scholarly journals BIOMIMICRY PERMEATED ARCHITECTURE PEDAGOGY - A METHOD OF INVESTIGATING BIO-MIMICRY AND DIGITAL TECHNIQUES IN THE ARCHITECTURAL DESGIN STUDIOS

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-47
Author(s):  
Quratulain Asghar ◽  
Syed Muhammad Zille Ali Naqvi
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Improve Design ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Form Generation ◽  
Natural Processes ◽  
The University

In the emerging era of technology, the architectural world is taking inspiration from nature for solutions to its problems, which involve the study of natural design systems and various processes. This research investigation, carried out in the fourth year architecture design studio, aims to investigate bio-mimicry as a development process, involving it for architectural design. It also attempts to study innovation by integrating the digital tools like Rhino, Grasshopper, Ladybug and Para Cloud Gem. A new understanding of solving design issues with the help of natural processes and phenomena is the basic aim. Natural systems offer design strategies to improve design thinking due to the availability of extensive repertoire; which makes incorporating multi-functional and self-organized biomimetic principles into the design process a requirement. This discusses an undergraduate design studio titled "Digital Design through Bio-mimicry" which was taught by the author in an architectural degree program at the University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, Department of Architecture in Spring 2018. Following the exploration of individual research topics, the findings were implemented into design solutions. It has been a critical challenge for the author to increase the skill of students about biomimetic thinking, making them learn about how to handle digital tool’s performance issues, as well as making them work on the development of interesting form generation. The challenges encountered in the teaching process and future lines of the work are discussed in this paper. Keywords: Biomimetic processes, Architectural education, Digital Techniques, Vertical Landscape, Computer-Aided Architectural Design

Supporting Design Thinking with Evocative Digital Diagrams

2012 ◽  
pp. 319-337
Author(s):  
Christiane M. Herr
Keyword(s):  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Software Tool ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Architectural Design Studio

This chapter presents a digitally supported approach to creative thinking through diagrammatic visuals. Diagrammatic visuals can support designing by evoking thoughts and by raising open questions in conversational exchanges with designers. It focuses on the educational context of the architectural design studio, and introduces a software tool, named Algogram, which allows designers to employ diagrams in challenging conventional assumptions and for generating new ideas. Results from testing the tool and the way of approaching conceptual designing encouraged by it within an undergraduate design studio suggest a potential for refocusing of attention in digital design support development towards diagrams. In addition to the conventional emphasis on the variety of tool features and the ability of the tool to assist representational modeling of form, this chapter shows how a diagram-based approach can acknowledge and harness the creative potential of designers’ constructive seeing.

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 INTEGRATION OF REVEALED KNOWLEDGE INTO DESIGN THINKING: AN URBAN DESIGN STUDIO EXPERIMENT

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Ilya Fadjar Maharika
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Reflective Writing ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Architecture Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Architectural Design Studio

<p class="Keywords">Integration of human knowledge principle has been widespread in the world of Islamic education, including in Indonesia. Partially seen as an attempt to build a school of thought of architecture education, the principle opens the discussion on the discursive level of design thinking. This paper reveals an explorative effort to translate the idea into a class experiment in an architectural design studio. This class experimental research uses a content analysis of students’ reflective writing who involve the design process that deliberately begins with the introduction of revealed knowledge (Arabic: <em>wahy</em>) in Architectural Design Studio 7 at the Department of Architecture, Universitas Islam Indonesia. In conclusion, it has formulated a dynamic and multi-dimensional construction of design thinking based on the integration of knowledge</p>

scholarly journals Adaptation of the proposed unit system for third year architectural design studio

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 01040
Author(s):  
Eray Bozkurt
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Adaptation Process ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Unit System ◽  
Architectural Design Studio ◽  
Fundamental Design

Architectural design studios aim to teach students the fundamental design thinking. Well-structured studio may help the students to explore the global responses and develop projects focused on the current conditions of the society. This study focuses on the adaptation of the proposed unit system for third year architectural design studio. The adaptation process of the proposed unit system analyzed with the description of the previous system. This study discusses the positive outcomes of the new proposed unit teaching method at School of Architecture, Yasar University.

scholarly journals Research on the Suitability Design of University Gate

2021 ◽  
Vol 283 ◽  
pp. 02024
Author(s):  
Liang Haixiu ◽  
Fan Ziyi
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Regional Culture ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Campus Planning ◽  
Landscape Suitability ◽  
The University ◽  
Education Concept

With the development of university campus construction, the campus planning and architectural design concept also presents a variety of characteristics. The university gate is an important part of the university campus city interface, which is of great significance for the display of the overall image of the campus and the education concept. On the basis of summarizing the development process and morphological characteristics of university gate, this paper analyzes the suitability of its scale, culture and landscape, and puts forward corresponding design strategies. The paper concludes that the school gate scale suitability design should be based on people, from the perspective of human comfort, to determine the appropriate scale, cultural suitability design should take into account the discipline characteristics and regional culture, landscape suitability design should adapt to the climate characteristics.

scholarly journals Reading the Site: Architectural Design in the Periphery of Urban Areas

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Lapunzina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Critical Problems ◽  
Theoretical Frame ◽  
Peripheral Areas ◽  
The University ◽  
Study Abroad Program

The design of buildings located in areas that surround the central core of cities is becoming, as we approach the end of the twentieth century, one of the most critical problems for architecture and its related disciplines. The design studio is an appropriate environment for developing strategies and tools focused on the architectural and urbanistic implications of working in peripheral areas. This has been the dominant thematic of recent design exercises developed in design studios at the University of Illinois' Study Abroad Program in Versailles. This paper presents the theoretical frame of reference and some recent examples produced in these design studios.

scholarly journals Sustainable architectural design education: A pilot study in a 3rd year studio

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamal Eldin Mohamed ◽  
Soofia Tahira Elias Özkan
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Sustainability Principles

A design studio is the heart and soul of the architectural education curricula where students learn to make repetitive design decisions that result in design strategies for resource use in order to create an environmental system that reacts to the human needs and requirements or solves existing problems. Integrating sustainability principles into the undergraduate design studio is an urgent need in order to teach young architects sustainable design principles that can stop the continued environmental degradation of the planet. This study proposed a new design studio pedagogy for integrating sustainability principles with a method to test the new pedagogy and the students’ final products. This paper presents the tests results of the pilot study and provides recommendations for the experimental design studio of the following semesters.

scholarly journals Integrating Water Sensitive Design in the Architectural Design Studio in China: Challenges and Outcomes

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 4853
Author(s):  
Maycon Sedrez ◽  
Jing Xie ◽  
Ali Cheshmehzangi
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Water Cycle ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Architectural Education ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Primary Element ◽  
Architectural Design Studio

Urban areas around the world are increasingly facing environmental challenges such as water scarcity, water pollution, and water-related disasters, which demands sustainable design solutions for cities. Efforts to introduce sustainable methods in architectural education are noteworthy since the early 1990s. However, Water Sensitive Design (WSD) has not been fully integrated to architectural education. WSD is an interdisciplinary approach that considers the water cycle as the primary element of design strategies, integrating the site’s ecological and social aspects to structure water management. The main objective of this study is to identify cases introducing WSD in an architecture design studio revealing its pedagogical approaches, comparing and discussing with a WSD-focused design studio. This study adapts on an exploratory and descriptive research, analyzing the literature on the topic of WSD in architectural education and documenting a graduate-level architectural design studio that proposes the development of water-oriented masterplan. The results suggest that WSD, as interdisciplinary method, can be incorporated into the design studio as the topic due to its tangible tools and strategies towards water. It also fits the proposal of a design studio to integrate knowledge from diverse disciplines. This unique study presents a comprehensive WSD introduction in an architectural design case and indicative pedagogical methods, contributing to the development of an approach for future related works.

Architecture Education and the Return to the Humanities

2018 ◽  
pp. 271-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Foong Peng Veronica Ng
Keyword(s):  
Design Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Architecture Education ◽  
The Real ◽  
Bachelor Of Science ◽  
Motivation For Learning ◽  
Architectural Design Studio

Literature on current architectural pedagogy have posited the issue that architectural education lacked change and questioned whether current studio teaching provides adequate design-thinking education and connection to the real world. The increasing importance on the relationship between architecture, community, and place sets a backdrop as a catalyst for improvement within the field, particularly in how this relationship frames the teaching and learning within the design studio. Using an architectural design studio module conducted in the Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Architecture programme at Taylor's University, this chapter discusses the principles for an alternative design studio pedagogy and the values it brings about. The author argues that design education underpinned by “people” and “place” engages students' increased interesting and motivation for learning, with the awareness and sensitivities to the real and scholarly setting, hence bridging the gap between reality and education.

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