Today's Housing Research Articles

Snoop Doggy: Automatic Robotic Floor Cleaner

Due to current technology advancements, researchers have been concentrating more on robots in an attempt to enhance human existence. Home automation and intelligence are growing in today's houses. People may simplify their lives and save time with home automation. Though the market is still young and developing, domestic robots are finding their way into people's homes and daily lives. Nonetheless, growth will be needed and the use of domestic robots is changing. The objective is to develop a robotic floor cleaner that uses border analysis to automatically cover a given room or area. The proposed work is named snoop dog as the device will walk in the house like a dog patrolling his territory. The device travels around the room in a zigzag pattern. To cover the whole room, the system detects boundaries using ultrasonic sensors and responds appropriately. In order to collect dust, the device also features a vacuum suction cleaner attached to its rear. Initially, the robot locates a corner and activates the vacuum. After then, it covers the entire region in a zigzag pattern. It functions best in a room free of obstacles, however this problem might be resolved in future enhancement.

Shifting domesticities: recent social housing practices and policies in Spain

Instances of crisis have always marked pivotal moments in housing design, acting as catalysts for re-evaluating models and practices and bringing forth systemic changes already latent in the discipline. Such revelation of hidden latencies is a characteristic phenomenon of today's housing panorama, influenced by factors such as the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the imperative shift toward ecological sustainability, and a growing discourse prompting the reconsideration of the human body at both individual and social levels. This article delves into such a system of adjustments within the contextualised case of Spanish social housing. It does so by focusing on two complementary sources. Firstly, recent shifts in housing policies, encompassing new regulations, programs, legal frameworks, and urban strategies; and secondly, a selection of projects emerging from competitions and new developments that either anticipate or result from these policy changes, introducing innovative design devices working on the following fronts: (1) the presence of nature and open space, interpreted as a fundamental element for social comfort related with broader ecological concerns, (2) a heterogeneous and complex articulation of in-between collective spaces, responding to emerging trends around the concept of sharing, and (3) the reconceptualization of the traditional core of interior private space, namely the kitchen, which in turn raises important questions on gender equality and care. Analysing the ever-evolving interplay between policies and practices, theories and projects, will reveal that the multifaceted crises of recent decades have played a pivotal role in shaping a redefined understanding of domestic spaces. Most significantly, this reinterpretation goes beyond addressing environmental sustainability and energy efficiency, placing a great emphasis on social innovation within and beyond the home, inside and outside the building.

REWRITING THE ARCHITECTURE OF TRADITIONAL HOUSES OF DYARBAKIR WITH LINDENMAYER SYSTEMS

Doğaya yönelim içeren mimari tasarımlar tasarımcıyı raslantısallıktan uzaklaştırdığı gibi doğaya karşı olan sorumluluğun fark edilmesini sağlamaktadır. Aynı zamanda doğa ile uyumlu tasarımlar, doğaya yönelik kazanımlar elde edilmesini sağlamakta ve yapı sektörünün çevreye verdiği zararı azaltmaktadır. Bu doğrultuda ekoloji ile uyum içerisinde olan Diyarbakır geleneksel evlerinin; yapısal analizleri sonucunda elde edilen verilerin günümüz konutlarına örnek teşkil etmesi açısından temel ilkelerinin referans alınması gerektiği düşünülmektedir. Günümüzde yaşanan teknolojik gelişmeler birçok avantaj sağlamakla beraber doğadan kopuk yapılaşmaların artmasına da sebep olmuştur. Doğa ile uyum göstermeyen yapıların artması günümüzde çevresel anlamda birçok problemin ortaya çıkmasına sebebiyet vermiştir. Bu açıdan çalışma, Diyarbakır geleneksel evlerinin; yapısal analizleri sonucunda elde edilen ilkeler ile günümüz çağdaş konut üretimi için model önerisinde bulunulması gerektiğine odaklanmıştır. Bu çalışmada; araştırma sahası olarak seçilen Diyarbakır Suriçi bölgesinde bulunan 35 adet U plan tipli geleneksel evin planları Lindenmayer sistemler üzerinden yapılan çözümlemelere dayanarak bir model önerisi hazırlamak amaçlanmıştır. Hesaplamalı bilimlerin katkıları ile ortaya çıkan tasarımlardan üretken tasarım yaklaşımı incelenmiş, üretken bir algoritma olan Lindenmayer sistemlerinin mimari tasarımdaki kullanımı ve sürdürülebilirlik ile ilişkisi ele alınmıştır. Doğa-insan etkileşiminin mimarlıktaki yansıma biçimleri olan binalar, bu sistemler özelinde analiz edilmiş, incelenen plan tipolojileri bina yönlenme parametresi esas alınarak yeniden kodlanmıştır. Elde edilen verilerden yola çıkarak, Diyarbakır şehrinin iklimi ve geleneksel mimarisiyle uyumlu, farklı kullanıcılara hitap edebilecek 4 farklı alternatif ideal konut tipolojisi üretilmiştir.

Evaluation Framework for Social Impact on the E-Co-Housing Project in Budapest

In Europe, today's affordable housing and co-housing projects represent complex products, complementing the physical intervention with economic and social techniques. This means that purely environmental and economical evaluation is not sufficient for these projects. While environmental and economical evaluation methodologies are widespread and advanced in the construction sector, methodologies to evaluate the social impacts of housing projects are rarely used and therefore underdeveloped.This study elaborates a framework to evaluate and monitor the social impacts of a complex social housing and co-housing project. The method adopted implements the Social Life Cycle Assessment, integrating a Post Occupancy Evaluation as the main tool for collecting and analysing data. The presented assessment framework is elaborated for the E-Co-Housing Model, a new experimental model so far as the development of affordable housing in Budapest is concerned. However, it delivers a starting point for more complex sustainability analysis of residential buildings in general.The guideline for the Evaluation Framework is the methodology of the Social Life Cycle Assessment of Products, clarifying and improving some of its usual elements. The study of the E-Co-Housing Model shows that housing products, especially affordable and co-housing projects significantly differ from other products. The differences are their main stakeholder groups, their life cycle stages and in their impact ways too. Therefore, housing products need a special S-LCA methodology to assess in a balanced way the complex aspects of its environmental, economic, and social sustainability.

Without Affordable, Accessible, and Adequate Housing, Health Has No Foundation.

Policy Points Today's housing disparities are rooted in the increasing commodification of housing that has taken precedence over the need for shelter, a basic human right. With rising housing costs across the country, more residents are finding their monthly income going to rent, mortgage payments, property taxes, and utilities, leaving little for food and medication. Housing is a determinant of health, and with increasing housing disparities, action must be taken to ensure no individual is displaced, communities remain intact, and cities continue to thrive.

국내 유니콘 서비스 기업 사례분석을 통한 고객 경험 기반 서비스 혁신 프레임워크 제안

In order for the service industry to create high added value, service competitiveness must be strengthened. The purpose of this study is to propose a customer experience-based service innovation framework and to verify the framework. A customer experience-based service innovation framework categorized into result, process, experience, and system was proposed and five domestic unicorn companies(Yanolja, Socar, Musinsa, Today's House, Carrot Market) were analyzed. In conclusion, consumers perceived companies that tried various customer experience-based service innovations as more innovative, and the initial growth rate of these companies was higher. In addition, it was confirmed that companies execute customer experience-based service innovation in the order of result-based innovation, process-based innovation, and system-based innovation. This study is expected to serves as an guideline in planning and designing services and provide practical helps to the companies pursuing service innovation in analyzing their current services and establishing strategies for service innovation.

Exploring the Complexities of Millennial Housing Choices: An Analysis of the Influence of Neighborhood Factors

The varied behaviors and values exhibited by individuals from different age groups have had a significant impact on the availability of housing options in the residential market. Housing preferences are highly personalized, with observable differences in choices across generations. In today's housing market, the most influential consumer group is the millennial generation, born between 1981 and 1996, who are considered to be optimistic, open-minded, innovative, confident, motivated, and intelligent. The housing choices made by millennials are particularly influential in the performance of the housing market, and the factors associated with neighborhoods have played a critical role in determining such choices over recent decades. Nevertheless, previous studies have primarily focused on the general housing buyer's perspective, without considering the unique perspectives of the millennial generation. In this context, this study seeks to investigate the diverse neighborhood factors that shape the housing decisions of millennials in Colombo district, Sri Lanka. Four dimensions of neighborhood factors were identified as social neighborhood, natural environment, neighborhood safety, and accessibility, and hypotheses were tested for each dimension concerning housing choices, which were evaluated as a single dependent variable. The study employed a sample of 145 millennials in Colombo District, with data collected through a survey questionnaire utilizing the convenience sampling technique. PLS-SEM was used for data analysis. The results suggest that accessibility has a significant impact on housing choices, while natural environment has a moderate influence. In contrast, the research showed that neighborhood safety minimum influence on the housing choices of millennials. The finding confirms that social neighborhood does not have a significant impact on housing choice. The result of the study makes significant implications for real estate market investors and planning professionals, as it provides insight into the neighborhood factors that impact a buyer's purchasing decision and enhances understanding of millennial consumer behavior in urban areas.

A thematic analysis to identify barriers, gaps, and challenges for the implementation of public-private-partnerships in housing

Public-Private-Partnership is one of the holistic built-environment development and management approaches having all the processes under one roof, built-up with varied processes, and propagating improved performance. While PPPs are widely adopted in various building sectors such as institutional, healthcare, schools; this raises a question on its rare utilisation in the housing sector, confined to only limited countries. This paper, thereby, focuses on identifying key issues for implementation of PPP in the housing sector. It aims at exploring PPP for the linkages between the urban functioning, governance, and management for housing provision, addressing the pressing need of today's housing demand and delivery. The data was collected by a four-tier approach involving literature review, case studies, surveys, and focused interviews across Europe, which was analysed using the thematic analysis approach to arrive at the vital diagnosis in this paper. The results showcased a considerable potential for the housing PPP market and highlighted key structural, contextual, environmental, financial, and execution issues summarised in the form of barriers, gaps, and challenges, that are required to be dealt with at the policy, governance, and industry level.

SPACE ORGANIZATION IN PERAK MALAY TRADITIONAL HOUSE

The Perak Malay Traditional houses are one of the relics that should be appreciated due to their space organization uniqueness which is not present in today's modern houses. The study of the house's space organization should highly be given attention for future generations to discern. The issue is there is minimal approach to appreciating the space organization and there is even no concern of its benefits if applied in the construction of modern houses today. Indeed, in an orientation before the construction of a residential house, the role of the environment including culture, way of life, especially the occupants of the residence are taken care of by a craftsman. Discussion between the host and the craftsman is an important aspect before the residence is established. Space requirements are the most in the architecture of a traditional Malay house, a space was born as a result of the activities of the society, by gender requirements in addition to the comfort of concern with the residential environment. Space requirements are common in almost every traditional Malay house in Malaysia but there are differences in orientation, climate, environment and local culture that trigger the use of space. The purpose of this study is to pass knowledge to the future generation in order to appreciate the relics house. For that, the objectives of this research are to analyse the spatial organization design and architecture of a traditional Malay house with Perak state based on space functional diversity through research on the role of space during the performance of activities. This paper employs qualitative research adapting the observation on-surrounding and the house's interior space. Besides, sketches on house spatial pattern, joinery detailing and joinery construction were some of the approaches that have been applied to obtain the data. To strengthen data acquisition, interviews with target groups like village heads or local house carpenters were made. The data were analyzed and the sketches were illustrated in diagrams to interpret the pattern of findings. The results strengthened the characteristics of the interior spatial organization for Perak house traditionally do influence the environment, society, cultural customs, beliefs and religions. 

Toplu Konutların İklimsel Konfor Tasarım Parametrelerine Göre Değerlendirilmesi: “Ilıman Nemli İklim Bölgesi: Edirne Binevler (1.Kısım) Konut Yapı Kooparetifi Örneği”

Türkiye’de yapı üretiminin büyük bir çoğunluğu toplu konutlardan oluşmaktadır. Bu nedenle sürdürülebilir bir çevre yaratmada toplu konut uygulamalarının önemi büyüktür. Genellikle alt ve orta gelir grubunun mülk sahibi olma beklentisini karşılamak amacıyla üretilen toplu konutlarda daha çok ilk yatırım maliyeti odaklı karar verilen, nitelikten çok nicelik öncelikli bir yaklaşım söz konusudur. Bu durum ekosistem ve sürdürülebilirlik açısından önemli problemlere neden olmaktadır. Problemlerin çözüm noktasında sürdürülebilir yaklaşımın temel adımlarından biri iklimle dengeli tasarımdır. Bu bağlamda, tasarımda en önemli girdilerden olan doğal ve yapay çevre verilerinin doğru değerlendirilerek alınacak kararların önemi büyüktür. Bu çalışmada, Türkiye’nin ılıman-nemli iklim bölgesinde bulunan Edirne Binevler (1. Kısım) Konut Yapı Kooperatifi iklimle dengeli tasarım parametreleri açısından değerlendirilmiştir. Günümüz toplu konut yaklaşımlarına göre kat sayısı, yeşil alan kullanımı vb. pek çok olumlu özelliğinin bulunmasına karşın konum, yön, form, kabuk ve yakın çevre ilişkisi açısından bazı parametrelerin iyi değerlendirilemediği görülmektedir. Sürdürülebilir ve nitelikli toplu konut uygulamalarının geliştirilmesine katkı sağlamak açısından enerji etkinliğine yönelik bölgesel farklılıkların dikkate alınarak iklimle dengeli tasarımların önemi ve gerekliliği vurgulanmak istenmiştir.

The Effect of Religion and Denomination on Calmness in Residential Spaces Based on Islamic Teachings.

As elements of culture and also as social-cultural phenomena, religion and denomination are the sources of creating change, difference and contrast in various places. Although indifference has been practically the approach adopted toward religion and its belongings in the contemporary world and today's human life, the religious and Islamic discussions have been among the important issues drawing a lot of attentions from the contemporaries in the theoretical arena. Islam has paid a particular attention to the house as the place of living and calmness for the human beings and believes in certain conditions for it. The theoretical foundations of Islamic mindset are neglected in today's houses so they are in need of revitalization in their designs and redesigning based on the original Islamic patterns. Nowadays, spatial meaningfulness is among the most important solutions of granting quality to the architectural spaces, especially residential spaces, and the designers and architects are making efforts in the area of paying attention to such concepts as calmness that can subsequently lead to the psychological health. The environmental designers and planners have paid attention to the quality of spaces and the role of perceptional indicators in forming the various spaces with the development of the human communities and appearance of meanings' gaps in the constructed spaces. These are the spaces that induce a sense of tranquility and pleasure followed by a sense of attachment and identity to the audience mind and revive the feelings of being present and existent in them. In this article, the effect of the Islamic teachings on the architectural spaces and places as theoretical bases has been investigated in various areas. The current article has been conducted with the objective of investigating the Islamic architectural pattern related to the housing in the Holy Quran's ĀYĀT and the possibility of using it as an Islamic pattern as a result of doing research and exploration in the Holy Quran, Nemooneh Interpretation and relevant articles and books. The achievement of the Islamic pattern and methods for semantic qualification and their application to a place and creating of an environmental calmness followed by psychological health based on the Islamic teachings in the residential spaces are among the findings underlined by the present research paper.

GRIYA, PURI, DAN JERO, NAMA PERUMAHAN MASA KINI: PERSPEKTIF PERGULATAN IDENTITAS

Griya, Puri, and Jero are terms specifically used to name the dwellings of Balinese aristocrats, namely brahmana, ksatrya, and wesia. These three groups of people are the highest group of citizens in the social structure of traditional Balinese society, also called tri wangsa. This study aims to uncover the identity struggle with the use of the names of the residential groups of citizens of the tri wangsa or the Balinese aristocracy into the names of today's housing developed by developers in Bali. This qualitative study with an interpretive descriptive approach uses Bourdieu's structural generative theory and Foucault's knowledge-power relations in the analysis of primary data obtained from the field, and interviews with informants determined by purposive sampling and secondary data based. Data collection was carried out through literature study and interviews. The study's findings show that in Foucault's view, the use of the names of the traditional Balinese aristocrats' dwellings is a new articulation that has articulated an earlier truth claim that has been established for about six centuries. It is also inseparable from the struggle for economic capital, cultural capital, social capital, and especially symbolic capital. The struggle of various capital in Bourdieu's perspective with its various forms of conversion also becomes a struggle for identity in the field of social struggle through the realm of residential society in Bali today.
 

News Media's Rhetoric on Facebook

ABSTRACTWhile Facebook is an important distribution channel for today's media houses, there is a lack of research on how news outlets choose to present their stories in social media. The present study aims to narrow this gap by analysing two weeks of Facebook updates by the Norwegian tabloid Dagbladet and the public-service broadcaster NRK and comparing them to the corresponding stories on their news sites. An important objective is to uncover if and how the Facebook updates depart from established text norms for online papers. The method is triangulated. A quantitative content analysis reveals that newsrooms tend to utilize a wider range of speech acts when writing presentations specifically for Facebook. A follow-up qualitative analysis identifies five rhetorical strategies for unique promo texts on Facebook: adding emojis, posing questions, making requests, expressing emotions and stating subjective points of view. Qualitative interviews with responsible journalists confirm that these strategies are more common the less controversial the stories are. However, the newsrooms have few explicit guidelines for when it is acceptable to transgress traditional journalistic text norms. The findings are summarized in a model that connects the continuum of decreasing story controversy to a corresponding continuum of increasingly interpretative and subjective rhetoric.

Re-Adaptation of Traditional Malay House Concept as A Design Approach for Vertical Dwellings Malays

Home is a basic need of human life and plays an important role in wellbeing human life. The quality of design should meet the needs and way of life as every human being deserves to enjoy it. Today's housing design failed to respond in meeting the needs of the occupants. The designs are now too much influenced from the west and contrary to the needs of the local design, especially the Malays. The space for the Malay Muslims is the reflection of the fulfilment of its way of life. The occupants are experiencing multiple unfavourable housing issues. This paper highlight the housing issues and conditions on how certain issues of housing affordability affect societal wellbeing. The writing of this study will discuss the issues and problems of residential low and medium cost-of-modern design houses. Forty-five willing respondents were randomly selected to answer questionnaires based on their willingness and the data were analysed using SPSS statistics to interpret these issues. The findings will be the basis for addressing the main issues and to proposed the application of the conceptual Malay heritage design in the design towards the creation of quality interior design dwelling.

Assessment of Climate Comfort in Vernacular and Contemporary Houses Of Iran

Technology development causes a human oriented design to be forgotten all over the world. In housing design, one of the important factors for human-oriented design is Climate comfort. Today similar architectural patterns in different climate regions in Iran, can't provide residents comfort. While vernacular housing architecture of Iran had different patterns for providing climate comfort in different regions. The aim of this paper is to suggest some solutions to enhance the level of comfort in today's housing of Iran. This paper compares contemporary and vernacular houses of Iran in terms of climate comfort by using description and case study analysis methods.Keywords: comfort; climate comfort; contemporary housing; vernacular housing2398-4295 © 2017 The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, UniversitiTeknologi MARA, Malaysia.

Criteria for Housing Design with Emphasis on Comparison between Traditional and Today Contemporary Iranian Architecture

<p>Settling in the cities and the numerous efforts being made for massive supply of houses in a short time period, makes difficult the access to a pattern as appropriate for family life with increase in concentration in building construction, the individual and family borders, too, are neglected.</p><p>Though due to the extensiveness and complexity of the concept of housing, one cannot give a comprehensive, unique definition of it, but the housing, as a shelter, is regarded as the primary and basic needs of the family.</p><p>House as a place for relaxation and comfort and a shelter for removing tiredness has been a peace and security locality from a long time ago. House demand is one of the most essential human`s demands. According to Article 31 of fundamental law of Islamic Republic of Iran also, possessing a suitable house is considered as the right for every person and every Iranian family. House not only as a shelter, but also as a place for humans raise, has a great importance in the initial and most fundamental society union, namely family.</p><p>Identifying the identity and investigating the residential complexes in regard to the aesthetics implies the precise and conscious observing and noticing their beauties and or ugliness.</p><p>Main Questions in this paper are:</p><ul><li>What are the consequences of disregarding the identity of today's housing architecture, especially the architecture of the ancient towns?</li><li>Can the components of Iranian traditional architecture be applied in today contemporary residential architecture and be effective to create a sense of place?</li></ul><p>So the main purpose of this article is Pathology of Today Contemporary Iranian housing Architecture and Comparison with traditional Iranian architecture.</p><p>The method explored is a descriptive-analytical and field method to gather information and documents are available. The impact of known factors and variables in Iranian contemporary and traditional residential architecture has been evaluated and compared.</p><p>Accordingly, having some criteria for achieving a suitable house design pattern is essential in a way that makes it possible to understand all its visual embodiments and identify its identity.</p>This research also state the reasons for disability of today`s architecture and urban development against house problem and recommend some criteria for achieving a house design pattern after an overview of the definition of housing and examination of Iranian housing.

Cultural Pathology of Double Glazed Windows in terms of Environmental Connectivity Culture in Iran

One of the main sustainable products for reducing fuel consumption is a double-glazed window. Despite the positive impacts of these windows in Iran, maybe usage of them has negative effects on environmental connectivity. Environmental connectivity is important in Iranian’s culture in different aspects of privacy and nature relatedness that has influenced the architecture of Windows. The aim of this research is to study the cultural pathology of double glazed windows in today's housing of Iran by analyzing Spearman correlation coefficient. Also, we suggest patterns from traditional windows to improve the environmental connectivity culture by focusing on sustainable designing.

Permanent resident

The training of physicians in the past century was based primarily on responsibility and the chain-of-command. Those with the bulk of that responsibility in the fields of pediatrics and internal medicine were residents. Residents trained the medical students and supervised them carefully in caring for patients. Most attending physicians supervised their teams at arm's length, primarily serving as teachers of the finer points of diagnosis and treatment during set periods of the day or week with a perfunctory signature on write-ups or progress notes. Residents endeavored to protect the attending physician from being heavily involved unless they were unsure about a clinical problem. Before contacting the attending physician, a more senior resident would be called. Responsibility was the ultimate teacher. The introduction of diagnosis-related groups by the federal government dramatically changed the health care delivery system, placing greater emphasis on attending physician visibility in the medical record, ultimately resulting in more attending physician involvement in day-to-day care of patients in academic institutions. Without specified content in attending notes, hospital revenues would decline. Although always in charge technically, attending physicians increasingly have assumed the role once dominated by the resident. Using biographical experiences of more than 40 years, the author acknowledges and praises the educational role of responsibility in his own training and laments its declining role in today's students and house staff.

Climate Comfort Comparison of Vernacular and Contemporary Houses of Iran

Technology development causes a human oriented design to be forgotten all over the world. In housing design, one of the important factors for human-oriented design is Climate comfort. Today similar architectural patterns in different climate regions in Iran, can’t provide residents comfort. While vernacular housing architecture of Iran had different patterns for providing climate comfort in different regions. The aim of this paper is to suggest some solutions to enhance the level of comfort in today's housing of Iran. This paper compares contemporary and vernacular houses of Iran in terms of climate comfort by using description and case study analysis methods.

Renaissance and ‘Made in Italy’: marketing Italian fashion through history (1949–1952)

Until 1950, Italian fashion did not exist: there were able tailors and creative designers, but they were known only as individuals and not as part of a wider movement that identified with a specific Italian style. Despite the existence of advanced skills, with the potential to realize an Italian fashion in its own right, there was neither a cultural identity to bind them together nor an international legitimization that would allow the new form to compete with the dominant haute couture of Paris. The revival of the Renaissance and its invention as an intangible asset was fundamental in resolving this ‘dual’ absence, and it therefore became a key factor in the international success of Italian fashion. From the 1950s to today – the period of increasing international success of the ‘Made in Italy’ label – in the rhetoric of entrepreneurs, managers and marketing experts, the Renaissance has become almost an integral part of the DNA of Italian fashion, itself at times represented as the direct descendant and legitimate heir of the excellence of Renaissance taste. This is a link, now taken for granted, for which a term has even been coined: the ‘Renaissance effect’. The fundamental argument that supports this so-called Renaissance effect is in fact that of the continuity between the craftsmanship of the Renaissance age and today's fashion houses; a continuity, however, that has been elaborated through ‘manipulations’ of history which are in part simplistic and in part distorted.