Open House International: Volume 46 Issue 4

Integrating virtual reality technology into architecture education: the case of architectural history courses

Anwar Ibrahim, Amneh Ibrahim Al-Rababah, Qanita Bani Baker

Virtual reality (VR) technology invaded various domains including architecture practice and education. Despite its high applications in architecture design education, VR has a…

The confluence approach – a theoretical proposition for effective structuring of architecture studio pedagogy in e-learning mode

Asif R. Khan, N. Lakshmi Thilagam

The Covid-19 crisis has inflicted a disruptive impact on the conventional institutional format of architecture studio pedagogy. As a result, there is a critical suddenness for an…

Urban housing: a study on housing environment, residents’ satisfaction and happiness

Pankaj Kumar, Parveen Kumar, Ramesh Kumar Garg, Rakesh Garg

This study examines the effect of housing environment on residents’ satisfaction and happiness using the data collected from selected residents of Gurugram, an urban locality in…

Urban public space regeneration in Tokyo's urban center by urban renaissance

Chenghao Yang, Tongtong Liu

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the process and result of urban public space regeneration (UPSR) plans in Tokyo's urban center under the guidance of Urban Renaissance…

Municipal infrastructure management using smart city landscape design and sustainable architecture technologies

Zhirong Geng, Zunling Zhu

The purpose of this paper is to investigate Chinese municipal infrastructure management using urban landscape design smart technologies and to propose an adaptive approach to…

Social sustainability of cultural heritage: Erzurum great mosque (Atabey mosque)

Semiha İsmailoglu, Serkan Sipahi

Valuable historical monuments have important potential in the context of cultural tourism in cities. In addition, for the protection of these structures, in terms of ensuring…

Dwelling form and culture in the traditional Najdi built environment, Saudi Arabia

Mohammed M. AlNaim

This study examines the built environment in the preserved historic settlements of the Najd region of Saudi Arabia, providing insight into shared core concepts and forms that were…

A human-centric participatory approach to energy-efficient housing based on occupants' collaborative image

Javad Asad Poor, Yong Wah Goh, David Thorpe

This study aims to develop a photo-based methodology to identify occupants' collaborative image of the energy-efficient small-size housing.

A model for mass customization and flexibility in mass housing units

Ervin Garip, Nilüfer Sağlar Onay, S. Banu Garip

This paper aims to present a mass customization model for interior spaces of mass housing projects to provide solutions that will increase flexibility in accordance with different…

An analysis of indoor environment evaluation for The Springs development in Dubai, UAE

Chuloh Jung, Jihad Awad, Naglaa Sami Abdelaziz Mahmoud, Muna Salameh

This study aims to evaluate The Springs’ indoor environment, one of the iconic townhouse-type residential buildings in Dubai, more efficiently for the integrated evaluation of the…

The planning of smart elderly housing in Dubai with IoT technologies

Chuloh Jung, Jihad Awad, Afaq Chohan

This paper aims to optimize the smart elderly housing planning with IoT (internet of things) technologies for an aging society in Dubai. To reflect the IoT technologies in the…

An adaptive thermal comfort model for naturally ventilated classrooms of technical institutions in Madurai

Subhashini S., Thirumaran Kesavaperumal, Masa Noguchi

Occupants dwelling in hot climatic regions of India for a longer term are tolerable to high temperature levels than predicted by American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and…

Sunlight and orientation in Maharishi Vedic Architecture: a theoretical and empirical study of hemispheric effects

Lee Fergusson, Anna Bonshek, Sanford Nidich, Javier Ortiz Cabrejos, Randi Nidich

To examine whether quality-of-life of a home's occupants varies in northern and southern hemisphere homes when the orientation of the home is always to the eastern sun (as…