The Isfahani style represents a method of traditional Iranian architecture and urban development that existed in the early 20th century and is regarded as a leading model in most traditional Iranian cities. It exhibit...
This work was supported by the General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.52178026);the Young Scholars Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51408479);the Program for scientific research of Shaanxi Provincial Education Department(Grant No.20JS080).
Under the global crisis of energy shortage and environmental pollution,the climate responsive strategies used in vernacular buildings have attracted much attention for their potential to reduce energy consumption and ...
the Chinese National Social Science Funding Project"Visual Image Cluster Analysis and Atlas Composing of the Chinese Nation"(20VMZ008);"Research and Practice Fund for New Engineering Education of the Ministry of Education of China(2nd Batch)"(ETMUZSLHY20202123).
The authenticity of architectural heritage is interpreted differently in diverse cultural traditions.Can this inspire the conservation and contemporary regeneration of architectural heritage to adapt to the changing n...
This research is based on the findings of two research programmes with the acronyms BioCultural and BioVernacular funded by the University of Cyprus,2013-15 and by the Republic of Cyprus and the European Regional Development Fund,2012-14,respectively.
Semi-open spaces-largely incorporated in vernacular dwellings in Cyprus during the 19th and 20th centuries-formed diachronically significant socio-cultural, functional and environmental features of the vernacular arch...
In this study,the environmental responsiveness of buUt heritage is closely connected with the aspects of building typology and urban canyon geometry.The focus of this study is on two-story adobe buildings with lightwe...
The authors want to acknowledge Dr.Ashish Shukla of Coventry University for his kind proofreading of the manuscript.
Past builders have developed very low-embodied energy construction techniques optimizing the use of local building materials.These techniques are a source of inspiration for modern sustainable building.Unfortunately,t...
The disappearance of vernacutar buitdings is a common phenomenon worldwide and in Indonesia. The Banjarese house, a type of Indonesian vernacutar architecture, is a typicat riverside dwetling that shows the strong rel...
Vernacular buildings across the globe provide instructive examples of sustainable solutions to building problems. Yet, these solutions are assumed to be inapplicable to modern buildings. Despite some views to the cont...
Architecturat heritage conservation is an important field in architectural research. The Hui-styte vernacutar dwetling is an essentialarchitectural heritage of China. Its hollow watt system, with horsehead-like upper ...