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Climate change poses a significant challenge to infrastructure worldwide, with asphalt pavements particularly vulnerable due to their temperature-sensitive properties. Jordan-s pavement infrastructure faces escalating challenges due to climate change, including rising temperatures and increasing environmental stressors. This study investigates the impact of climate change on asphalt road pavements in Jordan, focusing on the period from 2020 to 2050. Using advanced machine learning algorithms integrated with mathem...

The Creative Urban Workshop provided by architects and artists from RTU at Vienna SGEM international conference at December 2025 regarding Islandes Square, Kipsala, Riga, invites international experts and activists to give collaboratively envision a vibrant, multifunctional, and ecologically responsible public space. Positioned as the future -gate- to the RTU campus, Islandes Square offers a unique opportunity to integrate human-scaled urbanism with sustainable design. The workshop includes an introductory talk, o...

In this article we started from the global warming trends due to climate change. These are leading to an increase in the heat risk index, particularly in areas where green infrastructure is lacking, where the population is dense and multi-storey residential buildings are dense. This is the reason why we first proposed a bibliometric study resulting from the growing interest in such analyses using GIS technology. The next step was the development of an automatic model based on specific features and its application ...

Housing and sustainable living are two main preoccupations for architects onward with tracking the purpose of housing to meet people-s need of shelter and the purpose for healthy lifestyle. Achieving the first purpose considers the impact scale on the natural environment and on the social and community dimensions. The second purpose views the relation to nature through building techniques and materials, spaces, and the living context. Saxon settlements from Transylvania are analyzed to identify the model of living...

Buildings consume a large quantity of energy owing to their constant operation and long lifespan. Building-energy simulations are an important element of the decision-making process because they allow designers to examine the energy and comfort effects of various building design alternatives. In hot and arid climate conditions, cooling tends to dominate building thermal energy use. Cooling loads can be reduced through the adoption of efficient building envelope materials. This study investigates the optimal thickn...

Students offer a sight both towards society and to the core of creative academic scope. They represent a segment of the population and also an academic canvas. This dichotomy is reflected in the creative outcome guided in academic spectrum. On the one hand, these typologies show the social ?taste? for beauty and society?s view upon interior architecture and design. On the other hand, they show guided directions and academic accepted models. Interior architecture didactic projects of 4th-year architecture students ...

Egypt is characterized by a hot desert climate. Most of the residential building occupants suffering from indoor environment because of the high indoor Temperature and the majority of buildings have poor design related to the climate. This paper investigates different passive design strategies to enhance energy efficient design and increase the performance of thermal comfort in a typical residential building in New Minia, Egypt. The approaches are conducted by computational IDA ICE 4.7.1 program to simulate differ...

According to research, global climate change is largely caused by excessive economic development and a consequence of CO2 emission and other gases as well as the production of heat caused by the urbanization of the world. It is estimated that 30% of the blame for causing global warming bears the building sector. The architecture has therefore in this respect unusual tasks to perform. Firstly, it is the task of creating new buildings and conversion of existing buildings in a way to maximize reduction of CO2 emissio...