Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1080/00038628.2023.2224284
Naama Zur, S. Shamay-Tsoory, A. Sterkin, D. Fisher-Gewirtzman
{"title":"Perceived density and positive affect ratings of studio apartments: an EEG study","authors":"Naama Zur, S. Shamay-Tsoory, A. Sterkin, D. Fisher-Gewirtzman","doi":"10.1080/00038628.2023.2224284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00038628.2023.2224284","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47295,"journal":{"name":"Architectural Science Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44586242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-16DOI: 10.1080/00038628.2023.2223153
R. A. Mangkuto, N. Jamala, B. Paramita
{"title":"On the average horizontal illuminance in rooms with one or two point light sources","authors":"R. A. Mangkuto, N. Jamala, B. Paramita","doi":"10.1080/00038628.2023.2223153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00038628.2023.2223153","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47295,"journal":{"name":"Architectural Science Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43889681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-14DOI: 10.1080/00038628.2023.2224290
S. Jo, James R. Jones
The interest in building performance simulations has been growing due to their effectiveness in creating energy-efficient and healthier building designs. Various energy and lighting simulation tools for designers have been developed accordingly, while not many studies on airflow simulation tools are available. Moreover, building research using airflow simulations typically focuses on a single domain of design. Responding to these issues, the present study introduces airflow simulation tools and strategies for holistic architectural design processes and establishes a framework for utilizing the simulations in the early stages of design. An architectural project was selected for the investigation, and various types of simulations were conducted to find how airflow simulations interact with design processes. Based on this, a framework recommending simulation tools and strategies was proposed that may help designers understand the different characteristics of the tools and how to properly use the simulations based on the needs of each design stage.
{"title":"An immersive case study for the application of airflow simulations to architectural design","authors":"S. Jo, James R. Jones","doi":"10.1080/00038628.2023.2224290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00038628.2023.2224290","url":null,"abstract":"The interest in building performance simulations has been growing due to their effectiveness in creating energy-efficient and healthier building designs. Various energy and lighting simulation tools for designers have been developed accordingly, while not many studies on airflow simulation tools are available. Moreover, building research using airflow simulations typically focuses on a single domain of design. Responding to these issues, the present study introduces airflow simulation tools and strategies for holistic architectural design processes and establishes a framework for utilizing the simulations in the early stages of design. An architectural project was selected for the investigation, and various types of simulations were conducted to find how airflow simulations interact with design processes. Based on this, a framework recommending simulation tools and strategies was proposed that may help designers understand the different characteristics of the tools and how to properly use the simulations based on the needs of each design stage.","PeriodicalId":47295,"journal":{"name":"Architectural Science Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48844471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-13DOI: 10.1080/00038628.2023.2223183
S. Udom, S. Banihashemi, C. Lemckert
This study investigated the impact of various energy conservation measures (ECMs) on total annual electricity consumption on a single level, two-bedroom residential building in an arid climate and in a very remote area of Australia. Base case scenario of annual energy consumption profiles of the building and its existing systems were modelled and simulated using DesignBuilder software, and the results were validated by on-site measured electricity data. Two categories of ECMs (major intervention and minor intervention) were investigated and analysed. The findings show that the total annual energy consumption of the case study building can be reduced by up to 44% (2 kWh/m2·yr) when compared against the base model and measured data if selected ECMs are implemented. Significant savings from implementing selected ECMs can help alleviate the cost-of-living pressure and stress currently experienced by many households on low incomes especially for residents of very remote communities in Australia.
{"title":"Impact of energy conservation measures in residential buildings in very remote communities in Australia","authors":"S. Udom, S. Banihashemi, C. Lemckert","doi":"10.1080/00038628.2023.2223183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00038628.2023.2223183","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated the impact of various energy conservation measures (ECMs) on total annual electricity consumption on a single level, two-bedroom residential building in an arid climate and in a very remote area of Australia. Base case scenario of annual energy consumption profiles of the building and its existing systems were modelled and simulated using DesignBuilder software, and the results were validated by on-site measured electricity data. Two categories of ECMs (major intervention and minor intervention) were investigated and analysed. The findings show that the total annual energy consumption of the case study building can be reduced by up to 44% (2 kWh/m2·yr) when compared against the base model and measured data if selected ECMs are implemented. Significant savings from implementing selected ECMs can help alleviate the cost-of-living pressure and stress currently experienced by many households on low incomes especially for residents of very remote communities in Australia.","PeriodicalId":47295,"journal":{"name":"Architectural Science Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"330 - 354"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42536995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-23DOI: 10.1080/00038628.2023.2214520
A. Prieto, Tatiana Armijos-Moya, T. Konstantinou
{"title":"Renovation process challenges and barriers: addressing the communication and coordination bottlenecks in the zero-energy building renovation workflow in European residential buildings","authors":"A. Prieto, Tatiana Armijos-Moya, T. Konstantinou","doi":"10.1080/00038628.2023.2214520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00038628.2023.2214520","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47295,"journal":{"name":"Architectural Science Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49168868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-11DOI: 10.1080/00038628.2023.2209550
Bo Lin, W. Jabi, P. Corcoran, S. Lannon
{"title":"The application of deep generative models in urban form generation based on topology: a review","authors":"Bo Lin, W. Jabi, P. Corcoran, S. Lannon","doi":"10.1080/00038628.2023.2209550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00038628.2023.2209550","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47295,"journal":{"name":"Architectural Science Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43336093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1080/00038628.2023.2203696
Amir Ehsan Pouyan, A. Ghanbaran, A. Shakibamanesh
The goal of this study is maintained as the process of establishing and validating an evidence-based approach for assessing the quality of hospital’s wayfinding from an environmental standpoint and creating an evaluation tool for the building’s wayfinding performance (WP). To do this, the integrated Multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) technique was utilized to examine the independent linkages between users’ movement dynamics based on Factor Analysis and the D-ANP (Decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) based Analytical Network Process (ANP)) method. In this regard, experts gave each model’s variable a weight and a significant value. Thus, findings show that experts classified sixteen indicators into three dimensions in the proposed model: physical data (with 50% influence on building wayfinding (BW)), environmental representation data (with 33% influence on BW), and symbolic data of the environment (17% influence on BW). In validating the scheme, the findings met the case criteria, demonstrating tool’s practical feasibility.
{"title":"Evaluating building wayfinding performance in healthcare environment: a novel hybrid decision-making model","authors":"Amir Ehsan Pouyan, A. Ghanbaran, A. Shakibamanesh","doi":"10.1080/00038628.2023.2203696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00038628.2023.2203696","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of this study is maintained as the process of establishing and validating an evidence-based approach for assessing the quality of hospital’s wayfinding from an environmental standpoint and creating an evaluation tool for the building’s wayfinding performance (WP). To do this, the integrated Multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) technique was utilized to examine the independent linkages between users’ movement dynamics based on Factor Analysis and the D-ANP (Decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) based Analytical Network Process (ANP)) method. In this regard, experts gave each model’s variable a weight and a significant value. Thus, findings show that experts classified sixteen indicators into three dimensions in the proposed model: physical data (with 50% influence on building wayfinding (BW)), environmental representation data (with 33% influence on BW), and symbolic data of the environment (17% influence on BW). In validating the scheme, the findings met the case criteria, demonstrating tool’s practical feasibility.","PeriodicalId":47295,"journal":{"name":"Architectural Science Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45729833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-24DOI: 10.1080/00038628.2023.2201253
Ruth Tamas, W. O’brien, M. Santana Quintero
Smart thermostats differ significantly from traditional devices and are quickly becoming commonplace in homes. Literature demonstrates that thermostat interfaces greatly influence user interaction and related energy outcomes. Moreover, how users imagine their device to work appears to have a greater impact on usage than how the system functions. Previous work investigated manual and programmable thermostats in this context, employing user mental models (UMMs) to analyse user understanding. Since then, thermostats have developed significantly. This paper presents a novel investigation of smart thermostat UMMs. It employs contemporary methods to construct ten UMM diagrams, and three detailed case studies, contextualized with previous findings. All participants demonstrated feedback theory. Case studies highlight common misconceptions. Overall, smart thermostat UMMs appear to enable effective usage; however, some users are overwhelmed by the complexity, limiting engagement and use of features (e.g. programming).
{"title":"Evolving interaction: a qualitative investigation of user mental models for smart thermostat users","authors":"Ruth Tamas, W. O’brien, M. Santana Quintero","doi":"10.1080/00038628.2023.2201253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00038628.2023.2201253","url":null,"abstract":"Smart thermostats differ significantly from traditional devices and are quickly becoming commonplace in homes. Literature demonstrates that thermostat interfaces greatly influence user interaction and related energy outcomes. Moreover, how users imagine their device to work appears to have a greater impact on usage than how the system functions. Previous work investigated manual and programmable thermostats in this context, employing user mental models (UMMs) to analyse user understanding. Since then, thermostats have developed significantly. This paper presents a novel investigation of smart thermostat UMMs. It employs contemporary methods to construct ten UMM diagrams, and three detailed case studies, contextualized with previous findings. All participants demonstrated feedback theory. Case studies highlight common misconceptions. Overall, smart thermostat UMMs appear to enable effective usage; however, some users are overwhelmed by the complexity, limiting engagement and use of features (e.g. programming).","PeriodicalId":47295,"journal":{"name":"Architectural Science Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"155 - 171"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49391112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-19DOI: 10.1080/00038628.2023.2201269
Karen Kim, E. Steinfeld, Sue Weidemann
The purpose of this study was to assess the safety of interactive stairway designs by comparing the user's behaviour and the incidence of unsafe stair use on two interactive stairways with a stairway made of conventional material. The Stairway Observation Checklist (SOC) for recording observations of stair users was developed. Observations were conducted in two museum buildings with interactive stairways and in one university building with a conventional stairway. Cautionary behaviours and incidents on the interactive stairways and the conventional stairway were documented and compared. On the interactive stairways, more users glanced down at the treads; fewer users diverted their gaze away from the stairs; and handrail use was higher. Incident rates were similar across the stairways. The research suggests that interactivity increases the risk of stair use but also can promote increased attention to the stair climbing task. More specifically, interactive stairways encourage more cautious behaviours than conventional stairways.
{"title":"The effects of interactive stairways on user behaviour and safety","authors":"Karen Kim, E. Steinfeld, Sue Weidemann","doi":"10.1080/00038628.2023.2201269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00038628.2023.2201269","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study was to assess the safety of interactive stairway designs by comparing the user's behaviour and the incidence of unsafe stair use on two interactive stairways with a stairway made of conventional material. The Stairway Observation Checklist (SOC) for recording observations of stair users was developed. Observations were conducted in two museum buildings with interactive stairways and in one university building with a conventional stairway. Cautionary behaviours and incidents on the interactive stairways and the conventional stairway were documented and compared. On the interactive stairways, more users glanced down at the treads; fewer users diverted their gaze away from the stairs; and handrail use was higher. Incident rates were similar across the stairways. The research suggests that interactivity increases the risk of stair use but also can promote increased attention to the stair climbing task. More specifically, interactive stairways encourage more cautious behaviours than conventional stairways.","PeriodicalId":47295,"journal":{"name":"Architectural Science Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"322 - 329"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44004868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-13DOI: 10.1080/00038628.2023.2199705
I. M. Budaiwi, M. Mohammed
In high-occupancy buildings with intermittent and short-occupancy events, occupants and their activities are the primary sources of contaminants, rendering continuous ventilation unnecessary for achieving acceptable indoor air quality (IAQ). Because the recommended ventilation rate constitutes a substantial percentage of the supply air, reducing or discontinuing ventilation during unoccupied periods saves significant energy. This study aims to assess the IAQ of high-occupancy buildings with different ventilation strategies and occupancy schemes to conserve energy using CONTAM (IAQ and ventilation analysis program) and Visual-DOE (energy analysis program). The results show that intermittently operating the ventilation 1 hour before occupancy saves 25% in the auditorium and 33% in the mosque compared to the continuous ventilation strategy. The intermittently operated strategy with ventilation 1 hour before occupancy also revealed an acceptable CO2 level (<1000ppm), while the Formaldehyde (HCHO) levels decreased with increasing ventilation rates, as humans’ contribution to the HCHO concentration indoors was insignificant.
{"title":"Acceptable indoor air quality at reduced energy consumption for high-occupancy buildings with intermittent operation","authors":"I. M. Budaiwi, M. Mohammed","doi":"10.1080/00038628.2023.2199705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00038628.2023.2199705","url":null,"abstract":"In high-occupancy buildings with intermittent and short-occupancy events, occupants and their activities are the primary sources of contaminants, rendering continuous ventilation unnecessary for achieving acceptable indoor air quality (IAQ). Because the recommended ventilation rate constitutes a substantial percentage of the supply air, reducing or discontinuing ventilation during unoccupied periods saves significant energy. This study aims to assess the IAQ of high-occupancy buildings with different ventilation strategies and occupancy schemes to conserve energy using CONTAM (IAQ and ventilation analysis program) and Visual-DOE (energy analysis program). The results show that intermittently operating the ventilation 1 hour before occupancy saves 25% in the auditorium and 33% in the mosque compared to the continuous ventilation strategy. The intermittently operated strategy with ventilation 1 hour before occupancy also revealed an acceptable CO2 level (<1000ppm), while the Formaldehyde (HCHO) levels decreased with increasing ventilation rates, as humans’ contribution to the HCHO concentration indoors was insignificant.","PeriodicalId":47295,"journal":{"name":"Architectural Science Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"242 - 258"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46824066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}