Universities operate beyond their conventional roles of education and research, functioning as socio-spatial environments, where public life is continuously produced through everyday interactions and student-led practices. While previous studies have...
One of the most fruitful outcomes of the “global turn” in architectural discourse is an attention to comparative scholarship that reveals how architecture becomes an idea as buildings move across time and space. Within this body of schola...
Urban areas in hot-arid regions face extreme temperatures, water scarcity, and deteriorating air quality, intensified by rapid urbanization and climate change. In the Greater Cairo Region, road-network redevelopment has reduced street greenery, incre...
In response to ongoing debates on architectural criticism, this paper reevaluates the relationship between theory and design practice within contemporary architectural discourse shaped by digital culture. It conducts a comparative textual analysis of...
The Historic Centre of Arequipa, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, contains buildings constructed mainly of sillar, a white volcanic ignimbrite, whose ornamented façades are time-consuming to document. This study evaluates whether image-to-image t...
Growing concern for cultural heritage preservation has strengthened the commitment of the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Italian Civil Protection Department to risk analysis and management. Risk assessment, the first stage of this process, requi...
Interpersonal distance and body orientation are theoretically related but non-interchangeable dimensions of spatial behavior. However, park-sitting studies have generally examined them separately, leaving limited evidence on whether the same human, s...
Urban greening is frequently advocated as a method to alleviate pedestrian heat stress in hot-arid and hot-humid coastal cities; however, planting schemes are frequently designed according to quantitative objectives rather than performance-based ther...
The present study proposes an innovative infrastructure for greening pedestrian spaces that enables both low-maintenance, sustainable weed management and vegetation-based mitigation of the urban heat island (UHI) effect. The system replaces conventio...
Design education inherently demands long study hours, strict deadlines, and sustained pressure. Uncertainties, like pandemics, natural hazards, and conflicts impose additional challenges threatening learning systems. The 2025 Future Trends survey, co...
Since the end of the 20th century, colleges have competed globally, using contemporary campus buildings such as dormitories, student unions, and fitness centers to attract and retain students. However, large portions of college campuses were develope...
Architectural responses to sustainability and resilience remain strongly shaped by technocratic frameworks that privilege quantification, optimisation, and finite project delivery, often marginalising the relational and place-based dimensions through...
Social connectedness is essential to student learning, development, and well-being, and campus social infrastructure is one important contributor to that connectedness. This two-phase qualitative study draws on interviews with students living on camp...
A Fab Lab is a collaborative environment that provides shared material resources, fabrication processes, tools, and knowledge for experimentation and prototype development. This study connects a previously developed parametric module with an explorat...
Saharan ksour are undergoing a profound transformation as urbanization spreads, building practices change, and old functions give way to new ones. Their architecture and building materials have been studied extensively. What has not been documented i...
This study explores the relationship among three-dimensional (3D) streetscape characteristics, perceived walkability, and pedestrian sidewalk choice through a comparative analysis of two opposite sidewalks along Boulevard de la République (for...
This study investigates Villa Ögel, a rare surviving example of Suadiye’s modernist garden-villa era (1940s–1950s), to illuminate its architectural, historical, and socio-cultural significance amid Istanbul’s rapid urban transf...
With the continuous rise in global temperatures, particularly within arid regions, maintaining thermal comfort in naturally ventilated buildings presents a significant challenge. This study investigates the effectiveness of biomaterial-infused bricks...
As 40% of global CO2 emissions and waste and 40% to 50% of natural resource usage come from the built environment, more urgently than ever, it is imperative that architectural design and construction practices be crafted with current environmental ne...
Social, cultural, and architectural changes began to take place with the reforms implemented during and after the Republican period. At the same time, reinforced concrete, steel, glass, geometric shapes, and forms that had influenced buildings during...
Climate change is intensifying environmental pressures across regional landscapes, requiring architectural approaches that extend beyond anthropocentric models of design. While resilience discourse within architecture has focused largely on technolog...
This paper examines the sitelumbeo-type house among the Batak Toba people in North Sumatra, Indonesia, as a venue for traditional gondang music performances during celebrations and rituals marking key life events. Using digital models and acoustic si...
This study examines how spatial thresholds are produced in nomadic dwelling interiors where permanent partitions are limited. It focuses on the role of material arrangements and portable objects in mediating spatial, functional, social, and ritual co...
Accurate structural diagnosis of timber elements in historic buildings requires minimally invasive and operationally reliable assessment methods compatible with heritage conservation principles. This study aims to estimate timber density in situ dire...
Multisensory environments (MSEs) have been incorporated on college campuses to support student wellbeing, yet limited research has examined which sensory features are most effective for undergraduate students. The purpose of this study was to explore...
Japanese architectural terms are often translated into English as if they named stable spatial objects, yet many of these terms carry material, relational, symbolic, and experiential meanings. This study investigates contextual variation relevant to...
In the European context of the ecological transition, the construction sector urgently requires a shift from resource depletion to preservation. This study addresses the heterogeneity of the definition of natural, artificial, renewable, and non-renew...
This study develops and applies a complementary geometric model for examining one specific property of dwelling plans: the distribution of dwelling area in relation to entrance position. The literature review shows that existing spatial efficiency in...
Cooperative Housing has become a vital participatory urban strategy to address the growing housing challenges of the 21st century, particularly in contexts marked by political, socio-economic and spatial inequalities. This paper examines cooperative...
Green Building Rating Systems (GBRSs) are widely used to promote and guide sustainable development across the built environment. However, a significant gap remains between certification achievement and actual operational performance, limiting the abi...
This paper presents a teaching mobility developed within the framework of the European project TNE-DESK—Developing Shared Knowledge in Innovative Materials and Digital Transformation for Sustainable Economy and Green Transition (CUP H91I2400038...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly acknowledged as a transformative driver in design processes, yet its integration in architectural education often remains limited to image generation and generic productivity tasks. This study explores the...
This research explores how architectural design strategies can effectively contribute to women’s empowerment. In development contexts, women’s needs vary, ranging from relief and healthcare to education and economic income generation, eac...
Climate change poses significant challenges to the built environment, particularly in rural and mountainous regions where vernacular architecture represents an important part of cultural heritage. Traditional buildings, although originally adapted to...
Research on urban interiors has concentrated on shopping malls, transport buildings, and public institutions, leaving industrial settlements, which integrate production and everyday life within a single boundary, largely outside this discussion. This...
Hybrid rural–urban environments present growing challenges for architecture and design because they require ecological, cultural, and spatial values to be integrated within coherent design solutions. This study proposes a qualitative framework...
El Mirador de la Luna is an off-grid single-family dwelling at 2640 m above sea level (a.s.l.) in Higospamba Alto, Cuenca, Ecuador. The study examines which dimensions of inhabiting under conditions of real autarky exceed the reach of conventional me...
Visitors encounter museums through movement, as galleries, routes, and levels become visible and accessible from successive bodily positions. Yet, stair approaches, landings, balconies, and gallery thresholds are often treated as residual connectors...
The primary goal in designing classical music concert halls is to create acoustic and spatial conditions that foster deep listener immersion, a phenomenon often termed acoustic envelopment or “spaciousness”. International standards recogn...
Learning Commons (LC) support student activities. This exploratory case study examined the LC on the second floor of Learning Square at Meiji University through video observation on one weekday. Movement trajectories, user activities, and dwell time...
Semi-outdoor spaces on university campuses support circulation, temporary stays, and a range of everyday activities. This study presents an exploratory case study of four semi-outdoor study sites at Tokai University Shonan Campus in Japan, examining...
Daylight is a key component of evidence-based healthcare design, yet strategies that increase daylight may also introduce glare and interact with privacy measures used in shared hospital rooms. This study evaluated annual daylight performance in repr...
Mirrors were crucial elements in defining the modern concept of the architectural interior in Europe during the seventeenth century. In the first section of this article we show how mirrors supported the development of Enlightenment theory of the psy...
In the hyper-arid climate of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the building envelope is a critical determinant of energy demand and occupant comfort. This paper reports an experiential-learning experiment in which undergraduate architectural-engineering students...
Reference building models can serve as a common baseline for research investigations and evaluations of design choices. Despite lighting being one of the largest single users of electricity in commercial buildings, lighting systems in reference build...
This study examines how Saudi Vision 2030 is reshaping architectural design and practice in Riyadh amid the challenge of balancing rapid urban development with local architectural identity. The study is framed by the concept of transformative resilie...
Public buildings play a critical role in national decarbonization strategies and green energy transitions due to their high energy consumption densities, large occupant capacities, and potential to drive public awareness. Optimizing energy efficiency...
Architecture is arguably the human activity most directly invested in giving form to material objects and spaces. Across cultures and historical periods, architectural practice has been inseparable from the deliberate shaping of matter into useful an...
Transforming concepts into architectural designs is challenging, as it requires clear ideas and the ability to visualise them. AI-powered text-to-image tools help designers quickly convert concepts into visual representations, enabling faster explora...
The use of photovoltaic technologies in building envelopes has attracted more and more interest as a promising solution to building sustainability by considering energy efficiency, economic feasibility, and environmental impact issues altogether. Thi...
