Contextual Architecture Research Articles

Formation of new post-war housing in Ukraine: analysis of foreign practical experience

The article provides an in-depth exploration of international practices in residential development, focusing on the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom as case studies. It meticulously investigates the post-World War II evolution of residential architecture in these countries, highlighting pivotal aspects such as housing standardization, building typologies, material utilization in facade design, community engagement, and the influence of socio-political factors on shaping living spaces. Special attention is dedicated to the analysis of architectural-compositional and spatial-volumetric principles that define foreign residential structures. The paper thoroughly dissects these principles and trends, considering their alignment with each country's unique architectural traditions. Moreover, it systematically categorizes contemporary trends in Western European residential development, emphasizing the significance of compositional considerations and national idiosyncrasies in shaping post-war housing in Ukraine. The article underscores the critical importance of understanding contextual architecture and prioritizing human-centric design principles. It advocates for the integration of these guiding principles in shaping post-war residential architecture in Ukraine, promoting a balanced and people-centric approach to urban development. The author contends that these principles should serve as a guiding framework for the direction of new residential architecture post-war, fostering a cohesive and community-oriented urban environment that effectively addresses the needs and preferences of its inhabitants. The comprehensive analysis presented in the article aims to inform and inspire thoughtful approaches to residential development, encouraging a harmonious blend of international best practices with the rich architectural heritage of Ukraine.

KAWASAN WISATA TEPIAN SUNGAI BUAYA SEBAGAI FASILITAS REKREATIF EDUKATIF KABUPATEN BULUNGAN KALIMANTAN UTARA

According to the Provincial Government of North Kalimantan, it has an area of 13,182 km² with a population of the entire district of 701,814 people (results of the 2020 Indonesian population census). The Crocodile Riverside Tourism Area located in downtown Tanjung Selor Hilir, North Kalimantan. It is planned as a place to visit tourism and take advantage of the potential of fishing villages by improving fishing facilities. The Crocodile Riverside Tourism Area is designed to apply a RecreativeEducational approach. Contextual Architecture is defined as the process of designing a building, which takes into account the existing site conditions. The purpose of the Contemporary Architecture Design for the Tanjung Selor Hilir 2 Riverside Crocodile Tourism Area project in North Kalimantan is planned to apply the Contextual Architecture Approach.

CONTEXTUAL ARCHITECTURE IN THE FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND FACULTY OF ECONOMY AND BUSINESS UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA IN DEPOK

University of Indonesia (UI) already known by public with the peculiarities of the buildings on the campus. As the development of the times, the mass of buildings on The UI in Depok is also experiencing rapid development. One of the functions of the new building which is certainly intended to support learning activities. The construction of new buildings, necessarily have an impact on the face of the UI Campus in general which has the characteristic of the traditional buildings that has been known before. In this case, the contextual architecture present in the application of the design in the newest buildings on The UI Campus. Contextual architecture itself is divided into two types, namely the harmony and contrast. This study aims to understand and identify the application of the contextual architecture of the buildings in the Engineering Faculty (FT) and Economy & Business Faculty (FEB) University of Indonesia. Methods in this research is a descriptive qualitative method with phase-analysis based on the type of harmony and contrast of those aspects are size & scale, shape, and color in the case study area. Conclusion of the result in this study that The FT and FEB University of Indonesia in Depok discovery of the balance of the architecture of the contextual building harmony and contrast.

DESAIN PESANTREN MINHAJUSSALAM TINGKAT MTS DI KECAMATAN GUNUNG RAJA KABUPATEN TANAH LAUT

Flood is a natural disaster that can harm the environment, especially human settlements. The potential for flooding can be seen based on environmental characteristics, one of which is a swamp. Gunung Raja, Bati-Bati District, Kab. Tanah Laut is one of the residential areas that stands on swampland. Swampy land has high tide times and can potentially flood when it encounters high rainfall. Knowing the potential for flooding, we need a building that is responsive to tides. Buildings that have the potential for disaster response are educational facilities/schools, namely the Minhajussalam Islamic Boarding School. By creating a design using the Contextual Architecture method, it is hoped that this design can create a building that is responsive to sea tides and can become an emergency facility for the surrounding color in the event of a flood.

Evaluate the efficiency of contextual elements in reducing the vulnerability of urban historical fabrics based on passive defense principles

The main goal of passive defense is to create a set of principles and guidelines to increase human and financial security in times of crisis by immunization, and reduction of urban physical vulnerability. Therefore, the study and analysis of the historical context of a city as contextual architecture, based on the principles of passive defense, is crucial. This study uses descriptive-analytic research to study the physical, historical, and climatic characteristics of Yazd city as components of contextual architecture, using the DEA method to prioritize its important features based on passive defense principles. The results show that the criteria of “Compact texture”, “introversion”, “Narrow alleys and sunshade design in urban space” with the highest efficiency of 0.919, 0.865 and 0.824% were ranked first to third. The application of these principles makes it possible to firstly maintain the continuity of the past architectural form and secondly, prevent the city from harmful threats.

Read-All-in-Once (RAiO): Multi-Layer Contextual Architecture for Long-Text Machine Reading Comprehension

Read-All-in-Once (RAiO): Multi-Layer Contextual Architecture for Long-Text Machine Reading Comprehension

CONTEXTUALISM IN ARCHITECTURE: THE DESIGN OF OFFICE BUILDING IN HERITAGE CONTEXT

The discussion starts with a question regarding why most of office buildings use the international style as their building expression. The first initial investigation is carried out by studying several precedents adapted from the rationalist and modern movement era. International style has architectural characteristics such as a simple form, pure structure, simple geometry, glass wall facade, and form follows function. This style mostly shows a lack of identity that does not respond to the local value and expression. The architectural buildings become placeless and do not represent the place with specific environmental responses and identity (contextual architecture). Additionally, an office building should be able to respond to the users’ activities and their identity/characters. This paper is based on the process of design project from design thinking, design research, and design process to conceptual design proposal. Design thinking is started by asking the question “what if” the new building design proposal reverses the international style’s facts through literature studies. The goals are to create the latest concepts that express their own character and image to portray both the users' characters and the location, which is human and environmentally friendly, using contextual analysis. Next, the design process includes explaining and arguing the process from proposing the design concept to building transformation. Some methods are used to determine the ‘big idea’ and design criteria and parameters, including the first principle , domain-to-domain transfer, and responding to site. The design proposal expresses the building heritage and its atmosphere, users’ characteristics, and has low energy efficiency. The design results highlight the aspect of "value of site" and “character of the building user” are essential to create the building image and identity.

Aspects of contextual architecture regarding traditional/contemporary architecture, physical/cultural and place identity: a systematic literature review

PurposeAdopting Mapping Literature, the purpose of this study is to notice the tendency in defining contextualism through extrinsic aspects neglecting the intrinsic ones generating three theoretical gaps in understanding contextualism, especially in terms of (1) physical/cultural aspects (P/C); (2) traditional vs contemporary architecture (T/C); and (3) place identity (PI).Design/methodology/approachA directed systematic literature review (SLR) was conducted to investigate the Web of Science and Google Scholar engines for the related studies, resulting in 66 texts of book chapters, conferences, articles and practitioners’ texts. Using the PRISMA reporting method, the study presented the SLR procedure that narrowed the related studies to 66 texts of book chapters, conferences, articles and practitioners’ texts. Both consensus and debates in understanding the relation between contextualism and (T/C, P/C and PI) were re-visited (see Appendix).FindingsAccording to the findings, the studies tend to address contextualism through either extrinsic or intrinsic values. The undefined balance between extrinsic and intrinsic aspects in understanding and creating contextual architecture seems to be the common reason why the three theoretical gaps exist.Originality/valueThis paper did not only conduct an SLR investigation on the topic, which is limited in the field, but it also highlighted the need for further and constant discussions despite the previous one to improve the understanding of contextual architecture.

Multi-Layer Contextual Passage Term Embedding for Ad-Hoc Retrieval

Nowadays, pre-trained language models such as Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformer (BERT) are becoming a basic building block in Information Retrieval tasks. Nevertheless, there are several limitations when applying BERT to the query-document matching task: (1) relevance assessments are applicable at the document-level, and the tokens of documents often exceed the maximum input length of BERT; (2) applying BERT to long documents leads to a great consumption of memory usage and run time, owing to the computational cost of the interactions between tokens. This paper explores a novel multi-layer contextual passage architecture that leverage text summarization extraction to generate passage-level evidence for the pre-selected document passage thus brought new possibilities for the long document relevance task. Experiments were conducted on two standard ad-hoc retrieval collections from the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) 2004 Robust Track (Robust04) and ClueWeb09 with two different characteristics individually. Experimental results show that our approach can significantly outperform the strong baselines and even compared with the same BERT-based models, the precision of our methods as well as state-of-the-art neural ranking models.

SEMINARI TINGGI MAZMUR 21 KALIMANTAN BARAT

Seminary is a place for Christian religious education to form and educate prospective Christian clergy. The seminary is equipped with various educational support facilities, because it is a special education that focuses on theological/religious education. Seminary facilities in the Pontianak City area are currently considered to be less than optimal, both in terms of quantity/quantity, and quality of facilities. The purpose of this design is to produce the design of educational facilities and religious tourism that is able to accommodate the needs of users and visitors in the form of facilities and infrastructure. The design object focuses on the Bukit Doa Psalm 21 area, Anjongan, Mempawah. The method used in this design is observation, comparison, and analysis. The author will conduct field observations at seminaries and retreat houses in Pontianak, as well as interviews with related parties. The design focus is on identifying seminary facilities and the need for infrastructure. The theme that will be focused on this design is contextual architecture which focuses on linking new buildings with the environment. References to contextual architecture and similar buildings are taken from various sources. The collected case studies will later become a design guide, ideas and solutions to design problems. The seminary design concept is in the form of a spatial program schematic and site analysis which results in the identification of the required facilities and a schematic design of the seminary area and building. The final result of the design of the West Kalimantan Psalm 21 High Seminary is the the seminary area and building that has complete infrastructure that is able to accommodate educational activities and religious tourism, but also has a connection with the surrounding environment.

International Architecture News

The news highlights such events as the UIA World Congress and the International Contextual Architecture Awards in memory of Architect Turgut Cansever.

REDESAIN KAWASAN WISATA RAWA DESA BANYU HIRANG

The condition of Hulu Sungai Utara Regency as an area dominated by wetland can be an interesting potential that is expected to attract tourists to visit. One of the areas that can be developed into a wetland tourism area is Banyu Hirang Village. But unfortunately, the utilization of the village area as a recreational tourist destination based on wetland is still lacking. The potential of the community in producing UMKM products in the form of woven handicrafts purun and water hyacinth also needs to be appreciated so that it can be one of the centers of woven handicrafts in Hulu Sungai Utara Regency. The design of this wetland tourist attraction aims to preserve and introduce to tourists about the potential and utilization of natural resources in wetland in helping the economy of the community. The method of problem solving in this design focuses on the approach of 3 aspects of wetland contextual architecture, namely visual, activity and environment with 5 principles of ecotourism development, namely conservation, knowledge, tourism, community participation, and economy. The relationship between the contextual aspects of wetland and the principle of ecotourism produces sustainable tourist areas with wetland environments, where the time order is divided into several zones, namely reception zones, service zones, transition zones, educational zones, recreation zones, culinary zones and relaxing zones. Planning each zone is expected to create a special character of wetland that can provide harmony with the surrounding natural environment.

Contextual Data Stream Processing Overview, Architecture, and Frameworks Survey.V2-3

Contextual Data Stream Processing Overview, Architecture, and Frameworks Survey.V2-3

Designing an innovative unified contextual architecture for improving information retrieval service in healthcare organizations

Designing effective methods of retrieving evidence-based clinical information for healthcare professionals’ decision making have always been challenging tasks for researchers in this field. Relevant existing studies have indicated significant limitations of implementing context-sensitive information retrieval services in healthcare organizations, but attempts are yet at their emergent stage for designing research-based solutions. In this paper, we design a new information retrieval architecture as a solution artifact useful in healthcare organizations for improving their information retrieval practices. Under the design science research paradigm, we outline a combined methodology that comprises design science research, design thinking and systems thinking for operating an iterative guiding process for developing and evaluating the new information retrieval approach. A total of 13 requirements that are linked to user-oriented theory of information need and fitness-utility model are captured. The new architecture is evaluated for its usefulness and fitness-utility using multi-case in-depth interviews that satisfy formalizing prescriptive knowledge on information retrieval.

REDESIGN OF RANTAU PRAPAT TRAIN STATION

<p>Along with the passage of time, the human need for modes of transportation is increasing. The increasing number of residents is inversely proportional to the limited time they have, so transportation modes such as trains are one solution. Rantau Prapat Railway Station has many shortcomings which of course must be improved and added to be able to serve the community in the future. This redesign is oriented to the community as users of transportation modes, how the flow of human and vehicle circulation is the main problem. The Rantau Prapat Railway Station must also be an attractive city gate, especially since the city of Rantau Prapat is the last destination city on the North Sumatra railway line. Therefore, the application of the Contextual Architecture theme is used so that the design that is set also follows the flow of an increasingly sophisticated future era. How a Railway Station that can function well functionally but can also be a city gate that gives interest to visit.</p>

Criteria of campus exterior spaces in Central Java

This paper explores harmonious exterior spaces with its surrounding through contextual architecture. With case studies of Diponegoro University area in Central Java, Indonesia. Diponegoro University area consists of various functions of building complex, hence the exterior spaces criteria are disparate. However, there are no exterior spaces criteria contextual with Diponegoro University area. To solve the problems, this study suggested the following strategies, starting with precedent studies and analysis to identify exterior spaces criteria. Variables in the precedent study are sampled from several complex functions of buildings, namely : complex area of office function, educational function, multipurpose building function, mosque function. Precedent studies and analysis will generate general and specific exterior spaces criteria harmonious with its surrounding and related to the characteristics of each building. Tropical climate and topographic contours are also concerns in formulating general criteria based on campus location. Specific criteria are inferred according to the building based on its function. The result of this paper can be utilized as guideline to designing harmonious exterior spaces. This paper presents exemplary results showing that exterior spaces criteria divided into general and specific criteria.

KAJIAN ARSITEKTUR KONTEKSTUAL PADA SUMBU, SIMETRI, DAN HIRARKI BANGUNAN AULA BARAT ITB

Perancangan bangunan-bangunan baru di kampus ITB (Institut Teknologi Bandung) memunculkan bentuk bangunan-bangunan yang beragam dan cenderung non-kontekstual, tidak selaras dengan bangunan lama atau bangunan konservasi sebagai eksisting. Untuk itu, dilakukan penelitian dengan langkah-langkah meliputi: (1) mengungkap konsep awal perancangan kampus ITB (2) mendeskripsikan nilai-nilai arsitektur bangunan Aula Barat ITB (3) melakukan kajian pada sumbu, simetri, dan hirarki bangunan Aula Barat ITB. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui dasar perancangan arsitektur kontekstual melalui sumbu, simetri, dan hirarki pada bangunan Aula Barat ITB, yang menjadi acuan terhadap perencanaan dan perancangan bangunan-bangunan baru disekitarnya.

The contextual form of the campus center design in Bandung Institute of Technology area

Contextual architecture is a concept used in creating building design and functions with due consideration for local characteristics to ensure sustainability with the surrounding or pre-existing conditions. The Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) campus is divided into three zones which are heritage or traditional, transition, and modern. A building is, however, located between the heritage and transition zones which are known as the Campus Center and considered to have damaged the zoning division on the master plan for the area due to the presence of new modern building designs. This study was, therefore, conducted to determine the common thread existing between the Campus Center and the surrounding two zones, the heritage zone with the West Hall case, and the transition zone with the engineering laboratory V case. Descriptive, analytic, and interpretative methods, with contextual theory, archetypes, ordering principles were used and the results showed the three buildings have a common thread which includes the roofs, columns, hallways, and corridors but only the Campus Center has columns, hallways, and corridors. The findings of this study are expected to provide theoretical and pragmatic benefits for writers and readers. Theoretically, the object dissection knowledge with archetypes and order elements to obtain the contextual forms of the building was provided while the pragmatic aspect focuses on understanding the contextual form of modern buildings.

The Assessment of some Contextual Architecture Factors with an Approach to Culture and Identity in the State and Public Buildings of Pahlavi Era (Case Study: Oil Cinema, Oil Industry College and National Bank)

Important subjects in architecture is the design of buildings according to their contexts. This context can include his‌torical, physical, cultural- social, or climate aspects. Abadan is a city that its basic s‌tructure has been formed in the Pahlavi era. This city has been attracted to the local architecture in this period. Also, it has been influenced by the modern s‌tyle. The method of this research is applied and a survey one with an emphasis on the ques‌tionnaire. The main purpose of the present s‌tudy is to es‌timate the relationship between culture and identity factors of the contextual architecture of three important buildings of the Pahlavi era such as oil cinema(Taj), oil indus‌try college, national bank building in Abadan, and modern architecture of Europe. The research data has been gathered according to the ques‌tionnaire. Cronbach has been used to get the validity of the research. The number and the type of sampling are through the snowball method. SPSS, K.S, and the single tes‌t have been used for the research analysis in the present s‌tudy. The research results show that the amount of tes‌t level in all cases is less than 0/05. Therefore, the normal trend of data has been rejected. Moreover, there is no relationship between the building indicator with 3.87 and level of 0/000 and the plan indicator with 3.82 and the level of 0/000 in the aforementioned buildings. In this case, the use of the indicators of building and plan in the architecture of the Pahlavi era in comparison to European modernism has been less important.

Pluralism and the Urban Landscape: Towards a Strategic Eclecticism

AbstractWhilst Multiform has achieved a certain acceptance as a way of combating the so‐called New London Vernacular's contextual architecture, there are still many other aspects of urbanism it does not necessarily address, particularly within the public realm. The cityscape is often left out of the debate where buildings risk becoming simply self‐referential objects. Dirk Somers, manager and founder of Antwerp's Bovenbouw architectuur, argues for a reconsideration and posits successful precedents that balance convention with surprise.