IDE 3
Rani Mathers (5094331)
Week 9
Lecture Notes:
Building regulations and Approval processes
Legislation - the sustainable planning act 2009 and the Building act 1975
BCA (Building Code of Australia) contains the technical requirements for buildings in relation to structural sufficiency and safety and health and amenities.
Building regulations are important because they ensure the safety of everyone involved in the project and also those who will reside within the space. They are made with the intentions of safety and security and although they are a process to go through and can impact some aesthetic design features, they do have a purpose and reason for being in place and there are heavy consequences for ignoring them.
Week 8
Lecture Notes:
Schematic design comes after the client interview and research. It includes ideation and mood boards, concept sketches and brainstorming all the different elements, interior sketches, spacial planning, spacial relationships, circulation and 3D spacial compositions.
Week 7
Lecture Notes:
Week 7 was all about the role of the interior designer and what that do throughout the whole process.
interior designers can be working on 3-5 ongoing projects at a time.
They go through the ideation, research, documentation and checking the documentation.
It begins with client engagement, receiving the client brief, discussing the scope, goals, timelines and a budget.
Schematic and conceptual design - research into the history of the site and case studies, SWOT. Prepare a return brief for your client. Present design brief (pitch).
Design development- detailed final drawings and present them to the client.
Construction Documentation- detailed technical drawings and coordinate with special consultants. Create FFE Schedule, tender process, permits, etc.
Tendering
Construction Phase - Regular site visits, check materials and product specs, document all changes.
Designing is not predictable and so designers must be prepared for changes and have the flexibility to adapt to those changes.
Week 6
Case Study:
Music Shop
New classical music store, 45 year old owner, inner Melbourne suburb.
1. Creative process
2. Research
3. Mood Board
4. Brainstorm
5. Ideation
6. Idea
Week 5
Lecture notes:
This weeks lecture was about creating a return brief, discussed assessment 2, creating a manageable timeline and conducting a site analysis.
For assessment 2, our task is to research and design a facility for aged Australians in 2060 (when I am at retirement age). Floor plan will be assigned to me and I will alter and redesign the space.
A client brief is the initial idea or concept from the client, outlining the visions and ideas they have, as well as any special needs or specifications. For this instance, I am creating an aged care home and will be required to adhere to AS in regards to regulations and also the level of fragility that these retirees will have.
A return brief is a formatted document written by the designer, it is interpreting their brief and outlining the scope of the work that will need to be time, including a timeline and defining aims and objectives in relation to the design scheme, sets and boundary's and the limitations that may be in place.
Site analysis are important to assess the sight and take not of anything that may need to be taken into consideration for the design. Things in a neighborhood context, crime rates, who and what is within the vicinity and also zoning, size and any legal information.
Week 4
Assignment 1: Pecha Kucha
Assignment Interview:
My grandad, Garry, 77 years old with a hearing impairment.
Week 3
Lecture Notes:
Interview with someone who works in Aged care:
How often do the receive visitors?
How do they feel when someone comes to see them?
Do they feel like a valued member of society?
What’s their favourite thing to do?
Do certain smells bring back happy or sad memories?
Are they happy or content?
Do they feel they have a purpose?
Do they like music? If yes, what time of music? If no, why not?
One thing they wish they could do
Rather than interviewing the elderly directly, I interviewed someone who works in aged care. This was to gather the perspective from some who sees and assesses their quality of life and generally spends more time with the elderly than their own family members.
She told me that every case is different, with some residents receive visits daily, or are taken out for lunches and dinners weekly, while others, particularly dementia patients, it can be quite difficult. Generally, though, she said any type of social interaction lights up their day. It’s their connection to the outside world.
I also asked if many of her patients like music, we found that most enjoy music, but only when it’s from a particular era, otherwise the noise is too much, and they would just prefer silence or talking amongst each other.
The aged care facility has a variety of activities available for the residents, mainly to help give them purpose and something to look forward to each day, weather its attending knitting club or Sunday church service, it tries to appease to their social needs. However, if there was one thing they could do, she said it would be to spend time with their loved ones again.
The final question I asked, was if she sees that the elderly have been put into a corner by society and simply forgotten, and she believe they society definitely has lost the sense of value that our elderly can still provide, and unfortunately sees them as a hindrance. They’re too slow, they need to much help and they’re no longer seen as useful, and unless you’ve seen your own family member in that situation, most people seem happy to ignore the issue.
Week 2
Lecture Notes:
This weeks lecture looks into Inclusion vs exclusion.
Inclusion is a diversity of people who feel valued and respected and have equal opportunities.
Exclusion is separating people and giving different opportunities to particular groups.
These can also relate to segregation.
What is old age?
Aging come with illness and failures. The elderly is also a growing population and defined as those who are ages 65+. By 2020, 1/4 of all Australians will be 65 years or older.
What are the key Issues:
1 in 3 aged between 55 and 64 believe they receive discrimination because of their age.
Employers consider them old.
Transport needs to change and become more accessible.
family units will be smaller.
More aged care and hospital spaces are required.
There are different types of ageing. Healthy and unhealthy.
Chronological, biological and psychological.
The body begins to decay.
There is a mental decline, minds start to forget things. The brain is getting older. The ageing population begins to feel isolates and lonely. Loneliness and depression.
Ageing and the senses. The eyes, ears, smell, taste and touch.
The eyes and other senses begin to age. Hearing is not as accurate, people require simpler tasting meals.
The elderly experience feelings of powerlessness, mortality, changes and frailness.
We need to consider how we care for our elderly and what this population needs.
They are still human and still deserve human rights which includes social inclusion. They will need specialised housing and needs. Things that involve re enablement.
The history of aged care:
Historically, people generally had a lower life expectancy and old age was considered as 60 for women and 65 for men.
Families were also generally larger until the 1960's where family sizes because smaller, reducing house hold costs. Grandparents stopped living in family homes and moved into age care facilities.
Care at home
Residential care
Residential high care
Flexible care (arrangement on how to look after them)
Transition care program (helping cope with the change)
Flexible care (aboriginal)
There is poor funding and staffing within aged care homes. Unethical goals (profit rather than care) and cases of abuse from staff and family members.
Social involvement
Visits
Financial support
Education
Extra visits. How often are they visited? Isolation could lead to depression. Put them within a structure, within a society.
Aged pension. Do they have the financial needs to support themselves each week?
Educate relatives and younger people. Help them understand how elderly people feel. Find out whats going on.
Equity and access to resources. Afraid of change?
Participation. Give them a choice and right to talk about their end of life.
The senses mediate how our body knows what to do.
They guide our reactions.
Universal design. Allows anyone to use buildings, transport and homes. Removes unfitting barriers.
Elderly, disables, young.
1. Body fit
2. Comfort
3. Awareness
4. Understanding
5. Wellness
6. Social integration (inclusive)
7. Personalisation (express their personality)
8. Cultural appropriateness (consider people first and second languages)
Reading: Eyes of the Skin
Week 1
Lecture Notes:
This content for this semesters IDE is based on design and the senses and in particular relation to elderly and the ageing process.
Paul listed the 5 senses:
1. Touch
2. Smell
3. Hearing
4. Feeling
5. Sight
He discussed sensorial design, design judgement, human behaviour, inclusive design and aged care consideration
What is design judgement?
Design judgement is creating the real world around us. Real life is complex, dynamic and uncertain.
Reality can be overwhelming and beyond comprehensive understanding. Design judgement, allows people to overcome their paralysis and engage with the messy complexity of life that can bring function, beauty and meaning.
Paul addressed the fact that a space can tell you so much about a person and who they are, which is why it's important to observe, look, sense and imagine.
Within design judgement, there is tangible and intangible.
Tangible is when something is physical, has form and shape.
Intangible is how humans interact with the form, patterns and behaviours, usage patterns and different levels of interaction.
It is the experimentation of form and human behaviour.
Embodied understanding:
THE EMOTIONS OF HOME: comfort, safe and warm. Imagination, memories of safety and happiness.
"Poetics of space"
It's important in design to consider peoples experiences within the space. The effects colours could have on their memories.
Design has the ability to capture lived experiences.
How do we capture these intangible elements?
PHENOMENOLOGY. How do we know the world?
Do we really understand the world, objects and spaces? Where does our understand come from?
Our lived experiences come from the 5 human senses and the senses link to memory. Subtle things in our everyday lives such as the smell of rain and music have the power to invoke memories and feelings. They have the power to make us feel happy or sad.
Our senses are how our brain understands the world.
Paul mentioned the importance of details and the way these seemingly small things can make a space more enjoyable for human beings and alter the interactions we have within spaces.
Some things are a personal bias, so it's important to understand who we are designing for.
CASE STUDY: Library
Sensorial spaces. Originally quiet spaces. Reading or study. As the internet took off, the role and nature of the library changed.
Old libraries were designed to be imposing, high ceilings, low light, hard surfaces, large scale.
Reinforce the building and the knowledge of the building of the person using it.
Old libraries renovated
Even larger scale. More light. Softer furnishings and colouring. Carpet. More focus on reading, more human centred.
New libraries:
Open, inclusive design, noise in embraced, interactive, more light, organic shapes and forms, children, dispersed information, less focus on book stacks.
Why has the library evolved? Why do some people feel more at home in a public space than others.
Is a space made to exclude? What in a library can produce a feeling of exclusion?
Is the architecture inviting you into a space?
Mix of people?
How has society evolved over the years?
Understanding how things work. Cultural capital.
