Week 2

1.
The way understanding of home has changed over time  has direct influence of things that can be done in your own home, instead have to travel to another place to complete the task.

Home started as just a place to shelter against the elements, into stable place to dwell as we can sustain source of food and water.

Increasingly nowadays we can even shop for groceries and work from home through using internet.

So as we spend more time at home, the way we define home has changed dramatically. We spend more resources to decorate and design both the interior and the exterior of our dwelling.

2.Chengdu
Who has been affected? How have they been affected? What are their needs and vulnerabilities?
80% of the building are reduced to rubbles, debris everywhere.
Road destroyed, delaying rescue and survival supply to the victims

Are they in an urban or rural location?
Both urban and rural

What housing existed before the natural disaster? How did it deal with the division of spaces, privacy, security, climate control?
Majority are concrete structures, most of the residential buildings are apartments.


What are the climatic conditions? Cold climate? Warm, humid climate? Hot, dry climate?
Do those displaced dwellers
Earthquake striked on Monday, May 2012

The 7 Principles

The 7 Principles of Universal Design were developed in 1997 by a working group of architects, product designers, engineers and environmental design researchers, led by the late Ronald Mace in the North Carolina State University.The purpose of the Principles is to guide the design of environments, products and communications. According to the Center for Universal Design in NCSU, the Principles "may be applied to evaluate existing designs, guide the design process and educate both designers and consumers about the characteristics of more usable products and environments." 

Principle 1: Equitable Use

Principle 2 : Flexibility in Use

Principle 3: Simple and Intuitive Use

Principle 4: Perceptible Information

Principle 5: Tolerance for Error

Principle 6: Low Physical Effort

Principle 7: Size and Space for Approach and Use

Proposed principle- Principle 3: Simple and Intuitive Use

Principle 3: Simple and Intuitive Use

Use of the design is easy to understand, regardless of the user's experience, knowledge, language skills, or current concentration level.

Guidelines:

3a. Eliminate unnecessary complexity.

3b. Be consistent with user expectations and intuition.

3c. Accommodate a wide range of literacy and language skills.

3d. Arrange information consistent with its importance.

3e. Provide effective prompting and feedback during and after task completion.

WEEK 3 INTERIM PRESENTATION

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ti3k6ts510utrhv/ARCH1201-2015-LI_CHUAN_LIANG-PROJECT1.pdf?dl=0