Traditional roofing with sandstone slabs: Implications for the safeguarding of vernacular architecture

The Accordance of Vernacular Earth Architecture with IEPs and the Natural Image of Sustainability: Investigation of Earth Architecture of Kavir

The grammar of Taiwanese traditional vernacular dwellings

A shape grammar, which can exemplify and visually explain the style of Taiwanese traditional vernacular dwellings, is presented in the form of rules of composition that are derived from considerations of traditional processes of design and construction, and from cultural influences. Taiwanese traditional architecture Taiwanese architecture is a branch of Chinese architecture with distinct pecul...

Explaining the Realationship between Vernacular Architecture & Contexualism

Vernacular architecture has increasingly absorbed the attention of architectural communities in recent decades. Finding a common feature between all the historical and geographical varieties of vernacular architecture will improve the recognition of this kind of architecture. On the other hand, context and contextualism in architecture is a multidimensional tendency and all the different archit...

Vernacular Architecture Values

Vernacular architecture has always had appropriate answer in conformity with the environment and climate. This paper has considered values of Iran vernacular urbanization and architecture in humid and moderate climate looking through sustainability and sustainable development concepts. Gorgan city has been studied using laboratory studies and available sources and relying on the content analysi...

Demonstration of phenomenological approach’s proportion, for vernacular ARCHITECTURE recognition (Case Study: Vernacular Housing in Manoojan Region of Kerman Province)

Although the vernacular architecture is formed in harmony with the "lived experience" of the natives, looking at the studies of vernacular architecture, we see that in the researches done, researchers have paid more attention to the role of factors such as social, cultural, religious, economic, physical, climatic, construction technology and materials; And so far, researches done in the field o...