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Technical review of green roofs in hot arid region: Case of Qatar
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Inderscience Publishers
, 2021 , Article)
Greening the city and its buildings is not a new notion, in fact it is an old-traditional system that is re-discovered to improve damaged impact on the urban environment in a smart-sustainable way. Greening has its roots ...
'Excavating' pruitt-igoe using space syntax
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Cambridge University Press
, 2021 , Article Review)
Pruitt-Igoe, in St Louis, Missouri, United States, was one of the most notorious social housing projects of the twentieth century. Charles Jencks argued opening his book The Language of Post-Modern Architecture, ‘Modern ...
Passive cooling and natural ventilation by the windcatcher (Badgir): An experimental and simulation study of indoor air quality, thermal comfort and passive cooling power
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
The upper wing wall can be integrated into the windcatcher to prevent direct solar and rain penetration. The impact of this combination was not considered in previous studies. Moreover, analyzing adaptive thermal comfort ...
A sustainable localised air distribution system for enhancing thermal environment and indoor air quality of poultry house for semiarid region
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Academic Press
, 2021 , Article)
This work compares the performance of three passive cooling systems in meeting thermal and indoor air quality requirements in a poultry house located in semi-arid climate. The first two systems are a direct evaporative ...
Virtual reconstruction of the historic city of Al-Zubarah in Qatar
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
The ruins of al-Zubarah hold within them valuable information for historians and anthropologists to know the society that once lived in it. Thanks to contemporary modelling methods, and a wealth of recent scholarship and ...
INTERACTING COMPONENTS
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Firenze University Press
, 2021 , Article)
Since my entrance into the architectural area at the end of the eighties of the last century and more intensively after I was appointed professor from practice at the Faculty of Architecture at the TU Delft just after the ...
Comparative analysis of sustainable desiccant – Evaporative based ventilation systems for a typical Qatari poultry house
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2021 , Article)
Direct evaporative cooling is the typically adopted ventilation system in poultry houses in hot climates. This type of cooling is inefficient during period of relatively high humidity resulting in degraded thermal comfort ...
Sustainable Poultry house ventilation using Dew point indirect evaporative cooler aided with radiative cooling
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American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
, 2021 , Conference Paper)
Maintaining good production quality in layer poultry houses is directly correlated to the thermal environment of the laying hens as well as their breathable air quality. This work compares the performance of two passive ...
Expatriates' Housing Dispersal Outlook in a Rapidly Developing Metropolis Based on Urban Growth Predicted Using a Machine Learning Algorithm
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Routledge
, 2021 , Article)
Housing dispersal in emerging cities should be investigated as it occurs to achieve a better understanding of future housing dispersal. In this study, housing preferences are analyzed in Doha Metropolitan Area based on ...