Solar street art for a participatory energy transition
(2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Outputs (90)
Heritage at War (2024)
Book
The right of access to, and enjoyment of, cultural heritage is enshrined in human rights norms and the devastating effects of armed conflict on cultural heritage are well documented, with the deliberate destruction of cultural heritage having been an... Read More about Heritage at War.
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.
Innovation with impact: Interdisciplinary approaches and empirical research with ceramic extrusion (2024)
Digital Artefact
This booklet covers research exploring innovative approaches with the ceramic extrusion process. The research was carried out from October 2021 to April 2024 and led by Dr Tavs Jorgensen, Associate Professor at the Centre for Print Research (CFPR) at... Read More about Innovation with impact: Interdisciplinary approaches and empirical research with ceramic extrusion.
Healthy streetlife: An ecologic exploration of residents' health practices in the street environment (2024)
Thesis
Background
Good health is a human right and the built environment is recognised as a wider determinant of health but many studies focus only on physical health not mental or social health. The street is a microscale of the built environment yet r... Read More about Healthy streetlife: An ecologic exploration of residents' health practices in the street environment.
Climate change and built environment education: A pedagogical approach to foster interdisciplinary learning (2024)
Book Chapter
Higher Education Institutions have an important role to play in Climate Education. One dimension of this role is to equip future practitioners with the necessary knowledge and skills. Therefore, interdisciplinary approaches to learning and teaching.... Read More about Climate change and built environment education: A pedagogical approach to foster interdisciplinary learning.
Bio-minded society for net-zero carbon construction (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
This event was held on 17 July 2024 at UWE Frenchay Campus with the aim of exploring ways to overcome barriers-to-adoption and accelerate the uptake of biobased materials in the construction industry amongst diverse stakeholders and ‘end-users’ inclu... Read More about Bio-minded society for net-zero carbon construction.
SmartBioC Top Trumps (2024)
Physical Artefact
"SmartBioC’s Top Trumps" is a card game designed to playfully display information on the performance of biobased building assemblies and compare them against traditional construction methods.
The cards use SmartBioC’s multi-criteria assessment fra... Read More about SmartBioC Top Trumps.
The making of an architectural student: physical models and the question of scale in the digital condition (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The term physical model frames an artefact with a broad spectrum of different uses and interpretations throughout the history of architecture. In it, physical models have been, at first instance, an artefact for producing architectural knowledge, so... Read More about The making of an architectural student: physical models and the question of scale in the digital condition.
Post occupancy evaluation in educational spaces: The impact of seasonal discrepancies (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This paper presents findings from a Post Occupancy Evaluation research of a BREEAM Excellence-rated university building, to understand the experience of the students using university study spaces. This research focuses on winter conditions and the ou... Read More about Post occupancy evaluation in educational spaces: The impact of seasonal discrepancies.
House in an Olive Grove (2024)
Physical Artefact
A new building that establishes a new 'vernacular' for a rural Greek landscape
A meta-model for understanding ‘green-red loop’ social-water interactions at a global scale (2024)
Journal Article
Within the coupled human and natural systems (CHANS), social-water interactions exhibit the ‘green-loop’ and ‘red-loop’ patterns, where social development is dependent on the local and external environment for resource provision, respectively. Sustai... Read More about A meta-model for understanding ‘green-red loop’ social-water interactions at a global scale.
Separateness in the home: From home-ness to work-ness in a post-covid environment (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
COVID-19 brought unprecedented restrictive lockdown measures across the globe. This ‘enforced togetherness’ brought transformative changes in how homes were used and inhabited. The home was tested to its limits and the use of its spaces renegotiated,... Read More about Separateness in the home: From home-ness to work-ness in a post-covid environment.
Digital toolmaking for earth building components: The use of low-cost extruder and 3D printing to develop new fabrication approaches for cob and light earth bricks (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This paper reports on ongoing research into innovative methods for extruding cob and light earth building components, aiming to establish a cost-effective fabrication system. The paper provides a brief contextual overview of related work and outlines... Read More about Digital toolmaking for earth building components: The use of low-cost extruder and 3D printing to develop new fabrication approaches for cob and light earth bricks.
The death and life of UK universities and the cultural spaces they consume (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
The first Public screening of The Death and Life of UK Universities and the Cultural Spaces They Consume A video work by Tonia Carless and Igea Troiani which uses film collected over a 10 year period to document the changing space of UK Universities... Read More about The death and life of UK universities and the cultural spaces they consume.
Comfort, fashion, home and sustainability: How (/not) to live your life in a jumper (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This presentation makes link between architecture and fashion, examining the socially constructed idea of comfort, modernity presented in both the built environment and garment industry.
Comfort is a socially constructed, ‘fashionable’ concept. It i... Read More about Comfort, fashion, home and sustainability: How (/not) to live your life in a jumper.
The death and life of UK universities and the cultural spaces they consume (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Images from film and text of The Death and Life of UK Universities - a joint publication with Professor Igea Troiani London South Bank University. Included in the exhibition catalogue published by msdm publications.
Video installation included in... Read More about The death and life of UK universities and the cultural spaces they consume.
Exploring materiality: Advancing tectonic understanding through large-scale reproduction in two and three dimensions (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The first year of architectural education marks a period of foundational exploration, where students encounter a multitude of firsts and advance quickly. It marks their first exposure to design briefs and concepts, diagramming techniques, and the app... Read More about Exploring materiality: Advancing tectonic understanding through large-scale reproduction in two and three dimensions.
Studio in the Woods 2018 (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
In the Summer of 2018, a group of of over 50 architects, designers and carpenters camped out in England's Wyre forest as part of Studio in the Woods. Over four days in the woods they ate together, participated in lectures and crits and conceived, des... Read More about Studio in the Woods 2018.
Student interactions and self-directed activities in School Libraries: The design potentiality vs operational actuality (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
School libraries contribute to student learning through accommodating the student self-directed activities (e.g. reading, studying, revising, drawing, etc) and interactions, all taking place during break-times. This research explores the design of sc... Read More about Student interactions and self-directed activities in School Libraries: The design potentiality vs operational actuality.