Akin / Akin Design Added Value

How Design Increases Value for Architects and Engineers
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-28860-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 219 Seiten, eBook

Design has intrinsic, economic value. To make this value tangible, design features of buildings need to be explored, measured, and taken into account when initiating projects and financing their construction. It is as calculable as the extrinsic value of a project. However, we need concepts, strategies, methods, techniques, and tools to do just that.   The Value Based Design approach and Design-Added Value (D-AV) methodology in this book enables architects, engineers, contractors and owner-clients of buildings to benefit from extraordinary design and construction features. It explains the rationale and motivation for D-AV methodology, outlines and illustrates this methodology with examples, provides complete and detailed examples of how the key analysis techniques work through historical case studies, and describes specific methods used in application of the D-AV methodology, such as Bayesian statistics, cost benefit analysis, pairwise comparison techniques, cognitive walkthroughs, and optimization.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Akin, Ömer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Introduction.-  Capital Projects and Building Assessment.- A Celebrated Case of D-AV Analysis: Fallingwater .- Introduction to Value Based Design.- D-AV Analysis Methods.-  Cost-Benefit with Risk Analysis.- Elicitation Methods: Structured Interview, Ethnographic Observation, Cognitive Walkthrough, Brainstorming, Prototypes.- Pre-Facto and Post-Facto Analysis.- Scaling with Ordinal Values, Sensitivity Analysis, Risk Analysis, Bayesian Probability and Benchmarking.- Optimization with Graphics, Calculus, Simplex Methods.- Expertise, Innovation, and Creativity in Design.- D-AV Analysis of Two Seminal Case Studies.-  Swiss Re Tower: Analysis of a Seminal Case.- The Commerzbank Tower: Analysis of Another Seminal Case.- Selected Case Studies.-  John Hancock Tower, Boston.- Kansas City Hyatt Regency.- Pruitt-Igoe, St. Louis, MO.- Crystal Palace, London.- Sydney Opera House.- Citicorp Tower, NY.- Appendix: Design-Added Value Methods forAnalyzing Case Studies.

Über Autor(innen)

Ömer Akin, PhD, AIA was Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Courtesy Faculty in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Akin was also CEO of Architectural Design Associates (ADA), Inc. ADA publishes professional texts as well as fiction, including the following titles: Representation and Architecture (1982), Psychology of Architectural Design (1986, 1989), Generative CAD Systems (2005), A Cartesian Approach to Design Rationality (2006), Embedded Commissioning (2011) and Ethical Decision Making in Architecture (2018). His publishers include Information Dynamics Inc., Pion, Inc., Carnegie Mellon University Press, METU Press, Artech House, Inc., Springer, and CreateSpace, Inc. Dr. Akin served as Professor of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, since 1978. He was a well-published researcher with several hundred reviewed publications, and texts that include the titles cited above among others. His research interests included design cognition, computer aided design, case-based design instruction, ethical decision making, value-based design, building commissioning, and automated design requirement management. He has also served as the Head of the School of Architecture and the director of the graduate programs.