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Definition of the Sustainability Criteria in the Materials Used: Cradle-to-Cradle Certified Products
In this situation of excessive consumption of natural resources and immoderate production of waste, the importance of establishing a new economic...
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The Role of Architectural Heritage in Offering a More Resilient Lockdown in Egypt
Heritage buildings play an essential role in representing people past, preserving their culture and social identities and accommodating contemporary...
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Constructive Sincerity and Bioclimatic Architecture
The materiality of architecture is an inescapable issue when it comes to building, however, throughout history there have been few examples that...
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InterTwig—Willow and Earth Composites for Digital Circular Construction
The construction sector has high resource demands and generates a significant amount of waste, a consequence of its linear approach. A shift towards...
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Reworking Studio Design Education Driven by 3D Printing Technologies
The advances and proliferation of digital technologies impact architectural practice asking for a revision of not only design production but also the...
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Enhancing the Microclimate Toward Outdoor Thermal Comfort in Urban Isles of the Mediterranean Region
Worldwide climate change concerns and rapid urbanization render sustainability in cities more crucial than ever. It is well established that cities...
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Slow Onset Disasters Linking Urban Built Environment and User-oriented Strategies to Assess and Mitigate Multiple Risks
The book provides an overview of the Slow Onset Disasters (SLOD) in the urban built environment discussing potential strategies to assess and...
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Why do people (not) energy renovate their homes? Insights from qualitative interviews with Danish homeowners
Global climate changes and the need for transition to a low-carbon future have emerged as one of the most critical challenges of contemporary...
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Applications to Case Studies
This chapter offers the application of the “behavioural-based” approachBehavioural based approach for Slow Onset Disasters (SLODs) assessment and...
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Results and Discussion
As previously mentioned, to verify the applicability of the developed protocol, a field work was executed in both an unorganized and an organized...
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Towards a Relational Theory of Architectural Modeling
This paper addresses inclusivity and how architectural modeling theory can be developed to enable thinking about the human and nonhuman in terms of a...
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Materials from a Heritage Perspective
Historical materials can be studied from various technical, symbolic, artistic, health-related and other perspectives. This process points to a...
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One Floor at a Time: Cross-Laminating a Sustainable Future for Mass Timber in North America
Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) started in Germany and Austria in the early 1990s. As old-growth timber became difficult to find, glue-laminated timber...
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How Does ‘Locality’ Matter in Enabling a Circular Built Environment?: A Focus on Space, Knowledge, and Cities
There is a growing interest in understanding and using local knowledge, resources, and stakeholders to achieve tailored and effective circular...
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Conclusion: Oman’s Eclectic Take on ‘Energy Security’
Using Oman as a case study, this research aimed to provide a comprehensive and non-Eurocentric perspective on ‘energy security’. Based upon the...
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Transforming a Non-place Through Architecture as Landscape Event: Design as Scholarship, Where the Process of Design is the Research Method
The visual essay explains a design project through concept, material technology and artistic processes where a ‘non-place’ is transformed into a...
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Nexus, Artery, and Reservoir—A Taxonomy for an Embodied Perception of Infrastructures
Infrastructures permeate all layers of modern society as the underlying structure for everyday life. The unfolding climate crisis and war on the...
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Analysis of Contemporary Emergency Housing
Refugee camps are not intended to be a long-term solution; the assistance provided in them is temporary, that is, until the circumstances are...
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Securitisation of Energy in Discourse and Practice
When Mohammed Bouazizi set himself on fire in protest against the Tunisian authorities in 2010, he quickly became a universal symbol across the Arab...
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A Synthesis Paradigm as a Way of Bringing Back to Life the Artistic Monuments Inspired by the Motives of the People’s Liberation Struggle and Revolution of Yugoslavia
The artistic monuments inspired by the motives of the People’s Liberation Struggle and Revolution of Yugoslavia are stratified phenomena constructed...