scholarly journals Specific problems of media facade design

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasna Cikic-Tovarovic ◽  
Nenad Sekularac ◽  
Jelena Ivanovic-Sekularac
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Architectural Theory ◽  
Specific Design ◽  
Modern City ◽  
Media Logic ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Border Areas

During the last years we have been facing a growing need of involving architects into processes of modern city medialization. Transposing contemporary media logic into architecture must be accompanied by qualitative answers within architectural theory and practice. The field of media facade is interdisciplinary - not only does it involve research within architecture and urbanism, but also within some border areas of technology, urban design, art, culture, media and marketing. Media facade design process involves analyses of some specific design aspects.

scholarly journals Atmospheric Perceptions in the Making:  An Exploration of the Implications of the Immateriality of Climate on Our Perception of Space and in Its Making

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Delle Benton
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Spatial Perception ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Architectural Theory ◽  
Atmospheric Conditions ◽  
Experimental Works ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Invisible

<p>“[...] climate can replace typology, function, and form of what we use and define as architecture” (Rahm, 2008: accessed 11th March 2010, ). To what extent should we consider the invisible atmospheric conditions in the design process of architecture? This project will explore the implications of the immateriality of climate on both perception of space and in its making. The immaterial and material in architecture have long been regarded as a dichotomy; an opposing of ideas between governing architectural theory and practice. The immaterial is a popular discussion within contemporary architectural literature, yet has evidently not fully impacted within practice. Built examples of the immaterial remain few. Those that have been implemented have tended towards the temporal in nature, existing in the mode of installations or exhibitions, such as Diller + Scofidio’s Blur Pavillion, with its harnessing of misty atmospheric conditions (Diller & Scofidio, 1994). This research will firstly necessitate an exploration of the effect of atmospheric conditions (such as heat, light, humidity, sound, smell, taste, air movement) on spatial perception. This study refers to the immaterial in terms of such conditions and looks at the impact they can have on experience of space. It is noteworthy that many artworks, such as that of Olafur Eliasson, explore ideas of affective atmospheres “as an agent of human experience and social action, prompting a subjective transformation” (Frichot, 2008: p. 31), suggesting that these environments can transform perception. This research will secondly experiment with scenarios of dis-location where specific atmospheric conditions will be relocated to a site in which they might otherwise be foreign. This will be done in view of testing the qualities of the atmospheric that impact on perception and to challenge the notion of enhancement, detraction and of provocation of mood. It is anticipated that the research will provoke the design of a series of experimental works which will lead to a process of translation from discourse to installation to architecture through the development of design tools and strategies. Together with supporting theory, this will form an inquiry as to what extent we should consider the invisible atmospheric conditions in the design process of architecture.</p>

scholarly journals Atmospheric Perceptions in the Making:  An Exploration of the Implications of the Immateriality of Climate on Our Perception of Space and in Its Making

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Delle Benton
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Spatial Perception ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Architectural Theory ◽  
Atmospheric Conditions ◽  
Experimental Works ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Invisible

<p>“[...] climate can replace typology, function, and form of what we use and define as architecture” (Rahm, 2008: accessed 11th March 2010, ). To what extent should we consider the invisible atmospheric conditions in the design process of architecture? This project will explore the implications of the immateriality of climate on both perception of space and in its making. The immaterial and material in architecture have long been regarded as a dichotomy; an opposing of ideas between governing architectural theory and practice. The immaterial is a popular discussion within contemporary architectural literature, yet has evidently not fully impacted within practice. Built examples of the immaterial remain few. Those that have been implemented have tended towards the temporal in nature, existing in the mode of installations or exhibitions, such as Diller + Scofidio’s Blur Pavillion, with its harnessing of misty atmospheric conditions (Diller & Scofidio, 1994). This research will firstly necessitate an exploration of the effect of atmospheric conditions (such as heat, light, humidity, sound, smell, taste, air movement) on spatial perception. This study refers to the immaterial in terms of such conditions and looks at the impact they can have on experience of space. It is noteworthy that many artworks, such as that of Olafur Eliasson, explore ideas of affective atmospheres “as an agent of human experience and social action, prompting a subjective transformation” (Frichot, 2008: p. 31), suggesting that these environments can transform perception. This research will secondly experiment with scenarios of dis-location where specific atmospheric conditions will be relocated to a site in which they might otherwise be foreign. This will be done in view of testing the qualities of the atmospheric that impact on perception and to challenge the notion of enhancement, detraction and of provocation of mood. It is anticipated that the research will provoke the design of a series of experimental works which will lead to a process of translation from discourse to installation to architecture through the development of design tools and strategies. Together with supporting theory, this will form an inquiry as to what extent we should consider the invisible atmospheric conditions in the design process of architecture.</p>

scholarly journals Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice in the Urban Design Process: Towards a Multi-disciplinary Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Moureen Asaad ◽  
Marwa Khalifa ◽  
Ahmed S. Abd Elrahman
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Living Organism ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Success Criteria ◽  
The City ◽  
City Form

The city is a complex living organism mostly affected by decisions taken whether they are political, organizational, or design decisions. Such decisions vary in scale starting with planning, urban design, and architectural scales. Urban design has been commonly agreed to occupy a hypothetical intersection between planning and architecture. It emerged to bridge the disciplinary gap between architecture and planning. Since 1960s urban design literature attempted to define what good urban design and good city form is, and the process to achieve it; yet in practice the end product doesn’t always achieve high quality in terms of urban design initial objectives. Over the last decades, the gap between disciplinary dreams in theory and real outcomes translated as urban design product of different practices has been growing in the field of urban planning and urban design. Since the urban design product does not meet its expected objectives in theory then something must be wrong with it, and a thorough investigation must come in order to perceive such gap. The Research aims to answer two main questions regarding urban design through examining the Urban Design Process; the first is whether the urban design process is capable to bridge the multidisciplinary gap? And the second question is with the little knowledge and lack of success criteria for the urban design process; how can the success of urban design be measured?

scholarly journals EXPANDING DEPTH AND MEANING WITHIN URBAN DESIGN PROCESSES THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF COMPLEXITY AND EVOLUTIONARY THEORIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-142
Author(s):  
Marta Miguel ◽  
Richard Laing ◽  
Marianthi Leon ◽  
Seaton Baxter
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Specific System ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
Changing Practice ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Cyclical Process

Previous research has established the value of regarding cities as complex systems, and as systems which will evolve over time. The research reported in this paper concerns the development of an approach to urban design and management which recognises the complexities of change resulting from design-led urban interventions. The research commenced with a study of urban design and urban management processes, and the manner in which they have been studied in an academic context. The system aims to guide the processes of urban design so that it can be implemented within a cyclical process of evaluation and application. The system aids communication across design teams and improves clarity within the design process for the designers themselves. The specific system also aspires to interconnect theory with practice, while supporting designers to be inclusive and holistic. The paper describes a case study where the framework was applied within an academic setting, related to real urban environments in Singapore. It validates the model’s ability to guide students through the design process, give depth to their analysis of urban systems and meaning to their designs. Action research was implemented, to reflect the need for a “practice-changing practice” methodology, that supports a greater understanding of the relationship between theory and practice.

The urban design process

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Robert Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Process

Research on the Green Urban Morphology Based on BIM - A Case Study on the Urban Design in Nanhe City

2013 ◽  
Vol 368-370 ◽  
pp. 78-82
Author(s):  
Ping Shu ◽  
Jun Xu ◽  
Li Jun Wang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Design Patterns ◽  
Urban Morphology ◽  
Theoretical Studies ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Building Information Model ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Spatial Morphology

Based on theoretical studies of the urban spatial morphology, this paper introduces advanced concepts and methods of BIM (Building Information Model) into the urban design in Nanhe City ,and then respectively makes innovations of the urban design practice supported by BIM technology in the process of design, optimization and implementation of the program, attempting to explore BIM-based design patterns of the urban spatial morphology to make the traditional urban design process more rational and scientific, to expect to reach the green and sustainable urban spatial morphology.

scholarly journals Explicating concepts in reasoning from function to form by two-step innovative abductions

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ehud Kroll ◽  
Lauri Koskela
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Abductive Reasoning ◽  
Parameter Analysis ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Functional Aspect ◽  
Specific Design ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Step Process ◽  
Design Reasoning

AbstractThe mechanism of design reasoning from function to form is suggested to consist of a two-step inference of the innovative abduction type. First is an inference from a desired functional aspect to an idea, concept, or solution principle to satisfy the function. This is followed by a second innovative abduction, from the latest concept to form, structure, or mechanism. The intermediate entity in the logical reasoning, the concept, is thus made explicit, which is significant in following and understanding a specific design process, for educating designers, and to build a logic-based computational model of design. The idea of a two-step abductive reasoning process is developed from the critical examination of several propositions made by others. We use the notion of innovative abduction in design, as opposed to such abduction where the question is about selecting among known alternatives, and we adopt a previously proposed two-step process of abductive reasoning. However, our model is different in that the two abductions used follow the syllogistic pattern of innovative abduction. In addition to using a schematic example from the literature to demonstrate our derivation, we apply the model to an existing, empirically derived method of conceptual design called “parameter analysis” and use two examples of real design processes. The two synthetic steps of the method are shown to follow the proposed double innovative abduction scheme, and the design processes are presented as sequences of double abductions from function to concept and from concept to form, with a subsequent deductive evaluation step.

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