Thursday, October 06, 2005

Krasnow Construction - Conclusions

Hello Krasnow Community!
My apologies for being absent for so long. As you know, the past month has been filled with lots of activity regarding the selection process of the design team for your new building. Due to confidentiality agreements, I felt it best to reserve my comments until an official statement was made by the university. That announcement is expected to come in the next few weeks. In the mean time, I have some of my own outcomes to share with you.
The results of the Programming study are quite substantial. They include two categories of results: those attained from the interview data, and those attained by using blog technology as a Programming tool.
The interview data yielded:
- The statistical results generated from the raw data collected during your interviews which helped formulate the 6-user derived design principles
- The results of how the blog data (i.e. distilled interview raw data) impacted decisions made regarding your existing environment
- The results of how the blog data impacted decisions made regarding the new building, including the selection of the design team
- The results of how this data contributes insights about laboratory buildings to the field of architecture, and identifies specific environmental attributes which seem to be neuro-enriching to cognitive scientists.
As Jim mentioned, I am preparing a scholarly article on the process because one of the unexpected, but delightful things that came out of this study was the benefits procured from using the blog as a Programming tool. The blog is entirely to Jim’s credit, and I believe it has great potential to offer my fellow architects an effective means of establishing feedbacks loops and distributing information. I would like to comment on these blog specific benefits in a separate post.

Following are some raw data statistics revealing what your colleagues identified as major construction-related issues.

Thanks for letting me be a part of your world for a time – we have learned a lot!

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