Due to concrete structures, transportation networks, and impermeable surfaces, the overpopulation of cities makes it difficult for water to filter through the soil. Cities, in particular, disrupt the natural cycle of rainwater, leading to surface runoff. As a result, the soil skips the stages of water filtering, feeding the groundwater, evaporating, and returning to the atmosphere, leading to an increased frequency of floods that are not part of the hydrological cycle. One of the alternative solutions to global warming is the green infrastructure system. Practices such as rainwater collection systems, water recovery technologies, and the development of irrigation systems ensure efficient use of water resources and prevention of water pollutiYozgat Bozok University Campus has planned for a sustainable campus from a green infrastructure perspective, and has presented a master plan that addresses issues like rainwater management, wastewater recovery, solid waste recycling, and the qualities and quantities of campus open-green areas. The study involved landscape planning, the identification of rain harvesting areas for the campus, which is currently facing a water shortage, and the presentation of plant preferences and water-efficient solution suggestions for the region.
This article explores the emerging role of art and design in Italian workplaces, highlighting how their integration redefines professional spaces, enhances employee well-being, and boosts company performance. The research offers insights into this evolving phenomenon by examining case studies and recent trends. It shows how workplace art and design have evolved from aesthetics to strategic assets. Examples like Pirelli’s Art at Work project and Lavazza’s corporate museum illustrate how this integration can significantly improve employee satisfaction and productivity. The concept of cultural welfare emerges as a key theme.
The article also assesses the impact on ESG reporting and sustainability, confirming that art and design integration is becoming essential in corporate social responsibility strategies. Looking ahead, the study explores future prospects and challenges, arguing that this integration represents a transformative paradigm with the potential to alter physical environments, organizational dynamics, and social impact. Bridging theory and practice, the study contributes to the literature on cultural welfare and organizational aesthetics, offering strategies for companies to enhance work environments and corporate culture while aligning with global workplace design and responsibility trends.
Drawing. Design. Illustration, Architectural drawing and design
AbstractFrom 2005 to 2017, William E Massie held the position of Architect‐in‐Residence/Head of Department at Cranbrook. Making is in Massie's lifeblood and his tenure was characterised by students making larger‐scale constructions. Dismantling the rather insular personal studio, Massie reintroduced a communal studio culture where students learn from each other and create in mutual association.
L’articolo discute la capacità del disegno e delle rappresentazioni visive di assumere forti valenze simboliche e ideologiche, al punto da venire stigmatizzate e da assumere connotazioni eretiche. In particolare l’articolo evidenzierà come la proibizione dell’espressione grafico-visiva riesce a stimolare nuove forme artistiche, incanalando l’ineluttabile necessità di comunicazione iconica della natura umana verso nuovi orizzonti di sperimentazione. Dalle più note tradizioni iconoclaste della cultura bizantina, protestante e islamica ai più attuali fenomeni di cancel culture legati all’affermazione di movimenti politico-ideologici e ai revisionismi storici, la censura, la rimozione e la distruzione di immagini e rappresentazioni visive nelle loro più diverse declinazioni diventano lo strumento più efficace per rendere tangibile il cambiamento delle idee e per influenzare l’opinione pubblica. Per la stessa potenza ed efficacia che le ha rese da sempre strumento privilegiato di trasmissione della conoscenza e del sapere, di apprendimento e di propaganda nei diversi ambiti della società, le immagini finiscono con il diventare il più facile bersaglio da colpire per comunicare al pubblico le contrapposizioni e le discontinuità culturali. Le caricature eretiche pubblicate sul giornale francese Charlie Ebdo, le statue dei Budda di Bamyan, i memoriali dedicati ai Confederate States of America, sono solo gli episodi più recenti di quel fenomeno che Bruno Latour definische iconoclash. ovvero il rapporto cnflittuale tra produzione e distruzione delle immagini nei diversi campi della religione, della politica, della scienza e dell' arte, che in questo articolo verrà indagato sulla base dei diversi casi di studio individuati sia nella tradizione storica che nella più recente attualità.
Sonja Oliveira, L. Olsen, L. Malki-Epshtein
et al.
This paper reflects upon the mechanisms that enable development of curricular approaches to multidisciplinary architecture/engineering higher education. Building upon recent calls for integrated multidisciplinary building design practice, academics at UCL, industry partners and respective professional bodies embarked upon developing a new course that challenged disciplinary boundaries and defined the needs of a new design professional. Whilst there have been attempts internationally to better integrate architecture as well as engineering education, efforts have largely been focused on bolt-on solutions based on pre-existing education programmes. In addition, there has been little discussion (empirical or theoretical) on practical measures associated with developing multidisciplinary education in the built environment. Drawing on mixed data including documentary evidence, semi structured interviews and observations, the study begins to shed light on the approaches underpinning the development of a multidisciplinary built environment MEng course at UCL that integrates architecture, building services and civil engineering. The paper’s contribution is threefold. First, the findings have implications for developing multidisciplinary built environment education curricula, through revealing key mechanisms including the need for shared attitudes and expectations. Second, the paper highlights the conditions that enable the negotiation of multidisciplinary curricula including institutional support, shared values and a collective need and willingness to explore new solutions. Third, the paper reflects upon the value of design studio learning as a critical integrative component to the delivery of multidisciplinary education in the built environment and STEM more widely.
The Textile-Fashion System was investigating its impact on the environment, moving towards sustainable innovation solutions. The Covid-19 gave an acceleration to this reflection, agreeing on sustainable ways but also relying on technology through wearable devices, virtual reality, 3D printing, robotics, artificial intelligence, extending the vision of fashion to a place of research, beauty, and experimentation. Fibers are being selected and modified, new goals are being defined by interpreting research through the creation of textiles made specifically for humans. Progress with textile fibers that have been developed for the fashion industry has been remarkable, it will continue with smart, high-performance textile fibers, conductive inks, and nanometer electronics applied to garments for every need. Fashion companies are collaborating with industries specializing in technology, sustainability, biomedical, healthcare, cosmetics, electronics justifying examples such as fitbits, smartwatches or other devices designed to collect and monitor data on users personal health and physical activity, which help engage with their health, which help fight bacteria and viruses, regulate body temperature, heal skin and which also contribute to a responsible culture that makes textile design a distinctive and exclusive mode of socio-cultural inquiry from which tangible results are obtained. New body relationships therefore will lead to the creation of new homes by promoting healthy lifestyles.
Drawing. Design. Illustration, Architectural drawing and design
Valentina Marino, Marco Dutto, Alessandro Pasquale Fantilli
et al.
Given the growing market demand for products containing recycled components dictated by European and national policies, the presented research aimed to replace part of the natural aggregates in construction mortars and screeds with recycled polymeric aggregates (RA): industrial technopolymers and ground tyre rubber (GTR). The strategy involved the substitution of aggregates, both in market products and in the design of standard mortars, first verifying the CE certification and then the achievable mechanical performance. The whole process has been discussed in the context of a circular approach, extended to the analysis of the aggregate production phase, highlighting factors that influence environmental and economic impacts.
Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying, Architectural drawing and design
Complexity is the central theme of our contemporary age, and what technical culture needs today is to know how to manage it. Knowing how to deal with situations that are anything but straightforward – situations that require flexible thinking, the ability to establish a dialogue between fields of knowledge, and the intermingling of points of view that are, by their very nature, heterogeneous. If this is the direction that needs to be taken in order to tackle the major challenges of the future – from energy to the environment, healthcare to data management, and so on – then it naturally follows that the old monodisciplinary paradigm that we have grown accustomed to as a result of tradition, divided up and compartmentalised, is now outdated.
In order to face the great trials of our time, of which architecture is an interpreter, we need a broader vision. Indeed, the growing speed of technological evolution, its pervasiveness and the impact that this is capable of having on the community and our future increasingly point towards the validity of a multifaceted approach that reflects and anticipates the dynamics of social development.
If complexity is in fact the theme of the future, then, we cannot avoid engaging in a careful reflection on the dualism between specialisation and a systemic vision; on the relationship between a solid specialist culture, required to understand problems in depth, and a broader cultural perspective, crucial to understanding the direction that the world is moving in.
Here is a very simple example: we cannot begin to think about creating new spaces and new functions for living and dwelling if we do not first consider some of the major issues dominating our era. One of the many, and one that I hold particularly dear, is mobility: a new concept of mobility – sustainable, intelligent, shared – redefines everything that revolves around it, starting with our behaviours. And in order to analyse these behaviours, we must first understand the potential and impact of the new technologies underpinning them. It goes without saying that the architect, the engineer, the sociologist and the visionary start-up must all be able to interface within a common framework, a shared perspective, a circular approach.
As such, the task that the university is faced with is arming its students, as well as the professionals of today and tomorrow, with skills that, whilst based on solid disciplinary foundations, are not isolated in monothematic contexts, but instead benefit from complementary paths and interaction. Points of comparison and dialogue between different fields of knowledge, different experiences, different practices.
At the heart of what we refer to as “polytechnic culture” is the value of design, which everyone contributes to with methods and tools that are different, yet all equally useful: some apply the laws of dynamics, others the laws of physics or electronics; some use an experimental method, others are more firmly rooted in tradition. Designing becomes synonymous with sharing and hybridising, in that it means forming a complex response to a need expressed by the community.
It is then worth reflecting upon how, in a civilisation in which everything is contemporary – in which a unitary and evolutionary conception of time has disappeared entirely – we are forced to design in a condition of great discontinuity. Whilst on the one hand, the relentless forward march of technology has got us used to fast dynamics, on the other, space is notoriously subject to slow transformations. Indeed, an architectural project takes months to design and years to actually construct. It also has an intrinsic characteristic, namely surviving the passage of time, of preserving memory and seeing the end of its lifecycle only decades down the line.
Whereas once upon a time, historical developments were slow and predictable – as it was easy enough to imagine what would happen over the course of the next twenty years – nowadays, this sort of long-term vision is impossible because society evolves not only rapidly, but also in radical leaps and bounds. Hence the adjective “disruptive” which so often recurs in our conversations: the unexpected, changing our paradigms.
Unexpected, just like COVID-19: a catalyst which accelerated some of the major technological changes that were underway, first and foremost digital technology, the true potential of which emerged clearly as we sought to tackle the health crisis. From distance learning to remote working, digital technology allowed us to carry on with our lives, but at the same time, it emptied out schools and universities, offices and skyscrapers; it reassigned new functions to our living spaces; it redefined interpersonal relationships; it depopulated entire urban areas and brought international mobility to a standstill.
That said, despite the fact that technology managed to soften the blow of a sudden and dramatic situation almost overnight, I struggle to believe that the pandemic and social distancing will empty out the cities in any definitive way. On the contrary, I believe that after this not-so-brief interlude, the large urban centres will once again become lively, dynamic hubs of activity. They will continue to offer that unique and eclectic collection of ideas, values and opportunities that smaller settlements struggle to ever develop.
Architecture will then be faced with the challenge of responding to this distancing and emptying by designing a different understanding of what “being there” means, and in order to do so, it will have to interface with a variety of contexts. Architecture will have the task of redefining a new living experience, of developing a complex conception of planning that lies on the borderline between the opportunities offered by remote learning and working and our needs in terms of socialising; between the needs of the economy and those of protecting the nation’s health; between an immediate response dictated by an emergency and a need for long-term sustainability.
In the case of our universities, it will mean completely overhauling our idea of campus life. Whereas some of the most prestigious universities in the world, starting with Cambridge, are offering entirely online courses, riding the long wave of COVID and using the tools offered by digital technology, I believe that, on the contrary, it is absolutely essential to restore a sense of physicality and experience. I believe that the time is right to once again start talking about physical spaces in response to virtual classrooms. I consider it necessary to do everything we can to ensure that our universities continue to draw in talented young people who choose to engage in a first-hand experience of the academic spaces and cities playing host to them – the cities that reflect these people.
It is therefore not enough to welcome new students with open arms: we must instead offer them a unique experience of life, from campus life to the services that the wider area can offer. The university needs a modern, welcoming city in order to be attractive, and vice versa: a double bond, a two-way street. An experience that will take tangible form within the university itself – with interactive classrooms, spaces dedicated to hospitality, sports, social interaction, study, workshops – as well as intangible form in the values that we will be able to convey in places that increasingly represent points of engagement and personal growth. Places which can wholeheartedly embody the approach to complexity mentioned earlier.
The lesson to draw from this pandemic is that in order to respond to complex challenges, we must turn to knowledge as our starting point. And so, after dedicating years to minor jobs and maintenance work, the university is once again positioning itself as an active force engaging in society and change. This is the best guarantee for the future: ensuring that the classrooms and lecture halls of universities everywhere can once again become “construction sites for knowledge”. And these sites – as our alumnus and master Renzo Piano has taught us – are wellsprings of hope, even and above all in times of uncertainty such as we are currently living through.
Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying, Architectural drawing and design
Marielle Ferreira Silva, L. B. Jayasinghe, D. Waldmann
et al.
Buildings are being demolished without taking into the account the waste generated, and the housing shortage problem is getting more critical as cities are growing and the demand for built space and the use of resources are increasing. Architectural projects have been using prefabrication and modular systems to solve these problems. However, there is an absence of structures that can be disassembled and reused when the structure’s life ran its course. This paper presents three building prototypes of new recyclable architectural typologies: (i) a Slab prototype designed as a shelf structure where wooden housing modules can be plugged in and out, (ii) a Tower prototype allowing for an easy change of layout and use of different floors and (iii) a Demountable prototype characterized by the entire demountability of the building. These typologies combine modularity, flexibility, and disassembling to address the increasing demands for multi-use, re-usable and resource-efficient constructions. Design, drawings, plans, and 3D models are developed, tested and analyzed as a part of the research. The results show that the implementation of the recyclable architectural concept at the first design stage is feasible and realistic, and ensures the adaptation through time, increases life span, usability and the material reusability, while avoiding demolition, which in turn reduces the construction waste and, consequently, the CO2 emissions.
In this article, we address the problem of detecting multiple noise-like jammers (NLJs) through a radar system equipped with an array of sensors. To this end, we develop an elegant and systematic framework wherein two architectures are devised to jointly detect an unknown number of NLJs and to estimate their respective angles of arrival. The followed approach relies on the likelihood ratio test in conjunction with a cyclic estimation procedure, which incorporates at the design stage a sparsity promoting prior. As a matter of fact, the problem at hand owns an inherent sparse nature, which is suitably exploited. This methodological choice is dictated by the fact that, from a mathematical point of view, classical maximum likelihood approach leads to intractable optimization problems (at least to the best of authors’ knowledge) and, hence, a suboptimum approach represents a viable means to solve them. The performance analysis is conducted on simulated data and shows the effectiveness of the proposed architectures in drawing a reliable picture of the electromagnetic threats illuminating the radar system.
Temporary life has become a topic of discussion in the architectural debate concerning both post-catastrophic events and critical peaks in the housing demand. The strategies adopted to deal with emergency contexts can provide a stimulating testing ground that yields suitable approaches, which can be applied when facing the present permanent environmental crisis at a global scale. This is particularly true for certain post-catastrophe strategies adopted in the poorest countries, where local resources and Low-Tech processes can respond to housing and climate needs, compensating for the limited resources available with the intelligence of design solutions. Some criteria established to map the relationship between quality performance and durability of products are later applied to the critical analysis of three emblematic case studies of emergency housing in extreme contexts to identify their innovation content.
Aesthetics of cities. City planning and beautifying, Architectural drawing and design
Holger Schnädelbach, Nils Jäger, Lachlan D. Urquhart
Through sensors carried by people and sensors embedded in the environment, personal data is being processed to try to understand activity patterns and people's internal states in the context of human-building interaction. This data is used to actuate adaptive buildings to make them more comfortable, convenient, and accessible or information rich. In a series of envisioning workshops, we queried the future relationships between people, personal data and the built environment, when there are no technical limits to the availability of personal data to buildings. Our analysis of created designs and user experience fictions allows us to contribute a systematic exposition of the emerging design space for adaptive architecture that draws on personal data. This is being situated within the context of the new European information privacy legislation, the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016. Drawing on the tension space analysis method, we conclude with the illustration of the tensions in the temporal, spatial, and inhabitation-related relationships of personal data and adaptive buildings, re-usable for the navigation of the emerging, complex issues by future designers.
The selected projects, both small and large scale, and the works carried out by Heliopolis 21 testify to the studio’s ability to construct buildings and use space, but also to rework buildings and sets of buildings, to build open land, in other words, they are the symbol of their “architectural” know-how.
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günümüze doğa içerisinde fiziksel çevreler, kentler oluşturulurken insanların
tercihleri topoğrafik yapı, iklim özellikleri, erişim kolaylığı, doğal
kaynaklar, doğa ve çevre ilişkisi gibi yer oluşturma ilkeleri etrafında
temellenmektedir. Fiziksel öğelerin niteliklerinin yanı sıra taşıdıkları
anlamları ve nasıl algılandıkları da oldukça önemlidir. Bu bağlamda çevrenin yalnızca insanın biyolojik
gereksinmelerini karşılayan işlevsellik değil, aynı zamanda psikolojik,
entelektüel gereksinmelerini de karşılayan estetik nitelikler de taşıması
gerekmektedir. Bu çalışma ile estetik niteliği kazanmış kentlerin, kent
bilincinin geliştiği daha huzurlu, daha sağlıklı kentsel yaşam alanları
oluşturacağı hipotezinden yola çıkılmıştır. Kullanıcıları tarafından çevresel
algı ve kent estetiğine yönelik görüşlerin araştırılması amacıyla, Antalya
kentinde aktif olarak kullanılan Güllük Caddesi ve devamında yer alan
Cumhuriyet Meydanı, Kapalı Yol mevkileri çalışma alanı olarak belirlenmiştir.
Çıkan sonuçlarla, kentsel çevre algısı ve estetiğine yönelik düzenlemeler ve
önlemler alınarak, kentin çağdaş yaşamın gereklilikleri ile uyumlu ve
yaşanabilir alanlar olarak gelecek kuşaklara aktarılmasına katkı sağlanacaktır.
La minería siempre ha sido asociada a lo masculino. En el imaginario social, el trabajo minero implica esfuerzos que van más allá de las capacidades femeninas: manejo de maquinaria pesada, riesgo en la ubicación de explosivos, excavación en profundidades con poco oxígeno y otras actividades más. La idea de que sólo el hombre puede lidiar con el trabajo pesado ha permeado tanto en las dinámicas colectivas que el papel de la mujer minera ha sido ignorado a través del tiempo.
El objetivo de esta investigación Conocer aquellas voces que generalmente han sido mantenidas bajo tierra: la de las mujeres mineras, y los testimonios de las funciones, objetivos, adversidades, sueños, logros y vivencias de esas trabajadoras, utilizando la fotografía documental como evidencia del trabajo de campo con la finalidad de establecer un vínculo entre el diseño gráfico y los estudios organizacionales.
La investigación se llevó a cabo mediante la metodología de caso, es descriptiva, explicativa y exploratoria de enfoque cualitativo, utilizando la entrevista como instrumento de recolección de datos y enriquecida la evidencia por medio de la fotografía documental; esta última derivada de la integración del diseño gráfico como medio transmisor de ideas y símbolos.
Urban interfaces play a key role in enabling the different forms of social and economic exchange and the ways in which open space is contested and appropriated in informal settlements. Many upgrading practices involve a transformation of public/private interfaces. The transition between public and private territories is one of the critical issues in planning, urban design, and architecture that has the capacity to enable or constrain exchange and production. This paper develops a typology for analysing and mapping public/private interfaces in informal settlements. Drawing on the evidence from multiple case studies of informal settlements in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and South America, a typology of six interface types is introduced based on the criteria of proximity and connectivity. The study is informed by direct observation, visual recordings, and urban mapping to shed light on the ways in which urban interfaces work in informal settlements.
Using a series of illustrative examples throughout, we make an argument for the inclusion of sociological studies of museum architecture in museum studies, as well as advocating a series of methodological positions for future research. In short, the aim here is to provide students of both the museum and architecture with a route into the field - as well as a preliminary bibliography - while making the case for the need for increased engagement with the physical material of museums. Drawing on the widened scope of analytical possibilities represented by contemporary sociological analyses of architecture and the built environment, the paper sets forward an understanding of museum architecture as having a complex and entangled relationship with the museum institution and the variety of users of such (both actual and potential). Developing a threefold typology with the polemic intention to encourage increased research engagement with museums’ architectural forms, the paper is motivated by a desire to both showcase and advocate for the wide scope of analytical possibilities associated with sociological analyses of museum architecture. Key words: sociology; museums; architecture; design; material culture.