Open House International: Volume 47 Issue 2

Towards a human-centred approach for enhancing place prosperity: defining and operating within the basic human needs

Aisha Abubakar

The concept of basic human needs, though diversely interpreted, remains a policy and practice approach to combat poverty and improve wellbeing. Meanwhile, defining locally…

A case study on a flexible floor plan design for South Korean apartments using two types of margins

Chaeshin Yoon, Marie Kim, Jinho Park, Jeayoung Lee

The purposes of this study are to prove that the content of floor flexibility can be designed objectively with the use of margins, which are an architectural vocabulary…

User-friendly street- a study on users' perception ranking on physical attributes of pedestrian environment of Dhaka city

Abontika Sara Israt, Ahmad Sanusi Hassan

The purpose of this research is to examine the current physical qualities and activities of pedestrian environment from the perspective of the users' needs and perceptions for…

Balconies during COVID-19 lockdown: exploring the change in patterns of use in Cairo

Marwa Khalil, Doha Eissa

This paper questions the change in patterns of use of the balcony during lockdown. It investigates whether residents, specifically of apartment buildings in Cairo, used their…

A hierarchical definitional framework for a heterogeneous context: housing typologies in Tirana, Albania

Edmond Manahasa, Ahsen Özsoy, Odeta Manahasa

The proposed definitional framework can be used to define housing typologies of cities in developing countries. It aims to define housing typologies in the capital city of…

Cultural heritage values and underlying spatial characteristics of the Temple of Literature in Vinh Long, Southern Vietnam

Le Thi Hong Na, Jin-Ho Park

Among others in South Vietnam, the Temple of Literature in Vinh Long is the only one that has preserved its original form and layout. As such in 1991, the temple was recognized by…

Compressing urban living in the dwelling: pandemic living praxis

Sedef Özçelik, Kutlu Sevinç Kayihan

This paper aims to understand how the residents have utilized domestic spaces and furniture during three months' lockdown time for the Covid-19 virus spread measures and to…

The virtual design studio and the key integrals

Asif R. Khan, N. Lakshmi Thilagam

The unparalleled crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic has displaced the existing normal in every field of higher education. Especially architecture education with high dependence…

A mixed methods study of architectural education during the initial COVID-19 lockdown: student experiences in design studio and technology courses

Ramy Bakir, Sara Alsaadani

The paper aims to understand and assess architecture students' experiences of online teaching during the initial lockdown caused by the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19…

Architectural design communication (ADC) in online education during COVID-19 pandemic: a comparison of Turkish and Spanish universities

Ayşegül Akçay Kavakoğlu, Derya Güleç Özer, Débora Domingo-Callabuig, Ömer Bilen

The paper aims to examine the concept of architectural design communication (ADC) for updating design studio dynamics in architectural education during the Covid-19 pandemic…