Building performance is an important and ongoing research stream in architectural science. In recent years, we have witnessed two significant opportunities emerging in the field. Firstly, the vast development and rapid adoption of new technologies and innovative methods have provided alternative ways of conceptualising and conducting building performance research. Secondly, the increasing levels of interdisciplinary collaboration have enabled the broader research communities to work closely together to address grand challenges and to develop much more integrated and comprehensive understandings aboutbuildingperformanceandenvironmental research. Addressing and improving our overall living experience in the built environment will require systematic, sociotechnological approaches to consider and optimise the performance of the environment from a wide range of perspectives, including from the environmental, design, and related social and cultural areas. This Special Double Editionof of Architectural Science Review presents twelve articles from current research representing significant and collective efforts from the international research community in exploring and advancing “Socio-technological Approaches to Understanding and Measuring Building Performance”. The unique nexus between technologies and social factors haveundoubtedlyprovidedopportunities aswell as challenges, both of which are not previously available to the field. These have created many new research directions, as illustrated vividly by the twelve papers included in the two Volumes. We start the journey with a series of successful examples in developing and applying integrated socio-technological approaches and mixed research methods to more comprehensively studying the performance of the built environment. In the first paper, “AdaptationbyCoexistence: Contrasting Thermal Comfort Perception Among Individual and Shared Office Spaces”, Laura Marín-Restrepo, Maureen Eileen Trebilcock and Jose Ali Porras-Salazar conducted on-site fieldwork combining a thermal comfort survey with measurement of environmental conditions to examine and compare indoor thermal comfort between individual and shared office spaces, by considering a range of environmental, design, perceptual and behavioural factors. The second paper also concerns with the indoor environment of office buildings, but focuses on the relationship between thermal comfort and workplace productivity. Rajat Gupta, Alastair Howard and Sahar Zahiri provide important empirical evidence to critically address this research problem that intersects the areas of environmental monitoring, occupant perception and cognition studies. This paper is titled “Defining the Link between Indoor Environment and Workplace Productivity in a Modern UK Office Building”. The next paper is by Jane Burry, Pantea Alambeigi, Sipei Zhao and Eva Cheng. Through “A Study of Human Vocal Effort in Response to the Architectural Auditory Environment”, they examined human auditory interaction with architectural design through a user experiment and follow-up questionnaire. The results contribute to our understandings about human visual and spatial perception of privacy in light of acoustic qualities and interactions, which can be integrated into the architectural design process. To continue the effort of developing and testing mixed research methods to more comprehensively measuring indoor environments,AstriddRoetzel,MarkDeKay,AkariNakaiKidd and colleagues propose and demonstrate an interdisciplinary approach combining Integral Sustainable Design (ISD)with Integral Methodological Pluralism (IMP) to understand student participants’ preferred place to study, by considering factors related to architectural design, architectural science and psychology. This is documented in “Architectural, Indoor Environmental, Personal and Cultural Influences on Students’ Selection of a Preferred Place to Study”. Jisun Lee and Hyunsoo Lee’s paper ”Employing Visibility andAgent-basedAccessibility Analysis to Enhance Social Interactions in Older Adult Care Facilities” represents an example of socio-technological approach combining Space Syntax – a mathematical measure of socio-spatial attributes of architectural or urban plans – with agent-based simulation to studying social interactions in age-care facilities. This is followed by “A Relational Approach to Understanding Inhabitants’ Engagement with Photovoltaic (PV) Technology in Homes”, another piece of research in the socio-technological context byZiyad Frances and FionnStevensonwho combined practice theory and ethnographic observation to understand occupants’ engagement with PV technology in domestic environments. To conclude Volume I, Sara Willem, Dirk Saelens and Ann Heylighen present a critical review titled “Comfort Requirements Versus Lived Experience: Combining Different Research Approaches to Indoor Environmental Quality”, which enables us to look into other integrated and combined approaches in the broader research field. Volume II opens with three papers that focus on the development and application of new technologies and systems in order to better understand the quality and performance of the built environment. In “The Shakedown: Developing an Indoorlocalisation System for Quantifying Toilet Usage in Offices”, Nicole Gardner, Ben Doherty, Baptiste Higgs and colleagues develop and demonstrate an approach combining sensor technology and machine learning to collect and analyse empirical data for sanitary facilities provision in commercial office

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特别双版：理解和衡量建筑性能的社会技术方法

建筑性能是建筑科学中一个重要且持续的研究方向。近年来，我们目睹了该领域出现的两个重大机遇。首先，新技术和创新方法的广泛发展和快速采用为概念化和进行建筑性能研究提供了替代方法。其次，跨学科合作水平的提高使更广泛的研究团体能够紧密合作以应对重大挑战，并就建筑性能和环境研究形成更加综合和全面的理解。解决和改善我们在建筑环境中的整体生活体验将需要系统的、从广泛的角度考虑和优化环境绩效的社会技术方法，包括从环境、设计以及相关的社会和文化领域。这本《建筑科学评论》特别双版收录了当前研究中的 12 篇文章，代表了国际研究界在探索和推进“理解和衡量建筑性能的社会技术方法”方面做出的重大集体努力。技术和社会因素之间的独特联系无疑提供了机遇和挑战，而这两者在该领域以前都没有。这些创造了许多新的研究方向，两卷中的十二篇论文生动地说明了这一点。我们以一系列成功的例子开始旅程，开发和应用综合社会技术方法和混合研究方法来更全面地研究建筑环境的性能。在第一篇论文“AdaptationbyCoexistence：对比个人和共享办公空间之间的热舒适感感知”中，Laura Marín-Restrepo、Maureen Eileen Trebilcock 和 Jose Ali Porras-Salazar 进行了现场实地考察，结合了热舒适性调查和环境条件测量，通过考虑一系列环境、设计、感知和行为因素，检查和比较个人办公空间和共享办公空间之间的室内热舒适度。第二篇论文还涉及办公楼的室内环境，但重点是热舒适度和工作场所生产力之间的关系。Rajat Gupta、Alastair Howard 和 Sahar Zahiri 提供了重要的经验证据，以批判性地解决这一与环境监测、乘员感知和认知研究领域相交的研究问题。这篇论文的标题是“在现代英国办公大楼中定义室内环境和工作场所生产力之间的联系”。下一篇论文由 Jane Burry、Pantea Alambeigi、Sipei Zhao 和 Eva Cheng 撰写。通过“人类声音对建筑听觉环境的反应研究”，他们通过用户实验和后续问卷调查了人类听觉与建筑设计的互动。结果有助于我们根据声学质量和相互作用来理解人类对隐私的视觉和空间感知，可以将其整合到建筑设计过程中。为了继续开发和测试混合研究方法以更全面地测量室内环境，AstrddRoetzel、MarkDeKay、AkariNakaiKidd 及其同事提出并展示了一种跨学科方法，将整体可持续设计 (ISD) 与整体方法多元主义 (IMP) 相结合，以了解学生参与者的首选学习地点，考虑与建筑设计、建筑科学和心理学相关的因素。这记录在“建筑、室内环境、个人和文化对学生选择首选学习地点的影响”中。Jisun Lee 和 Hyunsoo Lee 的论文“Employing Visibility andAgent-based Accessibility Analysis to Enhance Social Interactions in Old Adult Care Facilities”代表了社会技术方法的一个例子，它结合了空间句法——建筑或城市规划的社会空间属性的数学度量——与基于代理的模拟研究老年护理设施中的社会互动。随后是“了解居民在住宅中使用光伏 (PV) 技术的关系方法”，这是 Ziyad Frances 和 FionnStevenson 在社会技术背景下的另一项研究，他们结合实践理论和人种学观察来了解居民对光伏的参与国内环境中的技术。结束第一卷，莎拉威廉，Dirk Saelens 和 Ann Heylighen 发表了一篇题为“舒适度要求与生活体验：结合不同的室内环境质量研究方法”的批判性评论，这使我们能够在更广泛的研究领域中研究其他综合和组合方法。第二卷以三篇论文开头，重点关注新技术和系统的开发和应用，以便更好地了解建筑环境的质量和性能。在“The Shakedown：开发用于量化办公室厕所使用情况的室内定位系统”中，Nicole Gardner、Ben Doherty、Baptiste Higgs 及其同事开发并展示了一种结合传感器技术和机器学习的方法，用于收集和分析商业卫生设施供应的经验数据办公室