According to research, between 15 to 20 percent of the total energy consumption of every country is used for residential spaces. This amount is explanatory of the high cost and will follow the destruction of natural resources and environmental demolition. The aim of this research is to recognize earth thermal ability and its usage in public buildings and especially in private buildings in order...

The outset of the 21st century launched a “perfect storm” societal and technological challenges opportunities that stand to affect way architects will design builders construct in next decades [...]

Interpreting the Role of Iranian Introverted Houses' Architecture based on Mental Perspective in Narrative Life (Emphasis Resurrection Memory and Mobius Theory)

in this paper, an exchange of letters between the philosopher jacques derrida and architect peter eisenman is used as a catalyst to discuss the material qualities of glass and its relationship with the concept of transparency in architecture. in his criticism of an architecture devoid of human qualities, derrida uses glass, defined through walter benjamin’s writings, as a hard and cold material...