Infill McMansions: Style and the psychophysics of size

Nasar, Jack L.; Stamps, Arthur E.

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2008.09.003

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“…Each capital letter represents a video (A, B, C) at a specific speed and tree density around the building. No capital letters are repeated in the same row or column [34]. This matrix pattern, called "Latin square" (Figure 4), makes it possible to obtain and compare statistically robust results about which the compositions, species, and types of activity (speed) are the most highly rated for the integration of each building into the surroundings.…”

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Use of Video and 3D Scenario Visualisation to Rate Vegetation Screens for Integrating Buildings into the Landscape

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Human actions in the natural environment create a visual impact. The main objective of this study was to examine the acceptance of vegetation screens for integrating buildings into the landscape using new techniques of visualization in three dimensions (3D), videos and public participation. The status quo of two study areas representative of the Mediterranean climate in Spain (one inland and one coastal) was modelled, placing vegetation screens around a building typical of the area and varying the density, species, and layout of plants. After establishing a series of scenarios, videos showing a simulation of outdoor tourism activities performed at varying speeds were created to analyse how movement affects the perception of the combination of a building and vegetation screen in the versions created. The 3D models generated were subjected to a survey for public participation and to allow respondents to rate their preferences of the videos created. The results show that adding vegetation always improves the integration of buildings into the landscape. The most highly rated vegetation screen placed around the buildings in the two scenarios was high density vegetation, irrespective of the layout or species.

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Use of Video and 3D Scenario Visualisation to Rate Vegetation Screens for Integrating Buildings into the Landscape

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“…This finding was replicated with an r = 0.74 in Nasar and Stamps (2009). Other policy-relevant findings from Nasar and Stamps (2009) were: (a) efficacies for the policy that visual appeal of a house was related to the individual style of that house (r's of 0.96, 0.30 and 0.47); (b) the policy that distance between an infill house and an observer did not matter (r = 0.01); and (c) the policy that judgments of visual appeal of a whole block and the compatibility of an infill house were equivalent (r's of −0.06, 0.73 and 0.87). For diversity, there were two relevant bodies of evidence.…”

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Parameters of contextual infill design: style, matching, diversity, distance, responses

Stamps

2011

Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and

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Journal of Urbanism 1754-9175 (print)/1754-9183 (online) Article 2011 Taylor & Francis 4 1 0000002011 ArthurStamps, III artstamps@comcast.net; InstituteOfEnvironmentalQuality@comcast.netThe objective of this study was to obtain empirical data on how well various contextual urban design principles work and thus assist in formulating evidence-based planning. This paper reports findings from three studies, covering 51 environments and 164 participants, on how strongly these factors were related to visual appeal of a whole block of houses: (a) individual style of an infill house; (b) number of matches between an infill house and the houses in their contexts; (c) the diversity of the existing context; (d) proximity of an infill house to other houses; and (e) compatibility of the infill house with respect to the houses in their contexts. The strongest effect was found for the individual style of a new building, followed by the equivalence of judgments of compatibility and visual appeal, by the number of other houses the infill house matched, by existing visual diversity, and by distance. Policy guidance is provided for effects sufficiently strong to support evidence-based decision making and withheld for effects for which the scientific support is currently insufficient.

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“…This contrast of scales, or scale ratio, must be considered for the VIA of buildings. The height ratio had, in addition, a stronger visual effect than the width ratio on the visual appeal of the building's scale [56,57]. However, none of these studies were performed in rural areas, and none of them had considered the vegetation's height.…”

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Visual Analysis of the Height Ratio between Building and Background Vegetation. Two Rural Cases of Study: Spain and Sweden

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The perception of apparent sizes of buildings in a rural environment depends on the height ratio between the building and its surrounding vegetation, and it is this parameter which is currently used to assess the built landscapes. The impact of a contrasting height is less strong if the building does not exceed the horizon line. For buildings overshooting the skyline, the building’s level of sharpness and number of lines in contrast to the sky determines the impact of the scales, and vegetation in the background helps to reduce impact. The specific objectives of the present study were: (1) finding height–ratio thresholds between building and background vegetation, which may improve the integration of rural buildings in sky-sensitive locations, and; (2) comparing the results in two rural contexts with very different climatic conditions: Spain and Sweden. A survey of eighteen scenarios (nine Spanish and nine Swedish), all digitally modified with different relative height ratios between vegetation and buildings, was performed. The survey was evaluated by the public from both countries. Regardless of the country of origin, integration of the building was good or very good when the vegetation in background did not exceed one half of the height of the construction. These results may be translated to technical criteria for planning assessment.

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Infill McMansions: Style and the psychophysics of size

Cited by 19 publications

References 25 publications

Use of Video and 3D Scenario Visualisation to Rate Vegetation Screens for Integrating Buildings into the Landscape

Use of Video and 3D Scenario Visualisation to Rate Vegetation Screens for Integrating Buildings into the Landscape

Parameters of contextual infill design: style, matching, diversity, distance, responses

Visual Analysis of the Height Ratio between Building and Background Vegetation. Two Rural Cases of Study: Spain and Sweden

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