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A collaborative environment for energy-efficient buildings within the context of a neighborhood
Published in Symeon E. Christodoulou, Raimar Scherer, eWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and Construction, 2017
M. Bassanino, T. Fernando, K. Wu, S. Ghazimirsaeid, K. Klobut, T. MäKeläInen, M. Hukkalainen
During the design process, the client/developer’s role is to ensure that energy efficiency is appropriately considered as part of the project brief. The client responsibility here is to attend design review meetings to assess design alternatives and ensure that the brief’s objectives are properly met. The architect’s role is to make sure the architectural design is energy efficient and thus he/she needs to collaborate with other team members to reach an energy efficient design. All the engineering disciplines (mechanical, electrical, and so on) need to work with other team members and to check the impact of their design on the building design. The energy expert’s role is to advise on energy efficient solutions; this involves assisting the client to define the project’s KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) as well as assisting the architect in conducting energy simulation and matching activities.
The Art Stations
Published in Daniele Peila, Giulia Viggiani, Tarcisio Celestino, Tunnels and Underground Cities: Engineering and Innovation meet Archaeology, Architecture and Art, 2019
Distributed along the lines 1 and 6 of the Metro network, art stations are the result of willingness to completion by Metropolitane di Napoli; performing extraordinary constructive and synergic dialogue between architects and artists, engineers and committee. Though the architectural design of the work is strongly influenced by the underlying engineering, it is the constant dialogue and collaborative effort of all the players - namely architects, artists, engineers and Committee that continues to lead to the results we see.
Potential use of Augmented Reality in pre-contract design communication in construction projects
Published in Intelligent Buildings International, 2022
D. Rajaratnam, D.M.L.P. Weerasinghe, M. Abeynayake, B. A. K. S. Perera, J. J. Ochoa
The pre-contract design communication can be classified according to the stages in which they arise: briefing, concept design, design development, and technical design stages. Firstly, the architectural design team transforms the client’s brief into design language to develop it into a conceptual design during the concept design stage. Both these stages are early stages of design development. Both stages’ success heavily depends on the expertise and knowledge of the design professionals and getting different mindsets to meet. During the detailed design stage, the aroused issues can be considered on architectural, structural, and service-related aspects of the design. In the architectural design, the focus will be mainly on spatial orientation, planning, progression, hierarchical and parametric design, and aesthetic appearances. In contrast, in the structural design, the focus will primarily be on the design strength and size. The service-related design will focus on integration and energy utilisation.
Integrating configuration-based seismic design principles into architectural education: teaching strategies for lecture courses
Published in Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 2020
Mauricio Morales-Beltran, B. Yildiz
Architectural design, on the other hand, is a process of design experimentation across several complex domains such as space and composition; material, climate and structure; function and movement; site; and socio-cultural, historical, philosophical context (van Dooren, Van Merrienboer, Boshuizen, Van Dorst, & Asselbergs, 2018). At the initial stages of a building project, architecture students develop provisional solutions, which will eventually be expressed as a form. By manipulating their geometric and formal composition, architects employ configurations to create spatial and other type of perceptual relationships in a qualitative manner, i.e. without explicitly determining the exact sizes of the elements that configure them. Hence, for architects configuration ultimately means the form of a building, which may or may not be defined by structural elements.
Passive house vs. passive design: sociotechnical issues in a practice-based design research project for a low-energy house
Published in Architectural Science Review, 2020
David Kroll, Sarah Breen Lovett, Carlos Jimenez-Bescos, Peter Chisnall, Mathew Aitchison
In practice, architectural design balances multiple factors and interests such as site, orientation, flexibility (for future use), customer expectations, planning guidelines, development covenants, building performance, as well as technical and construction requirements. If energy-use minimization is approached from a purely technical point of view based on performance simulation, then the most efficient form would be as compact as possible. However, as this case study illustrates, the problem can be more complex in practice.