Creating Places through Architecture: Can environment-behaviour research help?

Authors

  • Ranjith Dayaratne

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21834/ajbes.v1i2.28

Abstract

For quite some time, architects have been struggling to benefit from the vast body of environment-behaviour research to produce meaningful architecture. Written examples of such efforts are few and far between. In this context, this paper presents an attempt by a student of architecture to employ environment-behaviour research in the design of an elder’s home and discusses the potentials and problems of the approach. It shows that if theory of architecture, design practices and environment-behaviour research could be re-orientate towards and employ the idea of place as a bridging concept,it will facilitate such a link between the environment-behaviour research and design.

2398-4295 © 2016. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK.. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

Keywords: Architectural design; place; environment-behaviour research; design studio

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2016-07-01

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Dayaratne, R. (2016). Creating Places through Architecture: Can environment-behaviour research help?. Asian Journal of Behavioural Studies, 1(2), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.21834/ajbes.v1i2.28

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