scholarly journals Main stages of development of architectural science. Organization, methodology and updating of theoretical knowledge in the field of architecture and design

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 106-111
Author(s):  
Gustavs Skerstins ◽  
Andra Ulme
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Integrated Design ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Architectural Theory ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
Complexity Issue ◽  
Architecture And Design ◽  
Theory Of Complexity ◽  
Design Ideas

The paper focuses on research of the background and basic elements of complexity issue in architectural theory, and in the context of design practice. It also brings forth the question of introduction of complexity in didactic and education programs implemented in universities in architecture as a field of study. Paper contains critical analysis of limitations of traditional approach to architectural practice based mainly on intuition and confronts it with integrated design ideas. These ideas contribute to the development of wider application of the theory of complexity.

scholarly journals How to Prep a Hāngī: A Framework for End User Engagement Within the Design Process

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jahmayne Robin-Middleton
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
Collaborative Approach ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
End User ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
Housing Developments ◽  
Architecture And Design

<p>Observations over recent years of New Zealand architectural practice indicate that there is growing interest in tikanga Māori in architecture and design practice.  With significant opportunities now available to support Māori in realising their housing and infrastructural aspirations, there is much discussion surrounding the role of the architect, and how they conduct themselves when working with mana whenua (partisan identifiable tribal groups who hold customary authority over Māori freehold land).  Most agree that working with mana whenua requires a collaborative approach, added to that, an approach that sees significant end user engagement.  To this affect, end user engagement within the design process is the primary subject of the research.  The largely Māori settlement of Kohupātiki is the proposed site for this research. Given the interests of this research and its focus on Māori communities, it is quite appropriate that Kohupātiki be the selected site to drive this research.  The community is made up of 4 main families; the Rapanas, Chadwicks, Punas, and Broughtons, all of whom have a vested (customary) interest in the site as it is potentially about to undergo significant transformations over the next 10-20 years.  Some of these transformations include the improvement of road access to the site, the development of a series of Papakāinga (housing developments on Māori land), and a number of refurbishments to significant communal facilities located on the site’s Marae settlement.  These developments offer significant opportunities for architectural and landscape intervention, and will serve as a vehicle to drive a participatory design process.</p>

scholarly journals How to Prep a Hāngī: A Framework for End User Engagement Within the Design Process

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jahmayne Robin-Middleton
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
Collaborative Approach ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
End User ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
Housing Developments ◽  
Architecture And Design

<p>Observations over recent years of New Zealand architectural practice indicate that there is growing interest in tikanga Māori in architecture and design practice.  With significant opportunities now available to support Māori in realising their housing and infrastructural aspirations, there is much discussion surrounding the role of the architect, and how they conduct themselves when working with mana whenua (partisan identifiable tribal groups who hold customary authority over Māori freehold land).  Most agree that working with mana whenua requires a collaborative approach, added to that, an approach that sees significant end user engagement.  To this affect, end user engagement within the design process is the primary subject of the research.  The largely Māori settlement of Kohupātiki is the proposed site for this research. Given the interests of this research and its focus on Māori communities, it is quite appropriate that Kohupātiki be the selected site to drive this research.  The community is made up of 4 main families; the Rapanas, Chadwicks, Punas, and Broughtons, all of whom have a vested (customary) interest in the site as it is potentially about to undergo significant transformations over the next 10-20 years.  Some of these transformations include the improvement of road access to the site, the development of a series of Papakāinga (housing developments on Māori land), and a number of refurbishments to significant communal facilities located on the site’s Marae settlement.  These developments offer significant opportunities for architectural and landscape intervention, and will serve as a vehicle to drive a participatory design process.</p>

scholarly journals Senses of place: architectural design for the multisensory mind

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Spence
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Perceived Safety ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
Neuroscience Research ◽  
Multisensory Interactions

Abstract Traditionally, architectural practice has been dominated by the eye/sight. In recent decades, though, architects and designers have increasingly started to consider the other senses, namely sound, touch (including proprioception, kinesthesis, and the vestibular sense), smell, and on rare occasions, even taste in their work. As yet, there has been little recognition of the growing understanding of the multisensory nature of the human mind that has emerged from the field of cognitive neuroscience research. This review therefore provides a summary of the role of the human senses in architectural design practice, both when considered individually and, more importantly, when studied collectively. For it is only by recognizing the fundamentally multisensory nature of perception that one can really hope to explain a number of surprising crossmodal environmental or atmospheric interactions, such as between lighting colour and thermal comfort and between sound and the perceived safety of public space. At the same time, however, the contemporary focus on synaesthetic design needs to be reframed in terms of the crossmodal correspondences and multisensory integration, at least if the most is to be made of multisensory interactions and synergies that have been uncovered in recent years. Looking to the future, the hope is that architectural design practice will increasingly incorporate our growing understanding of the human senses, and how they influence one another. Such a multisensory approach will hopefully lead to the development of buildings and urban spaces that do a better job of promoting our social, cognitive, and emotional development, rather than hindering it, as has too often been the case previously.

The Space of the Surface

2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (12) ◽  
pp. 2205-2218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean La Marche
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Architectural Theory ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Interactive Technologies ◽  
Technological Revolution ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Interior Volume

In this paper I examine how notions of the surface are being reconstituted in architectural theory and practice. Specifically, I contrast how modernist-influenced theory treated surfaces with how some architectural theorists today are beginning to think about them. Whereas modernist theory saw surfaces as dedicated to the expression of interior volume, recent interactive technologies such as ‘smart walls’ mean that surfaces no longer are fixed but can, instead, be changed in ways that are beyond the control of the architects who designed the structures of which they are a part. This means that surfaces are much less predictable and much more subject to transformation by individual users than in the past. Such a technological revolution, I argue, is ‘de-authorizing’ architecture as it is understood in conventional, professional, and disciplinary terms, and is bringing about new conceptions of time and space in architectural practice.

CAD/CAE Integration System of the Excavator Boom

2013 ◽  
Vol 401-403 ◽  
pp. 81-84
Author(s):  
Kun Zhu ◽  
Xu Yin ◽  
Ai Min Ji
Keyword(s):  
Parametric Design ◽  
Parametric Method ◽  
Integrated Design ◽  
Secondary Development ◽  
Element Analysis ◽  
Integration System ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Analysis Platform ◽  
Design Ideas ◽  
Ansys Workbench

According to the existing problems in the design of the excavator working devices boom, the method of integrated design and analysis for the boom was put forward by CAD/CAE integration technology. Firstly, design ideas of database in CAD/CAE integration system was given, so the data of model can be transmitted and exchanged effectively between CAD and CAE systems. Secondly, the parametric model of the boom was established based on parametric method. Thirdly, the customization analysis platform of the boom is built with customization technology and secondary development of ANSYS Workbench code. Finally, the parametric design and automatic finite element analysis for the excavator boom were implemented.

Making the Case for Practice-Based Research and the Imperative Role of Design Practitioners

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 66-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kara Freihoefer ◽  
Terri Zborowsky
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Design Work ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Current State ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
Architecture And Design ◽  
Validation Tool

The purpose of this article is to justify the need for evidence-based design (EBD) in a research-based architecture and design practice. This article examines the current state of practice-based research (PBR), supports the need for EBD, illustrates PBR methods that can be applied to design work, and explores how findings can be used as a decision-making tool during design and as a validation tool during postoccupancy. As a result, design professions’ body of knowledge will advance and practitioners will be better informed to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the society. Furthermore, characteristics of Friedman’s progressive research program are used as a framework to examine the current state of PBR in design practice. A modified EBD approach is proposed and showcased with a case study of a renovated inpatient unit. The modified approach demonstrates how a highly integrated project team, especially the role of design practitioners, contributed to the success of utilizing baseline findings and evidence in decision-making throughout the design process. Lastly, recommendations and resources for learning research concepts are provided for practitioners. It is the role of practitioners to pave the way for the next generation of design professionals, as the request and expectation for research become more prevalent in design practice.

scholarly journals THE DEPENDENCE OF THE APPEARANCE OF CERTAIN TYPES OF BUILDINGS FROM THE PRINCIPLES OF EXISTENCE OF SOCIETIES(with the examplesof historical and architectural processes that have taken and are taking place on the territory of Ukraine)

2020 ◽  
pp. 178-188
Author(s):  
Yu. N. Denysenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
National Differences ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Architecture And Design ◽  
Historical Past ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Design Ideas

For a better understanding of architectural processes taking place today in-depth analysis and search of useful achievements the creation of objects of material culture of the past and their introduction in our days, for successful attempts to predict thecourse of history, civilization, society, urban planning, architecture, art, required a comprehensive analysis of factors of influence on the specified development, which took place in the historical past, takes place in our time can take place in the future. Our time of the domination of ideology of enrichment, the actual service utilizing architecture and design ideas for the commercial benefit of certain customers, leads to losses of valuable historical material heritage, leads to the creation of objects of material culture that are not only useful, but often very dangerous both for people and for the environment. For a better understanding of why such processes are characteristic of our time than were the differences in the approaches to urban, architectural and other design industries in the past, will change, and what to expect and strive for in the future, need to better understand the influence of society on the features of formation of certain types of buildings and structures in certain times and certain States.The article examines the impact previously identified by the author types of companies, classified according to the principles of their existence on processes of emergence and dominance of certain types of buildings and structures (on the example of the development of societies and States located on the territory of the settlement of the Eastern Slavs on the territory of modern Ukraine, which are quite revealing to illustrate the viability of the concept). Although even a superficial analysisof the development of societies in other European countries also points to the similarity of historical and architectural processes that had and have a place (with certain national differences) and confirm the validity of the proposed concept.Distinguishing in previous works four basic types of necessities of people and functions of society, and also four types of principles of existence of society, the author proposes to use four types of society, according to main principles of their existence.An author considers that for the names of the marked types of societies it is better to use the names of the Indian castes. Therefore exactly the names of the Indian castes better than the names of public classes represent principles of existence and ideology bothseparate groups people and separate societies.

scholarly journals The spatial context of the cinematic aspect of architecture

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarina Andjelkovic
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Human Vision ◽  
Spatial Context ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Architectural Discourse ◽  
Paradigmatic Change

This paper presents the findings, conclusions and results of my PhD research entitled, "The spatial context of the cinematic aspect of architecture". The purpose of this paper is to present the possibilities of adopting the cinematic qualities of architecture as an approach to tracing current modifications in contemporary architectural discourse in relation to the paradigmatic change of perception of urban space towards a movement perspective. The design process tradition, which comprises a standard series of procedural exercises aided by new technology, is in contrast to the experimental architectural research of the last decade that has clearly demonstrated the tendency to enrich the limited traditional approach in order to extend human vision beyond what is perceivable. Accordingly, I propose that we can test the cinematic aspect of architecture, first having harmonized the relationship between architecture and film through their common methodological and didactic approaches. To verify the cinematic aspect of architecture in theory, practice and education, and to maintain the level of creativity present in design practice, I initiated a reassessment of current design practice and proposed alternative architectural design strategies.

John Dewey and the dialogue between architecture and neuroscience

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 361-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Robinson
Keyword(s):  
John Dewey ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Behavioral Patterns ◽  
Architectural Theory ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
Philosophical Framework ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
The Given ◽  
Perceptual Systems ◽  
Epistemological Framework

Sustainability is the most significant force to change architecture since the breakthrough of modernism a century ago. So far the contributions of architects to this mandate have largely amounted to technological interventions. Yet the urgent call for sustainability demands going beyond merely technological solutions to modify behavioral patterns, cultural habits and even our deeply ingrained ideas about ourselves. The very notion that architecture could modify behavioral patterns, or the sedimentation of habits seems far-fetched in an epistemological framework that has drawn strict lines between outside and inside, subject and object, body and mind — all the dualities that the cognitive and neurosciences have been gradually working to undermine. Our practice as architects has been unconsciously shaped by centuries of formalist thinking that have turned buildings into inanimate objects; a habit of thinking that has weakened our role and contributed to the sense that architecture is a luxury item, one among many consumable commodities — though we can no longer deny that it is the very fabric of our survival and flourishing.Further, the once healthy plurality of our architectural theory has left us without a coherent philosophical framework with which to confront the climate crisis. For John Dewey, theory and practice were not ontologically separate domains, but two distinct yet inseparable and necessary aspects of engaging in the world. This essay explores how Dewey's pragmatic philosophy could help to build a theoretical framework that would allow us to apply and integrate the findings of the cognitive and neurosciences into our architectural practice and education, so that we might respond not only to the constraints and opportunities of the given context — site, program and energy resources—but also to the limits and affordances of our perceptual systems and the whole of our body and mind.

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