scholarly journals Tectonics of avoidance

2021 ◽  
Vol 855 (1) ◽  
pp. 012003
Author(s):  
M A Thomassen ◽  
P Munch-Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Building Material ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Specific Product ◽  
Closed Approach ◽  
Complex Knowledge ◽  
Frame Construction ◽  
Is Design

Abstract This article unfolds as a dialogue between architectural and economics concerns on how a sustainable circular practice can be introduced and upscaled in construction. It will point towards absolute sustainable targets and will be analyze in juxtaposition to the (weak) economic drivers that can get us there (Brejnrod et al., 2017; Eberhardt et al., 2020). First, it is established that sustainable innovation is design strategies that simplify construction in order to avoid environmental impacts tied to building material overuse. These strategies are defined as tectonics of avoidance and consist of two, direct and indirect, approaches to architectural design. Common for both is that as innovation they must be understood more at applied complex knowledge more than a specific product. In the second part of the article, we discuss how this kind of information (knowledge) can be applied in the economic circumstances that frame construction and architecture today. How it challenges the path-dependency of design methods today and how information and complex knowledge can be ‘sold’ in an ‘open source’ or ‘closed’ approach to the existing marked for construction.

scholarly journals Make Yourself At Home: Can architecture enable a sense of home in Kuala Lumpur’s public housing?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Nadrah Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Housing Design ◽  
The Public ◽  
Design Practices ◽  
Public House ◽  
The Government

<p>Public housing in Kuala Lumpur was introduced by the government as a means of replacing informal settlements and providing housing for the lower income. Government subsidies often cover some of the costs of public housing to help keep it affordable and at the lower end of house prices. To help meet the low cost agenda, public house designs are often kept to a minimal standard in Malaysia, removing low income Malay dwellers from their ideal image of home. In the long run, signs of neglect in the public houses are reflected in the lack of care and maintenance from dwellers, vandalism and more.   This thesis proposes that good, homely architectural design practices suited to the dweller can help encourage emotional ties between dwellers (low income families) and the dwelling (public houses). Its aim is to investigate potential architectural design approaches to tackle such problems in future Kuala Lumpur public houses.  This raises the question of which homely architectural design strategies might be best utilised in the Kuala Lumpur public housing environment. The thesis begins by exploring the meaning of home in relation to both dwellers and dwelling before then identifying ‘homely’ architectural design practices suited to the Malay community. In the context of public houses, this research investigation identifies privacy, environmental comfort, security and safety as homely aspects that are most often lacking in public housing design, contributing to a less homely environment. To enhance the homely attributes of public houses, the thesis proposes ways to restore homely qualities of spaces in the public house, drawing from these three aspects in order to arrive at design opportunities best suited to the lifestyle of its dwellers.</p>

scholarly journals Pedagogical Explorations of an Open- Source Architecture Paradigm in Emerging Design Technologies

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kihong Ku ◽  
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Christian Jordan ◽  
Jim Doerfler ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Visual Programming ◽  
Participatory Culture ◽  
Learning Networks ◽  
Physical Computing ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Open Source Hardware ◽  
Open Source Communities ◽  
Broad Interest

Open-Source Architecture is an emerging paradigm advocating peer-to-peer collectivity, inclusiveness and participatory culture in architectural design. These conditions support a broad interest at the intersection of education, research and practice in emerging design technologies exploring formal complexity, performance, biomimicry and responsiveness. In the last decade, rich participatory, open-source communities, open-source software, and open-source hardware, created by and designed for the fields of parametric and algorithmic design, visual programming, and physical computing have emerged with resulting opportunities for change in architectural education. We discuss pedagogical approaches that introduce pathways for open-source cultures in architectural design and personal learning networks for professional development.

Energy Efficiency Design Strategy of Commercial Building in Northeast Cold Regions

2012 ◽  
Vol 174-177 ◽  
pp. 2165-2169
Author(s):  
Yao Fu ◽  
Tian Heng Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Building Energy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Commercial Building ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Cold Regions ◽  
Location Selection ◽  
Shape Coefficient ◽  
Energy Evaluation ◽  
The Impact

From the point of view of architectural design, envelope location, selection, and identify programs of envelope structure in the modern commercial building, give priority to the establishment of image of shopping malls , creating the mood of commercial and other factors. The paper will establish the appropriate model to the impact of the shape coefficient of Commercial building energy consumption in cold regions, validity analysis used the building energy evaluation software named Autodesk Ecotect to provide adequate theoretical basis of energy conservation design strategies.

scholarly journals Optimization of MRI Turnaround Times Through the Use of Dockable Tables and Innovative Architectural Design Strategies

2019 ◽  
Vol 212 (4) ◽  
pp. 855-858 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael P. Recht ◽  
Kai Tobias Block ◽  
Hersh Chandarana ◽  
Jennifer Friedland ◽  
Thomas Mullholland ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Strategies

Energy Design by Evolution: Applying Evolutionary Computing to Energy Efficient Architectural Design

2014 ◽  
Vol 899 ◽  
pp. 120-125
Author(s):  
Bernhard Sommer ◽  
Ulrich Pont
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Evolutionary Computing ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Energy Efficient Buildings ◽  
Optimum Solution

In this paper, the authors want to show a method that allows customizing energy efficient buildings to the very task and to the very site by linking environmental data and design strategies through algorithmic processes. An optimum solution for the energy efficiency of a building can then be found by running an evolutionary solver.

scholarly journals Digitally Designed Airport Terminal Using Wind Performance Analysis

Buildings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lenka Kabošová ◽  
Stanislav Kmeť ◽  
Dušan Katunský
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Simulation Software ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
Conceptual Design Phase ◽  
Complex Design ◽  
Airport Terminal ◽  
And Performance

Over the past few decades, digital tools have become indispensable in the field of architecture. The complex design tasks that make up architectural design methods benefit from utilizing advanced simulation software and, consequently, design solutions have become more nature-adapted and site-specific. Computer simulations and performance-oriented design enable us to address global challenges, such as climate change, in the preliminary conceptual design phase. In this paper, an innovative architectural design method is introduced. This method consists of the following: (1) an analysis of the local microclimate, specifically the wind situation; (2) the parametric shape generation of the airport terminal incorporating wind as a form-finding factor; (3) Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis; and (4) wind-performance studies of various shapes and designs. A combination of programs, such as Rhinoceros (Rhino), and open-source plug-ins, such as Grasshopper and Swift, along with the post-processing software Paraview, are utilized for the wind-performance evaluation of a case study airport terminal in Reykjavik, Iceland. The objective of this wind-performance evaluation is to enhance the local wind situation and, by employing the proposed architectural shape, to regulate the wind pattern to find the optimal wind flow around the designed building. By utilizing the aforementioned software, or other open-source software, the proposed method can be easily integrated into regular architectural practice.

Exploration on Regional Ecological Architecture Design — Taking the Design of Houji Jiaojia Garden Exhibition as an Example

2012 ◽  
Vol 174-177 ◽  
pp. 3111-3114
Author(s):  
Liao Liao Xi ◽  
Hu Peng ◽  
Lin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Architecture Design ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Sustainable Buildings ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Ecological Architecture

In recent decades, sustainable buildings have been increasingly concerned, architects, teachers and college students are involved into a number of theoretical and practical exploration. A variety of sustainable building design strategies and cases spring up. Taking Houji Jiaojia garden agricultural exhibition pavilion design as an example, on the basis of exhausting analysis of the local climate, geographical conditions, it focuses particularly on the use of local ecological straw materials in the building to achieve the sustainability of the project, which can provide some reference for the current and future sustainable architectural design.

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