The main objectives of this study were to investigate vernacular passive cooling techniques and their potential application for improving indoor thermal comfort of naturally ventilated, modern brick terraced houses in Malaysia. Field measurement was conducted in two traditional timber Malay houses and two traditional masonry Chinese shophouses to examine their indoor thermal environments. The r...

Abstract. Vernacular architecture has always captured professionals’ attention for its unique approaches to construction, typical way of integrating man and nature the it is used. Being a combination traditional courtyard houses in China with townhouses West, Lilong or Shikumen are representatives Shanghai vernacular housing. In terms applying UAV oblique photogrammetry preserving documenting h...

Vernacular architecture is the result of work many ethnic groups in Indonesia which was built by local community based on culture living has been carried out for generations. These traditions are part they created to facilitate daily activities and physically implemented as spaces traditional architectural forms residential homes. The houses Malay city Pontianak a space form that gives it its o...

IN 1924 another organisation entered the halfway house field. This was the Ex-Services Mental Welfare Society (ESMWS) which was formed in 1919 to deal with the mental problems of ex-servicemen which had been brought on by their service in the war. Three homes are now run by this Society. "Tyrwhitt House" was opened in 1946 and is for men in need of a short period of rest and rehabilitation (ave...

Architectural quality and preservation of rural characteristics is a goal building design for sustainable environments. The environment has different function societies, creating large variety meanings. In the Zeta region Montenegro, negative transformation happening more rapidly than recording its traditional built assets. Protection conservation architecture in this south-eastern Europe are i...