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Age-friendly cities and active mobility: A thematic analysis based on immersive...
Figueiredo, M.; Eloy, S.; Marques, S.Public outdoor spaces in cities need renovation to accommodate new mobility forms and attend an ageing population. The quality of public spaces is rarely assessed, and when it is, it typically relies on post-occupancy methods that have marginal impact. Incorporating older adults' perceptions during the design phase to influence public space development is even less common. Digital technologies, such as virtual ...
Bridging the gap in customised housing design: Integrating a graphic user inter...
Raposo, M.; Eloy, S.; Dias, M. S.This research addresses housing customisation by using digital tools in co-design processes. This paper introduces the development of a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that assists the end-users’ interaction with the design process. Although the participation of end users in the design process is considered essential, a communication gap persists between designers and end users, and there is a lack of tools to h...
Housing customization: envisioning an interface to support co-design processes
Raposo, M.; Eloy, S.; Dias, M. S.Purpose There are several studies showing that end-users' participation in the architectural design process of houses is critical to their satisfaction (e.g. Önder et al., 2010; Ammar et al., 2013). Housing that is not adjusted to inhabitants' needs leads to modification works (Davidson et al., 2007) that could be avoided if their design was defined from the beginning with their participation. Digital technolog...
Challenges and opportunities of using metaverse tools for participatory archite...
Ng, P.; Eloy, S.; Raposo, M.; Fernández González, A.; Silva, N. P. da.; Figueiredo, M.; Zuberi, H.Participatory design emerges as a proactive approach involving different stakeholders in design and decision-making processes, addressing diverse values and ensuring outcomes align with users’ needs. However, the inadequacy of engaging stakeholders with a spatial experience can result in uninformed and, consequently, unsuccessful design solutions in a built environment. This paper explores how metaverse tools c...
Digital pathways for enriched communities and futures: Plantation heritage in S...
Stellacci, S.; Eloy, S.In revolutionizing the type and the speed of information available, digital globalization has reshaped perspectives and cross-border actions in various domains worldwide. However, these knowledge-intensive flows have scarcely influenced practice around heritage in least developed countries (LDCs). Historical biases, exacerbated by systemic inequities and ethnic divisions, still represent some of the most releva...
The impact of sound in people's behaviour in outdoor settings: A study using vi...
Eloy, S.; Andrade, M. A. P.; Dias, L.; Dias, J.This paper presents an analysis of space perception and how visual cues, such as landmarks and sound, are perceived and impact people's behaviour while exploring a given outdoor space. The primary goal of the research is to investigate how auditory sensations and visual stimuli influence people's behaviour in outdoor built environments. Our technique compares people's perception of the built environment in diff...
Na busca de identidade: Apropriações realizadas por moradores em quatros bairro...
Paes, A,; Stellacci, S.; Eloy, S.Neste artigo mapeia-se e reflete-se sobre as alterações do espaço urbano realizadas por moradores em bairros municipais. Pretende-se identificar aspetos relevantes do projeto urbano e arquitetónico que poderiam ser repensados no sentido de garantir maior flexibilidade de uso e qualidade de vida aos moradores. Para alcançar este objetivo, este estudo focou-se em quatro bairros municipais do concelho de Loures no...
Plantations in São Tomé and Principe: Spatial layout and induced behaviours
Eloy, S.; Brito, R.In the 16th century, Portugal established in São Tomé and Principe one of the most productive plantation economies in the tropics based on slave labour and sugar intensive monoculture. Later, from the mid-19th century to 1975, large plantations called Roças were developed to produce coffee and cocoa for highly profitable export production. As a result, at the beginning of the 20th century, São Tomé and Principe...
Social validation of multidisciplinary design in ICT and architecture
Eloy, S.; Vermaas, P.This paper brings the case of research centres operating at the crossing of the fields of architecture and ICT (Information and Communication Technologies). These centres aim at innovative multidisciplinary research on, for instance, smart buildings, for producing design projects that address societal issues. Yet they lack proper methods for validating these projects for their social impact. We discuss validati...
Architecture for community-based ageing – A shape grammar for transforming typi...
Belčič, A.; Eloy, S.In Slovenia, the existing organised housing infrastructure for people over 65 years of age is in-sufficient and lacks diversification. Older people are often homeowners, many of whom dwell in large, underused single-family houses that require adaptations. Some have the potential to be transformed into small co-housing communities of 3–6 older people. The houses in question are mostly pattern-book houses of vari...