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Courtyard as a Passive Cooling Strategy in Buildings
International Journal of Built Environment and Sustainability, 2017 One of the most significant current discussions in the built environment, architectural practice, theory, and procedures is “Passive Design”. It is becoming very difficult to ignore the issues of passive architectural design strategies in buildings ...
Markus Bulus +2 more
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Concrete in architecture: Redefining form, space, function, and insights from bibliometric analysis
Structural Concrete, EarlyView.Abstract Concrete has become a cornerstone in architectural and engineering innovation, as it seamlessly integrates structural performance with artistic expression. Its evolution from ancient opus caementicium to contemporary ultra‐high‐performance concrete illustrates its adaptability to the change in technological, environmental, and design paradigms.
Mouhcine Benaicha +2 more
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Buildings, 2022 Located on the east side of China’s Qinghai–Tibet Plateau is the Western Sichuan Plateau, the courtyard adopts a passive design to withstand the harsh climate in cold areas, and its internal thermal environment has a direct impact on the productivity and
Sheng Xu +3 more
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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View from the Cloister of the interior of a Courtyard at Rockefeller College
, 2008 The buildings on the western side of Holder Courtyard house the college s social, dining, and academic ...
Beards, Daniel E.
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Courtyard geometry’s effect on energy consumption of AlKharga city residential buildings, Egypt
Scientific ReportsThe research aim is to clarify the effect of courtyard placement, the ratio between length and width, and courtyard orientation on energy consumption in residential buildings in hot and dry climates, to seek planning and designing alternatives for new ...
Ahmed M. Seddik Hassan +4 more
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REPAIR AND RECONSTRUCTION FOR URBAN COMMONING: The Making of the Liberated Spaces in Naples
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Commoning requires repair. Where capitalist logics of accumulation, enclosure and exclusion produce abandoned space through the city, urban commoners remake that space to serve the needs of inhabitants. Without hiding the paradoxes and risks of repair, based on years‐long ethnography in the Liberated Spaces in Naples, Italy, we demonstrate how
Martina Locorotondo, Adam Fishwick
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, 2023 The article reconstructs the sixteenth-century image, profoundly altered by following transformations, of the open courtyard of the Casino Mediceo in San Marco.
Fulvia Vannuzzi
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