Visual Methodologies for People-Centred Design
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Oct.2015
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While building plans and sections are the mainstay of an architect�s repertoire, both architects and architecture students often forget that they are non-real renditions of built environments. Not only do they present particular �slices� of buildings, they are also unique graphic conventions that are learnt and subsequently isualizing by the architectural community as representing spaces. Others may not share this capacity for isualizing built environments and building plans and sections are often unintelligible to non-architects. The architect, on the other hand, often assumes the unproblematic universality of plans and sections as communicating spatial ideas and relations, and may not realise that the client does not necessarily share the same imaginary.What is more troublesome with regards to standard architectural graphic conventions is not only that clients may not understand what architects are saying, but, that architects get naturalized into this particular ways of thinking. Along the way, they may forget that users are not outlines provided by computer drawings tools but living and experiencing beings. Using this as a starting point, I discuss the interconnected nature of visual methods, thinking about people and learning to design in this chapter. Reflecting on the Berkeley Prize Teaching Fellowship 323 studio processes and outcomes, I highlight how the crux of the problem of people-centered design lies in the visual methods used by undergraduate students to both understand the architectural problem and work on its resolution
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321-353p.
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Faculty of Architecture
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Berkeley Essay Prize