Recently added articles from Architectural Science Review:
Towards an environmental psychology of workspace: how people are affected by environments for work.(Invited Review Paper)(Report)
Jun 01, 2008; Vischer, Jacqueline C. ... Abstract: Inquiry into how people experience environmental conditions at work is a growing area of study. Until the 1980s, there was insufficient research on 'workspaces' -and on office environments in particular--to warrant review. Since that time, the range and number of studies of ...
The development of transparent water storage envelopes (TWSE) through theoretical thermal and optical analyses.(Report)
Jun 01, 2008; Xiangfeng, Liu ... Abstract: A Transparent Water Storage Envelope (TWSE) is an innovative curtain wall system being developed to improve the overall energy efficiency of commercial buildings by means of minimizing the cooling load in summer and heat loss in winter as well as remaining transparent for ...
Analysis of embodied energy requirements for natural dimensioned stone production in Jordan.(Technical report)
Jun 01, 2008; Alshboul, Abdulsalam A. ... Abstract: Due to high costs in the building industry, this research focuses on tracking the manufacturing processes of natural stone including quarrying, transportation, sawing, and finishing. The study investigated the local conditions for embodied energy estimation in Jordan. Of 52 ...
Space planning and energy efficiency in office buildings: the role of spatial and temporal diversity.(Technical report)
Jun 01, 2008; Musau, Filbert ... Abstract: This research investigates the impact on energy use of the different ways in which office spaces can be organised and used. It explores typical UK office layouts, utilisation densities and intensities on a good practice-base case shell. This is achieved using the TAS, Lightscape ...
Factors affecting baseline productivity in masonry construction: A comparative study in the US, UK and Jordan.(Technical report)
Jun 01, 2008; Sweis, Ghaleb J. ... Abstract: This paper presents a comparative study of masonry construction productivity among three countries, namely United States, United Kingdom, and Jordan. It aims at quantifying factors that cause significant changes in baseline productivity. This is done by theoretically reviewing, ...
The effect of consistency between type and style on evaluative responses to mosques and non-religious buildings.(Technical report)
Jun 01, 2008; Abu-Obeid, Natheer ... Abstract: This paper adopts the concept of schema as a framework within which architectural style, building type, and cultural association interact as a system of environmental experience. Any discrepancy in this system of experience in considered a form of inconsistency in the mental ...
Width or height? Which has the strongest impact on the size impression of rooms? Results from full-scale studies and computer simulations.(Technical report)
Jun 01, 2008; Matusiak, Barbara ... Abstract: Full-scale studies of small rooms were conducted to find out whether width or height has a stronger influence on the size impression of the room. The study also investigated whether this question can be answered using computer simulation. Two simulation programs were used in the ...
Implementing a buildability assessment model for buildability improvement.(Technical report)
Jun 01, 2008; Patrick T.I. ... Abstract: In view of the need to improve the buildability of building designs pursuant to an industry-wide study, a Buildability Assessment Model (BAM) has been developed for use in Hong Kong by adapting the Buildable Design Appraisal System of Singapore. This paper is aimed at evaluating ...
Recent Doctoral Dissertations and Theses: Computer Aided Design of Climate Responsive Dwelling (Roof) in the Climatic and Technological Contexts of India and Australia.(Technical report)
Jun 01, 2008 ... Abstract: This thesis presents the form, development, and application of generation and optimization concepts as a new computer-aided design model for the design of dwelling roofs in warm-humid tropics. Generation is utilized to produce a range of feasible design solutions and optimization ...
Construction History: Book Review Essay (1).(Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering and Construction)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Smith, Peter R. ... 4585 Building: 3000 Years of Design, Engineering and Construction, by Bill Addis. Phaidon Press, Regents Wharf, All Saints Street, London N1 9PA, UK, 2007. Hardback, 640 pp., illust., index. Price: [pounds sterling]45.00. This important book covers, as the title ...
A Century of Change in Pictures.(Sydney Then and Now)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Smith, Peter R. ... 4586 Sydney Then and Now, by Caroline Mackaness and Caroline Butler-Bowdon. Cameron House, an imprint of Bookwise International, 174 Cormack Road, Wingfield South Australia 5013, 2007. Produced by Salamander Books, an imprint of Anova Books Company Ltd., 151 Freston Road, ...
Designing a 21st Century Campus.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Becker, Franklin ... 4587 Imagining MIT: Designing a Campus for the Twenty-First Century, by William J. Mitchell. The MIT Press, 55 Hayward St., Cambridge, MA 02412, USA, 2007. 142pp., illus., index. Price US$ 24.95. With the changes that are occurring in higher education driven by new ...
Corrugated Iron.(Corrugated Iron: Building on the Frontier)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Holland, Graham E. ... 4588 This book is about the worldwide use of corrugated iron. The authors are a writer on architecture and an engineer specialising in building conservation. It describes its beginnings in early nineteenth century Britain and its rapid geographical spread, aided by British ...
The skyscraper and the City.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; King, Ross ... 4589 The Skyscraper and the City: Design, Technology, and Innovation, by Lynn S. Beedle, Mir M. Ali, and Paul J. Armstrong. Edwin Mellen Press, PO Box 450 Lewiston NY 14092-0450, 2007. Two volumes, 774 pp., illus. Price US$ 179.95 Hbk. Lynn S. Beedle is accredited ...
New European Hospitals.(Hospital Architecture)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Coffin, Christie Johnson ... 4590 Hospital Architecture, by Christine Nickl-Weller and Hans Nickl (Eds.). Verlagshaus Braun, Rosenthalerstr. 37, D-10178, Berlin, Germany, 2007. 352pp., illus., index. Price [euro]49.90 Technical University of Berlin's Christine Nickl-Weller and Hans Nickl's new ...
Vertical Garden.(Vertical Gardens: Bringing the City to Life)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Hua, Ying ... 4591 Vertical Gardens: Bringing the City to Life, by Anna Lambertin and J Leenhardt. Thames and Hudson, 44 Clockhouse Road, Farnborough Hampshire GUM 7QZ, UK, 2007. 240pp., illus. Price [pound]39.93 As the ecological well-being of urban environment catches more and ...
Richard Roger.(Architecture of the Future: Richard Rogers)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Johnson, Andrew ... 4592 Architecture of the Future: Richard Rogers, by Kenneth Powell, ed. Robert Torday. Birkhauser Verlag, PO Box 133, CH-4010 Basel, Switzerland 2006. 520pp., illus., index. Price [euro]39.90 Kenneth Powell is an architectural journalist, author, and Honorary Fellow ...
Public Convenience.(Inclusive Urban Design: Public Toilets)(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Moore, Gary T. ... 4593 Inclusive urban design: public toilets, by Clara Greed. Architectural Press, an imprint of Elsevier, Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford 0X2 8DP, England, 2003. 361 pp., illus., index. Price: $Aus 115.50 pbk. In a previous review, I paraphrased Constantine ...
Conserving Roman Mosaics.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Smith, Peter R. ... 4594 Stories in Stone: Conserving Mosaics of Roman Africa, edited by Aicha Ben Amed. J Paul Getty Museum and Getty Conservation Institute, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles CA 90049-1679, USA, 2006. 188pp., illus., index. Price US$ 75.00 Hbk. This elaborately ...