Spatial Needs for Non-driving Related Activities

2021 ◽  
pp. 282-287
Author(s):  
Martin Fleischer ◽  
Rongqian Li
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Needs

scholarly journals Push, Pull, Shrink, Grow: The co-share workplace interior that reflects changing spatial needs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Rebecca Wyborn
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Expectations ◽  
Interior Space ◽  
Interior Architecture ◽  
Local Case ◽  
The Social ◽  
Corporate Office ◽  
Interior Environments ◽  
Office Environments ◽  
Spatial Needs

<p>This thesis explores how co-working offices emerged as a solution to the shift in the social expectations of the workplace. It studies how the rise in the number of freelancers and entrepreneurs has resulted in the materialisation of co-working offices. It examines how co-working offices offer flexibility in terms of membership plans, but how their interior environments do not yet reflect this. In short it aims to investigate how these workplace interiors can adapt to meet residents needs.  This research embraces the multi-functionality of the co-working office and the demands of residents who occupy these spaces. Three local case studies and international precedents are explored which give insight and offer opportunities on materiality, site context and multi-functional spaces. It explores how to engage residents by challenging how best to design co-working offices. This project considers the requirements of the co-working office and how co-working interiors are occupied throughout the day. The design proposes a kit of parts ‘space making’ solution, which enables co-working offices to meet resident’s needs.   This research contributes to the limited published discussion of understanding interior space in the context of co-working offices. This research explores through interior architecture, how co-working offices can be designed to reflect its resident’s individual ways of working and co-workings varying spatial needs. Although based around co-working spaces, the researcher recognises the implications for findings based around corporate office environments.</p>

Non-Linear Model in Architectural Design for Sustainable Social Housing: Case Study Ovča Housing Project Belgrade

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 30-36
Author(s):  
Dušan Stojanović ◽  
Pavle Stamenović
Keyword(s):  
Linear Model ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Sustainable Living ◽  
Housing Design ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Spatial Needs

The aim of this paper is to reconsider the conventional approaches in architectural design for social housing that lead to low adaptability of architecture regarding spatial needs of its inhabitants. This research explores the potential of nonlinear model in architectural design of sustainable social housing. Sustainability is commonly interpreted through categories of socio-economic availability, notwithstanding the fact that demands of contemporary living greatly exceed the scope of this definition. One of the methods to integrate sustainability into social housing design is to incorporate specific users’ needs into the design process itself. The aim is to specify the common ground for negotiation between all actors in the process. Such a platform could enable multiple options allowing flexibility and a higher level of quality, as well as the comfort of sustainable living. This design approach is developed in the case study project for Ovča social housing community in Belgrade. This project is conceived as an infrastructural system that precedes the building as a finite architecture, therefore anticipating inhabitants’ involvement in the design process. The non-linear model of architectural design is enabled trough a drawing as a tool of communication. Since it is carried out according to previously defined values, this iterative procedure establishes a specific set of outputs that can later be evaluated and modified in accordance to users’ spatial needs. Therefore, the drawing becomes a tool that allows a variety of designing processes while the most important role still belongs to the architect and the user. Such iterative design process creates preconditions that enable the inhabitants to appropriate the space of living, which legitimizes the aim to transfer the design process from conventional towards the non-linear model of architectural design.

scholarly journals Built environment and autism: towards a set of spatial requirements for autism friendly cities

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
G Tola ◽  
V Talu ◽  
J Lindert
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Functional Organization ◽  
Spatial Configuration ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
Wide Variability ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Spatial Needs

Abstract Background The opportunity for people functioning in an atypical way to autonomously and fully interact with the city is often compromised or denied, due to the gap between their specific spatial needs and the physical and functional organization of the urban environment. The need to reconsider the living environments taking into account the vast diversity of people gained an increasing importance in the overall debate and specifically in the field of urban planning and design. The research aims at investigating the relationship between the urban environment and people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Methods A scoping review of current available original studies research exploring the relationship between autism and built environment was conducted. PubMed, Scopus, PsychInfo and Web Of Science where searched. Studies included provided spatial requirements for designing autism friendly environment. Results In total, 801 studies were identified and 22 were included. Current researches and applications investigating the role of spatial configuration as a means for improving the autonomy of people with ASD almost exclusively focus on closed and dedicated spaces (residences, schools, care facilities, healing gardens) mostly devoted to children. Starting from this and the data collected, a first set of enabling urban spatial requirements addressing the atypical urban functioning of people with ASD - the reduction of sensory overload and the use of visual supports - in order to promote their possibility to walk autonomously and safely across the everyday city is proposed. Conclusions Despite the wide variability of the spectrum which makes it very difficult to define effective design criteria for all people with ASD, it's possible to identify a set of recurrent spatial needs. Furthermore, designing cities for people with ASD can also contribute to healthier and more inclusive urban environments for other groups of vulnerable inhabitants.

scholarly journals Rainwater's Well-come: Resettling former refugees into New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Lucy Stronach
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Host Community ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Vulnerable Group ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Refugee Community ◽  
Psychological Harm ◽  
Important Design ◽  
Spatial Needs

<p>There are now an unprecedented number of refugees world-wide. The global impact of this is felt in New Zealand, with the refugee quota set to increase in 2018. The refugee crisis is an important design problem that architects must engage with as refugees are a particularly vulnerable group of people. Typically refugees have been assimilated into New Zealand society, however it is known that this process can cause psychological harm.  This thesis seeks to investigate how architecture can thoughtfully and compassionately engage with refugee communities through a design-led investigation which will explore how a dwelling can meet specific cultural and spatial needs while providing opportunities for self-employment, and how a space which is specifically designed for refugee needs can embrace diversity and create opportunities for intercultural dialogue in the wider community.  To investigate this, a sociological framework is used as a lens to examine methods of integration which provide potential ways for architecture to be manifested. Refugees often arrive with few economic resources and can be more reliant on the state and their surrounding communities. The biggest issue felt over long-term resettlement for refugees is a lack of employment which has a direct impact as they don’t have enough money to meet their everyday needs. This can also contribute to a negative public opinion about refugees.  To address this issue, this thesis seeks to investigate how a hybrid building type, the shop-house, could be explored to provide refugees a dwelling that could meet their specific cultural and spatial needs and create potential opportunities for self-employment, self-determination and intercultural contact. The shop-house is a fundamental feature of a city, and can provide an economic foothold for people of all economic means. However, this thesis discovers its limitations and explores an alternative option to allow a refugee community to put down roots and make a new life in a new country which also enriches the host community.</p>

SPECIALIZED DESIGN OF ARCHITECTURAL OBJECTS FOR THE REHABILITATION OF PEOPLE WITH VISUAL DISABILITIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrique Villacis Tapia ◽  
Maria Lorena Rodriguez ◽  
Daniela Jarrin ◽  
Javier Vizcaino ◽  
Cynthia Ayarza
Keyword(s):  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Space Object ◽  
Visual Disabilities ◽  
Trained Personnel ◽  
Basic Services ◽  
The City ◽  
Spatial Needs

In the city of Quito, the number of people with disabilities is high and approximately 12% are visually impaired. Centers dedicated to the rehabilitation are available, one of which is the Atahualpa Day Center (CDA). Although the center has trained personnel, and a set program, the facility was not designed for this purpose, it is an adapted space that tries to cover the needs of the staff and the participants generating gaps which have had to be solved in an improvised manner. The Con Lo Que Hay-With what is available-11 (CLQH 11) workshop, identified several spatial needs of the CDA and utilizing a specialized space-object sought to solve the necessity of the step by step methodology process to enable visually impaired individuals into daily life. This means that the skills developed within a controlled space are put into practice in spaces like the city allowing them to acquire the confidence to function autonomously. This study evaluates the pertinence and importance of a space-object specifically designed to help the visually impaired population to reintegrate into daily life. This topic is important within the Ecuadorian context because all the efforts and investments usually are focused on generic buildings and basic services.

Collaborative Imaginaries

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huiying Ng
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Ecological Awareness ◽  
Transformative Experiences ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
The Way ◽  
Spatial Needs

In a climate of growing ecological awareness and a rising ‘counterpublic’, spaces to imagine a different city are emerging against an entrenched culture of competition, materialism and forms of alienation. Three case studies (Growell, Babel and Foodscape Collective) offer counter-narratives to Singapore’s image as an ahistorical, politically apathetic city. The role of capital and consumer culture is examined by looking at spaces that attempt to offer alternatives to capitalist alienation. I discuss the case studies in terms of the way imaginaries offer transformative experiences and the form that these initiatives took, considering the temporal and spatial needs they addressed by enabling new niches for fledgling efforts and cultures to form. I frame these within discussions of the capacities needed for collaborative imaginaries and participatory co-governance in Singapore.

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