The Interrelationships between Building Regulations and Architects' Practices

2007 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 925-943 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Imrie
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Building Regulations ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
And Control

It is commonly assumed that building regulation and control is a technical activity and part of a bureaucratic machine external to the design process. For many architects building regulations are no more than a set of rules to be adhered to, and are usually seen as ephemeral, even incidental, to the creative process of design. However, the main argument of this paper suggests that the building regulations are entwined with, and are constitutive of, architects' practices. Far from being an insignificant part of the design process, as some commentators suggest, I develop the argument that the building regulations influence aspects of creative practice and process in architecture and, as such, ought to be given greater attention by scholars of urban design.

Research on the Green Urban Morphology Based on BIM - A Case Study on the Urban Design in Nanhe City

2013 ◽  
Vol 368-370 ◽  
pp. 78-82
Author(s):  
Ping Shu ◽  
Jun Xu ◽  
Li Jun Wang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Design Patterns ◽  
Urban Morphology ◽  
Theoretical Studies ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Building Information Model ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Spatial Morphology

Based on theoretical studies of the urban spatial morphology, this paper introduces advanced concepts and methods of BIM (Building Information Model) into the urban design in Nanhe City ,and then respectively makes innovations of the urban design practice supported by BIM technology in the process of design, optimization and implementation of the program, attempting to explore BIM-based design patterns of the urban spatial morphology to make the traditional urban design process more rational and scientific, to expect to reach the green and sustainable urban spatial morphology.

Design of Hydraulic Station of Crawler Hydraulic Drilling Rig

2014 ◽  
Vol 889-890 ◽  
pp. 380-384
Author(s):  
Zhi Liu ◽  
Peng Fang ◽  
Di Wu ◽  
Dong Li
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Structural Design ◽  
Control Technique ◽  
Pumping Station ◽  
Drilling Rig ◽  
Pumping Stations ◽  
Hydraulic Station ◽  
Scheme Selection ◽  
And Control

This article describes the design process of pumping stations of crawler full hydraulic drilling rig. The principle of full hydraulic drilling rig pumping station,scheme selection, hydraulic components selection and structural design of the tank were presented. The system used double loops in which some advanced hydraulic components and control technique were adopt.

Measuring the Progress of a System Development

2014 ◽  
pp. 1415-1439
Author(s):  
Marta (Plaska) Olszewska ◽  
Marina Waldén
Keyword(s):  
Formal Methods ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Formal Specification ◽  
System Development ◽  
Structural Complexity ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
System Construction ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
And Control

For most of the developers and managers, the structure and the behaviour of software systems represented in a graphical manner is more understandable than a formal specification of a system or than plain code. Our previous work combined the intuitiveness of UML with the development rigour brought by formal methods and created progress diagrams. In progress diagrams, the design decisions within a system refinement chain are assisted by the application of patterns and illustrated in a comprehensible and compact manner. In order to rigorously assess and control the design process, we need to thoroughly monitor it. In this chapter we show how the application of generic refinement patterns is reflected in measurements. We establish measures for the evaluation of the design progress of the system, where the progress diagrams are assessed from the size and structural complexity perspective. Our motivation is to support the system developers and managers in making the design decisions that regard the system construction.

Integrating Technology with the Creative Design Process

2011 ◽  
pp. 26-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Fairchild ◽  
Scott Cassidy ◽  
Liliya Cushenbery ◽  
Samuel T. Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Creative Design ◽  
Creative Performance ◽  
Integrating Technology ◽  
Creative Solutions ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Psychology Literature ◽  
Creative Design Process

In our fast-paced world, it is necessary for organizations to continually innovate in order to stay competitive. At the same time, technology is continually advancing, and tools to facilitate work are frequently changing. This forces organizations to stay abreast of current technologies, and also puts pressure on employees to utilize the technologies available to them in order to devise innovative solutions that further the organization’s goals. To date, there has been little research on how such technologies may best be used to facilitate such creative performance. The present chapter addresses this gap by integrating a model of the creative process from the psychology literature with technology literature from engineering and information technology. This chapter examines how specific technologies may influence performance at each stage of the creative process, and provides specific recommendations for how technology may be used to facilitate the development of creative solutions.

The stenographic mind

2019 ◽  
pp. 65-82
Author(s):  
Hugo Bowles
Keyword(s):  
Cumulative Effect ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Language Play ◽  
Writing Practices ◽  
New Form ◽  
Mental Operations ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter brings together the descriptions and discussion in Chapters 1, 2, and 3 to summarize the main argument of the book. Drawing on Douglas-Fairhurst’s metaphor of the concertina, the chapter introduces the idea of the ‘stenographic mind’ as the consequence of the intensive mental operations involved in writing and reading Gurney shorthand. These operations include word games and language play (section 4.1), phonotactics (understanding what words are possible in a language) and redintegration (combining parts of words to produce a whole one) (section 4.2), visualization (section 4.3), and vocalization (section 4.4). The chapter argues that the cumulative effect of these operations was to produce a form of stenographic thinking which enabled Dickens to solve the mental puzzle of the Gurney shorthand script and control the relationship between stenographic writability and readability. This is argued to be a new form of literacy which strongly influenced Dickens’s writing practices.

Conclusion

2009 ◽  
pp. 359-364
Author(s):  
Patricia A. Young
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Design Decision ◽  
The Many ◽  
Interactive Relation

Culture works as a design construct. It is apparent that there are many factors operating to make this happen. First, the nature of culture in design is dynamic and maintains an interactive relation with its parts. Second, the inclusion of culture must be a design decision from the onset. Third, producing culture-based ICTs means that the needs of the many and the few are considered throughout the design process. Finally, designing with culture in mind is a creative process.

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