Week 7 & 8 summarised Reflections Week 6 Pre-Session and In-Session Reflections: Assignment 2.1 Group Work As a group we have collaboratively decided to design a rating tool for the user comfort in public libraries. When we were trying to define our scope there was contention among certain group members where some wanted to include conventional parameters that related to the overall energy consumption of libraries (such as energy use, water, waste, etc.), and other wanted to limit the scope exclusively to parameters which defined user comfort such as aesthetics, biophilia, user-friendliness, furniture, etc. However, after some internal discussion we reached the consensus that we would limit our scope only to the parameters that directly influence user-friendliness, as conventional building performance criteria (such as water, waste, electricity), were already extensively covered my major rating tools such as LEED, GBCA, etc. Furthermore, the entire team worked collabo...
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