This article synthesises longitudinal deliberations between two architects and an educator, seeking common ground about learning spaces in schools. As the impetus for new refurbished school buildings continues New Zealand, it is timely to unpack instinctual disciplinary practices better understand space place We undertook a process of ‘bumping’ ideas against one another, establishing intersecti...

In cloud computing, software architects develop systems for virtually unlimited resources that cloud providers account on a pay-per-use basis. Elasticity management systems provision these resource autonomously to deal with changing workloads. Such changing workloads call for new objective metrics allowing architects to quantify quality properties like scalability, elasticity, and efficiency, e...

Forschungsplattform Alexandria https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch | 29.01.2016 The research scope in concept mapping research can be extended with the investigation of complementary concept mapping approaches which are visual representations that complement the classical node link diagrams from Novak. To do so, concept mapping researchers can draw inspiration from architects. This article presents...

We take the position that novice architects without requirements education would benefit from such education for architecting purposes. While this knowledge might be intuitive among many, our position is based on an exploratory, empirical study involving a number of architecting teams, some with requirements education and others without, all architecting from the same set of requirements. The o...

Software architects struggle to choose an adequate architectural style for multi-tenant software systems. Bad choices result in poor performance, low scalability, limited flexibility, and obstruct software evolution. We present a comparison of 12 Multi-Tenant Architecture (MTA) patterns that supports architects in choosing the most suitable architectural pattern, using 17 assessment criteria. B...

This paper shows that use of mental imagery alone during conceptual designing can improve idea development compared to idea development via sketching. We analysed design protocols of six expert architects working on two different design problems on the same site under two different conditions, one in which they were blindfolded and one in which they were sketching. Architects developed design i...

In the framework of the design process of a multimodal 3D simulation environment to support architects’ acoustic tasks, we wanted to gain a better understanding of how architects are able to discriminate the sounds using audio and/or visual inputs. This study explores how 2D pictures of rooms do support or impede the auditory evaluation of a space (specifically reverberation). The paper describ...

[Context and Motivation] Requirements specifications often lack the details needed by software architects to make informed architectural decisions. Lacking such details, the architects either make assumptions or go back to business analysts for clarifications or conduct additional stakeholder interviews. This may result in incorrect requirements and project delays. [Question/problem] In global ...

While security has long been a significant issue in military systems, the spread of the internet has stimulated a growing interest in, and increasing demand for, secure systems. Understanding how architects manage security requirements in practice is a necessary first step in providing repeatable processes using effective techniques, methods and architectural structures. We present the followin...