Open House International: Volume 39 Issue 4

Editorial

Nicholas Wilkinson

This issue has many manuscripts dealing with PLACE, GENTRIFICATION PROCESSES, HOME OWNERSHIP, VERTICAL GREENERY SYSTEMS, SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE OF BUILDINGS AND COMMUNICATION IN…

Affordable Housing Schemes: Overcoming Homeownership Problems

Zafirah Al Sadat Zyed, Wan Nor Azriyati Wan Abd Aziz, Noor Rosly Hanif, Peter Aning Tedong

Homeownership is a problem among younger working households (YWH). This is a more serious problem with YWH working in urban areas. New housing schemes introduced by the government…

Lifecycle Framework for Sustainable Residential Buildings in Malaysia

Mahdokht Ebrahimi, Hamzah Abdul Rahman, Faizul Azli Mohd-Rahim, Wang Chen

In Malaysia, there are a few numbers of frameworks and checklists in order to evaluate the sustainable performance of buildings. In addition, most of these assessment frameworks…

A Comparative Study of Planned and Spontaneous Gentrification Processes

Mehmet Emin Şalgamcıoğlu, Alper Ünlü

This study compared the gentrification processes in Cihangir and Tarlabasi. The dynamics of the gentrification process in Cihangir is compared with the vastly different…

Vertical Greenery Systems (VGS) in Urban Tropics

Abdul-Rahman, Chen Wang, Azli Mohd Rahim, Siaw Chuing Loo, Nadzmi Miswan

Numerous researchers proved Vertical Greenery System VGS beneficial to buildings and surroundings. However, it is still not widely applied in the tropics like Malaysia. This paper…

Place Identity: A Theoretical Reflection

Nur Farhana Azmi, Faizah Ahmad, Azlan Shah Ali

Each place possesses characteristics that confer on it a sense of place and identity through the meanings and values that they provide. The role of the physical built environment…

Adaptive Reuse of Carob Warehouses in Northern Cyprus

Hulya Yuceer, Beser Oktay Vehbi

Scattered mainly along the coast of Cyprus, a series of modest stone built carob warehouses provide a historical legacy of the agricultural, social and economic life of the rural…

Implications from Recent Experience of an Incremental Housing Project in Egypt

Ahmed M. Shalaby

The urban population in the developing world will double by the year 2030 increasing the pressure in the housing sector that already suffers from the lack of adequate and…

Improving Communication and Changing Attitudes in Architectural Practices: Digital Architectural Education Tools for Non-Experts

Matevz Juvancic, Marjan Hocevar, Tadeja Zupancic

The persistence of difficulties related to communication of the stakeholders in the architectural and urban design process is mainly due to the diversity of interests, different…