As the sustainable settlements have been included as a vital end product of all planning exercises, the architectural layouts should be well integrated with the sun path charts and the orientations of windows. Appropriate orientations can offer thermally indoor conditions besides physical and psychological comfort in any settlement at lesser energy demand. This investigation uses a vast number ...

in recent years sustainable development has been one of the concerns of man. to address this concern farming sustainable development will be one of the most important issues which must be dealt with. it seems that one of the necessary elements to further this goal is to have a serious look at indigenous knowledge of farming and particularly women’s knowledge. women and above all nomad women hav...

cultural communications among nations consist of various subjects and architectural art styles are the most distinct and recognized subjects in this area of studding. the republic of dagestan in south of russian federation, not only from the past has cultural and historical relation with iran, but also ct located in the historical geography of cultural iran. this relationship was more due to th...

This research aims to explore the reality of using teaching strategies Architectural Design course from an architectural specialized faculty member's view. The study sample consisted eighteen members randomly selected community. descriptive and analytical approach based on questionnaire, verified for its validity reliability, is used achieve goals. results indicated that overall score towards m...

The concept of Integrated Design Process found in current literature is based on an understanding of the design process as Analysis/Synthesis (A/S); where the problem is broken down into sub-problems and individual problems, reaching individual solutions and sub-solutions until achieving the overall solution. This paper proposes that the integrated design process in the practice of sustainable ...

This paper presents selected findings of doctoral research exploring how design could be used to influence user behaviour towards more sustainable practices. It describes three strategies for changing user behaviour through design drawn from literature and outlines the methodology and findings of a case study exploring the application of these strategies in sustainable design. Drawing on the pe...