Abstract
All the human activities take place in the built environment and therefore human factors/ergonomics (HFE) is an essential design consideration for the built environment designing process. Surprisingly, there have been limited studies on integrating HFE in the design process as well as in the education of architecture. Teaching HFE in architecture is different from teaching HFE in the disciplines that focuses on precise ergonomic application. Architectural education primarily deals with accommodating human activities in the built environment; and therefore, teaching HFE focuses on anthropometry, space standards, and an in-depth understanding of space requirements for relevant human activities. In architectural education, HFE can be taught as theory courses and/or in the design studio courses. This article focuses on the studio approach with an overview of several studio courses and a meticulous study of a studio course that teaches HFE principles. The study follows desktop research, participant observation, and a questionnaire survey. It is observed that the studio approach provides an opportunity for a deeper understanding of the HFE principles and their application in space design. Specifically, the practice of learning within the studio setup, group work and peer critique, assessment and feedback with critique sessions before the evaluation, etc. have a profound impact on the students to internalizeHFE in their thought process. A survey among the students also indicates the effectiveness of the studio approach for learning HFE.
Highlights
Human Factors/Ergonomics (HFE) considers human well-being and overall system performance and is vital for sustainable development, as it contributes to the social and economic dimensions of sustainability (Radjiyev, Qiu, Xiong & Nam, 2015)
Architectural education primarily deals with accommodating human activities in the built environment; and teaching human factors/ergonomics (HFE) focuses on anthropometry, space standards, and an in-depth understanding of space requirements for relevant human activities
This article studies the studio approach of teaching and learning HFE in architectural education with studio courses in 7 architecture schools in Bangladesh including a detailed investigation of one studio course in the Department of Architecture, Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST)
Summary
Human Factors/Ergonomics (HFE) considers human well-being and overall system performance and is vital for sustainable development, as it contributes to the social and economic dimensions of sustainability (Radjiyev, Qiu, Xiong & Nam, 2015). This article studies the studio approach of teaching and learning HFE in architectural education with studio courses in 7 architecture schools in Bangladesh including a detailed investigation of one studio course in the Department of Architecture, Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST). This detailed study covers the Design Studio III course in level 2 which is considered as the first studio that initiates the designing process of the built environment. Along with the study of studio teaching of HFE, this article attempts to relate the students’ feedback based on the learning of HFE and its implementation in their design development process
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