scholarly journals At the Edge: Rethinking Place and Identity in the Context of Wellington's South Coast

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Kirsty Walker
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
South Coast ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Enactive Approach ◽  
Education Centre ◽  
Unique Identity ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
Place And Identity

<p><b>New Zealand’s long coastline plays an important role in our natural environment and established communities. In recent years, however, there has been enormous urban development and growth at the coastal edge, driven by increased population, growing wealth, and the desire to live by the sea. We are seeing dynamic environments collide with static developments, as contemporary architecture converges on universality – becoming uniform, monotone, placeless.</b></p> <p>In response to this, the research seeks to enhance connection between people and place at the coastal edge, basing the research around the specificity of Wellington’s South Coast, a dynamic environment undergoing significant urban growth.</p> <p>The research is centred on an enactive approach, building on the idea of embodied cognition. This approach helps to shape design strategies and practices that are continually refined throughout the design process. The design research sets out to develop a strong understanding of the different factors that contribute to the South Coast’s unique identity, using this to inform design decisions that further enrich identity of ‘place.’ At the same time, it investigates how architecture might engage with the dynamics present at site to both enhance and intensify the human experience.</p> <p>The research allows design outcomes to emerge, refining the thinking throughout, allowing time to integrate new ideas and discoveries whilst making sure the objectives are addressed. The research ultimately leads to a proposed redevelopment of the Island Bay Marine Education Centre – a design response that negotiates its surroundings, allows for change, and enhances connection to ‘place.’This research begins to challenge the static and permanent norms of architecture, and it provides insight into processes and practices that designers and architects might use to create a deeper level of engagement.</p>

scholarly journals At the Edge: Rethinking Place and Identity in the Context of Wellington's South Coast

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Kirsty Walker
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Development ◽  
South Coast ◽  
Coastal Change ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Education Centre ◽  
Unique Identity ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
Place And Identity

With rapid growth and urbanisation, there is increasing pressure to develop and occupy New Zealand’s coastal edge. In turn, we are seeing naturally dynamic environments collide with static developments, as contemporary architecture converges on universality – becoming uniform, monotone, placeless. Not only does this highlight a clear ‘disconnect’ between architecture and place, but it also threatens to weaken the very connection formed between architecture and its inhabitants.<br><br>This research, therefore, seeks to strengthen the connection between people and place, through an architectural response that helps to negotiate a dynamic coastal environment and developing urban context, basing the research around the specificity of Wellington’s South Coast.<br><br>The method taken demonstrates both a poetic and pragmatic approach to design, whereby abstracted ideas of ‘embodiment’ and ‘time’ are tested against more tangible factors relating to coastal change and coastal development. The research sets out to develop a strong understanding of the different factors that contribute to the South Coast’s unique identity, using this to inform design decisions that further enrich identity of ‘place.’ At the same time, it investigates how architecture might engage with the dynamics present at site to both enhance and intensify the human experience.<br><br>This research ultimately leads to a proposed redevelopment of the Island Bay Marine Education Centre – a design response that negotiates its surroundings, allows for change, and enhances connection to ‘place.’<br>

scholarly journals At the Edge: Rethinking Place and Identity in the Context of Wellington's South Coast

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Kirsty Walker
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Development ◽  
South Coast ◽  
Coastal Change ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Education Centre ◽  
Unique Identity ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
Place And Identity

With rapid growth and urbanisation, there is increasing pressure to develop and occupy New Zealand’s coastal edge. In turn, we are seeing naturally dynamic environments collide with static developments, as contemporary architecture converges on universality – becoming uniform, monotone, placeless. Not only does this highlight a clear ‘disconnect’ between architecture and place, but it also threatens to weaken the very connection formed between architecture and its inhabitants.<br><br>This research, therefore, seeks to strengthen the connection between people and place, through an architectural response that helps to negotiate a dynamic coastal environment and developing urban context, basing the research around the specificity of Wellington’s South Coast.<br><br>The method taken demonstrates both a poetic and pragmatic approach to design, whereby abstracted ideas of ‘embodiment’ and ‘time’ are tested against more tangible factors relating to coastal change and coastal development. The research sets out to develop a strong understanding of the different factors that contribute to the South Coast’s unique identity, using this to inform design decisions that further enrich identity of ‘place.’ At the same time, it investigates how architecture might engage with the dynamics present at site to both enhance and intensify the human experience.<br><br>This research ultimately leads to a proposed redevelopment of the Island Bay Marine Education Centre – a design response that negotiates its surroundings, allows for change, and enhances connection to ‘place.’<br>

scholarly journals At the Edge: Rethinking Place and Identity in the Context of Wellington's South Coast

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Kirsty Walker
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Development ◽  
South Coast ◽  
Coastal Change ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Education Centre ◽  
Unique Identity ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
Place And Identity

With rapid growth and urbanisation, there is increasing pressure to develop and occupy New Zealand’s coastal edge. In turn, we are seeing naturally dynamic environments collide with static developments, as contemporary architecture converges on universality – becoming uniform, monotone, placeless. Not only does this highlight a clear ‘disconnect’ between architecture and place, but it also threatens to weaken the very connection formed between architecture and its inhabitants.<br><br>This research, therefore, seeks to strengthen the connection between people and place, through an architectural response that helps to negotiate a dynamic coastal environment and developing urban context, basing the research around the specificity of Wellington’s South Coast.<br><br>The method taken demonstrates both a poetic and pragmatic approach to design, whereby abstracted ideas of ‘embodiment’ and ‘time’ are tested against more tangible factors relating to coastal change and coastal development. The research sets out to develop a strong understanding of the different factors that contribute to the South Coast’s unique identity, using this to inform design decisions that further enrich identity of ‘place.’ At the same time, it investigates how architecture might engage with the dynamics present at site to both enhance and intensify the human experience.<br><br>This research ultimately leads to a proposed redevelopment of the Island Bay Marine Education Centre – a design response that negotiates its surroundings, allows for change, and enhances connection to ‘place.’<br>

In the Moment: Fostering Mindfulness and Reducing Stressors in the Healthcare Workplace

2021 ◽  
pp. 193758672098824
Author(s):  
Shabboo Valipoor ◽  
Sheila J. Bosch
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Job Dissatisfaction ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Environmental Interventions ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Healthcare Settings ◽  
The Moment

While healthcare design research has primarily focused on patient outcomes, there is a growing recognition that environmental interventions could do more by promoting the overall quality of care, and this requires expanding the focus to the health and well-being of those who deliver care to patients. Healthcare professionals are under high levels of stress, leading to burnout, job dissatisfaction, and poor patient care. Among other tools, mindfulness is recommended as a way of decreasing stress and helping workers function at higher levels. This article aims to identify potential environmental strategies for reducing work-related stressors and facilitating mindfulness in healthcare settings. By examining existing evidence on workplace mindfulness and stress-reducing design strategies, we highlight the power of the physical environment in not only alleviating stressful conditions but intentionally encouraging a mindful perspective. Strategies like minimizing distractions or avoiding overstimulation in the healthcare environment can be more effective if implemented along with the provision of designated spaces for mindfulness-based programs. Future research may explore optimal methods and hospital workers’ preferences for environments that support mindfulness and stress management. The long-term goal of all these efforts is to enhance healthcare professionals’ well-being, reignite their professional enthusiasm, and help them be resilient in times of stress.

scholarly journals Urban Sub-Center Design Framework Based on the Walkability Evaluation Method: Taking Coomera Town Sub-Center as an Example

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6259
Author(s):  
Jizhong Shao ◽  
Minge Yang ◽  
Guan Liu ◽  
Ye Li ◽  
Dan Luo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Healthy City ◽  
Quantitative Research Methods

As current society’s reflection on the rapid development of motorization and increasing emphasis on the ecological environment, the study of walkable cities has become one of the key points of urban sustainable design. Creating a walkable city is an effective way to build a low-carbon and healthy city. With the development of cities, walkability concepts and theories are constantly being given new life, and research methods and design strategies continue to be updated. A city’s walkability and walkability index have become current research hotspots. Based on prior research on walkability and related urban policies, this study selects Coomera Town on the Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia, as the research area because of Coomera Town policy regulations and environmental requirements. This study utilizes traditional qualitative and quantitative research methods, machine mining technology, and the deep learning big data analysis technology to conduct thematic design research in a real place. Its combines walkability evaluation with walkability design to construct a walkable city in a targeted manner. This provides a reference for related city design in the future.

scholarly journals Reshaping exhibition and museum design through digital technologies: a multimodal approach

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Borsotti ◽  
Letizia Bollini
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Exhibition Design ◽  
Multimodal Approach ◽  
Exhibition Space ◽  
Interior Spaces ◽  
Planning Approach ◽  
Museum Design ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
Social Landscapes

Exhibition design as preferential research framework in redefining interior spaces value-ratio in contemporary architecture debate: the merging end integration approach introduced by communication and performative exhibition practices is redesigning culturally and physically the pre-existing spaces. Exhibition design research innovative carrying out planning approach for changing strategies simultaneity knowledge spreading. In this way it became the most interesting and topical interior design project act, able to translate performing spaces into crossing experience built also with meanings dissemination and "surfing" knowledge method. The exhibition design direction is a different tool to control and develop multimodal approach to interior territories whose outcome fit to new social landscapes The Installation of an exhibition space meaning is now coming into sight as work-in-progress multi-disciplinary range, increasingly complex. The experiential element (whom exponential use of digital solution is just an exterior consequence) will increasing more and more and will bring to ostensive solutions development looking to new classifying parameters capable in enclosing several simultaneous organizing relationships. These parameters represents many super-structural rationalization process aptitudes that draw close true courses and imaginary tours, into complex changeable landscapes where raise to the surface place, objects and viewers sense and myths, made by production act, supervising to thoughts and actions as independent and symbiotic designer and visitor condition.

scholarly journals Re-thinking Re-construction New Design Strategies for the Reconstruction after Natural Disasters. A Local Research Experience for a Global Topic

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Bianchi ◽  
Roberto Ruggiero
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Central Italy ◽  
Urban System ◽  
Housing Demand ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Design Strategies

The paper presents the ongoing results of a design research carried out at the School ofArchitectureandDesign” EduardoVittoria”of Ascoli Piceno(SAAD)of the university of Camerino. Thespecificobjectiveoftheresearchistodevelopaninnovativeandreplicabledesign methodology, and to experiment new design strategies devoted to the sustainable, compatible and innovative-construction after natural disasters in rural areas and low-density urban systems. The research is based on a “local-to-global” approach: it refers to Italy as a case study but it aims to achieve general results applicable in different geographical contexts. Thespecificcasestudyrelatestotheearthquakethatin2016/2017affectedasignificant area of Central Italy and that strongly hit a large part of the so called “Italian village system”, i.e. a peculiar environmental and productive urban system that is still now in real emergency. As in most of the international reconstruction experiences, this reconstruction will certainly require along process which,still today,is full of unknowns. The massive damage caused by this disastrous event, the constraints imposed by regulations and the need for and adaptation of the buildings stock to the current housing standards, exclude the possibility of applying design strategies focused on a “where it was/as it was” model. This awareness, which increases the uncertainty about the future of the ”earthquake” communities, requires an innovative approach in relation to apparently incompatible aspects: the preservation of the identity of lost places and the upgrade of building performance often explicitly required by the population and however connected to a new housing demand. In relation to worldwide territories with a high level of disaster risk, this scenario can nowadays be considered a global issue which concerns both cultural and technical aspects. The design methodology pursued is based on a scientific approach to re-construction that focuses on a “systemic” and “design to build” approach that concerns also productive and technological aspects in relation to purposes of low-cost performance, constructive simplicity, cost-effectiveness of the interventions. This approach aims also at the introduction of the lightweight building system in contexts of traditional and massive construction, according to an idea of a construction site as an “assembly point” of prefabricated parts, light and modular, with a controlled life-cycle.

scholarly journals The affective notes of represented space as motors of emotional and sensorial response

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 01013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa Morselli
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Digital Images ◽  
Space Perception ◽  
Specific Kind ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
Psychology Of Art

The following essay proposes to investigate the perceptual and emotional aspects related to the visualization of architectural images. The field of research is limited to a well-defined category: figurative representations as the photographic and digital images of contemporary architecture. In particular, two types will be analysed: the un-built architecture produced by Studio MIR and Bloomimages compared with the photographed built architecture. Using figurative images as a tool of reading, the aim of this work is to identify and classify three types of affective spaces capable of generating a specific kind of perception, producing a sensorial classification of atmosphere for architecture. The study of the Psychology of Art, as well as Aesthetics and Neuroaesthetics can be a valuable tool in understanding the phenomena of the present, considering the marked pictoriality of these images. The application of the analytic methodology, developed in these disciplines, can suggest a new way of "looking" at the project, paying attention to the representation of the atmospheres, which characterizes the experience of felt space. Keywords: Affective Space, Perception, Representation, Aesthetics, Atmospheres, Design Research, Generators.

Connecting EU Jurisdictions: Exploring How to Open Justice Across Member States Through ICT

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Velicogna ◽  
Ernst Steigenga ◽  
Sandra Taal ◽  
Aernout Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
Legal Tradition ◽  
Member States ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Digital Service ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Implementation Effort ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Legal Frameworks

This article explores the concept of open justice in the context of European Union (EU) cross-border litigation and focusing on the e-justice dimension. It does it looking both at the open justice principle coming from the legal tradition and at the new ideas coming from the open government discourse. More in detail, the article investigates the attempt to create an open area of justice in Europe through the development and implementation of an European Justice Digital Service Infrastructure and the opening of such infrastructure to users and service providers. It is a development and implementation effort, which builds on the EU’s multilevel legal frameworks, which uses available technological innovations, which responds to the economic needs and challenges of an EU without internal borders, and which result should be capable of being embedded in the existing cultural communities. EU Member States (MSs) have developed such infrastructure and tested it successfully. Currently, EU institutions are faced with the serious and unavoidable challenge to open up such infrastructure and to ensure its use. In a dynamic environment in which EU and MSs laws, technologies, economies, and cultures coevolve, this is not an easy task.

scholarly journals Revizitand arhitectura contemporana ca tribut: un ghid al Bucureștiului de secol 21

2018 ◽  
pp. 187-206
Author(s):  
Marina MIHĂILĂ ◽  
Mihaela CIOLACHE ◽  
Raluca PEȘTIȘANU ◽  
Andra GIUGLEA ◽  
Mara VASILE ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Peer Production ◽  
Project Proposal ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Main Ideas ◽  
Contemporary Architecture

Main ideas on which the project proposal is based are : 1. producing a peer production collaborative open access data base for contemporary architecture; 2. proposing a structural visualization method and several modes of mapping and linking information and relevant images; 3. founding and defining a young generation of architectural projects-buildings; 4. gathering an advanced discussion for future architectural design; 5. fabricating new ideas, finding meaning and tendencies through short writings and discussions. Proposed method is to structure the ideas in a singular concept together with revisiting, reediting and rewriting the team’s manifesto Restarting Avant-garde for specific declaration of ideas, making from the specific proposed project an active instrument for a future cultural Bucharest. In few words, the team members declaration is to connect and reconnect with the School of Architecture / Faculty of Architecture UAUIM Bucharest, to contribute together and on common principles, militate for, activate and enrolling 21st century architecture to European new setups. The project proposal includes also the architects enrolling and contributing through their own projects to mapping a guide of 21st century Bucharest. keywords: contemporary architecture, Bucharest, cultural capital, 21st century architecture guide.

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