Studio Project Research Articles

Performance analysis of a solid desiccant assisted hybrid space cooling system using TRNSYS

The traditional air conditioners suffer from performance degradation especially in humid conditions. This is due to fact that the excess moisture level in ventilation air considerably increases latent cooling load of the space to be conditioned. The use of desiccant integrated vapor compression hybrid cooling system can alleviate this problem by controlling the temperature and humidity separately. It also reduces energy consumption for obtaining desired thermal comfort. In the present study, TRNSYS simulation studio project has been developed to perform the simulations of the desiccant dehumidifier coupled vapor compression hybrid system for different configurations in summer cooling season. Experimental measurements are also carried out to observe the influence of operating parameters on system performance. The obtained results show that the proposed system has ensured a substantial reduction in process air humidity at dehumidifier exit while maintaining the conditioned room comfort.

"Internet Plus Project" Online to Offline Explore and Practice of Mixed Teaching Mode

The Internet makes the education of information technology more and more widely used in teaching, and the teaching must be improved in order to adapt to the Internet environment. Relying on the online course, the Digital media application technology major of our college has been practicing the mixed teaching model. In this process, the teachers will optimize the Studio Project, curriculum, explore and practiceInternet plus project online to offline mixed teaching mode, And a good teaching effect had been achieved.

Development and optimisation of image segmentation algorithm on an embedded DSP-platform

In this work, a very efficient segmentation algorithm based on the analysis of vertical and horizontal histogram by using edge detection method is developed in order to detect the licence plate from a colour vehicle image. VM3224K2 Daughter Kit is used to capture the input image which is to be converted into YUV format and fed to C6713 development kit. The licence plate localisation algorithm is implemented by using MATLAB software and verified for its functionality's. First the in-built functions of MATLAB were replaced by user-defined functions in Simulink Model then translated into Code Composer Studio (CCS) project written in C using an integrated development environment provided by Texas Instrument; also it's compiled and debugged by using CCS, downloaded onto TMS320C6713 DSP-Platform. Finally, VM3224 Daughter Kit is embedded with DSK6713 Kit to display the output image. The proposed algorithm has achieved an accuracy of around 100% and works for both front and rear digital images.

Development and optimisation of image segmentation algorithm on an embedded DSP-platform

In this work, a very efficient segmentation algorithm based on the analysis of vertical and horizontal histogram by using edge detection method is developed in order to detect the licence plate from a colour vehicle image. VM3224K2 Daughter Kit is used to capture the input image which is to be converted into YUV format and fed to C6713 development kit. The licence plate localisation algorithm is implemented by using MATLAB software and verified for its functionality's. First the in-built functions of MATLAB were replaced by user-defined functions in Simulink Model then translated into Code Composer Studio (CCS) project written in C using an integrated development environment provided by Texas Instrument; also it's compiled and debugged by using CCS, downloaded onto TMS320C6713 DSP-Platform. Finally, VM3224 Daughter Kit is embedded with DSK6713 Kit to display the output image. The proposed algorithm has achieved an accuracy of around 100% and works for both front and rear digital images.

Community bicycle repair workshop - G26 studio project by Alin PĂTRUCĂ

Community bicycle repair workshop - G26 studio project by Alin PĂTRUCĂ

Design Led Innovationにおけるスタジオプロジェクト事例研究

Design Led Innovationにおけるスタジオプロジェクト事例研究

Contrapuntal design: The influence of Bertram Y. Kinzey, Jr., on architectural pedagogy at the University of Florida

Bertram Kinzey introduced modes of analysis, conceptualization, and exploration, as a dedicated and productive researcher, author, teacher, architect, consultant, and musician that were transformative and continue to reverberate internationally through the work of his students. Bert’s insightful theoretical and practical relationships between music, acoustics, and architecture were drawn from his reflective approach to teaching and refined through active practice. Perhaps foundational to his educational contribution, is his interest and talent as an organist and organ builder leading to his use of “contrapuntal” to describe the interaction of music and architecture—new notes overlapping those lingering in the space and time of reverberance. Overlapping, independent, yet harmonizing elements might also describe Bert’s approach to architectural design as a theoretical construct; an integrative process; and as a measure of great architecture. Contrapuntal thinking is well known in literature and music but is just emerging in architecture. Bert introduced this important idea—among many others at the University of Florida—through his writings and tenure as a UF professor. This paper discusses Bert’s ‘contrapuntal thinking’ and the subsequent influence on architectural education through a recent graduate studio project for a new arts park and concert hall for the community of Sarasota, Florida.

THE VALUE AND DYNAMICS OF COMMUNITY-BASED STUDIO PROJECTS IN PLANNING EDUCATION IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH

Urbanisation is growing in the global South, but urban planning is not keeping up to ad- dress the problem of urban growth. Many planning schools in Africa still promote ideas transferred from the global North. (The master plan of Lusaka in Zambia, for instance, was based on the concept of the Garden City, but Garden City for whom?) Most planning schools fail to adequately prepare planning students for the problems they will later en- counter in African cities. In order to confront the urbanisation pressures on the continent in all its unique dimensions, fundamental shifts are needed in the way planning schools on the continent prepare planners. Responding to this challenge, the University of Zambia (UNZA) launched a Master of Science degree in Spatial Planning in 2013. Informality and studio-based teaching and learning are major components of the programme. In an effort to raise some of the inherent challenges and benefits of running community-based studio projects in Africa, this study addresses the question: How can planning studio projects contribute to the overhauling of the planning profession in Africa? The paper uses a case study to draw upon the experiences of eighteen master’s students who were engaged in a community-based planning studio project in the Lusaka’s Kalikiliki informal settlement. The paper concludes that community-based studio projects present an opportunity that has potential for raising the consciousness of planners and enabling them to build on post-colonial, endogenous innovation inspired by cities of the global South.

Working Collaboratively—Teaching Collaboration

My research into the dynamics and mechanics of collaboration and teaching collaborative practices started as a studio art project with a colleague. In this project, we worked deliberately and self-consciously on our collaboration to extract a set of parameters or guidelines for our students. Since then, I have helped develop a linked pair of courses titled "Integrative Studio" and "Integrative Seminar" that include "teaching students how to collaborate" as a learning outcome. My research for this article began by asking faculty who teach this course how they approach the topic. This article is grounded in four narratives that describe how to teach students to work in groups. Working in groups teaches students the meaning of the word peer in an authentic manner as a lived experience that is central to contemporary discussions of effective learning. Students who learn to collaborate may gain a deeper understanding of the way their minds work, find a commitment to building strong communities, understand dispositions toward learning, and exercise higher-order thinking skills. Although my work is specifically within art and design, the ideas and strategies discussed could be applied to or adapted for other contexts.

Chasing ephemerality: Notes on doctoral mentoring and artistic collaboration

Abstract In this article, we explore our experiences and shifting positions as doctoral mentor and mentee, co-mentors, and collaborators over the course of one semester. We use duography (Diamond and Mullen 1996) as an analytical approach to reveal the convergence of separate perspectives and voices as we examine both the evolution of dissertation research questions and a shared studio project – highlighting mentoring and collaborative practices that stretch, blur, and morph into one another. Writing together is a transparent way of discovering what we know or have learned, and of mentoring and being mentored within and about the writing process itself. Our account describes both the co-construction of research and the ways in which our collaborative research and studio practices changed, and changed us, over time.

Strategic structure plans for Peliyagoda, Ja-ela and Wattala

The strategic structure plans for Peliyagoda, Wattala and Ja-Ela come at an opportune time when the urban development process in Sri Lanka is expanding into every city, town, village and even at each node through various development projects. However, it has been an argument that the kind of urban development that is being undertaken presently results many negative impacts and its outcomes are not favourable as they do not meaningfully incorporate the sitespecific issues. These three development plans reconcile such issues by carefully identifying the root causes of the spatial issues and planning failures if not otherwise addressed. During the period of November 2011 – January 2012, the final year undergraduate students of the Department of Town Country Planning involved in a studio project to prepare strategic structure plans for Peliyagoda, Wattala and Ja-Ela which are competing with each other, having so many potentials not only in terms of resources but also in terms of location.

Preventing or inventing? Understanding the effects of non-prescriptive design briefs

This paper discusses observations of an architecture and environmental engineering undergraduate design studio project assigned to 4th year students at a UK university. In the UK, most architecture courses are characterised by a high proportion of design studio teaching supported by varying amount of technical modules that include environmental and construction learning. Recent scholarship on sustainability education in architecture, discusses the necessity for new approaches that enhance transdisciplinarity, autonomy and independent decision-making. However, despite increasing importance to both practice and policy, few empirical or theoretical examples account for the implications or experiences of such an approach. This study presents the experiences of an architecture and environmental engineering design studio whereby studio activities are closely interlinked with technical engineering enquiry and experiment. Specifically, the research examines the challenges and opportunities students face when assigned a design project that attempts to translate independently derived briefs into novel architectural environmentally engineered interpretations. The analysis draws on a series of ethnographic narrative and visual observations carried over a period of 6 months. The implications of the findings are threefold. First, the analysis shows the opportunities an integrated cross-disciplinary approach can offer, where the gap between creative and technical domains is narrowed. Second, the study presents some of the challenges faced by increased autonomy and lack of prescription that students encounter. Third, the paper contributes to an emerging agenda of sustainability education in the built environment by offering valuable insights into the benefits and difficulties cross-disciplinary approaches pose to architectural education.

Necessity of “Historic Cultural Heritage and Conservation” Course in Interior Architecture Education

For five decades, academics and architects have been debating the subject of historical conservation techniques. Nowadays, much of building activities take place in historic areas. Most of the architects and interior architects are engaged to renovation or restoration of historical buildings. Architectural education is considered to be a complex process. Teaching the historical cultural heritage and conservation of historic structures constitutes an important part of architectural education. So, it is essential for students of architecture and interior architecture to be aware of the philosophy of conservation of historic cultural heritage. The course of “Historic Cultural Heritage and Conservation” which is about cultural heritage and principles, takes place in the undergraduate curriculum in the architecture and interior architecture departments of Izmir University. By this course knowledge of conservation, and restoration techniques were introduced. While students were taking this course also they were working on a studio project about a case study of an historical building. This paper considers the students’ approach to conservation and reuse of old warehouse building, in the scope of studio project. The aim of this paper is to show how the students were referred to conservation techniques on their studio projects while taking “Historic Cultural Heritage and Conservation” course.

Locating Project Studios and Studio Projects

ABSTRACTVia a longitudinal case study of a studio project (Middlewood Sessions, 2004–12), this research explores processes of music-making in the increasingly prevalent context of the project studio to give an insight into contemporary music-making practices. Predicated upon technologies of decreasing size but increasing processing power, project studios represent a diversification of musical creativity in terms of the persons and locations of music production. Increasingly mobile technologies lead to increasingly mobile practices of music production, which presents a challenge to the seemingly simple question: where is the project studio? In response, I propose an ontology of project-studio music-making that sets out what conditions have to be met for location, as an active proposition, to take place.

In the Context of Interior Architecture Departments in Turkey; Design Studio (Project) Education

The courses of design studio are the most weighted elements in education as an essential part of interior architecture education. There are areas where thinking and design skills of the students are improved yet it is different from other courses. Increased number of students for each academic member in the project courses conducted through a mentor system has resulted in failure to sustain project-oriented education actively and reduced the productivity quality of education. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to address the educational methods applied in various forms in the design studio courses of Interior Architecture departments in Turkey.

Human‐Centred Design Projects and Co‐Design in/outside the Turkish Classroom: Responses and Challenges

AbstractPerhaps more than any other professional group in modern history, designers have felt compelled to undertake the responsibility of addressing and engaging with societal problems in their practice. Initially, this liability involved concerns of form and production methods during the industrial revolution era, and developed into existential, ethical and context‐specific (Western) priorities of working and living during the twentieth century. Today, citizenship by design involves efforts that are directed to wards creating social change for and with the audience. Drawn from empirical research, this article presents the challenges met and lessons learnt when introducing human‐centred design practices to Visual Communication Design (Graphic Design) students in Turkey. As a self‐reflexive study, it draws from students' reception and feedback on a studio project on social awareness, accessibility and authority sharing with visually impaired people, and an applied workshop on the benefit of user collaboration in design. It aims to raise questions of relevance and assimilation of a socially oriented design practice in a non‐Western, commerce‐driven economy at the urge of modernisation. Moreover, acknowledging the strong element of conformity with peer members in Turkish society (such as the government, family and teachers), this work also aims to examine hierarchy‐challenging design practice in and outside the Turkish classroom.

Performance studies of hybrid solid desiccant–vapor compression air-conditioning system for hot and humid climates

Suitability of the solid desiccant cooling to supplement the conventional vapor compression refrigeration air conditioner has been studied for typical hot and humid climate. A solid desiccant and vapor compression hybrid air-conditioning system for a test room of cooling capacity 1.8kW, has been modelled in simulation studio project and simulated in TRNSYS environment for the cooling season from March to September. The obtained results have been validated against experimental test data. The effects of ambient humidity ratio and temperature on coefficient of performance and supply air temperature have been evaluated. The variation in coefficient of performance has been obtained at various regeneration temperatures. The simulation results show the suitability of such systems for cooling of building in hot and humid climates.

Fabric formwork – prototype to typology

When developmental vernacular practice is telescoped into industrial activity, the role played by construction workers in the honing of a craft is rapidly bypassed. An almost political act is required to maintain the contribution that the hand makes to the uniformity of result that is demanded by the standard classification of typologies of building and technique. Research into fabric formwork techniques conducted by the author utilises the flexibility of the concrete mould to explore the meaning of the making ‘process’ and the workers’ role in relation to the formal ‘result’.The author's ‘Wall One’ exemplifies the exploratory prototype and its potential for variety and the trace of the hand in making. The shift to a mass-production typology involved in realising the 325,000 square-metre Heatherwick Studio project in Shanghai presented the problem of how to orchestrate the fabric into a fully industrialised process. Part of the research then became how to make the shift from play to profit—and can anything of craft survive the transition into the international development marketplace? Through managing the inherent variety available to the fabric itself, a fabric-based formwork solution for realising a building at the scale of a landscape offered the Chinese formwork maker the opportunity to be present within the results of a fully industrialised process—a ghost in the machine.

Making Methods Work: 10 Rules of Thumb for Design Research

Background : This paper outlines ten rules of thumb, or heuristics, for conducting good research in the context of human centered design. The subject matter is situated in design education within the structure of the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. To further set context, a process common to the School is framed in terms of Exploratory, Generative, and Evaluative research and design. Methods : The ten rules of thumb were extracted from several years of research and design projects conducted by students and faculty in the School of Design. A common example of the rules of thumb employed through the research and design process is exhibited in projects executed in the graduate Master of Design course, Research Methods for Design. This course is linked to a Studio project course, such that methods are taught “just in time” for application in a full semester long, team-based client project. Students are prompted with an open-ended design brief that varies each year. Results : The ten heuristics are, to Set boundaries; Immerse yourself; Engage your stakeholders; Work in context; Work in teams; Be creative; Integrate research and design; Use both sides of your brain; Triangulate; and Be credible. Examples of research methods and approaches ideally suited to fulfilling each rule of thumb are used to illustrate the heuristics and provide practical guidance for design applications. The paper is concluded with a sample project from the School of Design, highlighting the process framework, rules of thumb, and application of various research and design methods. Conclusion : Although not comprehensive, the ten rules of thumb, each presented with a brief definition, justification, and sample methods, are intended to guide a valid, productive, and enjoyable human centered research and design process, with a goal of achieving excellence in design outcomes through a well bounded, immersive and engaging, contextual, team-based, creative, integrated rational and intuitive process utilizing a triangulated set of credible research methods.

A Cross‐Cultural and Interdisciplinary Collaboration in a Joint Design Studio

AbstractA design studio is a critical venue for design students, as they are educated to develop design thinking and other skills through studio courses. This article introduces a design studio project in which Korean and Malaysian students worked jointly for one semester to design affordable urban housing. The Korean students were interior design majors and the Malaysian students were architecture majors; thus it was thought that the students' areas of expertise were likely to differ. It was also anticipated that the students would display cultural differences in terms of housing and planning practices. The motive for starting the joint design studio was the idea that a cross‐cultural collaborative working setting could redefine students' thinking styles and stimulate students to obtain non‐routine perspectives on the design of buildings and spaces. Through observation and interviews, we explored how students tackled affordable housing problems within the context of cross‐cultural and interdisciplinary design education. Collaborative learning in a joint studio situation supplemented students' expertise, re‐orienting approaches to design and opening up a holistic approach to the design issues of affordability, sustainability and community. Overall, the practical learning in the joint studio project validated the importance of exploring alternative solutions based on varied levels of information, and input of those from different educational and cultural backgrounds. The cross‐cultural and interdisciplinary collaboration allowed for a previously unavailable enhancement of design education by encouraging students to obtain divergent thinking for innovative design ideas.