scholarly journals Out of “touch”? − An experiential pedagogical approach to daylighting in architecture and interior design education

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 02010
Author(s):  
Gillian Treacy

A new challenge is emerging. Contemporary built environment pedagogy demands engagement with both analogue and digital tools for simulation and verification of lit architectural environments. The use of analogue tools within architectural design education grasps onto the historically valued craftsmanship of drawing and physical models to measure, represent and understand our lit environment ambiance. Digital tools can provide efficient, simultaneous and precise verification of lit architectural interior space through 3D computer modelling and calculation software. However, the understanding and representation of daylit scenarios is becoming more numerically complex as lighting metrics and software gain in accuracy and dynamic range. With the majority of easily accessible software tools focussing on numerical verification, the ephemeral ambience that daylight in particular creates in interior architectural spaces is becoming ever more difficult to grasp for the architectural design student and practitioner. This paper seeks to challenge the exclusive use of digital tools for the understanding and representation of lit interiors by proposing that this methodology cultivates design epistemologies that are out of “touch”. Questionnaire findings and workshop studies are presented as pedagogical constructs are proposed inviting physical, experiential learning of lighting principles in collaboration with numerical and digital modes of learning to provide connections and translations to develop through ‘touch’ing light.

2020 ◽  
Vol 165 ◽  
pp. 04011
Author(s):  
Junyan Dong ◽  
Bomin Zheng ◽  
Yupi Fu ◽  
Kechao Li

With the construction of a large number of affordable housing and the development of green buildings, the design of green affordable housing has become a new concern and research topic in China’s residential architectural design, and the interior design of affordable housing has become a top priority. This article takes Changchun city as an example, through the research of affordable housing in Changchun, visit, found the main problems existing in the status quo, in view of the problems put forward housing interior space design optimization principle, and according to the design principles of indoor space scale, provides a good green indoor living environment for green residential tenants in cold areas.


Author(s):  
İnanç Işıl Yildirim

Intelligent spaces are rooms or areas that are embedded with sensors and actuators which enable the spaces to perceive and understand what is happening in them. Through an increasing number of computers and wireless communication technologies networked them, these spaces have the ability of receiving the parameters of physical world which users exist in their relevant context, analysing and processing the data with the interfaces between the physical and digital world, and react or change their mode and augment the human functionality, on time. Integration of computer and physical space results a space which have the computer's thinking ability. Due to the space having intelligence, sensors and the capability to communicate, definitions are not the same as in usual space. Pervasive computing is transforming interior spaces by allowing utilities, goods and information to appear dynamically where and when they are needed. Also, we are face with the space that can understand what is happening inside and outside it and which is not passive to the changing environmental situations. Intelligent interiors can become immersive sensory environments that combine the advantages of automation and modern technology with sensory feedback and materiality. The advances in hardware, system design, and software made enable to achieve this vision. In this world, physical objects and spaces are linked to the digital world and information about the physical world can be used to support human functionality and experience. In this paper, the vision of intelligent space will be explained and the innovations that helped to realize these spaces will be introduced. The social and psychological impacts of the future technologies while designing interior space will be discussed. The changing way we work and live and interfering boundaries of the space titles were asked by the way of a short questionnaire to the Interior Design Students who have the seminar about Intelligent and Interactive Spaces this semester, so their knowledge about these spaces and computer technologies are enough to comment the questions. This will give us the idea of future’s interior designers’ new role in these environments. These finding will give us a supporting knowledge about intelligent or thinking spaces and their impacts on the roles of interior designers.Keywords: Intelligent spaces, pervasive environments, interior design education, future vision.


2014 ◽  
Vol 608-609 ◽  
pp. 251-255
Author(s):  
Jia Wei Wu ◽  
Hai Bo Li

Interior furnishing design actually is the construction interior space design, an organic part of the whole building, a continuation of the architectural design, a manifestation of deepening the concept of architectural space.This article elaborates on the close relationship between furnishing design and interior design, contents and the important role of furnishing design classification.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7383
Author(s):  
Magdalena Celadyn

The paper considers the adjustments of the interior architectural design education model toward its compliance with the principles of sustainability, since the currently provided scheme does not effectively employ the sustainability multi-dimensional concept as a substantial determinant of interior architectural design. The conventional interior architectural design curriculum requires corrections, to provide students with systematized knowledge on sustainability issues, as well as appropriate abilities and skills to create buildings’ interior spaces with high environmental performance. The modifications are considered using the example of a curriculum realized within the Faculty of Interior Design affiliated with the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. These improvements of the curriculum structure comprise the establishment of a compulsory course on environmentally sustainable interior architectural design, offering to the undergraduate students comprehensive theoretical knowledge on the multi-dimensional aspects of sustainability and the introduction of professional design tools, including simplified versions of multi-criterial environmental evaluation systems, as a supportive educational means, as well as learning tools comprising interdisciplinary environmental-responsibility-oriented design workshops or seminars led by green building consultants and professionals involved in practicing sustainable interior design. This paper discusses the innovative concept of integrative design classes (IDC), realized within the practical modules of courses on Building Construction and Environmentally Sustainable Architectural Design, both delivered to undergraduate interior design students. The paper analyses these integrative design classes as a supportive project-based learning technique to develop the students’ ability to accomplish sustainable design strategies for resource efficiency, waste management effectiveness, optimization of indoor environment quality parameters as well as pro-environmental education. The results of the conducted integrative design classes proved that they are a driver for developing technically and formally innovative designs, allowing the students to establish a link between theoretical knowledge on sustainability in interior design and its practical implementation.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Maryam Banaei ◽  
Abbas Yazdanfar ◽  
Javad Hatami ◽  
Ali Ahmadi

Focusing on inhabitant’s climate comfort causes the neglect of personal and aesthetic factors that have effects on emotions and psychological comfort. Blindly adhering to sustainable design principles regardless of the basic architectural design parameters cause similar interior spaces in today’s housing of Iran. Interior space form is one the main design factors that has some effects on inhabitant’s emotions. It is a correlation research to study inhabitant’s emotions towards sustainable interior space by focusing on interior form. It illustrates that form can consider as an influential factor in creating and improving sustainable conditions according to inhabitant’s emotions. Keywords: sustainable interior design; emotion; shape; PAD 2514-7528 © 2017 The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK.. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.


2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-201
Author(s):  
Vladana Petrovic ◽  
Branislava Stoiljkovic ◽  
Milica Zivkovic ◽  
Natasa Petkovic-Grozdanovic ◽  
Milena Medenica

The application of coloured and optical glass in architecture is of great importance in terms of creating spatial dynamics and uniqueness of space. Dichroic glass is a type of glass coated with a thin layer of metal, which causes the glass surface to change in colour depending on the viewing angle. The colour of the glass depends on the incidence of different wavelengths of light passing through or bouncing off the glass surface, thus creating different effects of colour refraction. Created effects provide different possibilities in the design of buildings and improvements in the aesthetic quality of the interior space. This paper deals with the analysis and application of coloured dichroic glass in architecture and interior design.


2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 291
Author(s):  
Maryam Banaei ◽  
Abbas Yazdanfar ◽  
Javad Hatami ◽  
Ali Ahmadi

Focusing on inhabitant’s climate comfort causes the neglect of personal and aesthetic factors that have effects on emotions and psychological comfort. Blindly adhering to sustainable design principles regardless of the basic architectural design parameters cause similar interior spaces in today’s housing of Iran. Interior space form is one the main design factors that has some effects on inhabitant’s emotions. It is a correlation research to study inhabitant’s emotions towards sustainable interior space by focusing on interior form. It illustrates that form can consider as an influential factor in creating and improving sustainable conditions according to inhabitant’s emotions.© 2016. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies, Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.Keywords: Sustainable interior design; emotion; shape; PAD


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Alvaro Guzmán Rodríguez ◽  
Gabriela Mejía Gómez ◽  
Vinicio Velásquez Zambrano ◽  
Ramiro Rosón Mesa

ResumenLa Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, a través de su escuela de Arquitectura, plantea la sostenibilidad como uno de los ejes fundamentales del aprendizaje, desde la conciencia de la grave situación ambiental que el excesivo consumo de energía en las edificaciones provoca a nivel global. En este sentido, la iluminación natural (IN) y su aprovechamiento constituyen un aspecto imprescindible para el diseño de espacios interiores, dado que no solo brindan confort y salud, sino que también influyen directamente sobre el comportamiento de las personas y el consumo de energía. El clima y las condiciones físicas de un emplazamiento afectan a la incidencia de la IN, definiendo la forma en que se construye la arquitectura local.La ciudad de Quito, emplazada sobre los 2850 msnm en latitud 0° y encajonada en la cordillera de los Andes, cuenta con unas condiciones de incidencia solar particulares, debido al dinamismo de las condiciones de cobertura y densidad de la nubosidad. Sin embargo, en la actualidad todavía son escasos los diseños arquitectónicos en la ciudad que consideran de forma técnica aspectos de IN. La normativa vigente en materia de arquitectura solo contempla de forma superficial algunos aspectos y recomendaciones para el diseño de espacios arquitectónicos interiores que fomentan y fortalecen la utilización de la IN.En este caso, la metodología aplicada consiste en un trabajo grupal de investigación, en el que los estudiantes adquieren nociones fundamentales de bioclimática aplicada a la arquitectura, climatología local, incidencia e importancia de la luz directa y difusa en la arquitectura, geometría solar y dinamismo de las sombras a través del tiempo. El objetivo es aplicar los conocimientos adquiridos en un caso de estudio, conjugando las siguientes variables: destino de uso del espacio, orientación y tiempo predominante de utilización de este. Estas variables se analizan en un aplicativo modificable simplificado de estudio de IN para Quito, en el que se consideran las características físicas de la ciudad, permitiendo al diseñador determinar el tamaño adecuado de las aperturas verticales acristaladas, adaptándolas a la realidad de las condiciones climáticas de la ciudad, al espacio específico y su uso. De este modo, los estudiantes pueden visualizar de forma clara si las aperturas planteadas generarán en el usuario sensaciones de penumbra, confort o deslumbramiento, así como los períodos horarios en que se dan estas condiciones.Considerando las características climatológicas y físicas de Quito, el predimensionamiento lumínico natural ayuda a arquitectos y diseñadores, inclusive en etapa de pregrado, a generar espacios arquitectónicos coherentes y contextualizados desde el punto de vista de la IN y que permitan maximizar su uso y reducir el consumo de energía. Este proceso refuerza la importancia que tiene el planteamiento de acristalamientos en arquitectura en altura y latitud 0. Se establecen además las orientaciones de aperturas acristaladas más y menos favorables para Quito, así como los rangos horarios de mayor y menor incidencia y variabilidad de radiación solar, todo lo cual podría ser incluido en normas técnicas sobre diseño arquitectónico para la ciudad de Quito. Por último, se determinan los periodos temporales con mayor probabilidad de cielos despejados, semi-cubiertos y cubiertos, los cuales afectan especialmente a la incidencia de luz solar en un espacio interior.AbstractThe Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, at its School of Architecture, considers sustainability as one of the essential points of learning, in the awareness of the severe environmental crisis which excessive energy consumption in buildings causes worldwide. In this sense, natural illumination (NI) and its use constitute an indispensable aspect in interior design, because it not only provides comfort and welfare, but also influences directly people’s behaviour and energy consumption. The weather and the physical conditions of a location affect the incidence of NI, defining the way which the local architecture is built in.The city of Quito, placed at 2,850 meters above the sea level at 0° latitude and squeezed in the Andes mountain range, shows particular conditions of solar incidence, due the dynamic conditions of sky coverage and cloud density. However, nowadays the architectural designs which consider aspects related to NI on a technical basis are still scarce. The current regulations on architecture only contemplate superficially some features and recommendations for architectural design of interiors which encourage and strengthen the importance of NI.The methodology applied consists in a group of research, where students acquire basic notions related to bioclimatic applied to architecture, local climatology, incidence and importance of direct and diffuse natural lighting, solar geometry and dynamism of shades along the time. The aim is to apply the knowledge acquired in case of study, conjugating the following variables: main use of space, space orientation and predominant schedule of use. These variables are analysed in a simplified modifiable application of a NI study developed for Quito, where the physical characteristics of the city are considered, allowing the designer to determinate the appropriate size of windows, adapting them to the reality of the weather conditions of the city, the specific space and its use. In this way, students are enabled to visualize clearly if the proposed openings will generate sensations of gloom, comfort or glare in the user, as well as the time zones when those lighting conditions affect the space.Considering the physical and climatological characteristics of Quito, natural luminic pre-sizing helps architects and designers, even in the undergraduate stage, to generate architectural spaces coherent and contextualized from the NI perspective, which allow to maximize its use and decrease energy consumption. This process reinforces the importance and implications which has the location of clear openings in highlands located at 0° latitude. Besides, it establishes the most and less favourable orientations for glazed openings in Quito, as well as the time zones with major and minor conditions of solar radiation incidence and variability; which all could be included in technical regulations on architectural design for the city of Quito. Finally, it determines time zones with major and minor probability of clear, semi-covered and covered skies, which specially affect sunlight incidence in an interior space.


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