The Qualitative Interrelation between Open Spaces and Living Standards in a Residential Complex

From the early 50s onwards the major Iranian cities were subject to a massive immigration. The immediate solution to this crisis was residential complex in the less populated areas. After few decades of accommodating a large number of new citizens in these residential complexes, while having a limited open space, created physical, functional, semantic, environmental, and social problems. Today, the new challenge that confronted the designers and architectures of this field is therefore how to improve the quality of both open spaces and the living condition of the inhabitances and at the same time being able to compete in the housing market with budgetary restrictions on their expenditures.© 2016. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. 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, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.Keywords: Residential complex open space; open space factors; FAN

Assessing Circadian Stimulus Potential of Lighting Systems in Office Buildings by Simulations

Daylighting research has been primarily focused on the visible light spectrum for enhancing the quality and quantity of light in the built environment. Lighting design has been focusing on the reduction of glare and illuminance availability. A new assessment approach has been developed in recent years to address the non-visual effect of light such as circadian entrainment and alertness. The first objective of this study is to evaluate the glazing performance in terms of circadian stimulus potential, visual comfort, and task performance. The second objective is to evaluate the circadian stimulus potential of artificial lights. ALFA is used to measure the three glazing performance at eye-level in office spaces. Equivalent melanopic lux is measured at 1075 virtual nodes over 12 hours on March 21st. Results show that the electrochromic three zones system performs the best among the three glazing options

The Qualitative Interrelation between Open Spaces and Living Standards in a Residential Complex

From the early 50s onwards the major Iranian cities were subject to a massive immigration. The immediate solution to this crisis was residential complex in the less populated areas. After few decades of accommodating a large number of new citizens in these residential complexes, while having a limited open space, created physical, functional, semantic, environmental, and social problems. Today, the new challenge that confronted the designers and architectures of this field is therefore how to improve the quality of both open spaces and the living condition of the inhabitances and at the same time being able to compete in the housing market with budgetary restrictions on their expenditures