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Courtyard Housing in China: Chinese Quest for Harmony
Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs, 2017 The Chinese have lived in single-extended-family courtyard houses in many parts of China for thousands of years. The earliest courtyard house found in China was during the Middle Neolithic period (5000-3000 BCE).
Donia Zhang
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EQA, 2023 The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has been experiencing a rapid urban growth in the recent decades with intense demand on housing. Government policies are trying to revise strategies to supply more housing units in order to meet the exerting pressure of ...
Ayad Almaimani, Khan Rahaman
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The Courtyard House: Can a Sustainable Future Learn from a Context Relevant Past
Environmental Science and Sustainable Development, 2016 This paper looks at the courtyard house as a traditional urban dwellings of yesteryears with a view to explore its potential in informing the housing developments of the future. In order to address the question, the paper starts with a historical ...
Hocine Bougdah
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A COURTYARD HOUSE – SIHEYUAN 四合院 AS THE DWELLING PLACE OF THE TRADITIONAL CHINESE FAMILY
Forum Teologiczne, 2020 A Chinese courtyard house, called in Chinese siheyuan, equipped with a single entrance and with one or more open courtyards encompassed by one-storey buildings, represents traditional house dwelling in China.
Zbigniew Wesołowski SVD
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MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018 The traditional courtyard house of the Mediterranean Basin has been viewed as a complex regulating system that creates a microclimate which historically worked, and still works, in a passive way to provide acceptable thermal comfort in summer.
El Harrouni Khalid +2 more
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Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Architecture, 2023 The Islamic residential concept is the famous tagline that several real estate developers chose for their housing products today; it attracts customer attention, primarily from the Muslim community. But only some housing products are suitable to all the
Angga Perdana
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A PERSPECTIVE ON COURTYARD DESIGN: TULOU COLLECTIVE HOUSING IN CHINA
Mekansal Araştırmalar DergisiCourtyard housing, a design concept rooted in centuries-old traditions across various cultures, is widely recognized for its ability to create semi-private urban spaces within housing developments.
Büşra Durmaz, Cihan Erçetin
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Learning from the douar. Michel Écochard and the modern invention of the semi-rural Moroccan habitat [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2019 At the end of WWII, after roughly thirty years of French colonialism, Morocco was facing a tremendous economic boom, but also an alarming rural exodus to the industrial cities on the coast which, in turn, had to deal with overpopulation and the ...
Bernasconi Edoardo L. G.
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Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs, 2021 Climate change and rising temperatures lead to an air-conditioning proliferation in summertime of the Mediterranean regions. This study links urban morphology to the microclimate.
Marjan Sansen +2 more
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Estimation of Hedonic Housing Price Function in Kerman City [PDF]
مجله توسعه و سرمایه, 2011 Housing is a heterogeneous, durable, immovable, capital and commodity good which its value (price) is determined based on multiple and different characteristics such as infrastructure, the number of rooms, welfare amenities, access, security and other ...
Maryam Tahmtani +1 more
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