Open House International: Volume 41 Issue 1

Editorial

Nicholas Wilkinson

The 40th year of publication of Open House International is now complete. That means one hundred and sixty manuscripts have been published since the journals inception forty years…

The Dilemma of Representation Through Facades

Duygu Koca

The exterior surface of a building -façade- as a communicative ground reflects the burdened meaning of its structure. Besides communicative capacity of façade, its independency…

The Emergence of China’s Housing Finance System: Challenge and Change

Yonghua Zou

Over the past three decade, China has established a housing finance system that borrows from the collective experiences of advanced economies. After examining the evolution of…

Performance Evaluation of Open and Cell Type Design Studios

Umut Tuğlu Karsli

Design studio courses take place at the core of education disciplinary design such as architecture and interior architecture. Studios in which design studio courses are conducted…

A Social Responsibility Design Project for Child-Friendly Interiors

Banu Manav

Interior design is a process which collaborates different approaches, strategies, methodologies and practices. This study is a social responsibility project which had been…

Urban Aesthetics; Visual Quality Evaluation of “Konya Türbeönü” the Historical Urban Square

Ebru Erdogan

Konya developed as a city with a single centre in historical period, the mound (höyük) known as Alaeddin’s Hill. This is still the central feature of the urban settlement of…

Adapted Design Language for Anatolian Vernacular Housing

Ömer Erem, Selen Abbasoğlu Ermiyagil

This paper aims to define an adapted contemporary design language for housing built next to vernacular residential buildings of Anatolian villages. The case has been selected from…

A Study on Analysis of Housing Settlements: The Case of Senesenevler

Guliz Ozorhon

This study on the knowledge/experience transfer regarding architectural space has two main objectives. The first of these is to develop an in-depth analysis on housing settlements…

Architectural Design Criteria for Multi-Storey Housing Buildings

Yong Kuan, Yahaya Ahmad

Architecture influences people and the environment from the past, present and the future. Nevertheless architecture and design quality is viewed as subjective, and benchmarks to…

Between Tradition and Modernity: Determining Spatial Systems of Privacy in the Domestic Architecture of Contemporary Iraq

Ali Al-Thahab, Sabah Mushatat, Mohammed Gamal Abdelmonem

The notion of privacy represents a central criterion for both indoor and outdoor social spaces in most traditional Arab settlements. This paper investigates privacy and everyday…

The Dry Construction Systems on the Rehabilitation of Built Heritage

Pierluigi De Berardinis, Chiara Marchionni, Marianna Rotilio, Avi Friedman

The dry construction techniques, widely used in past centuries have seen a renewed interest in the last few years. This is due to different reasons such as the new user’s needs…

The Optimum Energy Saving Measures for Retrofitting Residential Buildings

Rong-Yue Zheng, Jian Yao

A large number of residential buildings in hot summer and cold winter zone of China are non-energy efficient with poor indoor thermal conditions. Retrofitting residential…

Effects of Physical Design Features to Human Comfort on Floating Spaces

Inanç Işil Duman, Rengin Zengel

The main axes of this study, which is differentiated from contemporary architecture studies as the first academic work in the scope of post-occupancy evaluation floating spaces…

Value Components of Historic Residential Properties Evidence from Budapest Real Estate Market

David Kutasi

There are plenty of historic buildings bearing different stylistics in Budapest and many of them have residential function. In the city center of Pest, most of the properties are…

Assessing The Economic Contribution of Ecological Architecture Case Study: Kayseri Kadir Has Stadium

Z. Ozlem Parlak Bıcer

Ecological architecture consciousness has started spreading out with the idea that the limited resources that remain on the world in 21st century due to the damage caused by…

Pedestrianization and Walkability in a Fast Developing Unesco World Heritage City

Rosilawati Zainol, Chen Wang, Azlan Shah Ali, Faizah Ahmad, Abdul Wafey Mohd Aripin, Hafez Salleh

A walkability friendly environment is crucial in historical towns and cities built with minimal number of motor vehicles. This research aims to assess physical attributes of…