Co-housing communities offer an alternative approach to residential living, emphasizing collaboration, shared resources, and a strong sense of community. Through thoughtful design strategies, these intentional neighbourhoods aim to create livable and sustainable environments, fostering social connections and a balance between privacy and community interaction. 1.Understanding Co-housing Communities: Co-housing communities represent a unique approach to residential Read the full article…

Mycelium is a novel material combining filamentous fungi and agricultural residual by-products, a valuable renewable natural resource (Li et al., 2020; Elsacker et al., 2021) This material is known for its biodegradability, strength and versatility, and it has many potential applications in the fields of architecture and urban design (Zhang et al., 2021a). Image:1 https://images.adsttc.com.qtlcn.com/media/images/5f8d/232d/63c0/17d6/a100/0487/slideshow/Krishna___Govind_Raja_2.jpg?1603085088 Read the full article…

As I worked on this semester’s housing alternative project, The waterfront area on the north side of the site presented opportunities and challenges for my design. The importance of waterfront areas to cities, their residents, and the surrounding environment cannot be overstated. Where the city and the water converge in these places, a special connection Read the full article…

In this blog, I would like introduce about unique style housing which is located at Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Known as a pole housing. Ahmedabad city is alive since 1411. It has a heritage of modern lifestyle. It’s declared the World Heritage City of India by UNESCO in July 2017. The “Ahmedabad pol housing,” a particular architectural Read the full article…

context As an integrated system, the development process of a city is complex and involves many uncertainties. As the process of urbanisation continues to accelerate, cities face different development problems at each stage of the development process, and as cities continue to expand, the issue of environmental protection is of the greatest concern.At the same Read the full article…

The blogging journey in this semester has been an advancement in the technicality of the subject in various ways. Evaluating based on some of the major essence include:   Access to diverse perspectives: Academic blogging provides a platform for scholars and researchers from all over the world to share their insights and opinions. By reading Read the full article…

1. Definition of healthy building and its impact on human health 2. Design principles and standards for healthy buildings 3. Selection and use of materials for healthy buildings 4. Specific examples of building materials: raw earth 5. The major difference between rammed earth and traditional rammed earth used in modern buildings 6. Case studies of Read the full article…

Climate change and rising sea levels are affecting the design and structure of cities. Edward Barsley, the author of Retrofitting for Flood Resilience, provides six key methods in his book for modifying urban and natural areas to minimize the impact of flooding. He believes that flood-resistant design can significantly reduce the exposure and vulnerability of Read the full article…

Sustainable living has become an important and the main concern for every person in the modern world because of the approaching threat posed by climate change. Sustainable co-housing is a creative response to this issue that has received a lot of attention in the context of urban planning. A form of intentional community called co-housing Read the full article…

Background Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming many fields, from healthcare to finance to transportation. But what about urban design? How can AI create more efficient, sustainable, and livable cities? In this article, we’ll explore how AI is being used in urban design. We’ll also know some of the opportunities and challenges this technology presents. Read the full article…

To explore a method for building better homeland Yihan He (Jason)   I watched a video from YouTube which was about a discussion for building better cities. The speaker Mr. Peter Calthorpe told us a fact that the current solutions for climates can’t save all the people who live in Earth, our homeland. Because it Read the full article…

I. An urban and ecological transformation: Las Salinas. There was a collaboration of teams with the Zidell Family, West 8, Eco Northwest, Place Studio, and GBD Architects to rejuvenate the Zidell Yards in Portland, which was one of the last undeveloped sites along the Willamette River. Figure-1: Depicting the proposed master-plan along the Willamette River. Read the full article…