the architectural education along the way of creativity has often involved with the formal and physical aspects of design as an effort to read architectural artifacts through its mere external appearances. this article, however, aims to step beyond the manifestation of conventional perspectives on visual aspects of built environment. that is, an act of interpreting the architectural spaces thro...

Buildings with atrium can be found everywhere in big cities among which Hong Kong is one of the examples. The evolution of this building type should be traced back to explore the reason why it has been a popular design throughout these years. It was found originated about two hundred years ago, with changes in terms of configurations and functions occurred. After centuries of development, benef...

This paper sketches an approach to using aspects for architectural description within the conceptual framework of IEEE 1471. I propose a definition of architectural aspect within that framework and examine its consequences and motivations. I show that architectural aspects can be accommodated within the current conceptual framework of IEEE 1471 without modification; and outline extensions to th...

Over the past years, architectural aspects have been often defined as widely-scoped properties that naturally crosscut the boundaries of system components. This definition, however, neglects the concept of architectural style. Architectural styles prescribe different kinds of system decomposition and modularization by adopting distinct component and connector types. This position paper analyzes...

Personal Networks (PN) are future communication systems that combine wireless and infrastructure based networks to provide users a variety of services anywhere and anytime. PNs introduce new design challenges due to the heterogeneity of the involved technologies, the need for self-organization, the dynamics of the system composition, the application-driven nature, the co-operation with infrastr...