{"title":"In Search of Sustainable Paradigms for Conservation and Development Based on Underlying Convergent / Divergent Conceptions","authors":"Vimolsiddhi Horayangkura","doi":"10.56261/jars.v6i3.168711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56261/jars.v6i3.168711","url":null,"abstract":"Transitional societies are emerging amid continuous cultural transformations. To search for sustainableparadigms, it is essential to clarify the various interfaces of the conservation and development dimensions,particularly as the outcome of thinking approaches -- convergent and divergent conceptions. Convergenceinduces traditional practices, while divergence leads to non-conventional outputs. In this exploratory research,two paradigms of interrelationships regarding sustainable conservation and development are investigated:1) in conflict; 2) in balanced integration and transformation. In order to demonstrate the conservation anddevelopment experiences, a quadrangular conceptual framework is set along a bipolar continuum with conservationand development dichotomy in coordination with convergence and divergence. Two specific topics, each withexamples of East / West phenomena and related perspectives, are demonstrated: 1) contemporary architecturewith uniqueness; 2) treatment approaches of cultural heritage. This study reveals certain distinctive patterns ofinterrelationship between conservation and development in accordance with the considerations of convergentand divergent conceptions. The research output, based on balanced integration between conservation anddevelopment as sustainable paradigm, would be the basis for setting up national policy and related legislativeamendments regarding sustainable cultural conservation and development.","PeriodicalId":428713,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Architectural/Planning Research and Studies (JARS)","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133011879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Redesigning an Italian Lake Chapel with Existing Proportions","authors":"S. Awal","doi":"10.56261/jars.v20i2.253349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56261/jars.v20i2.253349","url":null,"abstract":"This research aims to derive the geometric proportion in the ruins of San Giovanni, an octagonal Renaissance chapel in Val Di Lago of Italy. It is a part of the revitalization competition project organized by Re-Use Italy in 2021. Vitruvius's methods that were later clearly used by Williams in relevant research are used for this research. Additionally, the method used by Balmer relating to finding the proportion system is also considered for this research. Eventually, findings from both analyses are compared, including relevant literature review, to derive the height of the roof of the remaining ruins of the octagonal Chapel, which is also a requirement for this competition. Literature reviews include the site's significance and orientation to the proportion system from the related research. From the findings, geometric proportions like 2:3 and 1:3 are used more dominantly throughout the analysis. The analysis is done from the drawings, including plans, elevation, and sections provided by the organizer. From the outcome of the investigation, any design layout can be generated which could be used for the design part of this competition project. Moreover, future relevant research can be carried out following this method to identify the existing ruins' proportion system. ","PeriodicalId":428713,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Architectural/Planning Research and Studies (JARS)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114978471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Landscape Change Analysis: Ecosystem Services in the Peri-urban Agriculture of Bangkok","authors":"Fa Likitswat, Alisa Sahavacharin","doi":"10.56261/jars.v20i2.249694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56261/jars.v20i2.249694","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past decades, Bangkok peri-urban has been transformed from agricultural villages to urban development communities. Within the flat terrain and poor drainage characteristic of Chao Phraya Lower Floodplain, peri-urban agricultures are considered to be one of landscape patches and areas that creating and adding ecosystem services and values for mega urban areas. The significant loss of agricultural landscape of Bangkok peri-urban means that the loss of seasonal water retention areas, productive landscapes, as well as habitat for urban wildlife. This research classifies and analyzes landscape transformations especially agricultural landscape structures and functions of eight selective sites surrounded by the urban fringe of Bangkok. By tracing over the landscape change patterns backs form 1952 to 2018, the study areas include; 1) Rangsit Klong Sam and Klong Si, Pathumthani 2) Bang Kradi, Patumthani, 3) Lum Lukka Klong Hok Wa, Patumthani, 4) Klong Chorakea Noi and Klong Lat Krabang, Bangkok, 5) Bang Pla, Samut Prakarn, 6) Kok Kham, Samutsakorn, 7) Tha Mai, Samutsakorn, and 8) Klong Mahasawat, Nakorn Pathom. It is also critical linking and discussing on the ecosystem functions and services toward sustainable landscape management. This paper concludes the research gap between the lack of policies to practices for promoting the ecosystem services linking to the preserving and focusing on peri-urban agriculture landscape of Bangkok.","PeriodicalId":428713,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Architectural/Planning Research and Studies (JARS)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125617396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Green Infrastructure Development for a Sustainable Urban Environment in Chittagong city, Bangladesh","authors":"Mahadi Hasan Syed, Mohammad Ali Haider","doi":"10.56261/jars.v20i2.251489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56261/jars.v20i2.251489","url":null,"abstract":"The urban green belts mechanism was part of the city planning landscape of the 20th century for sustainable urban management. Greenbelt is a land-use policy and designation used in land use/land cover planning. The green belt has long been a design policy that also has a base in London accepted by other renowned cities such as Ottawa, Birmingham, Seoul, Frankfurt, Tehran's, Mashhad, Beijing, Gulbarga, Ontario, etc. Benefits include the value of living close to the green belts, recreational resources, productive farmland, transport connectivity, and a wide range of life support ecosystem services. The study investigated the present green space condition and its infrastructure with other cities around the world and prescribed the other mechanism in reviewing the Master Plan and the Detailed Area Plan of Chittagong city, Bangladesh along with a significant number of journal articles, books, and reports. The study found that the city of Chittagong is facing various problems in the present decades with its various problems like green space, recreational facilities, disaster, public health risk and so many. It also found that the city's geographical condition is suitable for developing an effective green belt in its periphery area. Although green wedges is another park system proposal for the barriers of urban green belt. The importance of land allocation for urban green space is usually neglected or easily reported in the city transition region. Besides, the city of Glasgow, Stockholm, Melbourne, and Copenhagen, etc. are accepted green wedges mechanisms. For some barriers as like as industrial development and some exclusive economic zone, some green wedges are much suitable in the gap of urban green belt in Chittagong city. The concept of green belt and green wedges both supports sustainable urban management in the city of Chittagong. However, these findings and analysis will be of great importance to the urban planners and decision-makers, for making environment-friendly sustainable future planning of modern and the planned Chittagong city.","PeriodicalId":428713,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Architectural/Planning Research and Studies (JARS)","volume":"129 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124618631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Chanbenjapipu, Warawoot Chuangchai, Chutamas Thepmalee, Apiruck Wonghempoom
{"title":"A Review Article: Fall Incidents and Interior Architecture— Influence of Executive Function in Normal Ageing","authors":"P. Chanbenjapipu, Warawoot Chuangchai, Chutamas Thepmalee, Apiruck Wonghempoom","doi":"10.56261/jars.v20i1.249299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56261/jars.v20i1.249299","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000\u0000\u0000Many ageing people are staying at home, whether they are self-isolating or social distancing, because of the current Covid-19 situation. Fall incidents at home among the ageing are significantly associated with a high level of mortality. Bathrooms are frequently reported as a major environmental hazard in connection with falls. This serious health risk raises the matter of interior architecture. In terms of preventing falls, more architectural research focuses on interior elements e.g., handrail design, and non-slip mat, whilst less attention is paid to the issue of how ageing causes falls. Therefore, this article sheds light on the normal ageing process through an executive function that helps in the fall prevention of ageing people via decision-making and problem-solving. Normal ageing gradually results in declining executive function, including cognitive and motor functions, which limits and reduces day to day activities. The cognitive function (as a system) involves processing speed, accuracy in response, and error response whereas the motor function (as a mechanism) defines both gross and fine motor functions. A combination of cognitive and motor functions reflects conditions that may lead to a fall. Regarding the executive function, interior architecture for preventing falls in normal ageing people is strongly encouraged e.g., clear layout, timesaving activity, simplicity of design, lighting uniformity, short walking distance, cased opening, lightweight fixtures, and fine texture flooring. This article reviews the literature to address the knowledge gaps between interior architecture and human-centred design through ageing ergonomics, and employs a behaviour-focused aspect to interpret results for interior architects. Electronic databases, including Scopus, PubMed, and Google Scholar, were searched to specify appropriate papers, which were restricted to those in the English language. To improve the quality of the elderly’s life, this article provides recommendations that could assist interior architects in this challenge.\u0000\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":428713,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Architectural/Planning Research and Studies (JARS)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132013509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intuitive Dynamics: The Inscription of Time in MnG House","authors":"Santirak Prasertsuk","doi":"10.56261/jars.v4i2.169240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56261/jars.v4i2.169240","url":null,"abstract":"For a decade, the architectural work of an architect Pornchai Boonsom has been based on an exploration in ‘time’ and ‘dynamic movement’ of interactive forces in the context of Postmodernism and Consumerism in Thailand. His MnG House in Bangkok, completed in 2002, is a reflection of a new thinking in science, particularly an experiment on Henri Bergson’s philosophical concepts of the evolution of time and dynamic process of intuition.\u0000In the early twentieth century, Bergson proposed what became the great breakthrough against the classical biology of Charles Darwin - the theory of evolution. He introduced a new notion of time as a ceaseless flow or flux – not a discrete unit. This concept has changed the way we understand life and universe, and the way we spatially conceive and perceive architecture through a linear time. Bergson’s another concept of intuition psychologically explains how we understand the reality of the world as a continual flow of life.\u0000Pornchai Boonsom’s MnG House reflects the Bergsonian worldview both in architectural geometryand spatial expression. The house could be defined as ‘the inscription or the writing of time’ througharchitectural productions: an exemplar work manifesting a continual change of form without a beginningor an end.","PeriodicalId":428713,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Architectural/Planning Research and Studies (JARS)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115530725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Saranrom Garden: From Siamese Royal Garden to Thailand's Public Park","authors":"Nattika Navapan, Koompong Noobanjong","doi":"10.56261/jars.v10i2.16829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56261/jars.v10i2.16829","url":null,"abstract":"The opening of regal parks for public use in the West has usually been perceived as a part of a growingidea of the park as public venue. In Siam and Thailand, Saranrom Garden is one of the most obvious examplesto demonstrate the aforementioned change in land uses. It was transformed from the monarchy’s recreationalground to a seat of state agency and eventually to a public space. The investigation on the history of SaranromGarden reveals how the concept and practice of public parks came into existence in a non-Western culturewithout a direct colonization from the West.In addition, the analytical and critical readings on the development and utilization of the park arguesthat Saranrom Garden: 1) was employed by the ruling elites as an instrument to represent a modern society;and 2) functioned in terms of a hegemonic discourse, whose accessibility to the public resulted from an imitationof Western practice to display the “civilized” identity of the elites rather than from a genuine concern to producea social “release valve.”","PeriodicalId":428713,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Architectural/Planning Research and Studies (JARS)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120945565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}