Pub Date : 2025-03-19DOI: 10.1016/j.foar.2025.01.011
Qinghua Guo , Ximeng Lv , Fei Xia , Wenjing He , Sijia Wang , Peijun Sun
This paper presents the design of a unit-type solar self-insulating composite exterior wall panel, which integrates a solar collector panel, photovoltaic (PV) panel, and insulation board into a single unit module. The research explores the utilization of an optimized solar collector panel to provide hot air indoors and proposes methods of application on facades. Using Fluent for simulation, it was found that on a sunny winter day, the thermal performance of the optimized solar collector panel increased by 94.68% compared to its pre-optimized state. A three-day experiment showed a maximum average temperature rise of 41.23 °C at the air outlet, close to the simulation. Finally, the energy efficiency and economic benefits of the study were calculated, which showed an energy saving rate of 65.47% for the composite exterior wall panels. This research provides ideas for solving the winter heating problem in cold regions’ buildings and the design application of self-insulating composite exterior wall panels in prefabricated buildings.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-19DOI: 10.1016/j.foar.2025.01.013
Lijuan Yang, Qiuhong Wu
Clarifying the quality elements that have a significant impact on public perception is a prerequisite for improving the quality of parks, and comparative cross-regional studies can help to identify local landscape preferences and formulate specialized development strategies. Using online review data and natural language processing methods, this study explores how Chongqing and Chengdu residents' perceptions of environmental features of urban parks affect their overall satisfaction. The results show that: (1) There are 16 (Chongqing) and 13 (Chengdu) environmental features that residents pay attention to in urban parks, and the two places pay the highest attention to the natural features of urban parks. In addition, Chongqing residents pay more attention to the recreational services of urban parks, while Chengdu residents pay more attention to the aesthetics and culture of urban parks. (2) Positive environmental factors increase visitors' satisfaction, but this effect decreases with increasing frequency of perceived, while negative factors continue to have a negative impact on satisfaction. Through online text data and natural language processing technology, the public's perception of parks can be analyzed on a large scale, in depth, and with high accuracy, providing guidance for urban sustainable construction and characteristic style extraction.
{"title":"How do residents perceive urban parks? A cross-geographic comparison based on online reviews","authors":"Lijuan Yang, Qiuhong Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.foar.2025.01.013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.foar.2025.01.013","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Clarifying the quality elements that have a significant impact on public perception is a prerequisite for improving the quality of parks, and comparative cross-regional studies can help to identify local landscape preferences and formulate specialized development strategies. Using online review data and natural language processing methods, this study explores how Chongqing and Chengdu residents' perceptions of environmental features of urban parks affect their overall satisfaction. The results show that: (1) There are 16 (Chongqing) and 13 (Chengdu) environmental features that residents pay attention to in urban parks, and the two places pay the highest attention to the natural features of urban parks. In addition, Chongqing residents pay more attention to the recreational services of urban parks, while Chengdu residents pay more attention to the aesthetics and culture of urban parks. (2) Positive environmental factors increase visitors' satisfaction, but this effect decreases with increasing frequency of perceived, while negative factors continue to have a negative impact on satisfaction. Through online text data and natural language processing technology, the public's perception of parks can be analyzed on a large scale, in depth, and with high accuracy, providing guidance for urban sustainable construction and characteristic style extraction.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51662,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Architectural Research","volume":"14 5","pages":"Pages 1217-1227"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144750103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study investigates the potential of built environments to induce contemplative states, contributing to the emerging field of contemplative neuroaesthetics. While the psychological benefits of these states are well-documented, their relationship with architecture remains underexplored. Using an embodied cognition framework, we explore how architectural features engage the sensorimotor system, fostering contemplative experiences. The ancient city of Ghardaïa, known for its natural harmony and subtle aesthetics, was the case study. Twenty participants, with no prior exposure to the site or architectural background, took part in a real-world experiment. They followed a designated path while equipped with a 32-channel mobile EEG system, smart band, and wide-angle cameras. Subjective feedback was collected via questionnaires. Multiple linear regression revealed that curved pathways significantly reduced Default Mode Network (DMN) activity (), suggesting heightened sensorimotor engagement, potentially inducing a contemplative state. Conversely, higher occlusivity, measured through space syntax, correlated with increased DMN activity (; ), indicating enclosed spaces promote introspection. Architectural features like corbels, arches, and landmarks also influenced DMN activity, highlighting spatial elements’ role in shaping brain dynamics. Future research should examine architectural contexts to clarify these mechanisms, with implications for designing spaces that promote well-being.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-17DOI: 10.1016/j.foar.2025.01.008
Leiqing Xu , Dancheng Meng , Shin Bin Tan , Jiahua Li , Xiaolin Zhang
Aspects of urban environments, especially green spaces, are known to benefit mental health and well-being. However, the healing potential of urban third places remains underexamined compared to the well-documented benefits of more “natural” environments. “Third places” refers to public spaces where people gather outside of their homes (first place) and workplaces (second place), thereby supporting well-being through fostering social interaction and community engagement. Using fNIRS, Empatica E4 wristbands, questionnaires and interviews with 40 young adults in Shanghai, China, we found that third places demonstrate healing effects comparable to natural environments neurologically, psychologically, and physiologically, although they are achieved through distinct underlying mechanisms. Third places contribute to mental wellbeing through emotional pathways, primarily by fostering “pleasure” through social engagement and environmental design, while natural spaces promote “gratitude” through biophilic connections. These results underscore the importance of third places in mental health support for young adults, highlighting the need for social infrastructure interventions. Optimizing third places could create healthier, less stressful, and more emotionally positive urban environments.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-17DOI: 10.1016/j.foar.2025.01.009
Qing Liu
This article investigates the interdisciplinary nature of what is frequently referred to as architectural phenomenology. By highlighting the intricacy of architecture's disciplinarity, it exposes the paradoxical attitude of architectural phenomenology towards crossing disciplinary borders, and sets out to contextualize the paradoxical attitude about interdisciplinary research in history. Following three thematic threads representative of the tradition centered on Ernesto Nathan Rogers, Christian Norberg-Schulz, and the Essex school, it showcases the diverse modalities of how architecture and phenomenology were combined in the past, and identifies a significant gap in their limited interpretations of the relation between these two fields, often characterized by a one-sided illumination. Drawing attention to the insufficiently theorized reciprocity between architecture and philosophy, it reveals in architectural phenomenology an interdisciplinary interplay implicitly involving all other disciplines, which offers unlimited possibilities of research to be further explored. Taking a closer look at the interdisciplinary nature of architecture and phenomenology, it speculates on the future directions of architectural phenomenology acting as an interdisciplinary arena, pointing to phenomenology's recent interest in enactivist cognitive science and architecture's critical engagement with socio-political issues that converge in an investigation of the built environment.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-15DOI: 10.1016/j.foar.2025.01.010
Derya Karadağ, Betül Ozar
This study explores the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the conceptual design phase of interior design education, focusing on AI's potential to help students visualise and refine creative ideas. Conducted within a design studio course, the research integrates text-to-image generators, particularly Midjourney to support students' design processes. Implemented in the fourth week of a 14-week course, a structured workshop introduced students to Midjourney, with surveys conducted both at this stage and during the final submission to capture changes in student perspectives. Using a two-phase case study involving a workshop, surveys, and interviews among senior undergraduate students in the bachelor's program of the Interior Architecture and Environmental Design Department, the study assesses the impact of AI prompts, from simple keywords to detailed narratives, on concept development and project outcomes. Findings indicate that AI broadens design possibilities, facilitates iterative ideation, and improves conceptual precision through high-fidelity visualizations. While students view AI as a valuable addition to their creative process, they also express concerns about ethics and the need to balance AI's benefits with preserving design authenticity. This research contributes to the broader discussion on AI's role in design, advocating for a balanced integration that respects both technological potential and human creativity.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-13DOI: 10.1016/j.foar.2025.01.007
Hao Yuan , Ying Zhou
Emergency departments (EDs) are among the busiest hospital units, where visibility is crucial for surveillance, collaboration, and wayfinding. In China, high ED patient volumes lead to crowded corridors, significantly impacting visibility. However, current visibility assessment methods focus on static obstructions such as walls and columns, neglecting crowd obstruction, and underestimating visual impediments.To address this research gap, this study proposes a novel visibility assessment method combining agent-based simulation and space syntax analysis. Based on peak-hour behavioral data from Hospital R's ED, crowd movement was simulated across six ED plans with different corridor layouts. The simulated crowd positions were then treated as visual obstacles, and space syntax theory was applied to evaluate visibility under crowd obstruction at various timesteps. The findings reveal that: 1) ring corridor layouts reduce patient backtracking and corridor congestion; 2) ring corridor layouts facilitate better natural surveillance of the overall space by medical staff with crowd obstruction considered; 3) ring corridor layouts enable medical staff to see each other more easily, supporting team collaboration, regardless of crowd obstruction; 4) simple layouts perform best in terms of wayfinding, irrespective of crowd obstruction. This study presents the first comprehensive quantitative assessment of ED visibility under crowd obstruction, with potential applications in other crowded public spaces.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-12DOI: 10.1016/j.foar.2025.01.006
Edmond Manahasa, Artea Zera, Odeta Manahasa, Artan Hysa
Post-socialist urban development in the Albanian capital, Tirana, is characterized by unplanned urbanization that led to the loss of the city's historical fabric. This study focuses on a historic neighbourhood of Tirana affected by urban transformation. It defines housing as the predominant function that has influenced the morphology of the neighbourhood and divides it into three layers, namely pre-socialist, socialist, and post-socialist.
The aim is to reveal the influence of each urban layer on neighbourhood and city identity. To achieve this goal, we rely on the concept of place identity, which consists of physical elements and identificatory relations. The methodology includes sampling of citizens (67 per layer), surveying (No = 201), GIS-mapping and data analysis by clustering physical elements (landmark, house, street, public space) and identificatory relation features (memories, experiences, social and self-identity aspects).
The results show that the city identity is reported to be slightly higher compared to the neighbourhood identity. The residents of older layers compared with those of newer have higher identification with both neighbourhood and city. Finally, the neighbourhood identity is generated by houses, as physical aspects, and socialization as identificatory relation, whereas city identity is generated by public spaces, as physical aspects, and as identificatory relation aspects socialization, and self-identity aspects.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-04DOI: 10.1016/j.foar.2025.01.005
Yuhan Gao, Da Du, Nobuaki Furuya
Researchers are increasingly interested in the impact of the built environment on urban walkability. Pedestrian satisfaction is a key indicator of walkability and can elucidate latent factors to improve walking environment. This study develops an assessment framework for evaluating walking satisfaction on sidewalks in commercial districts in Japan according to the built environment and personal attributes. Questionnaire surveys were used to collect data from 963 Japanese residents' impact ratings of built environment variables. Six factors were extracted following exploratory factor analysis. Second-order confirmatory factor analysis was then applied to further explore the relationship between observed variables and latent factors. Latent class analysis was employed to classify the population, and personal attributes served as covariates in the multinomial logistic regression analysis to explore how these attributes affected the latent classes. The results indicated that visual impression, spatial richness, accessibility, comfort, diversity, and security influence pedestrian walking satisfaction on sidewalks in commercial districts. Travel purpose and travel method are important indicators that influence the latent classes of the population. The result presented herein can guide policy makers to optimize the construction of walkable urban environments and enact policies based on the factors and populations that are best suited to urban development.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-25DOI: 10.1016/j.foar.2024.12.008
Na Zhang , Yuan Li , Jingge Liu , Long Zhao , Mengsheng Yang , Huanxia Bai
Historical buildings influenced by multiculturalism exhibit characteristics of stylistic integration and cultural complexity. Research on multicultural architecture is significant for understanding the collision and fusion of diverse cultures. Currently, studies in this field primarily focus on the qualitative descriptions of architectural styles. In this study, we analyze the floor plans of historical buildings located in the World Cultural Heritage site of Gulangyu Island. Utilizing methods such as typology, spatial schema, space syntax, cluster analysis, and regression analysis, we investigate their gene mapping and formation mechanisms. The results indicate the following: The gene mapping of multicultural plan variants (denoted as "V"), can be expressed as follows: V = L × + F × , where "L" represents the local planar prototype, and "F" denotes the foreign planar prototype, and ). These variants can be classified into three types. Multicultural plan variants include three generative mechanisms: "Imitation," "Compromise," and "Variation." The spatial layout, central positioning, and traffic flow lines reflect the "Imitation" of local planar prototypes. Connectivity and integration illustrate the "Compromise" between local and foreign planar prototypes. Topological structures and topological depth represent the "Variation" influenced by foreign planar prototypes.
受多元文化影响的历史建筑表现出风格统一性和文化复杂性的特点。研究多元文化建筑对于理解不同文化的碰撞与融合具有重要意义。目前，该领域的研究主要集中在对建筑风格的定性描述上。在本研究中，我们对鼓浪屿世界文化遗产地的历史建筑平面图进行了分析。利用类型学、空间图式、空间句法、聚类分析和回归分析等方法，研究了它们的基因定位和形成机制。结果表明：多文化平面变异的基因定位（用“V”表示）可以表示为：V = L × X% + F × Y%，其中“L”表示本地平面原型，“F”表示外来平面原型，X+Y=100)。这些变体可以分为三种类型。多元文化规划变体包括三种生成机制：“模仿”、“妥协”和“变异”。空间布局、中心定位、交通流线都体现了对当地平面原型的“模仿”。连通性和集成说明了本地和外部平面原型之间的“妥协”。拓扑结构和拓扑深度代表了受外来平面原型影响的“变异”。
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