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THE USE OF SECONDARY SKIN MATERIALS FOR NATURAL LIGHTING IN HOTELS RESORTS
Full text linkNatural lighting is one aspect of ecological architecture to reduce energy use by utilizing sunlight as the main lighting. However, direct and excessive sunlight decreases the comfort level of room users because it can increase the room temperature and interfere with visualization. So it takes control of the distribution of sunlight into the room. In addition, the issue of environmental damage has become hot news among the community today, especially in the property sector, such as using materials that can damage the surrounding environment. Efforts to regulate the entry of sunlight into the room but not harm the surrounding environment, one of which is the application of second skin that utilizes environmentally friendly materials. This paper aims to determine the form and material of secondary skin that is environmentally friendly and suitable for use in resort hotels. This research uses a qualitative comparative method based on three objects in the form of secondary skin in the hotel resort building: Ananta Legian Hotel Bali, EcoSuites (A Reed-Clad Hotel Greece), and Lenora Hotel Bandung with variables namely opening, shape, and shading. For three secondary skin material objects in the resort hotel building, namely Amnaya Resort Kuta, Four Points by Sheraton Bali, and Potato Heads Studio Hotel Bali with variables namely shape, material, and aesthetics. Based on the results of the study, it was found that there are two types of second skin openings that are applied to the hotel resort building, namely dead openings and sliding openings that are applied to adjust the shape with the dominance of the modified rectangular base shape and the shadow produced from the second skin itself adjusts to the function of the shaded space. Environmentally friendly materials used are made from nature, such as vegetation, wood, and roaster bricks that do not damage the surrounding environment, which are applied in a modified rectangular base shape and can improve the aesthetics of the building
BIOCLIMATIC ARCHITECTURE AS A DESIGN APPROACH WITH A MIDDLE APARTMENT IN SURABAYA AS A CASE STUDY
Full text linkBioclimatic architecture as a design approach takes an advantage climate parameters to answer the problems of environment and energy. This approach is applied to optimize the quality of architectural design through the comfort and health of their environment. It was developed by simulating the design in the case of a middle apartment in Surabaya. To achieve its design goals is simulated: 1) transforming mass-form, 2) setting housing-unit plan, 3) making housing-unit facade, and 4) organizing overall lay-out. Simulation of this design is using several alternative designs to obtain an optimal design. Bioclimatic architecture is successfully implemented if it can optimize the potential of the existing climate. Bioclimatic quality is achieved when a middle apartment is designed to optimize penetration of natural light, cooling and air exchange building mass as well as minimize the acquisition of direct solar radiation. Bioclimatic architecture approach requires consideration of such architectural contexts: urban, economic and social aspects, because the technical nature
Catalogue of Books in the Architectural Library and of the Stereoscopic Slides in the Collection of the Department
No full textfull view, a handwritten list of books, periodicals, and stereoscopic slides from the early years (ca. 1870s) of the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog
The ... report of the Residential Planning Project of the Department of Architecture, University of Illinois in cooperation with Bituminous Coal Research Inc., American Coke and Coal Chemicals Institute, Anthracite Institute.
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MANIPULATION OF PUBLIC SPACE DESIGN WITHIN CITIES: ARCHITECTURE AS A CRIME CONTROL THEORY IN RESPONSE TO CASES OF CHILD VIOLENCE
Full text linkData shows that, all recorded cases of violence in Indonesia, most of the victims were children. architecture needs to respond to this phenomenon by manipulating certain spatial designs, because these cases occur in architectural spaces. This issue should ideally be considered on a city scale, seeing that the highest mobility of children is movement within the city, perhaps going to school or to the playground within the same city. To create a safe environment for children from violence that lurk on a city scale, it is necessary to manipulate the design of spaces in the city where children usually carry out their activities, thus these spaces can be called child-friendly spaces. By using the theory of architecture as a crime control, which is a prevention and protection mechanism for victims and potential victims of urbanscale violence, the spatial and formal aspects that need special attention are visibility, dimensions and shape, and accessibility
SUSTAINABILITY CONCEPT OF BALI AGA ARCHITECTURE
Full text linkArchitecture is one of human works that consumed a lot of energy. Present research shows that architecture consumed more than 50% of total energy in the world. That is why awareness of sustainability issues become prominent issues among architects, architecture students and academics. Practically sustainability concept is not some thing new for some countries. Traditional settlements used similar concept to sustainability concept, for example Bali Aga settlement. The settlement showed how the community used the concept as tradition and way of their life.The Bali Aga architecture was developed between 9 to-11 AD and mostly located in the highland or the mountain of Bali. The word “Aga” is used to distinguish the highland settlements from the rest of traditional settlements of Bali which mainly located in the down line of Bali, particularly in the southern Bali. Bali Aga settlements are located mostly in eastern and northern Bali. The village of Tenganan is the prime example of the genre, and for this discourse, the research site was Julah village in Buleleng Regency. This village is located on the northern part of Bali.Referring to Bali Aga’s traditions and customs, the community recognized the relationship between the people and the environment. Bali Aga architecture shows the expression of their tradition that keep the environment sustained. This paper will discuss about tradition of Bali Aga community and how they articulated through their architecture. The aims of this study are to increase the awareness of modern soceity on sustainability issues and learned from tradition of Bali Aga community how to keep environment friendly
Proceedings the 15th international conference on sustainable environmental architecture, the 2nd Asian vernacular architecture network
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Human intent prediction for adaptive lighting based on a limited data scenario
No full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Thesis: S.M. in Architecture Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2019Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019Cataloged from student-submitted PDF of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-80).An adaptive environment involves various ubiquitous computing and computer-aided technologies. It provides users with environmental supports such as lighting, air conditioning, motion assistance. Among the different control schemes, lighting is an essential element because it strongly affects people's visual experience and work productivity. The generalized residential lighting system is limited to create a personalized and responsive environment. Additionally, multiple and complex light sources make it difficult for users to obtain optimized lighting configurations. In general, an intelligent control system requires an extensive database of user habits in order to infer different user intents. In this work, we present a new personalized lighting control method that can learn explicit and implicit context though knowledge-based background and interactions. Instead of collecting a large amount of personal data, we explore the possibility to achieve a valid control method based on a limited data scenario. We consider language as one of the most important inputs from users when they are interacting with a smart environment. Although there has been a large amount of work in automatic control based on speech recognition, the situation is different for using language to control lights according to different preferences. In our study, on the one hand, multiple dimensions of representation of lighting status are studied and organized in a way that can be derived from people's language input. We have generated a learning model and a small database based on the hierarchy of different lighting settings. On the other hand, besides the learning part, we explore how users can directly teach the lighting system. That is, through continuous interactions, the control system learns users' profiles through limited interaction data and gradually becomes consistent with specific personal preferences. In addition to lighting control methods, we also introduce the different components of typical lighting systems and networks. This work contributes to fundamental knowledge in the areas of ubiquitous computing and home automation.Jiamin Sun.S.M. in Architecture StudiesS.M.S.M. in Architecture Studies Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of ArchitectureS.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Scienc
Participatory renewal and preservation platform
No full textThesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2017.Page 153 blank. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (page 152).What if stakeholders, architects, and developers/bureaucrats could be in a conversation about preservation? Community heritage in China is in great danger because of the lack of authority, financial support, knowledge of preservation, and requests for development. Local residents, students, and citizens want to preserve the history and living environment of the community but bureaucrats want to demolish entire communities and rebuild for economic development. Architects do not often have enough input and rarely collaborate, while preservationists try to save every piece of historical heritage. Thus, a platform is proposed, here, to bring together voices from all the relevant participants, to democratically communicate between politicians and ordinary people, to create multiple architectural proposals for development reference based on crowd sourced materials. Furthermore, to establish also an experienceable digital world, archived from the evidence uploaded by stakeholders of heritages that are marked by bureaucrats for demolition. In the end, win or lose, the stakeholders will have a digital archive and exploring tool of the former building.by Xu Zhang.M. Arch
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