L3: 3 Journals

Access by design

Mannion,Fiona. "Planning for the future." Access by design volume, no. issue126 (Spring 2011): pages

 The journal regularly features design sheets, building studies, updates on legislation and case law, reports on current research and book reviews. 

Access by design is essential reading for:

• Architects
• Surveyors
• Access auditors and consultants
• Access officers
• Facilities managers
• developers
• planners
• occupational therapists
• access groups
• local authorities

Inclusive Design

Inclusive design is all about making places that everyone can use affecting our ability to move, see and hear and communicate effectively.

It enables everyone to participate equally, confidently, and independently in everyday activities. 

It offers new insights into the way we interact with the built environment and creates new opportunities to deploy creative and problem solving skills. 

Access by design journal website: http://www.cae.org.uk/

• A strong, flexible and sustainable economy- This is to be achieved by ensuring that sufficient land is available to allow growth and innovation and identifying and coordinating development requirements, including the provision of infrastructure.

• Protection and enhancement of the natural, built and historic environment- This is to involve 'product' use of natural resources and actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

•  Strong, vibrant and healthy environment- by providing an increased supply and by creating a good quality built environment, with accessible local services, that reflects community needs and supports well being.

• This journal ensures that every visitor , whether young, older, visually impaired, deaf, disable, or someone whose first language is not English, could all access the same quality of experience on their journey throughout the building.

• Considers the right of the child to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the age of the child and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts.

• Focus on the creative concept

• The desire for the installation to be shared with as many people as possible.

Contents: 

Singapore Institute of Architects

Lim, Karen. "RMJM." Singapore Institute of Architects volume, no. issue (2008/2009): pages 124,125

http://www.sia.org.sg/

• The Singapore Institute of Architects was established in 1961 and SIA was subsequently registered on 5 March 1963 with the Register of Society and notified in Gazette No 27 of 15 March 1963. 

• Singapore aspires to be one of the greatest cities in the world.

• Architecture is the physical manifestation of the people's aspirations, creativity and spirit.

• Given the good infrastructure of environmental policies such as clean and green campaign, city in the garden status, Active Beautiful Clean Waters Programme etc, Singapore is poised to be the most environmentally friendly city in the world.

• Ultimately, through education and promotion, the Singapore Architects hope that a nation that appreciates and cares for its environment will emerge.

• Singapore Architects says that they need to begin to transform the large voids of our erban spaces into meaningful spaces that inspire our community.

• SIA and Singapore architects are fully motivated to make an impact to society as people live up to their role. The long period of silence must be broken by meaningful contribution and breakthroughs. 

Recent 

The objectives of Singapore institute of Architects are:

• to generate a greater awareness and appreciation of the value of good design in their built environment and daily lives in their community.

• To advance the theory and practice of architecture through the support

• Reward for quality research and innovation in architectural design, practice and education

• To continually upgrade the level of professionalism among architects in order to better serve the community.

• To promote solidarity among architects through a collective vision of working towards a dignified and caring profession that upholds a high standard of professional conduct and ethics.

 Contents

Our group was influenced by the shape of a semi circle building on the top right hand corner. 

The top right hand corner image influenced our second life design. We used triangle prim instead of square prim to keep away from stockiness.

My media group was fascinated by the curved roof which added elegance to the building.

Ethics, Place and Environment

Blenkinsop,Sean. "Educating for relationship." Ethics place and environment  volume8, no.3 issue (Oct 2005): pages

Ethics, place and Environment is an international peer-reviewed journal publishing research, scholarship and debate on all aspects of geographical and environmental ethics.

It is about geographers' concerns with the interaction between peoples and environments that creates particular places.

'Environment' is used in a very broad sense to emphasize not only physical and biological environments, but also social and cultural environments.

Geographers have questioned and are concerned with a wide range of subjects:

• animal rights
• question of  justice in urban society
• development ethics
• cartography
• construction of cultural values

Geographers focused on the ethical implications of human behaviour in place and their interests at the interface between human and physical environments.

The dialectical relationship between humans and Nature:

This book, from a particular view refers to 

'How has public space been constructed and contested?'

'Is there a right to the public spaces and should political progressed pursue such a right?'

'How has the law been critical to  these struggles over public space?'

The book answers 

One is that the 'right' to public space is one worth pursuing, largely because according to Don Mitchell, public space is a critical arena in which a progressive politics can be enunciated and enacted.

Don Mitchell sees the value in mobilizing rights discourse in struggles over public space.

Public space can be used to make more evident the processes and products in inequality.

Group Journals

Jiwon's Journal

As a design based magazine, this journal allowed and lead our build to become its finalised design with its various of different design ideas which embrace texture, landscapem, form, motion and colour through its given theme.

Architecture and Ideas is a magazine whose aim is the investigation, examination, illumination and criticism of contemporary architecture and its ancillary culture. It is published twice a year with articles appearing in either english or french.

The aim of Ai is to provide a forum for thinking and writing about architecture; a place where architects, planners, theorists, critics, scholars and artists can come together and, through informed discussion, advance our collective understanding of architecture and its place in the emerging world of the twenty-first century.'

Threshold, stated on its cover, is literally a book of Journals from different architects during the mid 1980s which embrace reality and the economic factors too.

Keunhee's journal