Water as an essential element in the formation and perfection of Iranian urban space, has played a valuable role since the ancient times and some excellent examples survived from different periods, one of which is the ...

ABSTRACT: This dissertation examines inferentially the sense of place in belowground levels. Compatibility between human and nature led to earth covered dwellings in ancient history. Therefore physical compatibility is ...

This thesis is concerned with the understanding of home and its formation process under the condition of migration, and re-settlement in new environments. The primary objective of the research is to examine the sensual ...

The available literature on the traditional housing patterns in the Sultanate of Oman is limited. Research that specifically associates the social aspect of Arab tribes with architecture has not been carried out, either. ...

ABSTRACT: House as a shelter, has been a meaningful place owing to the fact that all cultures have developed beneath this shelter from the early days of humankind. House is one of the key subjects in Iranian Architecture. ...

Recently, with the rapid development of virtual reality (VR) technologies the architectural discourse which once was the discourse of form and style, has overcome these boundaries. Architecture now in the words of Silva ...

ABSTRACT: Throughout history housing has been a basic human need in the environment. In time, due to the modernazition in the world, social, political, economic changes and ever growing population, altered housing concepts ...

The Syrian traditional courtyard houses, especially sampled in Damascus, remained an impressive source with regard to architecture, as they had, and still have appropriate features fulfilling human needs. In these ...

ABSTRACT: In the late years, urban heat island became one of the important problems generally in big cities as a part of climate changes and is a sort of reflection of global warming in local scale. As an outcome of global ...

ABSTRACT: Street is an outdoor space with various physical and visual dimensions. Since many important actions take place in the street, it has great impact on daily life of the society and also on people‟s interactions. ...