scholarly journals Storytelling architecture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Bica
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Urban Culture ◽  
Subway Station ◽  
Scientific Thinking ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
Design Drawing ◽  
Architectural Spaces

This thesis critiques contemporary architecture tracing its faults to favoritism of scientific thinking, diminishing urban culture and commodification of architecture. The effects of these shortcomings have fostered a loss of captivation between humanity and architecture placing people at odds with their built surroundings. This thesis aims to reintegrate captivation within design drawing metaphorical inspiration from storytelling to create engaging architectural spaces. In so doing, architectural storytelling is established as a new design theory with the aim of integrating rich narratives within the foundation of the architectural design process rekindling the strained relationship between architecture and mankind. Storytelling architecture will be show cased through the design of a subway station at Queen St. and Ossington Ave. in Toronto

scholarly journals Storytelling architecture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Bica
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Urban Culture ◽  
Subway Station ◽  
Scientific Thinking ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
Design Drawing ◽  
Architectural Spaces

This thesis critiques contemporary architecture tracing its faults to favoritism of scientific thinking, diminishing urban culture and commodification of architecture. The effects of these shortcomings have fostered a loss of captivation between humanity and architecture placing people at odds with their built surroundings. This thesis aims to reintegrate captivation within design drawing metaphorical inspiration from storytelling to create engaging architectural spaces. In so doing, architectural storytelling is established as a new design theory with the aim of integrating rich narratives within the foundation of the architectural design process rekindling the strained relationship between architecture and mankind. Storytelling architecture will be show cased through the design of a subway station at Queen St. and Ossington Ave. in Toronto

The Imperial Fora of Rome: Some Design Considerations

1997 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Wightman
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Geometric Model ◽  
The Other ◽  
Roman Architecture ◽  
Design Considerations ◽  
Cosmic Order ◽  
Base Dimension ◽  
Unified Design

Research in ancient Roman architectural design has come increasingly to the view that geometry was often as important as metrication and proportion. The present paper examines the contribution of both geometry and arithmetic to the design of the four imperial fora in Rome, as well as the closely related Temple of Peace. An analysis of the Forum of Augustus-the best-known of the imperial fora-shows that it was designed according to a geometric model with a particular size utilizing a "base dimension" of 146 Roman feet. Analyses of the other fora show that the same geometric model-but with a base dimension of 150 feet-can be used to generate their basic spatial divisions and dimensions. The model accounts not only for straightforward and integral dimensions or proportions, but also for irrational and nonintegral proportions hitherto unexplained. The article argues that the mixture of integral, nonintegral, and irrational metrication was a deliberate aspect of the design process, in line with the Early Imperial propensity to combine rectilinear and curvilinear architectural forms. The article concludes with a suggestion that the model originated in the Etruscan ritual division of space, which was adopted by the Romans and later applied to an increasingly broad range of building types. The model may thus have served as a kind of template or cosmogram whereby each building designed on it could embody essential features of cosmic order. It gave to each Roman building its uniquely "Italic" flavor quite separate from Greek "cosmetics." If the model's application proves to be sufficiently broad, then the possibility is raised of developing a "unified design theory" for Etruscan and Roman architecture. These issues will be broached in future articles.

scholarly journals Alliteration strategy In Contemporary Architecture

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Basim Hasan Hashim Al-majidi
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Strategy ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Architectural Form ◽  
Cognitive Studies ◽  
Abundance And Diversity ◽  
Comprehensive Framework ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
Selection Of

The contemporary ideas were characterized by the abundance and diversity of their knowledge, human and conceptual production, the strategy is both a general and a detailed framework covering all design disciplines both inside and outside the field of architecture. From here, many of these terraces emerged from fields outside the field of architecture, but soon moved to form an important nerve within the field of architecture. Hence the need to define a more comprehensive framework for studying one of the concepts that can frame the framework, namely the concept of "Alliteration", and its adoption as an architectural design strategy aimed at giving the resulting form a feature of rhetoric. So the research highlighted the "scientific need to clarify knowledge about the concept of alliteration as a strategy in the design process". The aim of the research is to "clarify the knowledge about the concept of alliteration as a strategy in the design process and to reveal its mechanisms through which it can reach a contemporary architectural form characterized by rhetoric. The research approach represents several procedures to achieve the goal of research and solving the problem of research through the construction of a theoretical framework and the development of the main and secondary vocabulary after the introduction of previous cognitive studies to the selection of samples for application, then discuss, analyze the results and conclusions. Which explained that the strategy of the alliteration enables the reading of the text of the architect within the objectives of both the designer and the recipient of the product, by combining similar systems in form and content, and the integration of properties, reducing the number of words and expand their participation of recipients as a result of reliance on subjective references within the field of architecture.  

scholarly journals Measurable Mistakes in Architecture the Effect of Designer's Experience on the Propagation of Mistakes in Architectural Design - Residential Buildings in Al Sulaymaniyah City as a Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-111
Author(s):  
Wrya Sabir Abdullah ◽  
Amjad Muhammad Ali
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Influential Factor ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Design Values ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Contemporary Architecture

The importance of physical and nonphysical architectural design values made architectural designers need good experience to be experts of architectural values reasonably without neglecting any value in the design process.  The importance of such values made that ignoring any values and mistakes occurs in the design process. Simultaneously, architectural designers' different nature and the difference in their experiences are causing different understandings of the design values, thus causing architectural mistakes. The research problem appears from the randomly propagating of mistakes in contemporary architecture, which is about to become a phenomenon in Al Sulaymaniyah city. The research aims to find the main reasons and influences of making architectural mistakes and propagating such mistakes in the contemporary architectural design depending on randomly selected samples. The study took the factor of "Architectural Designers' Experience" as an influential factor in avoiding the propagation of architectural mistakes. To see architectural mistakes in real existing cases, the research took some of the different types of residential buildings in Al Sulaymaniyah city designed during (2000-2010) as case study to show architects' architectural mistakes in residential buildings

A Brief Analysis on Technological Expression of Contemporary Architecture

2012 ◽  
Vol 226-228 ◽  
pp. 2430-2433
Author(s):  
Ruo Lin Liu ◽  
Hong Jin
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Regional Culture ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Ecological Concept ◽  
Digital Information Technology ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
The Relationship

The technological expression of contemporary architecture is developed basing on modernistic architecture. As one of the most influential architectural design methods, it is being paid more and more attention to by contemporary architects. Technological expression has made lots of changes in the design of architectural forms, space and environment. With the rapid development of science, more and more fantastic technology is being applied, which makes it beyond just a method and forms an architectural design theory itself. This paper makes some analysis on the relationship between technological expression and regional culture, ecological concept and natural environment. Since digital information technology is penetrating into architectural designing field, I hope this paper can give some inspiration to architects on their architectural study and practice.

scholarly journals Landscape as a Model of Architecture: A Contemporary Imitation

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 1395-1411
Author(s):  
Santiago Quesada García
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
New Order ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Music Literature ◽  
The Future ◽  
Contemporary Architecture

The act of designing architecture is based on the use of various models chosen as referents. Such models may come from architecture itself or from the arts like sculpture, painting, music, literature, and so forth. They usually provide the components for architectural design. This stance leads to the notion of architectural design as the construction of a new order derived from elements, examples, or prototypes verified in time by virtue of experience. Thus, the praxis of the design process is mainly referred to as a conscious imitation of models. The thesis of this work is that landscape constitutes one of these models. Landscape should be considered a contemporary model for architectural imitation because it is a concept that reveals a dynamic reality oriented towards the future. The values of landscape produce a wish to emulate it, to assimilate it. In a renewed object–subject relationship, landscape proposes itself as a paramount issue for architectural design. This paper contextualizes and explains what comprises such renewed mimesis and why landscape is a subject that provokes a desire for active emulation in contemporary architecture.

scholarly journals Seeking Experience in Architecture: Corporeal Attempts at Perception and Conception

Dimensions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-162
Author(s):  
Katharina Voigt ◽  
Virginie Roy
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Design Methods ◽  
Spatial Experience ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge ◽  
Architectural Spaces

Abstract This contribution presents the proceedings from a series of transversal university projects, addressing bodily forms of knowledge concerning the perception, inquiry, and conception of architecture. It retraces the phases of different manners of investigation over a threesemester teaching cycle, addressing perceptions and experiences of architectural spaces. The proceedings of, and results from the seminar cycle are documented and framed with an introduction to the applied methods and ways of working as well as their reflection and evaluation. These varying approaches all center around the questions of how to bring body-based and incorporated knowledge concerning architectural space to awareness and how attention to sensual and corporeal ways of perception can be increased. Thus, it investigates how the spectrum of design methods in architecture can be extended in order to actively include bodily forms of knowledge in the anticipation of spatial experience in the design process. The article introduces a concept of »Architecture Imagery« as a way to include bodily ways of knowing and body-based practices in the perception and memory of lived experience and the process of architectural design.

scholarly journals DRAGON IN THE CLOUD, SOARING FORWARD*-East Nanyang Station Cultural Architectural Design Expression

2021 ◽  
Vol 236 ◽  
pp. 05086
Author(s):  
Wei Sun ◽  
Pengfei Li ◽  
Yagang Liu ◽  
Yu Songhun
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Urban Culture ◽  
Design Concept ◽  
Creative Design ◽  
Spatial Form ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Cultural Design ◽  
Rail Station

As a city's transportation gateway, the high-speed rail station is also a business card for displaying and disseminating urban culture. The thesis takes the design process of East Nanyang Station, the largest single-line side station building in China as an example, elaborates the design concept of extracting "dragon in the cloud, soaring forward" as the creative design concept, and discusses the station building from three aspects: the overall plan of the station building, spatial form and spatial details cultural design expression.

scholarly journals Confusing problem of green architecture and false green architecture in mena region

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-58
Author(s):  
Nima Norouzi ◽  
◽  
Zahra Nasiri ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Classification System ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Environmental Design ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Final Model ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Green Architecture ◽  
Contemporary Architecture

Achieving sustainable and environmentally friendly architecture is one of the main goals people have made to better life as the final model for their professional activities. Thus, moving towards greener architecture is considered the primary goal of the architecture of our time. The purpose of this study is to analyze architectural projects that have already been implemented in Middle Eastern countries in terms of their compatibility with the objective concepts of sustainability and the green standards they require. Therefore, for review and study, the purpose of this article is to discover the level of sustainability classification system such as LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) that can be effective in classifying current architectural projects. Studies show three concepts for analyzing contemporary architecture: 1. green, 2. false green, and 3. energy-seller. Besides, these studies have shown that some projects, although attempting to convey sustainable architecture concepts in appearance, are not sustainable. In recent stages, this paper intends to evaluate the effectiveness of the LEED classification system. In evaluating the LEED classification system, the results show that the system’s purpose is more for planning purposes than objective design goals and practical tools for analyzing the architectural design process. The analysis based on this study shows that it is necessary to use design-based patterns to move false green architecture to green architecture.

The application of topological geometry to the architectural concept design process in the flow of digitalization

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy ◽  
Nguyen Dinh Thi
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Concept Design ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Topological Design ◽  
Architectural Design Theory ◽  
Topological Geometry

PurposeThe paper aims to research the applications of topological geometry to the architectural concept design process and their combination with the modern digital technology to find novel architectural spaces and forms which are dynamic, easily adaptable to the context and surroundings.Design/methodology/approachThe article uses the method of studying the existing literature on topological geometry and architectural design theory including design thinking, architectural design methods and architectural compositions to analyze and compare them with architectural practices and suggest new topological design tools and methods. Moreover, the paper tests the proposals with a number of preliminary design research experiments. In addition, graphic design software, parametric design, building information modeling (BIM) and digital development trends in architecture were explored and experienced to reveal the application potential of topological design thinking and methods in the trend of architectural digitization.FindingsThe paper has analyzed, synthesized and systematized the basic theories of topological geometry in order to clarify their applications in the architectural concept design process. On that basis, the paper proposes a novel topological design thinking and method for finding rich diversified architectural ideas and forms based on original invariant design constraints. Finally, the paper clarifies the combination as well as the mutual, motivating relationship between topological geometry and modern digital technologies when applied to architectural design.Originality/valueThe research contributes a novel design thinking and method based on topological geometry combined with modern digital technology to the architectural design theory. It will be a valuable tool capable of suggesting architects how to think and innovate in architecture in the era of industrial revolution 4.0.

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