Mapping The Actual-Virtual in Architecture Exhibition

This study aims to identify, map, and reflect on actual-virtual relations in architectural design practices. Virtuality is more than just a discourse of technology. Virtuality is an attempt to realize unlimited possibilities. This study uses the context of the Venice Architecture Biennale (2021) exhibition with the theme How Will We Live Together? to illustrate various possibilities of space construction through the actual-virtual framework. The identification of actual-virtual is performed by qualitatively decomposing the case studies of 60 pavilions. The analysis is carried out by drawing and retracing the data for each pavilion to discover various actual-virtual instruments, operations, and relations in the exhibition. Reflection on the actual-virtual concept that traverses multiple dimensions of space and time, becomes the basis for seeing actual-virtual as a potential. This study reveals various types of actual-virtual operations and relations in the context of architectural exhibitions. The connection between origin and execution in exhibitions parallels the actualvirtual relational framework. Disassembling the case study also demonstrates the actual-virtual possibility as a design instrument that connects multidimensional space and time. This study offers to deliver another perspective on actual-virtual relations in architecture. This study expands the actual-virtual abstract and conceptual discourse into more practical and operative perspectives. The findings demonstrate the possibility of broadening design knowledge based on an actual-virtual relational framework in an architectural context

What Can You Do with Boxes? Constructing Boxes and their Surfaces into a Spatial System to Support Creative Learning

This paper addresses the challenges in developing design ideas of learning environment for primary school children that could promote creativity. In particular it illustrates how the boxes as simple three dimensional objects could be constructed into a system that offers various possibilities of utilization for learning activities. The possible arrangements of boxes and the possible utilization of their surfaces were investigated through a series of creative workshop with children, in which they explored different ways of constructing the arrangement of boxes and using them for their activities. The possibilities offered by the arrangement of boxes and their surfaces indicate the importance of understanding the presence of objects in space not as an independent entity but as a part of the whole spatial system. It suggests that learning environment essentially needs to be designed as an integrated system of learning spaces and objects that together could promote creative learning

TRACING THE EVOLUTION OF LIGHTING IN ARCHITECTURE

The role of light has been studied, examined, and analyzed for the built environment from ancient times. The methodology was conducted by literature review and precedents study to determine shifts in viewpoints that become the basis of architectural lighting design practice. This paper will discuss four evolution viewpoints but understanding the sky with its properties is the first step before moving forward. The first evolution will focus on light's role from perception to narration; the second one will examine light from the point of development of aperture to performance; the third will investigate light from material to immaterial with a particular focus on light's immateriality from the point of view of J.J. Gibson, and the last part will have an overview of light's purpose from quantitative value to its contemplative tranquillity. All four evolutions will provide broad strokes from one extreme to the other to highlight the shift of lighting knowledge and applications

Understanding Wayfinding Experience of Hospital Visitor through Tours and Maps Analysis

This paper proposes a spatial narrative approach in understanding the wayfinding spatial experience of hospital visitors in a building environment. Narrative actions involved in wayfinding journeys are explored and analysed using tours and maps reading (de Certeau, 1984) as analysis tools. The study aims at gaining an understanding of how wayfinding spatial experience of visitors is organized. This study reveals that wayfinding consists of both itinerary and spatial knowledge that always relate to and influence each other. Understanding hospital visitors’ wayfinding spatial experience comprehensively can expand our knowledge for designing a supportive healthcare facility’s  environment

Live Beyond Buildings: The street as the everyday living space in Istanbul, Turkey

This paper attempts to reveal the importance of the everyday temporal living space on the street as the agency to improve the quality of life in the city. The temporal living space is the collective public space that is produced by the local inhabitants as the response to fulfil their sociocultural needs. This study employed time-based behavioural and spatial mappings to reveal how spatial alteration was employed by the locals, producing the particular spatial programming and atmospheres that allowed the interiorization of the street. The mappings would also reveal how the interaction of the local inhabitants within this temporal living space had impacts on the general wellbeing and the spatial identity of the city. The findings of this study were translated into an interior architectural design exercise, by developing design methods that were adopted from the locals’ spatial mechanisms in producing their temporal outdoor living spaces

Architecture as machine; Towards an architectural system for human well-being

[EN] Le Corbusier’s well-known phrase ‘The house is a machine for living in’ suggested a kind of machinic aesthetic that became an important concept behind the functionality, standardization and rational order that together laid the foundation of modern architecture. This paper attempts to expand on Le Corbusier's idea of machine by particularly examining architecture as a machinic system and how it could potentially depict spatial qualities that fulfill their functional purpose for human well-being. The idea of machine became a way to introduce scientific and logical reasoning as the basis of designing architecture through the establishment of standards. There were, however, some criticisms against the idea of machine since it tends to dehumanize, by assuming that human being had the same basic needs that could be standardized. This paper attempts to highlight that the establishment of standard becomes necessary, not in generating standard architectural forms but in defining the performance standard of architecture for human well-being[ES] Conocida frase de Le Corbusier ‘The house is a machine for living in’sugiere una especie de estética maquínica que se convirtió en un concepto importante detrás de la funcionalidad, la normalización y el orden racional que juntos sentó las bases de la arquitectura moderna. En este trabajo se intenta ampliar la idea de Le Corbusier de máquina en particular examinar la arquitectura como un sistema maquínico y cómo se podría llegar a representar cualidades espaciales que cumplan su propósito funcional para el bienestar humano. La idea de la máquina se convirtió en una forma de introducir el razonamiento científico y lógico como base de diseño la arquitectura a través del establecimiento de normas. Hubo, sin embargo, algunas críticas contra la idea de la máquina, ya que tiende a deshumanizar, asumiendo que el ser humano tenía las mismas necesidades básicas que podrían ser estandarizados. Este trabajo trata de poner de relieve que el establecimiento de la norma hace necesario , no en la generación de formas arquitectónicas estándar, pero en la definición de la norma de rendimiento de la arquitectura para el bienestar humano.Atmodiwirjo, P.; Yatmo, Y. (2016). Architecture as machine; Towards an architectural system for human well-being. En LE CORBUSIER. 50 AÑOS DESPUÉS. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 168-177. https://doi.org/10.4995/LC2015.2015.679OCS16817

Reading the Visual Environment: Wayfinding in healthcare facilities

This paper reports an on-going project that studies how visitors search and use information from the visual environment to guide wayfinding within a healthcare facility. The execution of wayfinding task by ten participants as simulated visitors of a General Hospital in Malang, Indonesia were recorded by video camera and voice recorder. This study revealed that during wayfinding, visitors would focus on the visual environment. Visitors would search, select and use information for wayfinding by reading the environment. These results imply that the arrangement of visual environment is crucial to support wayfinding.Keywords: wayfinding; healthcare facility;visual environment; visual reading. ISSN: 2398-4287© 2017. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia

Visibility Analysis of Hospital Inpatient Ward

The objective of this study is to evaluate the performance of hospital inpatient ward spatial configuration in relation to visibility. Visibility is an important aspect in a hospital inpatient ward, and could support healthcare performance. Visibility is required in an inpatient ward for the purposes of control, surveillance, interaction and communication among patients and nurses, and it could be affected by the spatial configuration of the ward. Based on isovist as a way to visualize the visual experience in surrounding environments, we developed an analytical tool to evaluate the visibility of an inpatient ward in a planned university teaching hospital. The findings illustrate the visibility as experienced by the users in the everyday operation of the hospital ward. Some recommendations for improvement were suggested to the existing spatial configuration for better visibility

Interiority in Everyday Space: A Dialogue between Materiality and Occupation

Everyday space is a setting where ordinary acts, activities and events take place. It is interesting to examine closely how interiority is defined, understood and manifested in everyday space as a way to understand the inhabitation of the interior. The interiority of everyday space is defined not only by occupation but also through materiality. This issue of Interiority presents articles that address the relationships between interior materiality and different perceptual constructs and experiences of architectural space as inherent in the occupation of the everyday space