Clay played a decisive role as building material in the Austrian Weinviertel region. Its traditional use vernacular architecture started to disappear 19th century, triggered, for example, by upcoming industrial processes produce construction materials such burnt bricks, and making them available mass products course of time—even purpose at remote places. Following debate on ecological sustainab...

With the putting forward of cultural power and rural revitalization as China’s national strategies, construction under conservation traditional culture has become an important issue. In design contemporary vernacular architecture, more architects have realized principle position local community, understanding its architectural preference been task. Using both qualitative quantitative research m...

Effects of neglecting climatic patterns in buildings are more intense in severe climates such as tropical. It isresulting an excessive consumption of fossil fuels and consequently environmental pollutions in and after modern era. The objective of this research is to find climate-oriented intentions and solutions in tropical areas and compare them with Dezful and Bandar-e-Lenge vernacular houses...

In conservation science, assessments of trends and priorities for actions often focus on species as the management unit. Studies on species coverage in online media are commonly conducted by using species vernacular names. However, the use of species vernacular names for web-based data search is problematic due to the high risk of mismatches in results. While the use of Latin names may produce ...

Space architects and engineers alike tend to see spacecraft and space habitat design as an entirely new departure, disconnected from the Earth. However, at least for Space Architecture, there is a continuum of development since the earliest formalizations of terrestrial architecture. Moving out from 1-G, Space Architecture enables the continuum from 1-G to other gravity regimes. The history of ...

‘Vernacular Architecture’, according to Kingston Heath, represents a localized response broad cultural systems, historical events, and environmentally determined regional forces, in short, an observable condition of dynamic environmental change accommodation expressed built form, whereby simultaneous identities exist (Heath 210). True this spirit dialogue with the environment, it can also be de...