scholarly journals Basic architectural expression of a cultural center, study object: Volkstheater Sobokartti in Semarang, Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arteks Jurnal Teknik Arsitektur ◽  
Nabila Qirala Sukada ◽  
Purnama Salura
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Center ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
Cultural Centers ◽  
Architectural Styles ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Basic Expression ◽  
Center Study

The absence of specific guidelines is the main reason that cultural centers in Indonesia were often using an existing building that is not designated as cultural center and/or are designed with modern styles that are completely different from the existing architectural styles. This research is specifically focused on the issue of basic architectural expression in the Volkstheater Sobokartti Cultural Center. The main purpose of this research is to reveal architectural meaning based on the basic-expression of the Volkstheater Sobokartti Cultural Center. This research utilized theories such as: cultural center, architectural expression, and interpretation of architectural meaning. These theories together with the study object are then analyzed and elaborated in-depth using architectural anatomy and ordering principles theories. This research succeeded in compiling a reference of basic architectural expression as a basis for designing and/or interpreting the meaning of a cultural center. The result of this research can be used as: a design input/consideration for architects and stakeholders in designing and/or interpreting the meaning of a cultural center for students, academicians, architects, and concerned community; a starting point for other similar research.

Adopting SCAMPER`S Strategies to Incorporate the Sustainability Concepts Within Architectural Design Process

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farhan Ali ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Divergent Thinking ◽  
Functional Performance ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Aesthetic

Thinking creatively, is a necessary condition of the Design process to transform ideas into novel solutions and break barriers to creativity. Although, there are many techniques and ways to stimulate creative thinking for designers, however, this research paper adopts SCAMPER; which is acronym of: Substitute- Combine-Adapt- Modify or Magnify-Put to another use-Eliminate-Reverse or Rearrange- to integrate the sustainability concepts within architectural design process. Many creative artifacts have been designed consciously or unconsciously adopting SCAMPER strategies such as rehabilitation and reuse projects to improve the functional performance or the aesthetic sense of an existing building for the better. SCAMPER is recognized as a divergent thinking tool are used during the initial ideation stage, aims to leave the usual way of thinking to generate a wide range of new ideas that will lead to new insights, original ideas, and creative solutions to problems. The research focuses on applying this method in the architectural design, which is rarely researched, through reviewing seven examples that have been designed consciously or unconsciously adopting SCAMPER mnemonic techniques. The paper aims to establish a starting point for further research to deepen it and study its potentials in solving architectural design problems.

Extent of incorporation of green features in office properties in Lagos, Nigeria

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 232-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markson Opeyemi Komolafe ◽  
Matthew Oluwole Oyewole ◽  
John Temitope Kolawole
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Property Market ◽  
Implementation Framework ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
Architectural Styles ◽  
Availability Index ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which green building features are evident in office properties in Lagos, Nigeria; and consequently determine the degree of compliance with green standards in the country. Design/methodology/approach The study purposively sampled two (2) office properties from the management portfolio of 88 registered Estate firms in Lagos. Data were collected using physical observation on the properties and interview with two users purposively selected from each of the properties. The data were analysed with the use of frequency distribution, percentages and measures of green features availability index. Findings The result revealed a low extent of green features incorporation in existing office properties with the value of availability indices on most features falling below 2.5 on a five-point scale. Feature relating to material use and conservation is the most incorporated green feature (mean score of 2.62) while those relating to owner and occupant education were least in incorporation (mean score of 1.895). Practical implications From the findings, it is apparent that green retrofitting may be necessary in Nigeria due to the low extent of green practices in existing office properties. Also, reinforcement of existing government policies and increased sensitisation of stakeholders on impact of current building practices are pertinent to green building success in Nigeria. Originality/value Most existing studies of similar focus are based in the developed economies where stronger implementation framework exists for green building. Besides, they are mostly based on evaluation of green certified buildings using few criteria. This study differs in that it presents the existing building sustainability practices in a less pronounced green property market, with varying architectural styles using more robust criteria. Information provided is applicable in Nigeria and other emerging economies.

scholarly journals Students’ Perceptions of Ethnic and Multicultural Centers

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Kenneth A Reid ◽  
Stanley S Ebede
Keyword(s):  
Predominantly White ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Predominantly White Institutions ◽  
Minority Population ◽  
Cultural Center ◽  
Student Responses ◽  
Cultural Centers ◽  
White Institutions ◽  
Published Research ◽  
Method Approach

Cultural centers are historically known for successfully serving the greater responsibility of supporting minority students and sharing their culture, traditions, and values with the larger campus community. Despite their previous successes, recent research suggests that culture centers are now losing their effectiveness and are no longer resonating with students. Furthermore, there has not been any research to examine the state of general ethnic and multi- cultural centers since their evolution in the late ‘90s. Nor, has anyone published research that analyzes students’ perceptions towards helping identify recommendations for cultural center success. This preliminary research study examines students’ perceptions of ethnic and multicultural centers at predominantly white institutions. This study will specifically evaluate students’ beliefs on the purpose, impact, and future of cultural centers at predominantly white institutions with a minority population of seventeen percent or less. Using a mixed method approach, student responses were analyzed and also resulted in themes that coincide with the initial purpose of cultural centers back in the late 1960s. This research study suggests that students do understand the purpose of cultural centers and there is a need to investigate the disconnection between students’ perceptions of cultural center and the actual implications of these same centers. 

scholarly journals A Pathway Home: Connecting Museum Collections with Native Communities

Arts ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 154
Author(s):  
Chavez Lamar
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Well Being ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Cultural Center ◽  
Native Communities ◽  
Cultural Centers ◽  
Tribal Museums ◽  
Regular Practice

In 2016, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) and the Poeh Cultural Center, owned and operated by the Pueblo of Pojoaque in New Mexico, begin work on a loan of 100 ceramics in NMAI’s collections to the Poeh Cultural Center. Making loans to other institutions is regular practice for NMAI. In making loans to tribal museums and cultural centers, a loan can take on cultural and spiritual significance, which was the case for the Poeh Cultural Center and the community members it supports and represents. This article addresses the importance of connecting Native peoples with museum collections, which has the potential to contribute to community well-being, by featuring the partnership between NMAI and the Poeh Cultural Center.

“Our Shtetl, Tel Aviv, Must and Will Become the Metropolis of Yiddish”: Tel Aviv—a Center of Yiddish Culture?

AJS Review ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-132
Author(s):  
Gali Drucker Bar-Am
Keyword(s):  
Social Role ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Cultural Center ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
Cultural Centers ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Before And After

The remnant of the eastern European Jews that arrived in Israel after the Holocaust established a vibrant center of Yiddish culture in Tel Aviv. This paper tells its story. It spotlights the uniqueness of the Tel Aviv center in comparison with similar cultural centers established by eastern European Jews in other cities around the world, both before and after the Holocaust. It portrays the Jewish cultural activists and leaders that composed the Tel Aviv Yiddish center, the special conditions that awaited them in Israel, the institutions that they established, and their aftermath. Finally, it considers the Tel Aviv Yiddish cultural center as a test case for examining the social role of the Jewish cultural center after the Holocaust.

scholarly journals CASE STUDY OF STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY OF EXISTING BUILDING

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peteris Drukis ◽  
Līga Gaile ◽  
Vadims Goremikins
Keyword(s):  
Structural Reliability ◽  
Steel Structures ◽  
Existing Buildings ◽  
Safety Level ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
Safety Requirements ◽  
Practical Procedure ◽  
Shopping Centre ◽  
Starting Point

– Structural reliability of buildings has become an important issue after the collapse of a shopping centre in Riga 21.11.2013, caused the death of 54 people. The reliability of a building is the practice of designing, constructing, operating, maintaining and removing buildings in ways that ensure maintained health, ward suffered injuries or death due to use of the building. Evaluation and improvement of existing buildings is becoming more and more important. For a large part of existing buildings, the design life has been reached or will be reached in the near future. The structures of these buildings need to be reassessed in order to find out whether the safety requirements are met. The safety requirements provided by the Eurocodes are a starting point for the assessment of safety. However, it would be uneconomical to require all existing buildings and structures to comply fully with these new codes and corresponding safety levels, therefore the assessment of existing buildings differs with each design situation. This case study describes the simple and practical procedure of determination of minimal reliability index β of existing steel structures designed by different codes than Eurocodes and allows to reassess the actual safety level of different structural elements of existing buildings under design load.

scholarly journals CONDITIONS FOR PROMOTION OF ARTISTIC CREATIVITY AT ETHNO-CULTURAL CENTER

2020 ◽  
pp. 189-199
Author(s):  
Светлана Георгиевна Соколова
Keyword(s):  
Rural Population ◽  
Folk Art ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Cultural Center ◽  
Artistic Creativity ◽  
Cultural Centers ◽  
Leisure Services ◽  
Definition Of

В статье обоснована актуальность исследования, выявлены противоречия, обозначена проблема исследования. Дано определение понятий «художественное творчество» и «народное художественное творчество». Сделана попытка классифицировать и систематизировать формы и виды народного художественного творчества. Выявлены особенности художественного творчества чувашского народа, проявляющиеся в различных формах и жанрах народного творчества. Определена правовая основа регулирования художественного творчества населения. Обозначены критериальные признаки, определяющие его виды, а также проблемы, которые необходимо разрешить для организации художественного творчества сельского населения. Выявлены условия активизации художественного творчества в этнокультурном центре: строить работу на базе существующих нормативно-правовых документов; систематически изучать социокультурные проблемы, вопросы востребованности культурно-досуговых услуг населением, состояния деятельности этнокультурных центров по организации художественного творчества населения села, деревни. Описаны методы организации художественного творчества населения как условия его активизации. The article substantiates the relevance of the study, reveals the contradictions, identifies the research problem, gives the definition of the concepts of artistic creativity and folk art. It also makes an attempt classify and systematize the forms and types of folk art, reveals the features of artistic creativity of the Chuvash people which is manifested in various forms and genres of folk art. The paper identifies the legal basis for regulation of artistic creativity of the population and the criteria that determine the types of artistic creativity, as well as the problems that must be resolved to organize artistic creativity of rural population. The author identified the conditions for the promotion of artistic creativity at the ethno-cultural center. They are to work on the basis of existing regulatory documents, to systematically study socio-cultural issues, the demand for cultural and leisure services, the activity of ethno-cultural centers on the organization of artistic creativity of rural population. The author also determined the methods of organization of artistic creativity of rural population as the conditions for the promotion of artistic creativity.

scholarly journals DATA DESIGN IDEA IN CONTEMPORARY INTERIOR SPACES

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (06) ◽  
pp. 212-223
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ma'yod RADI ◽  
Rajaa Saadi LAFTA
Keyword(s):  
Research Problem ◽  
Design System ◽  
Cultural Center ◽  
Cultural Centers ◽  
Interior Spaces ◽  
Wide Availability ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Previous Design ◽  
Design Idea ◽  
Design Ideas

Design ideas are characterized by being able to develop and strive to find the best and most beautiful in terms of functionality and its integration and in terms of compatibility and harmony with what the performance use requires in terms of effectiveness reflected on the user, and here the sources of the idea are identical with what corresponds to the materials and materials being means that achieve comfort and good feeling, with Taking into consideration the technical fields and the wide availability of possibilities to achieve the accomplishments of the idea, regardless of the complexity and simplification required in any of the joints of the creative process in the internal spaces. On this basis, the question came to the research problem, which is: What is the importance of the design idea data and how to obtain innovative and unconventional design solutions in contemporary interior spaces. The current research aims to reveal the data of the design idea in the contemporary interior spaces of cultural centers. The theoretical framework included the meaning of the idea, its concept, and its most important data. We have adopted the descriptive approach in the research, reaching the analysis that includes studying the data of the design idea in the contemporary interior spaces of the international cultural centers of architectural designs, Zaha Hadid. The researcher, Dongdaemun Bla, Cultural Center in South Korea has been approved by the research community, represented by three international cultural centers. The most important conclusions are: 1- Creativity is a mental process, the foundations for the process of realizing gaps and missing elements and creating ideas, through which the interior designer goes through with the aim of producing new ideas in the design of contemporary interior spaces. 2- The design idea went in directions completely different from the traditional aspects based on the level of activation of aesthetic reflections, through its reliance on hybrid design relationships with an exotic and inspirational characteristic that diverges from the previous design system.

Local policy measures and sustainability of local cultural actors during Covid-19: Case of Kino Usmev

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbora Andor ◽  
Miriam Šebová ◽  
Zuzana Révészová
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Urban Ecosystems ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Cultural Center ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Cultural Centers ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
The Times

Literature suggest that local cultural centers have a potential to contribute to local sustainable development, spillovers to other sectors, urban regeneration and promote practices of care and solidarity. This being especially relevant in the times of crisis and post pandemic reorganization of cultural and creative ecosystems. This paper analyzes how the pandemic affects sustainability of local cultural center Kino Usmev, community non-governmental organization in the second biggest city of Slovakia, European Capital of Culture in 2013 and how local and national policies and COVID-19 related measures affect its future sustainability. Paper uses policy documents, government and municipal websites, but the core of the analysis is a case study based on three semi structured interviews with management of Kino Usmev, focused on four pillars of sustainability – economic, environmental, social and governance - complemented by policy related questions. The results indicate that policies of austerity and resilience are mostly applied by both national and local governments, with insufficient coordination, chaotic measures and lack of strategic planning. This creates vulnerability for local cultural centers, threatens their existence and prevents them to fully develop their potential as important actors of urban ecosystems with further socio-economic spillovers to other sectors.

Negotiating Cultures

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pilar Maria Guerrieri
Keyword(s):  
Transition Period ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Architectural Styles ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The City

This book focuses on the city of Delhi, one of the largest mega-cities in the world, and examines—from a historical perspective—the processes of hybridization between cultures within its local architecture and urban planning from 1912, when the British Town Planning Committee for New Delhi was formed, to 1962, when the first Master plan was implemented. The research originates directly from primary documents and examines how and to what extent the city plans, the neighbourhoods, the types of residential, public buildings and the architectural styles have changed over time. The analysis of architectural elements, the city and its intricacies, is in itself useful to understand how foreign models were adopted, how much resistance was encountered, and how much adaptation there was to local conditions. The book establishes and demonstrates that Delhi has played an active role in the complex process of hybridization in both the pre- and post-Independence periods, developing its own character as opposed to merely accepting what was brought from abroad. Both periods have been characterized by a resilient and continuing compromise between indigenous and foreign elements and thus the post-1947 period cannot be construed as more ‘indigenous’ than that which preceded it. Delhi can be considered to be a comprehensive model or case study of the intermingling and conflict of cultures; its initial transition period, when the actual mega-city was born, gives an important starting point to critically investigate the current phenomenon of globalization.

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