Beyond Acoustics: School and Outdoor Learning Resources
School acoustics is only one aspect of a successful school plan. Three web sites provide additional useful information to inform school, playground, and outdoor space design.
School acoustics is only one aspect of a successful school plan. Three web sites provide additional useful information to inform school, playground, and outdoor space design.
Healing Gardens, edited by Clare Cooper Marcus and Marni Barnes, is a comprehensive resource, bringing together many experts to discuss the general issues—and also the fine points—of healing gardens. Martha Tyson’s book, in contrast, concentrates more on the design process of creating a healing garden.
The most recent issue of NeuroRehabilitation focuses on important factors to consider when designing homes for people with neurodisability
The Cornell Intypes (Interior Archetypes) Research and Training Project is working to systematize the way people talk about interior design.
The Biomimicry Institute, founded by Janine Benyus, has created a new website assessable by the general public, asknature.org.
Researchers affiliated with the Center for Health Design present a valuable methodology that can be used by “agents of cultural change” and facility designers to coordinate their activities.
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Wolfram Alpha is clear about their objectives.
Designers are often asked to assess the financial value of their efforts.
Researchers at the University of Buffalo have developed software that can be used to design roads so that they are less likely to be covered with snow drifts and to position snow fences to keep drifts away from existing roads.