Criteria and Factors Affecting Sustainable Housing Design in Iran

Since the beginning of human life, housing problems are the most important matters of his life and with the expansion of urban life, importance in terms of the needs of mental, psychological and physical users has been doubled. The housing subject has been always interest to architects from various aspects and attempts made to improve affordable housing, attempts to improve relations or social housing, or seek to identify and develop the cultural origins, economics, management and other macro policies. On the other hand due to the growing population and consequently expand need to housing, and also identifying of residential needs of people in different dimensions necessity of this research is doubled. This study assuming more than half of the land in our cities is devoted to residential use and also lack of attention to sustainable development in the Residential Buildings the purpose of this study sustainable urban development and the achievement of sustainable affordable housin pattern.This study focuse on descriptive- analytical and based on library research seeks to answer this question: What are the criteria for designing sustainable housing in Iran? Thus, after the introduction, do analysis and commentary related content. Conclusion suggest that in addition to aspects of sustainability (economic, social and environmental), factors such as social, cultural and attention to the flexibility according to Iranian households, design sustainable housing should be considered.

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Matrix of Affordable Housing Assessment: A Development Process

Designs ◽

10.3390/designs6010004 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 4

Author(s):

Afaq Hyder Chohan

Keyword(s):

United Arab Emirates ◽

Affordable Housing ◽

User Satisfaction ◽

Housing Stock ◽

Residential Buildings ◽

Real Estate Market ◽

Design Assessment ◽

Survey Tool ◽

Housing Design ◽

Design Variables

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a multiracial society with diverse housing and a potential real estate market. This study focused on users’ perceptions of the designs of available and affordable private housing stock in Dubai, Sharjah, and Ajman, which are the most populated states (emirates) of the UAE. A literature review and case studies of low- to medium-rise residential buildings were used to determine the parameters defining affordable housing design, and a model was developed of 7 design segments (independent variables) with 39 dependent variables. The model consists of a matrix of 39 design variables, in which each variable is set in a survey tool with a Likert scale to evaluate user satisfaction levels with the designs of their respective buildings. Questionnaires were distributed among the inhabitants of several buildings at different locations in the emirates. This study found that 16 anomalous design factors failed to satisfy users. It is likely that the results of this study will provide a blueprint for dialogue between regional building designers and end users to improve the designs of new buildings. The resulting design assessment matrix can be used for the analysis of residential buildings in other parts of the Gulf Cooperation Council region.

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ДОСТИЖЕНИЕ УСТОЙЧИВОСТИ ГОРОДА ЧЕРЕЗ РАЗВИТИЕ ЖИЛИЩНО-КОММУНАЛЬНЫХ ХОЗЯЙСТВ

Вестник Казахского университета экономики, финансов и международной торговли ◽

10.52260/2304-7216.2020.3(40).9 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 80-88

Author(s):

U. Shalbolova ◽

S. Yegemberdiyeva ◽

Z. Kenzhegalieva ◽

У.Ж. Шалболова ◽

С.М. Егембердиева ◽

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Keyword(s):

Urban Development ◽

Affordable Housing ◽

Solid Waste Management ◽

Residential Buildings ◽

Urban Housing ◽

Housing Affordability ◽

City Development ◽

Sustainable City ◽

Sustainable Housing ◽

Scientific Project

The article presents the results of the author's analysis of certain aspects of socio-economic problems of Kazakhstani urban housing and communal services. The problems of urban development are investigated with the disclosure of social and housing problems of the urban population. The article substantiates the Geneva Charter provisions on sustainable housing through providing citizens with high-quality and affordable housing. The author's interpretation of the category "sustainable city" is given highlighting indicators of city development sustainability. A review of existing programs effectiveness on housing affordability is conducted, the dynamics of housing construction and commissioning in the country is presented. The degree of provision with comfort indicators for both multi-apartment and individual residential buildings is given. The final results of an analytical study of the costs structure for housing and communal services are given. Analysis of urban housing and utilities infrastructure identified the studied sphere of Kazakhstani economy. The directions of sustainable development of Kazakhstani cities are substantiated by analysis of innovative solutions in modernizing housing through digital technology, construction of “smart houses”, energy efficiency utilities, solving issues of solid waste management, modernization of administration as housing and urban development. The article was prepared as part of the scientific project AP05134552. В статье представлены результаты проведенного авторами анализа отдельных аспектов социально-экономических проблем городского жилищно-коммунального хозяйства Республики Казахстан. Исследованы проблемы развития городов в современном мировом сообществе с упором раскрытия социально-жилищных проблем городского населения. Обоснованы основные положения Женевской хартии об устойчивом жилищном хозяйстве через обеспечение горожан качественным и доступным по цене жилью. Дана авторская интерпретация категории “устойчивый город” с выделением основных индикаторов устойчивости развития города. Проведен обзор результативности действующих программ по обеспечению доступного жилья, исследованы основные инструменты расширения социального жилья, представлена динамика строительства и ввода жилья в стране. Также в настоящей статье изложены основные результаты, полученные в ходе реализации научного проекта. Так, даны результаты социологического обследования, где выявлена степень обеспеченности показателями комфортности как многоквартирных, так и индивидуальных жилых домов. Даны итоговые результаты аналитического исследования структуры затрат на жилищно-коммунальные услуги. Проведенный анализ состояния инфраструктуры городского ЖКХ позволил определить основные проблемы исследуемой сферы экономики в Казахстане. В настоящей работе обоснованы основные направления устойчивого развития казахстанских городов путем анализа применения инновационных решений при модернизации ЖКХ через цифровые технологии, строительства “умных домов”, использования энергоэффективного коммунального обслуживания, решения вопросов по утилизации твердых бытовых отходов, модернизации управления как ЖКХ, так и городским хозяйством. Статья подготовлена в рамках реализации научного проекта АР05134552.

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Evaluation on the Internal Public Space Quality in Affordable Housing Based on Multi-Source Data and IPA Analysis

Land ◽

10.3390/land10101000 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (10) ◽

pp. 1000

Author(s):

Jie Zhao ◽

Zhenghong Peng ◽

Lingbo Liu ◽

Yang Yu ◽

Yan Yu

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Affordable Housing ◽

Low Income ◽

Residential Buildings ◽

Living Environment ◽

Evaluation Index System ◽

Sustainable Urban Development ◽

Free Access ◽

Urban Public Space ◽

Source Data

Much affordable housing has poor accessibility to external urban public space facilities because of its suburb location, which makes the residents’ daily life and social activities mainly depend on the internal public space of the community. Such affordable housing needs urgent upgrading of the internal public space based on the thorough understanding of the low-income residents’ demand ranking. The internal spaces’ transformation will significantly improve the living environment and the quality of residents’ life, and it also provides a way to promote social equity and sustainable urban development. By using the multi-source data and the two-step floating catchment area method, this paper selects typical affordable housing, which has poor accessibility to external urban public space, as our case study. After establishing the evaluation index system, IPA (Importance and Performance Analysis) is used to calculate the quadrant value of each index so as to clarify the upgrading urgency indexes from the residents’ demand for internal public space of affordable housing. Studies have shown that tables, chairs and pavilions, pedestrian systems, retail commercial facilities, medical and health facilities, and recreational space have the strongest urgency for upgrading; fitness facilities, exercise space, barrier-free access, guidance signs and parking lot design are the next most urgent indexes; Recreational facilities, entrances/exits of the residential area, green space in front of t residential buildings, and cultural facilities all have general urgency for upgrading.

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Activating Sustainable Building Technology’s Role in Contemporary Housing Design Strategies for Low-Income People after COVID19 Pandemic

IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science ◽

10.1088/1755-1315/945/1/012069 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 945 (1) ◽

pp. 012069

Author(s):

Abeer Samy Yousef Mohamed

Keyword(s):

Affordable Housing ◽

Low Income ◽

Arab Countries ◽

Design Strategies ◽

Sustainable Building ◽

Economic Dimension ◽

Housing Design ◽

Sustainable Housing ◽

Building Technology ◽

The Social

Abstract In the developing world, practical steps are taken to provide adequate, sustainable housing, especially for low-income people within technological age capabilities in construction by searching for new techniques of building technology to meet that goal. In the Arab countries, contemporary housing design is particularly effective because it is the primary unit of the contemporary urban fabric and the basic cell that constitutes most of the city’s area. So the following research questions are discussed in this study: What are the challenges facing contemporary sustainable housing design in specific affordable housing for the lower-income groups? What is the potential for sustainable building technology to meet that goal considering the social and economic dimension of the COVID 19 pandemic? What are the ambitions that they set out to achieve in that house? To emphasize the essential role of sustainable building technology and techniques in acquiring and implementing different goals and actual needs of all strata of society.

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Passive Ambient Comfort and Correlation of Strategies and Vernacular Devices for Habitat Design in Arid Zones: The Case of Biskra, Algeria

Buildings ◽

10.3390/buildings9040087 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 87

Author(s):

Berghout ◽

Forgues

Keyword(s):

Affordable Housing ◽

Residential Buildings ◽

Morphological Structure ◽

Energy Performance ◽

Maximum Energy ◽

Global Optimum ◽

Arid Zones ◽

Housing Design ◽

Energy Needs ◽

Current Concerns

Current concerns focus on the need to reduce energy consumption in construction and over the lifespan of buildings. A major objective is to create affordable housing. However, reducing the energy needs of the present without harming the needs of future generations remains difficult to put into practice, especially at the level of habitats in arid zones. In this research, a housing design assistance process for building designers is proposed, with the aim of converging towards a global optimum for the correlation and integration of vernacular devices and strategies in an optimized way. This will allow the integration of energy performance indicators and user comfort, in order to ultimately optimize, for this case study, the morphogenesis of residential buildings based on the morphological structure of a proposed building in Biskra, Algeria. This last developed process is articulated on various combinations distinguished for the case of the integration of devices and strategies, which allow maximum energy saving while ensuring the comfort of the occupants. As part of this research, this integration constituted a major challenge and made it possible to achieve a reduction in energy ratio of up to 25.11% compared to the standard building and the objectives of the research.

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Kedudukan dan Fungsi Bahasa dalam Permuseuman

Metahumaniora ◽

10.24198/mh.v9i1.22871 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 54

Author(s):

Erlina Zulkifli Mahmud ◽

Taufik Ampera ◽

Yuyu Yohana Risagarniwa ◽

Inu Isnaeni Sidiq

Keyword(s):

Human Life ◽

Field Research ◽

Communicative Function ◽

Language Functions ◽

The Past ◽

Library Research ◽

History Of ◽

And Function ◽

Museum Guides ◽

Bahasa Indonesia

Kedudukan dan fungsi bahasa sebagai alat komunikasi manusia mencakup seluruh bidang kehidupan termasuk ilmu pengetahuan antara lain terkait sejarah peradaban manusia; bagaimana manusia mempertahankan hidupnya, bagaimana manusia memperlakukan alam, bagaimana alam menyediakan segala kebutuhan manusia. Apa yang dilakukan manusia saat ini, saat lampau, dan apa yang dilakukan manusia jauh di masa prasejarah, bagaimana kondisi alam di masa-masa tersebut, apa perubahan dan perkembangannya, dapat didokumentasikan melalui bahasa, divisualisasikan kembali, lalu dipajang sebagai salah satu upaya konversai dan preservasi dalam satu institusi yang disebut museum. Penelitian ini membahas kedudukan dan fungsi bahasa dalam permuseuman. Bagaimana kedudukan dan fungsi bahasa dalam permuseuman baik dalam informasi yang disampaikan oleh pemandu wisata museumnya maupun yang terpajang menyertai benda-benda dan gambar-gambar merupakan tujuan dari penelitian ini. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah gabungan antara metode lapangan dan metode literatur. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa secara umum kedudukan bahasa Indonesia berada pada urutan pertama setelah Bahasa Inggris dan keberadaan kedua bahasa dalam permuseuman ini melibatkan dua fungsi utama bahasa, yakni fungsi komunikatif dan fungsi informatif.The existence and function of language as a medium of communication covers all fields of human life including knowledge, one of them is the history of human civilization; how humans survived, how human utilized nature for their lives, and how nature provides all the necessities for humans. What humans have been doing now, what they have done in the past and far before that in the pre-history time, how the conditions of the nature at those times were and what changes as well as progresses occurred are documented using language, then re-visualized, displayed as one of conservation and preservation acts in an institution called museum. This research discusess the existence and function of language in museums. How important the existence of a language in museums and what language functions used in museums both in informations given by the museum guides and on the displays accompanying objects and pictures are the aims of this research. The methods used are the combination between field research and library research. The results show that generally the existence of Indonesian language plays more important role than English and both languages have two main functions; communicative function and informative function.

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ISLAM DAN TANGGUNG JAWAB EKOLOGI

JURNAL PENELITIAN ◽

10.28918/jupe.v13i2.718 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Saefullah Saefullah

Keyword(s):

Human Life ◽

Technical Approach ◽

Environmental Destruction ◽

Library Research

Problematika lingkungan hidup hingga saat ini kian menunjukkan tingkat yang mengkhawatirkan. Berbagai fakta kerusakan lingkungan yang terjadi di Bumi telah menjadikan penghuninya terusik. Tulisan ini bercorak library research dan berupaya menelisik kontribusi Islam dalam menyelesaikan masalah ini. Hasilnya, Islam member perhatian besar pada berbagai problematika kehidupan manusia, termasuk terhadap lingkungan hidup. Rumusan ini tentu berbeda dengan pandangan ilmuwan modernis Barat yang cenderung menggunakan pendekatan teknis saja, tanpa melihat aspek-aspek lain. Padahal, menggunakan pendekatan teknis semata tidak mencukupi, namun juga membutuhkan pendekatan lain, di antaranya yang bersifat transendental dan profan.Problems of the environment now show an alarming rate. Various facts environmental destruction on Earth has made its inhabitants disturbed. This paper seeks patterned library research and browse for Islamic contribution in solving this problem. As a result, Islam gives a great attention to the various problems of human life, including the environment. This formulation is different from Western modernist views of scientists who tend to use a technical approach only, without looking at other aspects. In fact, using a technical approach alone is not sufficient, but it also requires other approaches, including the transcendent and profane.

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Internet-based Online Higher Education in Nepal Amidst COVID-19

10.35542/osf.io/r85bc ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Ashis Acharya ◽

Nabaraj Poudyal ◽

Ganesh Lamichhane ◽

Babita Aryal ◽

Bibek Raj Bhattarai ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Human Life ◽

The Internet ◽

Online Classes ◽

Traditional Concept ◽

Digital Platforms ◽

Factors Affecting ◽

Online Higher Education ◽

Alternative Means ◽

The Government

The COVID-19 global pandemic has affected all aspects of human life, with education, not an exception. In an attempt to stop the SARS-CoV-2 spreading like wildfire, the Government of Nepal has implemented nationwide lockdowns since March 24, 2020, that have enforced schools and universities to shut down. As a consequence, more than four hundred thousand students of various levels in higher education institutions (HEIs) are in a dilemma about restoring the situation. Several HEIs, nationwide, have leaped forward from the traditional concept of learning—limited within the boundary of the classroom—to choosing digital platforms as an alternative means of teaching because of the pandemic. For this research, the descriptive and inferential analysis was carried out to investigate the effects and challenges of learning via digital platforms during this pandemic. Data were collected from students and faculty at various levels of higher education and analyzed statistically with different factors using t-test and ANOVA, and variables were found to be approximately normally distributed. The study revealed that 70% of the respondents had access to the Internet, but 36% of the Internet accessed did not continue online classes due to unexpected disturbance in Internet and electrical connectivity. Likewise, 65% of students did not feel comfortable with online classes, and among attendees of online classes, 78% of students want to meet the instructor for a better understanding of course matters. According to the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) model, three factors, such as institutional policy, internet access, and poverty, are found to be significant factors affecting the online higher education systems in Nepal. On the brighter side, this outbreak has brought ample opportunities to reform the conventional teaching-learning paradigm in Nepal.

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