Using recent examples from public parks and urban street life, this photo essay explains how the quality of public seating affects our state of mind.Ultimately the evolution of the park bench affects our capacity to thrive economically.
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sangath case study
general information
site planning
structure
insulation
lightning
construction technique
use of waste material
performance
IIM
site planning
zonning
NIFT,DELHI
orientation structure
building orientation
A final year thesis proposal on PARLIAMENT HOUSE under Architecture of legislature, also known as parliamentary architecture is about creating the spaces for legislation purpose. It is creation of system that creates a system by itself for future.
Minimalist architecture
Minimalist architecture, sometimes referred to as 'minimalism', involves the use of simple design elements, without ornamentation or decoration. Proponents of minimalism believe that condensing the content and form of a design to its bare essentials, reveals the true 'essence of architecture'.
Minimalist architecture emerged from the Cubist-inspired movements of De Stijl and Bauhaus in the 1920s. Architects such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, theorized that minimalism gave maximum power to architectural space.
contemporary architecture
sangath case study
general information
site planning
structure
insulation
lightning
construction technique
use of waste material
performance
IIM
site planning
zonning
NIFT,DELHI
orientation structure
building orientation
A final year thesis proposal on PARLIAMENT HOUSE under Architecture of legislature, also known as parliamentary architecture is about creating the spaces for legislation purpose. It is creation of system that creates a system by itself for future.
Minimalist architecture
Minimalist architecture, sometimes referred to as 'minimalism', involves the use of simple design elements, without ornamentation or decoration. Proponents of minimalism believe that condensing the content and form of a design to its bare essentials, reveals the true 'essence of architecture'.
Minimalist architecture emerged from the Cubist-inspired movements of De Stijl and Bauhaus in the 1920s. Architects such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, theorized that minimalism gave maximum power to architectural space.
The Kanchanjunga Apartments, designed by Charles Correa, are a direct response to the present culture, the escalating urbanization, and the climatic conditions for the region. They pay homage to the vernacular architecture that once stood on the site before the development in a number of ways. More on Kanchanjunga Apartments after the break.
A detailed description of the evolution of courtyards, how they are used around the world and particularly in the Indian context.
(I'm sorry about the annoying webdings font. Slideshare didn't recognize the one I had used. Should've just stuck with Times New Roman.)
Coworking is an arrangement in which several workers from different companies share an office space, allowing cost savings and convenience through the use of common infrastructures, such as equipment, utilities, and receptionist and custodial services, and in some cases refreshments and parcel acceptance services. It is attractive to independent contractors, independent scientists, telecommuting and work-at-home professionals, and people who travel frequently. Additionally, coworking helps workers avoid the isolation they may experience while telecommuting, traveling, or working at home, while also eliminating distractions.
Nature and Psychological Comfort: Biophilic ArchitecturePrabal Dahal
Bachelors' Level Directed Studies Research Presentation on how nature can bring about comfort to human beings done as a part of semester report for partial fulfillment of requirements of Bachelors of Architecture Degree at Kathmandu Engineering College, Tribhuvan University.
Vernacular Study : AKIL SAMI HOUSE ,by Ar.HASSAN FATHY Siddiq Salim
The house was built by notable Egyptian Architect Hassan Fathy. It was built in Dahshur for the client Dr Akil Sami. The house is built using traditional Egyptian and Islamic building techniques and arrangements.
FIXING the Neighbourhood: Investigations in Suburban Tokyo (Sketching for Usa...a-small-lab
Usable Cities; City Creative Climate; Sketching for Cities
People play with things and find new uses for them.
Messy and spontaneous, individually created, everyday expressions of the creativity of everyday people in all of its facets. A response to the environment, a reflection of society, culture, and
traditions. Change reconciles with the idea
of improvement, and people feel
joy, as opposed to mere pleasure.
The Kanchanjunga Apartments, designed by Charles Correa, are a direct response to the present culture, the escalating urbanization, and the climatic conditions for the region. They pay homage to the vernacular architecture that once stood on the site before the development in a number of ways. More on Kanchanjunga Apartments after the break.
A detailed description of the evolution of courtyards, how they are used around the world and particularly in the Indian context.
(I'm sorry about the annoying webdings font. Slideshare didn't recognize the one I had used. Should've just stuck with Times New Roman.)
Coworking is an arrangement in which several workers from different companies share an office space, allowing cost savings and convenience through the use of common infrastructures, such as equipment, utilities, and receptionist and custodial services, and in some cases refreshments and parcel acceptance services. It is attractive to independent contractors, independent scientists, telecommuting and work-at-home professionals, and people who travel frequently. Additionally, coworking helps workers avoid the isolation they may experience while telecommuting, traveling, or working at home, while also eliminating distractions.
Nature and Psychological Comfort: Biophilic ArchitecturePrabal Dahal
Bachelors' Level Directed Studies Research Presentation on how nature can bring about comfort to human beings done as a part of semester report for partial fulfillment of requirements of Bachelors of Architecture Degree at Kathmandu Engineering College, Tribhuvan University.
Vernacular Study : AKIL SAMI HOUSE ,by Ar.HASSAN FATHY Siddiq Salim
The house was built by notable Egyptian Architect Hassan Fathy. It was built in Dahshur for the client Dr Akil Sami. The house is built using traditional Egyptian and Islamic building techniques and arrangements.
FIXING the Neighbourhood: Investigations in Suburban Tokyo (Sketching for Usa...a-small-lab
Usable Cities; City Creative Climate; Sketching for Cities
People play with things and find new uses for them.
Messy and spontaneous, individually created, everyday expressions of the creativity of everyday people in all of its facets. A response to the environment, a reflection of society, culture, and
traditions. Change reconciles with the idea
of improvement, and people feel
joy, as opposed to mere pleasure.
PUP 420 Theory of Urban Design This final unit buil.docxwoodruffeloisa
PUP 420: Theory of
Urban Design
This final unit builds on the previous two units, insofar as it is not about
the aesthetics of design—not the buildings and plazas and streets. But
rather, this unit continues our discussion about how our physical
environment—the built environment—influences people’s behavior.
According to Jan Gehl (a famous planner and architect) in his well-
known book Life Between Buildings, there are three types of outdoor
activities.
Necessary activities, things like going to school, are things we have to
do regardless of the quality of the built environment. Optional activities
are things like taking a walk or reading a book outside on a bench, etc,
and these are highly influenced by the environment. Social activities are
any kind of social interaction, usually as a result of one of the other
kinds of activities. Public spaces in cities become meaningful and
attractive when activities of all types occur in combination and feed off
each other.
Three Types of Outdoor Activities
Social Activities
Social activities vary
tremendously. This is everything
from sitting on your front steps as
you watch people walk by… to
stopping and chatting with
someone you already
know… to asking directions from or maybe commenting on the
weather to some stranger at the bus stop.
These kinds of social activities, including the passive ones, are
important for the quality of our public spaces. As planners, architects,
and landscape architects, we can help shape the environment to
encourage social activities, to encourage those optional activities,
and to make the necessary activities more enjoyable.
Need for Contact
High intensity Close friendships
Friends
Acquaintances
Chance contacts
Low intensity Passive contacts
Jan Gehl makes the argument that the low end of the intensity scale,
where we find passive contacts, is really important. These are the
situations where you’re observing people and being observed, but not
talking to people or otherwise interacting with them. So this is when
you do your homework in a coffee shop, at a table by yourself, but
there are other people around. This is a basic need of people—to
have these passive contacts—although our individual need will vary,
as some of us are more introverted or extroverted.
Contact with Neighbors
The proper built environment can also lead us to have more contact
with people who live near us. These might be minor, incidental
contacts—commenting on the weather or whatnot. But it can also
lead to a growing trust, where people look out for one another and
observe their environments, much like Jane Jacobs’ concept of “eyes
on the street.” These contacts can also lead to more significant, less
superficial relationships.
Need for Stimulation
The argument here is that we don’t need dramatic architectural
detail if we simply design places where people want to be. That is, it
can be the people w ...
Creating Great Places - Webinar1_Salutogenic Design QUT
Imagining and designing urban environments where all people thrive is an extraordinary task. For a space to inspire, excite and positively transform people’s lives, it needs to be designed based on theory and research. This PPT is part one of a free four-part webinar design series delving into research, case studies and critical theories to provide you with the tools to create spaces that are inclusive, sustainable and salutogenic, that is, health-promoting.
Based on their newly released book “Creating Great Places: Evidence-based Urban Design for Health and Wellbeing”, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Debra Cushing and Professor of Design Psychology Evonne Miller, will lead a conversation about the value and processes of engaging deeply with design theory. In collaboration with Tobias Volbert from Urban Play, Deb and Evonne will walk through a different priority each week:
Week 1 introduces their notion of theory-storming (based on Edward de Bono’s Thinking Hats approach) and how to design salutogenic (health-promoting) places.
Arc 211:American Diversity and Design: Tiffany FongTiffany Fong
Introduction
In Project 2, you compiled your discussion questions into a comprehensive document. Project 3
continues this effort and asks you to share your work with others. You will move your work into another
level: a public presentation. Because your responses to the discussion questions are quite thoughtful
and they present your thinking about Diversity and Design topics, we think that others might like to see
what you’ve accomplished. Perhaps they will even be inspired by your responses to difficult, socially
relevant, questions.
ARC 211: American Diversity and Design: Joshua HenryJosh Henry
The following pages document my
responses to the online discussion questions in the Spring 2017 version of ARC 211
American Diversity and Design at the University at Buffalo – State University of New
York.
MW2010: N. Proctor, The Museum Is Mobile: Cross-platform content design for a...museums and the web
A presentation from Museums and the Web 2010.
Acknowledging that the only constant in technology is change, this paper proposes ways of ‘thinking outside the audio tour box’ in developing mobile interpretation programs in museums: instead of making mobile interpretation a question of which device, platform, or app the museum should invest in, it puts the focus on cross-platform content and experience design.Putting audiences at the center of museums’ mobile content and experience designs make it possible to engage them through the media consumption practices and platforms that they already use outside of the museum.
Based on research conducted at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and with the principals of SmartHistory.org, this paper offers a ‘question-based’ methodology for developing an interpretive strategy that starts with mapping visitors’ queries in the galleries. From this conceptual map we can derive a matrix of platforms, media, and narrative voices that work cross-platform. The traditional audio tour, with its analog ‘linear’ content and random access ‘stops’, offers important paradigms for ‘mobile 2.0’ content design: on the one hand, conceptual overviews and immersive ‘soundtracks’ provide a ‘score’ for the museum experience, and on the other hand, ‘soundbites’ in a range of media (audio, multimedia, or text) can be searched, saved, shared and favorited in multiple contexts. From social media, we can also learn how to integrate links, apps and user-generated content into the mobile mix. Finally, the paper considers how content style impacts shelf-life. What is the enduring legacy of creating ‘quick & dirty’ interpretive ‘snacks’ versus investing in more nutritional fare? How can museums best allocate their mobile content budgets in this light?
Session: Mobiles: A Panel [mobile]
see http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/abstracts/prg_335002342.html
Conclusion
Architects who spend time to dimension the public sacred, that is who take responsibility for their user’s well-being, will be counted amongst those who contribute in a real and positive way to their communities. We require public sacred places in order to fulfill our fundamental human needs. Without these needs met, people will not be able to excel in other parts of their lives. In a world of threatening environmental collapse, the priority is likely to shift to survival only, but I would argue that the psychological realm of our humanity is equally, if not more important because it is at times so subtle and elusive. Creating quality environments available to anyone, anytime is simply essential and irreplaceable.
The architectural cosmos—the universe that our profession operates within—is actually larger than is commonly practiced. We conventionally see the destination of our work to be the Construction Document or Post Occupancy Evaluation at best. However, we could be doing much more to deliver a product that not only functions in utility or beauty; we have the potential to awaken our communities to place values that combat fear, pseudo-adventuring, rootlessness, and untethered status seeking. Energy saved from these vices can be spent in quality ways instead, so it is our responsibility to use our skills for the noblest cause.
In a 70-page paper Dimensioning the Public Sacred I have attempted to explain the full depth and breadth of the architectural cosmos (0-4 dimensions on the y-axis and tools of precision to intuition on the x-axis) and what it may mean to dimension the public sacred so that we may understand the full extent of where our profession can operate. I hope this will allow us to be intentional with our tools in order to produce the maximum outcome possible. Doing more with less, as Buckminster Fuller would say, is the key to a sustainable future.
Why the public sacred over the private sacred? Because the public sacred has the power to be a connection, between architecture and landscape, past and present, public and private, macro and micro, near and far, systems and autonomy, community and self, life and death, human as organism and human as machine, this and that, you and me.
Read the paper and see a 3-part video on the topic here: www.youtube.com/user/amberdaniela
View some of my work and contact me here: http://portfolio-amberdaniela.tumblr.com/
This presentation was developed for a guest lecture at QUT in April 2009 for a subject about cultural futures. It asks the question, 'how are we to live?' and considers urban innovation and creativity. However, it does not really attempt to answer that question.
The following pages document my
responses to the online discussion questions in the Spring 2017 version of ARC 211
American Diversity and Design at the University at Buffalo – State University of New
York.
Learn Faster from Experience: Active Learning and Design Thinking in the Work...Sharon Vander Kaay
Approximately 80% of what we need to know to do our job is learned "in action." Learning by design is faster than learning by chance.
To make the most of daily work experience, group coaching can instill design thinking and active learning habits. With a prepared mind, everyday experiences can teach us critical thinking, complex problem solving, managing and collaboration skills.
The Role of Public Libraries in Fueling a Can Do CultureSharon Vander Kaay
Public libraries can expand their influence and attract wider support by highlighting their value as catalysts for a "can do culture." Here's how some libraries are beginning to do this.
Examples of a gradual shift from a society of thoughtless food consumption to resource appreciation and stewardship. Presents the role of a "visual diet" (attractive places) as essential elements in this shift.
Each places is noted with reasons why I think they are lovable. Up to 40% of solid waste in land fills comes from construction debris.If we aim to build places that are love-worthy, they will not be destined for demolition.
This 10-story gallery-garage displays the work of 26 international artists commissioned by Dan Gilbert, owner of Bedrock Real Estate, working with Library Street Collective.
Connections to industrial roots can enrich our lives today. Revival and re-interpretation of industrial aesthetics honors the hands-on work of making things. These slides present examples of 11 elements that add interest, meaning and humanity to maker spaces today. Organic aspects of industrial relics and artifacts are highlighted in this survey.
Makes a case for using the term pre-tangible to emphasize cause and effect relationships between intangibles and tangibles. Advocates conversations aimed at "seeing" how value is created or destroyed.
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The European Unemployment Puzzle: implications from population agingGRAPE
We study the link between the evolving age structure of the working population and unemployment. We build a large new Keynesian OLG model with a realistic age structure, labor market frictions, sticky prices, and aggregate shocks. Once calibrated to the European economy, we quantify the extent to which demographic changes over the last three decades have contributed to the decline of the unemployment rate. Our findings yield important implications for the future evolution of unemployment given the anticipated further aging of the working population in Europe. We also quantify the implications for optimal monetary policy: lowering inflation volatility becomes less costly in terms of GDP and unemployment volatility, which hints that optimal monetary policy may be more hawkish in an aging society. Finally, our results also propose a partial reversal of the European-US unemployment puzzle due to the fact that the share of young workers is expected to remain robust in the US.
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28. In stark economic
terms…
a depressed,
lonely, isolated,
unsafe, unhealthy,
low self-esteem
state of mind is
bad for today’s
means of production:
our brainpower.
29. Three decades ago, the quest to reduce crime
and anti-social activity in public spaces led to the
‘broken windows theory’ of visual signals.
Today, community aspirations have moved
beyond ‘do no harm.’
30. The ‘park bench effect’ signals a new era
of respect for the power of public spaces to
nurture human relationships.
33. At the base of this tall building there is public
seating which conveys openness, abundance…
The Qube, 611 Woodward Ave.
Bedrock Real Estate Services
Detroit, Michigan
40. ParKIT on K Street,
Washington DC
design by Gensler working
with GoldenTriangleDC.com
BENEFITS
Improves safety due to more
‘eyes on the street’ (Jane Jacobs)
Encourages interaction that
spans diverse economic and
cultural backgrounds
Adds character at street level
of generic tall buildings
Promotes walking by making
the journey more interesting