Use Resourceful Architecture Techniques to “Pre-Experience” Design for the Senses
What do you do when your architectural design tool won’t allow you to test your design for the senses? How do you know that you are creating the best design for your future building occupants? What architecture techniques will you use?
As Architectural Technology Does More, Will Occupants Like Doing Less?
As architectural technology gains greater capability to do more, will occupants like doing less? Well, I think much of the debate revolves around two issues: control and privacy.
How Mobile Technology Will Augment Physical Space
As more and more technologies converge into smaller and more mobile devices, the spaces that we build are being understood and perceived in entirely new ways.
Strategy: During Design Concept Formation Consider Design Alignment
When preparing your design concept, do you ever look beyond your site to study nearby design alignments? As the image above shows, architectural design alignment can be visual as the obelisque visually connects with the Eiffel Tower.
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Use Resourceful Architecture Techniques to “Pre-Experience” Design for the Senses
Image: Hans_van_Rijnberk | Flickr What do you do when your architectural design tool won’t allow you to test your design for the senses? How do you know that you are creating the best design for your future building occupants? [...]
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Strategy: Remember to Layer Design Form to Direct Your Occupant’s Attention
When you design architecture, are you aware of the visual layers which you create? Now, rarely is a work of architecture viewed in pure elevation in the real world — so studying the three-dimensional layering within your design could result in some amazing effects.
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As Architectural Technology Does More, Will Occupants Like Doing Less?
As architectural technology gains greater capability to do more, will occupants like doing less? Well, I think much of the debate revolves around two issues: control and privacy. And when these two issues are dealt with correctly, technology can [...]
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How Mobile Technology Will Augment Physical Space
As more and more technologies converge into smaller and more mobile devices, the spaces that we build are being understood and perceived in entirely new ways. In fact, when a person experiences a physical space with a mobile device, [...]
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Enroll Now! The ArchiSensing Design Lab is Open!
The doors to the ArchiSensing Design Lab course are now open. So, act fast to claim your seat for this online architectural design course which will teach you more in-depth about many of the topics covered on Sensing Architecture.
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Inject Reward into Architectural Design to Promote Occupant Activities
As a person works to achieve their goal, they often will encounter milestones along the way. And at these milestones it becomes important for them to assess how they are doing. Are they behind where they should be at [...]
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Can Building Feedback Help to Increase Positive Occupant Behaviors?
If a building can provide real-time feedback to assist with promoting positive behaviors, do you think it would be a good idea to design such a building? You see, the implications to designing such a building are many. For [...]
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Will You Join the ArchiSensing Design Lab?
I am thrilled to be launching the ArchiSensing Design Lab within the next month — that means that this online architectural design course’s doors will be opening very soon. So, if you’re interested in taking the course, you need to sign up for the early notification list today.
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Strategy: Know What Your Occupants Perceive When They Look Around
As you design your architecture, notice not only the common vantage points, where your occupants look straight ahead as they travel through your building, but also vantage points like when they look upward.
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How A Transient Building Skin Can Engage Community
Building skin has the power to hide and protect while also serving to display and reveal. And in particular, building skin that is transient takes on the ability to do all of these things. For example, the Danish Radio [...]
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Strategy: Understand How to Design With Building Proximity In Mind
When you design your architecture, give attention to the way you engage neighboring buildings. Pay attention to the proximity between your building and theirs, and find ways to respond — whether by using contrast, juxtaposition, or paralleling.
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Top 7 Reasons Why Mobile Architecture Can Leave a Permanent Positive Mark
The experience of mobile architecture can be quite a powerful thing. Take for instance the BMW Guggenheim Laboratory that was constructed in New York — there, on a rather small lot, this lab was assembled to serve as think-tank [...]
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How Smart Windows Can Improve or Destroy Your Architectural Design
Samsung has come out with a transparent smart window, and I think it will be interesting to see how this impacts architectural design. You see, such a smart window provides much added functionality — particularly if certain apps get [...]
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Why Designing for Occupant Choice is Important in Architectural Design
Within architecture, there are many places where occupant choice surfaces. Every time an occupant makes a decision on where to go, what to focus on, or what to feel — they are interacting with your architecture, and making decisions [...]
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Why Architecture Can Make a Positive Difference in an Occupant’s Life
Architecture surrounds occupants, it engages them, and it guides them. A well designed work can make an experience brighter, livelier, happier, and more meaningful. So, why are so many buildings today designed at the status quo, where they are [...]
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Strategy: Have Your Design Answer to Scale
When you design architecture, how do you think about scale? Is it something that you simply understand intuitively, where you design for it on the fly? Or do you try to make statements with your architecture about scale?
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A Formula to Make Your Occupant’s Architectural Memories Last
Did you know that there is memory bias? That is, memory can be changed, boosted, or impaired. So, if this is the case: What makes building occupants form stronger architectural memories than others? Well, according to a Memory Bias [...]
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Communicating Building Value Early-On May Boost Occupant Enjoyment
A recent study was done, mentioned in The Economist article entitled Pricing and the Brain: Hitting the Spot, where actual changes within the brain occur that substantiate this: If told something is more valuable, then a person actually enjoys [...]
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Strategy: Use Transparency with Form to Play with Light in New Ways
Within most buildings, transparency manifests through typical windows and skylights that occur throughout the building. Yes, they let in light — but are they really a “sculptural” part of the architecture? You might ask: How much do these fenestrations contribute to the interior space…
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Strategy: Give Attention to the Way You Transition Between Architectural Elements
The transition that exists between your different architectural elements can really help to guide your occupant’s gaze (visual attention) as they scope out your work. You see, perception is really an act of exploring — and when you guide your occupants to explore within your work…
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Future Outlook for 2012 + Happy New Year!
The year 2011 has proven to be a great year for Sensing Architecture. Traffic has grown by approximately 30% in 2011, and there are now approximately 4,600 subscribers who have joined the Sensing Architecture community!
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Can Occupant Skin Push Important Information Through to Optimize Building Performance?
Until now, I’ve written much about how clothing worn by occupants can act as sensors which collect data about their activities and functions in real time. Such data can be transmitted through to the building to further optimize its [...]
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Using Sensory Design with Tracking Technologies to Promote Health
Lately, many technologies are surfacing that help with the tracking of a person’s physiological signals for health. Such a technology is sleep tracking technology which monitors heart rate, movement, and breathing. So, when a person lies in bed sleeping, [...]
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Invoked Computing Objects Help Architecture Improve Its Nervous System
“Invoked computing” is a term being used to describe how everyday objects can gain mega-functionality by having computer functions applied to them. These developments predict a world where there are no location-specific computers like we have today, but where [...]
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