The recent quest for reducing building material ecological impact in parallel to consequences of poorly chosen materials and unsustainable material developments emphasize the need to formulate a comprehensive framework ...

During the recent years the theory of ‘sense of place’ has become important for the designer since it indicates the uniqueness of any space and development of bonding towards this space. The concept has been studies through ...

Technology of the 21st century is changing rapidly in the postmodern world of consumerism. As we move from industrial toward information epoch, built environment become precisely augmented with the trends of commercialization. ...

Structural and design concepts are two important parameters of building design process. Structural ideas transform solutions to general structural problems and range from guiding structural forces to defining visual factors. ...

Houses are physical building types that meet people's housing needs. The terms "housing" and "house" have different meanings. Building housing is a preliminary preparation for the establishment of home life. Nowadays, ...

Nowadays, most of the buildings are designed without considering the sustainability or responding to natural conditions which becomes a noticeable international trend. It is commonly preferable to design building in response ...

ABSTRACT: In the literature, neighbourhood effect studies can encounter challenges when neighbourhood as a context of change was ignored and its dynamic characteristic was considered to be static. In this study the attempt ...

A hospital can be a stressful place, and for patients and health care providers being in a hospital can be an exceedingly distressing experience. Evidence from existing literature has propounded that exploring the positive ...

Today‟s conditions and masonry building examples are showing that even the buildings which are made closer to traditional and conventional techniques, have something different than the earlier examples. So this brought the ...

ABSTRACT: Monumental architecture is reservoir of memories which can stand as symbol of the cities and even countries with the embedded meaning in their form and operation. This kind of structures can link the past and the ...