Two surveys of the thermal environment and thermal sensations were conducted in the indoor and the semi-open spaces of traditional houses, during both summer and winter, in five districts of Nepal: Banke, Bhaktapur, Dhading, Kaski and Solukhumbu. The surveys were carried out for 40 days, gathering a total of 7116 thermal sensations from 103 subjects. The results show that residents are highly s...

Tenganan Pegringsingan Village is located in the east of island Bali, especially Manggis District, Karangasem Regency. The Traditional included one "Bali Aga" or Mountains" villages has abundant cultural tourism and natural tourism. Since it was designated as a destination by local government, there have been socio-economic changes for people Village. These an impact on values faces traditional...

Exploring Autobiography My interest in developing interactive web sites began in the early spring of 1995. That was when I discovered the Internet offered artists a different kind of imaginative experience for their viewers. It also marked a critical period in my life because during the mid-1990s I realized my need to create reflections of the past, while exploring new understandings of the pre...

Human always tries to achieve a sense of vitality, and wants a liveliness environment; therefore, recognizing factors in the architecture that increases the quality of life is important. Based on the importance of this issue, this article aims to identify the life indicators and evaluating them in architecture. In this way, by relying on a method of grounded theory, the researcher conducted sem...

We designed a web server for the analysis of biosynthetic capacities of metabolic networks. The implementation is based on the network expansion algorithm and the concept of scopes. For a given network and predefined external resources, called the seed metabolites, the scope is defined as the set of products which the network is in principle able to produce. Through the web interface the user c...

Most of the traditional houses in western Anatolia are a type hımış (traditional timber frame) structure. Deterioration these is mostly due to their abandonment. Abandonment causes structure’s load-bearing system vulnerable environmental effects and ultimately weakens structure against seismic loads. A case study performed on Orhaneli houses. Building-scale suggestions proposed towards conserva...