Façade plays an important role in modern movement architecture and a critical role in the conception of energy and climate-optimized buildings: it is the building's skin and functions as an interface between ...
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Façade plays an important role in modern movement architecture and a critical role in the conception of energy and climate-optimized buildings: it is the building's skin and functions as an interface between interior and exterior space. It provides thermal and sound insulation and ventilation, and controls and guides the entrance of daylight into the building. Tropical climates have unique challenges to reduce solar heat gain through building envelope to make buildings energy efficient. India has a rich tradition of different forms of architecture and design principles - most of them are perfectly adapted to the climatic requirements and constructed with local building materials and technology. In the twentieth century, Modern Movement architecture shows a global trend towards transparent, light-flled buildings with great expanses of windows and façades with advanced building technology. However, the twentieth century modern movement architecture in India evolved in response to the climate and culture. In India, remarkably diverse constellations of façade design can be traced in modern architecture often taking into consideration traditional Indian principles combining them with new materials and constructions. Most of them marked by overhanging balconies and horizontal brise-soleils and as an example of a human scaled urban infrastructure offering private and public green spaces in transition. After independence in 1947 more public, administrative and governmental buildings followed in the tradition of the modern movement and with emblematic character. This paper presents a review of the influences of modern movement architecture on today's facade design in tropical climate of India. The purpose of this review is to reappraise works of the masters of the modern movement, in the context of today's energy and environmental value system;a value system which justifies a greater capital cost in money terms with a view to minimize recurrent costs in energy terms and envi
The Thermoheliodome, a digitally fabricated radiant cooling pavilion, addresses the energy challenge of buildings through a novel form and concept. We control the effective radiant temperature of a large area by expan...
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The Thermoheliodome, a digitally fabricated radiant cooling pavilion, addresses the energy challenge of buildings through a novel form and concept. We control the effective radiant temperature of a large area by expanding the surface area through reflection, which minimizes convective losses. Our novel geometric analysis for capture and concentration of diffuse heat emission from bodies resulted in a cone-shaped ‘lamp’ form. The optimization resulted in a hexagonal array of 55 cones across a 6 meter dome, which expands radiant emission surface area by a factor of 6, shifting outdoor comfort perception with minimal losses to the outside air.
Job turnover is often preceded by burnout, a psychological syndrome involving prolonged response to stressors on the job (Maslach & Leiter, 2008). This phenomenon is measured along a continuum ranging from job eng...
Job turnover is often preceded by burnout, a psychological syndrome involving prolonged response to stressors on the job (Maslach & Leiter, 2008). This phenomenon is measured along a continuum ranging from job engaged to full burnout. Higher levels of burnout can result in turnover, excessive absenteeism, and numerous physical and emotional symptoms among employees. The purpose of this study was to assess levels of burnout among practicing interiordesigners, and identify both individual and situational factors relative to burnout. The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI-GS) was used to measure burnout and a Job Satisfaction survey gathered basic demographic and situational (job-related) information from practicing interiordesigners (N=130). The voluntary and anonymous surveys were distributed via US Mail and the response rate was 52%. Results revealed that study participants were experiencing a moderate level of burnout. However, when compared with other professions, interiordesigners rated highest in cynicism and second only to nurses in exhaustion, as measured by the MBI-GS. Statistically significant correlations and regressions were found between burnout and the individual factors of age and years of professional practice as well as the situational factors of workload, control, reward, and fairness. The results and implications of the study are relevant to both interiordesign practitioners and academics and the discussion calls upon these communities to reconsider discipline-based traditions and expectations that may exacerbate burnout to keep practitioners healthy and positively engaged in the profession.
Purpose: After the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, major resettlement programmes were implemented in the affected countries including Sri Lanka and India. New settlements were built from scratch on vacant land, which consi...
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Purpose: After the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, major resettlement programmes were implemented in the affected countries including Sri Lanka and India. New settlements were built from scratch on vacant land, which consisted of building new houses and provision of infrastructure and services. Some of these programmes in Sri Lanka and India were reviewed in an Australian Research Council (ARC) funded research and this paper presents and analyses some of the findings of the research. The paper aims to discuss these issues. design/methodology/approach: The research is based on interviews of residents and representatives of agencies involved in planning and implementing the resettlement programmes, and on-site observations. The investigation examined critical aspects of settlement development including site planning, transport, drainage, water supply, sanitation, waste management and security. Findings: Very little site planning guidelines were available specifically for resettlement programmes;in both the case study countries, general planning guidelines were applied. Provision and management of infrastructure and services presents great challenges in developing countries as high capital investment and good technical skills for design, implementation and maintenance are required. Some of the resettlement schemes had the advantage of being centrally located and hence had access to schools, health centres and other facilities. However, others were in isolated locations and beneficiaries faced problems in accessing basic facilities. Drainage was a problem - most schemes did not have any surface drainage plan;low areas had not been elevated, slopes not levelled, and land not compacted before construction. Electricity and water supply had been provided in all the programmes, but conditions and quality varied. In many of the schemes, sanitation presented a problem. However, in Chennai, the sewage system worked well and this was one achievement all interview respondents praised.
Recent developments in urban mobility in many affluent countries suggest that private car use is declining and this trend is beginning to open up opportunities for municipal planners to consider a future of less exten...
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Taipei City has officially been selected the 2016 World design Capital (WDC) this year, campaigning under the slogan "Adaptive City: design in Motion". A successful design capital should demonstrate the diff...
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This paper aims to report the trend of changes of the finishing materials used for floor, walls, ceiling, and the parts around the sink and oven in the home kitchen analyzing the descriptions in the authorized textboo...
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This paper aims to report the trend of changes of the finishing materials used for floor, walls, ceiling, and the parts around the sink and oven in the home kitchen analyzing the descriptions in the authorized textbooks on domestic science from Meiji to early Showa era. The expressions about the finishing materials started to describe from 1909, and increase after mid-Taisho era. After that, especially after 1928, the new materials- tiles, artificial stone, and concrete - were described frequently. In general, those expressions of materials in the textbooks meant the development of the concept of hygiene to the specific morphology.
As the character of aesthetic experience becomes more complex and multi-faceted, exhibitions become interfaces that actively mediate between physical and invisible realities. Challenging more conventional forms of exh...
As the character of aesthetic experience becomes more complex and multi-faceted, exhibitions become interfaces that actively mediate between physical and invisible realities. Challenging more conventional forms of exhibition-making, this situation becomes exaggerated when producing affective exhibition experiences in non-conventional event-structures and site-specific contexts. This article explores how digital mediation and spatial practice can be productively integrated into new programarchitectures, specifically the type of civic media spectacles associated with the cultural phenomenon of the White Night or Nuit Blanche. The co-authors engage with the social and cultural dynamics of such "performance spectacles" through the twin perspectives of curator and exhibition designer, which informed the realization of exUrbanScreens, an image-based arts and new media festival that operated as a multi-site, distributed nocturnal event. Practice-based insights give perspective on audience participation in this type of exhibition event and the social dynamics of civic engagement in this particular form of programarchitecture.
Communicative city leads to the understanding of enhancing urban development performance by encouraging better interactive communication among development actors. This idea not only tries to provide better planning ma...
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Communicative city leads to the understanding of enhancing urban development performance by encouraging better interactive communication among development actors. This idea not only tries to provide better planning management in terms of governance system, but also planning engagement among development actors in terms of people centered development. This paper learns the preparedness of local governmental officials as forefront in planning decision making process, especially to utilize mobile technology in order to perform better planning performance. By emphasizing to the context of coordination in spatial planning process, appropriate technology in terms of mobile phone and internet connection have significant role in metropolitan's spatial planning *** has been done to the governmental planning employees throughout regencies and autonomous cities within metropolitan Bandung, and found out that appropriate technology like mobile phone and internet connection plays as spatial planning support system and still can not be implemented to resolve spatial planning conflict in the spatial planning process that combine local and metropolitan governance concerns.
作者:
Pringle, PatriciaRMIT Univ
Interior Design Program Sch Architecture & Design Melbourne Vic Australia
Places, spaces, or spatial experiences are sometimes described as "magical" (The word is used here in its colloquial sense, with no supernatural connotations.) Their magic, however, is closely tied to their ...
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Places, spaces, or spatial experiences are sometimes described as "magical" (The word is used here in its colloquial sense, with no supernatural connotations.) Their magic, however, is closely tied to their period, for that which is enchanting to one generation may seem banal to the next. The article explores a spatial typology - the wintergarden - and suggests that over the years it has taken on many forms, each of which seemed, in its time, to possess qualities that made it a site of fascination. As a device through which to discuss this, the ephemeral spatial enchantment of each wintergarden in its heyday is considered in relation to the magical effects that are created in conjuring. Professional conjurors suggest that there are a limited number of basic "feats" of entertainment magic, in which the things that happen appear to go beyond the boundaries of what is normally possible and are hence felt to be "magical" All magical effects are composed from combinations of these basic feats. Conjurors emphasize, however;that magic happens in the mind of the audience, and that magic works by playing on things that the audience feels to be significant, and worth attending to. Behind the magic of conjuring lies science, but also attention, so that the feeling that something is "magical" is related both to the changing technologies of its times and the culture of the society that is thrilled by it at that moment. When the wintergardens are examined in relation to the conjurors' feats, they reveal ideas or aspirations that had heightened significance for their audiences - at that period. The article considers a range of wintergardens at their moment of glory By suggesting that the wintergarden continues to be a compelling concept whose new forms reflect the mood of the moment, the article offers another approach to the relations between interior discourses and other histories.
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