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Dejesús, Estrada Sonia Mariana. "Environmental design & sustainability : strategies for teaching and learning in UK schools of architecture." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2003. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3457/.
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Björklund, Fanny, and Maria Bramfors. "An architectural perspective on schools in the Philippines : A research into the importance of a classroom’s physical environment and possible improvements for a better learning environment." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för byggteknik (BY), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-53756.
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The physical environment in schools is an important factor that benefits the educational quality and has an essential role in the student's learning process. In the Philippines the physical environment is underdeveloped in the schools, since the main focus is on developing a basic foundation and on making sure that every child can go to school. This thesis studied the classrooms' physical environment in three selected schools in the Philippines. It presents improvements of the classroom’s physical environment. This study can be used as indicative guidelines when designing classrooms in the Philippines. This study is supported by the Minor Field Study scholarship, founded by SIDA.
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Hemmingsson, Helena. "Student-environment fit for students with physical disabilities /." Stockholm, 2002. http://diss.kib.ki.se/2002/91-7349-276-0.
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Rossouw, Renee Elizabeth. "A new learning environment: designing an urban school dedicated to the learner and the community at large." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24370.
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My project is the design of a primary school in an urban context with an interest in developing a school that speaks about new type of learning environments. This typology will address the challenges of designing a school in an urban context, Cape Town, while rethinking how schools are designed with regards to its programme and layout. I am concerned with designing a school which will truly be a space for the learner. This environment is a space where he/she can work/learn together as a group or individually, in classes or in self-study-activities. This environment is a place where the learner can meet and play in an ungoverned manner, where the school building has an equal emphasis on learning and playing. The design of this building should address the needs of the learner as a child that needs to learn, express, move, run. At the same time, the school-building is no longer a sole institution used only by its learners. Rather, it becomes a building which can bring together learners from different schools, and other members of the public to become an active community building. This document will reveal the process of uncovering that Circulation-space is one of the primary spatial components in new School Design - This component will resolve my above-mentioned inquiries as it becomes the solution to architecturally resolving it. This document is divided into the following processes: Chapter l (The Design Principles): I will investigate 3 case studies of three different types of schools and conclude with design principle which will act as design informants for the school I will design. The primary conclusions will then be developed into conceptual ideas whose architectural expression will be addressed in chapter 4. In Chapter 2 (Site Selection), I start of by investigating 6 schools and their facility deficiencies located in close proximity to each other in the city of Cape Town. These deficiencies act as informants to what the Semi-public Shared facilities will be as part of the programme of my school. This chapter also includes diagrams and investigation into the site I have chosen. In Chapter 3 (Timber as Material) I look at different used of timber as a material in school design. Chapter 4 (Design Development), I focus my-design as responding to the challenges of an urban school, as well as further developing the concept of Circulation as one of the primary spatial components in School design. The rest of the chapter will include the spatial explorations of designing the new type of urban school.
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Reves, Ian P. "New assemblies for learning : flexible construction systems aimed at new concepts of learning environments." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/39616.
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The design and construction of American public high schools are forcibly influenced by ultra-cost effective techniques demanding simplicity in construction and durability of material. The inflexibility and banality of the architecture this paradigm typically delivers begs for exploration of the feasibility of innovative construction technologies. Technologies that influence both form and technique such as prefabrication of modular elements, utilization of CAD/CAM techniques to mill customized parts and pliable materials (i.e. plastics) crafted to achieve dynamic forms. More engaging, flexible learning environments could be realized that significantly increase the performance of the architecture, both formally and ecologically, as well as ennobling students.
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Hunter, Katie. "Environmental Psychology in Classroom Design." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1131581482.
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Thomas, Johnny. "Archstand theory of design for innovation : the integration of design and innovation using conceptual architectures." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/11722.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1995, and Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1995.Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-283).
by Johnny Thomas.
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Mahoney, Michelle A. "Educational Facilities: Designing for Everyday Stress in Public, Primary School Environments." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1428048435.
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Wallhagen, Marita. "Environmental Assessment of Buildings and the influence on architectural design." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Miljöstrategisk analys, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-26159.
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This licentiate thesis examines environmental assessment tools for buildings. This is done by investigating, analysing, comparing and testing how different environmental assessment tools measure the environmental performance of buildings and examining the consequences this may have on architectural design. The study begins by analysing three environmental assessment tools: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH) and EcoEffect. These tools are then tested on a case study building (an eight-storey residential building) to analyse differences regarding assessment results, improvement proposals and potential impacts on architectural design. One of the environmental impacts assessed in the three tools, namely Climate Change caused by gases having Global Warming Potential (GWP), is then analysed in greater detail from a life cycle perspective by measuring CO2-equivalents (CO2-eq). A basic calculation tool (referred to as the ENSLIC tool), based on life cycle assessment methodology, is used to assess a case study building (a four-storey office building in Gävle). The CO2-eq emissions from a building’s material production and energy use are calculated and the impacts of a number of suggested building improvements and changes of energy sources are analysed. The studies show the complexity of assessment tools and different ways to make comparisons. Both similarities and differences between the tools are apparent, regarding hierarchical structure and also on each hierarchical level, from categories to issues and parameters. It is also shown that the choice of environmental assessment tool may have an influence on the architectural design of buildings. The difficulty with assessing complex buildings is apparent even when only one environmental issue is assessed with the LCA-based ENSLIC tool. Many aspects influence the assessment result. These include energy use, choice of materials and choice of energy sources. The complexity and difficulty in linking buildings to environmental impact create a need for interactive tools measuring environmental performance, which can be useful as decision support in the early design phase.Denna licentiatavhandling behandlar miljöbedömningsmetoder för byggnader. Arbetet bygger på undersökningar analyser, jämförelser och tester av hur miljöbedömningsmetoder bedömer byggnaders miljöprestanda och undersöker även vilka konsekvenser som detta kan ha på arkitektonisk utformning. Forskningen börjar med att tre miljöbedömningsmetoder, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), Code for Sustainble Homes (CSH) och EcoEffect analyseras och jämförs. Sedan genomförs en fallstudie där de tre metoderna testas på ett bostadshus (ett åttavåningar högt bostadshus i Stockholm). Skillnader gällande miljöbedömningsresultat och miljöbedömningmetodernas förslag på förbättringsåtgärder samt eventuell påverkan på den arkitektoniska utformningen analyseras och diskuteras. En av miljöpåverkanskategorierna som bedöms i de tre metoderna, klimatpåverkan orsakad av gaser med inverkan på den globala uppvärmningen, analyseras sedan mer i detalj utifrån ett livscykelperspektiv genom att mäta byggnaders utsläpp av koldioxidekvivalenter (CO2 ekv). Ett förenklat beräkningsverktyg (som här benämns ENSLIC-verktyget), som är baserat på livscykelmetodik, används för att studera en byggnad (ett fyra våningar högt kontorshus i Gävle). Sedan beräknas utsläppet av CO2 ekv från byggnadens material- och energianvändning. Effekten av ett flertal föreslagna förbättringsåtgärder på byggnaden samt byte av energikällor analyseras också. Studierna visar på miljöbedömningmetodernas komplexitet och presenterar olika sätt att göra jämförelser på. Skillnader och likheter mellan metoderna påvisas gällande hierarkisk struktur och även på varje hierarkisk nivå, från kategorier till enskilda bedömda frågor och parametrar. Dessa skillnader talar för att olika metoder kan påverka den arkitektoniska utformningen av byggnader. Svårigheten i att bedöma komplexa byggnader belyses även när endast en miljöpåverkan bedöms med det livscykelanalys baserade ENSLIC-verktyget. Många saker påverkar resultatet, framförallt energianvändning tillsammans med materialanvändning och val av energikällor. Den komplexa och svåra uppgiften att länka samman byggnader med deras miljöpåverkan öppnar upp för användande av interaktiva verktyg som mäter miljöpåverkan som kan användas som beslutshjälpmedel i tidiga designskeden.
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Park, Jin Gyu. "Environmental color for pediatric patient room design." Thesis, [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2420.
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Gunn, Wendy. "The social and environmental impact of incorporating computer aided design technologies into an architectural design process." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.494492.
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Studies in the history of architecture tend to focus on form, leading to a narrow emphasis on visual aesthetics. Adopting an anthropological perspective my research sets out to widen this understanding, by considering how architectural knowledge influences conceptual orientation and how this, in turn, affects the perception of the environment and subsequent decision-making processes and ways of working. Specifically the research explores the problems and potentials of the introduction of computer aided design (CAD) tools into architectural working practices and how this impacts on existing traditions and relations with the environment. The argument focuses on the relations between agents and technologies, and on the representation of these relations, working between the realms of the abstract and the material. Within the architectural design process, knowledge is shown to be situated, embodying a process of thinking and acting within a social context. This challenges the assumptions that action is controlled by an interior process of thought, and that thinking is separate from doing. My findings show that architects do not separate thinking from doing during the developmental phases of a design process. I argue that the interrelations between human perception, creativity, innovation and skill, within a group design process, should be understood in context, hot as abstractions but as grounded in the activities of persons within a field of social relations. My research focuses on the following areas: the interrelations between tools and landscapes of use; simulation, automation and control of human movements; processes of representation and transformation in the domains of vision, verbal dialogue, touch and manipulation; self-definition and identity formation within sociotechnical relations; doubt, hesitation and the creative process; problems of acquiring and sharing knowledge between disciplines and across sites; visual thinking and decision-making processes; correlates of tool-use, imitation and learning. Ethnographic material was gathered during sixteen months of fieldwork, between September 1997 and June 1999. Field research was conducted principally in Norway, Finland and Denmark. It involved thirty structured interviews, unstructured discussions, archival research, the development of a seminar and participation in a multi-disciplinary workshop involving a systems designer, a cultural historian, and an anthropologist. Professionals from the building industry, systems designers, historians of science and technology, anthropologists and philosophers were involved in the project. Interviews were conducted in Norwegian and English. The bulk of the Norwegian field research was conducted in the city of Tromso in collaboration with a number of architectural practices. During the final four months, I was working with an architectural practice in Oslo while undertaking a case study of how CAD technologies were incorporated into the design process for the new Alexandria Library in Egypt. My research shows that CAD technologies are being incorporated into working processes as means of reinforcing traditional practices. The capacity of CAD technologies to assemble diverse kinds of information is understood by a number of architects as a way of regaining control over the building process. At the same time, developments in the design of CAD technologies directly impact upon how architects understand the performative aspects of traditional knowledge systems within the architectural design process. The thesis demonstrates how anthropological studies of technology can help to understand the relations between agents and technologies in new ways. It offers an enhanced understanding of what is meant by situated action, especially with regard to the dynamic interrelations between gesture and speech. Moreover the study highlights the contribution that anthropological knowledge can make concerning the problem of human/machine communication. Finally, the thesis presents new ethnographic material in an area of the anthropology of technology - namely, architectural design - which to date has been little studied.
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Imeokparia, Timothy Oserejenoria. "The design, implementation, and evaluation of an interactive multimedia environmental design research information system architectural design review as case study /." Connect to resource, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1119510445.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xiv, 184 p.; also includes graphics. Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-184). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center
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Abrahams, Richard Warren. "Sky Above, Earth Below: Design of the Sun School for Environmental Studies." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33096.
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With the increasing destruction of our natural environment, and with the realization that we ultimately depend upon this environment, my thesis explores the role of Architecture in designing the built environment to be harmonious with the natural one. How can Architecture be a teaching tool for the natural and built environments? Through the design of The Sun School for Environmental studies involving the integration of a building’s site, photovoltaic technology, daylighting, and natural ventilation, how can Architecture encourage a building to teach about itself? How can a building respond to its occupants, and to sun, wind, daylight and temperature? How can Architecture encourage the occupants to interact with the building, learn about it, respond to it, and consequently to increase their awareness of it?Master of Architecture
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Farrell, Stephanie C. (Stephanie Cahill). "School, community, home : usuing architecture and urban design in creating an integrated learning environment." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65985.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1997.Includes bibliographical references (p. 70-71).
This thesis tests the assertion that the design of the physical environment plays a role in the effective integration of school and community. The design of most existing urban schools fails to recognize the integral role communities play in their children's education. Most schools are insular, turning their back physically and programmatically on the adjacent neighborhood. The identities of the community and its children are seemingly negated. Almost unintentionally, the design of such institutions mirrors the dislocation of the urban poor from mainstream society. To be effective, the formal (school) and informal (family and community life) components of a child's education must act symbiotically. Continuity among the educational systems of many inner-city children, however is often foiled by the socioeconomic and cultural differences between parents and teachers, administrators and community members. The disparities between school and community are further complicated in the condition of extreme urban poverty. Schools, often run by middle class outsiders, stand as physical manifestations of a system ill-equipped to recognize and facilitate the unique needs of urban communities and their children. The complete educational system, therefore, falls victim to stereotypes and a lack of understanding between educators and the community. At present, educational reform efforts are directed toward establishing meaningful communication between these diverse, and often adversarial, components of a child's education. Programmatic initiatives alone, however, will not be enough. While successful as social programs, these strategies fail to address the influence of the physical environment. This thesis explores the role urban design and architecture can play in redefining the interaction among schools, families and communities th rough the redesign of the destitute West Baltimore community of Poppleton. The (public) school becomes the new neighborhood center. This learning center should not only meet the traditional educational needs of children, but also serve as a vehicle for the physical and programmatic reintegration of family and community members into the pedagogical process.
by Stephanie C. Farrell.
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Bennetts, Helen. "Environmental issues and house design in Australia : images from theory and practice /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2000. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phb472.pdf.
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Dutson, Claudia. "Thermal performance : the politics of environmental management in architecture." Thesis, Royal College of Art, 2017. http://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/2847/.
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How do architects address the ambiguity of practice, being on the one hand tasked with making buildings that perform well in terms of energy use and environmental strategy, and on the other facilitating the production of capital, through their service to ensuring that the performance of the occupants (efficiency, productivity and wellbeing) is satisfied? In this PhD by practice, I use the theoretical concept of ‘the performative’ through both the written thesis and project to interrogate the various ways in which thermal management becomes entangled with management processes. The context is specific: the workplace at a moment of convergence between smart technology with architecture; where notionally, agency is given over to autonomous environmental systems to do the right thing, and work environments that are embedded in performative-linguistic company cultures that urge their occupants to ‘do the right thing’. In other words – where machines do things with fans and boilers, and humans do things with emails, meetings, performance reviews and corporate culture. I invoke Lucy Schuman’s question ‘who is doing what to whom?’ to draw attention to the way that actions are elicited from employees through discursive and constitute organisational practices. At a point where new-build non-domestic buildings, which are specifically designed to perform environmentally well, are failing to do so- I invoke Isabelle Stengers’ ethical proposition ‘what are we busy doing?’ to ask whether architects’ actions are fundamentally compromised by this entanglement. I propose a strategy for architects to address their practice in relation to these propositions, and trace the actions as they migrate through discursive fields – sustainability, organisational management, theories of motivation, workplace politics, technological innovation, activism and resistance. The narrative of the written thesis is asynchronous, and is interconnected with the project in multiple ways, it is structured in such a way so as to introduce strategies of encountering the various discursive fields which form the context of study. The project work, on the other hand, immerses the reader directly within these fields. The database that reveals the multiple realms that embed the concepts of power, economics, desire, love, productivity and war into the architectural concerns for comfort and energy use; while the performance video places two subjects constituted by management, whose passions are put to work and situate them within a discursive environment latent with the full cultural significance of its metaphors in the workplace of the knowledge economy. The first part of the written component of the thesis opens up discussions about performance and action – which are generally applicable for the discourse of environmental performance, as mediated by the occupant and the use of technology, within the contemporary workplace. I move into the second part of the written thesis, which places the context specifically within the conceptual domain of thermal management, elaborates on the implications of taking a performance oriented approach to ‘heat’, and reveals how performance and the domain of heat converge on issues of productivity, subjectivity, and wellbeing. The two actors who perform in the video can only continuously improve their performance, every action can be subverted or appropriated, presenting the urgency for my conclusion in the written thesis, that as we, in architecture, are expected to also act entrepreneurially – the question is not how we do so subversively, or as a mode of critique. We should instead pay attention to Stengers’ and Suchman’s questions, and paying attention to what is brought about, and for whom, and focus our work on care for precarious, exhausted and hyper-active subjectivities that are produced through these actions.
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Ordoñez, García Arturo. "Effects of architectural design variables on energy and environmental performance of office buildings." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/395212.
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This thesis addresses the understanding of the effects that main architectural design variables have on energy, environmental and economic performance of office buildings, exploring some of the analytical methods that offer greater potential nowadays. It is aimed to contribute to the development of approaches, methods and tools that facilitate the decision-making during the architectural design processes, especially in the early stages. It is also aimed to generate information that helps to improve the criteria applied in the development of building energy codes and sustainability certifications. The research consisted of four major parts: • Development of a parametric project based on the programs EnergyPlus and jEPlus software. • Implementation of Optimization analysis by means of evolutionary algorithms. The analysis is performed with the program jEPlus+EA. • Application of two sensitivity analysis methods, Morris and Sobol, in order to investigate the relative importance of each architectural design variable. • Implementation of artificial neural networks to create meta-models that are able to predict, with reasonable accuracy, the energy, environmental and economic performance of buildings
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Sutherland, Karlyn. "Attachment to place : towards a strategy for architectural practice." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9578.
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Attributable to the legacy of modernism, within the Western world there exists a widespread and as-yet unresolved sense of detachment from place; our contemporary, globalized condition has given rise to a visually-biased, alienating architecture lacking in meaningful, human connections to site or context, relying all too often upon the abstract projections of the distant and objective architect rather than on the realities of needs and experience. Whilst the field of environmental psychology (within which the topic of place has been widely researched) has suggested theoretical solutions, few practical methods for the translation of relevant findings into strategies for the generation of place and attachment have been developed. Following a literature review, this thesis identifies two key place-related theories which address the characteristics and psychological impact of the physical environment (Attention Restoration Theory (Kaplan, 1995) and Canter’s place theory (1977)); in binding these theories to architectural practice, the author offers a strategy capable of aiding the successful understanding and creation of place. Providing an architectural brief to which this study responds, the practice-based element of this research focuses upon the context of North Lands Creative Glass, in Lybster, Caithness. Through a personal account of the impact of place and its manifestation within the author’s works in glass, mixed media and on paper, this thesis proceeds to promote an honest, haptic narrative between the architect and the realities of context and experience; in doing so, it illustrates how an architecture conducive to a sense of place and attachment could be understood and created successfully.
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Machado, Tatiana Gentil. "Ambiente escolar infantil." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16136/tde-25032010-141702/.
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A temática do Ambiente Escolar para a Infância vem recentemente ganhando mais espaço e tendo reconhecida sua importância na discussão sobre o desenvolvimento infantil. No entanto, as características físicas destes ambientes continuam sendo geralmente negligenciadas no planejamento de espaços infantis coletivos. Atendidas as necessidades mínimas e cumpridas as exigências de segurança, acessibilidade, manutenção, etc., faz-se necessário projetar além da funcionalidade, da praticidade e da usabilidade, concebendo o ambiente não apenas como pano de fundo ou cenário para a interação, mas como estrutura de oportunidades para a aprendizagem. Questiona-se aqui a usual primazia do espaço em detrimento do ambiente, feita tanto por parte de arquitetos como de educadores, entendendo a complexidade como um aspecto fundamental no desenvolvimento de projetos ambientais escolares.Although the discussion on the significance of School Environment for the child development has gained importance, the physical aspects of these environments are still neglected when they are planned. Once basic needs are supplied and security, accessibility and maintenance demands are fulfilled, environments should be developed not as merely backdrops to children interaction, but as structures of opportunities for the process of learning (taking into account more than functional and practical issues). In this work, the usual supremacy of space over environment (commonly granted by architects as much as by educators) is called in question, while the concept of complexity is presented as an essential aspect on the development of school environment projects.
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Arora, Sandeep. "An evolutionary architecture : adapted, interactive, and effectively integrated design." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1379439.
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Bio-climatic design is essential to all architecture because buildings consume large amount of energy to maintain comfortable indoor environments. To achieve this goal, we need a model that can be a source of inspiration as well as knowledge to motivate and help architects in creating such architecture.Many designers have taken inspiration from nature and explored various ways of mimicking its models. In this creative project, I looked at various entities in nature to understand how they acclimatize to respective climatic settings. Based on several observations, I extracted Nature's design principles and applied those to the bio-climatic design of buildings. These principles are helpful in developing a general understanding for making our buildings responsive to climate.Department of Architecture
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Cullis, Robert Ian. "Children's relationships with their physical school : considerations of primary architecture and furniture design in a social and cultural context." Thesis, Bucks New University, 2010. http://bucks.collections.crest.ac.uk/9995/.
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In recent years substantial investment has been made to replace or refurbish state schools in England and Wales and, although research has unsuccessfully sought to prove its contribution, the discipline of Design continues to be identified as a facilitator of educational transformation. Results to date, however, are mixed and there is an evident failing at the design briefing stage to understand how children interact with their educational settings and, notably, an avoidance of direct challenge to the primary school classroom and its practice. In response, this thesis asks how the social and cultural study of children’s relationships with their physical school can suggest a meaningful approach to primary school architecture and furniture design. A model of well-being is developed to clarify misused terminology and to present a realistic expectation of design in which the contradictory goals of inclusion and the development of the individual are appraised. Sitting within a diverse grounded methodology, the concept of belonging is then explored as a basis for evaluating the contribution of different aspects of the physical school to children’s well-being. The primary school environments studied were found to limit the possibilities of a child’s well-being. School architecture through to classroom wall displays were complicit in restricting physical and social expression in favour of school organisation and, furthermore, the central child-teacher relationship was found to be unnecessarily devalued by behavioural concerns derived from the setting. By ethically interpreting the rich variety of children’s voices, priorities for what is coined here as child-teacher centred design are established and a clear relationship between architecture and furniture is offered. The thesis recommends that architecture continues to perform a protective classroom role to support objectives of inclusion whilst school furniture supports more affective, individualistic goals through less prescriptive and more varied settings for learning.
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Bushong, James. "Environmentally responsive skyscrapers high-rise architectural design informed by the demand for environmental sustainability /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2005. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=ucin1116189801.
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Trebilcock, Maureen E. "The integration of environmental sustainability issues in the design process of contemporary architectural practice." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.438255.
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BUSHONG, JAMES A. "ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIVE SKYSCRAPERS: HIGH-RISE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN INFORMED BY THE DEMAND FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1116189801.
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Chen, Lisa. "Skolans mellanrum." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-298458.
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Mitt examensarbete syftar till att undersöka skolarkitektur med fokus på skolans mellanrum - det som ofta går under benämningen "kommunikationsyta" eller "sociala ytor" i en skolmiljö. Skolan är en komplex sammansättning av prioriteringar, intentioner och föreställningar om lärande. I Sverige har vi något som kallas skolplikt, vilket innebär att barn som omfattas av den, måste gå i skolan och delta i den verksamhet som anordnas där. Med andra ord är skolan en plats där den huvudsakliga brukargruppen, dvs. eleverna inte alltid valt sin omgivning. En stor utredning visar också att 84% av all mobbing sker utanför klassrummet. Beroende på ålder sker det oftare i utomhusmiljön där gömda utrymmen finns eller just i korridorer och uppehållsytor där eleverna är när de inte har lektion. Detta säger också något om hur vi behöver ägna mer uppmärksamhet åt Skolans mellanrum. Ambitionen har därför varit skapa en en sammanhängande F-9 skola som främjar rörelse, nyfikenhet och gåtfullhet i ett kommunikationsstråk genom skolan samt trygghet genom vuxennärvaro och överblickbarhet. Skolan passas in i naturtomt i södra Stockholm och platsens karaktär tas hand om i både skolhusets placering och gestaltning.My thesis project aims to investigate school architecture and specifically the spaces in between the learning environment which usually goes by the terms "circulation area" or "social areas" in a school. The school is a complex composition of priorities, intentions, and ideas about learning. In Sweden, we have something called compulsory schooling, which means that children covered by it must go to school and participate in the activities that are organized there. In other words, a school is a place where the main user group - the students don't always get to choose their environment. Studies also show that bullying is more common in spaces outside the classroom, i.e. in the schoolyard, in the corridors, or the social spaces where the students are when they're not in class. This says something about the priority these spaces are given in the planning process. The ambition has been to design a cohesive school that promotes movement, curiosity, and social interaction in the circulation spaces by having clear nodes for integration. The teacher and staff spaces are placed strategically along the main circulation space to promote a sense of security through the presence of adults. The project is situated in the southern part of Stockholm and has great qualities in terms of access to nature. The character of the location has inspired both the placement of the school as well as the exterior and interior design and organization.
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Piombini, Marino. "Crime prevention through environmental design : the status and prospects for CPTED in British Columbia." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26899.
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The "Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design" (CPTED) concept promises to reduce the opportunities and fear of crime in neighbourhoods. By reducing the opportunities for crime, it is assumed that people will become less fearful of moving freely about their environment. This assumption requires further study.
This thesis reviews the current status of CPTED in eleven municipalities in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. Based on a series of interviews with law enforcement and planning officials, the thesis examines the promotion, principles and practice of CPTED.
The findings suggest that the promotion of CPTED is inadequate. Additionally, CPTED may conflict with other planning objectives. Furthermore, since the concept only promises to reduce the opportunities for crime, evaluating Its performance is difficult. As a result, only a small number of municipalities have incorporated CPTED into their planning process.
The thesis concludes that in spite of the limited success of CPTED to date, research on the theory and practice of the concept should continue. Recommendations are suggested to facilitate the implementation, evaluation and promotion of CPTED in the future.Applied Science, Faculty of
Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of
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Li, Michael In-Chiang 1975. "A robust planning and control methodology for design-build fast-track civil engineering and architectural projects." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9715.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1999.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 107-108).
A robust planning and control methodology is developed by integrating the applications of axiomatic design concept, concurrent engineering, graphical evaluation and review technique (GERT), and the system dynamics modeling technique. The goal of the proposed methodology is to help create a robust project plan for design-build fast-track civil engineering projects where unforeseen changes can be absorbed in the project schedule without creating major interruptions. The axiomatic design concept is applied to formulate and evaluate various work methodologies, and to compose the project plan based on the selected work methodology. The concept of concurrent engineering is adapted to develop a fast-tracking framework based on the task production rate, the upstream task reliability and downstream task sensitivity to upstream error. The duration of the project can be shortened by applying the recommended fast-tracking strategy. The GERT diagramming scheme is used to calculate the project duration probabilistically by incorporating the possible branches and loops in the project. The system dynamics modeling technique is applied to analyze the causality links of relevant factors in the construction system, and further identifies the important variables that determine the success of a particular overlapping strategy.
by Michael In-Chiang Li.
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Lans, Sofie, and Beatrice Besterman. "Facilitating the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) workflow in the architectural design process in Sweden." Thesis, Jönköping University, JTH, Byggnadsteknik och belysningsvetenskap, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-53247.
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In 2018 Sweden emitted approximately 56.2 million tons (Mt) CO2e. The building sector alone stands for 11.8 Mt of these emissions, 21% of the total amount. The Swedish government is now aiming for a net-zero carbon economy by 2045. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a method developed to create awareness of the total environmental load of a product's life cycle. Today, LCA calculations are time-consuming, expensive, and are not used in the early design phase where it is most beneficial for the environment. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how LCA is implemented in the AEC industry in Sweden and what requirements there are for BIM workflow and LCA integration in the early architectural design process. A mixed-method approach was applied, using the four research methods literature review, expert interviews, survey, and document analysis. This paper contributes with recommendations regarding the LCA workflow in the design process of the AEC industry in Sweden. Unlike previous research investigating LCA in the industry, the scope will improve the implementation in earlier stages of design for sustainable decision making and more accurate calculations in the later stages.
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Jux, Cassara. "Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) and its role in master planned communities /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2006. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19786.pdf.
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Jumsai, Na Ayudhya Thirayu. "Architectural experience in the everyday context." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2015. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/90053/1/Thirayu_Jumsai_Na_Ayudhya_Thesis.pdf.
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Informed by phenomenology and grounded theory this research identifies the general community's contextual sense-making in relation to their everyday experience of buildings producing a comprehensive theoretical framework that acknowledges a person's relationship with a building as dynamic and unfolding, as opposed to static and constant; and as emotive and existential as well as conceptual and perceptual. In this regard, the research makes an original contribution to environmental psychology, architecture and design and through this discipline knowledge to the design of more habitable buildings, and interior and urban environments.
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Yunus, Rodzyah Haji Mohd. "A study on learning and teaching construction technology related to design : a case for architectural schools in Malaysia." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2001. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3566/.
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Analysis on the present architectural education system shows that there are problems with the understanding of construction technology in relation to the designing process. Earlier analysis of the problems showed that there are several underlying problems in the schools covering various aspects which pointed to the relevance of the current design practice, the experience and expertise on the parts of the lecturers and the updated references provided by the schools. The inefficiency of the schools in handling these underlying problems affecting the efficiency on the learning and teaching experiences of the subject. Accepting these problems, the study looks into the consequences of these problems in learning and teaching experiences of construction technology in relation to the overall understanding of design. Architectural learning systems were reviewed and analyzed showing that the problems are largely due to students failure to grasp the basic principles of construction technology and relating them to the design process, in respect of forms and functions, time and places, and proper adaptation of design with art, history, philosophy, culture and technology. This failure affects the students overall performance in design. Consequently, effective learning methods and requirements to architectural education in the learning of technical matters specifically in construction technology is considered a significant area for study. This thesis focuses on this issue. It tries to explore and understand the nature of the problems and aim to determine which methods or approaches appropriate based on theoretical formulation on the architectural learning requirements specifically for the learning and understanding of construction technology and its relationship in the designing process. It is therefore imperative that these theoretical formulation be based on empirical evidence. The purpose of this thesis is to conduct such empirical evidence. Detailed studies were carried out on the historical development of learning construction technology in relation to the architectural design process, theories of learning and teaching methods adopted in the present architectural education in order to understand the problems and its relationship to each other. For a meaningful and effective learning experience, three vital ingredients are essential: the learning methods adopted by the students, the prior knowledge (the experience) of the students, and the teaching methods employed. This thesis attempts to investigate these three components amongst architectural students and lecturers. An exploratory interviews with the students and lecturers were carried out in Malaysia as a case study in order to understand the problems and the final investigation using the quantitative questionnaires were used to provide the empirical evidence. Overall, the findings of this research support the following main conclusions: First, there are differences in the individual learning characteristics of the students. For example, those who have difficulties in understanding construction technology tend to associate themselves with rote learning, practicing sequential designing process, learning for passing examination and lack of motivation. Obviously, they are lacking in understanding the principles of construction technology thus, unable to relate these knowledge when he or she is working on a design. This empirical evidence revealed the first step in identifying key causes to the problems of learning and understanding construction technology in relation to the designing process. The second finding is in the aspect of prior knowledge in construction technology (exposure and experience to pragmatic applications) which is found to be essential in providing a better understanding (meaningful learning) on the aspects of relating construction theories into the designing process. The results support the influence of experiential learning in architectural education system. The third is in the aspects of the teaching methods whereby, teaching methods which promote experiences appear to be more needed by the students to the conventional teaching practices. Moreover, an inverse relationship on the methods of teaching construction technology preferred by the students and the lecturers were also found to be significant. This mismatched situation proved the gap in the teaching/learning requirements in the present architectural learning system. Finally, significant relationships were found between understanding construction technology and the performance of the students in the designing process in the aspect of: the ability of the students to think construction and design (theory and practical) concurrently, to relate construction method, techniques and materials into design, to relate construction technology with the whole design requirements and to use construction technology as one of a design generator and hence, resulting in a superior design results and producing a more confident students. This implies that understanding construction technology is interrelated with understanding on the practical application of construction technology into designing process as a whole. Finally an overall conclusion of the study, its contribution, limitations and implications for further research are discussed.
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Fiore, James W. Jr. "Nature Revealed Through the Built Environment: Re-envisioning the Clifford A. Phaneuf Environmental Center." 2011. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/607.
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The Clifford A. Phaneuf Environmental Center is home to ECOS, The Environmental Center for Our Schools, in Springfield Massachusetts. The ECOS program provides a chance for elementary and middle school students in Springfield public schools to experience and learn about the natural world. The built environment provides opportunities to teach about ecosystems and human connections to nature. A new design for the Clifford A. Phaneuf Environmental Center will teach students about the natural world experientially through the building’s own connections to the environment.
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Szczypinski, Madeline. "Spatial Design for Behavioral Education." 2020. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/913.
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The built environment can inadvertently create obstacles for human cognition, emotion, and behavior when ill-designed, neglected, or poorly retrofitted. Deteriorating education facilities exemplify the lack of awareness in regard to the significant relationship between people and their environments. However, simply updating a school does not always accommodate occupant needs, especially for students who are sensitive to external stimuli. Students in behavioral schools who suffer from emotional behavioral disorder (EBD) often display adverse neurological affects from negative life experiences. Common disorders comorbid with EBD, as well as EBD itself, interferes with their ability to control and manage behavior. By identifying common challenges, the proposed behavioral school in Northampton, Massachusetts aims to support the building’s program and occupants to achieve specific goals, i.e. academic standards, and behavioral self-management. Environmental-behavior and neuropsychology principles are implemented in overarching themes including biophilic design, behavior defined space, safety, and transitions.
Strategic design elements aim to assist students relearning behavior by clearly defining which behaviors are acceptable in specific spaces within the school and by addressing common cognitions and emotions often associated with the negative behavior. These implementations range from broad environmental-behavioral-neurology principles that manifest themselves in the built environment to address place, personalization, territory, and wayfinding, down to smaller details, including strategically framed exterior views. Unlike traditional day schools, this demographic is tasked with the extremely difficult goal to restructure their consciousness from the inside out, in addition to the baseline academic requirements. As the largest physical teaching tool, the school itself assists the sensitive students and hardworking staff in their transitional journey.
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Chen, Tze-Chun, and 陳慈君. "Environmental Chain Reaction-Evolution And Feedback Model In Architectural Design ." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5qf983.
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Environmental chain reaction is a design mechanism which brings out design concept and mission through design methods. It also emphasizes the long term impact for both nature and social environments. The model of environmental chain reaction included evolution and feedback style. Evolution model means expected result through design would affect others out of the original design site. It was open impact for outside environment, so it could not execute in close system. It would guide to open design. The result of feedback model improve the current condition. It is a return impact which means the benefit would come back to itself from outside environment. Therefore, people could not only consume resource, but need to concern about sustainable recycle. This Thesis proposed 4 ways to response chain reaction design, (1) changing massing, (2) reconciling with nature, (3) configuring space, (4) involving in activities. The correspond start up were (1) using flexible space and time lag, (2)following the providence of nature, (3)creating two-sided of architecture, (4) connecting the environmental platform. The opportunities creating by environmental chain reaction include creating public space in private, fair trade of architecture and environment, form made from environmental factors. Environmental chain reaction was a model for sustainable development between human, architecture and environment.
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Foulcher, Nicholas Charles. "The tale of two schools: design technology, digital mediation and aesthetic dispositions within architectural design education." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1343050.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)The fields of design education and research are inherently dynamic, yet a sense of stasis often characterises distinct architectural institutions through definitions of particular educational ethe; that is, standardised systems, which are culturally internalised and that transcend consciousness. Focussing on two established architectural schools known for their pedagogical approaches, this thesis explores this paradox and, more specifically, investigates how it manifests through the nexus of analogue and digital design technologies. The thesis analyses the relationship between digital technology and educational ethos, exploring how unarticulated cultural preferences inform student learning and design processes. Through analysis of rich qualitative data, the dissertation forwards the tale of two distinct Australian architectural schools as they are told through student and staff reflections on the role of technology. It outlines student educational design journeys, as well as their design tendencies, while also investigating the staff perspective, and consequently explores perception and experience of analogue and digital technologies in design and education. Using semi-structured interviews and participant observation as key methodological techniques, the thesis deconstructs the pedagogical implications of the increasingly complicated relationship between drawing, digital technology and a culture of architecture. Adopting Pierre Bourdieu’s (1977) Theory of Practice, the study explores the educational sphere as a relational and dynamic space; a site of structuralist disruption and conflicting attitudes that constitute and reinforce the architectural learning and design environment. The charge of emergent design technologies has encouraged a re-evaluation of an essential and defining element of culture. Through analysing the manifestation of this phenomenon within the architectural discipline, the thesis explores the paradoxical relationship between a set of classical analogue skills, functioning as symbolic reserves of cultural capital, and the expanding digital skill set. The increasingly computerised commercial digital environment is reliant on digitally mediated tools and demands the skills to use these tools. However, investment into analogue drawing by schools and students alike continues. The thesis aims to expose the struggle between the conflicting demands placed on both student and teacher to preserve the cultural hegemony of drawing, despite this inertial shift toward digital design practices. The research aims to inform contemporary understandings of the relationship between students, educational structures and cultures as part of a changing and digitising architecture and design field.
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Kruk, Joanna. "Environmentally sensitive design: School of Journalism UBC, Vancouver." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/8143.
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By examining the Minimalist ethos, joint and junctures and light, it is my intention to propose that Minimalist
architecture easily and naturally accommodates the environmental ethos of reducing, reusing, recycling and recovering.
More over, Minimalism, which draws widespread admiration as all good architecture does, allows us to graft
inspiration and inherent environmental queues onto the ever-expanding yet distinct branch of green architecture.
Producing a possible hybrid that initiates a new type of architectural discourse, one that moves beyond contemporary
convention into the future reality of conservation.
I present to you the UBC School of Journalism. Although, this building presently exists, I chose to design and develop
the School of Journalism on the basis of green architecture, which means designing with nature in an environmentally
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Cummings, Neil. "Fostering Sustainable Behavior Through Design: A Study of the Social, Psychological, and Physical Influences of the Built Environment." 2012. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/885.
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The ultimate goal of this research paper was to gain a more acute perspective into the relationship between the physical environment and human behavior, so that architectural design may begin to promote and affect environmentally friendly behavior in its users. The three main fields of psychology that were the focus of this paper were social psychology, environmental psychology, and cognitive psychology, all of which were essential to understanding the unique relationship one has with their built environment.
The definitive goal of the sustainability movement, or what I at least think it should be, is the creation of an environmentally friendly society. The widespread use of sustainable architectural design practices has been a great step forward, but if this movement is to be successful, I feel we must focus equally on the relationship between people and their physical environments. Ultimately, the sustainability movement depends less on the architectural environments that we create, and more on the cooperation of the people who occupy those environments.
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HSU, HSIN-CHIEH, and 許欣潔. "Environmental Visual Design Research of Elementary school -Taking Architecture Yuan Ye Award as an Example." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/hmzw23.
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After the September 21 earthquake, many tribes and campuses were severely damaged. During this period, the school construction was introspected. Many schools have to rebuild due to safety and earthquake resistance. The reconstruction of the "New Campus Campaign" announced by Minister Ovid Tzeng The main axis, the spirit and principle of this policy, has become a model of learning for many campus buildings. How can schools create a new generation of learning space for the future, provide the best learning environment for teachers and students, and create a community of symbiosis and sustainable beauty. Campus, it is worth our continued attention and discussion. The study was sampled at the award-winning National Primary School, which was rebuilt and newly built in Kaohsiung Pingtung, the “Architecture Yuan Ye Award” from 2010 to 2018. This award has professional organizations and groups, and the construction of the case retains architectural issues and trends. Comply with building codes and safety. The study first discusses the collection of campus related materials by literature. Secondly, the case study will be used to collect the " Architecture Yuan Ye Award " yearbook, the relevant records of the Engineering Affairs Bureau, and the information provided by the architects. Finally, analyze the information collected in the case and summarize it and join the interview with 2 architects and 2 administrative staff for data integration. The conclusion of this study: There are a total of 9 reconstructions and new constructions in the National Elementary School. Each visual expression is summarized in the connotation form of architectural ontology and architectural decoration. It is known that the pattern and changes of the new planning and reconstruction of the southern campus are almost toward the local characteristics and traditional cultural context. The architectural volume is designed with irregular shapes and diverse designs. The overall planning mode is in the fusion of the functional form of modernism and the symbolic reproduction of postmodernism. A total of 13 researches on the reconstruction of the National Elementary School and the newly-added landscape and the study of the trails learned that the entrance image of the campus and the wall can penetrate the campus, and the traditional high walls were replaced, usually with different plant heights. High visual penetration. In the 13 schools to find the biggest problem "Zhongshan" and "Ronghua" of elementary school made the difference between the original design and the current appearance, and the results of other field observations found differences between urban areas, suburbs, and rural areas. The study summarizes the ways to enhance the aesthetics of the campus. It is known that the design and materials of the newly built and reconstructed buildings are more diverse than the previous ones and have modern functional aesthetics. According to the aesthetic forms of these schools, similar or identical elements are repeated and Orders and continuity relationships are more beautiful. Finally, the research proposes advantages and disadvantages for future design school planning reference and follow-up research.
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Lin, Jhe-Wei, and 林哲維. "Operate in an architectural design example in response to an environmental disaster strategy." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/u3tjx3.
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In recent years, the advancement of science and technology has been flourishing, and technology has brought more comfortable and convenient life to human beings. However, human dependence on these technologies has led to the destruction of the environment in which we live, so nature began to counterattack, but this technology has never been able to stop nature. The impact of disasters, these negative shocks not only bring the burden of society's huge economy, but even more regrettable is that many victims will die. After 1970, the proportion of disasters has risen sharply. Human beings are gradually aware of nature's counterattacks. The environment has brought various disasters, including floods, earthquakes, snowstorms, etc., and the scope of influence is no longer limited to a specific country or region. It extends to all parts of the world. This study takes natural environmental disasters as a topic of discussion, and explores the ingenuity of professionals in various fields on the disasters caused by natural environmental disasters. Later, it is studied and applied in the operation of its own design. Finally, it is based on the predecessors. Under the efforts of our products, we have made relevant designs on this topic in terms of product design and architectural design in a more innovative and different perspective.
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Castelli, Adam. "Greening Greenpoint: Investigating Technology and Environment-based Design." 2014. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/7.
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This thesis investigates architectural design with a focus on technology and parametric, or computational, design strategies in relation to environmental simulation and sustainability. While numerous studies of new digital and parametric design technologies have been undertaken, few discuss their potential application or synergy with sustainable or environmentally focused design. However, there is increasing interest in bridging the perceived gap between these areas of focus in architectural design, as will be discussed in a section on recent symposia related to performance and design technologies. The research project seeks to apply insight gained from these studies to a design project to be located in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
The project type is a library and research center which would serve as a knowledge base and community hub for the study and discussion of environmental protection, sustainability, and conservation. As a hybrid archive, learning center, forum, and repository of information, it would aim to serve as a catalyst for the ongoing attempts to remediate the environmental conditions of nearby Newtown Creek and adjacent land, which has been subjected to severe environmental degradation as a result of a century and half of industrial activities related to oil refining and storage. The eastern portion of Greenpoint along Newtown Creek has been designated a superfund site as a result of millions of gallons of oil spillage occurring over an uncertain length of time, much of which remains below ground today. Additionally, the surrounding water bodies have been polluted from the discharge of excess wastewater due to overflow of the city’s combined sewer system during large storms. Thus the community and city face numerous environmental challenges and would be well served by a facility which would provide a research base and meeting place.
The project also engages with an additional set of conditions related to the site. Recent zoning changes have been approved which will convert the formerly industrial East River waterfront to a dense residential zone. While the zoning aims to establish a public space along the waterfront, it will also likely result in residential towers vastly out of scale and context with adjacent neighborhood, which includes an important historic district, and a diverse population. The project seeks to place instead, at the tip of the peninsula which was once named for its greenness, a public space dedicated to its restoration.
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Angell, Bradley 1976. "Urban-Architectural Design After Exile: Communities in Search of a Minor Architecture." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/148345.
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This dissertation analogically applies a framework of minor literary analysis to uniquely political units of the built environment. As urbanism is conventionally understood to be executed per the greatest utility of established communal objectives, an underlying politicization is inherent as such forms must adhere to dominant norms of development which potentially marginalize those who practice cultural methods outside normative standards. Employing a uniquely architectural method of environmental justice advocacy, select communities facing disenfranchisement react by self-producing urban-architectural forms ("UAFs") to protect threatened cultural values from marginalization. Installed to subvert the existing power dynamic, such UAFs are potential exhibitions of minor architecture.
Adopting the analytical standards established by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari for evaluating Franz Kafka's literature, this paper tests six UAFs to discover if a minor architecture is possible under contemporary globalization. Employing an enumerated framework of minor production characteristics, an interpretive-historical analysis is the primary method of judgment regarding each unit's execution of minor architecture. Two secondary tests are undertaken to validate the primary findings, the first of which is a physio-logical evaluation that characterizes and measures urban resource utility as per collective minority aims. Second, a newspaper correlation test is undertaken so as to judge the enunciative effectiveness of each community per issues of minority politics.
Of the six cases examined, two have their source in cinema including "Bartertown" of MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME (1985) and the "House on Paper Street" of FIGHT CLUB (1999). The four remaining cases include the Tibetan Government-in-Exile of Dharamsala, India; Student Bonfire of Robertson County, Texas; Isla Vista Recreation & Park District of Santa Barbara County, California; and the Emergent Cannabis Community of Arcata, California. Of all the cases studied, only the Tibetan Government-in-Exile met both the conditions of minor architecture and was validated in terms of practiced urban resource use as well as effective representation in mainstream newsprint. Both cinematic cases failed as minor productions of the built environment. Although they did not find full validation, the three remaining real-world UAFs each were found on a course of minor architectural expression at varying stages of execution.
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Bennetts, Helen. "Environmental issues and house design in Australia : images from theory and practice / Helen Bennetts." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/19676.
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Bibliography: leaves 172-182.viii, 183 leaves, [96] p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Proposes that there are fundamental and inadequately recognised differences between architectural practice and the basis of much design advice about environmental issues in house design. Concludes by discussing the implications of these differences for understanding how environmental issues are currently addressed in house design in Australia.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Architecture, 2000
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Moolman, Carel-Pieter. "The design of a community-integrated secondary school in Emzinoni." 2014. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1001636.
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M. Tech. Architecture.This thesis presents the design of a secondary school in the township of Emzinoni, Mpumalanga. The thesis challenges the current school building morphology in terms of spatial layout and tectonics, with the intent of providing multi-use facilities accessible to both the school pupils and the surrounding community. The selected site in Emzinoni, like many township areas in South Africa, is almost devoid of any civic or public buildings or services, just the endless sprawl of small residential units and shacks with the random school rising two storeys above the surrounding context. With the large capital expenditure of building a new school, this project endeavours to show a school that is more than a facility for learning or imparting knowledge; a school that can be the centre of the community and a neighbourhood activity hub, providing services and activities to the total community, to benefit all.
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Beck, Luke A. "New as Renewal: A Framework for Adaptive Reuse in the Sustainable Paradigm." 2014. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/3.
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The way in which we approach building design is constantly being influenced by evolving economic, environmental and social parameters. These factors have implications on both pragmatic and aesthetic facets of design. The built environment is not autonomous from its immediate site or the ecologies of the region in which it is located, rather, the former must be designed to symbiotically exist within and enhance the latter. The term ecology is defined as “a branch of science that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.” Although this typically relates to biology, the term can be expanded to include economic or social ecology. It has been proposed that architectural design can be informed through and should evolve in relation to; environmental, economic and social ecologies. This thesis will examine the relationships between these “ecologies” and how they can inform the adaptive reuse of a vacant industrial site. It will include an examination of the paradigm shift from large-scale industrial manufacturing to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) at the economic and social level. It will further discuss the evolution of environmental awareness within this shift and how these values can drive architectural design while allowing for long term flexibility in adaptive reuse.