Residential Architectural Design Research Articles

The Cultural Construction of the Domestic Space in France: Women’s Lived Experience and the Materialization of Customs

This article explores the intersecting processes of construction of the home, social, and individual identities through domestic practices inside French housing. It examines the design and occupation of French homes as crucial moments for the consolidation of subjectivities, beliefs, and ideologies manifested through daily actions that are influenced by normative cultural systems. In specific, it looks at codified domestic behaviours and their aesthetic dimension, focusing on how the French “art of living” has influenced taste, design, appropriation, and decoration of domestic interiors. Architectural treatises along with etiquette manuals are analysed as they both represent—through the written word and architectural drawings—cultural and gender stereotypes as well as societal norms and expectations that inform housing design and domestic practices. These documents directly assist in the cultural construction of the domestic space, uncovering mechanisms of reproduction and representation that inform the use and design of residential architecture. By focusing on women’s lived experiences, this research looks at the consolidation of feminine domestic cultures and how they fostered small-scale physical transformations of dwellings’ interiors through daily negotiations that define self-identity and interpersonal power relations. These dynamics are referred to as “cultural domesticity.” The latter frames this study along with feminist literature, situating women’s contribution to the aesthetic and spatial development of French apartments. What emerges from this study is that the French state historically exercised a regulatory power that impacted daily life and housing design.

BUILDING APPRECIATION OF TRADITIONAL HOUSES IN MHOW

Traditional architecture which define the culture and historical identity of building, even which mates us look back to the past. Some amazing valuable Heritage like this can be seen in MHOW too. MHOW is a British settlement where there is a wonderful confluence of British and Indian traditional architecture. But this building Heritage is now getting decrepit with time and it is outdated according to their modern functional requirement. Although traditional architecture in MHOW is accumulated experience of successive generation. But the modern building gives attention only to standards and rule, which do not suits to Indian culture and ignore the traditional spaces which is integration of socio culture norms. This research paper explore traditional MHOW residences, majorly focusing on those which are Indian traditional based. In order to gain a better understanding of the houses in the selected areas and there inhabitants this paper based on ethnographical study consists of observations, informal interviews, constructed questionnairies and architectural study for the houses specially elevations. The contribution of this study is to search for architecture deep knowledge of traditional residence form to encourage the designers to think about the residential architectural design as product of social culture norms. Key words :- Traditional, Culture, Historical identity, Socio-Culture, Ethnographical.

Mapping of residential double skin façade design

This paper aims to trace and map the variety of Double Skin Façade (DSF) in residential designs in Indonesia. This response to issues regarding technology development, design strategy, and the role of DSF in buildings related to aesthetic, environmental, and materiality issues in design practice. A qualitative approach with a descriptive observation case study method was conducted on various modern residential architectural designs buildings in Indonesia to illustrate how designers positioned this double skin facade in their design. The connection between the DSF with tectonic, aesthetic, sustainability, and environmental issues is shown in this study. This paper set the study boundaries for exploring residential designs' typology because the limited scale project allowed the designer to have considerable flexibility and exploration of creativity. The residential architectural design also allows the role of the DSF to be integrated with a passive design strategy, compared to commercial or public building design. The findings suggest various strategies and design exploration mapping related to DSF design. The results show that it can form a new character for contemporary Indonesian architecture and become a catalogue of exploratory, strategic, and responsive design elements in its practices.

Application of Humanization Concept in Residential Architectural Design

Application of Humanization Concept in Residential Architectural Design

The Jakarta society’s perspectives on Architechnopreneurship design

Building architecture in urban areas is very important, especially for settlements that are at risk of flooding. Architechnopreneurship is a residential architectural design concept that can provide comfort even in a flooded area, has a concept that utilizes technology, provides insight into entrepreneurial values and provides education for residents in mitigating flood risk. This study aims to obtain an overview of the Jakarta society’s perspectives on architechnopreneurship design. The research method used is the Neuroresearch method, a mixed method which has three stages of research, namely exploratory, explanatory, and confirmatory research. The results showed that the Architechnopreneur building design concept presented was still not in accordance with the views of the people of Jakarta significantly at α <0.05. These results provide input for changes and improvements to architechnopreneurship design in accordance with community expectations.

RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE IN A POST-PANDEMIC WORLD: IMPLICATIONS OF COVID-19 FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION AND FOR ADAPTING HERITAGE BUILDINGS

ABSTRACT COVID-19 has highlighted the disruptive, cross-sectorial effects a sudden-onset pandemic has on a globally interconnected world. A particularly insidious component is the high percentage of asymptomatic cases allowing the virus to seed undetected. The design of residential architecture will need to adapt to the new reality that COVID-19 will not be the last coronavirus epidemic. This paper discusses the implications of COVID-19 for new residential construction. It argues for a containment space, separating the largely uncontrollable external environment from the internal threat-reduced residential space, for a separation of visitor entertainment areas and private sleeping areas, as well as the design of a spatially separated master bedroom that can double as a self-isolation space if the need arises. The implications of this new design on existing housing stock are also discussed. The advocated concepts are novel and advance the design considerations for future residential developments.

Application analysis of green ecological building theory based on residential architectural design

At this stage, with the proposal of green, ecological and environmental protection concepts, higher requirements have been put forward for the current residential architectural design. Applying the concept of green ecological architecture to residential architectural design can not only reduce the consumption of resources and pollution to the environment, but also achieve the construction of green houses and green cities. At the same time, it is also the key that promotes the sustainable development of the construction industry. In this article, it first analyzes the significance of green ecological residential architectural design; it then focuses on the specific application of green ecological architectural concepts in residential building design.

Applied Human Factors in Residential Architectural Design

A project that incorporates principles of anthropometrics and ergonomics into building design is assigned to students of architecture to emphasize the significance of user-based and human-centered approaches. The project applies wide scopes of ergonomics to address mutual interactions between humans, buildings and environment as major derivers of design. Reflections about the project and its outcomes are reported and discussed. The project's results and products indicate the positive impact of introducing and emphasizing applied human factors on the resultant design quality. Among the observations, the typical boundaries between interior and exterior, user and space, and buildings and urban context seem to be less restrictive. In addition, considerations of flexibility, mobility and responsiveness in dynamic structures and their interactions with users seem to enrich and optimize the generated designs. The ergonomics-enhanced application helped emphasize consideration of social interaction and place-making to support transformation of static spaces into lively places. Moreover, dimensions of safety, health, affections and belonging and their impacts on building design seem clearer and more influential to the learners. As a result of the project implementation, a framework for ergonomics-driven architectural design is introduced.

Study on Interior Space Optimization of Green Affordable Housing in Cold Region

With the construction of a large number of affordable housing and the development of green buildings, the design of green affordable housing has become a new concern and research topic in China’s residential architectural design, and the interior design of affordable housing has become a top priority. This article takes Changchun city as an example, through the research of affordable housing in Changchun, visit, found the main problems existing in the status quo, in view of the problems put forward housing interior space design optimization principle, and according to the design principles of indoor space scale, provides a good green indoor living environment for green residential tenants in cold areas.

The application of natural ventilation of residential architecture in the integrated design

As one of the important parts in the architecture design, ventilation fully reflects one important factor of energy conservation to some extent. To ensure that decreasing use of energy resources to the maximum extent in architectures and make architectures harmonize with their surroundings, which have become important pursuing gradually for residential architecture, at present, integrated design of residential architecture should not only highlight natural ventilation technique, but also should integrate natural ventilation and main feature of local climate, etc. What’s more, designers shall carry out unified analysis on the base of taking all factors into consideration. This point is more important. By this way, architecture technique can be more comprehensive and complete. With the guidance of sustainable development concept, natural ventilation as one of ecological technologies is applied extensively in many architecture designs owing to its economic effect and health benefit.

Buried buildings as an example of architecture that strives to be energy efficient

This paper studies the concept of underground architecture in residential houses. The earth (soil) is an element that has some very good features that can be used in order to create a building that is more energy efficient. The most important feature is its good insulation capacity and thermal inertia, which results with constant temperature. By making the home underground, many advantages can be achieved - the land used for the construction is not destroyed and taken away from the nature (the greenery is saved), energy consumption is decreased, the building is more protected from outer influences (storm, vibrations, noise, rain, snow, frost...) etc. The underground houses - earth sheltered houses - represent the passive architecture that can be combined with solar architecture. In this way, earth sheltered houses can be in a great manner energy independent and even considered as self-sustainable structures. The aim of this paper is to find out advantages and possible disadvantages of this type of constructions, through the analysis of few constructed buildings, all with the additional aim to promote the integration of natural conditions that can be found at the location in a design of residential architecture.

Social Participation in Residential Architecture as an Instrument for Transforming Both the Architecture and the People Who Participate in It

This paper is an attempt to draw attention to social needs in the residential architecture and to present the idea of participatory design. The concept of participatory design, that is the one that uses the knowledge of the potential users during various stages of the design process, has been presented in this paper because of the need to illustrate the mutual social interactions and their identification with the architectural surrounding. The author hypothesizes that social participation in the design of residential architecture has a positive impact both on the architecture and on the relations between people who are involved in the creation of such an architecture. On the one hand, the involvement of future users in the design process has a positive effect on the expression of residential architecture, it contributes to the creation of its individual nature. On the other hand, residential architecture that was created as a result of participatory design is a factor that supports the identification of users with the place of residence. This thesis is proved by presenting and comparing three examples of residential architecture designs created as a result of participatory design. The research scope covers contemporary designs created within the territory of Poland, and more specifically in Białystok, Wrocław and Gdynia.

A Study on Window Design Optimization for Residences in Severe Cold Zones

The aim of this thesis is carrying out a study on the residential architectural design in the central and western parts of Inner Mongolia, with an analysis on existing problems on the window design, based on the theory of residential building design and the energy-saving policy, in order to come up with an optimization of residential window design in severe cold zones.

The Research of Folk House Development in Lhasa Area

Lhasa region's special natural environment makes a unique form of regional folk house. Because of the external culture influence, the form of traditional folk house is continuous improvement. The traditional independence Tibetan folk house is reducing in the Lhasa city. In this situation, the author and his research team had surveyed and tested different types folk houses in the Lhasa city and surrounding areas. Through comparing the spatial characteristics among the traditional Tibetan folk house, contemporary Tibetan folk house and contemporary unit resident building, and this paper analysis the problems faced by each folk house in the development process and extracts the successful experiences from them. That can be used to guide future local residential architectural design.