OWNERSHIP AND USES OF COURTYARD SPACE IN COURTYARD STYLE SETTLEMENT

The Courtyard in Rural Homesteads of Bangladesh

In rural settlements of the floodplains in Bangladesh, an intrinsic element is the homestead. The homestead layout is defined by the courtyard, formed by the arrangement of dwelling units and ancillary buildings around a rectangular open space. The courtyard has important physical and functional characteristics derived from local climatic requirements and living patterns. However, particularly ...

The Role of Garden and Courtyard in Organizing the Space of Aristocratic Houses in Tehran during Qajar’s Era

Constructing houses in the form of garden-house became popular among Statesmen and the privileged class in Naseri period. Iranian traditional houses which used to be formed around a central courtyard, now were organized around a garden. So the transition from houses with courtyard to garden-houses created a new order of relationships between spaces, resulted in redefining spaces and their forms...

Analysis of Flow Instabilities Inside a Street and a Courtyard

Spatial distribution of momentum flux and moments of third order of velocity components obtained from one-point measurement are investigated. The area of interest covers an inner part of street canyon and adjacent intersection. Timeaveraged momentum flux were divided into particular quadrants using Quadrant Analysis method. Comparison between flux events and skewness provides some insight into ...

The Catholic School as a Courtyard of the Gentiles

Continuity and Consistency of the Traditional Courtyard House Plan in Modern I{orean Dwellings

The courtyard plan provides the basis for a traditional house type that is deeply associated with the Korean way of life. The first part of this paper discusses concepts and characteristics intrinsic to traditional Korean house plans and introduces various examples of courtyard house layouts. Thereafter, it selects several examples of modern Korean dwellings and compares them from the point of ...