Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to reflect upon architecture and environmental engineering students’ approaches to health and wellbeing issues in design studio project briefs. The design studio project is a key aspect of the students’ fourth year programme in a dual accredited (RIBA/ARB and CIBSE) BEng course in the SW of England. Whilst the overarching site and brief are set by the studio leader, each student develops their own project agenda drawing on extensive urban and site analysis as well as precedent research. Particular detailed aspects of the brief are then further analysed and researched as part of an engineering report study. The research draws on first author’s earlier work on effects of non-prescriptive briefs on transdisciplinary studio working in architecture and engineering programmes. Drawing on visual ethnography methods, the preliminary observations drawn out of the study begin to consider key intrinsic/extrinsic motivations and assumptions students draw on to develop a health and wellbeing agenda in their projects and the way these motivations further inform analysis in the engineering reports. The implications of the research are twofold. First, the preliminary analysis enables new insights into assumptions graduating architecture and engineering students draw on to develop a health and wellbeing motivated agenda. Second the study has benefits for design studio education brief setting approaches in particular, increasingly drawn upon in engineering and multidisciplinary built environment pedagogy.

Practical application: This paper enables new initial insights into ways designers (architects and building services engineers) approach health and wellbeing issues at early stages of design, drawing on a higher education empirical setting. It is particularly relevant to professionals as well as educators in the built environment.

摘要

本文的目的是在设计工作室项目简介中反思建筑和环境工程专业学生解决健康和福祉问题的方法。设计工作室项目是英格兰西南部双认证（RIBA / ARB和CIBSE）BEng课程的学生四年级课程的关键方面。由工作室负责人确定总体地点和简介，同时，每位学生根据广泛的城市和场地分析以及先例研究制定自己的项目议程。然后，作为工程报告研究的一部分，对摘要的特定详细方面进行进一步分析和研究。该研究借鉴了第一作者在非规范性摘要对建筑和工程项目中跨学科工作室的影响方面的早期工作。利用视觉民族志方法，从研究中得出的初步观察结果开始考虑主要的内在/外在动机和假设，这些动机和假设是学生在项目中制定健康和福祉议程时所依据的，以及这些动机进一步为工程报告中的分析提供信息的方式。该研究的意义是双重的。首先，通过初步分析，可以对即将毕业的建筑和工程专业学生提出的各种假设进行新的见解，从而制定出以健康为目标的议程。其次，该研究尤其对设计工作室教育的简要设置方法有益，在工程学和多学科建筑环境教学法中越来越多地采用这种方法。

实际应用：本文利用高等教育的经验背景，使设计师（建筑师和建筑服务工程师）在设计的早期阶段就设计师（建筑师和建筑服务工程师）处理健康和福祉问题的方式有了新的初步见解。它与建筑环境中的专业人员和教育工作者特别相关。