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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Courtyard houses"”.
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The Creation of a Courtyard Microclimate Thermal Model for the Analysis of Courtyard Houses
This research is an effort to revive the use of courtyard housing clusters in a modern context, which were traditionally known for their distinctive passive cooling performance. The goal is to promote energy efficient design in hot-arid climates and temperate climates by reviving the use of …
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Thermal Comfort and Spatial Variability: A Study of Traditional Courtyard Houses in the Hot Dry Climate of Khartoum, Sudan
… thermal comfort conditions in traditional courtyard houses in Khartoum, Sudan. The aim is to compare these conditions to the predictions and recommendations of international standards to assess the existence of any discrepancy between the two. It also studies occupants' space-use patterns …
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kraftLAB : reimagined courtyards for the future of Fes
… artisans toil away passionately in their courtyard houses that, with the increasing density of the medina over the past century, have come to dominate the surrounding architectural landscape. The homogenous typology of these riads presents a barrier to the interactions between local …
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Meaning in architecture : an investigation of the indigenous environment in Bangladesh
… about the bent roof shape or the introvert courtyard houses, the beginning and hence the essential constituent of Bangladeshi architecture is in the relationship between simple free-standing structures and their yards. The facades of the structures are the element from which the yards derive …
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Traditional patterns and walk-up apartments in the Taiwan area
… approach to analyze the traditional courtyard houses in Taiwan, derive a thematic system for such buildings and its rules to generate contemporary Chinese dwellings. The study begins with an analysis of physical forms starting from the dwelling level to the furniture level, through …
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From hutong to hi-rise : explaining the transformation of Old Beijing, 1990-2002
… from an urban fabric consisting principally of courtyard houses (siheyuan) and narrow lanes (hutongs) to one comprised of wide roads and hi-rise buildings. This thesis starts from the premise that this redevelopment has had devastating social and cultural costs in terms of excessive relocation …
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Understanding the changes and constants of the courtyard house neighborhoods in Beijing
The courtyard houses in Beijing, named siheyuan, have undergone many changes during the last three decades. The siheyuan is a type of house that had slowly developed over more than two thousand years. At the beginning of the twentieth century it was still piratically untouched by influences of the …
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Local architectural identities within modernization context in southern China
… characteristics such as the narrow alleys, small courtyards and watchtowers. They are not the same as the courtyard houses in Beijing, nor other regions in the world. Consequently, many factors that had influenced the local vernacular architecture have diminished or changed while the economic …
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The transformation and continuity of the traditional dwelling in Suzhou, China
… residents of Suzhou transform their traditional courtyard house because of socio-economic change and modernization and yet retain some spatial and social patterns which are important to them. My purpose is to examine the neighborhoods with a positive eye, trying to select the good points and not …
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Building to power : architecture of Tehran 1921-1941
… Original surveys of traditional Iranian courtyard houses and mid-twentieth century row houses, apartments and villa s demonstrate the many ways in which architects integrated traditional and modern features into new housing forms. Characterizing for the first time the nature, scope and …
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Home under siege: Bab al-Hara, televising morality and everyday life in the Levant
… ontological security, grounded as it was in the courtyard houses of Old Damascus. The Damascene courtyard house constituted the spatial anchor for an idealized moral past, an ahistorical Damascusfocused Arab cultural history, and an imagination of the domestic as sovereign. It thus promoted a …