Re-conceiving building design quality : A review of building users in their social context
(2016) In Indoor and Built Environment 25(3). p.509-523- Abstract
- Considerable overlap exists between post-occupancy research evaluating building design quality and the concept of ‘social value’, popularised by its recent application to issues of the public realm. To outline this potential research agenda, the paper reviews design quality research on buildings in rela- tion to users and their social context where the term ‘social context’ refers to building user group dynamics, a combination of organisational cultures, management strategies, and social norms and practices. The review is conducted across five key building types, namely housing, workplaces, health- care, education, and the retail/service sector. Research commonalities and gaps are identified in order to build a more comprehensive picture... (More)
- Considerable overlap exists between post-occupancy research evaluating building design quality and the concept of ‘social value’, popularised by its recent application to issues of the public realm. To outline this potential research agenda, the paper reviews design quality research on buildings in rela- tion to users and their social context where the term ‘social context’ refers to building user group dynamics, a combination of organisational cultures, management strategies, and social norms and practices. The review is conducted across five key building types, namely housing, workplaces, health- care, education, and the retail/service sector. Research commonalities and gaps are identified in order to build a more comprehensive picture of the design quality literature and its handling of users in their social context. The key findings concerning each building type are presented visually. It is concluded that the design quality field comprises a patchwork of relatively isolated studies of various building types, with significant potential for theoretical and empirical development through interdisciplinary collaboration. Users tend to be conceived as anonymous and autonomous individuals with little ana- lysis of user identity or interaction. Further, the contextual impact of user group dynamics on the relationship between building design and building user is rarely addressed in the literature. Producing a more nuanced understanding of users in situ is proposed as an important area for future design quality research. (Less)
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- Watson, Kelly ; Evans, James ; Karvonen, Andrew LU and Whitley, Tim
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- 2016
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- Contribution to journal
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- Building user, Building user group dynamics, Design quality, Social context, Social value, Typology of buildings
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- Indoor and Built Environment
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- 25
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- 3
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- 15 pages
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- SAGE Publications
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- scopus:84964006045
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- 1420-326X
- DOI
- 10.1177/1420326X14557550
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- English
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abstract = {{Considerable overlap exists between post-occupancy research evaluating building design quality and the concept of ‘social value’, popularised by its recent application to issues of the public realm. To outline this potential research agenda, the paper reviews design quality research on buildings in rela- tion to users and their social context where the term ‘social context’ refers to building user group dynamics, a combination of organisational cultures, management strategies, and social norms and practices. The review is conducted across five key building types, namely housing, workplaces, health- care, education, and the retail/service sector. Research commonalities and gaps are identified in order to build a more comprehensive picture of the design quality literature and its handling of users in their social context. The key findings concerning each building type are presented visually. It is concluded that the design quality field comprises a patchwork of relatively isolated studies of various building types, with significant potential for theoretical and empirical development through interdisciplinary collaboration. Users tend to be conceived as anonymous and autonomous individuals with little ana- lysis of user identity or interaction. Further, the contextual impact of user group dynamics on the relationship between building design and building user is rarely addressed in the literature. Producing a more nuanced understanding of users in situ is proposed as an important area for future design quality research.}},
author = {{Watson, Kelly and Evans, James and Karvonen, Andrew and Whitley, Tim}},
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keywords = {{Building user; Building user group dynamics; Design quality; Social context; Social value; Typology of buildings}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{3}},
pages = {{509--523}},
publisher = {{SAGE Publications}},
series = {{Indoor and Built Environment}},
title = {{Re-conceiving building design quality : A review of building users in their social context}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1420326X14557550}},
doi = {{10.1177/1420326X14557550}},
volume = {{25}},
year = {{2016}},
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