Fidel Meraz's Outputs (13)

Architectural inclusivity: Adaptive spaces for aural wellbeing of individuals with dissimilar sensorium (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

It is often found that architectural spaces are designed primarily through visual geometrical procedures, privileging a standardised kind of user experience. Vision has been given a prominent role in the spatial experience. However, as we might be in... Read More about Architectural inclusivity: Adaptive spaces for aural wellbeing of individuals with dissimilar sensorium.

Metaphysics of architecture: An integral theory framework for sustainability (2023)
Journal Article

The paper acts as a critique of prevalent current sustainable architecture and proposes a conceptual framework for sustainable design practice. In this paper, we argue that sustainable building standards,such as Passivhaus and BREEAM, have failed to... Read More about Metaphysics of architecture: An integral theory framework for sustainability.

Facilitating ambient intelligence of acoustic atmospheres (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

“There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. ” – John Cage, ‘Silence’
The project intends to understand how sounds alter people’... Read More about Facilitating ambient intelligence of acoustic atmospheres.

Nurturing architecture: Education, research and practice for health and wellbeing (2021)
Journal Article

Nurturing Architecture explores how an ethos of care, of providing nourishment and supporting growth and development, might be understood as a founding principle for architectural education and practice. The term allows multiple interpretations, whic... Read More about Nurturing architecture: Education, research and practice for health and wellbeing.

Architectural form and environment through the lens of integral theory (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Much of contemporary discussions in sustainable design have focused mainly on objective attributes whilst overlooking the importance of environmental design factors as sensory qualities. The criticism to current approaches in sustainable design is th... Read More about Architectural form and environment through the lens of integral theory.

A la búsqueda del lugar del estar-a-la-mano (2020)
Journal Article

Based on Graham Harman's original interpretation of Heidegger's concepts of ready-to-hand (Zuhandenheit) and present-at-hand (Vorhandenheit) (Harman, 2002), this essay looks for the consequences of such an analysis applicable to an existentially reve... Read More about A la búsqueda del lugar del estar-a-la-mano.

Designing for Health & Wellbeing: Home, City, Society (2019)
Book

Rapid urbanization represents major threats and challenges to personal and public health. The World Health Organisation identifies the ‘urban health threat’ as three-fold: infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases; and violence and injury from,... Read More about Designing for Health & Wellbeing: Home, City, Society.

Cesare Brandi (1906 to 1988): His concept of restoration and the dilemma of architecture (2019)
Journal Article

This article offers a theoretical review of the origin of the concept of restoration in Brandi's view, proposing a critique centered on architectural restoration. Brandi's theoretical trajectory is outlined in his approach to the discernment of art i... Read More about Cesare Brandi (1906 to 1988): His concept of restoration and the dilemma of architecture.

Cesare Brandi (1906 a 1988): Su concepto de restauración y el dilema de la arquitectura (2019)
Journal Article

Este artículo ofrece una revisión teórica del origen del concepto de restauración en el pensamiento de Brandi proponiendo una crítica centrada en el caso de la restauración de arquitectura. Se perfila el recorrido teórico de Brandi en su aproximación... Read More about Cesare Brandi (1906 a 1988): Su concepto de restauración y el dilema de la arquitectura.

In search of the place of being ready-to-hand. Uncovering reciprocity between architectural design research and philosophy (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Based on Graham Harman’s illuminating interpretation of Heidegger’s concepts of ready-to-hand and present-at-hand, the paper elucidates some of the consequences of such an analysis for an architectural design research existentially revealing. Once th... Read More about In search of the place of being ready-to-hand. Uncovering reciprocity between architectural design research and philosophy.

On the experience of temporality: Existential issues in the conservation of architectural places (2017)
Journal Article

In discussions of the conservation of culturally significant architecture, awareness about issues of temporality and its theoretical import has been approached from varied, partial, perspectives. These perspectives have usually focused on accounts of... Read More about On the experience of temporality: Existential issues in the conservation of architectural places.

Architectural place as a resource: Principles towards a manifesto (2015)
Digital Artefact

There is a great deal of debate around the question of who owns our cities. Space and buildings perceived as 'public' are often not as 'open' and accessible as they appear to be whilst 'private' space and buildings are often very 'open.' The question... Read More about Architectural place as a resource: Principles towards a manifesto.

Space, Sound, Sensation
Digital Artefact

Space, Sound, Sensation will consist of a site-specific, interactive sound installation, open to the you free of charge across three days. The installation will be a space in which sound will vary in response to the audience's movements within it. Th... Read More about Space, Sound, Sensation.