Incremental Urban and Dwelling Proposals in Guanajuato, Mexico

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-32
Author(s):  
Andrea Martin-Chavez ◽  
Jorge Andrade
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Academic Program ◽  
Support Design ◽  
Tissue Model ◽  
Sustainable Housing ◽  
Bioclimatic Design ◽  
Urban Level ◽  
Housing Complex ◽  
The One ◽  
Tissue Characteristics

An International Competition of Architecture, Urban Development and Sustainable Housing, was held in Mexico in 2001. The aim of the contest was to create a vanguard and imaginative urban and architectural design that could accommodate the local regulation, the concept of sustainability and bioclimatic design. The proposed site is located within Guanajuato city’s periphery From a critic review of the finalist projects we concluded that although they were very innovative in bioclimatic design they maintained the concept of prototype at the unit level and groups of prototypes layout in the plot at the urban level. We decided to take the same theme as an academic exercise for the following reasons: • The opportunity to design under the same rules but changing the concept of a traditional mass housing complex to a slice of city that transforms itself in time with incremental dwellings. • The city of Guanajuato is a colonial city very important for its history, cultural activity and architecture. The urban layout adapts to its rugged surface, which is very similar to the one of the given site. • The contest program had a similar objective to that of the academic program of the last year of architecture in our University. From the analysis of Guanajuato City thematic and non thematic elements of the urban tissue and with the aid of the Tissue Model method, students made the urban proposals. The unit proposals were designed with Open Building in mind instead of designing the required prototypes. This article will focus on the tissue model methodology applied, first to formulate the tissue characteristics of downtown Guanajuato, then to develop the urban layout of the new housing complex and finally to develop the agreement documents for the urban design. Some examples of different final urban and support design will be given.

„Socialist postmodernism”: residential architecture in Kyiv Podil district (Ukraine)

BUILDER ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 293 (12) ◽  
pp. 46-51
Author(s):  
Svitlana Linda
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The United States ◽  
Residential Architecture ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Residential Quarters

Despite the short chronological span of the socialist era architecture heritage, it remains little investigated and underappreciated. Given the political and cultural isolation of the Soviet Union republics and strict architectural design regulations, there was a widespread belief that architects should not use innovative trends. This article exemplifies residential quarters in the historic Podil district, designed and built in the 1970s-1980s in Kyiv. They vividly demonstrate the postmodern ideas embodied in Ukrainian architecture. Methodologically, the article bases on the Ch. Jencks definition of postmodernism and in the comparison of his ideology with the implemented Kyiv project. It states that Kyiv architects proposed not typical Soviet construction projects but international postmodern architectural solutions. It proves that, on the one hand, Ukrainian architects had perfect qualifications to draw construction projects implementing advanced world trends of the time. But on the other hand, it highlights that postmodernism in architecture did not merely confine to Western Europe and the United States but also penetrated the Iron Curtain, exemplifying innovative architectural thinking which ran contrary to the modernist paradigm.

Understanding the Impact of Occupancy Trends in Sustainable Housing Designs

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Piacenza ◽  
Salvador Mayoral ◽  
Sean Lin ◽  
Lauren Won ◽  
Xava Grooms
Keyword(s):  
Computational Models ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Student Housing ◽  
Energy Usage ◽  
Sustainable Building ◽  
Leed Certification ◽  
Sustainable Housing ◽  
Course Scheduling ◽  
Housing Complex ◽  
The Impact

As sustainable building mandates become more prevalent in new commercial buildings, it is a challenge to create a broad, one-size-fits-all certification process. While designers can estimate energy usage with computation tools such as model based design, anticipating the post occupancy usage is more difficult. Understanding energy usage trends is especially complicated in university student housing buildings, where occupancy varies significantly as a function of enrollment and course scheduling. This research explores the effect of student occupancy on both predicted and actual energy usage in a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum certified student housing complex. A case study is presented from the California State University Fullerton (CSUF) campus, and examines diversity factor, defined as a building’s instantaneous energy usage as a percentage of the maximum allowable usage during a period of time, trends throughout the academic year. The CSUF case diversity factor is compared to the diversity factor used in predictive models for obtaining LEED certification, and the mandates that govern the models (e.g., ASHRAE 90.1). The results of the analysis show the benefits of considering post occupancy usage in sustainable building designs, and recommendations are presented for creating unique and application based computational models, early in the design process. This research has broad applications, and can extend to sustainable building design in other organizations, whose operational schedule falls outside of current prediction methods for sustainability mandates.

Interrelationship of aneurysm clips and vascular tissue

1978 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 929-934 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Rosenbaum ◽  
Thoralf M. Sundt
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Characteristics ◽  
Vascular Tissue ◽  
Narrow Range ◽  
Tissue Composition ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Tissue Model ◽  
Tissue Characteristics ◽  
Apparent Ability ◽  
Fine Print

✓ Various straight-jawed aneurysm clips were tested for occluding capabilities on a vascular tissue model. Occluding pressures varied markedly among the clip styles and were altered by changes in the lumen and tissue composition of the model. Mechanical characteristics are highly variable between clip styles, but fall within a narrow range for clips of a similar style. The complex interplay of the unique aspects of clip design and force generated by the spring in conjunction with tissue characteristics and precise clip placement upon the tissue are major variables in the apparent ability of a particular clip to occlude the neck of an aneurysm.

scholarly journals GREEN LIVING ROOF SIMULATION MODEL REVIEW

2019 ◽  
pp. 104-110
Author(s):  
Dimitrijević Jovanović ◽  
Predrag (Miodrag) Zivkovic ◽  
Jelena Janevski ◽  
Mica Vukic ◽  
Ana Momcilovic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Simulation Model ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Heat Waves ◽  
Building Envelope ◽  
Climatic Zones ◽  
Urban Level ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Warm Temperate

Integration of nature, live, organic materials, in the design of built areas and building structure is an architectural response to environmental problems of dense urban areas. At the site where green space is limited, greening the building envelope is the solution for the issues such as heat waves, flooding, and noise and air pollution. The benefits could be predicted only using accurate simulation model of this technology. The energy balance of green living roof was researched through models developed over the years by various authors. Most models have been developed and validated with data from extensive roofs and more than 50% of the models were validated using data from warm temperate climatic zones. Ability to determine the impact of green living roofs at different stages of their architectural design process is of most importance if the incorporation this technology is planned due to the impact on building and urban level.

scholarly journals Interaction of modern architectural design with the environment: Evaluation and application in urban open spaces for developing resilient cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 899 (1) ◽  
pp. 012011
Author(s):  
M Avramidou ◽  
S Manika
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Outdoor Environment ◽  
Urban Resilience ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Coating Materials ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Bioclimatic Design ◽  
Outdoor Spaces

Abstract The concept of urban resilience, either as a response to the effects of climate change or as a need to address the emerging challenges of the pandemic crisis, plays an important role in the modern forefront of urban policies. This article focuses, in the light of climate change, on the prospects of the adoption of the principles of urban resilience in the design of urban outdoor spaces, initially creating a clear framework for their definition. In order to achieve this, the article proceeds to the evaluation of successful European and Greek examples of urban open spaces in which the assurance of urban resilience is achieved through the application of bioclimatic design. Emphasis is placed on the factors of sunlight, ventilation, the role of water and greenery, and the properties of surface coating materials in urban outdoor spaces. Then the study area is analyzed, with qualitative and quantitative assessment of the factors that affect the outdoor environment.

scholarly journals Teaching an Applied Art through Distance Learning: The case of Lighting Design

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (4Β) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolaos Trivyzadakis
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Lighting Design ◽  
Academic Program ◽  
Complete Analysis ◽  
Learning Methods ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Applied Art ◽  
Scientific Technical ◽  
The One ◽  
Practical Nature

There are several difficulties and obstacles concerning the instruction of an Applied Art discipline through Distance and Online learning only. An example of that is the case of Lighting Design. A complete analysis of the substantial elements of that discipline shows its two-fold character based both on artistic/theoretical and scientific/technical premises. While Distance and Online learning methods are adequate for the teaching of the artistic/theoretical part of Lighting Design, the technical/scientific one demands also face to face sessions, outdoor activities and laboratory experimentation, a condition that will assure the tangible contact of the students with the practical nature of the activity. The same scenario seems to characterize all Applied Arts in the cases where an academic institution of higher education wishes to organize a program for their proper academic teaching. Taking that as example, we could generalize by suggesting that the appropriate way to construct an academic program for an Applied Art should be based on blended learning with the obligatory combination of Distance and Online learning methods on the one hand and face to face sessions and activities on the other.

scholarly journals Transformation of Socialist Realistic Residential Architecture into a Contemporary Sustainable Housing Habitat—General Approach and the Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 13486
Author(s):  
Maciej Piekarski ◽  
Łukasz Bajda ◽  
Ewelina Gotkowska
Keyword(s):  
Balance Sheet ◽  
Spatial Arrangement ◽  
Technical Condition ◽  
Residential Architecture ◽  
Sustainable Housing ◽  
The Social ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Housing Complex ◽  
Flat Roofs

This article deals with the problem of multi-family housing implemented in the 1950s in Poland. Buildings from this period are located in the central districts of cities, and are well-connected and equipped with service infrastructure, but due to the small size of these flats, their low standard and poor technical condition, they are not sufficiently attractive for middle-class people and developing families. The consequence of this is the social selection of residents and the disappearance of neighborly relations. In this article, the authors present a balance sheet of the shortcomings and advantages of these buildings, and against the background of contemporary requirements for housing, resulting from the theory of sustainable development, they indicate possible directions for modernization. Detailed solutions are presented for a specific housing complex located in Rzeszów. The development of flat roofs and the introduction of functions integrating the community of residents are the significant elements of the project. Due to the fact that the functional layouts of stories, the structure of buildings, and to a large extent the spatial arrangement of residential complexes were unified in the 1950s throughout the whole country, the presented concept may serve as inspiration for similar projects undertaken in any other city in Poland.

Online One-Stop Government

2011 ◽  
pp. 2805-2829 ◽  
Author(s):  
Efthimios Tambouris ◽  
Maria Wimmer
Keyword(s):  
Call Center ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Single Point ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
The Public ◽  
One Stop ◽  
The One

One-stop government refers to the integration of public services from a customer’s (citizen, business) point of view. One-stop government suggests that customers may request any public service through a single point of access using the communication channel of their choice (e.g., citizen center, call center, Internet, etc.). The one-stop concept further attempts to reduce the number of contacts with the authorities per service consumption to a minimum— one single interaction at best. The information and public services offered are organized and integrated in a customer-focused manner to address the personal needs and to cover the exact requirements of the citizens and business customers. To exploit the potential of one-stop government, the public sector should be accommodated with a set of information and communication technology tools that allow the back-office processes to interoperate. The public servants may thereafter use these tools in order to create and manage information and integrated public services that match the needs of their customers. In this chapter, the concept of online one-stop government is examined and a framework for realizing one-stop government is proposed. The proposed framework consists of process models and an open interoperable software architecture. A demonstrator that has been developed to implement the architectural design is also presented. Furthermore, the results of the trial use of the demonstrator in three European countries are outlined. Finally, experiences gained are provided and impact is assessed.

Artistic Memorial Facilities as a Phenomenon of Impact on Emotional Psychological Perception of People

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-353
Author(s):  
Kanybekova Karlygash ◽  
◽  
Y. Roslykova ◽  
M. Kulbayeva ◽  
K. Koshkimbayev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Aesthetic Education ◽  
The People ◽  
Spatial Environment ◽  
Successful Design ◽  
Inner World ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The One

The interplay between architectural design and human psychology is significant, yet it remains largely unnoticed or even ignored both in and outside the design industry. Moreover, the relationship between design and psychology is not only consequential and is bidirectional. On the one hand, successful design has been shown to have clear psychological and physiological impacts; on the other, psychology, human experience, and the function of our neurological systems all play a significant role in what we perceive to be a successful design. This thesis endeavors to understand how that complex relationship evolved and how it works in today's world and shows how artistic memorial facilities can help emotionally to people. The architectural style has evolved over time as the general public's preferences have changed and as new materials and building processes have been discovered. Some styles have been fads that have quickly come and gone, while others have stood the test of time and been around for centuries, even influencing some modern architecture today. The socio-political, socio-cultural processes taking place in modern society require a serious rethinking of the spiritual, moral, cultural, and historical values underlying the artistic and aesthetic comprehension of the world by students. The problem of the aesthetic education of the younger generation, the gradual revival of traditions and culture of peoples is acquiring special relevance at present. At the same time, interest in studying the problems of introducing young people to culture, particularly works of art of architecture - architectural monuments, is of great importance. Of course, the issues of the beneficial influence of the architectural and spatial environment on the development of artistic creativity of children, instilling in schoolchildren a desire to join the national artistic culture with the help of the heritage of ancestors as a factor in the aesthetic education of schoolchildren, enrichment of their inner world are also relevant. The preceding determines the need for further research of art and pedagogical education and aesthetic education of schoolchildren based on a deep study of the heritage of their ancestors, and above all on the historical and architectural samples of cultural and art monuments. This paper aims to show the development of artistic forms of memorial facilities in Kazakhstan and describe how it will emotionally help people. As well as depict its historical development and significance to the people. This research starts its analysis from ancient times until now with memorable periods in history.

scholarly journals TOWARDS EXPERIENTIAL REPRESENTATION IN ARCHITECTURE

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Alfonso de la Fuente Suárez
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
The Other ◽  
Direct Experience ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Representation Of Architecture ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The One ◽  
Visual Realism ◽  
Interpretive Process

Planning and predicting the experiences that buildings will produce is an essential part of architectural design. The importance of representation lies in its ability to communicate experiences before a building is materialized. This article will treat the topic of representation of architecture works without putting aside our direct experience with edifices. By understanding the perceptual, associative and interactive phenomena that arise from the human encounter with buildings, it becomes possible to comprehend the representation of these phenomena through pictorial means. The first objective of this theoretical article is to define the inherent and unavoidable factors that are present in the creation and interpretation of all architectural representations, regardless of the technical means used. Any representation conveys two processes: the representation of experience (a creative process), and the experience of representation (an interpretive process). Furthermore, there exist two layers in any representation: the what (the architectural object) and the how (the representational medium). The second objective is to suggest alternatives to visual realism, in order to create representations that embody the particular phenomena that an architectural work will be able to produce. On the one hand, representations that pretend to copy reality produce in the observers detailed visual experiences; on the other hand, certain representations reflect the experiences themselves after they have been produced; they represent buildings as they are transformed by experience. This article focuses on those representations that are not only the reflection of an object, but also the reflection of our way of experiencing it.

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