Abstract The Shui people are an ethnic minority living in southern mountainous areas of Guizhou Province, China; they have retained many vernacular houses with a history over century. Using spatial analysis software depthmapX to perform visibility graph and field-of-view space syntax, we examined the sequence, organisation, hierarchy residences. We found that those residences were influenced by...

Technology affected human life in many ways in different eras of mankind history. Today, the information and telecommunication technology has revolutionized basic structures of human life. Changes are from the whole to the parts and vice versa, which include family and society too. Family lost its former structure in the information age and differentiated from patriarchy family. Societies have ...

Vernacular architecture is the result of work many ethnic groups in Indonesia which was built by local community based on culture living has been carried out for generations. These traditions are part they created to facilitate daily activities and physically implemented as spaces traditional architectural forms residential homes. The houses Malay city Pontianak a space form that gives it its o...

Vernacular architecture can be defined as a type of regional construction influenced by geography, available materials, climate, traditions, and culture that is produced non-experts through knowledge transmitted enriched from one generation to the next. In addition their heritage value, traditional buildings are usually considered model sustainability in use resources, with minimal negative env...