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Touching Materials Visually: About the Dominance of Vision in Building Material Assessment


 
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1. Title Title of document Touching Materials Visually: About the Dominance of Vision in Building Material Assessment
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Lisa Wastiels; Belgian Building Research Institute; KU Leuven, Department of Architecture, Urbanism & Planning; Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Department of Architectural Engineering;
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Hendrik N. J. Schifferstein; Delft University of Technology, Department of Industrial Design; Netherlands
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Ine Wouters; Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Department of Architectural Engineering; Belgium
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Ann Heylighen; KU Leuven, Department of Architecture, Urbanism & Planning; Belgium
 
3. Subject Discipline(s) Architectural design; Materials selection
 
3. Subject Keyword(s) Architectural Design; Built Environment; Design Education; Materials; Perception
 
4. Description Abstract Designers’ visual way of knowing and working tends to be highly valued in design research. In architecture such an approach is increasingly criticized. Since people experience buildings with all their senses, architects’ visual focus is said to the run the risk of disregarding non-visual aspects. This study focuses on the visual and tactile assessment of building materials. Analyses show that architecture students assess several experiential qualities differently by touch than by vision. Vision dominates the overall assessment, yet does not always anticipate touch correctly. Moreover architecture students seem to be unaware of how common building materials feel, and are unable to identify them by touch only. This identifies the need for a more elaborate consideration of non-visual aspects during design in general and design education in particular.
 
5. Publisher Organizing agency, location Chinese Institute of Design
 
6. Contributor Sponsor(s) The research was funded by the Research Foundation - Flanders (Belgium)
 
7. Date (YYYY-MM-DD) 2013-08-28
 
8. Type Status & genre Peer-reviewed Article
 
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9. Format File format PDF, HTML
 
10. Identifier Universal Resource Indicator https://www.ijdesign.org/index.php/IJDesign/article/view/1140
 
11. Source Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) International Journal of Design; Vol 7, No 2 (2013)
 
12. Language English=en EN
 
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