A human-centred approach to smart housing

Agee, Philip; Gao, Xinghua; Paige, Frederick; McCoy, Andrew P.; Kleiner, Brian M.

doi:10.1080/09613218.2020.1808946

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“…The concept of using personas was motivated by the often conflicting criteria presented by historic churches. Personas are utilised in product design settings to better understand the eventual user of the product [23]. Long (2009), during research to determine if the use of personas generated more user-friendly solutions, found that the student group involved in the research were more enthused and produced higher quality results in response to understanding the end user.…”

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Identifying Heating Technologies suitable for Historic Churches, Taking into Account Heating Strategy and Conservation through Pairwise Analysis

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As a result of difficulty meeting energy efficiency through fabric alteration, historic churches must focus on heating systems and operational strategy as key to reducing carbon emissions. Strategies can be defined as local or central heating. Local heating strives to heat occupants, while central heating aims to heat the building fabric and therefore the occupants. Each strategy requires a different approach to control and technology in response to priorities such as conservation, comfort and cost. This paper reviews current and emerging technologies in the context of church heating. The fuel source, heat generation technology and heat emitter are arranged in a matrix, with pairwise analysis undertaken to create weightings for each assessment criteria. The process of constructing the matrix and undertaking pairwise analysis using personas is discussed. The result is a ranking of fuels and technologies appropriate to the main priorities and individual preferences. Some desirable technologies are inherently more damaging to historic church environments due to invasive installation. These technologies score poorly when the aim is fabric preservation. Greener fuels, like biomass, may rank lower than fossil fuels, due in part to operational differences.

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Identifying Heating Technologies suitable for Historic Churches, Taking into Account Heating Strategy and Conservation through Pairwise Analysis

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“…This adaptive design approach prepares the ground for the building to contribute to its sustainability and to be permanent [44]. They can adapt in the long term or short terms as seasonal and daytime respectively by allowing a better relationship with the environment and the user [45]. The other design strategy employed in design process is the user comfort.…”

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Adaptive Architecture Based on Environmental Performance: An Advanced Intelligent Façade (AIF) Module

Karakoç¹,

Çaǧdaş²

2021

Gazi University Journal of Science

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“…Designing the perfect home for its resident has been architects' ambition for centuries, aesthetic perfection, functionality, which responds to the consumer's market. Today, the residential sector is experiencing a paradigm shift due to the changes in needs of its inhabitants: the incorporation of technology in spaces [1], remote working trends [2,3], workforce intercity and intercountry relocation and fluidity. Additionally, an unaffordable urban housing market [4] that makes houses non-accessible for part of the population and an increase in loneliness [5][6][7] are factors that are driving people towards diverse rental typologies with more shared spaces and innovative plug-and-play solutions, like coliving [8].…”

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“…Coliving is an emerging residential typology, a "top down, modern form of housing where residents share spaces, activities, values, and/or intentions" [1,8]. These shared living solutions have shown ways of fostering human relationships and close networks that improve daily lifestyle, without imposing sharing behavior or patterns, simply by enabling users to choose what spaces to occupy and the levels of camaraderie they want to engage with.…”

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Data-Driven Methodology for Coliving Spaces and Space Profiling Based on Post-Occupancy Evaluation through Digital Trail of Users

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Armand²,

Lastres³

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Sustainable spaces are those that are optimized, accessible, promote user experience and aim to reduce CO2 emissions while enhancing users’ well-being and comfort. The purpose of this paper is to present a methodology that was developed during the COVID-19 pandemic to understand and improve the use of coliving spaces based on remote Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) analysis of the digital trail generated by the users. Applying the POE methodology based on data collection from IT infrastructure enabled to identify opportunities to improve the future design of human-centered spaces. The residential market, design-wise traditional for centuries, is now facing a high-speed adaptation to the changing needs, accelerated by the COVID-19 crisis. New ways of living and shared spaces like Coliving are escalating. Technology is both an enabler of this shift in housing and the solution to operating and managing these new buildings. This paper demonstrates, through the case study of a Coliving space located in Madrid, Spain, the benefits of implementing data analysis of the digital trail collected from in-built IT systems such as smart locks, Wi-Fi networks and electric consumption devices. The conclusion is that analysing the available data from the digital infrastructure of coliving buildings can enable practitioners to improve the future design of residential spaces.

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A human-centred approach to smart housing

Cited by 35 publications

References 44 publications

Identifying Heating Technologies suitable for Historic Churches, Taking into Account Heating Strategy and Conservation through Pairwise Analysis

Identifying Heating Technologies suitable for Historic Churches, Taking into Account Heating Strategy and Conservation through Pairwise Analysis

Adaptive Architecture Based on Environmental Performance: An Advanced Intelligent Façade (AIF) Module

Data-Driven Methodology for Coliving Spaces and Space Profiling Based on Post-Occupancy Evaluation through Digital Trail of Users

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