In sensing architecture

I am changing the direction of my thesis due to a weekend trip to Toronto, where I questioned how do we experience the city, architecture. Partly because I took the trip with a medical researcher working at a Cornell Laboratory, where I learned about the sensors of the body from a chemical biology point of view.

I am arguing that your eyes can fool you, what is the state of being? What is the purpose of architecture but to create shelter, and all experiences arrise from that.

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THE PROCESS

IDENTIFY THE ISSUE

STUDY PEOPLE

PROJECT SCOPE

RESEARCH

PRESENT SOLUTIONS

THESIS DESIGN

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After last discussion I feel the need to give my thesis more focus.

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Today’s urban built environments fragment the components of personal life. Better architecture can rectify this vulnerability living in our society by implmenting efficient urban planning, sustainable architecture, and legislative control over real estate.

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• The death of cities are due to the fragmentation of living and working components of our life. People no longer live close to where they work, yet the need to earn an income is great, so most people choose to commute to work.  This action created huge ineffciencies in a person's limited days of life, and the infrastructure built to support the commute and the energy exhausted in transportation emit large amount of CO2.
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• Due to the progress of climate control system in buildings, a vital component of personal life - the access to nature is completely severed off. Side effects from sealing inside an enclosed space include sick building syndrome, energy waste due to inefficient thermal performance of buildings and lowered quality of life. Urban environments must have better access to nature.
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• To rectify this vulnerability, first, I propose people to live where they work this will decrease the time and energy wasted in commute; second, improve the quality of urban environment, meaning living in a pollution free, crime free and inspiring city; third, create better envelope for buildings to lower energy consumption and decrease urban heat island effect; lastly, people must be able to afford the price to live close to where they work, this can be achieved by regulation on housing prices.

Experience

21st century architect

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A study of the contradiction between the user’s perception about architecture and the architect’s intention.
      

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•    How successful is it for architects to anticipate, predict user’s perception and experience in built environments.
•    Investigate the area of separation between architects and users.
•    What are the capabilities of roles in architectural design and latter performance?



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1.    Architecture is meaningless if without of participation of users, then users perception should dictate the creation of architecture.
2.    Architecture therefore is about user’s perception, furthermore an architect must be aware of the users’ limitation on stellar concepts.
3.    Architects are sometimes trapped in their own minds; therefore tend to manufacture ideas out of their own perspective that’s disconnected with the user public.
4.    Users perceive the building beyond the basis of form and function, and adds more personal emotion to a space.
5.    Users go through a learning process when experiencing a building, and this initial learning experience will judge the perception of the architecture.
6.    Users of one building have a huge wide variety of socio background,  how should architects treat this over complexity of demand, or ignore it.
7.    Architects with innovative ideas, designs and proposals must also be based on the acceptance of users, but at the same time challenge/enthrall the user’s senses.
8.    Architects can possibly drastically improve the energy efficiency in buildings when they are informative to their users on the inner workings of the building.
9.    Users will experience a high quality of life and improved efficiency in a building jointly designed by the architects and users. Who is the architect? The user? or the architect? or both?