Transforming Spaces
The Importance of Place in Architectural Design Studios: Studio Istanbul
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Hulya Turgut, Nagehan Acimuz Isbakan
Istanbul, a city whose components are inevitably and constantly changing and transforming, is patterned together with its urbanites and forms “new ways of life”. As a rapidly changing metropolis, urban dynamics, urban life and therefore "new urban culture"shape everything in istanbul. It makes it inevitable to discuss different lifestyles as a 'global city' on the one hand, and a 'multi-layered and hybrid' city, on the other, trying to preserve its historical, natural and cultural values. This kind of rapid change in social, cultural and technological developments in the contemporary and pluralistic world has also necessitated a change in the focus of architectural studies. Consequently, it becomes essential to adjust architectural design education accordingly in order to follow these changes. From this point of view, the aim of this paper is to discuss design approaches in architectural design studios applied by the authors, for the studios 401 during 2015-2018 terms at faculty of architecture and design, özyegin university. The concept of "culture-space-place and context" are considered as basic components in these studios as a 'process oriented' design studio.
Sense of Place Attachment among Architectural Academic Libraries: Towards an Interactive Learning Environment
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Eman Sabry Abowardah, Manal Khalil, Mustafa Ramadan
The academic library is one of the essential places within any university campus. However, in the past few years academic libraries are facing many challenges in meeting students’ needs due to the transformations in information and technology commons. While academic library spaces are physically transforming through this shift, the conceptualization of library for many students is still as an information repository. Therefore, the design of architecture school library should go with the new teaching and learning strategies through providing multifunction spaces that support a wide range of users’ learning and research activities. Based on the literature review for architecture library design studies, this paper propose an analytical framework that can contribute to create the sense of place attachment among students in architecture library design. The study implements analytical and quantitative research methodologies. The analytical strategy aims to analyse one of the best practices for planning libraries in architecture and art schools. It will be analysed based on the proposed analytical framework to examine its effectiveness, and to measure the usage efficiency of the academic library in architectural schools in order to promote an effective place attachment. Then we draw on quantitative methodology with a questionnaire for architecture students in three different architectural schools in Riyadh to investigate their needs and expectations from the architectural library. In order to reflect the influence of library design on users’ attraction and exceeding students’ place attachment. From the two research methods, the study reaches an integrated model for an interactive architecture library.
The Project Level Implementation of Design Standardizations in Residential Building Designs in China: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Zhou Fang, Patrick s. w. Fong
In the past twenty years, the real estate industry in China has experienced significant development. The industry both supports and relies on the urbanization process of China. For property developers, this rapid development comes with both opportunities and challenges. Under these circumstances, design standardizations have been widely adopted by developers in the residential building design and design management processes since the early 2000s. Previous researches have examined the use of design standardizations at the organization and societal levels, for example, the developers' aims, approaches, benefits, and problems of the use of design standardizations, the developers' preparation and application processes of the use of design standardization. Limited researches have focused on perspectives of design managers and other stakeholders. Therefore, this researcher has adopted an in-depth interview approach and has conducted eleven interviews with participants of a rich combination of background. The analytical method is inductive coding and the anaytical tool is MAXQDA. The findings include a summary of stakeholders' insights on the initiation and adoption of design standardizations, stakeholders' understandings on the pros and cons of the use of design standardization at individual, organization, and societal levels, the stakeholders' estimations on the overall degree of the use of standardized designs, and stakeholders' evaluations on the past use of design standardizations and stakeholders' expectations on the future use of design standardizations.
