scholarly journals Architectural Design Criteria for Spacecraft Solar Arrays

Author(s):  
Antonio De
10.2172/12613 ◽  
1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.P. Hay ◽  
D.A. Dixon ◽  
D.M. Roundhill ◽  
R.D. Rogers ◽  
R.T. Paine ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-73
Author(s):  
Yong Kuan ◽  
Yahaya Ahmad

Architecture influences people and the environment from the past, present and the future. Nevertheless architecture and design quality is viewed as subjective, and benchmarks to achieve consensus are necessary for design or evaluation of buildings. This paper establishes architectural design criteria for design quality of multi-storey housing buildings. A set of the criteria was established with literature review, an operational definition and survey on qualified persons or architects in the professional practice of architecture. The literature reviews identified seven concepts for architecture and design quality, and the operational definition translated this architectural design quality to measurable and observable cases and variables. The survey collected these variable data from a purposive sample of 95 respondents, and these data were examined by statistical analysis. The results of the descriptive statistics, inferential t-tests (p ≤ 0.05) and positive hypothesis testing verified that respondents in general agreed to these seven design concepts as architectural design criteria for design quality. These results established the first ever set of seven architectural design criteria which were ranked in descending order of significance as function, socio-culture, site context, cost, aesthetic of art, sustainability, and Feng Shui. These architectural design criteria can be applied to the design or evaluation of multi-storey housing buildings for the good of people and the environment.


Author(s):  
Hisham Abusaada

This paper examines the nature of the relationship between ethics and architecture. This complicated state of affairs—in professional practice and architectural design—is evaluated based on a bibliographical review of the visions of some Arab and Western thinkers. This review passes through the analysis of three intellectual movements: modernism, postmodernism, and the new brutalism. A series of questions arises: How is it determined whether any of these principles are moral or immoral? Does a specific principle override other beliefs? Who decides that any building is ethical or unethical? This article shows that some conclusions can be drawn from human values to act as a guide for creating a superior design but not for a “stately” design. Critically, it emerges that there is no so-called ethical architecture, but rather, ethics is always related to professional practice. This means that the construction of a building is governed by ideas and design criteria while professional practice is guided by ethical /moral principles.


1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin P Hay ◽  
David M Roundhill ◽  
Robert Treat Paine, Jr ◽  
Kenneth N Raymond ◽  
Robin D Rogers ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Evian Devi

Title: Living Arrangement Pattern Nursing Home Occupants Based Activities and BehaviorPhysical comfort in a building can give an effect to the psychological inhabitans. In the design of nursing homes, where the residents are elderly, certainly they have a different physical comfort with a younger people. The degenerative disease on elderly cause the need for special attention in architecture, especially on safety and comfort. Currently the nursing homes, mostly do not noticed it well, so still discovered lots of the elderlies got an accident and depressed in a nursing home. This research purpose to know the relationship between the aspects of both comfort and safety for elderly in nursing home that can make the elderly feel comfortable and happy living in their residence. The methods of this research is as follows: first, understand the criteria of elderly in related literatures and observations regarding to the elderly and other related literatures that subscribe with safety and comfort. Second, the literatures study were used to analyze the case study such as Nursing Home Wisma Mulia (Jakarta), Nursing Home Senjarawi (Bandung), and Nursing Home Muara Kasih (Bogor). The results of analysis from the case studies based on the literature, produce an architectural design criteria for the review occupancy elderly. The results of this research concluded that the design of the comfortable and safe against risk of any accident that may occur to the elderly, provided a circulation which can be passes by two wheelchairs at once and freeway, provided handrail in the circulation, provided ramp in any difference level of floor, and using a contrast color but dominant in light and warm color. The other considerations are the availability nostalgic room, playroom for children and the other facility that make the frequency of their families, visiting more often.Keywords: Elderly , safety , comfort , nursing homes.


2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 1491
Author(s):  
Cem Kırlangıçoğlu ◽  
Mehmet Fatih Döker

Urban planners and architects have used different design criteria by following project processes different from each other through the ages. The common point of all these projects has been functionality which is one of the most important criteria for human based design. Aesthetics, beauty and similar terms may be arguable but a non-functional spatial design must not be accepted. All spaces, cities, squares, parks, roads and buildings are designed for people. If these urban structures are not suitable for them, people will have serious problems in terms of general circulation. Therefore, ergonomics and functionality terms must be the basic design criteria of all human based urban planning and architectural design processes. How may it be possible to understand an urban design project or a building is functional before constructing it? The aim of this article is to explain the benefits of pedestrian simulation technologies through the design processes in both theoretical and practical frameworks on a case study area which is an underground metro station. A capacity analysis and circulation assessment has been carried out on the metro station by using Massmotion pedestrian simulation software. Extended English summary is in the end of Full Text PDF (TURKISH) file.ÖzetGeçmişten günümüze şehir planlama ve mimarlık alanında gerçekleştirilen çalışmalarda çeşitli tasarım kriterleri kullanılmış, birbirinden farklı planlama süreçleri izlenmiştir. İnsanların kullanımına yönelik gerçekleştirilen hemen hemen tüm çalışmaların en önemli ortak noktası ise ‘kullanışlılık’ olmuştur. Estetik, güzellik ve benzeri göreceli kavramlar tartışılabilir olmakla birlikte, insanların kullanımı için tasarlanan bir yapının fonksiyonel olmaması inşa sonrasında ciddi bir sorun teşkil edecektir. Planlanan kentler, meydanlar, yollar, yapılar kullanışlı olmadığı takdirde kullanıcılar sirkülasyon anlamında sıkıntılar yaşayacaklardır. Bu nedenle gerçekleştirilen tüm şehir planlama ve mimarlık çalışmalarında hem ergonomi hem de kullanışlılık konusuna çok dikkat edilmesi gerekmektedir. Peki, kentsel tasarımı yapılan bir proje alanının ya da mimarlar tarafından tasarlanan bir yapının fonksiyonel olup olmadığı daha inşa edilmeden nasıl anlaşılabilir? Bu çalışmanın amacı, son yıllarda gelişen yaya simülasyonu teknolojilerinin mimarlık ve planlama alanındaki projelerin tasarım değerlendirme süreçlerinde kullanımının yararlarını hem teorik açıdan ortaya koymak hem de gerçekleştirilen örnek bir uygulama üzerinde göstermektir. Çalışma kapsamında bir metro istasyonuna ilişkin mimari çizimler üzerinden kapasite analizi gerçekleştirilmiş, sirkülasyon açısından değerlendirme yapılmıştır. Yaya simülasyonu kapsamında gerekli analizlerin gerçekleştirilmesi amacıyla Massmotion yazılımı kullanılmıştır.


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