scholarly journals Architectural Indicators

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jonathan Hay
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Design Solution ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Educational Design ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Design And Construction

<p>A political crisis is currently underway in New Zealand with a critical lack of affordable well-designed housing. Due to the presence in New Zealand of such vast timber resources and our enviable global location for export shipping, there are great economic and industry opportunities for the production of prefabricated timber housing. However, the contemporary architectural position on prefabrication is often limited by the inability to evidence individuality, diverse detailing and robust habitability with a predetermined production ‘formula’. This thesis argues that the anonymous open plan nature of prefabrication facilities is restricting prefabrication from achieving high levels of architectural design that evidence qualities of craft. This thesis argues that by using an interdisciplinary approach recognising qualities of shared authorship with prefabrication, this highly effective form of construction can satisfy a wider market while maintaining key architectural values of individuality (authorship), detailing (craft) and habitability (integrated technical functions, sustainability, etc.).  The design research explores how the design of a large-scale prefabrication facility can encourage craft and authorship within production processes. Similarly through design exploration the facility intends to provide a cohesive understanding and implementation of complex and specialised industry systems alongside production processes. The design also explores how the facility can provide an environment where this collaboration can be meaningfully encouraged, while also facilitating collaborative learning to resolve prefabrication design-related problems.  The site for the proposed new Trade Build Facility is on the border of Wellington’s operational port of Centre Port, on the south intersection of Waterloo Quay and Cornwell Street, Pipitea, alongside a resource of raw logs with multiple national and international transport modes. The thesis proposes the experimental design of a facility that focuses on timber beginning with the processing of the raw log at the input end, through to the pre-fabricated housing units at the output end. This thesis proposes a production facility that also takes on the role of an educational design vehicle for both the architect and the architectural student to develop and engage the latest technologies of design and construction in the field of prefabrication, providing them with the foundation for entering the complexities of the current architectural design profession. It is intended that users will witness the actual creation of a system of architecture, in a setting explicitly designed to enable these conditions to transform and evolve in step with the latest industry developments. This results in a productive partnering between design and construction, production and education, architect and architectural student through the refined inclusion of craft and authorship in architectural design.  The thesis actively seeks a design solution that develops future design outcomes of prefabricated timber production facilities through an enhanced and responsive adaptability within the facility. The building design also encourages robust and cohesive collaboration by incorporating multidisciplinary specialists with the production and education processes of prefabrication. As a result this thesis argues that architects will be provided greater opportunities for exploring craft and authorship within the context of prefabrication. The problems addressed by the strategic design experiments are prefabrication focused; however the situation is emblematic of a greater problem in the overall field of architecture. Through a focused evaluation on the collaborative environment experienced in the production of prefabrication, valuable lessons are transferable to all collaborative construction-based work environments, facilitating the ability to engender qualities of craft in an architecturally advanced industry.</p>

scholarly journals Architectural Indicators

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jonathan Hay
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Design Solution ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Educational Design ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Design And Construction

<p>A political crisis is currently underway in New Zealand with a critical lack of affordable well-designed housing. Due to the presence in New Zealand of such vast timber resources and our enviable global location for export shipping, there are great economic and industry opportunities for the production of prefabricated timber housing. However, the contemporary architectural position on prefabrication is often limited by the inability to evidence individuality, diverse detailing and robust habitability with a predetermined production ‘formula’. This thesis argues that the anonymous open plan nature of prefabrication facilities is restricting prefabrication from achieving high levels of architectural design that evidence qualities of craft. This thesis argues that by using an interdisciplinary approach recognising qualities of shared authorship with prefabrication, this highly effective form of construction can satisfy a wider market while maintaining key architectural values of individuality (authorship), detailing (craft) and habitability (integrated technical functions, sustainability, etc.).  The design research explores how the design of a large-scale prefabrication facility can encourage craft and authorship within production processes. Similarly through design exploration the facility intends to provide a cohesive understanding and implementation of complex and specialised industry systems alongside production processes. The design also explores how the facility can provide an environment where this collaboration can be meaningfully encouraged, while also facilitating collaborative learning to resolve prefabrication design-related problems.  The site for the proposed new Trade Build Facility is on the border of Wellington’s operational port of Centre Port, on the south intersection of Waterloo Quay and Cornwell Street, Pipitea, alongside a resource of raw logs with multiple national and international transport modes. The thesis proposes the experimental design of a facility that focuses on timber beginning with the processing of the raw log at the input end, through to the pre-fabricated housing units at the output end. This thesis proposes a production facility that also takes on the role of an educational design vehicle for both the architect and the architectural student to develop and engage the latest technologies of design and construction in the field of prefabrication, providing them with the foundation for entering the complexities of the current architectural design profession. It is intended that users will witness the actual creation of a system of architecture, in a setting explicitly designed to enable these conditions to transform and evolve in step with the latest industry developments. This results in a productive partnering between design and construction, production and education, architect and architectural student through the refined inclusion of craft and authorship in architectural design.  The thesis actively seeks a design solution that develops future design outcomes of prefabricated timber production facilities through an enhanced and responsive adaptability within the facility. The building design also encourages robust and cohesive collaboration by incorporating multidisciplinary specialists with the production and education processes of prefabrication. As a result this thesis argues that architects will be provided greater opportunities for exploring craft and authorship within the context of prefabrication. The problems addressed by the strategic design experiments are prefabrication focused; however the situation is emblematic of a greater problem in the overall field of architecture. Through a focused evaluation on the collaborative environment experienced in the production of prefabrication, valuable lessons are transferable to all collaborative construction-based work environments, facilitating the ability to engender qualities of craft in an architecturally advanced industry.</p>

scholarly journals PENGGUNAAN ALAT PERAGA SEDERHANA BERBASIS STEM DALAM PEMBELAJARAN SAINS PADA SD/MI

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-57
Author(s):  
Dwi Purbaningrum
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Educational Design ◽  
Educational Design Research ◽  
Design And Construction

Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian pengembangan media pembelajaran berupa kompor tenaga matahari berbasis STEM materi sains sekolah dasar untuk mendukung Kurikulum 2013. Penelitian ini sebagai solusi dari permasalahan pendidik mengenai pembelajaran menggunakan media pada Kurikulum 2013 dalam menghadapi tuntutan pendidikan abad 21. Diharapkan peserta didik memiliki pengetahuan dan keterampilan STEM secara terpadu yang dapat diterapkan mulai dari tingkat Sekolah Dasar (SD). Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk: 1) mendeskripsikan dasar kebutuhan pembelajaran menggunakan alat peraga berbasis STEM; 2) mengembangkan rancangan alat peraga sederhana berbasis STEM; 3) mendeskripsikan alat peraga sederhana bebasis STEM. Desain penelitian yang digunakan adalah model Educational Design Research (EDR) menurut McKenney & Reaves, yang terdiri dari tiga tahap yaitu: 1) Analysis and Exploration; 2) Design and Construction; 3) Evaluation and Reflection. Penelitian ini dilakukan sampai tahap kedua yaitu Design dan Construction. Alat peraga yang digunakan adalah kompor tenaga matahari yang dapat digunakan pada materi sumber energi. Pengembangan hasil rancangan alat peraga sederhana berbasis STEM dilakukan dengan menyusun RPP yang berpotensi, menganalisis KD berbasis STEM, dan menyiapkan alat maupun bahan yang digunakan dalam percobaan. Alat peraga sederhana berbasis STEM berbentuk kubus yang berasal dari kardus bekas, kemudian empat bagian atas tutup kardus dilapisi kertas silver yang berguna untuk memantulkan cahaya sebagai sumber panas.

scholarly journals The Memory That Remembers Us

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Mitchell Jones
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Design Work ◽  
New City ◽  
New Interpretation

<p>Future habitation of earth is an ever-increasing concern, with the proliferation of problems such as overpopulation, climate change, nonviable waste disposable methods and over-consumption of natural resources. These issues are influencing some contemporary entrepreneurs to consider ways of moving away from earth, to new habitations in space where we can survive if the earth becomes uninhabitable. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezo is currently engaging technicians and engineers to design plans for a city in space. But architectural design theory, in addition to engineering, must play a fundamental role in such a project, if it is to meet the social, cultural and political needs of its inhabitants.  People on earth benefit significantly from the ability to engage with the natural environment. But in outer space, this is not a condition that normally would be considered viable. In a space city, by default the traditional notion of an outside landscape setting needs to occur inside. This imperative becomes one of the principal reasons why this thesis looks at biophilia as a direction for the design research experiments, since biophilic systems at a large scale can provide a sense of an ‘outside’ landscape even ‘within’ the architecture of the design research. This thesis advances this concept further by proposing that the occupants can live within such a system, rather than peripheral to it, enabling the occupants to become a fundamental part of a working system.  With the intention of exploring design concepts for a city in space, the first aim of the thesis is to consider how to incorporate a ‘natural environment’ into people’s lives, even within an ‘architectural’ context where no access to a traditional natural environment is available. The first thesis aim is to achieve this by integrating biophilic systems throughout the design, thereby providing an environmental landscape within which people can interact, within an internalised architectural construct. The second aim of the thesis is to consider how to apply sustainability to an entire city. By designing an entire city as an integrated set of biophilic ‘systems’, the thesis proposes that each component of the new urban environment becomes participatory – and they become fundamental parts of that system. The overall system can be conceived in relation to sub-systems, systems working on macro and micro levels, relating to the full range of urban to human scales. The third aim of the thesis is to consider how the architectural identity of a future city would be defined if the multicultural future city is not associated with any traditional site, culture, or architectural heritage. The thesis proposes that if the new city is designed as an overall set of biophilic systems, then the typological identity of the new architecture / new city could arise from the biophilic systems’ environmental as well as mechanical components–integrated with the related habitational systems. In this way, the architectural identity of the ‘new city’ is conceived as systems-based, rather than arising from historical architectural precedents that are no longer applicable in a fully enclosed city in space.  This thesis asks the question: how can pressing issues such as global scarcity and severe environmental transformation be strategically represented to the public through politically motivated ‘speculative’ architecture? Using Factory Fifteen, a visual studio that works in architectural communication, combined with design work described in Chris Abbot’s novel Xavier of the World as a provocative generator of a speculative design as well as a driver for the site and programme, the architecture of a city in space is used to illustrate a new interpretation of physical, social, economic, cultural and political parameters for 21st century architecture.</p>

scholarly journals The Memory That Remembers Us

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Mitchell Jones
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Design Work ◽  
New City ◽  
New Interpretation

<p>Future habitation of earth is an ever-increasing concern, with the proliferation of problems such as overpopulation, climate change, nonviable waste disposable methods and over-consumption of natural resources. These issues are influencing some contemporary entrepreneurs to consider ways of moving away from earth, to new habitations in space where we can survive if the earth becomes uninhabitable. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezo is currently engaging technicians and engineers to design plans for a city in space. But architectural design theory, in addition to engineering, must play a fundamental role in such a project, if it is to meet the social, cultural and political needs of its inhabitants.  People on earth benefit significantly from the ability to engage with the natural environment. But in outer space, this is not a condition that normally would be considered viable. In a space city, by default the traditional notion of an outside landscape setting needs to occur inside. This imperative becomes one of the principal reasons why this thesis looks at biophilia as a direction for the design research experiments, since biophilic systems at a large scale can provide a sense of an ‘outside’ landscape even ‘within’ the architecture of the design research. This thesis advances this concept further by proposing that the occupants can live within such a system, rather than peripheral to it, enabling the occupants to become a fundamental part of a working system.  With the intention of exploring design concepts for a city in space, the first aim of the thesis is to consider how to incorporate a ‘natural environment’ into people’s lives, even within an ‘architectural’ context where no access to a traditional natural environment is available. The first thesis aim is to achieve this by integrating biophilic systems throughout the design, thereby providing an environmental landscape within which people can interact, within an internalised architectural construct. The second aim of the thesis is to consider how to apply sustainability to an entire city. By designing an entire city as an integrated set of biophilic ‘systems’, the thesis proposes that each component of the new urban environment becomes participatory – and they become fundamental parts of that system. The overall system can be conceived in relation to sub-systems, systems working on macro and micro levels, relating to the full range of urban to human scales. The third aim of the thesis is to consider how the architectural identity of a future city would be defined if the multicultural future city is not associated with any traditional site, culture, or architectural heritage. The thesis proposes that if the new city is designed as an overall set of biophilic systems, then the typological identity of the new architecture / new city could arise from the biophilic systems’ environmental as well as mechanical components–integrated with the related habitational systems. In this way, the architectural identity of the ‘new city’ is conceived as systems-based, rather than arising from historical architectural precedents that are no longer applicable in a fully enclosed city in space.  This thesis asks the question: how can pressing issues such as global scarcity and severe environmental transformation be strategically represented to the public through politically motivated ‘speculative’ architecture? Using Factory Fifteen, a visual studio that works in architectural communication, combined with design work described in Chris Abbot’s novel Xavier of the World as a provocative generator of a speculative design as well as a driver for the site and programme, the architecture of a city in space is used to illustrate a new interpretation of physical, social, economic, cultural and political parameters for 21st century architecture.</p>

scholarly journals Modern preschool building: design and construction practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 135 ◽  
pp. 03030
Author(s):  
Natalia Norina ◽  
Svetlana Golovina ◽  
Veniamin Norin
Keyword(s):  
Structural Design ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Design Solution ◽  
Structural Element ◽  
Educational Establishment ◽  
The City ◽  
Construction Practice ◽  
Design And Construction

The paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the design solution of the building of a preschool educational establishment in the city of Guastalla (Italy) with the aim of the possibility of adapting such a project to the conditions of Russian cities. A set of basic requirements for preschool buildings according to Russian building codes and rules is presented. They are grouped into four main groups: compliance with sanitary- hygienic and psychological requirements, safety, durability, cost-effectiveness, good appearance. A detailed analysis of the structural design of buildings based on a glued laminated frame with curved sections is presented from an environmental point of view. The conclusion is made about the inadmissibility of the use of glued laminated frames as a structural element of the preschool buildings. It is emphasized that the preschool building must in a special way satisfy the physiological needs of a small person. If this requirement is not met, no other advantages of the building will make it suitable for a comfortable and safe stay of children. The paper also presents a comparison of the development trends in the architecture of modern preschool buildings in the Russian and foreign practice of design and construction.

scholarly journals 3rd U.S. - Japan workshop on the improvement of building structural design and construction practices, 29 July-1 August 1988 Tokyo, Japan

1989 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-75
Author(s):  
I. J. Billings
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Earthquake Engineering ◽  
Structural Design ◽  
Seismic Analysis ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Design Codes ◽  
World Conference ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
The Third ◽  
Design And Construction

The workshop was held in Tokyo immediately
 prior to 9th World Conference on Earthquake 
Engineering. Two previous workshops have
been held in 1984 and 1986 both with an 
emphasis on seismic building design and 
construction practices. New Zealand and
 China were invited to participate in the
 3rd Workshop which was attended by 17 U.S. 
and 23 Japanese representatives. I was
 privileged to attend the third workshop 
which was organised by the Japan Structural
 Consultants Association. 21 papers were
 presented covering building seismic analysis and design, and comparison of design codes and practices. The conference concluded with a working session which allowed a useful exchange of information. In the notes below I have summarized several items of particular interest to New Zealand practitioners.

scholarly journals Pengembangan Media Pembelajaran Model STEM pada Konsep Terapung Melayang Tenggelam untuk Memfasilitasi Keterampilan Saintifik Anak Usia Dini

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-184
Author(s):  
Desi Arianti Santika ◽  
Edi Hendri Mulyana ◽  
Lutfi Nur
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Stem Learning ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Educational Design ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Group B ◽  
Scientific Skills ◽  
Design And Construction

This research is motivated by problems that occur in the field related to the use of STEM learning media in the concept of floating, floating and sinking which are limited and even lack of learning media facilities. The learning process in PAUD will be carried out optimally if it gets the support of relevant components and is very important in the delivery of information on the concept of learning materials in this case the learning media. STEM is an interdisciplinary merger of science related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics. STEM learning media model "Sink, Float and Fun" on the concept of floating, floating and sinking aims to facilitate the scientific skills of early childhood in group B. The scientific skills of children focused in this research are observing, classifying and communicating. Researchers use a mixed research approach (mix method) with the type of development, namely the EDR (Educational Design Research) method with 3 stages, namely the analysis and exploration phase is the first step by conducting literature studies and preliminary studies to the field to find the core research problems, design and construction of this product design development the researchers conducted the design and manufacture of the product being developed, and evaluation and reflection. However, in this study only up to stage II, namely to expert validation, where the results of the validation state that the STEM model of learning media is feasible to be used in the learning process with a slight revision. Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh permasalahan yang terjadi dilapangan terkait dengan penggunaan media pembelajaran model STEM pada konsep terapung, melayang dan tenggelam yang terbatas bahkan kekurangan fasilitas media pembelajaran. Proses pembelajaran di PAUD akan terlaksana secara optimal apabila mendapatkan dukungan komponen yang relevan dan sangat berfungsi penting dalam penyampain informasi konsep materi pembelajaran dalam hal ini media pembelajaran. STEM merupakan penggabungan interdisiplin ilmu terkait sains, teknologi, teknik dan matematika. Media pembelajaran model STEM “Sink, Float and Fun” pada konsep terapung, melayang dan tenggelam bertujuan untuk memfasilitasi keterampilan saintifik anak usia dini kelompok B. Keterampilan saintifik anak yang difokuskan dalam penelitian ini yaitu mengamati (observasi), mengklasifikasi dan mengkomunikasikan. Peneliti menggunakan pendekatan penelitian campuran (mix method) dengan jenis pengembangan yaitu dengan metode penelitian EDR (Educational Design Researh) dengan 3 tahap, yaitu tahap analysis and exploration ini merupakan langkah pertama dengan melakukan studi literatur dan studi pendahuluan ke lapangan untuk menemukan inti permasalahan penelitian, design and construction pengembangan desain produk ini peneliti melakukan rancangan dan pembuatan terhadap produk yang dikembangkan,  dan evaluation and reflection. Namun dalam penelitian ini hanya sampai tahap II saja yaitu sampai validasi ahli, dimana hasil dari validasi menyatakan bahwa media pembelajaran model STEM layak untuk digunakan dalm proses pembelajaran dengan sedikit revisi.

Research on the New Rural Green Building Design

2013 ◽  
Vol 312 ◽  
pp. 840-843
Author(s):  
Jing Dong
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Problem Construction ◽  
Research Status ◽  
Green Building Design ◽  
Speed Up

Since it proposed the building of a new socialist countryside by the "Eleventh Five-Year", the new rural green building design and research has been the problem construction industry discusses and faces. Based on this, this paper takes the theme of "new rural green building design research. It firstly takes an overview about green building of a new socialist countryside design; secondly to explore the rural architectural design and research status; once again raised a few simple and obvious opinion on the strengthening of the new the rural Green Building Design research; final summary of the full text. The goal is to exchange ideas with their peers, and promote the upgrading of China's new rural green building design at the same time to speed up the building of a new socialist countryside, so as to promote the sustainability of the development of China's construction industry.

BACTERIAL CELLULOSE AS A BASE MATERIAL IN BIODIGITAL ARCHITECTURE (BETWEEN BIO-MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT AND STRUCTURAL CUSTOMIZATION).

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-199
Author(s):  
Nadine T. El Gazzar ◽  
Alberto T. Estévez ◽  
Yomna K. Abdallah
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Bacterial Cellulose ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Material Development ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Structural Applications ◽  
Design And Construction

1. ABSTRACT Recently, developing sustainable architectural materials from renewable resources is gaining great interest. This interest is intended to alleviate the drawbacks of petroleum-based materials and their contribution in the escalation of CO2 emissions causing the current environmental deterioration. Achieving sustainability through developing efficient architectural materials have been always conditioned by technological advancements and economic potential. This has affected the architectural design and construction sectors, especially in times of disasters or economic crisis, resulting in paralysis in the architectural construction and material development. These effects were caused by the capitalization and centralization of architectural construction industries. The recent trend of self-sufficiency that had first emerged in environmental activities supporting recycling, environmental purification and conservation, oxygen, food, and electricity production, has extended to cover more sophisticated products, such as wearables, gadgets and architecture. Achieving self-sufficiency in architecture is of interest to multidisciplinary researchers who focus on developing both self-sufficient systems and materials as the two main components of the built environment. Developing architectural materials aims to provide cheap, recycled, renewable, environmentally friendly, durable and sustainable building material regardless of the possibility of the autonomous production of these materials on a popular democratic basis. Architectural building materials production was always and still is considered a massive industry that is centralized in major firms and LTDs, limiting the architectural construction process to the availability of major economic capacity. This centralization had its merits in forcing forward large-scale economies and vitalizing the architectural design and construction market, but only on the large scale; however, this centralization shows its drawbacks every time in disasters or economic crisis, causing almost total paralysis in the construction industry due to economic impotence caused by different reasons. Moreover, the centralization of the building and construction industry have affected developing communities, causing economic drawbacks and creating a ripple-like crisis in housing. In this paper, the authors propose the self-sufficiency approach in the development and production of sustainable architectural material from abundant and renewable microbial agents, in order to democratize and popularize material production on a domestic and personalized basis. The current work presents Bacterial Cellulose (BC) as a structural and membrane material in different architectural elements and applications, developed through simple and domestically applied procedures in order to create distributed and self-sufficient productive units for architectural materials production. The current study aims specifically at the easiness and simplification of the production practices and procedures of the biopolymers, and specifically bacterial cellulose for encouraging and establishing the popularization of self-sufficient production units of these renewable and abundant biopolymers. In this regard, the current study is part of the ongoing research on enhancing the mechanical properties of bacterial cellulose in order to use it for structural applications, that will be further developed in terms of medium optimization, bacterial cellulose production efficiency analysis, and material mechanical and physical properties testing. The following sections will contain a literature review on the chemical base and physical/mechanical properties of biopolymers including bacterial cellulose, followed by the experimental work conducted in this paper to develop bacterial cellulose as an architectural material. The results were further analyzed through formal and structural customization proposing possible applications in architectural design.

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