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Book of Abstracts PRESIDENT’S AWARDS FOR RESEARCH 2018 RIBA President’s Awards for Research 2018 - Book of Abstracts ©RIBA 2018. Registered Charity Number 210 566 ISBN: 978-0-9564972-8-4 Edited by Dylan Dixon. The abstracts in this publication are a record of the submissions to the RIBA President’s Awards for Research 2018 and do not reflect the official views, opinions or policy of the RIBA. Responsibility for the information and views expressed in the publication lies entirely with the author(s). The editors wish to thank all contributors for allowing their work to be published in this book, and work colleagues for their support, namely Nikki Faigen. It gives me great pleasure to see that the practice submissions this year have really grown in strength. Foreword It’s not often that researchers in any field, let alone one recognising how research adds value to their product as diverse as Architecture, are given the opportunity to and enhances their reputation and we are keen to reflect on the diversity of work across the discipline and develop that at RIBA through the new post of Vice look beyond their own specialisation. The President’s President for Research. Awards for Research and the Book of Abstracts do just that; offering an overview of just some of the invaluable This year’s annual theme was a deliberate choice to work going on outside our day to day practice. support the work of the RIBA’s Ethics and Sustainable I am always struck, as are our judges, by the breadth Development Commission and the submissions have of the research landscape and it is heartening to provided the opportunity to consider more broadly see a notable thread of human-centred enquiry, with the challenges that face not only the profession and submissions addressing conflict zones, homelessness, the construction industry, but also those facing wider prison rehabilitation, social housing and minority society and the people living in the buildings and groups from across the globe and within the UK. communities we build. I am happy to report that half of all the submissions I would like to thank all those who submitted their work came from female entrants and we continue to attract into the awards and my congratulations go to all those cross-disciplinary work involving academics from who have been shortlisted and to the eventual winners various subjects, practitioners, other built environment of the categories and the Medal. professionals and local and national authorities. Finally, I would like to acknowledge the dedication It also gives me great pleasure to see that the practice and generosity of all the judges who give so much of submissions this year have really grown in strength. their time freely, to read and assess the submissions The value of research in Practice, of course, goes far and without whom the awards would simply not be beyond these awards; more and more practices are possible. Ben Derbyshire, RIBA President 2017-19 1 President’s Awards for Research 2018 | Contents Contents Foreword 1 21 Do The Right Thing: the Ethics of Environmental Performances in Architecture Introduction 6 Dr Claudia Dutson, Royal College of Art, UK Chair’s Observations 7 22 Architecture of care in the urban public space: A philosophical inquiry in ‘Ethics of care’ 2018 Judges 8 to inform the nature of the urban public space Rucha Vivek Newalkar, Iowa State University, USA Annual Theme: Ethics & Sustainable Development 23 The Three Pitfalls of Sustainable City: A Conceptual Framework for Evaluating the 14 SHORTLISTED Theory-Practice Gap Redesigning Prison - the Architecture and Ethics Dr Valeria Saiu, University of Cagliari, Italy of Rehabilitation Matter Architecture, London, UK Cities and Community 15 SHORTLISTED Reflect Critically and Act Fearlessly: A Survey 26 SHORTLISTED of Ethical Codes, Guidance and Access in Built ProxyAddress: Using Location Data to Environment Practice Reconnect Those Facing Homelessness with Support Services Dr David Roberts, Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, UK Chris Hildrey, Hildrey Studio, London, UK 16 SHORTLISTED 27 SHORTLISTED Reducing the conflict between energy retrofit Architects at the time of war and heritage character Dr Ammar Azzouz, Arup, UK Reyyan S. Okutan, Prof David Coley, Manuel 28 SHORTLISTED Herrera Fernandez, Tristan Kershaw, University of Bath, UK Opaque Architectures: Urban Sites of Refuge in Cape Town (1990 - present) 17 Sustainable change: legislation, technology, Dr Huda Tayob, Bartlett School of Architecture ethics and emotions UCL, UK Dr Paola Sassi, Oxford Brookes University, UK 29 SHORTLISTED 18 Individuals cultivating edible plants on Care and Rebellion: The Dissolved Household in buildings in England Contemporary Rural China Dr Mina Samangooei, Oxford Brookes University Dr Jingru Cheng, School of Architecture, Royal & MEB Design Ltd, UK College of Art, UK 19 Exploring Applications of Ethics to Practice 30 Vital Neighbourhoods: Lessons from in Sustainable Development of the Built international housing renewal Environment Publica Associates Ltd, London, UK Dr Aidan Parkinson, Arup, UK 20 Designing for Health Sumita Singha, Ecologic Architects, UK 2 President’s Awards for Research 2018 | Contents 31 Urban Cool - addressing heat, health and 41 SHORTLISTED habitat in the Anthropocene A Machine For Playing In: Exploring the Prof Douglas Kelbaugh Stewart, Taubman videogame as a medium for architectural agency College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Dr Luke Pearson, The Bartlett School of University of Michigan, USA Architecture, UCL, UK 32 Transforming towns: A place specific, 42 Social Behaviour in Corridors: The case for design-led approach to the future of rural better circulation space in schools settlements Eilish Barry, Department of Civil Engineering & Dr Matthew Jones, Architecture and the Built Architecture, University of Bath, UK Environment, University of the West England, UK 43 Meeting the challenge of climate change 33 CIAM 6 Cities Re-Imagined - Cross-laminated timber and residential Juliet Bidgood & Kate Burrough, Juliet Bidgood development in the UK A+U, UK Anthony Thistleton-Smith, Andrew Waugh, Jane Collier & Rebecca Sawcer, Waugh Thistleton 34 How is the Shrine Abdullah Shah Ghazi and Architects Ltd., UK its surroundings transformed by the Neoliberal Dr Kat Martindale, Architecture + Urbanism Urban Redevelopment? Research Office, UK Ushna Raees, Indus Valley School Of Art and Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan 44 Recording for re-reconstruction: 3D laser scanning for the analysis and intervention of 35 Situating childhood play; Reading The heritage areas affected by earthquakes Playground Project through a Situated, Varifocal Dr Bernadette Devilat, The Bartlett School of Lens Architecture, UCL, UK Jessica Bonehill, University of Edinburgh , UK 45 Energy modelled realities - UK and USA Architects’ design practice Design and Technical Dr Sonja Oliveira, Elena Marco, Prof Bill Gething, Architecture and the Built Environment, 38 SHORTLISTED University of the West England, UK Viability of ‘house as power station’ concept in a North European climate 46 Toolkit for Sustainable Urban Laura Davila Ponce de Leon, Justin Bere & Alex Development, Plugins for CDP // Collaborative Whitcroft, Bere:Architects, London Alexandre Design Platform Pecourt & Clément Castel, Energelio, France Ata Chokhachian, Dr Gerhard Schubert, Ivan Graham Taylor, Darke & Taylor, UK Bratoev, Cécile Bonnet, Prof Frank Petzold and Prof Thomas Auer, Technical University of 39 SHORTLISTED Munich, Germany Non-orthogonal Light Timber Frame Design Gerard Finch, Victoria University of Wellington, 47 AORGANIC: Architectural fields of New Zealand exploration towards the end of the society Simon Rosa Perez, Architectural Association, UK 40 SHORTLISTED Computational Blends: The Epistemology of 48 Navigating real and virtual complex Designing with Functionally Graded Materials museums Dr Kostas Grigoriadis, Architectural Association, Dr Athina Lazaridou, The Bartlett School of UK Architecture, UCL, UK 3 President’s Awards for Research 2018 | Contents History and Theory 60 The Reproduction of Architecture: A Cognitive Map to Traverse the Discipline 52 SHORTLISTED Prof Camilo de Lima Amaral Vladimir, The Advent of Architecture in China Universidade Federal de Goias, Brazil Dr Edward Denison, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, UK 61 Architectural Creative Design Model: Guang Yu Ren, Independent Researcher, UK Exploration of a theoretical framework to restructure design studio to facilitate creative 53 SHORTLISTED process in architectural design An architectural and social history of the Niranjika Gunarathne Wijesooriya & Dr Janaka mosque in Britain 1889-2017 Wijesundara, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka Shahed Saleem, Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster, UK 62 Within and Against: The Architectural Idea of The Building 54 SHORTLISTED Dr Xiang Ren, University of Sheffield, UK May Mo(u)rn: transitional spaces in architecture and psychoanalysis – a site-writing Research Matters Prof Jane Rendell, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, UK 66 Riot to buy: To what extent did political 55 SHORTLISTED contestation influence and accelerate Space Design, Making and Tectonics in development of neoliberal urban policy in Palestinian Architecture in Israel: Impacts of the Britain? Israeli Project Ben Beach, Faculty of Architecture, University of Dr Abed Badran, Welsh School of Architecture, Cambridge, UK Cardiff University, UK 67 Super green2: An architects journey in 56 Housing Social Demands: The Church of material development