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.

The United States and the Iranian Nuclear Programme

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Hurst
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Nixon Administration ◽  
Comprehensive Plan ◽  
The Us ◽  
Nuclear Issue ◽  
The Relationship

The United States, Iran and the Bomb provides the first comprehensive analysis of the US-Iranian nuclear relationship from its origins through to the signing of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2015. Starting with the Nixon administration in the 1970s, it analyses the policies of successive US administrations toward the Iranian nuclear programme. Emphasizing the centrality of domestic politics to decision-making on both sides, it offers both an explanation of the evolution of the relationship and a critique of successive US administrations' efforts to halt the Iranian nuclear programme, with neither coercive measures nor inducements effectively applied. The book further argues that factional politics inside Iran played a crucial role in Iranian nuclear decision-making and that American policy tended to reinforce the position of Iranian hardliners and undermine that of those who were prepared to compromise on the nuclear issue. In the final chapter it demonstrates how President Obama's alterations to American strategy, accompanied by shifts in Iranian domestic politics, finally brought about the signing of the JCPOA in 2015.

The Oxford Handbook of Grammatical Number

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Mental Representation ◽  
Noun Phrases ◽  
Numeral Classifiers ◽  
Number Marking ◽  
The Core ◽  
Grammatical Number ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Linguistic Means

This volume offers an overview of current research on grammatical number in language. The chapters Part i of the handbook present foundational notions in the study of grammatical number covering the semantic analyses of plurality, the mass–count distinction, the relationship between number and quantity expressions and the mental representation of number and individuation. The core instance of grammatical number is marking for number distinctions in nominal expressions as in English the book/the books and the chapters in Part ii, Number in the nominal domain, explore morphological, semantic, and syntactic aspects of number marking within noun phrases. The contributions examine morphological marking of number the relationship between syntax and nominal number marking, and the interactions between numeral classifiers with semantic number and number marking. They also address cases of mismatches in form and meaning with respect to number displayed by lexical plurals and collective nouns. The final chapter reviews nominal number processing from the perspective of language pathologies. While number marking on nouns has been the focus of most research on number, number distinctions can also be found in the event domain. Part iii, Number in the event domain, presents an overview of different linguistic means of expressing plurality in the event domain, covering verbal plurality marking, pluractional modifiers of the form Noun preposition Noun, frequency adjectives and dependent indefinites. Part iv provides fifteen case studies examining different aspects of grammatical number marking in a range of typologically diverse languages.

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 Mass-tailorisation - a digital aid for the decision-making in the designer's design process

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Sik Kim
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Potential

<p>The advent of digital tools and technologies of modern times has provided architectural designers with the ability to create in complexities and volumes of an unprecedented scale. With the myriad of possibilities, the designer has become prone to the Paradox of Choice - the difficulty of making decisions in a field of mass-options. </p> <p>Mass-tailorisation aims to aid the decision-making process of the designer in a world of unprecedented possibilities, limited only by the practicalities of reality. This research develops a theoretical framework for mass-tailorisation systems that aid the designer in the decision-making process by strategically focusing on four stages of the decision-making process. </p> <p>The thesis investigates the theoretical framework of mass-tailorisation through several phases of case studies that critically assess the viability and the implications of the components that constitute the mass-tailorisation system. The need for mass-tailorisation, as well as the establishment of the system and the future potential of mass-tailorisation are addressed through these case studies. Thus, leading to an integrative theoretical framework on the validity of mass-tailorisation. </p> <p>The research also speculates on the possible role of the future designer as they navigate through the near-limitless possibilities of the architectural design process of modern times. Finally, the thesis concludes by discussing the specific importance of the Design-Fabrication-Assembly Digital Continuum and the pursuit for the Move 37 phenomenon in explaining how mass-tailorisation can improve the decision-making process of the designer during the design process.</p>

scholarly journals The meaning of the relationship between bale nyungcung roof and inner room in architectural design of Mosques at Sunda Tatar

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-34
Author(s):  
Roza Rahmadjasa Mintaredja ◽  
Purnama Salura ◽  
Bachtiar Fauzy
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Vernacular Architecture ◽  
The West ◽  
West Java ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Basic Reference ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Relationship

There has been a decline in the form and function of Sundanese vernacular architecture for large buildings due to the absence of artifacts in village houses. The data on palace or keraton and terraced roofs are only found in lontar and from outside observers in the XVI century. Meanwhile, the phenomenon of the bale nyungcung roof emerged on the mosque in the XVI-XIX centuries at West Java after disappearing for more or less two centuries. The reappearance makes it interesting to study this concept, especially with the focus on its relationship with the inner room of the mosque. This research was conducted on the Great Mosque spread in Sunda Tatar such as the West Java and Banten Provinces with buildings of Majalaya, Manonjaya, and Banten used as case studies. It was conducted qualitatively and interpretatively using the building anatomical theory to analyze the scope of shape and the Bale Nyungcung roof. The results showed the relationship between the roof and the inner space is a reflection of the adjustment in the mosque's basic reference with the Bale Nyungcung roof used as one of the Sundanese local building features.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Keith Grint
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Moral Economy ◽  
Military Organizations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Second World

This chapter opens the debate about mutiny by considering the relationship between mutiny and leadership. Before considering the omnipresence of civil dissent, and the nature of power in military organizations, it explores leadership as a relational activity, rather than an individual competence, and suggests that, although the cases discussed are primarily historical, mutiny remains a permanent possibility. The rest of the chapter outlines the structure of the book, starting with a theoretical review of mutiny, followed by the various case studies: mutinies in revolutionary times; mutinies in the First and Second World Wars; mutinies after the First and Second World Wars; mutinies in Civil Wars; mutinies and ethnicity; dystopian and utopian mutinies; and mutinies against austerity. The final chapter reflects on the nature of the moral economy that underpins organizations and finishes by considering the role of individuals in mutinies.

scholarly journals Assisting software architects in architectural decision-making using Quark

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Ameller ◽  
Xavier Franch
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Software Architectures ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Usual Approach ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Architectural Decision ◽  
Architectural Knowledge ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Made In

Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) and constraints are among the principal drivers of architectural decision-making. NFRs are improved or damaged by architectural decisions (ADs), while constraints directly include or exclude parts of the architecture (e.g., logical components or technologies). We may determine the impact of an AD, or which parts of the architecture are affected by a constraint, but at the end it is hard to know if we are respecting the NFRs and the imposed constraints with all the ADs made. In the usual approach, architects use their own experience to produce software architectures that comply with the NFRs and imposed constraints, but at the end, especially for crucial decisions, the architect has to deal with complex trade-offs between NFRs and juggle with possible incompatibilities raised by the imposed constraints. In this paper we present Quark, a method to assist software architects in architectural decision-making, and the conceptualization of the relationship between NFRs and ADs defined in Arteon, an ontology to represent and manage architectural knowledge. Finally, we provide an overview of the Quark and Arteon implementation, the ArchiTech tool.

scholarly journals Herramienta de evaluación para la toma de decisiones sostenibles, durante el anteproyecto arquitectónico = Evaluation tool for sustainable decision-making during the architectural design

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Jorge Orondo ◽  
Luis A. Alonso ◽  
Cesar Bedoya
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Economic Feasibility ◽  
Evaluation Tool ◽  
Validation Process ◽  
Toma De Decisiones ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Relationship

ResumenDesde hace tiempo, muchos especialistas señalan que la clave para incorporar la sostenibilidad a una propuesta, de manera económicamente viable, es considerar los objetivos y criterios sostenibles desde los primeros pasos del proyecto, porque es cuando la relación entre la efectividad de las estrategias planteadas y el coste de implementarlas es más beneficiosa. El principal objetivo de este trabajo ha sido el desarrollo de una herramienta, denominada Green Improvement Tool v1.7, que simplifica al máximo las cuestiones relativas a la sostenibilidad, dando solución a las necesidades de sus potenciales usuarios y reuniendo al mismo tiempo varias características: claridad en sus términos y objetivos (para evitar confusiones y fallos de implementación), viabilidad técnica y económica en su aplicación, flexibilidad suficiente para adaptarse a situaciones y contextos diversos, capacidad de promover el uso de diferentes tecnologías y, ante todo, estimular el interés de dichos usuarios en un proceso de mejora continua. Los ensayos realizados en casos de estudio reales, durante el proceso de validación, indican que la herramienta permite anticipar desde las fases iniciales, con una fiabilidad media superior al 95%, más del 80% de los resultados al final del proceso.AbstractMany experts have long pointed out that the key to incorporating sustainability into a proposal in an economically viable way is to consider sustainable objectives and criteria from the very first steps of the project because the relationship between the effectiveness of the strategies proposed and The cost of implementing them is more beneficial. The main objective of this work has been the development of a tool, called Green Improvement Tool v1.7, which simplifies as much as possible the questions related to sustainability, giving solution to the needs of its potential users and bringing together several characteristics: Clarity in terms and objectives (to avoid confusion and failure to implement), technical and economic feasibility in its application, sufficient flexibility to adapt to different situations and contexts, ability to promote the use of different technologies and, above all, to stimulate interest of these users in a process of continuous improvement. During the validation process, the tests carried out in real cases indicate that the tool allows more than 80% of the results at the end of the process to be anticipated from the initial phases, with an average reliability of more than 95%. 

scholarly journals Mass-tailorisation - a digital aid for the decision-making in the designer's design process

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Sik Kim
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Potential

<p>The advent of digital tools and technologies of modern times has provided architectural designers with the ability to create in complexities and volumes of an unprecedented scale. With the myriad of possibilities, the designer has become prone to the Paradox of Choice - the difficulty of making decisions in a field of mass-options. </p> <p>Mass-tailorisation aims to aid the decision-making process of the designer in a world of unprecedented possibilities, limited only by the practicalities of reality. This research develops a theoretical framework for mass-tailorisation systems that aid the designer in the decision-making process by strategically focusing on four stages of the decision-making process. </p> <p>The thesis investigates the theoretical framework of mass-tailorisation through several phases of case studies that critically assess the viability and the implications of the components that constitute the mass-tailorisation system. The need for mass-tailorisation, as well as the establishment of the system and the future potential of mass-tailorisation are addressed through these case studies. Thus, leading to an integrative theoretical framework on the validity of mass-tailorisation. </p> <p>The research also speculates on the possible role of the future designer as they navigate through the near-limitless possibilities of the architectural design process of modern times. Finally, the thesis concludes by discussing the specific importance of the Design-Fabrication-Assembly Digital Continuum and the pursuit for the Move 37 phenomenon in explaining how mass-tailorisation can improve the decision-making process of the designer during the design process.</p>

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