Special edition: engaging architectural science: meeting the challenges of higher density

摘要

Architectural science as a discipline has always successfully straddled the breadth and depth of both design and the sciences. In the context of design informed and guided by the sciences, there would be the clear understanding and nuanced consideration of the site, the climate and surrounding environments. For the built environment, architectural science is not limited to the physics of buildings, but it extends to the quantitative and qualitative aspects of its effects on human conditions and behaviours. The science of buildings (building performance, indoor environmental quality, interactions between indoor and outdoor spaces) is inextricably linked to the human world of social science (behavioural basis of design and policy), health science (public health) and business science (energy efficiency, climate change and productivity). Evolving with the times and ever dynamic, the discourse of architectural science has ably adopted smart and digital technologies (Internet-of-Things, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR)).