scholarly journals The Incorporation of Biomimicry into an Architectural Design Process: A New Approach towards Sustainability of Built Environment

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-23
Author(s):  
Parag L. Sarwate ◽  
Akshay P. Patil
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
New Approach

scholarly journals Designed Parameters: Advancing Parametric Software in the Architectural Design Process

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Thomas Le Comte
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Parametric Design ◽  
Digital Fabrication ◽  
Linear Process ◽  
Planning Problem ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Parametric System

<p>Architects use computers predominantly to digitise a design process that has been in use prior to the advent of the computer. Traditional analogue concepts are transferred into and sculpted through the digital world but the overall process has remained mostly unchanged for decades. Merely digitising a known process does not utilise the full power of the computer and its near limitless ability to compute.  For an architect, design of the built environment is highly important especially if they are to optimise the physical, phenomenological and psychological aspects of the space. The process of designing an architectural space is riddled with possibilities or variables that architects have used historically to aid in the design of the built environment, including but not limited to: object relationships, climate, site conditions, history, habitibility and the clients input - all project requirements that must somehow be quantified into a built object. This information is key for an architect as it will inform and form the architecture which is to be designed for the project at hand.  This information, however useful, is not easy to integrate into every aspect of the design without intensive planning, problem solving and an exploration of almost an infinite number of possibilities. This is where parametric design can be used to aid in the design. More of the fundamental aspects of the information gathered in a project can be programmed into a computer as parameters or relationships. Once this information has been quantified, the designer can run through iterations of a design which are defined by these parameters. This is not a random process. It is controlled by the designer and the outcome is a product of how the architect designs the parameters, or relationships between components of the design.  Parametric design offers a shift from merely digitising design ideas to using programmed constraints derived through the design process to influence and augment the design envisioned by the architect. Parametric design allows the system to be changed holistically and updated through the alteration of individual components that will then impact the form of the design as a whole – creating a non-linear process that is connected throughout all design phases.  This thesis seeks to explore parametric design through its implementation within a group design project to decipher how a parametric process grounded in an understanding of contemporary digital fabrication can inform architectural space. To explore parametric design, this thesis will practice this re-envisioned design process through three design phases. The first phase is the foundational knowledge stage where the applications of digital workflow, computer models, tools and material explorations are examined. Second is the production of a prototype to investigate lessons learnt from phase one and apply these lessons to an actual parametric system used to design a prototype. The final stage will be a developed design process that will further explore a parametric system and its architectural applications. These phases will be developed through a series of prototypes in the form of material explorations and scale artefacts which will explore how it would be used to address many of the designs facets from sensual to corporeal.</p>

Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Highway Noise Barriers and the Built Environment

1997 ◽  
Vol 1601 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Domenick Billera ◽  
Richard D. Parsons ◽  
Sharon A. Hetrick
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Noise Barriers ◽  
Noise Abatement ◽  
Noise Barrier ◽  
Visual Impact ◽  
The Aesthetic

Noise barriers have become a prominent feature on today’s landscape. Unfortunately, they have also become a feature associated with insensitivity toward the built environment. Designers could avoid the negative visual impact that noise barriers frequently create by increasing their awareness of aesthetics in the design process. In an effort to improve the quality of noise barrier design, the New Jersey Department of Transportation’s, Bureau of Environmental Analysis (BEA) altered the design process for its I-76/I-295 Type II noise abatement study. The first objective of the study was to acoustically engineer a barrier that would abate the noise for residents along the affected roadway corridor. The second was to develop an architectural design that would be aesthetically pleasing to the corridor resident and the roadway users. Typically, architects were brought into the design process at the end to review the aesthetic impact of the wall and add architectural features. On the I-76/I-295 project, BEA initiated a parallel process with the architectural design running concurrent with the engineering. The architectural design process and the interfacing of this process with the engineering are described. Community involvement was essential to the architectural objective of designing an aesthetically pleasing barrier. Ideas reflecting community concerns and comments were refined into final recommendations for construction of a noise barrier with gateways and a unifying corridor theme. The noise barrier should then become a representation of the community and stand as an icon in the built environment. Noise barriers can have a positive impact on the built environment if a commitment is made to aesthetics throughout the design process.

scholarly journals Role of Architectural Design in Creating Circadian-Effective Interior Settings

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (20) ◽  
pp. 6731
Author(s):  
Baraa J. Alkhatatbeh ◽  
Somayeh Asadi
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Lighting Design ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Artificial Light ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Lighting Energy ◽  
Window Area

Daylight variability throughout the day makes it an ideal light source for the stimulation of humans’ circadian systems. However, the key criteria, including proper quantity, quality, and hours of access to daylight, are not always present inside the built environment. Therefore, artificial light is necessary to complement the human’s visual and non-visual needs for light. Architectural design parameters, such as window area, orientation, glazing material, and surface reflectance alter the characteristics of both daylight and artificial light inside buildings. These parameters and their impact on lighting design should be considered from the early design stages to attain a circadian-effective design. In response to this need, a design approach called Human-Centric Lighting (HCL) was introduced. HCL places humans, and their visual and non-visual needs, in the center of the design process. It manipulates the light-related factors, such as spectrum and intensity, within the built environment for circadian benefits. The effect of HCL on lighting energy efficiency is still not clear. This paper reviews essential architectural design parameters and their impacts on circadian lighting design, considers the HCL design process and explores the most widely used circadian lighting metrics and standards.

scholarly journals PENGALAMAN WISATAWAN DALAM LINGKUNGAN BINAAN: STRATEGI DISAIN LINGKUNGAN FISIK DAN INTEGRASINYA

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Syaiful Muazir
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Natural Condition ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Environmental Design ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Physical Development ◽  
Regional Studies ◽  
Technology Utilization ◽  
Design Structure

Recent day, tourism has become one of the important (experience) industries, which has ability to promoted financial sector growth, steering physical development, and self-promotion event. In sum, tourism has many perspective fields of studies, and some of them are city-regional studies, built environment and architecture. The aim of this paper is to provide a perspective on the“design structure” and also the integration in multi-disciplinary level in a perspective of physical environmental design (built environment). The construction of ideas was done through deepening and searching of related literatures and then complemented by practices side reviewed. In the realm of physical environmental design, theoretically, there are some multi-disciplinary considerations; emotional-personal to the adaptation of physical design process. And, some of the approaches may be formed by “frame” of: architectural design, zoning and division, routes and circulation, natural condition, as well as technology utilization.

scholarly journals Designed Parameters: Advancing Parametric Software in the Architectural Design Process

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Thomas Le Comte
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Parametric Design ◽  
Digital Fabrication ◽  
Linear Process ◽  
Planning Problem ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Parametric System

<p>Architects use computers predominantly to digitise a design process that has been in use prior to the advent of the computer. Traditional analogue concepts are transferred into and sculpted through the digital world but the overall process has remained mostly unchanged for decades. Merely digitising a known process does not utilise the full power of the computer and its near limitless ability to compute.  For an architect, design of the built environment is highly important especially if they are to optimise the physical, phenomenological and psychological aspects of the space. The process of designing an architectural space is riddled with possibilities or variables that architects have used historically to aid in the design of the built environment, including but not limited to: object relationships, climate, site conditions, history, habitibility and the clients input - all project requirements that must somehow be quantified into a built object. This information is key for an architect as it will inform and form the architecture which is to be designed for the project at hand.  This information, however useful, is not easy to integrate into every aspect of the design without intensive planning, problem solving and an exploration of almost an infinite number of possibilities. This is where parametric design can be used to aid in the design. More of the fundamental aspects of the information gathered in a project can be programmed into a computer as parameters or relationships. Once this information has been quantified, the designer can run through iterations of a design which are defined by these parameters. This is not a random process. It is controlled by the designer and the outcome is a product of how the architect designs the parameters, or relationships between components of the design.  Parametric design offers a shift from merely digitising design ideas to using programmed constraints derived through the design process to influence and augment the design envisioned by the architect. Parametric design allows the system to be changed holistically and updated through the alteration of individual components that will then impact the form of the design as a whole – creating a non-linear process that is connected throughout all design phases.  This thesis seeks to explore parametric design through its implementation within a group design project to decipher how a parametric process grounded in an understanding of contemporary digital fabrication can inform architectural space. To explore parametric design, this thesis will practice this re-envisioned design process through three design phases. The first phase is the foundational knowledge stage where the applications of digital workflow, computer models, tools and material explorations are examined. Second is the production of a prototype to investigate lessons learnt from phase one and apply these lessons to an actual parametric system used to design a prototype. The final stage will be a developed design process that will further explore a parametric system and its architectural applications. These phases will be developed through a series of prototypes in the form of material explorations and scale artefacts which will explore how it would be used to address many of the designs facets from sensual to corporeal.</p>

scholarly journals The promise of performative: Relational, genetic and scripted models in architectural design

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Djordje Stojanovic
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Architectural Form ◽  
Feedback Information

This paper investigates the role of performative models within the context of architectural design. Understanding the performances of the built environment can be postulated in rather different manners. It is commonly expected that the built environment complies with the diverse and changing requirements of its users. It is equally required that buildings are economically constructed, easily maintained, energy efficient, safe and aesthetically pleasing. Yet, such expectations are complex and consist of a great number of intertwined effects that are not easy to synchronize during architectural design process. Although they can be precisely evaluated and quantitatively expressed, the values specifying the performances, such as temperature, humidity and intensity of light or sound, in traditionally established course of architectural design are usually only considered throughout the post-rationalization or correction of the architectural design. The research presented in this paper explores design mechanisms, for direct and formative incorporation of feedback information into the very conception of architectural form.

The Application of Parametric Design in Landmark Building Creation

2012 ◽  
Vol 446-449 ◽  
pp. 3381-3384
Author(s):  
Rui Wang ◽  
Hang He
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Parametric Design ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Computational Design ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
New Approach

As a new approach of the sustainable design, parametric design, which is also known as computational design, has become the new focus in architecture digital design. Parametric design which mostly applied in architectural design of landmark building is a special architectural type. Instead of ignoring social attribute and environmental characteristics of building, more architects are attracted to the amazing form of building from the result of parametric design. We should pay more attention to context, environmental factors and social influence in parametric design process, and give landmark building more social significance.

scholarly journals Teaching Co-Design to Promote Students’ Community Engagement

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 03002
Author(s):  
Wiryono Raharjo
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Architectural Design Studio ◽  
Case Study Methods

The current landscape of architectural education has been predominantly based on studio teaching the mode of teaching that can be traced back in the age of French L’Ecole des Beaux Arts. It was during the Beaux Arts era that studio teaching and jury system first deve-loped, and it continues today. The approach is characterized by the use of atelier (studio) for coaching, where juniors learn from seniors and competition among students are the norm. The approach also presumes that architects are the provider of design services who think that they are more competent than their clients in solving the design problem; which is a paradox to the fact that most parts of the built environment anywhere in the world are the creation of ordinary people. In other words, ordinary people can contribute significantly to the decision making within the architectural design process. They can actually be treated as a partner of architects in designing their building, which is what Co-Design all about. This paper aims to describe the introduction of Co-Design approach in architectural design studio teaching at Universitas Islam Indonesia. The research questions this paper intends to respond: to what extent could Co-Design be adopted in architectural design teaching? What lessons have the students learned from their experience in involving people in the urban design process? The case study methods employed in this research, through which author looks at the Co- Design teaching delivery in the Architectural Design Studio 7 in the past three years. While overall result of the study shows that time limitation has constrained the students’ community engagement, most cases examined reveal that introduction of Co-Design approach has paved the way for students to understand how ordinary people contribute to the shaping of the urban built environment.

HERITAGE IN THE LIVED ENVIRONMENT OF THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES AND THE GULF REGION

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph John Hobbs
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Gulf Region ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Spatial Features ◽  
Gulf Countries ◽  
The Social ◽  
Islamic Values

This paper examines how the architectural, social, and cultural heritage of the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf countries may contribute to better development of this region’s lived environment. Modern urbanism has largely neglected heritage in architectural design and in social and private spaces, creating inauthentic places that foster a hunger for belongingness in the UAE’s built environment. The paper reviews recent urban developments in the UAE and the Gulf Region, and identifies elements of local heritage that can be incorporated into contemporary planning and design. It proposes that adapting vernacular architectural heritage to the modern built environment should not be the principal goal for heritage-informed design. Instead we may examine the social processes underlying the traditional lived environment, and aim for social sustainability based on the lifeways and preferences of local peoples, especially in kinship and Islamic values. Among the most promising precedents for modern social sustainability are social and spatial features at the scale of the neighborhood in traditional Islamic settlements. Interviews with local Emiratis will also recommend elements of traditional knowledge to modern settings. 

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