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Leeyuan: An Adaptive Courtyard House

2021
Leeyuan is an adaptive housing experiment, and also a home with a studio. The design concept is inspired by the local building modus operandi that takes place when a house needs additional space. It also tries to challenge the local stigma of traditional courtyard houses as a sign of backwardness and the misconception of expensive architectural renewal.
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Comparative Study of Courtyard Housing using Feng Shui

Open House International, 2014
Cosmology is of essence for the life of traditional man not only to live in a meaningful universe, but to bound himself with the universe to achieve well-being as well. Architecture is a way of creating spaces through generic forms and symbols to attain this unity of man and the universe.
Celiker, Afet, Cavusoglu, Banu Tevfikler, Ongul, Zehra   +2 more
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Courtyard houses

2014
In the Mediterranean area, since the early civilizations, the courtyard house was the most prevalent architectural typology. Also known as patio houses, spatial organization in these dwellings is defined by a central open-air space from which the living rooms are generated.
DIPASQUALE, LETIZIA, MECCA, SAVERIO, Picone, A.   +2 more
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Courtyard housing : a typological analysis

1994
In the forthcoming decades housing will be facing major controversial issues such as those of achieving higher densities, obtaining socio-cultural acceptance through the retention of the inherent qualities of low rise, low density dwellings, and that of attaining sustainability.
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Eight Inscribed Houses and Three Courtyards

2023
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Romera García, Pedro Nicolás, Ruiz Martínez, Ángela   +1 more
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Landscapes of Courtyards and Houses in Syria

2013
Urbanism in Islamic Mediterranean is deeply linked to courtyard houses characteristics and structure. Consequently, courtyards represent the most important element of the Syrian historical urban landscape determining the dimensional relationships between open spaces and built surface (which depends on the need to effect the best microclimate); the ...
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Courtyard Houses

2008
Günter Pfeifer, Per Brauneck
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Impact of courtyard on indoor thermal environment in vernacular row houses of warm and humid climate: case study of Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu

Advances in Building Energy Research, 2023
Bhanu M Marwaha
exaly  

“Courtyard Housing: Past, Present and Future”

2005
Courtyard housing is one of the oldest forms of domestic development spanning at least 2000 years and occurring in distinctive form in many regions of the world. Traditionally associated with the Middle East where climate and culture have given shape to a particular type of courtyard housing, other examples exist in Latin America, China and in Europe ...
Sibley, M., Edwards, B., Hakmi, M., Land, P.   +3 more
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Domestic Architecture and the City Identity: The Historic City of Homs and Its Traditional Courtyard Houses as a Case Study

Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation, 2021
Melis Alessandro
exaly