EFFECT OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS AND DWELLING LOT VALUE ON AFFORDABILITY IMPROVEMENT OF CORE HOUSING SCHEMES

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Marcellinus U. Okafor ◽  
Ikechukwu Onyegiri ◽  
Nnaemeka B. C. D. Okoye
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Characteristics

Personalisation of 3D Virtual Spaces for Enhanced Ubiquitous Learning

2019 ◽  
pp. 77-105
Author(s):  
Noha Saleeb ◽  
Georgios A. Dafoulas ◽  
Martin Loomes
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Virtual Learning Environment ◽  
Individual Student ◽  
Information Retention ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
Architectural Features ◽  
Educational Spaces ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Design Characteristics

This study explores, using experiments, the effects of different architectural design features of 3D virtual educational buildings on higher-education learners during online e-learning sessions. Architectural features tested include shape, lighting, dimensions, colours and textures. Learners are divided into three groups: under-graduates, post-graduates, and adult learners. Results are demonstrated comprising charts and statistics capturing the extent of learners' enjoyment, information retention, and participation from being inside different 3D virtual spaces with different design characteristics. Consequently, design characteristics causing highest student retention, participation and contentment are established for design of a better 3D virtual learning environment (VLE). These provide guidelines for customised design practices inside 3DVLEs to create 3D virtual educational spaces best suited for ubiquitous “any-time” “any-place” e-learning of each individual student. This will aid in guiding the otherwise current ad-hoc design approach to building educational facilities in 3DVLEs.

scholarly journals Effects of Virtual World Environments in Student Satisfaction

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noha Saleeb ◽  
Georgios A. Dafoulas
Keyword(s):  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Educational Facilities ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Space Design ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Design Characteristics

Universities and educational institutions are currently becoming more dependent on delivering courses within online virtual worlds, such as 3D Virtual Learning Environments (3D VLES). There is insufficient research on how environmental and architectural design elements of 3D virtual educational spaces and buildings inside these virtual worlds can affect the e-learning process of the students and their satisfaction and contentment. This study investigates students’ satisfaction from different architectural features used in 3D educational facilities by recording, from surveys, students’ degree of agreeability toward varied design characteristics in different learning spaces within 3D VLES. Defining best perceived design traits can improve 3D educational space design to augment a student’s overall e-learning experience, and lead to general design guidelines for future creation of 3D virtual educational facilities.

scholarly journals THE INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ARCHITECTURE AND FASHION

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (06) ◽  
pp. 525-539
Author(s):  
Nawras Odai ALI ◽  
Ziad Odaa REBEH
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Fashion Design ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Common ◽  
Design Characteristics ◽  
Fashion Designers ◽  
The Relationship

The researchers studied the interplay between architecture and fashion and highlighted the common ground between architecture and fashion design. To enhance visual communication and interest. The study consisted of four chapters, the first of which focused on its methodological framework, in which its problem was determined by the following question: And what's the relationship between them? The purpose of the study was to uncover the relationship between architecture and fashion design and their mutual influence. The second focused on the relationship between fashion design and architectural design characteristics, while the third concerned fashion designers affected by architecture in their work either. (Research procedures) The research methods adopted by the researchers included: By describing the forms of architecture and analyzing the relationship between architecture and fashion design, being a suitable methodology for studying them and completing the study, the researchers identified a set of results that were consistent with the importance, purpose and purpose of the study. 1. The characteristics of architecture and costumes, whether parallel or interrelated or based on a mutual relationship, were originally established for the comfort and beauty of man depending on the dimensions of his body. The study was then concluded with conclusions, recommendations and a list of sources‎.

Personalisation of 3D Virtual Spaces for Enhanced Ubiquitous Learning

2019 ◽  
pp. 474-502
Author(s):  
Noha Saleeb ◽  
Georgios A. Dafoulas ◽  
Martin Loomes
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Virtual Learning Environment ◽  
Individual Student ◽  
Information Retention ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
Architectural Features ◽  
Educational Spaces ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Design Characteristics

This study explores, using experiments, the effects of different architectural design features of 3D virtual educational buildings on higher-education learners during online e-learning sessions. Architectural features tested include shape, lighting, dimensions, colours and textures. Learners are divided into three groups: under-graduates, post-graduates, and adult learners. Results are demonstrated comprising charts and statistics capturing the extent of learners' enjoyment, information retention, and participation from being inside different 3D virtual spaces with different design characteristics. Consequently, design characteristics causing highest student retention, participation and contentment are established for design of a better 3D virtual learning environment (VLE). These provide guidelines for customised design practices inside 3DVLEs to create 3D virtual educational spaces best suited for ubiquitous “any-time” “any-place” e-learning of each individual student. This will aid in guiding the otherwise current ad-hoc design approach to building educational facilities in 3DVLEs.

Effects of Virtual World Environments in Student Satisfaction

2013 ◽  
pp. 203-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noha Saleeb ◽  
Georgios A. Dafoulas
Keyword(s):  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Educational Facilities ◽  
Space Design ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Design Characteristics ◽  
Virtual World Environments

Universities and educational institutions are currently becoming more dependent on delivering courses within online virtual worlds, such as 3D Virtual Learning Environments (3D VLES). There is insufficient research on how environmental and architectural design elements of 3D virtual educational spaces and buildings inside these virtual worlds can affect the e-learning process of the students and their satisfaction and contentment. This study investigates students’ satisfaction from different architectural features used in 3D educational facilities by recording, from surveys, students’ degree of agreeability toward varied design characteristics in different learning spaces within 3D VLES. Defining best perceived design traits can improve 3D educational space design to augment a student’s overall e-learning experience, and lead to general design guidelines for future creation of 3D virtual educational facilities.

Design characteristics and aesthetics in evolutionary design of architectural forms directed by fuzzy evaluation

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-159
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Mars ◽  
Ewa Grabska ◽  
Grażyna Ślusarczyk ◽  
Barbara Strug
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Fitness Function ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Fuzzy Evaluation ◽  
Design Requirements ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Design Characteristics ◽  
Evaluation Mechanism ◽  
Evolutionary Operators ◽  
Aesthetic Measure

AbstractThis paper deals with design characteristics-oriented approach to architectural design based on the combination of three methods – recognition, generation, and evaluation. Design characteristics are understood as a set of specific features which constitute a discriminant of a class of architectural forms. The Biederman recognition-by-components theory is used to recognize the design structure. An evolutionary algorithm, which serves as a generative tool, is driven by the fuzzy evaluation based on Birkhoff's aesthetic measure. Phenotypes of architectural objects are seen as configurations of Biederman's basic components essential for visual perception. Genotypes of these objects are represented by graphs with bonds, where nodes represent object components, node bonds represent component surfaces, while graph edges represent relations between surfaces. Graph evolutionary operators, that is, crossover and mutation, are defined in such a way that they preserve characteristic features seen as design requirements specified for designed objects. The fitness function is determined by the fuzzy evaluation of designs based on Birkhoff's aesthetic measure for polygons adapted for three-dimensional solids. The approach is illustrated by examples of designing objects with the use of a fuzzy evaluation mechanism, which takes into account both aesthetic criteria and the degree to which design requirements corresponding to object characteristic features are satisfied.

scholarly journals Effect of Architectural Design Characteristics Affecting Design Simplicity on Affordability Improvement of Core Housing Schemes

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-34
Author(s):  
N.B.C.D. Okoye ◽  
I. Onyegiri ◽  
M. Okafor
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Rank Order ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Housing Affordability ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
P Value ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Design Characteristics ◽  
Design Simplicity

Studies identify that architectural design characteristics affecting design simplicity enhance core housing affordability. Effect of this attribute for affordability improvement, crucial in establishing design strategies for affordable low-cost urban homes, is lacking. Study examined this effect in Anambra State of Nigeria, using mixed method approach (primary data sourced from personal interviews, and questionnaire on 242 sampled residents from a 540 population. Using Kruskal-Wallis test and Spearman’s Rank-Order correlation for analysis, all prototypes were found non-affordable, with p-value of 0.000 for significant variation for affordability. Significant relationship, strong and positive (p-value, 0.000; correlation coefficient 0.778), was established between architectural design characteristics affecting design simplicity and affordability. Recommendations for improving core housing affordability include: minimal floor area for initial unit (studio apartments for households earning below N161, 000 monthly, 1-bedroom and 2-bedroom prototypes for those earning between N161, 000 and N200, 000); simple geometric plans; and local building materials for roof covering.

Personalisation of 3D Virtual Spaces for Enhanced Ubiquitous Learning

2016 ◽  
pp. 87-114
Author(s):  
Noha Saleeb ◽  
Georgios A. Dafoulas ◽  
Martin Loomes
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Virtual Learning Environment ◽  
Individual Student ◽  
Information Retention ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
Architectural Features ◽  
Educational Spaces ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Design Characteristics

This study explores, using experiments, the effects of different architectural design features of 3D virtual educational buildings on higher-education learners during online e-learning sessions. Architectural features tested include shape, lighting, dimensions, colours and textures. Learners are divided into three groups: under-graduates, post-graduates, and adult learners. Results are demonstrated comprising charts and statistics capturing the extent of learners' enjoyment, information retention, and participation from being inside different 3D virtual spaces with different design characteristics. Consequently, design characteristics causing highest student retention, participation and contentment are established for design of a better 3D virtual learning environment (VLE). These provide guidelines for customised design practices inside 3DVLEs to create 3D virtual educational spaces best suited for ubiquitous “any-time” “any-place” e-learning of each individual student. This will aid in guiding the otherwise current ad-hoc design approach to building educational facilities in 3DVLEs.

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