The purpose of this research was to develop an approach to artifact design based on information technology. To make interactive systems easy to use, many companies utilize a user centered design approach. One of the principles for user centered design is to consider the total user experience to cover all of the user’s views. To consider the total user experience is not easy because a user’s exp...

This article discusses a research/teaching collaboration between Perkins+Will and the University of Cincinnati and a unique design studio that was initiated as part of this collaboration. The studio investigated the relationships between performance-driven design, computational design techniques, integration of analysis tools with the design process and digital fabrication for a building facade...

This paper illustrates the design work from an integrated third year Architecture Design Studio and Environmental Controls Systems (ECS) Studio. As the final project, all students developed a ‘Center for the Study of Light’, based on the quarter long experiments with light. The quarter began with spatial experiments with both day and electric lighting. In the ECS course students started with se...

Without the surrounding environment of a site, architecture loses its full meaning. In the evolutionof the design process, a site's environment should be understood as the integral factor within which a designed productor artifact is expected to perform. The environment is not of secondary priority. Every building is intertwined with itscontext; context being its physical, visual and ecological...

Personal information Name Ruben Hanssen Student number 4253930 Telephone number 0615574855 E-mail address [email protected], [email protected] Graduation studio Name / Theme Design of the Urban Fabric Teachers Stefan van der Spek Paul de Ruiter Argumentation of choice of the studio This studio has been chosen because my graduation project focuses on elements of the urban form ...

The main aim of this paper is to discuss how the combination of Web 2.0, social media and geographic technologies can provide opportunities for learning and new forms of participation in an urban design studio. This discussion is mainly based on our recent findings from two experimental urban design studio setups as well as former research and literature studies. In brief, the web platform enab...