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Low-tech versus high-technological solutions for a pandemic-adaptable society (2022)
Book Chapter
Wilkinson, S., & Organ, S. (2022). Low-tech versus high-technological solutions for a pandemic-adaptable society. In S. Sayce, S. Wilkinson, G. Armstrong, & S. Organ (Eds.), Resilient Building Retrofits (124-144). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003023975-9

Wilkinson and Organ explore ‘low’ and ‘high’ technological innovations that could bring significant change to the carbon footprint of existing buildings. That is, whether such measures have little or no reliance on computerised technologies (‘low tec... Read More about Low-tech versus high-technological solutions for a pandemic-adaptable society.

Architecture without Prelates, Magistrates and Admirals: The R3build pavilion (2022)
Book Chapter
Drozynski, C. (2022). Architecture without Prelates, Magistrates and Admirals: The R3build pavilion. In A. Bliss, & D. Kopec (Eds.), Architectural Factors for Infection and Disease Control. Routledge

Architects, much like diagnosticians of a body suffering from a malady are investigators of the state society is in. They examine the condition of culture to propose an adequate spatial response that does not only provides a solution to a problem (of... Read More about Architecture without Prelates, Magistrates and Admirals: The R3build pavilion.

Urban greening snakes and ladders: A case study of the practical realities of implementing food-water-energy nexus projects in Southend-on-Sea, UK (2022)
Book Chapter
Rumble, H., & Brown, J. (2022). Urban greening snakes and ladders: A case study of the practical realities of implementing food-water-energy nexus projects in Southend-on-Sea, UK. In A. Melis, J. Brown, & C. Coulter (Eds.), Designing Sustainable and Resilient Cities. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

As the CRUNCH project launched in April 2018, Southend-on-Sea (SoS) presented as an exciting location to test innovative nature-based nexus solutions. The proposed Urban Living Lab (ULL) location was part of the urban regeneration plan for the town c... Read More about Urban greening snakes and ladders: A case study of the practical realities of implementing food-water-energy nexus projects in Southend-on-Sea, UK.

The intimate archive: Sites of representation and embodiment in a reading of Drawing Matter (2022)
Book Chapter
Banou, S. (2022). The intimate archive: Sites of representation and embodiment in a reading of Drawing Matter. In F. Goffi (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Architectural Drawings and Models: From Translating to Archiving, Collecting and Displaying. London: Routledge

This chapter draws from Frascari’s discussion of “Drawings as loci for thought” () as well as earlier research on the “situation of drawing” (Banou 2015), to propose that the drawing archive inherits modes of embodied cognition from the particular mo... Read More about The intimate archive: Sites of representation and embodiment in a reading of Drawing Matter.

The importance of social infrastructure in supporting physical infrastructure and enabling the development of sustainable cities (2022)
Book Chapter
Greed, C. (2022). The importance of social infrastructure in supporting physical infrastructure and enabling the development of sustainable cities. In D. Iossifova, A. Gasparatos, S. Zavos, Y. Gamal, & Y. Long (Eds.), Urban Infrastructuring - Reconfigurations, Transformations and Sustainability in the Global South (265-276). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8352-7_16

April, 2022 ‘The importance of social infrastructure in supporting physical infrastructure and enabling the development of sustainable cities, chapter 16, pp 265-276 in Deljana Iossifova, Urban Infrastructuring: Reconfigurations, Transformations an... Read More about The importance of social infrastructure in supporting physical infrastructure and enabling the development of sustainable cities.

Morphological differentiation for the environmental adaptation of biomimetic buildings: Skins, surfaces, and structures (2022)
Book Chapter
Badarnah, L., & Zolotovsky, K. (2022). Morphological differentiation for the environmental adaptation of biomimetic buildings: Skins, surfaces, and structures. In Biomimicry for Materials, Design and Habitats: Innovations and Applications (439-466). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821053-6.00007-2

Morphology and form are the most common traits to be transferred from natural systems into architecture. However, such traits have seldom retained any environmental adaptation strategy of the imitated systems from nature, and therefore hardly represe... Read More about Morphological differentiation for the environmental adaptation of biomimetic buildings: Skins, surfaces, and structures.

BIM education in the Dominican Republic: A framework to guide the implementation of BIM into university curricula (2021)
Book Chapter
Silverio, A. K., Suresh, S., Heesom, D., & Renukappa, S. (2021). BIM education in the Dominican Republic: A framework to guide the implementation of BIM into university curricula. In J. Underwood, & M. Shelbourn (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Driving Transformational Change in the Digital Built Environment. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6600-8.ch013

Lack of BIM skilled professionals and lack of education and BIM training are key challenges to BIM implementation. The provision of BIM education in higher education institutions is seen as the main solution to these challenges. This chapter is part... Read More about BIM education in the Dominican Republic: A framework to guide the implementation of BIM into university curricula.

Practicing Flânerie: Imagined and applied walking strategies in Pretoria/Tshwane, South Africa (2021)
Book Chapter
Lavinia, B., Bibi, B., & Rice, L. (2021). Practicing Flânerie: Imagined and applied walking strategies in Pretoria/Tshwane, South Africa. In K. Comfort, & . M. Papalas (Eds.), New Directions in Flânerie: Global Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century. London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

In late 2019, a poetry-writing “walkshop” in Pretoria/Tshwane, South Africa, was organized in collaboration with two local arts organizations. In this chapter, the walkshop is contextualized within debates on flânerie in South African cities, and att... Read More about Practicing Flânerie: Imagined and applied walking strategies in Pretoria/Tshwane, South Africa.

I spy with my little eye: Improving user involvement in elderly care facility design through virtual reality (2021)
Book Chapter
Mahamadu, A., Okeke, U., Prabhakaran, A., Booth, C. A., & Olomolaiye, P. (2022). I spy with my little eye: Improving user involvement in elderly care facility design through virtual reality. In C. Gorse, L. Scott, C. Booth, & M. Dastbaz (Eds.), Climate Emergency – Managing, Building , and Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (385-394). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79450-7_29

Recent studies have established that an ageing population is the most prevalent problem for healthcare provision. Thus, the design of care facilities must ensure better support for the needs of the elderly population. One of the areas of innovation i... Read More about I spy with my little eye: Improving user involvement in elderly care facility design through virtual reality.