Posts tagged ‘design’
Accommodating change – Housing in London
February 23rd, 2010
Guest author: Alexandra Theodorou
Over the last few years, population growth in London has created an imperative need for increasing housing supply. At the same time household structure is radically changing with one-person dwellings accounting for a large proportion of the demand. Terraced housing has provided satisfactory living conditions for many years and still defines much of the city’s [...]
Tags: architectural association, design, england, housing, research, sustainble environmental design, temperate climate
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Learning Environments in informal settlements
February 23rd, 2010
Guest author: Olga Maria Conto Sterling
The aim of this project is to explore possibilities for learning environments in the informal settlements on the outskirts of Bogota, Colombia. This topic emerged from the growing necessity to provide schools in the poorest municipalities surrounding the Colombian capital where hundreds of internally displaced people arrive every month. The initial research focused on the [...]
Tags: architectural association, cold climate, colombia, design, learning environments, research, sustainble environmental design
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Urban social housing in Colombia
February 18th, 2010
Guest author: Gilda Riveros
In Colombia, even though the construction of social housing has increased there is still a high demand that has not been fully covered. In addition, the majority of current schemes lack in comfort and consideration of local climatic conditions. This project focuses on the design of affordable urban housing units. The introduction of climate-responsive strategies [...]
Tags: architectural association, cold climate, colombia, design, housing, research, sustainble environmental design
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Urban Metaphors | Exploring the urban roofscape of Athens
February 17th, 2010
Guest author: Katerina Pantazi
The focus of this dissertation is the urban roofscape of Athens and aims to identify the variables, as well as to explore the potentials that are associated with the sustainable regeneration of this particular layer of the urban configuration. The investigation of the prevailing types and spatial characteristics of this layer will identify the variables [...]
Tags: architectural association, design, greece, mediterranean climate, outdoor comfort, research, sustainble environmental design, urban space
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Sustainable low income community in Bangkok
February 17th, 2010
Guest author: Chanasit Cholasuke
This dissertation project is research and design process to improve living quality of low-income people in urban area of Bangkok, Thailand. Design objective is to provide comfort conditions and create environmental responsive architecture by using passive design strategies and knowledge from traditional Thai house as the main approach. Methodology of this thesis started from understanding [...]
Tags: architectural association, design, equitorial climate, low income, research, sustainble environmental design, thailand
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Contemporising religious architecture
February 16th, 2010
Guest author: Isha Anand
Daylight can be very informative in the generation of architectural form and has been a celebrated tool in highlighting cultural, contextual and experiential regard in architectural design. Exploring this concept, the dissertation assesses and re-interprets spatial, sensorial and form-giving characteristics using religious buildings as a forum. The project explores the effects created through daylight in [...]
Tags: architectural association, design, religious architecture, research, sustainble environmental design, temperate climate
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Emergency (post-disaster) housing for the Chilean scenario
February 14th, 2010
Guest author: José Antonio Espinoza Pérezdetudela
Chile is one of the most seismic countries worldwide. Despite this, it does not have a proper relief policy to overcome the stressful consequences that an earthquake has over the affected families. It also does not take into account how to react in the different climatic scenarios that Chile presents. This study addresses the design [...]
Tags: architectural association, chile, cold climate, design, earthquake, housing, post disaster, research, sustainble environmental design
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