Leicester School of Architecture
Recent Submissions
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Investigation into energy performance of a school building in a hot climate: Optimum of window-to-wall ratio.
(Article)Global attention is currently focussed on developing techniques to improve the thermal performance of buildings to provide indoor comfort with minimum reliance on energy load. Several studies have investigated building ... -
Energy Efficient Building Design in Nigeria: An Assessment of the Effect of the Sun on Energy Consumption in Residential Buildings
(Article)The effect of the sun and its path on thermal comfort and energy consumption in residential buildings in tropical climates constitutes serious concern for designers, building owners and users. Passive design approaches ... -
Impact of urban geometry on indoor air temperature and cooling energy consumption in traditional and formal urban environments
(Conference)This study explores the effect of outdoor microclimatic environment on indoor conditions in a tropical warm-humid climate. An indoor air temperature and building energy performance analysis is carried out for the real ... -
Creating a map of the underground heritage in the Mediterranean area: A visual representation for a comprehensive research
(Book chapter)Interest in man-made (or artificial) cavities in the countries of the Mediterranean Basin led the Commission of the Italian Speleological Society to study and catalogue some of the most common troglodyte types in the region. ... -
The architecture of the periphery: two views of Madrid’s periphery seen through Aldo Rossi’s work.
(Article)Bringing together two aspects of Aldo Rossi’s urban theory (roughly characterised by knowing and feeling), reading them against recent urban peripheral development in Madrid. -
'According to John James: a Poem with Many Authors'
(Other)This sequence, In Memoriam John James, was initiated as a chain poem by Kelvin Corcoran. Contributors were invited to write two stanzas continuing the opening to James' poem 'A Theory of Poetry.' -
'Ode on the Departing Year'
(Other)This 10-poem sequence continues my exploration of the serial poem, and the Coleridgean Conversation Poem. -
Places without memory: a peripheral insight into Madrid’s growth
(Book chapter)This article describes the recent development of Periphery in the city of Madrid. It focuses in the places that have been built and constructed and the qualities of them. -
The Architecture of the Periphery: An insight into the work of Aldo Rossi and its current relevance to the recent developments in the northern periphery of Madrid
(Article)This article analyses the recent development of the periphery in Madrid within the context of Aldo Rossi’s seminal book The Architecture of the City. The objective of this article is to emphasise the importance and ... -
Furniture and Other Household Objects as Integrative Elements of the Indigenous House in East Mexico
(Conference)The Papaloapan River in East Mexico is a rich region historically, culturally and naturally. These characteristics are also reflected in the region’s vernacular architecture. This fascination with the built environment led ... -
Skirting the Sketch: an Analysis of Sketch Inhibition within Contemporoary Design Higher Education
(Article)Sketch inhibition is regularly alluded to by educators within design higher education (HE) and one with increasingly marked effects on industry. Over the past thirty years students have been observed to engage less with ... -
From Research to Practice: Exploring 3D Printing in Production of Architectural Mashrabiya
(Conference)Digital fabrication has suggested the supplanting of labour via robotics since it affords substantial increases in speed and accuracy in the development of architectural components. This potentiality might offer solutions ... -
An Analysis of Sketch Inhibition within Contemporary Design Education
(Article)Sketch inhibition is regularly alluded to by educators as a phenomenon within design higher education, and one having increasingly marked effects on industry - but has garnered little attention from academics. This paper ... -
From Vernacular to Personalised and Sustainable
(Conference)The social and environmental role of closed oriental balco-nies (Mashrabiyas) remains a significant vernacular aspect of Middle Eastern architecture. However, changes in architectural style, social needs, and the high ... -
Ideal Ideation: A Framework for the Management of Sketch Inhibition Among Undergraduate Designers
(Conference)Sketch inhibition among undergraduates is a growing but under-researched issue. Affected students avoid engaging with sketching during concept development, they also have little understanding of the benefits it offers ... -
On value conflicts: negotiating difference in the renovation of historic buildings
(Conference)This paper examines the “value conflicts” played out between multiple participants involved in the restoration of Newcastle University’s Armstrong Building. Constructed between 1887 and 1906, the Armstrong Building has ... -
Social Sustainability, Housing and Alienation
(Book chapter)This chapter considers the relevance of the sustainability agenda at a time when post-industrial capitalism dominates economic and social relations. It attempts to find links between the way housing is understood as a need ... -
Social Sustainability and the Housing Problem
(Book chapter)The issue of sustainability which started as an environmental concern has gained currency in research and media for a number of years, and it has been defined in a number of ways, each reflecting a particular approach or ... -
Developing a research by design project
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