Design Issues 
Design Issues cover research projects that pertain to the art and science of creating and sustaining the built environment and include case studies of projects.
| Title |
Date |
Author |
|---|---|---|
| Thermal Performance of Facades | Nov 30, 2014 | Charles Klee, AIA, LEED AP (Payette), Andrea Love, AIA, LEED AP BD+C (Payette) |
| Impact of Passive Cooling Techniques on Energy Demand for Residential Buildings in a Mediterranean Climate | Nov 30, 2014 | K. Imessad, L. Derradji, N.Ait Messaoudene, F. Mokhtari, A. Chenak, R. Kharchi |
| Speeding Up Hospital Construction | Nov 25, 2014 | MCD |
| AIA DART: Provincetown, MA (2014) | Nov 19, 2014 | AIA Center for Communities by Design |
| Biomass for Electricity Generation | Nov 05, 2014 | U.S. Department of Energy, Federal Energy Management Program |
| AIA DART: Bath, ME (2014) | Nov 05, 2014 | AIA Center for Communities by Design |
| Karuna House : A Whole Building Design Guide Case Study | Nov 01, 2014 | Whole Building Design Guide, a program of the National Institute of Building Sciences |
| The Bullitt Center : A Whole Building Design Guide Case Study | Nov 01, 2014 | Whole Building Design Guide, a program of the National Institute of Building Sciences |
| Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Sustainable Design Methods for Architects | Oct 31, 2014 | Norbert Lechner |
| Biomass for Heat | Oct 23, 2014 | U.S. Department of Energy, Federal Emergency Management Agency |
| Best Practices for Accessibility Compliance | Oct 23, 2014 | Steven Winter Associates, Inc. |
| Fresh Perspectives: The Human Scale in Sustainable Healthcare Design | Oct 02, 2014 | Stan Chiu & Patrick Thibaudeau |
| Rain & Groundwater Management: Reducing the Risk of Water Intrusion & Damage (TechNote) | Sep 30, 2014 | Home Innovation Research Labs |
| Museum of Memory: An Analysis of How Museum Circulation Can Help Visitors Remember a Space | Sep 18, 2014 | Alvaro Alvarez (Cornell University) |
| In Search of Beneficial Distractions: Exploring Restorative Environmental Distractions in Workplace Design | Sep 18, 2014 | Meredith Banasiak, M.Arch., Assoc. AIA (University of Colorado), Casey Lindberg, Ph.D., M.Arch. (HabLab), Brian Green M.S. Tech. Mgmt. (Work Environments), Marc G. Berman, Ph.D. (University of Chicago) |
| Urban Sound Planning and Design – An Emerging Transdisciplinary Field of Research and Practice | Sep 18, 2014 | Nina Hallgren (Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design) |
| The Sense of Presence: Utilizing Emotional Feedback | Sep 18, 2014 | Carlo Pasini (University of Waterloo), Michael Persinger (Laurentian University), Philip Beesley (University of Waterloo) |
| fMRI Study of Architecturally-Induced Contemplative States | Sep 18, 2014 | Julio Bermudez, Ph.D. (The Catholic University of America), David Krizaj, Ph.D. (University of Utah), David Lipschitz, Ph.D. (University of Utah), Deborah Yurgelun-Todd, Ph.D. (University of Utah), Yoshino Nakamura, Ph.D. (University of Utah) |
| Will ‘Good’ Architecture Make Us More Creative? Examining the Role of Place in Creative Cognition | Sep 18, 2014 | Laura Healey Malinin, PhD, AIA (Colorado State University) |
| How Do You Feel Architecture? Heartbeats Induce Affinities with Virtual Interiors | Sep 18, 2014 | Isabella Pasqualini (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)), Olaf Blanke (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL); University Hospital of Geneva) |
| Spatial Manifestations of the Human Psyche | Sep 18, 2014 | Ashley Brooke Biren (Ryerson University) |
| A Preference Study among Four Interior Architectural Geometries in a Semi-Immersive Virtual Environment | Sep 18, 2014 | Hannah Hobbs, M.Arch (NewSchool of Architecture + Design) |
| An fMRI-Based Exploration of Neural Correlates of the ‘Formal’ Environmental Attributes of Healthcare Settings | Sep 18, 2014 | Debajyoti Pati, PhD, FIIA, IDEC, LEED AP (Texas Tech University), Michael O’Boyle (Texas Tech University), Upali Nanda (HKS Architects), Jiancheng Hou (Texas Tech University), Hessam Ghamari (Texas Tech University), Robyn Bajema (American Art Resource) |
| Light-Dark Cycle in the Built Environment | Sep 18, 2014 | Satchidananda Panda, PhD (Salk Institute for Biological Studies), Frederick Marks, AIA (Salk Institute for Biological Studies) |
| The Urban Grid, the Hippocampus, Savannahs and Real Property | Sep 18, 2014 | M. Gordon Brown, DTech, FRICS (Space Analytics, LLC) |