This document outlines a research proposal to assess consideration of self-selection in building design performance. The research aims to investigate building design performance criteria and metrics of self-selection, evaluate the correlation between self-selection and building design criteria, and establish an assessment model. A literature review and data collection methods like surveys and discussions are proposed. The significance is that it could introduce new building design criteria and provide an assessment model of self-selection in building design.

1. Faculty of Built Environment (FAB)
Assessment Model In
Consideration Of Self-selection
In Building Design Performance
March 2011

2. Faculty of Built Environment (FAB)

3. Faculty of Built Environment (FAB)
ASSESSMENT MODEL IN
CONSIDERATION OF SELF-SELECTION
IN BUILDING DESIGN PERFORMANCE
Supervisor Presenter
Associate Professor PhD Candidate
MAHMUD BIN MOHD JUSAN MAHDI TORABI
March 2011

4. Table of Contents
01 Title 07 Scope
02 Introduction 08 Research Gap
03 Problem Statement 09 Research Methodology
04 Aim 10 Significance Of Study
05 Research Question 11 Tentative Schedule
06 Objectives 12 The End

5. Introduction to Human’s Requirements
It is conducted six month preliminary study to define the proposal:
Human needs diverse requirements in his living environment; which all
of his requirements should be answered in the built environment.
Based on research of CUFF, D. (1991), the built architectural environment is a
place that able to address
Human’s Physical and Functional
Requirements/Motivation Attributes
Principles of Building Design Performance (BDP) are used in
architecture to organize or arrange structures and to create a successful
building or environment.

6. Introduction to BDP
Institutions teach different sets of principles regarding building
design, but all of them have the same goals in mind: (Weston, 2000)
To create structures that are
Visually Attractive User-friendly Environment-friendly
In the past architects used to mainly focus on functionality and aesthetics.
Building design has evolved to also include ergonomic and sustainable
design principles.

7. Introduction to Self-Selection
There are lots of definition on
self-selection in the field of
Travel Behavior research, argued
by Cao, X., Handy, S. and
Mokhtarian, P.L. (2006) and
Bagley, M.N., and
Mokhtarian, P.L. (2002). Fig1.The direct and indirect impacts
of self-selection
In this research, we argue that Self-selection may be a key for better
understanding of people’s choices that are relevant for human behavior
in building design.

8. Problem Statement
Preliminary investigation on human
It neglected to study self-selection as
values shows the absence of
self-respect criteria in a scientific
assessment consideration of self-
method in BDP assessment.
respect in building design.
Needs In Practice
The architects of Intelligent
Building, Green Building and so on This research has focused on
have designed them without any Self-selection to enhance
concentrating on effects of human Building Design Performance
values as one of the important (BDP) in consideration of human
criteria in their design.(Hakim et al. values.
2011)

9. Aim & Research Question
The aim of this research is:
To assess consideration of self-selection in Building Design
Performance (BDP)
At the end of this research the question of below should be
answered:
How to assess consideration of self-selection in Building Design
Performance (BDP)?

10. Objectives
1 To investigate Building Design Performance (BDP) criteria
2 To investigate measurement metrics of self-selection
To evaluate correlation between self-selection with
3 Building Design Performance (BDP)
To establish design assessment model based on
4 consideration of self-selection

11. Scope ... Up to Now
The Scope of this study has several limitations
Any specific country has individuality of building design
By considering Johor Bahru in Malaysia as the research area, the
focus is on the local culture
Assuming all the physical and psychological aspects are covered in
residential buildings design
Time limit will be the beginning of the 21st century

12. Research Gap
Schwartz's (2005a)twelve types of universal values are:
Power, Achievement, Hedonism, Stimulation, Self-
direction, Universalism, Benevolence, Tradition, Conformity, Security, Financial
Success and Respect.
Rokeach’s (1973) seven factors in values are: Immediate
gratification, Competence, Self-Constriction, Social orientation, Respect
(Social recognition, Self-respect), Inner-directed.
Since 1980’s, the operational based future generation of buildings
introduced; IB, GB, LEB, ZEB and HPB.
It is all to manage “Human Values” in “Building Performance Criteria”

13. Research Gap
Building Performance Criteria includes:
Hakim(2011)
Health , Safety, Security , Functionality
, Efficiency , Social, Environmental Psychology
, Aesthetics , Operations , Comfort, Durability
Economics , Flexibility , Accessibility, Culture.
They cited by several researchers as follow:
POE (Preiser, 1988), POE (Minnesota
Univ., 2004), Building Quality Assessment
(BQA), ISO 6241 Performance standards for
buildings, Orbit 2.1, Facilities Performance
Evaluation (FPE) , Becker (1990), Fornara
(2006), Sanoff (2003), Lee (2006), Wener (1994)
, Kincaid (1994), Kooyman (2006) , Andersson
(2001) , Houle (2002) , Hamilton (1993)
, Hassanain & Mudhei (2006) , Crowell (1980)
, Queensland Health & Royal Children’s Hospital
(2001) , Brooks & Viccars (2006) Fig2. Building Performance Evaluation
, Danes, Campbell & Tipton (2006) , Farren (1999)
, Pringle Brandon Consulting (2004) , Heerwagen Criteria Parameters (Source: Preiser, 1988)
(2005) , Gupta (2006), Hakim(2010).

14. Research Gap
Concluding purview BPE criteria, there is lack of consideration of human
values in BDP also.
Building Performance Building Design Performance
Evaluation (BPE) (BDP)
Consequently, there is lack of consideration of Self-respect as well as
Self-selection.
Human Values Respect Self-respect Self-selection

15. Research Methodology
Literature review (Conducting content analysis in previous
Objective 1
published reports Building Design Performance criteria)
Conducting close group discussion with academic professional
(Using Delphi decision making model)
Literature review (Conducting content analysis in previous
Objective 2
published reports on self-respect and self-selection)
Conducting interpretive study on measurement metrics of
Self-selection (In the normal way of Delphi analysis)

16. Research Methodology
Conducting correlation study on Building Design Performance
(BDP) criteria in consideration of self-selection (Using
Objective 3
quantitative Likert structured questionnaires – SPSS)
Conducting close group discussion with academic professional
(Using Delphi decision making model)
Literature review (Conducting content analysis in previous
Objective 4
published reports on assessment model)
Developing assessment model (Pilot study)

17. Significance Of Study
Objective 1
It is expected to investigate and introduce Building Design Performance
(BDP)’s criteria
Objective 2
It is expected to investigate measurement metrics of self-selection
Objective 3
It is expected to investigate priority of Building Design Performance
(BDP)’s criteria toward self-selection

18. Significance Of Study
Objective 4
It is expected to establish assessment model
Novelty
Finding of first, second and third objective have potential to be published
as journal paper
The final model is the “Intellectual Property” (IP) of the research

19. Tentative schedule
RESEARCH ACTIVITY (In Months) 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24
Milestone
Prelim literature & Dates:
Objective 1
Phase 1
literature Review Objective 2 End of 10th
month
Objective 3
Phase 2
Objective 4 End of 12th
Objective 2 month
Data Gathering
Objective 3
Phase 3
End of 18th
Objective 1&2 month
Data Analysis
& Validation Objective 3 Phase 4
End of 24th
Objective 4
month
REPORT WRITING

20. The End
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