scholarly journals Celebrating Difference: Architectural Conflation within an Urban Fabric

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Casey Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Architectural Discourse ◽  
Civic Architecture ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Human Difference ◽  
Raw Foods ◽  
Scale Design

<p>Celebrating Difference questions New Zealand’s current civic architecture, and the way we will design these environments in the future. This thesis explores various cultural literary precedents supported by two detailed case studies and a civic scale architectural design project. Firstly, this thesis explores a global stance on multi-culture and difference and investigates a contemporary breakdown of difference, culture and multiculturalism. The reader is then taken through a journey of New Zealand’s civic history, with an emphasis on cultural and social climates, and their acknowledgement or celebration through architectural discourse. Multicultural Australia, Bernard Tschumi’s metaphorical consumption and a literal exploration of food’s contribution in the civic arena are all literary examples examined within the research with an emphasis on re-direction and possibly unseen correlations within civic scale design. These examinations are to question an international field of cultural architectural discourse and identify events and forms that contribute to cultural celebration. The two case studies examined are Federation Square, Melbourne city and Wellington’s CBD, in New Zealand. These studies highlight each space’s exhibition of cultural celebration and aid in defining key characteristics that encourage cultural celebration through architecture. The hypothesis aligns the study’s key findings with the design project, Architectural Conflation within an Urban Fabric. This correlative piece identifies human similarity as a critical point of understanding in the equation of difference. When similarity is acknowledged, a closeness is formed allowing a greater understanding of human difference to be achieved – doesn’t make good sense. A re-discovery of Raw Foods, Landscape and Materiality are determined as key architectural attributes that aid in creating environments that celebrate difference through architectural discourse.</p>

scholarly journals Celebrating Difference: Architectural Conflation within an Urban Fabric

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Casey Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Architectural Discourse ◽  
Civic Architecture ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Human Difference ◽  
Raw Foods ◽  
Scale Design

<p>Celebrating Difference questions New Zealand’s current civic architecture, and the way we will design these environments in the future. This thesis explores various cultural literary precedents supported by two detailed case studies and a civic scale architectural design project. Firstly, this thesis explores a global stance on multi-culture and difference and investigates a contemporary breakdown of difference, culture and multiculturalism. The reader is then taken through a journey of New Zealand’s civic history, with an emphasis on cultural and social climates, and their acknowledgement or celebration through architectural discourse. Multicultural Australia, Bernard Tschumi’s metaphorical consumption and a literal exploration of food’s contribution in the civic arena are all literary examples examined within the research with an emphasis on re-direction and possibly unseen correlations within civic scale design. These examinations are to question an international field of cultural architectural discourse and identify events and forms that contribute to cultural celebration. The two case studies examined are Federation Square, Melbourne city and Wellington’s CBD, in New Zealand. These studies highlight each space’s exhibition of cultural celebration and aid in defining key characteristics that encourage cultural celebration through architecture. The hypothesis aligns the study’s key findings with the design project, Architectural Conflation within an Urban Fabric. This correlative piece identifies human similarity as a critical point of understanding in the equation of difference. When similarity is acknowledged, a closeness is formed allowing a greater understanding of human difference to be achieved – doesn’t make good sense. A re-discovery of Raw Foods, Landscape and Materiality are determined as key architectural attributes that aid in creating environments that celebrate difference through architectural discourse.</p>

scholarly journals The interaction between photovoltaic materials and building forms

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liming Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Photovoltaic Materials ◽  
Recreational Facility ◽  
Architectural Decision ◽  
Building Form ◽  
The Relationship

There is an intrinsic relationship between photovoltaic materials and building forms; although there are numerous imaginations and concepts about buildings integrated photovoltaic materials. The relationship between these two components needed to be identified and examined in the process of architectural decision making. This thesis explores the relationship between photovoltaic materials and building forms in particular geographical and climatic environments through case studies and then proposes an architectural design project. Based on the research suggestion, the design illustrates how a recreational facility adopts an approximate building form for photovoltaic integration and how the concept is developed. Some implications and principle for solar design are summarized in the final chapter.

scholarly journals The interaction between photovoltaic materials and building forms

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liming Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Photovoltaic Materials ◽  
Recreational Facility ◽  
Architectural Decision ◽  
Building Form ◽  
The Relationship

There is an intrinsic relationship between photovoltaic materials and building forms; although there are numerous imaginations and concepts about buildings integrated photovoltaic materials. The relationship between these two components needed to be identified and examined in the process of architectural decision making. This thesis explores the relationship between photovoltaic materials and building forms in particular geographical and climatic environments through case studies and then proposes an architectural design project. Based on the research suggestion, the design illustrates how a recreational facility adopts an approximate building form for photovoltaic integration and how the concept is developed. Some implications and principle for solar design are summarized in the final chapter.

scholarly journals Shape of cadastral plot and band of pertinence. Meaning for Architectural Design

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Carlotti
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Urban Morphology ◽  
Urban Center ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Architectural Transformation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The City

Some our studies of urban morphology, implemented on historical and contemporary urban fabric maps, allow us to believe that the shape of the lot and of band of pertinence of a pathway are essential to reading the formative urban process. Different phases of formative process of an urban center seems, in fact, to be recognizable in the of shape of lot and interaction between lots and path. These morphological shapes (lots) are the result of different  centrality that are produced in the building fabric and, consequently, the restructuring pathways are important for understanding rules and causes of urban and architectural transformation of the city. This paper aims to offer a contribution to the definition of the elements of urban morphology. This research, part of a series of research, carried out in the Lab. Lettura e Progetto dell’Architettura  of the  Faculty of Roma (Sapienza), tries to be implemented in some case studies:  Murcia and San Mateu.   References Merlin P. (1988) Morphologie urbaine at parcellaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifiques, Saint Denis. Larkham P.J., Conzen M.P.,(ed) (2014) Shapers of Urban Form. Explorations in Morphological agency,  Routledge, London. Strappa G, Carlotti P., Camiz A. (2016), Urban Morphology an Historical Fabrics. Contemporary design of small town in Latium, Gangemi editore, Roma

Human Factors in Architecture: A View from the Field

1982 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-203
Author(s):  
James A. Wise
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Real World ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Recent Case ◽  
Panel Session ◽  
Real World Problems

This is a panel session focused on the applications of Human Factors to real world problems in architectural design. Five representatives from various design & research professions will present recent case studies of theirs, and examine the contribution that Human Factors made to these projects. The diversity of their examples shows the usefulness and importance on integrating concerns for the human user into plans for the built environment.

scholarly journals Pop-up landscape architecture in Ho Chi Minh City: Cases of creating livable city for all

2018 ◽  
Vol 193 ◽  
pp. 04002
Author(s):  
Anh Viet Vu ◽  
Thi Ai Thuy Pham ◽  
Tu Pham
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Landscape Design ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Innovative Thinking ◽  
The City

The pop-up architecture (or landscape architecture) becomes popular nowadays. Some highlights include annual architecture program such as the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion at Hyde Park, London; MPavilion in Melbourne; MoMA PS1 and Heart Sculpture in New York. Many of these pop-up architectural works have been designed by world renowned architects, such as Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Hezorg and de Meuron, Jean Nouvel, Toyo Ito, SANAA, Shigeru Ban, BIG, etc. And many of these designs reflect innovative thinking that changes the professional world of architectural design. But above all, these pop-up architectures were created in responsive manner to the urban community and the community controversially has good response to this type of architecture. In the other words, pop-up architecture is the way the architects touch the heartbeat of the cities, make them livable for all. Ho Chi Minh City has its own types of pop-up landscape architecture, whereas this paper intends to explore in two case studies: Nguyen Hue Floral Boulevard and Nguyen Van Binh Book Street. Nguyen Hue Floral Street is celebrating now its twelfth birthday in the city. Nguyen Van Binh Book Street has just passed its first anniversary in 2017. Both cases live its own story behind the scene about how livable a city could be through place-making by architecture and landscape design. Throughout these cases, we would like to find out how this type of pop-up landscape architecture being realized and become popular in Ho Chi Minh City, and how it is devoted to a livable city for all.

scholarly journals Iterations as the result of social and technical factors: empirical evidence from a large-scale design project

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastiano A. Piccolo ◽  
Anja M. Maier ◽  
Sune Lehmann ◽  
Chris A. McMahon
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Technical Factors ◽  
Scale Design

scholarly journals A szénlábnyom mérése – Fókuszban a közúti áruszállítás és raktározás (Measurement the carbon footprint – focus on road transport and warehousing)

2014 ◽  
pp. 53-68
Author(s):  
Zsolt Barna ◽  
Andrea Gelei
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Conversion Factor ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
Environmental Strain ◽  
Sustainable Logistics ◽  
Key Characteristics

Mai világunkban egyre több olyan erőforrást élünk fel, amelyek hatását az otthonunknak számító Föld egyszerűen már nem képes helyreállítani. Ebben számos jelenség mellett a gazdaság globalizációja, az élesedő versenyhelyzet, a fogyasztói társadalom további térnyerése, ebből adódóan pedig a logisztikai folyamatok intenzitásának növekedése kulcsszerepet játszik. A logisztikát érő kritikáknak ösztönözniük kell a vállalatok szakembereit arra, hogy változtassanak ezen. Ehhez elengedhetetlen a jelenlegi működés szénlábnyomának mérése. Csak a jelenállapot felmérése szolgálhat alapjául a fejlesztéseknek. A szerzők tanulmányának célja a szénlábnyomszámítás egy gyakorlati alkalmazásának ismertetése. Esettanulmány jelleggel bemutatják egy nagy nemzetközi vállalat hazai leányvállalatának a szénlábnyom-számítása során alkalmazott módszertanát. A számítások során a vállalat disztribúciós logisztikai folyamataira fókuszálnak, kiemelten vizsgálták a közúti szállítás és a raktározás széndioxid-kibocsátását. Számításaikban igyekeztek pontosak lenni, a hazai energiamixre számolt legfrissebb konverziós faktorokkal számoltak. Meggyőződésük, hogy az ilyen esettanulmányok hasznosak, hiszen a bemutatott módszertan mintául, útmutatásul szolgálhat további vállalatok számára. Reményeik szerint ezzel segíthetik, hogy minél több hazai vállalat kezdje el széndioxid-kibocsátásának szisztematikus és tudományos alapokon nyugvó mérését. ____ Due to globalization, intense competition and the consumer society logistics processes have been intensified during the last decades. This led to increased environmental strain generating intense criticism towards logistics profession. In order to decrease the environmental burden of logistics several professionals and companies have tried to make progress in this field and introduced techniques that are capable to measure the Carbon Footprint of logistics. Still public case studies are very limited. The paper presents the case of the Hungarian subsidiary of a big multinational FMCG firm. Calculations are built on the actual conversion factor developed for the Hungarian energy mix. A complex set of key performance indi actors usable to capture key characteristics of the present situation is presented. Not only the constructs of these KPIs are described in the paper but a detailed description of methodology used to calculate them is also given. The authors hope such detailed case study description will help other companies as well to initiate sustainable logistics programs.

scholarly journals Neighbourhood [Re] Formation: Envisioning A Future For Don Mills

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Talayeh Rad
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Urban Morphology ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Design Project ◽  
The Future ◽  
Unlimited Growth ◽  
New Vision ◽  
Future Growth

Architecture is known to be the physical language of community. What define cities are streets, blocks, and buildings, and their interaction defines the neighbourhoods. Cities are poised for unlimited growth (Lefebvre, 2003) and the challenge is to propose a vision for the future growth of already dense neighbourhoods. The research aims to study the evolution of contemporary urbanism, ideas, and theories in order to explore the structure of the existing neighbourhoods and understand the dynamic behind the street patterns and urban blocks. Case studies are investigating the quality and configuration of physical urban form through recent history. The ideas are compared and contrasted to challenge modern and post-modern urban theories in order to propose a new vision for future urban growth. The design project takes into account the importance of urban morphology and typology and their impacts on the identity, diversity and affordability of the neighbourhood.

scholarly journals Some Distinctive Features of Narrative Environments

Interiority ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tricia Austin
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
The Public ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
The World ◽  
Narrative Practice ◽  
Narrative Medium

This paper explores key characteristics of spatial narratives, which are called narrative environments here. Narrative environments can take the form of exhibitions, brand experiences and certain city quarters where stories are deliberately being told in, and through, the space. It is argued that narrative environments can be conceived as being located on a spectrum of narrative practice between media-based narratives and personal life narratives. While watching a screen or reading a book, you are, although often deeply emotionally immersed in a story, always physically ‘outside’ the story. By contrast, you can walk right into a narrative environment, becoming emotionally, intellectually and bodily surrounded by, and implicated in, the narrative. An experience in a narrative environment is, nonetheless, different from everyday experience, where the world, although designed, is not deliberately constituted by others intentionally to imbed and communicate specific stories. The paper proposes a theoretical framework for space as a narrative medium and offers a critical analysis of two case studies of exhibitions, one in a museum and one in the public realm, to support the positioning of narrative environments in the centre of the spectrum of narrative practice.

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