Posters
A Basic Study of Biomimicry in an Architectural Environment: With a Focus on Energy Conservation in Buildings
Poster/Exhibit Session Young-Hoon Byun, Jun Yong Choi, Ri Ryu, Yong Seong Kim
In light of the various environmental and humanitarian issues concerning population growth, atmospheric pollution, and the depletion of resources brought on by the fast-paced economic growth of today’s urban environment, various attempts have been made to find solutions to address such issues. Recently, biomimicry, or, the application of the forms, functions, and principles of lifeforms and ecosystems found in nature, has been used in the development of various products or design processes in a wide range of applications across various fields of study. The field of architecture is no exception. That is, the number of cases in which the forms, structures, functions, and mechanisms of life are applied to systems and processes via biomimicry to enhance the efficiency of buildings is gradually increasing. In light of this, basic research with the aim of building an architectural environment focused on conserving energy by means of applying biomimicry was to be established. To achieve this purpose, cases of biomimicry in architecture were studied to propose an architectural environment that applies biomimicry to conserve energy through the analysis of the characteristics and application methodologies of biomimicry to architectural practices.
A Basic Study on the Design of Architectural Spaces through Feng-Shui: Apartment Complex Planning through the Yin-Yang and Five Elements Theories
Poster/Exhibit Session Dujin Song
Feng-Shui refers to a field of study that enhances the quality of urban spaces through the study of the living spaces of humans and nature based on the Yin-Yang and Five Elements Theories. By establishing the theoretical grounds to apply the Yin-Yang and Five Elements Theories to architectural spaces, the possibility of forming environmentally friendly urban spaces through the flow of energy can be applied. In doing so, this study specified the link between Feng-Shui and the formation of architectural spaces by examining the theories of Feng-Shui. Based on this examination, this study aimed to establish the basic research materials on Feng-Shui-applied plans for apartment complex planning practices in the future.
A Study of Architectural Forms Applying Fractal Structures for the Realization of Environmentally Friendly Architecture: With a Focus on Building Envelopes Applied with Natural Forms of Fractal Structures
Poster/Exhibit Session Ji Weon Kim, Hye Eun Lee, Yong Seong Kim, Ri Ryu
Various methods of harmonizing artificial environments with natural environments are being proposed to establish nature-friendly buildings in modern cities. One such method, which concerns the application of ‘fractal structures’ found in nature to building envelopes, is becoming recognized as a means of applying an environmentally friendly building envelope. This particular method does not concern the application of simple fractal structures but rather the application of environmentally friendly envelopes via methods of creating building forms. In light of this, this study examined the applications of ‘fractals’ - structures that geometrically embody the concept of self-similarity in which a small structure endlessly repeats itself in a similar form to the entire structure. The purpose of the study focus was to establish basic research materials used to realize environmentally friendly building envelopes that harmonize artificial environments with natural environments. This harmony would be achieved through fractal structures having self-similarity and cyclical properties and entailing a simple structure that repeats endlessly. This study first examined the theories of ‘fractal structures’ and the means of expressing building envelopes. Second, cases of building envelopes that apply fractal structures were studied to analyze their environmentally friendly characteristics. As a building envelope that responds to the environment in consideration of the current urban problems associated with abrupt climate shift, the application of fractal structures is expected to give rise to an environmentally friendly architectural form that maintains balance with its external environment, conserves energy, and is nature-friendly.
A Basic Study on the Characteristics of Complex Planning According to an Analysis of Complex Plans by Each Generation of Brand Apartments
Poster/Exhibit Session Kwangjin Lee
In the past, apartments in South Korea were built to respond to housing demands in densely populated areas. Accordingly, the Mapo Apartments were built as the first apartment complex of South Korea during the early 1960s. In addition, despite the housing market having been developed as a supplier-centered market driven by sufficient demand, the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis resulted in the housing market bubble to subside and introduced greater demands for change. This resulted in the reorganization of the housing markets, which became centered on consumers. Thereafter, apartments in the housing market shifted from supplier-centered apartments to consumer-centered apartments. Moreover, large construction companies delivered effective brand communication by branding apartments via the differentiation of their unique planning elements. In light of this, this study aimed to establish basic research materials regarding the essential elements requirements to be selected when planning apartment complexes that fit the demands of the times. Basic research materials were established by analyzing the factors that induced changes in the planning of brand apartment complexes by each generation and by examining the correlations of apartment complex planning according to the times.
Quantification of Order in 2D Shapes
Poster/Exhibit Session Takeo Kato
Recently, designing by computer, such as Generative design, has become common and gained attention. One of the most difficult things for the computer is to evaluate the developed design like a human. This study is a preliminary stage to construct the quantitative index to objectively evaluate “beauty” and “preference” of the 2D/3D shape and aims to construct an index of the “order”, which is an important factor to evaluate “beauty” and “preference” of the 2D shape. This study focuses on the curvature of the shapes and proposes the index of “order” using the curvature function and their autocorrelation function. To confirm the effectiveness of the proposed index, we conducted the experiment using the 90 shapes used in Burkhof’s study and confirmed the correlation between the sensory evaluation value and proposed index (the coefficient of determination exceeds 0.70). Additionally, we developed the proposed index of “oreder” into that of “beauty” by adding the index of “complexity” on the basis of the Burkhof and Eyzenck equations and conducted the additional experiment. As a result, the coefficient of determination was slightly decreased but exceeded 0.50, and the correlation between the developed index and sensory evaluation value was confirmed.
Analysis of Service Design with Complicated Inclusion of Users Through Participatory Ethnographic Tools: Translation of Visual Data for the Reality of Team Ethnography
Poster/Exhibit Session Kae Hirose, Daijiro Mizuno
This practice-research aims to develop tools to analyze the service situation with multi-stakeholders. For the development or improvement of services, reflecting on the appeal of the design, what serves the user well or not, how the user is using the service is necessary. Typically, this process adopts the experts-oriented methods such as doing by ethnographers. However, thanks to the variety of technological tools (360-degree camera, action camera), which have been increasingly becoming more readily available and affordable, the observation method, especially in terms of gathering and generating visual data, has seen very innovative changes. Visual data can involve many stakeholders, to get their point of view. For this research, we aim to build tools for best suitable for utilizing this new technology in ethnographic research for service design. The investigation subject of this project is the beer-shop where located Iwate, Japan. The shop serves only beers but causing complex customer journey by the environment, it is hard to capture their motion by a single researcher's eye. Specifically, in the phase of generation of visual data, we use the 360-degree camera in particular. Moreover, during the phase of examining the analysis method, we open dialogue with designers, users, and non-designers of various backgrounds who didn't visit Iwate through "annotation tools". In other words, developing a tool for the “team ethnography”. Finally, we compare with it the points of view generated from each participant. Discussing the semantic generation from visual data created by participatory tools.
An Evaluation Model of the Sense of the Presence in Online Reality Environment
Poster/Exhibit Session Youngil Cho, Sai Lakshmi Gopal
VR (Online Reality) is regarded as an effective method for information communication and its application is widely increasing in the respective field in design. However, the influence of the correlation between perceptual information such as visual, olfaction, tactile, etc. constituting VR on the sense of presence is still unclear. The present research aims to verify the value of an evaluation model of perceptual information. It verifies the current state of cross-modal interactions (for example, modality of multiple sensory modalities such as visual sense and olfactory sense) in a VR environment. The evaluation model allows estimating the effectiveness of the perceptual information obtained from the cross-modal interactions that occur within the VR environment.
Designing Locally Appropriate All Terrain Vehicles: An Educational Experiment
Poster/Exhibit Session Svetlana Usenyuk-Kravchuk, Maria Pokataeva, Natalia Dedevich, Nikolai Garin
The series of three posters presents projects of BA students of Arctic Design School, Russia, on developing locally appropriate all terrain vehicles (ATVs) for remote roadless areas of the Russian North. In these project, design proposals are built upon existing vehicles invented by local makers and users from the region under study. Through remote cooperation with users/makers, design students explore the very meaning of the environmental and social context in inventing and adopting entirely new kinds of transport. Finally, the students reflect on how design professionals can contribute to the development of ethically and aesthetically appropriate solutions, which can be integrated into local knowledge networks, while respecting existing actors and patterns of use.
