Open House International: Volume 42 Issue 2

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Editorial

Yonca Hurol

The articles which take place within this issue cover various subjects of architecture. There are articles about different type of houses, urban issues, climatic issues, a…

Paper Tube Emergency Shelter: Design Experiments for Refugees

Jin-Ho Park

An emergency shelter design as an immediate response to assist people in disaster situations was evaluated in this study. The design experiment concerns the use of recyclable…

Perception Based Method for Measuring the Aesthetic Quality of the Urban Environment

Hourakhsh Ahmad Nia, Resmiye Alpar Atun, Rokhsaneh Rahbarianyazd

This study assesses changing aesthetic values and their characteristics in urban environments based on human perception. With this in mind, a model for assessing the aesthetic…

An Approach to Responsive Housing Development

Maged Kamal Mohammad Attia

Between traditional and contemporary there are two contradictory visions. The first adopts originality and returning to the traditional, while the second advocates modernity and…

A Field Study on Climate Comfortable Conditions of Urban Public Open Spaces in Marginal Season of Winter Cities

Leng Hong, Jiang Cun-Yan

In order to study the importance of climate comfortable conditions of urban public open spaces in marginal season of winter cities for people's outdoor activities, first, the…

Bedestens Located in the Heart of the Commercial Center in Anatolian Cities and Their Architecture Reflections

Özlem Atalan, Hasan Şahan Arel

Commercial areas and bedestens (covered bazaars) are important public areas in Turkish cities and towns. These areas and buildings are essential in that they contribute vital…

Indicators of Sustainable Construction in Eco Urban

Somayeh Roshanfekr, N.M. Tawil, N.A. Goh

This research work is an introduction to sustainable construction. A few significant indicators and many related subsets, which are crucial to green sustainable construction and…

Sustainable Housing: A Conceptual Approach

Afet Çeliker

Sustainable architecture is a well-known and studied subject for severeal decades. The environmental awareness of professionals has put sustainability in the center of the…

‘Small House Spatiality: A Comparative Space Syntax Application’

Ayça Arslan, Türkan Ulusu Uraz

It has recently come to light that there is an increasing demand for a new type of small house design, which vary in area from 20 square metres to 100 square metres and even more…

Conceptual Model of the Relationship Between Neighbourhood Attachment, Collective Efficacy and Open Space Quality

Elif Kutay Karacor, Gozde Parlar

The decline in neighbourhoods resulting from globalization and technology, which trigger high rise buildings, has been discussed by several disciplines. Changes in life styles…

Introducing Public-Private Partnerships for Affordable Housing in China

Wenbo Qin, Antonio Sánchez Soliño, Vicente Alcaraz Carrillo de Albornoz

Though China is taking many steps to offer affordable houses to the public, the gap between the demand and supply for such affordable houses is still huge. Rapidly growing demand…

Determining a Practically Optimal Overhang Depth for South-Facing Windows in Hot Summer and Cold Winter Zone

Jian Yao, Rong-Yue Zheng

This study investigated the building energy, glare and daylight performance of overhang using building simulation software Energyplus in order to identify an optimal depth in hot…

Sustainable Urban Development in the Green City: Kyrenia White Zone

Cemil Atakara, Gizlem Akyay

Cities were first formed, they have been developed and advanced together with the development of humanity and technology. The cities in urbanization process have been going…

A Diagnosis of Urban Poor Housing in Vietnam

Iftekhar Ahmed

This paper presents concepts important for understanding urban poor housing in Vietnam, with a focus on key environmental, socio-economic, and cultural dimensions that bear on the…

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ISSN:

0168-2601

e-ISSN:

2633-9838

Online date, start – end:

2005

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Dr. Chaham Alalouch
  • Prof. Yonca Hurol