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Springer eBooks, Aug 31, 2017
Post-Occupancy Evaluations (POEs) have been defined as “the process of evaluating buildings in a ... more Post-Occupancy Evaluations (POEs) have been defined as “the process of evaluating buildings in a systematic and rigorous manner after they have been built and occupied for some time” (Preiser et al. 1988, p. 3). One important objective of POEs is to glean lessons-learned from the review of completed buildings to improve design strategies for future projects. For Vischer (2001, p. 23), it is about “learning how a building performs once it is built, including if and how well it has met expectations.” This is a ‘rear-view’ approach to POEs, in order to feed forward future design decisions, and has served as an important tool for designing better spaces. Another application of POEs is addressed less frequently yet extremely useful to college and university building owners and managers. Campus representatives continually face decisions about the future of the facilities they steward. While building evaluations often focus on physical conditions such as structural, mechanical and building envelope to understand life expectancy, the central goal of campus buildings is to support an institution’s mission and activities. Higher education systems are quickly evolving and changing and many campus buildings throughout the North America have become functionally obsolete. Functional evaluations, similar to Indicative POEs described by Preiser et al., can provide valuable information to decision makers about an institution's existing building stock.
Architects have devoted attention to the entry in all forms of architecture. Designers generally ... more Architects have devoted attention to the entry in all forms of architecture. Designers generally believe that the entry sequence is an important element of a building's design and that it can have a tremendous impact on its users. The importance of the entry is often stressed in design education. Despite such strong beliefs about what the entry can offer, little systematic study or documentation has been devoted specifically to the entry. A recent study has begun to examine people's response to entry. It began by developing a conceptual modelfrom issues found In the literature, such as "sense of place': "legibility" and "mystery", and testing a part of that mode/. This paper continues the examination of that conceptual model in order to further identify the characteristics of a "successful entry".
Building Performance Evaluation, 2018
This symposium will present three projects and three explorations into creating learning environm... more This symposium will present three projects and three explorations into creating learning environments for Native communities. The projects range from a high school that· drew Native students from many tribal nations across the country, to a tribal (2-year) college that serves primarily one Native nation but is open to students from tribes from around the Pacific Northwest, to one of the oldest tribal universities ( 4-year) in the country which serves students from multiple Native nations. All three of these institutions have dealt in different ways with the idea of helping their students "walk in two worlds" or function in two possibly competing epistemologies. All three schools also have to contend at some level with the negative legacy of the Indian boarding schools of the past century that have tainted attitudes towards 'western' education. Also all of the examples are institutions that wish to include and acknowledge, if not celebrate, traditional ways of knowi...
Springer eBooks, Aug 31, 2017
Post-Occupancy Evaluations (POEs) have been defined as “the process of evaluating buildings in a ... more Post-Occupancy Evaluations (POEs) have been defined as “the process of evaluating buildings in a systematic and rigorous manner after they have been built and occupied for some time” (Preiser et al. 1988, p. 3). One important objective of POEs is to glean lessons-learned from the review of completed buildings to improve design strategies for future projects. For Vischer (2001, p. 23), it is about “learning how a building performs once it is built, including if and how well it has met expectations.” This is a ‘rear-view’ approach to POEs, in order to feed forward future design decisions, and has served as an important tool for designing better spaces. Another application of POEs is addressed less frequently yet extremely useful to college and university building owners and managers. Campus representatives continually face decisions about the future of the facilities they steward. While building evaluations often focus on physical conditions such as structural, mechanical and building envelope to understand life expectancy, the central goal of campus buildings is to support an institution’s mission and activities. Higher education systems are quickly evolving and changing and many campus buildings throughout the North America have become functionally obsolete. Functional evaluations, similar to Indicative POEs described by Preiser et al., can provide valuable information to decision makers about an institution's existing building stock.
Architects have devoted attention to the entry in all forms of architecture. Designers generally ... more Architects have devoted attention to the entry in all forms of architecture. Designers generally believe that the entry sequence is an important element of a building's design and that it can have a tremendous impact on its users. The importance of the entry is often stressed in design education. Despite such strong beliefs about what the entry can offer, little systematic study or documentation has been devoted specifically to the entry. A recent study has begun to examine people's response to entry. It began by developing a conceptual modelfrom issues found In the literature, such as "sense of place': "legibility" and "mystery", and testing a part of that mode/. This paper continues the examination of that conceptual model in order to further identify the characteristics of a "successful entry".
Building Performance Evaluation, 2018
This symposium will present three projects and three explorations into creating learning environm... more This symposium will present three projects and three explorations into creating learning environments for Native communities. The projects range from a high school that· drew Native students from many tribal nations across the country, to a tribal (2-year) college that serves primarily one Native nation but is open to students from tribes from around the Pacific Northwest, to one of the oldest tribal universities ( 4-year) in the country which serves students from multiple Native nations. All three of these institutions have dealt in different ways with the idea of helping their students "walk in two worlds" or function in two possibly competing epistemologies. All three schools also have to contend at some level with the negative legacy of the Indian boarding schools of the past century that have tainted attitudes towards 'western' education. Also all of the examples are institutions that wish to include and acknowledge, if not celebrate, traditional ways of knowi...