All Outputs (130)

Stewardship innovation: The forgotten component in maximising the value of urban nature-based solutions (2021)
Book Chapter

Nature-based solutions (NBS) enable the ecosystem service benefits associated with natural landscapes to be embedded into the built environment, simultaneously providing environmental, social, and economic benefits. This represents a mechanism for re... Read More about Stewardship innovation: The forgotten component in maximising the value of urban nature-based solutions.

Participatory backcasting for achieving desired co-produced mobility futures: A case study of MaaS in Greater Manchester (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Co-creating the tolerant city: The role of inspirational civic leadership (2021)
Book Chapter

In recent decades, the international movement of peoples to cities has accelerated, and some cities now have very high numbers of foreign-born residents. This chapter offers a contribution to current debates about the leadership and management of mu... Read More about Co-creating the tolerant city: The role of inspirational civic leadership.

Complex urban futures: Design science for flux territories (2021)
Book Chapter

Book description: How should we train? What should we learn? What is our value? Disruptive technologies have increased speculation about what it means to be an architect. Innovations simultaneously offer great promise and potential risk to design pr... Read More about Complex urban futures: Design science for flux territories.

Pedagogical nurture through other means: A style of educating for architects by Gilles Deleuze (2021)
Journal Article

The current landscape of architectural pedagogy is exposed to issues of standardisation that echo the ones that higher education faced in the second half of the twentieth century. The systems of pedagogic nurture in academia that were proposed during... Read More about Pedagogical nurture through other means: A style of educating for architects by Gilles Deleuze.

Building certification schemes: Are they driving or derailing sustainable development in the construction sector? (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Building certification schemes have been hailed as a sustainable building solution; growing debate exists as to the efficacy of these schemes and whether they can really deliver a sustainable built environment. As no agreed definition of sustainabili... Read More about Building certification schemes: Are they driving or derailing sustainable development in the construction sector?.

Just painting. Performative painting as visual discourse (2021)
Book Chapter

This chapter considers the possibilities of using performative painting as a form of visual and spatial architectural research, where the act of painting is part of the research itself. The paintings are of specific sites and sights that are localise... Read More about Just painting. Performative painting as visual discourse.

Fabrication-aware parametric design of segmented concrete shells (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Research is underway to explore the potential of using structurally efficient non-prismatic geometries to substantially reduce the amount of concrete in building elements, thus reducing their carbon footprint. In particular, the benefits of using thi... Read More about Fabrication-aware parametric design of segmented concrete shells.

The whittling away of wonderful ideas (2021)
Journal Article

Design leaps: Divergent thinking techniques across media for architectural design (2021)
Thesis

This thesis examines the moments of divergence that occur across media in the early stages of the architectural design process. The term ‘divergent thinking’, coined by Joy Paul Guilford (1967) as a key component of creativity, describes the flexibil... Read More about Design leaps: Divergent thinking techniques across media for architectural design.

Literature review on the impacts of infrastructure on quality of life (2021)
Report

Key factors influencing the implementation of three-dimensional printing in construction (2021)
Journal Article

Due to its wider applications and advantages, three-dimensional (3D) printing has attracted the attention of various industries in the past years. Although the implementation of 3D printing in many industries still has challenges, progress in the con... Read More about Key factors influencing the implementation of three-dimensional printing in construction.

Developing a process-oriented approach towards Positive Energy Blocks: The wind-analysis contribution (2021)
Journal Article

Positive Energy Block (PEB) is an emerging paradigm to transform cities into low carbon cities. It is expected that buildings will become the main components of the future energy infrastructure. This scenario demands a structural integration of the c... Read More about Developing a process-oriented approach towards Positive Energy Blocks: The wind-analysis contribution.

Achieving tree canopy cover targets: A case study of Bristol, UK (2021)
Journal Article

Many cities are increasing urban canopy cover to mitigate the impacts of urbanisation and climate change. Ambitious canopy cover targets are being implemented, with little consideration on how best to achieve them. The City of Bristol has recently pu... Read More about Achieving tree canopy cover targets: A case study of Bristol, UK.

Sustainable energy production from municipal solid waste in Oman (2021)
Journal Article

The adverse impact of the energy production from fossil fuels is now well recognised globally. Therefore, the move towards renewable and sustainable energy has become integral to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. A comparative... Read More about Sustainable energy production from municipal solid waste in Oman.

Co-creation pathways to inform shared governance of urban living labs in practice: Lessons from three European projects (2021)
Journal Article

Over recent decades Urban Living Labs (ULLs) have become a common space for co-creation processes' experimentation, whereby new approaches for sustainable urban development are highly connected to support evidence-based policy generation. Europe seem... Read More about Co-creation pathways to inform shared governance of urban living labs in practice: Lessons from three European projects.

Predicting solar radiation with Artificial Neural Network based on urban geometrical classification (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This research introduces the adaptation and development of an open source Artificial Neural Network (ANN) with the aim of predicting solar radiation falling on buildings for newly generated neighbourhoods in Aswan, Egypt as an example of a hot arid z... Read More about Predicting solar radiation with Artificial Neural Network based on urban geometrical classification.

Prioritising storage practices: A new approach to housing design thinking (2021)
Journal Article

Inhabitants of UK housing have more possessions than ever, whilst space for living in standardised houses is at a premium. The acquisition of material possessions, and how it affects both space and inhabitants’ wellbeing, has not previously been cons... Read More about Prioritising storage practices: A new approach to housing design thinking.

Disparity in the risk of exposure to respirable crystalline silica dust among non- manual and manual employees in the construction industry (2021)
Journal Article

Construction workers are at increased health risk due to exposure to respirable crystalline silica (RCS) dust. We examined differences in health risk among non-manual and manual employees in the construction industry. The participants were drawn rand... Read More about Disparity in the risk of exposure to respirable crystalline silica dust among non- manual and manual employees in the construction industry.

The architectural model as augmenting a sensory ethnography (2021)
Journal Article

This study explores the effectiveness of the architectural model as a means of implementing a sensory ethnographical research methodology. An architectural model, constructed as part of a wider design research approach, became the visual probe in a s... Read More about The architectural model as augmenting a sensory ethnography.