The level of urbanization of a country or a region is generally measured in terms of the share of its urban population. Since there is no universal definition for ‗urban‘, countries follow different approaches such as ...

A city may have billions of investments for its infrastructural developments but without a functional public space, the city can never be as enthusiastic as it can be. The history of mankind shows that all the great public ...

As understood popularly, vernacular is not just a simplistic interaction between the climate, culture and craft, but rather a composite body of knowledge processes developed over generations of experience through trial ...

Flat roof slabs are gaining its popularity day by day due to its advantages like cyclonic resistance, possibility for future expansion and the possibility of using them as additional working space. However, the major issue ...

Driving is an action of humans, which allows him/her motion through space from place to place. The road landscape creates the character and the spatial quality, which is vital to decide the driving safe. ‘Southern Expressway’, ...

In the recent years, qualitative developments in the architectural profession are affecting substantively all facets of design praxis. The way how professional relationships, construction techniques, buildings- materials, ...

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 calls for a historic shift from an emphasis on disaster management to address disaster risk management. It also focused on to prevent new risk, reduce existing ...

The study highlights a scenario in respect to a range of neutral temperatures specific to naturally ventilated residential buildings in climatic zones of Sri Lanka and occupants' behavioural adaptations such as clothing, ...

Today, “development” has become one of the most influential and dominant concepts among global political and economic discourses. For many scholars the concept of development has become a convincing notion after the Second ...

This paradigm regarding architecture focuses on the people as being the pivotal line of focus therefore we designed an ephemeral city for refugees in times of the pressing refugee crisis. This concept of ‘urbanity in motion’ ...