The concept of phenomenological architecture seeks to provide a balanced and holistic phy manifestation of explaining, describing and representing an architectural intention that places emphasis on the human experience. The human experience includes paying particu emphasis on some of the essentials which help develops an experience. Essentials such a bodily senses, memories, materiality and perception are examined. This therefore creates focus by using architecture as a catalyst in creating human experiences. In conclusion, phenomenology added with architecture does not fully explain phenomenolo architecture, but it is how architecture works and helps encourage phenomena and experie which creates pheomemological
What is Environmental Psychology? Jolie Ferguson PSY 460 August 27, 2012 What is Environmental Psychology? Environmental psychology evaluates the social interactions between human behavior and the environment. The discipline characterizes the word “environment” to include all that is natural on the earth as well as informational, built, social, and learning environments. Environmental psychologist solves problems regarding human-environment interactions, whether globular or localized, and tries to predict the environmental conditions under which humans will act in a proper and constructive demeanor.
Lean construction is a broad philosophy that has been defined in many different ways and includes a range of different approached, tools and techniques. It is defined by the Lean Construction Institute as “…the application of lean thinking to the design & construction process creating improved project delivery to meet client needs and improved efficiency for constructors”. Whilst the goals of lean construction and lean production may be similar, the approaches are necessarily different, due largely to the fact that developing a building is a ‘project’ rather than ‘programme’ (ie it has a start and end rather than an ongoing activity such as a production line) and the product is often a one off. Getting work to flow reliably and predictably on a construction site requires the impeccable alignment of the entire supply chain responsible for constructed facilities such that value is maximized and waste is minimized. With such a broad scope, it is fair to say that tools found in Lean Manufacturing and Lean Production, as practiced by Toyota and others, have been adapted to be used in the fulfillment of Lean construction principles.
When detailing is considered in a manner where expressive intentions and functional requirements are considered simultaneously within relevant context, the produced result could be seen as a solution that is remarkable in its expression of meaning, and performance of function. The form and function of detailing is produced in harmony without compromises made in favor of one. The application of details in architecture entails expression. Everything that is created has form, which naturally evokes verbalization. (Gregotti, 1983, as cited in Nesbitt, 1996).
Human geography provides the knowledge that there is a correlation between Earth’s human and physical system and its interdependence of living things and physical environment. It allows the people to have a better understanding of the world’s diversity and how we as humans can transform the natural world to make it our home. The difference between location and place can be related to objective ideas versus subjective ideas. Location is seen as an objective idea because of its fixed state; in other words, it is absolute in terms of geographic positioning through the global positioning system and can be tracked through precise coordinates. Location typically does not have a special meaning nor it is given an identity.
According to Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, its famous mantra, “form follows function,” was actually meant as a reference to how nature’s designs emerge from the creative pressures of evolution (2). This interest in using nature and science to improve architectural design grew exponentially during the little studied interlude of the Bauhaus in 1930s London. During this period, members of the Bauhaus, including Moholy-Nagy, Walter Gropius, and Herbert Bayer, began working closely with leading British ecologists, most notably Julian Huxley. Anker argues that their work with Huxley in his Political and Economic Planning
The objective of organic architecture is to allow the mind of the architect to subconsciously reinterpret the principles of nature in order to create forms; forms that collectively bring on a life of their own to generate a new kinetic relationship between interior and exterior space. For that reason, Wright believed that form and function should be considered one thing, without assuming the building is necessarily one thing as well. He believed that the needs of the client, the physical structure, furnishing, native materials, setting and environment, are some of
“It is the mastering and harnessing of natural resources for human use, accomplished by humanizing the habitat” (De Silva, 16). However,
In order to understand each environmental challenge well enough to develop viable solutions, scientists must have expertise in several disciplines of science. A well-trained environmental scientist must have mastered physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, geology, botany, and hydrogeology. Furthermore, understand the role of cultural and economic factors, as well as social and political science are vital to the success of an environmental scientist. The Earth itself is a interconnected system; parts of the system change over time. Human beings alter natural systems and have always had an impact on the environment.
Technology and scientific advances, however, brought about an awareness of the need to examine this relationbship more closely and improve it – to the advantage of both organism and environment which includes physical factors called abiotic factors. Abiotic factors are non-living chemical and physical factors or components in the biosphere, which affect ecosystems. The abiotic factors include sunlight, air, temperature, pressure, mountain slope, soil, rainfall, land drainage, and atmosphere. These environmental factors interact with one another. For example, soil can be affected by heavy rains or floods.