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>

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 Utilizing Farasan Architectural Heritage to enrich the aesthetic values in the contemporary tourist buildings: الاستفادة من التراث المعمارى الفرسانى لإثراء القيم الجمالية فى المبانى السياحية المعاصرة

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marwa Mahmoud Galal Mohamed Osman, Rania Ragab Abdel Maksoud
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
The Past ◽  
Unique Identity ◽  
Heritage Buildings ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Farasan Islands ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
Aesthetic Values

    The contemporary tourist buildings provide a unique visual experience for its visitors. A vision combined with the heritage sites around it affords a closer connection between the past and the present, confirming its identity and making it special. The architectural heritage is a rich source of fine values to enrich the tourist buildings. Hence, the idea of research arises as the Farasan Islands is a unique tourist area with its heritage buildings of special architectural values, The problem of research is how the artistic treatment of traditional decorations in Farasan as a source of innovative designs for the tourist buildings, and the research aims to study the aesthetics of Farasan's architectural heritage , study its aesthetic values and design of the interfaces of tourist buildings and its fabrics furnished using computer program ,The importance of research to highlight the archaeological sites of Farasan and to guide the society towards the importance of its architectural and cultural heritage, and also benefit from it in contemporary architecture by following a historical approach, analytical for the architectural vocabulary of the heritage buildings of Farasan and an applied technical approach to create innovative designs to enrich its touristic building .The researchers have reached through the results of the research: The vocabulary of the heritage in farasan architecture rich with formative  elements to enrich the design of the architectural facades of tourist buildings and the design of its furnishing fabrics , where the researchers used design solutions inspired by the study of the architectural heritage of Farasan combines the originality and modernity, which gives the tourist buildings in the islands of Farasan unique identity.  

scholarly journals Recent acceleration in coastal cliff retreat rates on the south coast of Great Britain

2016 ◽  
Vol 113 (47) ◽  
pp. 13336-13341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin D. Hurst ◽  
Dylan H. Rood ◽  
Michael A. Ellis ◽  
Robert S. Anderson ◽  
Uwe Dornbusch
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
South Coast ◽  
Coastal Change ◽  
The South ◽  
Coastal System ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Driving Mechanisms ◽  
Order Of Magnitude ◽  
Rising Sea Levels ◽  
Cliff Retreat

Rising sea levels and increased storminess are expected to accelerate the erosion of soft-cliff coastlines, threatening coastal infrastructure and livelihoods. To develop predictive models of future coastal change we need fundamentally to know how rapidly coasts have been eroding in the past, and to understand the driving mechanisms of coastal change. Direct observations of cliff retreat rarely extend beyond 150 y, during which humans have significantly modified the coastal system. Cliff retreat rates are unknown in prior centuries and millennia. In this study, we derived retreat rates of chalk cliffs on the south coast of Great Britain over millennial time scales by coupling high-precision cosmogenic radionuclide geochronology and rigorous numerical modeling. Measured 10Be concentrations on rocky coastal platforms were compared with simulations of coastal evolution using a Monte Carlo approach to determine the most likely history of cliff retreat. The 10Be concentrations are consistent with retreat rates of chalk cliffs that were relatively slow (2–6 cm⋅y−1) until a few hundred years ago. Historical observations reveal that retreat rates have subsequently accelerated by an order of magnitude (22–32 cm⋅y−1). We suggest that acceleration is the result of thinning of cliff-front beaches, exacerbated by regional storminess and anthropogenic modification of the coast.

scholarly journals Integrated Assessment of Coastal Exposure and Social Vulnerability to Coastal Hazards in East Africa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caridad Ballesteros ◽  
Luciana S. Esteves
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reefs ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Social Vulnerability ◽  
Great Increase ◽  
Dar Es Salaam ◽  
Coastal Development ◽  
Coastal Hazards ◽  
Coastal Protection ◽  
Coastal Change ◽  
High Level

AbstractAn index of vulnerability to coastal change, integrating indices of social vulnerability and exposure to coastal hazards, was created for East Africa to identify ‘areas of priority concern’ for risk reduction. Currently, 22% of East Africa’s coastline and 3.5 million people are at higher levels of exposure to coastal hazards, which would increase, respectively, to 39% and 6.9 million people if mangroves, coral reefs and seagrasses are lost. Madagascar and Mozambique show the largest proportion of the coastline at higher exposure, while Kenya and Tanzania benefit the most from natural coastal protection. Coral reefs protect 2.5 million people from higher exposure, mostly in Mombasa, Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam. Considering Mozambique, Kenya and Tanzania, the latter is the least, and the former is the most vulnerable. Under current conditions, 17 (out of 86) coastal districts are considered ‘areas of priority concern’; four of these are critically exposed as over 90% of their shoreline length are at higher exposure (Zavala, Inharrime, Manhiça and Mandlakaze, all in southern Mozambique). These locations are of critical concern for any present or future coastal development due to the high level of exposure posed to both vulnerable people and investments. Habitat loss would increase the number of ‘priority concern’ districts to 24; some would show great increase in the population exposed (e.g. Pemba and Mossuril in Mozambique). Applying this knowledge to identify where ecosystem-based management should be prioritised to promote social and environmental resilience is timely and urgent in East Africa.

scholarly journals Reinterpreting Chinese Cultural Imperatives Within the Contemporary Urban Context  Through the Integration of Natural Elements

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Xuezhu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Ground Level ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
New Era ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Outer World ◽  
Contextual Environment ◽  
Architectural Characteristics ◽  
Chinese Gardens ◽  
Chinese Landscape Painting ◽  
Contemporary Architecture

<p>As Chinese contemporary architecture is entering into a new era along with rapid economic development, this is an opportunity for young Chinese designers to start to translate their own Chinese cultural perspectives into contemporary architecture. This thesis uses an iconic Chinese architectural symbol, the ‘Chinese Garden’, as a vehicle to explore this opportunity to re-interpret the traditional Chinese garden in relation to contemporary Chinese urban culture. The challenge is to investigate how a contemporary garden could be inspired by the philosophy and principles of traditional Chinese gardens within a contemporary Western contextual environment. This thesis explores four major Chinese garden types and their architectural characteristics, how their imperative cultural reflections of Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Fengshui Principles, Chinese landscape Painting and legend of ‘Round Heaven and Square Earth’ influence the traditional Chinese garden making. This thesis analyzes the qualities of the existing site, Frank Kitts Park, and it discusses the important ‘positives’ and potential ‘negatives’ that exists on the site. This design thesis will take the ‘negatives’ and translate them into positives through Chinese garden making theories and philosophies. While the Dunedin Chinese garden decided to hide the western urban context with a surrounding wall, this design thesis seeks to embrace the surrounding western urban context and incorporate it into the garden as a means of demonstrating how traditional gardens can flourish within contemporary times. This thesis challenges how a contemporary and western context can be incorporated with the principles of a traditional Chinese garden and how existing urban elements can be interpreted as landscape elements by translating traditionally soft plant elements into architectural elements. Just as solid walls are used to enclose the perimeter of traditional style gardens (both imperial gardens and private gardens), the contemporary garden should also consider the application of physical walls in order to divide space (both exterior and interior) and thus create multiple discreet spaces which may be considered as an inner and outer world with a garden boundary at ground level; a spiritual inner world is found within the garden and a literal outer world remains outside of the garden walls.</p>

scholarly journals Building a Pillowfort: Political Tensions in Platform Design and Policy

2022 ◽  
Vol 6 (GROUP) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Brianna Dym ◽  
Namita Pasupuleti ◽  
Casey Fiesler
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Policy Decisions ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Unique Identity ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Media Platform

Social media platforms make trade-offs in their design and policy decisions to attract users and stand out from other platforms. These decisions are influenced by a number of considerations, e.g. what kinds of content moderation to deploy or what kinds of resources a platform has access to. Their choices play into broader political tensions; social media platforms are situated within a social context that frames their impact, and they can have politics through their design that enforce power structures and serve existing authorities. We turn to Pillowfort, a small social media platform, to examine these political tensions as a case study. Using a discourse analysis, we examine public discussion posts between staff and users as they negotiate the site's development over a period of two years. Our findings illustrate the tensions in navigating the politics that users bring with them from previous platforms, the difficulty of building a site's unique identity and encouraging commitment, and examples of how design decisions can both foster and break trust with users. Drawing from these findings, we discuss how the success and failure of new social media platforms are impacted by political influences on design and policy decisions.

scholarly journals Reinterpreting Chinese Cultural Imperatives Within the Contemporary Urban Context  Through the Integration of Natural Elements

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Xuezhu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Ground Level ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
New Era ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Outer World ◽  
Contextual Environment ◽  
Architectural Characteristics ◽  
Chinese Gardens ◽  
Chinese Landscape Painting ◽  
Contemporary Architecture

<p>As Chinese contemporary architecture is entering into a new era along with rapid economic development, this is an opportunity for young Chinese designers to start to translate their own Chinese cultural perspectives into contemporary architecture. This thesis uses an iconic Chinese architectural symbol, the ‘Chinese Garden’, as a vehicle to explore this opportunity to re-interpret the traditional Chinese garden in relation to contemporary Chinese urban culture. The challenge is to investigate how a contemporary garden could be inspired by the philosophy and principles of traditional Chinese gardens within a contemporary Western contextual environment. This thesis explores four major Chinese garden types and their architectural characteristics, how their imperative cultural reflections of Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Fengshui Principles, Chinese landscape Painting and legend of ‘Round Heaven and Square Earth’ influence the traditional Chinese garden making. This thesis analyzes the qualities of the existing site, Frank Kitts Park, and it discusses the important ‘positives’ and potential ‘negatives’ that exists on the site. This design thesis will take the ‘negatives’ and translate them into positives through Chinese garden making theories and philosophies. While the Dunedin Chinese garden decided to hide the western urban context with a surrounding wall, this design thesis seeks to embrace the surrounding western urban context and incorporate it into the garden as a means of demonstrating how traditional gardens can flourish within contemporary times. This thesis challenges how a contemporary and western context can be incorporated with the principles of a traditional Chinese garden and how existing urban elements can be interpreted as landscape elements by translating traditionally soft plant elements into architectural elements. Just as solid walls are used to enclose the perimeter of traditional style gardens (both imperial gardens and private gardens), the contemporary garden should also consider the application of physical walls in order to divide space (both exterior and interior) and thus create multiple discreet spaces which may be considered as an inner and outer world with a garden boundary at ground level; a spiritual inner world is found within the garden and a literal outer world remains outside of the garden walls.</p>

A pragmatic approach to teaching clinical physical diagnosis

1981 ◽  
Vol 45 (9) ◽  
pp. 585-588
Author(s):  
MJ Kutcher ◽  
TF Meiller ◽  
CD Overholser
Keyword(s):  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
Physical Diagnosis ◽  
Approach To Teaching
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