In recent years, more education administrators and designers have embraced the potential benefits of daylighting. They have been persuaded that using natural light to illuminate facilities enables schools and universities to conserve energy and provide a learning environment in which students perform better. For daylighting advocates, the…

Explores the idea that both the design and the use of buildings are part of a general human learning process concerned with the use of space. Argues that researchers face the need to bridge the gap between designers and users on the one hand and "objective" observers on the other. Gives a critique of some current methods of research in buildings…

Outlines how classification systems or codes, operating in a variety of contexts, regulate the interaction between man and the built environment. Views the ritual forms of the built environment as transmitters of culture. Suggests that this framework might provide a new starting point for investigations into the built environment in use and the…

Discusses records made of the London Weather Centre indicative of concentrated sunshine symmetrically about noon, which provides a probability of sunshine occurring on vertical surfaces to be greatest for south facing walls. Concludes that design recommendations should be based on available, rather than on theoretically possible, sunshine duration…

Multistory buildings, supported by internal air pressure and surrounded by a thin, flexible or rigid membrane acting both as structural container and external cladding, are feasible and highly economical for a number of building applications. (Author)

This paper discusses the special problems of research in desiging for user groups with various functional limitations, such as the elderly, the mentally ill, and the economically deprived. (Author)

Rochdale Village is a successful example of active student participation in the design and construction of student housing. The apartment complex reflects students' desire for a village of lowrise, wood-shingled buildings, while meeting the University of California's density requirement of 250 units per acre. (JG)

Two architects review housing needs of the handicapped elderly and give some specific design considerations for safety and mobility. (MF)

Reviews four environmental design and environmental psychology concepts and summarizes their implications for library building planning: (1) privacy; (2) proxemics and personal space; (3) territoriality; and (4) ergonomics and human factors. (34 references) (MES)

The basic factors in personal comfort, the nature of the processes of teaching and learning, and the effects of environment on these functions are discussed. The role of climate conditioning and space conditioning as interpreted by sensory factors during the learning process gives guidelines for design solutions. Technical supplements on climate…

A young, St. Louis, Missouri, architectural firm, seeking a personal style of practice, has succeeded in creating structures that reveal client input, and which are sensitive, articulate, and at ease with complexity. Describes an elementary school, a condominium, a shopping mall, a high school, and a "community mall." Illustrated with photographs…

Attempts to define the fundamental dimensions of human activity and some of the social controls exercised over them in the built environment. Activity is treated as an abstraction of human behavior which can be usefully related to certain aspects of the environment. The explanatory power and use of activity studies are explored. (Author)

Architects provided a college-village with shopping centers, winding roads, plazas, and white-painted facades to allow students opportunities for many different patterns of human association. Amply and colorfully illustrated. (Author)

Facility requirements are presented for the indoor and outdoor living and learning facilities and areas of the proposed Francis Jefferson Coates Country Campus of the Missouri School for the Blind in St. Louis. The requirements were developed in view of the major goals and purposes of the institution--to provide exposure to a variety of learning…