OBJECTIVE Environmental exposure to food sources may underpin area level differences in individual risk for overweight. Place of residence is generally used to assess neighbourhood exposure. Yet, because people are mobile, multiple exposures should be accounted for to assess the relation between food environments and overweight. Unfortunately, mobility data is often missing from health surveys....

the meaning of the yard as residential open space has changed in the contemporary iranian architecture, where its dignity has transformed to the public space in the sub-neighborhood. in the new urbanism according to the land limitation and economic problem, home’s space has decrease and share building has increased. this article has been conducted to investigate the possible landscape architect...

recently, increased growth of the population and insufficiency of infrastructures have expedited vertical development of cities, with the outcome of which being residence in such high-rise  complexes and creation of spiritless, dull masses which lack the prerequisites of making a permanent relationship with their residents, provoke high-level alienations, and dilute one’s attachment to his/her ...

the public spaces in our today’s lives involve many sorts of activities, and the design of such spaces requires a wide range of studies. one of the critical studies in our country, due to its climatic variety, is about the thermal comfort of public outdoor spaces. this article has been conducted to investigate about possible architecture and landscape architecture design measurements which coul...

1570-8705/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2012.10.002 q A preliminary version of this paper was accepted for publication in Proc. of ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy Efficiency in Buildings (BuildSys), Zurich, Switzerland, November 2010 [1]. ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 716 645 3115x1147; fax: +1 716 645 1027. E...

Many individuals living in residential care use a wheelchair as their primary means of mobility. Although studies have documented challenges encountered by residents in these facilities, few have addressed the role that wheelchairs, as potential enablers and barriers to mobility and participation, play in their lives. To better understand residents' experiences, an ethnographic study was conduc...

The present article is devoted to the analysis of structural elements of a room prepared for comfort living. A new variant for minimizing the space in a room for comfort living is shown on the example of a studioapartment in two levels on an attic floor. An overview of the apartment is shown, as well as layout plans of floors with furniture. Favorable transitory elements between zones in the ro...

This study aims to analyze the effects of COVID-19 stress on healing behavior in residential spaces. Based results, further examines space as a environment according use post-COVID era. A survey including 2101 Korean people was conducted. The COVID Stress Scale for People (CSSK) used identify stress. In addition, using literature review factors and behavioral changes after pandemic, questions w...