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Human-centered design in context of architecture. New Input.

By anna.kulik@iaac.net | Published: December 24, 2011

Abstract

Research considers the term of Human-centered Design in context of architecture. Essentially this term is used in context of product design, it was invented for that context. One of the main features of it is concentration in people’s needs, minds. Design, oriented to people. Design, which involves them in, as a factor of influence. Concentration less on an object of design, but on its parameters, and the most important of the parameters is human.

In context of architecture this term can have even more output, different perspectives and variable decisions. How to understand and simulate the human-mind factor and include it in the container of standard functions for a building, open space or architecture in general? And how to invent a new kind of “architectural program” or “architectural concept”, which contains functions, based on analysis of peoples needs primarily and thinking of the ensuing influence on architectural expression?

Focusing on “the architectural program” in a critical approach to traditional conceptions of architectural programs (based on functionalism), and confront to emergent programs in architecture, that may be able to capture dynamic input, fluctuating flows may allow a tremendous shift on the way spaces are designed and used.

Bibliographic References

Deleuze, Gilles. 1980: Thousand plateaus, “Body without Organs”
Sullivan, Louis. 1896: The tall office building, artistically considered
De Landa, Manuel. 2002: On Deleuze’s “Body without Organs”
GE Healthcare global design. 2011. Adventure series

http://www.gehealthcare.com/promo/advseries/adventure_series.html

GE Healthcare global design. 2011. Children MR scanner designs.

http://www.gereports.com/creativity-and-design-meet-healthcare-top-insights-from-the-mayo-clinics-transform-conference/

Brown, Tim. 2009: Open lecture. London Oxford

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/tim_brown_urges_designers_to_think_big.html

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Smart Cities to Smart Indian Villages

By inder.shergill | Published: December 24, 2011
India being a developing country is growing economically at a rapid pace. This growth is manly
seen in Urban India, but majority of the people in rural India still have to struggle for their basic needs.
Due to the lack of economic gain in villages people are migrating to big cities in hope for a better
future, but ultimately not being skilled these people have to live a hard life in the cities
and tend to get involved in criminal activities increasing the crime rate of the cities. Intersate
and cross-state migrations are effecting the growth of the cities and of the country.
Poor planning strategies have led to a large amount of resources being wasted on
infrastructure that is not actually helping the villages. Most of the time is spent on
assumptions and planning wrong things at the wrong place e.g. setting up a school in a
region least accessible for the villages.
The aim of the paper is to see the techniques implemented in smart cities like real time
data collection, data management, optimization of resources, using the technology in
connecting the people together and providing data so that the city behaves and functions
like one body. Using such strategies in context with the rural environment and to observe
if such strategies make a difference, as the success of these strategies would not only
affect the villages but affect the country as a whole.
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Unexpected Ugly Mutation is a New Start…

By ahmed.derhalli | Published: December 24, 2011

This essay is a notional approach to define the emergence of the mutated entities, It’s an approach to understand the impact of time on the genesis of matter. The materialization of complex  compositions in the natural and social systems. The composed layers of spontaneous selection occurred on the living organisms and living contexts. If we conceive time as real parameter in morphogenesis, how it can change the genesis of forms (design approaches)? What make a singular object emerge in time? And where these entities come from? What it’s relation to matter? An attempt in this paper to observe  time flow effect on matter and its milieu and to approach this architectural mystery.

This study aim is to define the characteristics of the mutation event and to search for its incarnation in contemporary architectural models. The emergence of self organization environments is an explicit paradigm of singular morphogenesis. Also a further study to refugee camps can proof the pregnancy of possibilities and virtual which can be actualized in time.

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Stability VS Evolution

By Alejandro Nunez | Published: December 23, 2011

The greatest challenge that we as architects will face throughout our professional practice shall be to persuade our clients, and sometimes, even ourselves that the easiest solution is not always the right one, to think on the architecture far beyond of the simple design of that beautiful isolated inert object, and start thinking of it as the development of components implicit in a much larger structure, that we could call reality; and a very complex reality, with multiple layers and connections.

We could even come to think that maybe the direct effect of this component in the whole is not very significant, but we must always keep in mind that regardless of the scale, this component could eventually redefine its context, and always represent an opportunity to generate an example, a prototype of a next step in the evolution of our field, step that we will define and from which will be responsible.

How do animals perceive their material environments? This question is intimately related to another one: what opportunities for action are supplied to an animal by its environment? 
(DeLanda, Manuel. March 2007).

Image: kurtfrench.tumblr.com

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ENHANCING SLUMS SPRAWL IN CAIRO

By hunia.tomoum | Published: December 22, 2011

This paper targets the growth of informal urbanism in Cairo. Informal settlements in Cairo tend to have a chaotic organization which in most cases lack safety and security. Slums have their own cultural protocols than the rest of Cairo; where urban pattern emerges from the collective formation of each individual, this process can be referred to as the machinic phylum.  The objective is to understand the slums’ chaotic growth pattern and employ it, to cross the line from criminal introverted urban areas to the warm safely protected areas.

The proposal is to generate a process for the slums’ growth by breeding the slums’ own cultural and urban protocols –  in this proposal the focus will be on “Participation and the compactness of the built forms” [1] – with nature’s equations of growth in a system that coordinates the constant changes according to inhabitants behavior and context which may vary from Agricultural, desert or mountainous land.

[1] Shehayeb. 2009 : Advantages of Living in Informal Areas

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