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SECTION OF AR CHITECTURE

AND URB AN DESIGN

The section of Architecture and Urban Design has the built The staff affiliated to the section is composed of internation-
environment in all its facets as the field of attention - from ally experienced scholars and practitioners coming from a
the construction of a building detail to the megastructures variety of disciplinary backgrounds, such as architecture, ur-
of the urban landscape; occupied with how we can influence ban design, engineering and social science. These research-
the built environment and its development. Our aim is to ers conduct research on the built environment that has a
produce new research-based knowledge on the built envi- user-oriented, a technological, a sustainability and a meth-
ronment through integrated and cross-disciplinary design odological perspective. From a user-oriented perspective we
research and teaching within the two overall fields of Archi- are interested in how e.g architecture influences our body
tectural Engineering and Urban Design. These two areas are (and vice versa) as well as seeing architecture and urban
at the forefront in their respective fields, being respectively design as a collaborative practice; doing research on user
the only Urban Design research and teaching environment involvement and co-creation. Our perspective on sustainabil-
and the only integrated Architectural Engineering research ity covers both social and environmental sustainability and is
and teaching environment in Denmark. Thus, through an concerned with vernacular architecture, zero energy, social
integrated and holistic approach, we conduct research and inclusion, climate change among others. Through techno-
teaching that combine design-based, technological and logical perspectives, we test and develop e.g. new building
social science competencies, and we collaborate with the components and new methods using e.g. computational
surrounding society to come up with new solutions to the architecture as well as use various tracking technologies
built environment within both research and teaching. to understand urban behaviors. Finally, our methodological
perspective concerns a mixed method approach as well as
using the methods inherent in the professions of architecture
and urban design (drawing, visualization etc.) as research
methods that enable us to gain knowledge on the built
environment through e.g. scenario building and experiments.
Through these various perspectives, the section conducts
research on, in and with the built environment.

LEA HOLS T LA URSEN
Head of Section
llhl@create.aau.dk

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