Open House International: Volume 36 Issue 4

Editorial

Nicholas Wilkinson

Three years ago Maarten Cleeren from Elsevier in the Netherlands wrote about Open House International as a fine journal stating that “ in recognition of the high quality and…

Future Direction of Sustainable Buildings in Japan

Tetsuya Saigo, Seiji Sawada, Yositika Utida

Amidst growing concern about the sustainability of human society, architecture studies are focusing increasingly on the means to achieve sustainable buildings. While various…

Flexibility of Traditional Buildings and Craftsmanship in China

Jia Beisi, Jiang Yingying

Although an important facet of modernist architecture in which function plays a prominent role, building flexibility is not entirely a new concept. Its relevance transcends…

Applying Eco-Features of Traditional Vietnamese Houses to Contemporary High-Rise Housing

Le Thi Hong Na, Jin-Ho Park

This paper focuses on the potential applications of eco-features in Vietnamese traditional folk houses to contemporary high-rise housing. One of the main characteristics of…

Virtual Prototyping for Open Building Design

ŞEule Taşlı Pektaş, Bülent Özgüç

This paper re-visits the basic premises of open building: designing for change as well as for stability, including the users in the design decision-making processes, and…

Similarities and Differences Between Contemporary Turkish Houses and Those Worldwide

Şengül Öymen Gür, Şengül Yalçınkaya Erol

Due to discontent arising from the application of Modernism's totalitarian and homogenising logic to house design, recent research has concentrated on differences between…

New Trends in the Dutch Housing Market

Peter Boelhouwer, Joris Hoekstra

Every few years the planning agencies in the Netherlands draw up a prognosis for the future housing needs on the basis of economic and demographic scenarios. It is our contention…

The Bedouin Tent in Comparison with UAE Housing Provision

Ali Al Amaireh

From time immemorial until about a generation ago, the UAE desert-roaming Bedouins were living in tents (hair houses) which they themselves had innovated, constructed and…

Child-Friendly Urban Environment and Playgrounds in Warsaw

Anna Pawlikowska-Piechotka

In recent years worldwide interest has arisen in developing “child-friendly cities”, but research into this issue has so far not being carried out in Poland. Over the past decades…

Environmental and Social Issues in Jordanian Low-Income Housing Design

Ahmed Abu Al Haija

The relationship between people, environmental circumstances and the cost of projects in Jordan are focal points of this study, where the problem of low-income housing needs is…

Book Review

Jia Beisi

Decision Making for Flexibility in Housing