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Beyond Codified Comfort: Building Design and Performance

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posted on 2023-05-22, 05:14 authored by Clark, G
Increasingly, the designed solution to building performance is being replaced by the engineered solution. The reasons for this are a) the architectural profession’s valuing of the aesthetic over the functional, and b) legislation that mandates occupant comfort as defined by a narrow set of numbers. If architecture is to remain viable as a profession we, as architects, must abandon the notion of architecture as a fashion industry. We must also insist upon our right to design buildings that respond to the needs of their occupants, and re-establish the notions of occupant choice and relative comfort. This note takes a critical look at the current notion of architecture as taste making, then proposes a way forward by re-establishing the notion of architecture as shelter building.

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Publication title

Environment Design Guide

Issue

74 GC

Article number

EDG 74GC

Number

EDG 74GC

Pagination

1-8

ISSN

1442-5017

Department/School

School of Architecture and Design

Publisher

Knowledge Services Australian Institute of Architects

Place of publication

Melbourne

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Teacher and instructor development

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