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Essay on the socially devastating and visually gorgeous.
Socially devastating, visually gorgeous, is a neat encapsulation of the main dilemma for a twenty-first century architect. This architect is assailed by two contesting pressures. On one side, he is aware that the most prominent and fashionable style of contemporary architecture promotes glamorous and glitzy designs that bewilder the eye and imagination. On the other side, he observes that such architecture betrays a distressing lack of social and cultural consciousness, and indeed exalts style over substance. The British development industry favours such contemporary architecture and with its enormous power and influence it exerts much pressure upon architects to conform to this style no matter what the social implications. Successive governments too have been complicit in this shift away from socially-minded development towards that which is outwardly stunning but inwardly barren. This dissertation then is an examination of the various pressures and influences that circle about and press upon the modern architect. It observes and analyses too the changing role of architects from ‘form-providers’ to their present status as ‘problem-solvers’.
Essay on Acoustic Design in Architecture.
Introduction
The purpose of this report is to produce a design scheme for the conversion of a large room to a multi use theatre. The report will present the necessary things that need to be considered to ensure a satisfactory acoustic environment by measuring the problems encountered with acoustic design and how to tackle them. The report will look at the problems related to this space and present possible solutions and recommendations based on the information available.
Essay on water in architecture and water spaces: look, touch, feel.
The paper focuses on how the presence of water - either as a feature or a function - enriches the design of public buildings, and how this relationship is perceived through sensory human experience. Four case studies are used. Case study one is the Roman bath complex at Bath, Avon; case study two is an early Modernist design of a glass pavilion by Bruno Taut; case study three is an example of a Post Modernist piazza in New Orleans designed by Charles. W. Moore; and case study four is the contemporary design of a thermal baths in Vals, Switzerland by Peter Zumthor. In each case there will be an analysis of the architectural design including aspects such as symmetry and balance, colour, texture, materials, form, and scale. Findings will include how water is used in the design space and its effect upon the human senses.
Essay on the need for sustainable architecture on development land in the South-East of England.
The purpose of this dissertation is to discuss and evaluate the pressure on development land in the South- East of England, and how that pressure relates to the need for sustainable architecture. The reasons for there being pressure on development land in the South-East of England will be described and analysed, as will any differences with the other regions of Britain. The reasons for setting aside or using the available development land and why sustainable architecture should be adopted in the South-East of England will be fully evaluated.
