Emerging trends of zero waste in the built environment and a paradigm shift toward sustainability

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-35
Author(s):  
Niva Rana Mahanta ◽  
Abraham K. Samuel ◽  
Deepa Sachan
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Zero Waste ◽  
Emerging Trends

Can We Design for Culture? Paradigms and Provocations

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-53
Author(s):  
Anna Marazuela Kim
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Creative Placemaking ◽  
Cultural Infrastructure

While creative placemaking has proved a long-standing paradigm for the arts in city-making strategy, recently there has been a shift towards a cultural infrastructure approach. This article takes critical stock of this paradigm shift, to engage the broader question of whether we can design for culture in the built environment. Conceptualizing creative placemaking within a larger genealogical framework, I argue that this shift might be understood as responsive to some of the limitations and unintended social consequences of the movement: its temporal nature and contribution to cycles of gentrification and displacement.

Palliative Design Meets Palliative Medicine: A Strategic Approach to the Design, Construction, and Operation of Healthcare Facilities to Improve Quality of Life and Reduce Suffering for Patients, Families, and Caregivers

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 179-186
Author(s):  
Rana Sagha Zadeh ◽  
Paul Eshelman
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Psychological Symptoms ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Design Construction

A built environment designed to be appropriate for palliative care can make a profound difference for people with life-limiting illnesses. The built environment affects a patient’s quality of life, the management of physical and psychological symptoms, and the quality of social interactions with loved ones and caregivers. This article is informed by the emerging trends in the research and practice in the disciplines of architecture, design, medicine, and nursing. The article is intended to provide a definition of palliative design and invite discussion of its potential impact on patients, families, and caregivers. Our goal is to initiate conversation about palliative design, foster sharing of experiences and feedback among building professionals, and discuss future paths for formal adoption into practice.

scholarly journals Building Relationships

2019 ◽  
pp. 166-187
Author(s):  
Jennifer Loy ◽  
Tim Schork
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Innovative Approach ◽  
Building Relationships

This chapter describes how digital immersion, changing social values, and environmental and economic pressures have the potential to create a paradigm shift in relationships between people and their built environment with the growing sustainability imperative. It responds to emerging opportunities provided by digital technologies for the construction, maintenance, and heritage curation of the life of buildings, and draws on aligned changes in thinking apparent in manufacturing, healthcare, business, and education in the 21st century. The ideas that shape this chapter are relevant to architects and educators, but also to scholars and practitioners across disciplines because they provide an innovative approach in responding to the types of changes currently impacting societies worldwide.

Circularity in the built environment: a call for a paradigm shift

2020 ◽  
pp. 425-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tove Malmqvist ◽  
Alice Moncaster ◽  
Freja Rasmussen ◽  
Harpa Birgisdóttir
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Paradigm Shift

scholarly journals Into the Syn-anthropocene: The Resynchronized Architecture of a Keystone Species

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Sharon Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Keystone Species ◽  
Architectural Discourse ◽  
Ecological Dynamics ◽  
The Relationship

We share this world with millions of other species. While humans have claimed and transformed vast territories of the planet, our homogenized environments show little regard for the countless birds, mammals, and other creatures that move through these urban jungles. The relationship between culture and nature is ever evolving, and where it goes next is a question at the forefront of architectural discourse. This thesis sets out to explore how architecture can respond to the socio-ecological tensions between wildlife and the built environment. The research identifies a subset of biological subjects that inform a design process which aims to resynchronize architecture with ecological dynamics. The thesis culminates with a proposal for a hybrid eco-cultural hub which celebrates biodiversity and promotes an emerging paradigm shift; it is a step toward redefining humanity as a keystone species – one whose design interventions are aligned with other subjects with whom we share the ecosystem.

scholarly journals New nanotechnologies for Energy saving and Resiliency of the Built Environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 50
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Phase Change Materials ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Pilot Projects ◽  
High Performing ◽  
Resilient Communities ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Innovative Material

The focus of this paper deals with innovative material and construction systems that incorporate nanotechnologies for improving their energy-saving performance. Recent developments in the world of phase change materials, specifically on organic PCMs, such as paraffin and bio-PCM aerogel, are presented; laboratory works are presented together with pilot projects in Toronto, where PCM-based system have been incorporated in high-performing buildings. Then, the paper shows recent advancements in super-insulating materials, specifically focusing on aerogel-enhanced blankets and panels, which have been developed at the BeTOP laboratory of the Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario. Finally, the paper explores the potentialities of including innovative thermochromic coatings at the urban scale and shows the mutual benefits between buildings and communities that could be obtained through the adoption of previously mentioned nanotechnologies. The goal is to describe a pathway towards more sustainable and resilient communities. Using Toronto as a test case, the paper aims to comprehensively show that nanotechnologies offer a paradigm shift at the different scales of the built environment.

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