Contextual compatibility in architecture: an issue of personal taste?

Groat, Linda N.

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“…; Previous research has shown a close link between respondents' opinions expressed on location and those expressed in response to photos (Groat, 1988); this supports the use of photographic images within the online questionnaire. A recent study into aesthetic preferences used photographic images of street elevations in a similar way (Gjerde, 2011).…”

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The relationship between the quality of active frontages and public perceptions of public spaces

Heffernan

Pan

2013

Urban Des Int

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Active frontages are often advocated in best practice guidance and by local planning authorities. However, little research has been carried out to establish what benefits, if any, active frontages offer. Previous research in this area has been limited to examining observed behaviour rather than analysing public perceptions. This article aims to improve the understanding of the relationship between the quality of an active frontage and public perceptions of the public space the frontage addresses. The research was carried out through a combination of a critical literature review and a questionnaire survey that engaged 152 participants. The participants' perceptions of a range of public spaces in relation to a number of frontages were investigated using comparison and correlation. The results suggest that the quality of an active frontage can significantly affect people's perceptions of a public space in terms of its safety, comfort, sociability and liveliness. Goodquality active frontages can contribute to creating successful public spaces, which can help deliver far-reaching benefits for towns and cities. The findings contribute useful evidence to enhance our understanding of the role of active frontages in urban design and planning. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE QUALITY OF ACTIVE FRONTAGES AND PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS OF PUBLIC SPACES AbstractActive frontages are often advocated in best practice guidance and by local planning authorities. However, little research has been carried out to establish what benefits, if any, active frontages offer. Previous research in this area has been limited to examining observed behaviour rather than analysing public perceptions. This paper aims to improve the understanding of the relationship between the quality of an active frontage and public perceptions of the public space the frontage addresses. The research was carried out through a combination of a critical literature review and a questionnaire survey which engaged 152 participants. The participants' perceptions of a range of public spaces in relation to a number of frontages were investigated using comparison and correlation. The results suggest that the quality of an active frontage can significantly affect people's perceptions of a public space in terms of its safety, comfort, sociability and liveliness. Good quality active frontages can contribute to creating successful public spaces, which can help deliver far reaching benefits for towns and cities. The findings contribute useful evidence to enhance our understanding of the role of active frontages in urban design and planning.

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The relationship between the quality of active frontages and public perceptions of public spaces

Heffernan

Pan

2013

Urban Des Int

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“…Although it is clear that experience of the built environment is four-dimensional, previous research (Groat, 1988;Nasar, 1998;Stamps, 2000) has found a relative correlation between preferences expressed in response to two-dimensional photographic images and preferences expressed in the field. That is to say, relativity between preferences expressed in response to two-dimensional photographic images correlates strongly to the relativity between preferences expressed by people who visit and spatially experience the same scenes.…”

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Visual evaluation of urban streetscapes: How do public preferences reconcile with those held by experts?

Gjerde

2011

Urban Des Int

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Visual qualities of well-liked settings are known to include richness and variety, tempered by perceptible underlying structure and clear associational meanings. For a variety of reasons -among them, technological, economic and professional principles -the design coherence of the built environment appears to have diminished in the wake of Modernism. However, opinions about the quality of the built environment are usually voiced by experts. Does it follow that their opinions are also those of lay people? Indeed, looking beyond academic critique of the appearance of the built environment, what are the views and aesthetic preferences of those who use the city? The article reports on the results of recent research that has evaluated perceptions of and preferences for a range of different urban street scenes. The opinions of the lay public as well as design and planning professionals have been collected for comparison. The research seeks to understand whether there are built-form characteristics, seen across a collection of buildings that make up a street edge, that are preferred over others. Based on data from 200 survey responses and a focus group discussion, the findings identify characteristics that are deemed to foster well-liked urban settings as well as those that should be avoided.

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“…Therefore, the project consisted of both restoration work [10][11][12][13], and an architectural addition [14][15][16][17], which is also required to accommodate contemporary facilities for a museum of urban archaeology. The project addresses the issue of utilization of this underground archaeological space as an intervention [18][19][20][21][22][23][24], the design concept of which manifests itself in the form of a museum of archaeology wrapping around a sacred core conserved in its authentic location. Hence, a unique spatial experience is intended whereby divine content and historical substance are intertwined into a ceremonial and mysterious hybrid of the multi-cultural physical context.…”

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Fragments of a buried urban past revealed through multi-layered voids hidden below the mosque of St. Daniel: the case of the underground museum in Tarsus

Çetin¹,

Doyduk²

2008

Underground Spaces I

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The historical process of urban-architectural layering in cities appears to accentuate the role of the intersections between various networks of urban circulation and public spaces from different eras. One of these spaces was recently unearthed in southern Turkey, where many civilizations have accumulated over the course of time. This underground building complex consists of cavities in addition to the remains of the foundations of a 16th century Ottoman bath, as well as the tomb of St. Daniel next to a Roman bridge vault that were recently excavated below 19th century Makam Mosque in Tarsus. The spatial formation here displays an extraordinarily complicated three dimensional stratification below the ground. This paper begins with historical research and analysis of space and continues with a design proposal to fuse all the religious, historical, geographical, architectural, spatial and material content into a single tectonic entity. Therefore, in summary, the paper addresses the issues of multi faceted design criteria regarding tangible and intangible aspects, and further discusses the issues such as; how such physical contexts enable multiple readings of history through spatial configuration, how geometrical grammar operates to narrate the history of urban stratification and how state-ofthe-art architectural and engineering technology co-exist in historic contexts.

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Contextual compatibility in architecture: an issue of personal taste?

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The relationship between the quality of active frontages and public perceptions of public spaces

The relationship between the quality of active frontages and public perceptions of public spaces

Visual evaluation of urban streetscapes: How do public preferences reconcile with those held by experts?

Fragments of a buried urban past revealed through multi-layered voids hidden below the mosque of St. Daniel: the case of the underground museum in Tarsus

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