Open House International: Volume 39 Issue 1

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Editorial

Nicholas Wilkinson

Hugh Pearman, on page 75 of the new September RIBA Journal, (In part 3 CULTURE) Pearman 2013, explains the changes he has brought about in terms of content, design and physical…

Sustainable Urbanism: Moving Past Neo-Modernist & Neo-Traditionalist Housing Strategies

Alazar G Ejigu, Tigran Haas

The growing alienation of modernist public housing estates and their ethnically and socially excluded residents, as well as the neglected human potential-capital they symbolize…

Sustainable Architecture in Rural Yayla Settlements

Sıdıka Çetin, Ayse Betul Gokarslan

Traditional architectural forms and structures develop under the influence of such physical and non-physical determinants as climate, topography structure, socio-cultural values…

The Layered Dependency Structure Matrix for Managing Collaborative Design Processes

Şule Taşlı Pektaş

Effective collaboration and knowledge management are the major contributors of success in the construction industry. Although a huge amount of interdisciplinary knowledge is…

Comparative Study of Courtyard Housing using Feng Shui

Afet Çeliker, Banu Tevfikler Çavuşoğlu, Zehra Öngül

Cosmology is of essence for the life of traditional man not only to live in a meaningful universe, but to bound himself with the universe to achieve well-being as well…

Demolition Versus Deconstruction: Impacts of Fenestration Disposal in Building Renovation Projects

Soofia Tahira Elias-Ozkan

This paper presents findings of a comparative study on the removal and disposal of fenestration units in two separate buildings, belonging to the same period and built with…

A Review of Lofts as Housing in Istanbul

Serpil Özker

Lofts are housing forms converted from warehouse-workshop into a “habitable environment” in coastal towns of Europe and the USA after the Industrial Revolution. Particularly…

Housing Cooperatives in the Palestinian Territories: Development and Current Practice

Shadi Sami Ghadban

This study aims to examine the housing cooperative practices employed in the Palestinian territories in the second half of the twentieth century and across diverse socio-political…

Implementation of Open Space: The Need for Uniform Policy?

Melasutra Md Dali, Safiah Muhammad Yusoff, Puteri Haryati Ibrahim

The provision of open spaces within a residential development is often seen as unimportant. The Malaysian Government targeted to provide 2 hectares of open space per 1000…

Landscape and Sustainability: Three Residential College Buildings in the Tropics

Adi Ainurzaman Jamaludin, Nila Keumala, Ati Rosemary Mohd Ariffin, Hazreena Hussein

Three residential colleges located in a university campus at the capital city of Kuala Lumpur and built in different decades were selected for landscape studies with respect to…

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ISSN:

0168-2601

e-ISSN:

2633-9838

Online date, start – end:

2005

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Dr. Chaham Alalouch
  • Prof. Yonca Hurol