scholarly journals The Usability Study of a Proposed Environmental Experience Design Framework for Active Ageing

Buildings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masa Noguchi ◽  
Nan Ma ◽  
Catherine Woo ◽  
Hing-wah Chau ◽  
Jin Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Active Ageing ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Design Decision ◽  
Experience Design ◽  
Research Framework ◽  
Environmental Experience

Growing ageing population today may be necessitating building design decision makers to reconsider the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) standards in a way that accommodates senior occupants’ diverse and individual needs and demands. An experience design approach to rationalising and individualising end-user experience on how to utilise tangible products may serve to reflect user perceptions. Generally, architectural design practices tend to incorporate neither IEQ monitoring and analysis data, nor environmental experience design today. In response to the need for filling this gap, the authors of this paper conducted a feasibility study previously that led to structuring and defining an ‘Environmental Experience Design’ (EXD) research framework. Based on the previous case study on the collective spatial analysis and IEQ monitoring results, this paper further explored the usability and applicability of this proposed EXD framework particularly to the previously documented aged care facility in Victoria, Australia, which has been stressing active ageing agendas. This EXD framework usability experiment helped to build the capacity for engaging the subjectivity and objectivity of end users’ expectations, desires, and requirements in the architectural design thinking process. Nonetheless, due to the limitation of this initial and fundamental usability study’s resources and the objective, the necessity of adjusting the scale and scope of EXD analyses emerged. Moreover, the universality of this EXD research framework usage under various architectural typologies and user conditions yet require further attempts and investigations.

scholarly journals Research on Architectural Design Thinking Innovation

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Guangyu Zou
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Actual Situation ◽  
Design Work ◽  
Innovative Thinking ◽  
Design Requirements ◽  
Design Innovation

<p>Architectural design thinking innovation is the innovative thinking activities of inside and outside area of building, in order to meet the daily life and entertainment needs. With the development of economy, people have increasingly high design requirements for the building, which requires designers to improve their innovative thinking and ability of aestheticism. It continually innovate and inspire talent during the building design, and combine the theory and actual situation, in order to develop the new realm of architectural design work. This paper will mainly analyze and discuss the architectural design innovation thinking.</p>

scholarly journals Defining Domestic Environmental Experience for Occupants’ Mental Health and Wellbeing

Designs ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sajal Chowdhury ◽  
Masa Noguchi ◽  
Hemanta Doloi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Experience Design ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Environmental Experience ◽  
Human Perceptions ◽  
Domestic Environments ◽  
Economic Constraints ◽  
Physical Responses

This study was stipulated by today’s limited living conditions of middle income households in Bangladesh who have economic constraints that contribute to hindering improvement of their existing domestic settings that may affect occupants’ mental health and wellbeing. The design of domestic living environments tend to influence occupants’ emotions, feelings and moods. Thus, domestic environmental experiences need to be examined and incorporated into architectural design decisions. To understand the notion of such experiences, this study reviewed literatures concerning the related domains extensively. This study found the significant impact of domestic environments on human perceptions. Each design of domestic settings affects occupants’ emotional responses positively or negatively. Through this study, the term domestic environmental experience was defined as users’ experiences of cognitive perceptions and physical responses to their domestic built environment. In addition, it led to proposing the composition of domestic environmental experiences that need to be correlated with architectural design solutions. Nonetheless, this study did not examine the correlation where the emerging notion of Environmental Experience Design (EXD) may serve as the mediator. Accordingly, this new horizon of EXD research needs to be explored further with the aim to improve domestic built environments in Bangladesh which were the original driver of this research.

scholarly journals Research on Architectural Design Thinking Innovation

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Guangyu Zou
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Actual Situation ◽  
Design Work ◽  
Innovative Thinking ◽  
Design Requirements ◽  
Design Innovation

<p>Architectural design thinking innovation is the innovative thinking activities of inside and outside area of building, in order to meet the daily life and entertainment needs. With the development of economy, people have increasingly high design requirements for the building, which requires designers to improve their innovative thinking and ability of aestheticism. It continually innovate and inspire talent during the building design, and combine the theory and actual situation, in order to develop the new realm of architectural design work. This paper will mainly analyze and discuss the architectural design innovation thinking.</p>

scholarly journals Energy Rating of Buildings to Promote Energy-Conscious Design in Israel

Buildings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Abraham Yezioro ◽  
Isaac Guedi Capeluto
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Residential Building ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Energy Performance ◽  
Basic Unit ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Design Decision ◽  
Rating Systems ◽  
New Buildings

Improving the energy efficiency of existing and new buildings is an important step towards achieving more sustainable environments. There are various methods for grading buildings that are required according to regulations in different places for green building certification. However, in new buildings, these rating systems are usually implemented at late design stages due to their complexity and lack of integration in the architectural design process, thus limiting the available options for improving their performance. In this paper, the model ENERGYui used for design and rating buildings in Israel is presented. One of its main advantages is that it can be used at any design stage, including the early ones. It requires information that is available at each stage only, as the additional necessary information is supplemented by the model. In this way, architects can design buildings in a way where they are aware of each design decision and its impact on their energy performance, while testing different design directions. ENERGYui rates the energy performance of each basic unit, as well as the entire building. The use of the model is demonstrated in two different scenarios: an office building in which basic architectural features such as form and orientation are tested from the very beginning, and a residential building in which the intervention focuses on its envelope, highlighting the possibilities of improving their design during the whole design process.

EFFECTS OF CLIMATE ON THE ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN DESIGN OF TRIPOLI

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 295-311
Author(s):  
AbuRawi Mustafa ALMARKIYAH ◽  
Fouziya Alzarqani Ipraheem FADHLULLAH
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Motion Path ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Study Case ◽  
The City

Tripoli is a city of a Mediterranean Sea climate; this has contributed with some social and religious factors to affect the architectural and urban design, which all originally has come from the Islamic content. This study argues the climatic features of Tripoli in order to show the ways followed by the Libyan Muslim architect. In other words, these ways were used to adapt with the climate and create the demanding architectural treatments, which have served the building units. This is considered as a study case that can discuss the possibility of the climatic reflection on the walls. That is to say, the walls’ thickness, the type of the used substance in building, the substance’s properties, the type of roof used in covering the building units and the architectural design of the building as treatments achieved professionally by the architect in decreasing the heat in summer and increasing the heat in winter through the mass block. Additionally, the researchers have stated that Tripoli’s building design respected the privacy of the inhabitants and their isolation from the world outside their buildings. That is because they wanted to have their own cold spaces inside which were rich of light, air and shadow. As a result of the aforementioned considerations, the architectural buildings contained the uncovered space and the broken entrance to keep the privacy from the passengers and to protect the inhabitants from wind and sand. These were regarded as final solutions for the architectural and climatic problem. Further, this study illustrates the active role of using the planning including the architectural formations and the treatments of motion path. That is according to their width, their length, their form, their guidance and their direction change in order to make shadow and isolate the front of buildings. This also contributed to give the streets the northern wind which in turn helped to keep the air moving as long as possible to tone down the climatic influences. Moreover, the planning aimed to show its turn through analytical, architectural and documentary survey for realistic examples in the archeological registrar of the potential city treatments. These architectural elements were important in making the sustainable architecture in respect to the environment and human relaxation requirements. Finally, the researchers measured the following factors temperatures, wind, rain, and ratio humidity for variety of spaces in the city. That was followed by qualitative and quantitative statistical analysis supported by graphs

scholarly journals Virtual Reality As A Spatial Experience For Architecture Design: A Study of Effectiveness for Architecture Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 05005
Author(s):  
Luhur Sapto Pamungkas ◽  
Cinthyaningtyas Meytasari ◽  
Hendro Trieddiantoro
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Experimental Method ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Visual Design ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Spatial Experience ◽  
Architectural Design Studio

Studios. This ability gained through visual design thinking. The spatial experience honed by three dimensional thinking from the medium diversity. The spatial experience learned through a room layout, proportion, and composition. This research used an experimental method and the primary data obtained by a “Likert” scale questionnaire. The Respondents are 50 students of the Architectural Design Studio. Moreover, the analysis focuses on the VR for spatial experience. The result was a descriptive explanation of the effectiveness of Virtual Reality for a spatial experience of architecture students at Technology University of Yogyakarta.

scholarly journals Virtual Prototyping for Open Building Design

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 46-56
Author(s):  
ŞEule Taşlı Pektaş ◽  
Bülent Özgüç
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Virtual Prototyping ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Design Decision ◽  
Enabling Technology ◽  
Conventional Design ◽  
Building Systems ◽  
The Future ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Design Media

This paper re-visits the basic premises of open building: designing for change as well as for stability, including the users in the design decision-making processes, and disentangling the building systems into the levels and allowing replacement; then, addresses the limitations of conventional design media in terms of the capabilities to support these aims. It is discussed that the design media should be predictive, dynamic, and interactive. Virtual prototyping as an enabling technology is reviewed and proposals are made for the future use of this technology for open building design.

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