Given more than seven thousand years of urbanization and highly diverse topographic andgeographical conditions, Iran is one of the treasures through the world's architectural history. Climatic diversity,on the one hand, and long history of living, on the other hand, has led to noteworthy and valuable achievement inarchitecture and urbanization within this country. However, these elements are le...

The existence of vernacular architecture has given characteristics to the built environment and area. Vernacular became into a distinct personality that differentiates one location from another. Bangli is various kinds evolved in Bali. architectural style 15th century 18th AD. Bangli's distinctive design can be seen main entrance building called kori agung. Today began replaced by entry other s...

This paper presents a detailed method to develop cost-optimal studies for the energy renovation of residential buildings. A realistic characterization of the building has been introduced, using measurement and survey data. The method allows improving the interaction between the occupancy and the building, and the characterization of the real state of the construction. In addition, the building ...

This paper discusses the integration of knowledge bases and shape grammars for the generation of building models, covering interaction, system and implementation. Knowledge-based and generative systems are combined to construct a method for characterizing existing buildings, in particular, their interior layouts based on exterior features and certain other parameters such as location and real d...

Passive thermal comfort has been widely used to test the performance of a building. The science active is important be connected with architecture. currently developing adaptive comfort. Vernacular houses are believed able create for inhabitants. present study seeks analyze connection between architectural elements vernacular and A mixed method was applied. quantitative approach in measurement ...

The present paper will investigate the specific elements of architectural design based on Islamic beliefs, by taking Iranian Architectural values and vernacular climate design methods into consideration. This research will assess the spirit of experimental elements, created by the inhabitants, according to recent scientific findings. The main concentration will be on the physical design of rura...

The well-known Darwinian evolutionary theory (1859) introduced natural selection as the most important mechanism of evolutionary processes at every level from biological systems, including species, individual organisms... to molecules such as DNA or proteins. In architecture we observe similar evolution processes which lead to the development of various architectural movements and concepts from...

The proposal that the concept of innateness expresses a ‘folk biological’ theory of the ‘inner natures’ of organisms was tested by examining the response of biologically naive participants to a series of realistic scenarios concerning the development of birdsong. Our results explain the intuitive appeal of many of the existing philosophical analyses of the innateness concept. They simultaneousl...