In the recent decades, internal displacements occur in greater number across the world each year without drawing much attention. To minimise the causes and attenuate the consequences of displacement, governments and other ...

Shakharibazar in Old Dhaka, one of the first streets to be built in the region of South Asia, is a sanctuary to a very specific ethnic group, and the only known home to some craftsmen. Shop house is the generic archetype ...

Several attempts have been made at supplying water into informal settlements, although none investigate bringing the water into each individual home. Our proposition is to form a pipe network connecting to node units ...

In the recent technological advancement, role of institution becomes facilitator in the learning process, where knowledge and skills are acquired through guidance and self indulgence. In that process the space confined ...

The aim of the research paper is to focus on the diminishing ‘heritage values’ of the city which causes impact on human intellect. Whilst city is a multipart of its inherent traditional and historic manners. With the rapid ...

Dreaming of a future condition for our own beloved cities, we always think that, the problems those we are facing today would not being faced tomorrow. Besides this, the city will blend harmoniously with natural environment ...

Driving is an action of humans, which allows him/her motion through space from place to place. The road landscape creates the character and the spatial quality, which is vital to decide the driving safe. ‘Southern Expressway’, ...

The study highlights a scenario in respect to a range of neutral temperatures specific to naturally ventilated residential buildings in climatic zones of Sri Lanka and occupants' behavioural adaptations such as clothing, ...

This paradigm regarding architecture focuses on the people as being the pivotal line of focus therefore we designed an ephemeral city for refugees in times of the pressing refugee crisis. This concept of ‘urbanity in motion’ ...

This study investigates the emergency preparedness of the hospitality industry in Sri Lanka, focusing on hotels and restaurants in the southern coastal belt. A questionnaire on emergency preparedness was provided to 30 ...