Metaphors as Discourse Interaction Devices in Architectural Design

Casakin, Hernán

doi:10.3390/buildings9020052

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“…The importance of well-functioning communication for efficient collaboration in construction projects has been established in earlier studies [1,2]. Communication is found to be a key quality factor for construction projects, as it builds relationships and trust [3], bridges distances [4], and enables boundary spanning and learning [5,6].…”

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confidence: 92%

Contextual Communicative Competence in Multinational Infrastructure Projects

Järvenpää¹,

Gustavsson²

2021

Buildings

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Communication is dynamic, social, challenging, and a key quality factor for construction projects. This is especially the case in multinational and inter-organizational infrastructure projects where factors like culture and language differ among the involved actors. As infrastructure projects usually extend over longer periods of time, collaborative relationships need to be established in which the actors can develop, for example, mutual understanding, learning, and efficient working routines. By building on empirical data from contemporary infrastructure projects, we explore how international contractors and a large public client communicate in multinational infrastructure projects (i.e., what the challenges are and what competences are needed). The analysis is based on the linguistic framework of communicative competence, and we contribute to the development of collaborative models in construction project management by suggesting the concept of contextual communicative competence.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 92%

Contextual Communicative Competence in Multinational Infrastructure Projects

Järvenpää¹,

Gustavsson²

2021

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“…Examples identified in the research are coded into images, concepts, doubles, etc. The analysis was carried out to explore how this metaphorical scheme relates to the four previously defined domains of experience (Casakin, 2019). However, this research evaluates the temple and its constituent ornaments using the "minus one" method.…”

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Plaosan Temple Ornaments As Iconography Metaphorical Hindu-Buddhist Ideology

Handriyotopo

2022

Harmonia

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Plaosan Temple is a building structure filled with beautiful ornaments and decorations, reliefs, and statues. Therefore, this research aims to analyze the metaphorical aspect of symbolism in the Plaosan temple reliefs, which represent Hindu and Buddhist ideologies. It also aims to understand the iconographic meaning of this structure as a temple building that unites differences for a peaceful purpose. This is a qualitative descriptive and interpretative research with the “minus one” technique used to determine the effect of removing an element of the temple. The hermeneutic-metaphorical interpretive description was used to visualize the ornaments’ symbols and determine the philosophical meaning between the ideological domain of Hindu symbolism and Buddhism. The results showed that the manifestation of love from the Plaosan temple is indicated in its temple’s relief elements and decorated ornaments.

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“…In addition, she discusses the function of ornamentation that harmonizes the object and completes the object with the whole. 'Visual thinking', which designers constantly use to better understand the visual representation of designs, is interpreted through the interaction of both internal and external visual representations [31]. From this perspective, it can be derived that ornamentation is a visual tool used in the process of transferring the meaning and thoughts in representation, directly or metaphorically.…”

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Conceptual Approaches in Contemporary Hotel Interiors in Northern Cyprus: Ornamentation and Representation

Altan,

Gürdallı

2024

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Cyprus with its rich cultural heritage has been the showcase of ornamentation throughout history with a rich variety of materials, details, and narratives. Integrating ornamentation with its body architecture can be seen as one of the storytellers of these narratives through design elements. After the mid-1990s when casinos had been banned in Turkey, five-star casino hotels became one of the main investment areas in North Cyprus. Together with this new building type and new users’ expectations with a new understanding of holidays, the 21st century brought the changing use of ornamentation in hotel interiors and, hence, decoration came to the fore more than before. Hotel lobbies welcoming the users to their second homes and introducing the hotels’ identities have always been seen as the most important area of hotels by investors, designers, and hotel managers. Sometimes the reception areas were perceived as the living room of the hotel customers where they feel attached culturally, socially, or economically, and sometimes it could be a place where they can feel themselves as one of the characters of ancient history, a king or a queen for a while. Hence, hotel interiors, in general, and hotel lobbies, in particular, acted as a cultural representative, a social status symbol, and a political image of the story told. The aim of this paper is to examine five-star hotel lobbies within the framework of ornamentation through a reading model created with the concepts used by theoreticians. Together with the site visits and visual recordings, the analysis conducted in this paper is based on qualitative data incorporated by a rich theoretical background on ornamentation. The paper tries to highlight the representational value of ornamentation that can help to understand and interpret the spatial transformation of hotel interiors.

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Metaphors as Discourse Interaction Devices in Architectural Design

Cited by 9 publications

References 31 publications

Contextual Communicative Competence in Multinational Infrastructure Projects

Contextual Communicative Competence in Multinational Infrastructure Projects

Plaosan Temple Ornaments As Iconography Metaphorical Hindu-Buddhist Ideology

Conceptual Approaches in Contemporary Hotel Interiors in Northern Cyprus: Ornamentation and Representation

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