scholarly journals HISTORICAL CONDITIONS IN DESIGNING PRE-SCHOOL CENTERS, ON THE EXAMPLE OF GERMANY AND UKRAINE

space&FORM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (47) ◽  
pp. 239-246
Author(s):  
Denis Saenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Regional Features ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
Architectural Organization ◽  
Local Traditions ◽  
Individual Design

The article considers the peculiarities of the architectural organization of children's preschool institutions in European countries on the example of Germany and Ukraine in the 20th century. The study examines examples of architectural design of preschool institutions in the dense urban development of foreign cities, which are of particular importance for further solving of domestic problems of preschool institutions location in Ukrainian urban settlements. The considered projects demonstrate individual design decisions of kindergartens with revealing of regional features and local traditions of the countries which at the same time correspond to modern educational programs of these countries and reflect the advanced world tendencies in designing of children's preschool institutions.

scholarly journals Complex urbarchitectonic structures of Pristina and Novi Pazar cities

Spatium ◽  
2014 ◽  
pp. 39-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dzemila Beganovic
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Urban Structures ◽  
Short Period ◽  
The World ◽  
New Models ◽  
Urban Organization ◽  
Modern Movement

Contemporary urban development has changed the traditional cities all over the world. In our region, the typical Balkan cities of oriental origin, structure and outlook were almost totally transformed in the second half of the 20th century. Modern movement brought new models of urban organization, different communication concepts and a variety of concepts of modern buildings. Among others, the idea of complex urbarchitectonic structures in urban tissue spread under specific influences and models. After a short review of modern urban development and the idea of complex urban structures, this paper explores urban transformation of less researched cities such as Pristina and Novi Pazar. The focus is on the phenomenon of complex urbarchitectonic structures built in related cities in a short period from 1969-1989. Four complex urbarchitectonic structures will be presented: Kicma and complex in JNA Street in Pristina and Lucne buildings and Jezero buildings in Novi Pazar.

scholarly journals Activity shapes: towards a spatiotemporal analysis in architecture

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (26) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Paula Gómez ◽  
Ellen Yi-Luen Do ◽  
Mario Romero
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Activity Patterns ◽  
Spatiotemporal Analysis ◽  
Spatial Analyses ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Detailed Understanding ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Spatial Configurations ◽  
Future Evaluation

Computational spatial analyses play an important role in architectural design processes, providing feedback about spatial configurations that may inform design decisions. Current spatial analyses convey geometrical aspects of space, but aspects such as space use are not encompassed within the analyses, although they are fundamental for architectural programming. Through this study, we initiate the discussion of including human activity as an input that will change the focus of current computational spatial analyses toward a detailed understanding of activity patterns in space and time. We envision that the emergent insights will serve as guidelines for future evaluation of design intents motivated by spatial occupancy, since we –designers– mentally constructing a model of the situation and activities on it (Eastman, 2001).

scholarly journals The Threshold of Abstraction in Beginning Design Pedagogy

2020 ◽  
pp. 101-110
Author(s):  
Stephen Temple
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Design Pedagogy ◽  
Threshold Concept ◽  
Design Choice ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Gradual Introduction ◽  
Design Students ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Individual Design

By immediately being asked to work abstractly, beginning design students are investigating architecture through a pedagogy taken-for-granted by its instructors. To abstract something is to draw it out of the concrete, and unless a student is looking for this displacement, they will become disconcerted, struggle, and become lost to the design process. Abstract operations of design, when presented out of step with student self-development, can mislead and distort experience. This essay defines a student’s encounter with abstraction as a threshold concept within the transformative journey of design student self-development. Writings about abstraction in artistic production by Sigfried Gidieon and Rudolph Arnheim define abstraction and provide a basis for critique of abstraction as a threshold concept in beginning design pedagogy. Challenges caused by abstraction for both pedagogy and beginning design students are investigated. Arnhem’s definition of abstraction as relations between part and whole implies a pedagogical approach for learning design that positions encounters with abstraction as a transformative threshold, suggesting that a gradual introduction of abstraction can build connections through embodied experience rather than disassociations. A series of architectural design exercises will be demonstrated that are structured, as result of this study, to gradually introduce abstract operations in design through a progressively transforming sequence over the first six weeks of beginning design studio. Delivered as analogous to architecture, each successive exercise initiates an abstract design operation as an individual design choice, enabling students to learn to see part in terms of whole, toward a working, conceptual understanding of abstraction in design.

Urbane Ökonomien und ethnische Ökologien im Karakorum-Gebirge Nordpakistans

2004 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Dittmann ◽  
Eckart Ehlers
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Northern Pakistan ◽  
Short History ◽  
Urban Economies ◽  
Northern Areas ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
History Of

Urban economies and ethnic ecologies in the Karakorum Mountains, Northern Pakistan.The article examines different social and economic patterns of cooperation and confrontation in urban settlements of the Karakorum Mountains in Northern Pakistan, which were manifested since the partition of British-lndia. The focus is put on the question, to what extent ethno-linguistic factors influence or even determine economic constellations. In this regard. the comparable short history of urban development in the Northern Areas of Pakistan and the very dynamic expansion of larger settlements in this area during the last two decades present a precious opportunity for a closer look at ethno-economic determination at initial stages of urban development.

scholarly journals The avant-garde in the architecture and visual arts of Post-Revolutionary Mexico

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando N. Winfield
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
The Political ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Mexican Architecture ◽  
Direct Reflection

Commenting on an exhibition of contemporary Mexican architecture in Rome in 1957, the polemic and highly influential Italian architectural critic and historian, Bruno Zevi, ridiculed Mexican modernism for combining Pre-Columbian motifs with modern architecture. He referred to it as ‘Mexican Grotesque’. Inherent in Zevi’s comments were an attitude towards modern architecture that defined it in primarily material terms; its principle role being one of “spatial and programmatic function”. Despite the weight of this Modernist tendency in the architectural circles of Post-Revolutionary Mexico, we suggest in this paper that Mexican modernism cannot be reduced to such “material” definitions. In the highly charged political context of Mexico in the first half of the 20th Century, modern architecture was perhaps above all else, a tool for propaganda. In this political atmosphere it was undesirable, indeed it was seen as impossible, to separate art, architecture and politics in a way that would be a direct reflection of Modern architecture’s European manifestations. Form was to follow function, but that function was to be communicative as well as spatial and programmatic. One consequence of this “political communicative function” in Mexico was the combination of the “mural tradition” with contemporary architectural design; what Zevi defined as “Mexican Grotesque”. In this paper, we will examine the political context of Post-Revolutionary Mexico and discuss what may be defined as its most iconic building; the Central Library at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico . In direct counterpoint to Zevi, we will suggest that it was far from grotesque, but rather was one of the most committed political statements made by the Modern Movement throughout the Twentieth Century. It was propaganda, it was political. It was utopian.

Analysis of Energy-Saving Design in Architectural Design

2014 ◽  
Vol 1030-1032 ◽  
pp. 2411-2414
Author(s):  
Jiang Nan Han ◽  
Qi Chen ◽  
Ying Chen ◽  
Yan Wang ◽  
Xiao Long Liu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Optimization Problem ◽  
Energy Crisis ◽  
Design Phase ◽  
The Sustainable Development

With increasingly serious energy crisis, the construction industry is one of the three major energy consumption industries. How to realize the sustainable development of energy, promote energy-saving building, realize ecological urban development, have become the focus of construction industry. This paper analyzes and discusses the energy saving measures should be taken into consideration when the different architectural design phase and the two kinds of optimization problem under arbitrary axisymmetric load.

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