The Impact of Building Façade Reflectivity on Pedestrian Visual Comfort with the Application of Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling

The rapid urban development promotes the need for skyscrapers, which vastly adopt a modern architecture design using reflective materials on the façade of the building, particularly for the aesthetic purpose. Nevertheless, outdoor glare or reflected daylight from a highly reflective building façade may cause visual and thermal discomforts for the residents in the neighborhood buildings and outdoor pedestrians. This might cause uncomfortable glare for individuals outside the building. The amount of glare will be higher as a result of greater solar radiation obtained all year round in tropical countries. Regression and presently structural equation modeling are the best-known statistical modeling in approximating the connection between building facade reflectivity and pedestrian’s visual performance. Nevertheless, those methodologies have their own limitations. The primary aim of this research is to compare the effect of building facade reflectivity on pedestrian visual comfort by using four core statistical approximation approaches which include regression, partial least square, structural equation modeling with maximum likelihood estimator, and structural equation modeling with Bayesian estimator. The present study introduces a novel as well as practical modeling and predicting concepts for investigators and specialists in the building façade reflectivity study field

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Beauty Treatment and Spa Design from Islamic Perspective

AbstractThe paper aims to study design and spatial relationship in health & beauty treatment by blending modern setting within Islamic perspective. The chosen case studies are Islamic Spa in Klang Valley adopted Islamic Spa Practice (ISP). The methodology used is on-site observation and survey questionnaires. Outcome from the research shown that respondents agreed and satisfied with the design aspect also the implementation of ISP within the selected case studies. Based on Malaysia cases, it is imperative to apply and develop the design according to the ISP as it is a flourishing tourism industries based on specific niche market

Confirmatory factor analysis of Post-Occupancy Evaluation Model (POEM) for sustainable neighborhood development

The sustainable urban development growth in the ASEAN region has accelerated tremendously. More demand on the sustainable development has led to bigger market driven certified green neighborhood and buildings. However, there is a lack of post-occupancy evaluation study conducted in assessing the end-users perspective on the certified sustainable neighborhood development. This paper aims to investigate the end-users point of view on sustainable dimension pillar (SDP) adaptation based on environment dimension, social dimension and economic dimension using Post-Occupancy Evaluation Model (POEM) framework. The research methodology employed stakeholders-Inclusion Approach survey questionnaires in order to obtained the sustainable dimensional adaptation score. The results show that there is sustainable dimension gap in POEM evaluation, hence, suggested the pre- occupancy criteria did not fulfill the SDP adaptation and pre-occupancy criteria and variables if differ from post-occupancy criteria and variables