Effects of the Wall-Faced seating arrangement strategy on the behavioural patterns of the students in the architecture thesis design studio

Tafahomi, Rahman

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Subject :	L Education (General)
Main Author :	Tafahomi, Rahman
Title :	Effects of the Wall-Faced seating arrangement strategy on the behavioural patterns of the students in the architecture thesis design studio

Place of Production :	Tanjong Malim
Publisher :	Fakulti Pembangunan Manusia
Year of Publication :	2021
Corporate Name :	Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris

Abstract : Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris

The results of the exercise on the Wall-Faced seating arrangement in an architecture thesis design studio reveal the positive effects on the progress, concentration, and design of the students. The seating arrangement encouraged the students for more design products and development through increase the sense of competition. The seating arrangement changed the concentration of the students from the central part of the studio as a location for social interaction toward the drawing board as the learning target of the studio with more concentration on the drawing boards. The seating arrangement changes the concentration from the people in the studio as subject to the drawing board and design development as the object. In the new seating from the level of the collaboration between the students enhanced and the students communicated consistency to enhance the level of the design project in the studio. The research findings reveal that the students present five behavioural patterns in the design studio in the seating arrangement including collaborative, individual, separated, isolated, and disruptive. The level of collaboration, sharing of design ideas, and design development in collaborative behaviour are sufficient and effective although the level fades out in the other behavioural patterns.

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