This paper introduces studies on Japanese Landscape and environmental design work by author. Japanese people have venerated nature from the far ancient times and led life in unison with nature. This paper describes about the characteristics of Japanese architecture, the characteristics of Japanese civilization, and influence on "Japonism" from the viewpoint of the author as a design researcher ...

Energy consumption and related emissions are the most important environmental effects of transport. This applies to all transport modes even though the contribution from waterborne transport in general is less severe than for instance from road transport. Also the environmental effects from waterborne traffic can be substantially reduced, but this will depend on, among other, better design meth...

In this paper we present the design and implementation of the Environmental Data Store (EDS). We also highlight the Environmental Thesaurus Server (EnvThs), a controlled vocabulary service application developed by us, providing semantic support on submission and search within EDS. With the rapid growth in data volumes, data diversity and data demands from multi-disciplinary research effort, dat...

Environmental colour is multifaceted, playing a variety of roles in our everyday lives. However, is colour considered important in the design of our built environment by those who practice design, such as architects and interior designers? Prototypes and massing models for designs are often presented in white or monochromatic combinations, irrespective of the materials incorporated and the colo...

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau...

Consideration of environmental sustainability is significantly altering the nature of the mechanical design process. This necessitates integration of sustainability related learning content in design engineering curricula. Although various frameworks for teaching sustainable design exist, a survey conducted among practicing student engineers shows the presence of significant knowledge gaps. To ...