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Living in style. Paris
A narrated look at the interiors of twenty-two Parisian homes, designed and decorated by top-tier interior designers and architects.
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Optimization design of internal space layout of three-bedroom residential apartment based on IGA and DE algorithm
To solve the problems of insufficient global optimization ability and easy loss of population diversity in building interior layout design, this study proposes a novel layout optimization model integrating interactive genetic algorithm and improved differential evolutionary algorithm to improve the global optimization ability and maintain population diversity in building layout design. The model characterizes room functions and spatial locations through binary coding, and uses dynamic fitness function and backtracking strategy to improve space utilization and functional fitness. In the experiments, optimization metrics such as kinematic optimization rate (calculated based on the shortest path and connectivity between functional areas), space utilization rate (calculated by the ratio of room area to total usable space), and functional fitness (based on the weighted sum of users’ subjective evaluations and functional matches) all perform well. Quantitatively, it is found that the model achieves 94.76% in terms of motion optimization rate, the highest space utilization rate is 96.6%, functional fitness is 9.4, and user satisfaction is close to 94.21%. The optimization results show that the proposed method has significant advantages in improving space utilization and meeting personalized design needs. However, despite the good optimization results, the method still faces the problem of improving the optimization ability under high-dimensional space and complex constraints. This study provides an efficient solution for intelligent building layout design and has certain practical value.
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Turn of the century : portraits of creative interiors
Henry Bourne's photographs of the residences and workspaces of a who's who of creative people open windows onto the groundbreaking design approaches and lifestyle trends of the last three decades. For nearly thirty years, Bourne has been photographing the residences and studios of, or those designed by, some of the world's most important artists, architects, designers, and innovators. Culture and society are constantly evolving, and changes, both aesthetic and sociological, are reflected in our physical surroundings. Spaces in this volume range from the Upstate New York studio of artist Richard Prince, Vincent Van Duysen's early apartment in Antwerp, and Marc Newson's residences (his modern former bachelor pad as well as the more textured house he shares with Charlotte Stockdale) to the joyfully chaotic London atelier of artist Paula Rego, the Villa Volpi by architect Tomaso Buzzi near Rome, and the sleek London studio of Tim Noble and Sue Webster--designed by architect David Adjaye. Creative director Peter Saville's sleek London apartment captures the essence of the 1990s, while the homes of both architect Zaha Hadid and minimalist master John Pawson are self-portraits in design. This book is a collection of the personal spaces of luminaries at the turn of the twenty-first century, depicting the contradictory yet stimulating language of contemporary stylish and functional, maximalist and minimalist, opulent and understated. -- Goodreads.
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Unveiling Water's Implicit Journey in Domestic Interiors: A Closer Look at Different Approaches to Design
The book presents a methodology that uses a collaborative ground for research and design in interior architecture and focuses on water in domestic interiors in the scope of consumption habits, experiences, cultural attitudes and sustainability. The proposed methodology and related processes provide data for design, and create multiple discussion platforms within project studios as well as other design mediums for academics and professionals. The topic is discussed through the process, theoretical discussions and designed products that were revealed in scope of the International Masters Workshop 2022 of IMIAD (International Master of Interior Architectural Design) entitled See The Water . In addition to expressing a physical action, the word See also connotates making visible, revealing and understanding what cannot be seen directly. It is aimed to unveil water's implicit journey in domestic interiors by discussing both the visible and invisible concepts of water and to discuss the problems at the micro-scale for achieving solutions at the macro-scale. Present approaches within the literature give cause to evaluate the profession over mostly finished and pictorial products rather than ontological and processual means. As a result, the context of the profession is perceived as ornamentation, cladding or decoration rather than spatial and contextual design. The methodology and design approaches presented within the book focus on design thinking and process development together with the final products. Readers will be able to see different perspectives about interior design processes as well as different representation methods in the context of interior architecture.
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Evaluating the Influence of Different Layouts of Residential Buildings on the Urban Thermal Environment
Urban residential building layouts have an impact on air temperature and thermal comfort. Research has shown that poorly designed building layouts can lead to thermal discomfort. Thus, it is crucial to analyze the relationship between residential building layouts and air temperature. We used the ENVI-met 3D microclimate model to simulate six typical residential building layouts and explore the diurnal and seasonal variations in air temperature. In addition, we used the physiological equivalent temperature (PET) as the evaluation index for the thermal comfort of different building layouts. The diurnal results showed that the air temperature of the parallel layout rose faster and fell faster, and these changes were more significant in summer. The results of the air temperature classifications indicated that the frequency of low-air-temperature areas in the parallel layout is approximately 12% smaller than that of the enclosed and semi-enclosed layouts, and the high-air-temperature area frequency is 11% higher than that of the enclosed and semi-enclosed layouts in summer. In winter, the frequency of low-air-temperature areas in the parallel layout is approximately 7% smaller than that of the enclosed and semi-enclosed layouts, and the high-air-temperature area frequency is 5% higher than that of the enclosed and semi-enclosed layouts. In combination with the PET results, we found that the enclosed layout is the optimal configuration. Moreover, in some cases, increased building height and vegetation lead to a reduction in air temperature.
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Town Houses
To continue to develop existing building types and do so in an intelligent way is one of the crucial tasks in the field of residential building. For the success of the individual design as well as for ensuring that tried and tested structures can be utilized, repeated, and varied in a wide range of situations, a deeper understanding of the underlying types is indispensable. For this typology of residential buildings, the authors have developed systematic new presentations of the most innovative types. Each individual volume lays out the possibilities for using and transforming a particular form of residential structure.The third volume deals with the types of the townhouse. It will address the following topics among others: single- versus multistory construction, density, privacy versus publicity, and the connection of living and working. Within each type, variants are distinguished according to how they organize space, their number of floors, etc. The range of possible solutions is presented in uniform ground plans newly drawn to scale.
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Unplanned Visitors
Sexuality and gender have long been influential in understanding the construction of domestic space, its meanings, often revealing a binary division of private and public, female and male. By reconstructing the foundation of queer critiques of space and by analyzing the representation of domesticity in contemporary art and architecture, Unplanned Visitors shows the blurring of private and public that can occur in any domestic space and explores the potential of queer theory for understanding, and designing, the built environment. Olivier Vallerand investigates how queer critiques, building on pioneering feminist work, question the relation between identity and architecture and highlight normative constructs underlying domestic spaces. He draws out a genealogy of queer space in theoretical discourse in architecture, studying projects by Mark Robbins, Joel Sanders, J Mayer H, Elmgreen Dragset, Andrés Jaque, and MYCKET, among others. These works blur the traditional borders between architecture and art to emphasize the tensions between private and public and their impact on assumptions about domestic space and family structure. The challenges in moving from experimental installations to built environments suggest how designers must acknowledge and respond to the social contexts that shape architecture, rethinking how domestic spaces can be designed to allow everyone to better manage the expression of their self-identification through their living environments. Unplanned Visitors poses a challenge to traditional architectural theory and history, but also suggests a renewed and more inclusive ethics whereby designers explicitly address social and political power structures. The potential of a queer approach to architectural design, history, theory, and education is precisely to enact a method that creates more inclusive buildings and safer neighbourhoods for everyone.
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How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900–1940
The transformation of average Americans' domestic lives,
revealed through the mechanical innovations and physical
improvements of their homes At the turn of the nineteenth
century, the average American family still lived by kerosene light,
ate in the kitchen, and used an outhouse. By 1940, electric lights,
dining rooms, and bathrooms were the norm as the traditional
working-class home was fast becoming modern-a fact largely missing
from the story of domestic innovation and improvement in
twentieth-century America, where such benefits seem to count
primarily among the upper classes and the post-World War II
denizens of suburbia. Examining the physical evidence of America's
working-class houses, Thomas C. Hubka revises our understanding of
how widespread domestic improvement transformed the lives of
Americans in the modern era. His work, focused on the broad central
portion of the housing population, recalibrates longstanding ideas
about the nature and development of the \"middle class\" and its new
measure of improvement, \"standards of living.\"
In How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900-1940 ,
Hubka analyzes a period when millions of average Americans saw
accelerated improvement in their housing and domestic conditions.
These improvements were intertwined with the acquisition of
entirely new mechanical conveniences, new types of rooms and
patterns of domestic life, and such innovations-from public
utilities and kitchen appliances to remodeled and multi-unit
housing-are at the center of the story Hubka tells. It is a
narrative, amply illustrated and finely detailed, that traces
changes in household hygiene, sociability, and privacy practices
that launched large portions of the working classes into the middle
class-and that, in Hubka's telling, reconfigures and enriches the
standard account of the domestic transformation of the American
home.
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Working at home in the ancient Near East
This volume examines the organization, scale, and the socio-economic role played by institutional and non-institutional households, as well as the social use of domestic spaces in Bronze Age Mesopotamia.
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Row Houses
This book is devoted to the various types of row house, a particularly widespread form of residential structure. A general discussion of the row as organizing principle-the row as urban building block, linear space, ways of handling corners-is followed by the systematic presentation of the different types.
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