Theory and Research for Design Research Text Introduction How long have you been disconnected from nature? What is the last time you walk within trees, barefoot outside with your feet touching the grass, get the vitamin D from the real sunshine instead of taking capsules? These days, uncontrolled urbanization and the loss of green space …
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Chongae Canal Restoration Project This essay will examine the Chongae Canal restoration project. A social, political and environmental project. What was a polluted waterway later covered with elevated freeways is now a valuable urban park in a city lacking in green urban spaces (Green, 2010). The park’s celebration of cultural diversity appears to represent a …
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x Abstract: The Impacts of Deconstructivism towards the Future of New Zealand Architecture Designs The importance of this report is to introduce deconstructivism as a new perspective to New Zealand building designs to create an innovative architecture with consideration of how it will impact New Zealand in the future. Deconstructivism has been recognized as a …
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Are Neoclassical buildings Fascist architecture, and should the political foundations of a building besmirch the aesthetics and style of the design? Architecture should arguably take resource from the surroundings taking reference from context, politics and heritage. In the 1930s, queries about style gained both a grounding in aesthetic design and moral content, “the question of …
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Analyse how critics, such as Frederic Jameson, have analysed the postmodern era and how that may have influenced Frank Gehry in the construction of the Chiat building, Venice, Los Angeles In this essay I want to outline the theories put forward about the postmodern era from critiques such as Frederic Jameson’s and show, what they …
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Introduction Community engagement is a process of working with community groups to solve problems affecting their well-being. In terms of architecture, it means the inclusion of the users in design procedure and partnership with non-professionals. In the Royal Institute of British Architects’s Guide to Localism: Opportunities for Architects, which is produced to encourage contemporary architects …
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Numerous structures that surround us daily have features, details and foundations of classical architecture. Classical architecture is deliberately derived from the principles of Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity, unambiguously from the works of Vitruvius. According to the websites “looking at buildings”, they say classical architecture is considered by a variety of conventional forms, …
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1. Literature Review 1.1. Structural Optimization The optimisation of structures is well established within the field of structural design, however due to the mathematical and computational complexity it remained a field of more academic interest until the last 30-40 years (Querin, et al., 2000) The rise of computer processing power and speeds since has led …
Civil engineers have been around for centuries, whether they were called civil engineers or not. All around the globe engineers are constantly creating ways to make the lives of people safer and easier. Civil engineers have affected our lives such as the Hoover Dam which brings power to Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Phoenix. Civil …
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How to Cultivate Architects on Sustainability with the Influence of Traditional Buildings? Introduction “Vernacular architecture can be said to be ‘the architectural language of the people’ with its ethnic, regional and local ‘dialects,’” writes Paul Oliver, author of The Encyclopaedia of Vernacular Architecture of The World’. Where do people prefer to live on this planet? …
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A Phoenix Raised by Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren: The Reconstruction of St Paul’s Cathedral, in particular, the West Front Portico For more than 1400 years, St Paul’s Cathedral dominates the skyline of London. Standing as the largest cathedral in Britain and the fifth largest cathedral in the world, St Paul’s has had a very …
Architecture has a long-lasting effect that “lives on”[1] to the future, it can therefore often be opinionated by the public eye in a positive or negative limelight. People from different professions are able to judge and criticise the building and the surrounding environment to make them places that people would want to “live and …
Introduction Vitruvius was a Roman author, architect and civil engineer during the 1st Century BC, best known for his multi-volume work entitled De Architectura, known today as, The Ten Books on Architecture. It is a treatise written in Latin and Ancient Greek on architecture, dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus, as a guide …
“The Gherkin” City of London The City of London is one of the world’s greatest financial and business centres (Kenyon 2011), constantly reinventing itself and its architecture through the quality of new buildings and significant new projects or revisions of older buildings. “There is a pattern to London’s architectural geography and each individual building has …
Bridge Aesthetics Abstract This paper will examine bridge design as it relates to being visually suitable, or aesthetically pleasing to their settings. The background issue which is addressed in this paper relates to the current realities with regard to bridge aesthetics, engineering and architecture, and the changing balance of these three elements of bridge design …
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Composition of ‘space’ and ‘body’ through the orders. How were buildings and their interiors composed as harmonious compositions in the eighteenth century through the Orders? To what extent were the Orders about the structure of a building and to what extent were the Orders about conventions of architectural form and composition? What was the relationship …
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1. Introduction To run an architectural practice there is a need for practice managements that can increase the efficiently in the organization. Safety and design are one of the many practice managements that is important to consider, as it helps to keep the working environment safety and healthy for workers. It is important to consider …
Analysis of the post-modern features Robert Venturi used on the design of ‘Vanna Venturi house’ Analyse a key post-modern building such as James Stuttgart museum and place it within its historical, architectural and cultural contexts Figure 1. Historic front facade view of Vanna Venturi House with the architects mother, Vanna Venturi sat in front.[1] Introduction …
A critical Architectural Analysis of Villa Savoye by LE Corbusier –Functionality, Structure, Geometry, Expressivity Table of Contents Introduction Villa Savoye Structural Analysis Functional Analysis Geometrical Analysis Le Corbusier ‘5’ points Project EIR Conclusion References Introduction The architecture for a landmark is very much crucial as it helps to design and construct the necessary requirements while …
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Abstract Objective: While there has been a great variety of interest into the health and philosophical benefits of biophilic design, which is design that responds to the human desire for connections to nature, few studies have explored these effects in regard to spatial memorability, which is a significant factor of spatial experience. It is the …
