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The Design Research Writing Process
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The Research Question
Find a good compelling
question in architecture
Doctorate level: a
question that is new
and advances the state
of the art
Masters level: a
question that advances
the state of the art
Compelling to extent,
you are motivated!
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Identify a good research question
1. Identify the issues,
problems, ideas, etc.
that really interest youin architecture?
2. State it in the form
of a problem that
needs to be solved?Write about why it is
significant
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Significance of the
Problem/Question
Why is this animportant question
to be answered?
What implicationsmight having an
answer have?
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Thesis statement/question
Natural Disaster F ire
Containment Dispatch Center,
San Francisco, CA.Undergraduate Thesis:
As a mechanical assemblage thatemulates organic qualities,architecture can successfully
mediate difficult buildingperformance circumstances.Jason Russell, thesis student,
1995.Joseph Bilello, schematic design
and design developmentadvisor.
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Example
Where should the Church
Go?: Church design for a
non-denominational
church.Lubbock, TXThesis: prefabricated
component parts can beused to design a church
facility that is not only
inexpensive, but also endowsa sense of spirituality.
Kreg Robertson, thesisstudent, 1997-98.
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Koolhaas: XL,L,M,S
Diminishing the Fear of B igness:
The Main L ibrary at National
Dong-Hwa University, Taiwan.
Thesis: The design of largefacilities should bring
humanistic scale throughout the
entire facility so that certain
architectural characteristics can be
perceived in their relations to
human beings. Wei Hsin Kao,
thesis student 1997-98.
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The prospect of embodying
through architecture Architecture can re-
create the existence of aperson in a space. By
addressing the existenceof a person
who was interested in thequestion, "what is?"architecture can create a
change of perception inone's sense of being.
Alec Suresh Perera, thesisstudent, 1997-98.
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Final presentation layout. Suresh Perera, A Cenotaph for Marcel Duchamp
Perera presentation layout
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Architecture as Connection:
Linkage theoryArchitecture as Connection: A
New Community Center. LasCruces, NM. Thesis: Thereestablishment of
an urban environment depends ondefining the relationshipbetween existing ideas,traditions, and values and
new visions or directions.Architecture will reconnect
downtown to its immediateurban environment and to the
community of Las Cruces. MylesKraenzel, thesis student, 1997-98.
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Can architecture save lives?
The Architecture of Windstorm
Protection: Elementary School,Quitman, Texas.Thesis: Architecture can provide
significantly improvedprotection, in the event of adisastrous windstorm, throughtechnology transfer, building
form considerations, andbuilding material innovations.
Bryan Ziegler, thesis student,1998-99.
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Example: theory-based research
Formulate a researchproblem that will test atheory
Theory: anexplanation ofobserved events interms of the structuresand processes that are
presumed to underliethem
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Perform a literature review
1. Find out what isalready known about thesubject through doing a
literature review. 2. After you know what is
already known, yourquestion my need to bereformulated so that you
have a question in need ofan answer, rather than aquestion that has already
been answered
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Design a research method
1. Figure out how to goabout getting answers toyour question, that is,
design a research methodfor getting the informationthat could lead to ananswer to your question
2. This must be done
extremely carefullybecause there are manypotential pitfalls
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Collect the Data per
the Research Method 1. Gather the data
per the researchmethods that you haveidentified
2. Structure/organizethe data by thecategories that youhave predeterminedare important for thedata
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Interpret the data
1. Describe the data
gathered
2. Explain what doesthe data mean in
relationship to the
research question(s)
that you are asking?
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Draw conclusions based on your
interpretations 1. Based on what it
means, what
conclusions can youarrive at that answer to
your original
questions?
2. What newquestions emerge?
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Thesis research topics:
Other examples Health:Alzheimers or
aging and design
Urban design and
windstorm mitigation Housing: The crisis in
global housing
New typologies/newforms emerging in newways (extrudingKandinsky)
21st century workplace
Visualization: Kahn, FLW
Adaptive use of Walmarts
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Material Possibilities Will Have no Bounds as
Composites and Performance Based Materials
Become More Commonplace
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Observation
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COLLECTING RESEACH DATA WITH
QUESTIONARIES AND INTERVIEWS
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Validity: the appropriateness,
meaningfulness and usefulness of
specific inferences
Reliability: the extent to which
other researchers would arrive at
similar results if they studied the
same subject
Validity and reliability
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Pre-testing the Questionnaire.
Small sample
Place for criticisms
State in your own words(respondent) what do you
think the question means
Questions should be
revised and retested until
they are understood
accurately
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Case Study Method in
Architecture
The study of
particular instances
( a case = a
particular instance of
a phenomenon)
Right:The future of
manufactured housing.
Architectural Record
December 1999
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What are Case Studies?
In general, case studies are the preferred strategywhen
how and why questions are being posed
when the investigator has little controloverevents
when the focus is on a contemporary
phenomenon within some real-life contextRobert Yin in Case Study Research :
Design and Methods
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Deciding to Build: University organization and the
Design of Academic Buildings: A Case Study
Classroom Laboratory
Administration Building
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Historical methods in
Architectural Research
The American Architect in Practice:
1700-1930
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Experimental Research Methods
in Architecture
To determine whether the observed relationship is one ofcause
(an independent variable) and effect(dependent variable)
Causal relationships
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Experiment Vocabulary 1. (the independent variable=
the experimentaltreatment=intervention = the
variable to be manipulated) Example: the tornado cannon
projectile and its speed
2. the dependent variable =the variable that is
measured to determine theeffects of the experimentaltreatment- The wall system being
tested
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The Architectural thesis year
Thesis
research
Thesis
program
Schem.
Design
Design
Develop
mentTheory Select Project Imple-
ment
Resolve
Facility Select Project Imple-
ment
Resolve
Context Select Project Imple-
ment
Resolve
Th i R h M t i
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Thesis Research Matrix
topic or theory Facility type Context
Research decision-making campus buildings at this time (example taken from
Question In the US, CA
Significance soc ietal need the horizon for the Why is this important now?
of the threshold of problem building type Why is it important, where
Problem an unresolved when, or by whom it is placed
problem
Literature what is known about what is known about multidimensional understanding
review this question this building type? sitewhat has been built? intellectual context, political,
to what end? economic, social-cultural, technological, etc
Research experiment = repetition, qualitative method = triangulation, interpretive method
method interpretive method = distill and writeto answ er my research question here is the best w ay
data gather question andand sort method specific
data question and method
analysis specific
conclusion synthesize and new C12synthesis questions that emerge
Relating elements of research method to processes in producing architecturel iterature observatio interview survey experimen statistical
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l iterature observatio interview survey experimen statistical
review analysis
site selection
site analysis
circulation systems
social behavior and its design influence
environmental factors
regulations affecting development
space requirementscost estimating and budgets
design and construction scheduling
Zoning, code and deed restrictions
functional standards of building types
site design
land forms and geology
contour modification
site drainage
traffic, parking and utilities
site planning historydevelopment restrictions
topography and drainage
parking layouts
barrier free access
site arrangement and circulation
architectural history
structural technology
structural theory
computation methods
wood steel and reinforced concreteconnections of materials
conventional structural systems
long span structural systems
earthquake design
wind design
HVAC
water
electricity and lighting
fire protection
acoustics