LOCATION CHARACTERISTICS OF SUPER-HIGH-RISE RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS IN TOKYO METROPOLITAN SUBURBS

The Analysis of ecological city theory criteria in high-rise buildings of Mashhad metropolitan

As one of the methods of building new cities, high-rise construction has been considered by city managers for maximum use of space and limited resources. This article aims to improve the quality of construction and reduce resource consumption in high-rise buildings in the southwestern part of Mashhad, to clarify the perspective of ecological thinking in the current situation. so, the theory of ...

Explanation of the physical factors affecting the mental image of residents of high-rise residential buildings

When dealing with a diverse and rich environment, humans record limited information in their minds, and this information forms a comprehensive, albeit inaccurate, mental image of the environment. On the other hand, living in high-rise residential buildings in Iran is always associated with dissatisfactions that a clear mental image in the minds of the residents can reduce these dissatisfactions...

An Analysis on Formal Typology of Metropolitan Contemporary Housing of Tokyo (by Emphasis on 50 Residential Houses in the City of Tokyo)

Ventilation Design in High-Rise Residential Buildings and Infectious Disease Spread

In the SARS epidemics in 2003, cluster of cases occurred in high-rise residential(HRR) building blocks, especially in Hong Kong, which gave rise to the concern of the possible roles of air flow. In this paper, the multiple parallel airborne transmission routes are discussed. In particular we closely investigated one of the most likely virus-spread paths, which is related to single-side ventilat...

Space Efficiency in High-rise Office Buildings

“Given the high land values in central business sections of our leading cities, the skyscraper is not only the most efficient, but the only economic utilization of certain strategic plots. An exhaustive investigation... has conclusively demonstrated that the factors making for diminishing returns in the intensive development of such plots are more than offset by the factors making for increasin...