Open House International: Volume 37 Issue 1

Editorial

Nicholas Wilkinson

The composition and subject balance of manuscripts in this Open Issue of OPEN HOUSE INTERNATIONAL range from experimental housing, through to mass customisation to Post-Disaster…

The Validity of PREVI, Lima, Peru, Forty Years On

Julián Salas, Patricia Lucas

PREVI, Spanish initials for “experimental housing project”, was conceived in Lima in 1967. Among other initiatives, it launched an international architectural competition that led…

Examining The Potential for Mass Customisation of Housing in Malaysia

Nasir Daud, Hasniyati Hamzah, Yasmin Mohd Adnan

In housing, mass customisation is increasingly seen as a useful innovation for promoting customer satisfaction and thus for contributing to the long-run sustainability of the…

Comparison of Post-Disaster Housing Procurement Methods in Rural Areas of Turkey

Nese Dikmen, Soofia Tahira Elias-Ozkan, Colin Davidson

Earthquakes strike without warning, even though they are known to recur. It is nonetheless difficult to mobilize resources to plan for them in advance, despite the high social and…

Remodelling of the Vernacular in Bukchon Hanoks

Jieheerah Yun

Regenerated hanoks, Korean-style vernacular houses in Bukchon (North Village) of Seoul, have been celebrated as the successful examples of a hybrid dwelling integrating modern…

A ‘Fareej-in-the-Sky’: Towards A Community-Oriented Design for High-Rise Residential Buildings in The Uae

Khaled Galal Ahmed

Most of the native citizens in the UAE live in public or private single-family houses. Given the tremendous cost of developing this type of housing and the inability of providing…

Environments of Change: An Open Building Approach Towards A Design Solution for an Informal Settlement in Mamelodi, South Africa

Donovan Gottsmann, Amira Osman

Poor living conditions in informal settlements may be attributed mostly, though not exclusively, to the lack of basic services. Informal settlements, which also go by the name of…

Alienation of Traditional Habitats and Shelters in Jordanian Villages

Ahmed Abu Al Haija

Hundreds of Jordanian traditional villages are facing the serious risk of being demolished due to the shortage of basic public services and their resulting abandoned state…

A Reading in Critical Regionalism: Analysis of Two Houses By Han Tümertekіn*

Hilal Aycı, Esin Boyacıoğlu

If regionalism is defined as designing responsibly in reaction to a local context, then critical regionalism can be defined as doing so without denying the universally…