavi was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to architecture. She was elected a Royal Academician in 2015 and Professor of Architecture at the RA Schools in 2017.
Moussavi’s ideas and work are at the forefront of critical debate about architecture. In 2017 she was Architectural curator of the Royal Academy Summer Show where she proposed a highly original approach, showing the internal mechanisms and the construction process that underpins architecture. Her work is deeply rooted in critical research which she carries out through FunctionLab, the research branch of FMA. FunctionLab explores cultural questions that find actualisation in the building commissions of the office, allowing for informed and innovative results. With the influential series of books that Moussavi published with Harvard, The Function of…, she has explored the theory and built history of ornament, form, and style
sepehrband/Mining_NeuroAnat: version 0.1
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Simulation of southwest monsoon current circulation and temperature in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia
No full textThis study investigates the southwest monsoon circulation and temperature along the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia by using the Regional Ocean Modeling System at 9 km resolution. The simulated circulation shows strong northward flowing western boundary currents along the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia with maximum speed of approximately of 0.6-0.7 ms-1. The western boundary current, that extends to a depth of about 35 m, continues flowing northward up to approximately 7oN where it changes direction eastward. The circulation along the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia is also characterized by two anti-cyclonic eddies. Furthermore, an elongated of cooler sea surface temperature that stretches along the coast was also simulated. The existence of this cool SST pattern is associated with coastal upwelling process due to localized lifting of isotherms near the coast as a response to the southerly-southwesterly wind stress along the coast during the southwest monsoon
Hydrodynamic and Thermohaline Seasonal Structures of Peninsular Malaysia's eastern continental shelf sea
No full textSimulation of Southwest Monsoon current circulation and temperature in the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia
No full textThree proposals for a new urban center in Tehran (1966-1976)
No full textThesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2011.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-108).In 1975, Muhammad Reza Shah, the king of Iran, inaugurated the construction of a ceremonial urban center in northern Tehran. The proposed plan, prepared by Llewelyn-Davies International, consisted of a large plaza and two boulevards lined with governmental and commercial buildings-an extravagant project made possible by the 1973 oil boom that quadrupled Iran's revenue. But the Shah's vision was never realized: construction was soon halted with the eruption of the protests that led to the fall of the Pahlavi monarchy in 1979. The Llewelyn-Davies plan was not the first proposal for the site. It was initially planned in Tehran's master plan-prepared jointly by Victor Gruen and Farmanfarmaian Associates (1966-70). In late 1973, Louis Kahn was solicited to prepare a proposal, which was never finished as Kahn died in March 1974. This thesis examines these three proposed plans for a new urban center in Tehran. Through a detailed examination of consultancy reports, architectural drawings and archival documents, the thesis critically analyzes the urban vision and socio-political underpinnings of the projects. Based on the three main roles of the new urban center-civic, national, and international-I interpret the plans as metaphors of urban life; as political tools of nation building in the postwar web of nation-states; and as products of international design currents. The aim is to delineate the ways in which international design currents meshed with the political, social and intellectual context of Iran in the 1970s, a period characterized by authoritarian rule, monarchical nationalism and rapid modernization. Underlying all three proposals was a yearning to create a modernized, acculturated and apolitical urban middle class. The trajectory of these plans demonstrates how the demand for rapid modernization obliterated alternative voices and led, ultimately, to "the tragedy of development."by Farshid Emami.S.M
Improving runoff estimation by raster‐based Natural Resources Conservation Service‐Curve Number adjustment for a new initial abstraction ratio in semi‐arid climates
No full textRaster-Based Derivation of a Flood Runoff Susceptibility Map using the Revised Runoff Curve Number (CN) for the Kuantan Watershed, Malaysia
No full textThis study aims to develop a methodology for generating a flood runoff susceptibility (FRS) map using a revised curve number (CN) method. The study area is in the Kuantan watershed (KW), Malaysia, which was seriously
affected by floods in December 2013 and December 2014. A revised runoff CN map was developed for the study area and then compared with those available in the SCS standard tables. The CN obtained from the revised approach range between 18 and 100, which reveals a
stretching effect on the CN, which initially ranged between 33 and 100. Subsequently, the FRS map was developed for the KW. Approximately 5 % of the study area was identified as a very high-risk zone and 13 % as high-risk zone.
However, the spatial extent of a high-risk zone in the
downstream end and lowland areas of the KW could be
considered to be the main cause of flood damage in recent
years. From practical point of view, the finding of this
research provides a road map for government agencies to
effectively implement flood mitigation projects in the study area
Dynamical structure of the sea off the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia
No full textThe regional ocean modelling system (ROMS), at a resolution of 9 km, is used to investigate the dynamics of the sea off the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia (ECPM). The model is configured with two, one-way nested domains. Two simulations are performed in order to understand the dynamical structure of the sea off ECPM. The first simulation is a control run, using climatological monthly mean wind stress, surface freshwater flux, heat and observational oceanic inflow and outflow at open boundaries. The second simulation is an experiment aimed at presenting the seasonally averaged effect of isolated forcing in the absence of wind stress. This procedure allows understanding of the upwelling mechanism in the absence of wind stress forcing within the region. The model simulated the oceanographic features in the region reasonably well, in particular the circulation and temperature patterns conformed to those of Simple Ocean Data Assimilation and observations. Results show the possibility of upwelling in the summer monsoon along the sea off ECPM. This is due to the strong long-shore wind stress, which coincided with lower sea surface height and high baroclinic instability. The strong positive horizontal transport in accordance with the positive vertical transport within 104.5° E and 105.5° E, at latitude 3° N suggests net offshore transport and the occurrence of upwelling. Moreover, results demonstrate that summer upwelling rate at corresponding latitude induced by the long-shore wind stress is 3 × 10−5 m/s larger than the vertical velocity of 0.5 × 10−5 m/s induced by the wind stress curl. This reflects the importance of the long-shore wind stress for inducing the coastal upwelling. High concentrations of phytoplankton biomass through the proxy of chlorophyll-a concentration and the observed upward motion of denser water at the sea surface are due to the upwelled nutrient-rich wate
Retraction notice to “Rechargeable Batteries for Energy Storage: A review” [e-Prime - Advances in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Energy 8 (2024) 100510]
No full textThis article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/article-withdrawal).Suspicious changes in authorship between the original submission and the revised version of this paper were discovered.The paper was originally submitted by Ehsan Kianfar as single author. Co-authors Chou-Yi Hsu, Yathrib Ajaj, Ghadir Kamil Ghadir, Hayder Musaad Al-Tmimi, Zaid Khalid Alani, Ausama A. Almulla, Mustafa Asaad Hussein, Ahmed Read Al-Tameemi, Zaid H. Mahmoud, Mohammed Ahmed Mustafa, Farshid Kianfar, and Sajjad Habibzadehwere were added to the revised paper without explanation and without exceptional approval by the journal editor, which is a violation of the journal's policies. The publisher reached out to the authors for an explanation, but they failed to provide a satisfactory explanation to these changes.The Editor has determined that the authorship and the findings of the article cannot be relied upon and has decided to retract the article
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