Empowering Communities Through Design

Francesca Galeazzi is an architectural engineer who leads the sustainability team at Arup Associates in Shanghai. Here she looks back with hindsight from 2050, reflecting on how rapid urbanisation in China, which started in the 1990s, played out over the next half-century. She describes how the initial highly centralised, mass urbanisation programmes gave way to a more local and community-based, participatory approach to decision-making and planning, foreshadowed by some key legislation around land ownership and design for community-based planning models in the early 2010s.     

Prejudicial Narratives: Building Tomorrow's World Today

Film production requires world building: the power to visualise and bring to life narrative through a film's total environment. This is often entirely speculative, imagining alternative or future worlds. Here, Alex McDowell , acclaimed British production designer, producer and Professor at the University of Southern California (USC) describes his world-building, narrative approach to production design, which he consolidated in the Steven Spielberg film Minority Report (2002) that envisioned Washington DC in the year 2050. The possibilities of this storytelling technique are demonstrated by its transference into real-life projects, such as the immersive model that his production company, 5D GlobalStudio, developed for Al Baydha, a Bedouin village in Saudi Arabia.     

Global Village Media: Coming Together in the Early 1970s at Whiz Bang Quick City

Felicity D Scott , Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), describes here the instant city events of the early 1970s. These foreshadowed current global village media practices in what now seems a quaintly material manner: communication between sites involved the physical mailing of videotapes and ‘wire photos’ through the postal service. The sites themselves – in the US and elsewhere – were transformed into ‘instant cities’ through the erection of physical geodesic domes, teepees and inflatables in seas of mud. The true antecedents of today's instant networking, these pioneers embraced the newest technology available at the time and the most innovative forms of temporary architecture.     

Design for the Future: Educational Institutions in the Gulf

Despite a distinguished heritage of learning in the Middle East, the expansion of provision for higher education is currently at an unprecedented scale. The Gulf States, in particular, are seeking to keep up with accelerated population growth and a demographic ‘youth bulge’. Guest-Editor Kevin Mitchell describes the architectural approaches employed in the design of institutions in the region from the first universities in Saudi Arabia to Foster + Partners's ground-breaking sustainable design for the Masdar Institute in Abu Dhabi and future projects.     

TYIN tegnestue Architects. Integrating On-Site Education and Practice

Founded by Andreas Grøntvedt Gjertsen and Yashar Hanstad, TYIN tegnestue Architects grew out of an initiative to provide sleeping accommodation for an orphanage in Thailand when the principals were only third-year architecture students. Norwegian architect Lisbet Harboe explains how the student-architects built up a practice while in schools by refocusing their studies and those of their peers on learning through their own experiences of construction.     

湖南省科技馆方案设计

文章介绍了湖南省科技馆方案设计的创作理念、基本功能布局设计、重点部位与细节处理,以及生态设计的一些尝试性的构思,并提出当今时代的经济技术条件为建筑师提供了更为广阔的创作空间,建筑师应当充分激活创作思维,掌握先进的设计技术,深入发掘民族的、地域的文化内涵,创作出有新意,有个性的建筑作品来。     

A comparative analysis of China and other countries in metabolic engineering: Output,impact and collaboration

In recent years, metabolic engineering has made great progress in both academic research and industrial applications. However, we have not found any articles that specifically analyze the current state of metabolic engineering in China in comparison with other countries. Here, we review the current development and future trends of global metabolic engineering, conduct an in-depth benchmarking analysis of the development situation of China’s metabolic engineering, and identify current problems as well as future trends. We searched publications in the Scopus database from 2015 to September 2020 in the field of metabolic engineering, and analyzed the output in general, including publication trends, research distribution, popular journals, hot topics and vital institutions, but also analyzed the share of citations, field-weighted citation impact, and production in collaboration with strategic countries in science and technology. This study aims to serve as a reference for later studies, offering a comprehensive view of China’s contribution to metabolic engineering, and as a tool for the elaboration of national public policy in science and technology.     

便携式傅里叶变换红外光谱仪在大气温室气体观测中的应用进展

大气温室气体柱浓度地基遥感观测是碳监测卫星验证和校正的有效手段,目前主要依赖于昂贵且移动困难的高分辨率傅里叶变换红外光谱仪(120/125 HR).采用便携式较低光谱分辨率(0.5cm-1)傅里叶变换红外光谱仪(EM27/SUN)进行温室气体柱浓度的监测提供了一种新型的便捷手段.EM27/SUN通过自带的太阳跟踪器记录...     

大体量异型建筑低能耗照明设计与实施策略

建筑照明在建筑夜间的艺术效果、文化表达方面具有非常重要的作用,优秀的照明设计能够更准确地表达建筑意图、文化内涵、烘托建筑的性格与环境的气氛。大体量异型建筑具有独特的雕塑感形体,带给人强烈的视觉冲击与美的享受,其美的表达离不开精湛的建筑照明艺术设计。而环境破坏与资源枯竭是当今最受关注的世界性问题,大环境对建筑节能提出了新的要求。大体量异型建筑巨大的照明能耗是实现建筑节能目标的巨大障碍。内蒙古科技馆新馆借助合理的照明设计与计算机计算模拟等手段,整合了建筑艺术效果、文化表达、建筑节能以及经济性等方面,是值得研究借鉴的低能耗照明设计的优秀案例。     

“3+1”人才培养模式下的教学管理研究

如何完善和改革现有本科院校的人才培养模式,以进一步提高高等教育质量,是亟待解决的现实问题。本论文针对材料科学与工程专业已经实施的"3+1"人才培养模式改革中存在的管理问题,进一步探索以人为本,有利于学生个性化发展的课程体系、实践教学体系和考核体系等的管理办法。