Open House International: Volume 41 Issue 4

Editorial: Forging Advances in Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism

David Grierson, Ashraf M. Salama

Sustainability has been an important topic in many disciplines over two decades, and its urgency is rising. At the same time, a conceptual understanding of sustainability remains…

Morphological-Ontological Analysis of Urban Texture Changing with Dwelling Typologies

Dicle Aydın

Cities are defined by historical, geographical, sociological, cultural, economic and administrative aspects; each concept exposes different characteristics of cities as social…

Sustainable Plot-Based Urban Regeneration and Traditional Master Planning Practice in Glasgow

Gordon Barbour, Ombretta Romice, Sergio Porta

The failure of conventional, post-war development to bring about the housing-led regeneration of much of Glasgow’s vacant and derelict inner-city land has exacerbated the loss of…

Design for Change: Five Proxies for Resilience in the Urban Form

Alessandra Feliciotti, Ombretta Romice, Sergio Porta

The sheer complexity and unpredictability characterising cities challenges the adequacy of existing disciplinary knowledge and tools in urban design and highlights the necessity…

The Impact of Affordable Housing Developments on Sustainability in Gulf Cities

Florian Wiedmann, Ashraf M. Salama, Hatem G. Ibrahim

The recent construction boom has led to new urban development dynamics in Gulf cities driven by real-estate speculations and large infrastructure investments. While in the past…

Reframing the Notion of Sustainable Urban Development in the Middle East

Samer Bagaeen

In offering reflections on key themes affecting sustainability in the Middle East, this paper explores how an imprecise concept such as sustainability can, co-constituted with…

Towards the Development of a Space/Nature Syntax at Arcosanti

Karen Munro, David Grierson

The world’s urban population is rapidly growing, now exceeding its rural population, and is expected to reach 70% of the world’s total by 2050. Research in environmental…

Arcology, Arcosanti and the Green Urbanism Vision

Ruth A. Rae

Arcosanti is a prototype city being built based on the visionary architect Paolo Soleri’s principles of Arcology which integrates architecture with ecology. Arcology proposes a…

Unfinished Business at the Urban Laboratory - Paolo Soleri, Arcology, and Arcosanti

David Grierson

This paper reviews the prospect of a radical redefinition of the relationship between society, technology, and Nature as posited within Paolo Soleri’s Arcology theory, and…

Assessment of Integrated Performance and Roof Geometry for Solar Energy

Esteban Zalamea León, Rodrigo García Alvarado, Reinaldo Sánchez Arriagada, Sergio Baeriswy

The roofs of houses located at middle latitudes receive significant solar radiation useful to supply their own energy demands and to feed back into the urban electricity network…

Envelopment: A Methodological Approach in Structuration of Urban Dialectics

Resmiye A Atun

The visualisation and the level of abstraction of complicated organic relations within an urban setting still remains a major problem with regard to urban discipline. This paper…

New Housing Trends in Istanbul

Serpil Özker, Umut Tuğlu Karsli

Externalization that became prominent in 1980s with the globalization brought along dramatic changes in social and spatial areas. The social, cultural and economic events that…

The Assessment and Impact of Shopping Centers: Case Study Lemar

Mukaddes Fasli, Muge Riza, Mustafa Erbilen

Economic, socio-cultural and demographic changes in Famagusta have altered consumers’ shopping expectations; they expect good architectural quality as well as various functions…

Pedagogy of Architectural Education on Sustainability in Malaysia – Student Perspective

Nila Keumala, Mohammed Amer Younus, Yong Kuan, Asrul Sani Bin Abdul Razak, Muhammad Azzam Ismail, Karam M. Al-Obaidi

The increasing global concerns about the environmental degradation and climate changes oblige architecture students to apply sustainable design approaches in their studio…