Solar passive techniques are being used in vernacular buildings throughout the world. Researchers have done extensive study on thermal performance of vernacular buildings in the different parts of the world. Vernacular architecture of North-Eastern India represents the principle of climate-responsive architecture, which still lacks experimental validation and quantitative analysis. Thermal comf...

Climate is one of the many factors such as socio-cultural structure, economy, materials, and technology that influence architectural forms. The resolutions that exist as a result of the effect of climate on architecture differ according to regions, cultures, time and technology. The climate in the Eastern Black Sea region, which lies in the north of Turkey, plays an active role in the formation...

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...

This paper focuses on the relationship between Hakka vernacular architecture and its traditional environment knowledge. Generally speaking, many scholars and mass-media consider that Hakka vernacular architectures include codes of Central Plain’s culture such as ying-yang, tianrenheyi, fengshui affluently, because the Hakka ancestors are the Han nationality from Central Plain. However, accordin...

There is a Russian proverb: The best is which existed in far past but is forgotten at present .Endemic Knowledge makes the same sense .This Knowledge is used for configuration of synthetic environment and is based on nature , culture ,society and rural life earning method, and interaction between the man and environment. It includes collection of the most useful and stable ways of revenue and l...

The study of traditional built environments is instrumental in understanding the essence behind the formation of vernacular architecture. Insight gained from this study helps in learning important lessons about the mutual interaction between culture and architecture, and the effect that each has on the other. This approach was greatly used in teaching the history of architecture and, in some in...

In this paper, we introduce a semantic modeling project by implementing a southeast China vernacular urban modeling system. This system converts the basic modeling components of geometry units (e.g. point, line, triangle etc.) into the semantic components (e.g. street, block, patch, house etc.). To implement the urban modeling system semantically, an XML based description and DTD[31] based veri...