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Building simply: challenges and dilemmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2007

Wayne Forster ,
Amanda Heal  and
Rhian Thomas
Wayne Forster
Affiliation:
Design Research UnitWelsh School of ArchitectureBute BuildingKing Edward VII AvenueCardiff, CF10 3NB, UKForsterw@cf.ac.uk
Amanda Heal
Affiliation:
Design Research UnitWelsh School of ArchitectureBute BuildingKing Edward VII AvenueCardiff, CF10 3NB, UKHealaj@cf.ac.uk
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Extract

Driven by our interest in sustainability, the vernacular architecture of Wales and a preference for ‘rational’ over wilfully expressive form, the determination to ‘build simply’ has become an abiding aspiration in the work of the Design Research Unit (dru) at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University. Established in 1998, dru aims both to apply the School's wider research to architectural commissions and to develop design as a medium of research in its own right. In this paper, various themes that recur in the Unit's recent work are discussed in the context of two current schemes that exemplify this research-based approach to design.

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design
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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , June 2007 , pp. 138 - 150
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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