The sustainability of traditional vernacular dwelling heritage has become an important academic concern. This study takes the traditional vernacular dwellings of the Ancient City of Pingyao as its research object and develops a macro–meso&ndash...
Both socio-cultural connotations and environmental adaptation are significant for the sustainable development of vernacular dwellings. Previous studies on the sustainable development of vernacular dwellings have mainly focused on either the interacti...
Vernacular dwellings are the carriers of cultural inheritance, and their living conservation plays an important role in social development. With the continuous advancement of China’s urbanization, the crisis faced by vernacular dwellings is inc...
This study compares the geometric and visual–spatial characteristics of two courtyard cave dwellings in Yulin, northern Shaanxi: the Liu Family Courtyard in Suide and the Zhou Family Courtyard in Mizhi. Field surveys and architectural documenta...
Energy conservation and carbon reduction in buildings have become important concerns and, at the same time, the value of low-tech approaches employed in indigenous architecture is increasingly acknowledged as a pertinent reference for contemporary de...
The residential building sector is a significant source of global energy consumption and carbon emissions, especially in rapidly changing rural areas. In China, the shift from vernacular courtyard dwellings to modern rural housing has altered the rel...
Amidst the backdrop of rural revitalization and cultural renaissance, there is a surge in the construction demand for replica traditional vernacular dwellings. Traditional cost estimation methods struggle to meet the need for rapid and precise estima...
Vernacular dwellings carry both material and spiritual connotations, playing a significant role in preserving and developing regional culture. While current research on vernacular dwellings has primarily focused on the cultural center, there is a cri...
In the context of the Chinese rural revitalization strategy, the unique residential characteristics of local vernacular dwellings formed by profound historical and cultural accumulation, climate characteristics, and residential lifestyle have undergo...
Highland vernacular dwellings face multiple environmental stresses, but existing studies often examine either individual passive strategies or qualitative cultural interpretations, leaving limited evidence on how regional climate, settlement wind env...
Northeastern Guizhou, situated at the confluence of the Wuling Mountains and the Miaoling Range in southwestern China, constitutes a multi-ethnic integration zone where Gelao, Tujia, Miao, Dong, and Han peoples have coexisted for centuries. While exi...
The building industry plays a significant role in global carbon emissions, contributing nearly half of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions during both construction and operation. Within the framework of the “double-low” strategy, a...
Guanzhong traditional vernacular dwellings are an important component of traditional architectural heritage. Their architectural decorative motifs are often attached to components such as screen walls, gable end piers, doors and windows, door pillow...
The construction sector accounts for approximately 36% of global final energy consumption and close to 40% of total CO2 emissions, making it a primary target of international climate policy. Despite this growing attention, the indigenous building tra...
As climate challenges intensify, architectural design must reconcile energy efficiency with environmental adaptation. This study investigates how two skywell geometries in Kunming’s traditional One-Seal dwellings (Yikeyin) optimize seasonal the...
This study investigates the thermal performance of the ventilated mask wall used in the low-income neo-vernacular dwellings designed by André Ravéreau to cope with the warm desert climate conditions of M’zab Valley, Ghardaia, in s...
Ethics was used as a building code in ancient China, not only to guide the construction of cities and buildings but also to define a strict hierarchy of architectural characteristics. The Fujian Tubao is a unique vernacular architecture and defensive...
In recent years, many scholars worldwide have carried out research related to the relationship between the construction of rural dwellings and the indoor thermal environment in response to the issue of building sustainability. China’s rural rev...
The industrial and economic expansion of China, particularly its rapid urbanization, has resulted in dramatic increased consumption of energy resources and the resulting environmental impacts at local, regional and global levels. Although a national...
The sustainable conservation of vernacular dwellings requires not only the preservation of historic architectural fabric but also an understanding of how residents perceive and use traditional residential built environments. This study examines how f...
Mosuo dwellings are distinctive vernacular architecture forms that are shaped by the unique matriarchal society of Mosuo in Southwest China. They have undergone dramatic transformations during the 21st century as a result of modernization and tourism...
The intensity with which the phenomenon of depopulation has affected rural municipalities in Spain between 1950 and 2022 has led to a loss in the intergenerational transmission of traditional knowledge, values and customs. Sociocultural loss entails...
Traditional architectural decorative patterns are increasingly reused in contemporary design, yet the link between object selection and design generation often remains experience-driven: public perceptual differences are rarely formalized, and evalua...
In response to global climate change, harnessing the climate-adaptive wisdom of vernacular dwellings is crucial for sustainable architectural design. This study takes Haiyan Village in the Kunming plateau area as a case study, focusing on three typic...
Under the background of the Rural Revitalization Strategy, Zhejiang Province is promoting “Zhejiang-style Vernacular Dwellings” as a crucial measure to enhance the rural living environment and architectural appearance. However, traditiona...
This study develops and applies an integrated methodology that combines deep learning-based computer vision and spatial statistics to automate the large-scale identification and analysis of morphological features in vernacular courtyard dwellings. Fo...
The study of traditional habitats aims to recognise their values and preserve them within the necessary transformations of societies. In the context of Burkina Faso, the great variety of issues related to habitat together with the cultural richness o...
Rock-cut architecture is an essential yet little-known type of vernacular architecture whose nature is different from what we understand by the term “architecture”. This research seeks to answer the question of which technics, designs and...
The narrow courtyard houses in the rural areas of Guanzhong region of Shaanxi Province, China, are a spatial representation of the long-term interaction of multiple influencing factors. This study, based on 716 questionnaires and 125 semi-structured...
Vernacular architecture can be defined as a type of regional construction influenced by geography, available materials, climate, traditions, and culture that is produced by non-experts through knowledge transmitted and enriched from one generation to...
Many studies have developed green strategies and technologies for urban construction, but they sometimes ignored the intensive and dynamic relationships between people, buildings and the natural environment. This study focused on how to generate gree...
Traditional grass-roofed dwellings are important components of Chinese vernacular architecture. Building a comprehensive nationwide database of traditional grass-roofed dwellings is crucial for the inherence of this cultural heritage and its traditio...
In the vernacular architectural history of the Arabian Gulf region (the Gulf), the courtyard house is a common domestic typology. Islamic and sociological precepts regulate the design and the function of vernacular courtyard dwellings, resulting in h...
This research studies the traces of an ancestral textile produced in karkhanehs (workspaces) located in the historical city of Yazd, Iran. The case study undertaken here demonstrates how an intangible heritage of textile weaving through generations o...
Adaptive construction techniques in traditional vernacular dwellings play an important role in improving the wind–thermal microclimate of buildings. However, comparative studies on such techniques across different regions remain limited. Moving...
Rural territories on the periphery of Andean intermediate cities are undergoing accelerating peri-urban transformation that threatens agricultural land and the cultural landscapes embedded in vernacular housing traditions. Although vernacular archite...
Dominican vernacular architecture, based on the Spanish-influenced indigenous bohio, is built with natural materials. This housing model has remained practically unchanged for five centuries, responding adequately to the tropical Caribbean climate. H...
Tulou, Tubao, and Zhailu all belong to the same vernacular architectural defensive rammed earth dwellings in Fujian; however, because of the similarity of their earthen defensive functions and fortress architectural systems, they are easily confused...
Many regions of the world have traditional dwellings, which not only represent the main form of residential architecture, but also carry the local vernacular culture, display the region’s unique architectural style, materials and technology, an...
As a key convergence zone between the Circum-Bohai Sea cultural circle and the land–sea interface of Northeast Asia, the Liaoning coastal area has been shaped by multicultural integration, endowing its dwellings with distinctive cultural hybrid...
Vernacular settlements retain tangible fabric and intangible knowledge that can support climate-responsive conservation, adaptive reuse, and urban regeneration, yet these dimensions are often assessed separately. This study applies a values-based con...
Whilst upcoming innovations on digital technology and renewable energy can have a significant impact on the reduction of operational carbon emissions in the construction industry, readily available fast-growing building materials like bamboo are alre...
Low-lying and riverine areas of Sabah and Sarawak in East Malaysia are increasingly exposed to compound flood hazards driven by intensified monsoon rainfall, sea-level rise, and land-use change. Recent projections indicate stronger extreme rainfall,...
Climate change is increasing thermal vulnerability in hot–humid tropical regions, especially among low-income indigenous communities with limited access to mechanical cooling. Yet peer-reviewed evidence on the climate-adaptive performance of Sh...
The living spaces within vernacular dwellings undergo continuous adjustments in response to evolving lifestyles, society, and cultural shifts. Residents, guided by their understanding, integrate newly emerging functional spaces within the framework o...
The terraced fields of Samaba in Honghe County are one of the key protected sites within the globally important agricultural heritage systems. This study focuses on the traditional courtyard dwellings of the Hani people in this area, proposing that t...
The indigenous community of Quisquinchir, in Saraguro (Loja, Ecuador), is facing a process of transformation of the rural Andean landscape associated with internal and external migration, as well as the influence of foreign architectural models. The...
Achieving comfort in hot summer and cold winter (HSCW) climate zones can be challenging, since the climate is characterized by high temperatures in the summer and relatively colder temperatures in the winter. Courtyards, along with other semi-open sp...
Typo-morphology, as interpreted by the Italian School of Planning, provides an approach to investigate the relationship between built form and socio-cultural patterns in vernacular settlements. This study examines Harran, a heritage site in southeast...
Nomadism and the tent tradition constitute foundational pillars of Anatolia’s vernacular building culture, yet the spatial continuity between nomadic dwelling practices and their urban coastal adaptations remains underexplored in the literature...
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