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Exploring Low-Carbon Design and Construction Techniques: Lessons from Vernacular Architecture

open access: yesClimate, 2023
This paper presents a comprehensive review of low-carbon materials and construction techniques commonly used in vernacular buildings. The study highlights the relevance of vernacular architecture in the context of the shift towards sustainable ...
Ming Hu
exaly   +2 more sources

Framing the Values of Vernacular Architecture for a Value-Based Conservation: A Conceptual Framework

open access: yesSustainability, 2021
While a growing number of researchers have provided series of tough critiques of the typology-led heritage value assessment over the recent years, the impacts have been constrained by the continued obsession with expanding the list of the predetermined ...
Obafemi Olukoya
exaly   +2 more sources

Professionals’ views of vernacular building materials and techniques for green building delivery in Ghana

open access: yesScientific African, 2020
Vernacular architecture is associated with numerous advantages. However, its adoption in the development of sustainable buildings is not appreciated.
James Cofie Danku   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

A vulnerability index formulation for the seismic vulnerability assessment of vernacular architecture

open access: yesEngineering Structures, 2019
The valorization and preservation of vernacular architecture, as well as traditional construction techniques and materials, is a key-element for cultural identity.
Javier Ortega   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Architectural and urban ambiences system in oasis space: Case of Tolga [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Srpskog Geografskog Društva, 2023
Assessing an architectural or urban ambiance remains an uncertainty in the absence of a scale for its measurement and its design. The research, specifically conducted in an oasian space, aims to innovate a pragmatic tool of evaluation and ...
Fayçal Houimli, Djamel Alkama
doaj   +1 more source

Significance of Informal Trading Activities in The Emergence of Urban Spatial Vernacular: Case Study of Lagos Island, Nigeria [PDF]

open access: yesLocal Wisdom, 2021
Informal trading activities such as street hawking and sedentary trade have assumed a prominent role in public space use in Lagos Island. They have contributed significantly to the Island’s built environment morphology as an urban commercial centre ...
Jolaoso, B. Adekoyejo, Onolaja, O. A
doaj   +1 more source

Interference Phenomena in the Donetsk Regiolect [PDF]

open access: yesАктуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2021
The article deals with the description of language interference as the main process in creating the regional identity of the Russian language in Donbass.
Viacheslav I. Terkulov
doaj   +1 more source

Challenges and Current Research Trends for Vernacular Architecture in a Global World: A Literature Review

open access: yesBuildings, 2023
Vernacular architecture can be defined as a type of regional construction influenced by geography, available materials, climate, traditions, and culture that is produced by non-experts through knowledge transmitted and enriched from one generation to the
J. M. F. Pardo
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Vernacular journalism: Local news and everyday life

open access: yesJournalism, 2023
This paper, based on in-depth interviews with 57 local journalism entrepreneurs in the UK, develops the idea that these emergent and small-scale local news organizations prioritize a form of “vernacular journalism.” Driven by a democratic impulse ...
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Julia Boelle
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Decolonizing Darjeeling

open access: yesHIMALAYA, 2022
Darjeeling has been largely represented as a place where fine tea grows and where the mighty Kanchenjunga graces its presence as an attraction for tourists.
Pema Gyalchen Tamang
doaj   +1 more source

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