Ecology-Based Gymnasium Design

Lawrence F . TITLE The Ecology of the Gymnasium : What the Tourists Never

Medien- und Methodencurriculum Gymnasium Ottobrunn

Almost all German federal states have introduced or are about to introduce supplementing changes to the curricula concerning new media. These changes not only attempt to include new areas of teaching but also to make teaching goals more obligatory than they used to be in previous curricula concepts. A lot of teachers prefer not to regulate their students' knowledge acquisition process in the fi...

Optimizing Gymnasium Evacuation Performance by Agent-based Simulation

Evacuation performance is crucial for gymnasium design and occupant safety. This paper uses Simulex, an agent-based model to simulate and optimize the evacuation performance of a typical medium-size university gymnasium. Simulated results show that the current design is susceptible to evacuation problems, such as long egress time, insufficient exits and severe imbalance for stair usage. Design ...

Developing an Ecology of Mind in Design

The relationship between design and sustainability (DfS) is forever evolving: from the early focus on cleaner production processes and resource efficiencies to more recent endeavours to promote environmentally benign behaviours or to counter the increasing impacts of climate change. The uncomfortable truth though is that the majority of design activity serves market forces at a global scale and...

Fractal Population Ecology Theory

Abstract Purpose - The aim of this paper is to describe the population ecology theory through fractal thinking, an emergent human operating system that is creative, adaptive, healthy, and evolutionary; furthermore, a parallel is drawn between the population ecology model and the fractal structure. Top-down hierarchies are typically characterized by command and control systems of the authority t...