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Architectural Porosity: Urban Heritage Wall as Common Ground for Shared Inhabitation (2024)
Journal Article

This paper explored the idea of architectural porosity, which consists of the relation between material and socio-spatial porosities in the context of urban heritage sites. It takes inspiration from Walter Benjamin and Asja Lacis' essay Napples (or... Read More about Architectural Porosity: Urban Heritage Wall as Common Ground for Shared Inhabitation.

The other Tianjin and its concession culture: local residents’ perception of the postcolonial identity of Minyuan Stadium (2023)
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With the launch of cultural tourism in Tianjin, the regeneration and heritage preservation of the Five Avenues, the former upscale residential area of the British Concession, has been accelerated. In 2012, the public monumental sports building of thi... Read More about The other Tianjin and its concession culture: local residents’ perception of the postcolonial identity of Minyuan Stadium.

Unbinding architectural imagination: Wang Shu’s textual bricolage in theoretical writing and design (2022)
Journal Article

Architectural writing norms have been a subject of constant debate in recent decades. Architectural poststructuralists have often conceptualised writing as a form of virtual construction in the medium of words. Recent scholarship relating to innovati... Read More about Unbinding architectural imagination: Wang Shu’s textual bricolage in theoretical writing and design.

Disabled-by-design: effects of inaccessible urban public spaces on users of mobility assistive devices–a systematic review (2022)
Journal Article

Purpose Despite the increase of users of Mobility Assistive Devices (MobAD), there has been a lack of accessibility in urban environments in many parts of the world. We present a systematic review of how the inaccessible design of public spaces affe... Read More about Disabled-by-design: effects of inaccessible urban public spaces on users of mobility assistive devices–a systematic review.

How do buildings talk? Embodied experience in the Rolex Learning Centre (2021)
Journal Article

A 3D film by Wim Wenders of the Rolex Learning Centre provides a deeper phenomenological reading of SANAA’s distinctively minimalist architecture. The Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010, curated by Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima, co-founder o... Read More about How do buildings talk? Embodied experience in the Rolex Learning Centre.

A feeling for what's best: landscape aesthetics and notions of appropriate residential architecture in Dartmoor National Park, England (2017)
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In England's national parks, the design of new dwellings represents a significant and contested part of landscape planning, inseparable from park conservation ideologies and policies. Within public discourse, new housing proposals can be praised for... Read More about A feeling for what's best: landscape aesthetics and notions of appropriate residential architecture in Dartmoor National Park, England.

Reciprocal Control in Adaptive Environments (2017)
Journal Article

© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Computer Society. Computing has become an established part of the built environment augmenting it to become adaptive. We generally assume that we control the adaptive en... Read More about Reciprocal Control in Adaptive Environments.