For an onlooker its an ordinary 75-sq.m single-bedroom house in Australia. Developed by Architect Bill McCorkell and builder David Martin, directors of Archiblox, the house has won several ...
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Usually, Green features are included in a building at the time of its construction. Retrofitting of old buildings with Green features is not a rare thing but is ...
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Green building is the call of mother Earth. It is an approach that emphasize the place of buildings within both local ecosystems and in global environment. It increases ...
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Does Vernacular architecture vary from one climatic zone to another? The answer is a simple Yes. Though Vernacular forms of architecture are diverse in their layout, form, building ...
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Puma Punku (Pumapunku) is the unfinished temple in a southern valley of the Lake Titicaca Basin in modern-day Bolivia. Puma Punku, meaning “Door of the Jaguar” in the ...
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The ‘vernacular’, in India, is carried out, especially in Southern India without the help of architects and professionals. Building activity is regulated by a long tradition that stretches ...
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In the context of Indian cities, what is development? How can architecture be made a sustainable resource, to facilitate development as well as be made available to future ...
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Architecture today is discriminated by cold hard, machine made building materials. Different countries have different approaches to this problem. For ages, men built dwellings that were closest at ...
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