School of Art, Design and Architecture: Recent submissions
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Comparing the thermal conductivity of three artificial soils under differing moisture and density conditions for use in green infrastructure
(Wiley, 2022-08-15)Abstract Soil-based green infrastructure has the potential to improve building thermal performance and contribute to sustainable buildings. This study compares thermal conductivity response to soil moisture of three ... -
An Investigation into the Potential Use of TDR Measurement Systems to Accurately Assess the Moisture Content at the Center of Completed Earthen Walls
(2022-06-09)When conserving or extending historic buildings, the ability to improve fabric thermal performance is often limited by the traditional nature of the original material. This limits the ability for historic buildings to ... -
Redefining the Edge
(U.S.A., 2008)En (edge) is a distinguishing feature of traditional Japanese architecture; simultaneously inside and outside, the multi-layered external envelope performs a multiplicity of functions and embodies indigenous aesthetic and ... -
Learning through Ritual
(Centre for Education in the Built EnvironmentUnited Kingdom, 2007-04)This paper considers how mitate, the act of drawing an analogy between two seemingly unrelated things, was used to give students a ‘way in’ to designing an addition to the main hall of a Shinto Shrine in Japan. The ... -
Impacts of land covers on stormwater runoff and urban development: A land use and parcel based regression approach
(Elsevier BV, 2021-04)Extensive studies have shown that stormwater yield and quality in a city are heavily influenced by its land uses and land covers (LULC). However, the majority of these studies have been done at the major watershed levels ... -
You Can't Go Home Again: The place of tradition in "Firefly's" dystopian-utopia and utopian-distopia
(U.S.A., 2011)Science fiction has long been a site in which utopian-dystopian visions have been articulated. This paper uses one exemplar of this genre as a springboard into a discussion of the desire for a return to origin and of ... -
Andrejsala is not an Island - Joined-up approaches to the layered city
(Latvia, 2010)Andrejsala is, of course, not an island; true, this port and industrial area of Riga, and most recently the locus of a massive mixed-use regeneration proposal of housing, offices, retail, leisure and cultural facilities, ... -
‘From Boudieu to Friere - By way of Boal’
(2013-11-01)The context of architectural practice today is in a state of enormous flux, with the profession facing considerable challenges, including: increased competition; shifting working contexts; an increasingly complex urban ... -
Community Campus as Threshold: A Space of Dialogue for Academia and the Community
(Dialogue Society, 2021)This paper explores an argument for community-situated spaces of encounter – acting as thresholds – between community and academia, through which: learning can be enhanced; a greater sense of identity and efficacy can be ... -
Bachelard, Besson and Bakhtin: A Dialogical Discourse on the Potential of Intimate Space
(SAGE Publications, 2022-06-04)Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space ponders the image of the wardrobe. Fixated by the figurative nature of its inner space, for Bachelard, the wardrobe is intimate, secret, and ordered. It is a space of protected memories, ...
