Facilities: Volume 40 Issue 9/10

Impact of home-based online classes on residential buildings’ use of space during the COVID-19 pandemic school closures in Saudi Arabia

Mohammed Alhaji Mohammed

The recent COVID-19 pandemic compelled people to spend most of their time at home to avoid spreading the virus, signifying staying away from offices, schools and marketplaces and…

Development of design quality indicators for public school facilities

Mohammad A. Hassanain, Omar H. Daghistani, Muizz O. Sanni-Anibire

This study aims to develop a set of design quality indicators (DQIs) suitable for the design and evaluation of public schools in terms of their technical, functional and…

Investigating the role of spatial configuration on visitors’ spatial cognition in health-care spaces: case studies in Gilan, Iran

Elham Mehrinejad Khotbehsara, Hossein Safari, Reza Askarizad, Kathirgamalingam Somasundaraswaran

This study aims to explore the impact of spatial configuration on behavioral patterns of visitors in the ground floor of health-care spaces.

Privacy and interaction preferences of students in informal learning spaces on university campus

Jia Zhang, Ding Ding, Chunlu Liu, Mark Luther, Jilong Zhao, Changan Liu

The purpose of this paper is to analyse privacy and interaction preferences in the social dimension of individual learning students and how the spatial configuration affects…

Ten years on: a post-occupancy evaluation of classrooms for pupils with severe autism

Julie E.N. Irish

There is currently a lack of research describing the best way to design learning environments for increasing numbers of children with autism. The purpose of this study was to…

The effect of carrier system materials used in an Olympic swimming pool on the perceptual evaluations of respondents

Hakan Yılmaz, Kemal Yıldırım, Mehmet Lutfi Hidayetoglu

This study aims to determine the effects of three different carrier system materials (laminated wooden beams, post-tensioned concrete beams and steel beams) used widely in…