This contribution, part of an in progress PhD study on forms and design of architecture and landscape of the central Indian Mandu plateau, focuses on a bird eye view of the human structures getting the landscape of the XV ...

One of the most important issue in architecture is to produce high comfort leveled buildings, which provide appropriate physical conditions to fulfill living needs. For this reason firstly, buildings should be protected ...

Computational applications for the evaluation of buildings' energy performance (including their passive and active solar energy systems) require detailed information regarding incident solar radiation. As only global ...

Minimum energy use and minimum environmental pollution are two important basic criteria for achieving environmental sustainability and raising awareness of "design for everybody" approach. Investigating suitable ways of ...

The paper focuses a five-year process of injecting issues of sustainability into an established academic curriculum at the of Nicosia. The process engaged architecture students platforms of both a social and an environmental ...

It is general knowledge that the thermal comfort strongly influences people's wellbeing, health, and productivity. Many studies point to a significant relationship between working performance and indoor thermal conditions. ...

Conceived as an agent to the spatial experience in the architectural design, style constitutes an important means of architectural modeling. Exceedingly the spatial organizations are tempted to be reached through three ...

Refurbishment of existing residential buildings and energy saving represent important aspects of environmental sustainability, against the problems of greenhouse gas emissions and scarcity of resources. Many economic ...

The physicality of architecture at the start of the XXIth century is an urgent issue. It should be enough to mention the short term building trends, the omnipresence of sustainability and energy savings, the influence of ...

This paper aims to explore in terms of land using in urban morphology in the Albanian reality. The distinct lifestyle of an urbanized society create a wide range of market demands to be taken for the developments of ...