ABSTRACT

Digital tools for performance-assessment are commonly used to shorten the feedback loop in testing designs for buildings and neighbourhoods. However, these tools do not extend to the social dimension in the same way as the economic and environmental dimensions. This paper aims to contribute to the development of digital tools to design socially sustainable neighbourhoods. We analyse 115 academic articles to establish a theoretical understanding of Social Sustainability (SoSu). Based on these results, we propose a digital user-interaction model to operationalise SoSu in the digital design process of buildings. In the literature, we observe a lack of consensus on the theoretical discussion on SoSu. Several extrinsic and intrinsic factors are identified contributing to this fuzziness; the dependency on stakeholder value systems, the qualitative nature of social indicators, and comparison to environmental sustainability being the most common. Still, we distinguish two overarching categories, social equity and social capital, that are further divided into sub-themes. Having mapped the categories and hierarchies of social themes, we propose a user-interaction model that incorporates these findings into a digital environment. The user-interaction model creates a guided decision-making framework for architects and urban planners by enabling stakeholders to make conscious and informed decisions grounded in theory.

摘要

用于性能评估的数字工具通常用于缩短建筑物和社区测试设计中的反馈循环。然而，这些工具不像经济和环境维度那样扩展到社会维度。本文旨在促进数字工具的开发，以设计社会可持续的社区。我们分析了 115 篇学术文章，以建立对社会可持续性 (SoSu) 的理论理解。基于这些结果，我们提出了一种数字用户交互模型，以在建筑物的数字设计过程中实施 SoSu。在文献中，我们观察到对 SoSu 的理论讨论缺乏共识。确定了导致这种模糊性的几个外在和内在因素；对利益相关者价值体系的依赖，社会指标的定性性质，最常见的是与环境可持续性的比较。尽管如此，我们还是区分了两个总体类别，社会公平和社会资本，它们进一步分为子主题。绘制了社会主题的类别和层次结构后，我们提出了一个用户交互模型，将这些发现纳入数字环境。用户交互模型通过使利益相关者能够基于理论做出有意识和明智的决策，为建筑师和城市规划者创建了一个指导决策框架。在绘制了社会主题的类别和层次结构之后，我们提出了一个用户交互模型，该模型将这些发现整合到了数字环境中。用户交互模型通过使利益相关者能够基于理论做出有意识和明智的决策，为建筑师和城市规划者创建了一个指导决策框架。绘制了社会主题的类别和层次结构后，我们提出了一个用户交互模型，将这些发现纳入数字环境。用户交互模型通过使利益相关者能够基于理论做出有意识和明智的决策，为建筑师和城市规划者创建了一个指导决策框架。