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Alnaggar, A M M M (2022) Digital transformation in asset management organisations: towards a data driven approach for life cycle asset management, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).
Antonopoulou, S (1987) The building industry in Greece: its role in the post-war Greek economy, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).
Baik, A H (2017) Heritage Building Information Modelling (HBIM) as a model of UNESCO's World Heritage Nomination File, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).
Baltazar dos Santos, A P (2009) Cyberarchitecture: the virtualisation of architecture beyond representation towards interactivity, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).
- Type: Thesis
- Keywords: architects; commerce; commodification; cyberarchitecture; design process; design value; unanticipated use; user engagement; value; virtualisation
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- URL: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/17414/
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Architects usually design finished buildings and users are subjected to conform their actions to an anticipated functionality. This results from the traditional design process based on representation clearly separating design, building and use. Such a process is welcome in capitalism as design guarantees the commodity value of works of architecture. However, those best able to decide on the use of spaces are their users. So, instead of emphasising exchange value and predicting use in a finished design that obstructs people, as architects do, it is more desirable that spaces enable free and unanticipated uses, emphasising use value. The use of computers in architecture, associated with the 'virtual', reproduces the traditional design process without questioning it. Nevertheless, in this thesis 'virtual' means something that exists but has not happened yet, waiting people's interaction to manifest as an event. This might be digital or not and is related to process, not product. This thesis proposes the 'virtualisation' of the design process and architecture. The former implies the critique of representation, which, by means of drawings, fixes the final form and meaning of buildings before they are built and used, and emphasises the visually perceived over the lived spatial qualities of buildings. The latter implies the critique of finished buildings subjecting users to external constraints imposed by architects. This thesis asks architects to stop designing ends (drawings of finished buildings) and start devising means ('interfaces' such as procedures and software) with which people can engage in non-habitual and autonomous ways to negotiate the production of their own spaces. However, it proposes no particular procedure or software, as architects are not supposed to solve people's problems for them, but work towards the virtual. 'Interfaces' are possible 'virtual' products and 'cyberarchitecture' the spaces that emerge when people interact with such interfaces.
Beech, N (2012) Constructing everyday life: an architectural history of the South Bank in production, 1948-1951, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).
Behar, C B (2016) A socio-technical perspective of ventilation practices in UK social housing with whole house ventilation systems: design, everyday life and change, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).
Bouwer, K A (2016) Building disappointment: the limits and potential of tort liability for energy efficiency problems in domestic buildings, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).
Boyes, G (2021) Towards BIM/GIS interoperability: a theoretical framework and practical generation of spaces to support infrastructure Asset Management, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).
Burman, E (2016) Assessing the operational performance of educational buildings against design expectations: a case study approach, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).
Fang, Z (2022) Machine learning integrated portfolio-based strategic building asset management, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).
Few, J F M (2021) Ventilation in occupied homes: measurement, performance and sociotechnical perspectives, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).
Hesse, A D (1991) The management of risks in the procurement of very large construction projects (Britain and New Commonwealth): Comparative change in procurement methods for very large construction projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).
Howard, R W (2021) Of incentive, bias, and behaviour: an empirical economic investigation into project delivery constructs influencing the adoption of building information modelling, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).
Husain, T (2023) Foreign investment and infrastructure financing: railways during the first age of globalisation, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).
Kadir Pakir, A H (2003) Integration: A study in the context of low cost housing projects in Malaysia with special reference to the state of penang, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).
Kurul, E (2003) Re-using listed buildings through conversion: A process mapping approach, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).
Murray, A (2018) Returns on public capital investment: Procurement, whole life cost and value in English schools and hospitals, from 1997-2012, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).
Naghshbandi, S N (2022) Technology capabilities for safe and resilient coordination of automated earthwork systems: a decentralized multi-agent system approach, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).
Pocobelli, D P (2021) Heritage building information model (BIM) for scientific data, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).
Presland, A J (2023) Picturing construction, constructing identities: the photographic archive of John Laing & Son Ltd, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).
Sanei, H (2016) Discipline breakdown structure: Bridging project management and systems engineering to form an integrated management system in multidisciplinary rail projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).
Sassano, G (2022) Optimism bias and cost overruns: experimenting on the internal and external views in resources and time estimation, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).
Song, Y (2022) Resilience bonds and the financing of resilient infrastructure, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).
Sugiyantoro (2021) Homebuyers' strategies for progressive residential infrastructure improvement in Bandung, Indonesia, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).
Symons, A W (2021) Integrated design, design management and the delivery of major hospitals, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).
Udomdech, P (2021) Project-based innovation learning mechanisms in the built environment, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).
Vinci, F (2022) Project-based networks in the delivery of infrastructure projects and programmes, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).
Wang, Y (2022) Monitoring, modelling and analysis of occupants' operation of windows, use of air purifiers and smart air quality control in low-energy residential buildings, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).