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Integrating the passive ventilation strategies of Aceh vernacular houses into modern housing facade design for enhanced climate responsiveness in local environment

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering
Rapid urbanization has reduced traditional features in Acehnese vernacular houses, while the demand for energy-efficient and environmentally friendly housing continues to grow.
Cut Nursaniah, Mirza Irwansyah, Laila Qadri, Irzaidi Irzaidi, Ica Salsanabila, Nurul Malahayati   +5 more
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Rain infiltration mechanisms in ventilated facades: literature review, case studies, understanding common practice flaws [PDF]

, 2015
Ventilated facades are contemporary construction systems, which present a number of benefits in comparison to a traditional facade (unventilated or vented air cavity).
Arce Recatala, Maria, garcia morales, soledad, Van Den Bossche, Nathan   +2 more
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THE CONTESTED CITY OF VENICE: Caring for Commodified Common Infrastructures in a Touristified Environment

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this essay I reveal contested common infrastructures in the interplay between vanishing public infrastructures in Venice and lack of care by governmental actors in a city with a shrinking number of inhabitants. I examine care and commodified public infrastructures in heritage cities facing mass tourism and climate change effects by zooming ...
Cornelia Dlabaja
wiley   +1 more source

Thermal and acoustic environmental requirements for green buildings in Malaysia [PDF]

Journal of Design and the Built Environment, 2012
Passive design concepts as a strategy for achieving energy efficiency as well as optimum indoor thermal comfort in workspaces are being increasingly applied with the increased awareness of Green Buildings.
Sreenivasaiah Purushothama Rao, Asrul Mahjuddin Ressang Aminuddin, Hong Wan Thing, Nurul Amira Abd Jalil, Nazli Bin Che Din, Nila Inangda Manyam Keumala Daud   +5 more
doaj  

READING HOUSING AS AN URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PATTERNING THE ‘WHORE STIGMA’

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I conceptualize housing as an urban infrastructure enabling the reproduction, exploitation, circulation and emplacement of the ‘whore stigma’. To this end, I engage with infrastructural scholarship, particularly the emerging field of infrastructural housing studies, and situate it in dialogue with critical perspectives on ...
Daniela Morpurgo
wiley   +1 more source

Optimum Geometry of Double-skin Self-Shading Facade of Classrooms with the Aim of Creating Energy Saving and Visual Comfort in Isfahan Province, Iran

Journal of Daylighting
The significant energy consumption in educational spaces worldwide and its environmental impact greatly influence the quality of space, learning levels, and student comfort.
Shirin Aghamohammadiha, Narges Dehghan
doaj   +1 more source

VISUAL NEGOTIATIONS OF GENTRIFICATION IN TORONTO: Contestation, Politicization and Resistance through Urban Signage

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article engages signage as a medium through which urban stakeholders negotiate the politics of housing redevelopment and gentrification in cities. Focusing on Toronto, we examine housing‐related signage in three neighbourhoods where social mix approaches to redevelopment have ushered in gentrification: Parkdale, Regent Park, and Moss Park.
Lindi Jahiu, Jonathan Cinnamon, Agnieszka Leszczynski   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of parametric design on designing performative facades

, 2021
In a simple definition, architecture was aimed to inhabit human inside a space that covers him from wild extreme environmental conditions. During the centuries, it developed and achieved higher levels of complexity and advancements in technology, space organization, style, material assembly and so on.
openaire   +1 more source

Subsymmetries for the Analysis and Design of Housing Facades [PDF]

, 2017
Jin-Ho Park
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BEHIND THE FACES OF AESTHETICIZED URBANISM IN TUNXI, CHINA

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban policy in China has become increasingly predicated on securing an approved aesthetic that reflects ideological campaigns and political programmes. In highlighting the role of the aesthetic in Chinese urbanism, this article argues that the party‐state draws on an aesthetic palette that places the contemporary urban landscape in a ...
Yanpeng Jiang, Paul Waley, Asa Roast
wiley   +1 more source