Traditional houses (Figure 1) in Southeast Asia are typically constructed using prefabricated of ready-made housing components. This construction technique is feasible due mainly to the geography and climate of the region, namely proximity to the sea and high annual rainfall, and has been passed down through generations by the local people. However, a shift of socio-economic pattern from tradit...

Sustainability literature highlights the potential of the residential sector to contribute to significant greenhouse gas emissions reductions. In this context, recent housing policies, not only in Australia but internationally, have addressed the implementation of minimum energy efficient housing standards. Recent UK, European and USA policy articulates a goal of zero emission housing by 2020. ...

In recent years, as machine learning has been widely studied in the field of architecture, scholars have demonstrated that computers can be used to learn graphical features building façade generation. However, existing deep generation yet generate only a single façade, without comprehensive five façades including roof. Moreover, most literature utilized Pix2Pix algorithm for experiments, failin...

Abstract A growing housing crisis in Western Europe increases the pressure on conventional support measures and further reduces accessibility to equitable housing. Yet, necessary transition a sustainable circular construction economy could be an opportunity meet this social challenge. Research long-term costs savings of strategies projects demonstrates that applying specific can improve afforda...

Housing in the United States comes in varied forms depending on land, climate, and available resources. Over time, changes in design, materials, building techniques, financing, and planning have changed what homes are made of, how they are built, what we can do in them, and who can afford them. As a result of these changes— referred to as innovations in this report—the quality and nature of hou...

The paper presents work on low-cost and sustainable alternative building materials having advantages on areas such as India where concrete or steel housing is expensive. The project addresses the challenges and stereotypes of using these materials as a structural component for low-cost housing and their same capacity for adaptation to the broad spectrum of factors—physical, ecological, social, ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development sponsored a field study of portable technologies for testing for lead in paint in three U.S. cities in 1993. Six chemical test kits and six X-ray fluorescence instruments, which represented the two main types of portable technologies available for residential lead testing at that time, were evaluat...

GENE_ARCH is an evolution-based Generative Design System that uses adaptation to shape energy-efficient and sustainable architectural solutions. The system applies goal-oriented design, combining a Genetic Algorithm (GA) as the search engine, with DOE2.1E building simulation software as the evaluation module. The GA can work either as a standard GA or as a Pareto GA, for multicriteria optimizat...