Quality Of Architectural Design Research Articles

Beyond Technical Specs: Using AHP to Prioritize User Needs in Turkish Basketball Arena Designs

Basketball arenas are crucial spaces that must meet specific standards to ensure the sustainability of the sport and the quality of play. While Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) assesses these standards, it often assumes that all performance indicators are equally important, potentially leading to a gap between design intent and actual user experience. This study aims to bridge this gap by using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to prioritize evaluation criteria for Turkish professional basketball arenas designed for national and international matches, regional/local competitions, and training programs. Existing studies and reports indicate that basketball arenas in Turkey often fall short in meeting necessary physical requirements and exhibit performance deficiencies. To address this gap, this study identifies factors determining arena performance, categorized as technical, functional, and behavioral based on Preiser's framework. These criteria were further categorized according to different spaces within the arena, including general use areas, administrative spaces, and athlete-specific areas. A panel of expert sports facility design professionals provided judgments about the relative importance of these criteria using pairwise comparisons. The AHP method was then employed to calculate priority weights for each criterion. The results reveal the relative importance of different criteria for each space. For example, in general use areas, "furniture suitability/sufficiency" and "provision of ergonomic conditions for the disabled" ranked highest. In administrative spaces, "fire protection" and "accessibility" were deemed most important, while in athlete-specific areas, "visual and auditory privacy" and "security" took precedence. This study demonstrates the potential of AHP for developing a systematic and reliable framework for qualitative evaluations that measure user satisfaction. AHP-based evaluation models offer a valuable tool for architects, facility managers, and decision-makers to assess architectural design quality, prioritize design criteria, and support user-centered design processes.

Architectural Design Quality Indicators For Museums And Galleries In The Indian Context

Quality is one of the three factors that must be considered for any undertaking; the other two are time and cost. Although there are measuring instruments for both time and cost, quality cannot be objectively measured. The building is the result of design, and the quality of the structure is contingent on the quality of the design. It is essential to evaluate the design quality at various phases of a project's life cycle in order to determine how a structure performs when in use. In India, various standards, codes, and green building rating systems are used to evaluate various design elements. However, a unified framework is required to objectively evaluate design quality. This study aims to identify the criteria influencing the design quality of educational built environments and evaluate their relative significance. Using a quantitative approach and a questionnaire, data has been collected. The purpose of the survey was to obtain responses regarding the relevance of design quality indicators in the context of the educational constructed environment in India.

A new scale to assist in evaluating architectural proposals on the natural dimension based on psychometrics

Scientific and accurate evaluation of architecture is efficient for design optimization and resource conservation of sustainable cities. Complicated and multidisciplinary contents and architecture proposals are difficult to judge with validity and objectivity by current evaluation methods. A scale is a concentrated application of psychometrics that can collect expert knowledge objectively, scientifically, and comprehensively. This paper proposes the development of an architecture design evaluation scale on the natural dimension with the application of a web-based interface system. The evaluation items of the scale were determined by the Delphi process. Offering a broader dimension of information exchange, a web-based interface system was applied in the Delphi process and the scale pretest. Then, following psychometric research methodology, the pretest results were proven to be scientific and accurate by reliability and validity tests (KMO=0.72,P=1.06×10−105, Cronbach α=0.923). This research develops a new evaluation scale of architectural design, aiming to improve the quality of architectural design and the sustainability of cities.

The role of open space and green areas in the design of an inclusive nursing home environment during Covid-19 period

The paper highlights the importance of high-quality outdoor spaces in improving physical and social well-being in the residential environment of the elderly. The historical Swedish practice of green areas design was analysed as a role model to gain knowledge and understanding of the importance of open space and green areas in residential environments. During the Covid-19 pandemic, nursing homes were among the most critical living environments, as evidenced by a disproportionate number of infections and deaths among nursing home residents worldwide. The main objective of this study is to confirm the importance of architectural design quality with special attention to outdoor space, especially in situations comparable to Covid-19 pandemics. The methods used for the research were a literature review, selection of three case studies based on two dependent and one independent variable, on-site work analysis and use of the previously developed “Safe & Connected” assessment tool. The main findings show the positive influence of open space and green areas existence on reducing the risk of infections of SARS-CoV-2 in nursing homes at three different levels. In this context, it appears that the appropriate design of outdoor space can help contain the spread of viral infections while allowing nursing home residents to live with dignity and maximum social integration.

Architectural Design Quality Indicators for Educational Built Environment in the Indian Context

Architectural Design Quality Indicators for Educational Built Environment in the Indian Context

Architectural Design of Building Information Model Technology in Internet Age

As a revolutionary technology to realize the construction industry information, BIM technology has been vigorously developed in China in recent years. The whole life cycle of a construction project includes planning stage, design stage, construction stage, operation and maintenance stage, with many participating units. This paper mainly studies the architectural design of building information model technology under the Internet era. This paper analyzes and combs the traditional structural design process, and summarizes the problems and defects existing in the traditional structural design process. Combined with the characteristics of BIM technology application, the BIM technology is combined with the traditional structural design process. Taking Project A as an example, the causality analysis, the analytic hierarchy process and the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method are used. The architectural design quality of Project a based on BIM technology is evaluated, and the effect of adopting BIM technology in the design of Project A is compared and analyzed.

Architectural design quality and social sustainability in building certification systems

Abstract The main objective of the study is to examine to what extent the architectural design quality and social sustainability are taken into account in building certification systems. The following most commonly used building assessments in Europe (focus on Germany, Slovakia and Czech Republic) have been investigated: BREEAM, LEED, CESBA, LEVEL(s), DGNB, BNB, BNK, NaWoh, SBToolCZ and WELL. After extensive research of chosen certification systems and various sources on topics such as conditions of well-being, sociocultural indicators, assessment of social performance of sustainable buildings and design quality assessment, the main social and architectural design quality aspects were determined and used for further analysis and final evaluation. Studied aspects are divided into the following categories: user satisfaction and quality of life (building-related), sustainable and healthy lifestyle (building-related), architecture – design quality (building-related), innovation and social responsibility (external). The article contains a summary of results with overall evaluation and comparison of certification systems including weighting of studied categories in selected building assessments. Furthermore, indicators used in building certifications associated with the quality of life and the quality of architectural expression and their weighting are described and presented.

Harmony Search-Based Approach for Multi-Objective Software Architecture Reconstruction

The success of any software system highly depends on the quality of architectural design. It has been observed that over time, the quality of software architectural design gets degraded. The software system with poor architecture design is difficult to understand and maintain. To improve the architecture of a software system, multiple design goals or objectives (often conflicting) need to be optimized simultaneously. To address such types of multi-objective optimization problems a variety of metaheuristic-oriented computational intelligence algorithms have been proposed. In existing approaches, harmony search (HS) algorithm has been demonstrated as an effective approach for numerous types of complex optimization problems. Despite the successful application of the HS algorithm on different non-software engineering optimization problems, it gained little attention in the direction of architecture reconstruction problem. In this study, we customize the original HS algorithm and propose a multi-objective harmony search algorithm for software architecture reconstruction (MoHS-SAR). To demonstrate the effectiveness of the MoHS-SAR, it has been tested on seven object-oriented software projects and compared with the existing related multi-objective evolutionary algorithms in terms of different software architecture quality metrics and metaheuristic performance criteria. The experimental results show that the MoHS-SAR performs better compared to the other related multi-objective evolutionary algorithms.

Development of Quality Control Requirements for Improving the Quality of Architectural Design Based on BIM

Building information modeling (BIM) technology has been utilized increasingly in quantitative ways in the architecture, engineering, and construction disciplines. However, owing to increasing requirements for improvement in qualitative factors in BIM-based design projects, it has become necessary to develop a checking and evaluation process for BIM-based architectural design. The purpose of this study is to develop and apply BIM-based quality control requirements for improving the quality of architectural design. To achieve this, the research investigated case studies for BIM data quality control and classified quality control targets according to physical/logical quality and data quality. The quality check criteria and checklists are developed through the reconfiguration of deduced quality control targets by requirement. The research developed a rule-based quality checking system using requirements for efficient quality control based on BIM.

Action research and architectural sustainable design education: a case study in Brazil

Research to improve aspects of architectural design education produced a collection of research-supported best practices and these lessons need integration into the studio environment. Design instructors must innovate, but in ways that allow previous result analysis. Action Research (AR) is seen as a valuable asset for providing an opportunity for systematic documentation and reflection of tested variables. This paper presents an AR-enriched architectural design studio teaching experience delivered to third year Architecture and Urban Design students and devised to support individual design process development of students, framed by bioclimatic and sustainable design of school buildings. A 5-year AR project sought to identify (1) the points where undergraduate architecture students “got stuck” during design development; (2) why they had difficulties to fully understand and integrate sustainability concepts into their proposals; and (3) which contents and approaches could help them to overcome design blocks and produce sustainability responsive quality designs. Our research involved 150 students while taking the studio between 2013 and 2018. As a design process takes time to be consolidated and assimilated, positive response was clearer in relation to students’ interest, behavior and demonstration of understanding of the body of knowledge. Significantly improved student design outcomes were not yet confirmed. However, our findings validate AR to improve a design studio setting through accumulated learning by instructors and detailed documentation and systematic analysis of the effects of a collection of approaches, tools and protocols could be applied to independent analysis to increase the quality of architectural design with sustainability in mind.

PARAMETRIC ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN IN GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING BASED ON OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM

As a widely applied method in many fields, parametric design is now finally exerting influences on architectural industry with the rapid development of Internet technology. For this reason, parametric architectural design is studied in this research based on optimization method. First, parametric design and optimization algorithm are introduced; then, the process of modeling and optimization procedures is discussed; at last, the parametric optimization design is applied to solve the complex architectural design problems. Parametric method will thoroughly affect architectural industry. Therefore, architectural designs should be based on optimization algorithm using parametric design to improve the progress and quality of architectural design.

Trentino. Territorio, paesaggio e architettura del regionalismo / Territory, landscape and critical regionalism in Trentino

The progress of the practice and the debate on architecture in the Alpine region of Trentino, in the last fifty years, has been characterised by a pivotal role of the Autonomous Province, the local authority with key competencies in environmental matters and spatial organisation, on the one hand, and by the experimentation and the promotion of discussion events on architecture, on the other. In the Sixties, spatial planning was conceived as a key instrument to support the development of a mountain province. Change was the perspective, and this required the activation of landscape control procedures centred on the control of the quality of architectural projects. This was not enough to qualify the professional practice, although some architects were able to propose innovative projects and began to animate the cultural debate, to establish supra-local relationships and to consolidate the awareness of the role of the architectural project. The contributions proposed are aimed at critically examine such issues, with a particular focus on the experience of institutions such as the “Scuola per il Governo del Territorio e del Paesaggio” within the Trentino School of Management, the “Osservatorio per il Paesaggio” within the Autonomous Province and the “Circolo Trentino Architettura Contemporanea”. Factors that led a decisive evolution of the spatial planning framework in the last decade, characterised by a new attention to the landscape and to the quality of architectural design, thanks to cultural initiatives, occasions of debate, and training paths.

Analyzing the Effect of Entrepreneurial Characteristics to Maximize the Architectural Design Quality Value in Greater Amman Municipality (Case Study)

The study aims to analyze the impact of entrepreneurial characteristics represented in (the need for achievement, self-confidence, take the initiative, independence, responsibility, willingness to take risks, and experience) to maximize the architectural design quality value related to (the value of the design interest in the environment changes - durability -, good interior design - benefit - and the aesthetic design). The hypotheses have been tested by adopting answers from engineers working in the Greater Amman Municipality, (250 engineers), using the multiple linear regression analysis. The study finds that the entrepreneurial characteristics represented in (the need for achievement, self-confidence, take the initiative, independence, responsibility, the willingness to take risks, and experience) have an impact on the value of architectural design quality in general and on its sub-value in particular. This demonstrates that maximizing the architectural design quality value depends on analyzing the impact of entrepreneurial characteristics of engineers partially.

Distinctively Different: A New Approach to Valuing Architectural Amenities

We propose a method to estimate the capitalized value of the architectural design quality of a neighbourhood. Our economic design premium is identified by spatially differentiating property prices and design quality within neighbourhoods and comparing the differences across neighbourhoods. We apply our method to 47 conservation area neighbourhoods in England in which we analyse around 7900 property transactions and interview more than 500 residents. We find a capitalization effect of about 25.4% (£38.7k) associated with a one-step increase on a five-step scale ranging from not at all-distinctive to very distinctive. Our results suggest that this effect is at least partially driven by an architectural externality.

Green BIM 기반 건축설계 품질평가를 위한 에너지 성능분석 결과값 가시화 기법 개발

Green BIM 기반 건축설계 품질평가를 위한 에너지 성능분석 결과값 가시화 기법 개발

Architectural Design Criteria for Multi-Storey Housing Buildings

Architecture influences people and the environment from the past, present and the future. Nevertheless architecture and design quality is viewed as subjective, and benchmarks to achieve consensus are necessary for design or evaluation of buildings. This paper establishes architectural design criteria for design quality of multi-storey housing buildings. A set of the criteria was established with literature review, an operational definition and survey on qualified persons or architects in the professional practice of architecture. The literature reviews identified seven concepts for architecture and design quality, and the operational definition translated this architectural design quality to measurable and observable cases and variables. The survey collected these variable data from a purposive sample of 95 respondents, and these data were examined by statistical analysis. The results of the descriptive statistics, inferential t-tests (p ≤ 0.05) and positive hypothesis testing verified that respondents in general agreed to these seven design concepts as architectural design criteria for design quality. These results established the first ever set of seven architectural design criteria which were ranked in descending order of significance as function, socio-culture, site context, cost, aesthetic of art, sustainability, and Feng Shui. These architectural design criteria can be applied to the design or evaluation of multi-storey housing buildings for the good of people and the environment.

Sustainable Architecture in Slovakia after the Year 1990

Consciously applied sustainable principles of building emerge in architecture since 1973. The cause was the oil crises. It forced a re-evaluation and an abandonment of the previous energy wasting building concepts and triggered the need to seek a new and more efficient architecture, sources of energy and materials. Years 1973 to 1982 can be described as a period of searching for more efficient building concepts, new energy sources and a radical re-assessment of traditional building technologies and energy sources. The period of utilization of alternative energy sources, mainly from solar power and from wind followed. In the 80s, the economics of the developed countries stabilized, which, to some extent, attenuated the development of ecologically conscious architecture. It ascended to the centre of interest only in the last decade of the 20th century, after the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro and the World Congress of the UIA in Chicago in 1993. Sustainability in architecture and construction began to acquire a significant position. Currently, projects and urban complexes implementing ecological ideas are being built while getting a significant attention from critics of architecture. After the year 2000, significant documents exalting sustainable architecture to general principles of building are being issued. Perhaps the most important document adopted at the European level is the European Directive on the Energy Performance of Buildings and the European Strategy 20-20-20.Forming thoughts about sustainability in architecture reached Slovak architectural scene with a slight delay. While in abroad first projects focusing on new sources of energy originated in late 70s of the 20th century, in our territory these thoughts came in the centre of interest only in the 90s. The period before the change of political situation in our country in 1989 can be characterized by numerous discussions and forming thoughts on reducing energy consumption of buildings and on utilizing alternative energy sources. Already in the first half of the 80s interesting projects were designed, but unfortunately they remained just paper projects. However, this beginning of ecologically conscious architecture was the essential for its later development. The decade of the 90s enabled to apply a sustainable design approach more intensely and triggered the construction of various architectural projects. The interest focused mainly on the solar energy and in the late 90s back on traditional natural building materials used in vernacular architecture in the past. The aim to reduce the energy consumption of buildings was the driving force in the construction of first experimental houses and public buildings and also in urban structures. Slovakia took part in international projects, such as Brundtland City Project. Abrupt building boom in our country since the beginning of the new century evolved the market of energy efficient buildings. Monitoring of energy savings, inevitable according to the adopted ambitions of the European Union was the starting point of architectural designs especially of low-energy and passive houses. The usage of traditional natural building material remains still up to date. Except of technologically and materially sophisticated constructions, the uniqueness and the quality of architectural design are currently strongly emphasized. The awards-winning outstanding and sustainable architecture serves as a proof.Up to now, most of sustainability in architecture has been performed on a scale of the object. At present, it transforms to the dimension of a city district. This is what we endeavor also at the Faculty of Architecture, STU in both research and teaching practice, mainly in the sustainable design studio.Current ambitions of the European Union in the constructions of sustainable architecture force us to reflect the progress of sustainable architecture. To achieve these ambitions it is necessary to monitor the development of ecologically conscious architecture in Slovak architectural scene. This is the subject of our research Mapping of ecologically conscious architecture in Slovakia. Partial outcome of this research is the content of our conference paper.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.sace.12.3.13001

BIM 기반 설계도서 추출을 위한 구조계산서 연동 보조 S/W 개발 및 개선방향에 관한 연구

Recently, a lot of countries have obliged to use BIM in the AEC Industry. The BIM has been introduced and applied in the many public organizations such as MOLIT(Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport), PPS(Public Procurement Service), LH, EX(Korean Expressway Corporation) to catch up with the fast-developing BIM in the world. For instance, the PPS implemented a testbed for verifying and comparing BIM-based real project. However, it has been delayed to activate BIM, because a lot of construction companies have negative views. In order to solve this problem, KAIA(Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement) has done various R&D business. Furthermore, they hope to accomplish BIM based construction environment. The purpose of this study is to develop an Auto-lingage S/W of structural analysis documents and to define direction for BIM based Design Document Extraction. It study shows its effectiveness by applying the result to some business. This research will help to improve quality of architectural design and efficiency of construction tasks.

Distinctively Different: A New Approach to Valuing Architectural Amenities

We propose a method to estimate the capitalized value of the architectural design quality of a neighbourhood. Our economic design premium is identified by spatially differentiating property prices and design quality within neighbourhoods and comparing the differences across neighbourhoods. We apply our method to 47 conservation area neighbourhoods in England in which we analyse around 7900 property transactions and interview more than 500 residents. We find a capitalization effect of about 25.4% (£38.7k) associated with a one-step increase on a five-step scale ranging from not at all-distinctive to very distinctive. Our results suggest that this effect is at least partially driven by an architectural externality.

Architectural Design Quality Assessment Based On Analytic Hierarchy Process: A Case Study

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN QUALITY ASSESSMENT BASED ON ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS: A CASE STUDY OZET VE ANAHTAR SOZCUKLER Abstract Architectural design quality is hard to evaluate due to its complexity. Defining criteria, setting forth a methodology and deciding on who is going to assess the quality for whom are also on-going discussions to date. To this end, tools have been developed, yet they are mostly used for post-occupancy evaluation, thereby not contributing to the design stages in progress. This article aims to reveal a new, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) based approach for the assessment of architectural design quality which can be used for design stages starting from pre-design to final design. Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) is a powerful and comprehensible system that allows groups or individuals to combine qualitative as well as quantitative factors in decision-making processes. AHP, a MCDM method, structures a decision problem into levels forming a hierarchy. As quality is in the eye of the beholder, an AHP-based approach aims to improve architectural design quality in the design process through the contribution of stakeholders’ preferences through the design processes. The proposed approach is implemented in a case study in cooperation with one of the biggest private health care providers of Turkey. Keywords: Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), Architectural Design Quality, Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) Ozet Karmasikligindan dolayi, Mimari Tasarim kalitesinin degerlendirilmesi zordur. Olcutlerin belirlenmesi, yontemin ortaya konmasi ve kaliteyi kimin, kim icin degerlendirecegi de devam eden tartismalardandir. Bu amacla, devam eden tasarim sureclerine girdi veremeyen, cogunlugu kullanim sureci degerlendirmesinde kullanilan pek cok degerlendirme araci gelistirilmistir. Bu makale, tasarimin ilk asamalarindan son asamalarina kadar kullanilabilecek Analitik Hiyerarsi Prosesi (AHP) tabanli yeni bir yontem onermeyi amaclamaktadir. Cok Olcutlu Karar Verme (COKV) karar verme surecinde bireysel ve grup karlarlarinda soyut ve somut etkenlerin birlikte degerlendirilebildigi guclu ve anlasilabilir bir sistemdir. Bir COKV yontemi olan AHP karar sorunlarini olusturdugu hiyerarsik yapi ile tanimlar. Kalite goreceli olarak degerlendirilebileceginden, AHP tabanli yaklasim yapi elde etme surecinin paydaslari gozunden surec icerisindeki tercihlerini anlamayi amaclamaktadir. Onerilen yaklasim Turkiye’nin onde gelen saglik kuruluslarinin birinde ornek olay calismasi ile sinanmistir. Anahtar Kelimeler: Analitik Hiyerarsi Prosesi (AHP), Mimari Tasarim Kalitesi, Cok Olcutlu Karar Verme (COKV)