Historical buildings and monuments of built heritage in Albania suffered great damages during the earthquake of 26 November 2019. Most of them have a structural system of traditional load bearing stone masonry. Field ...

Cities, as a source of and a solution to modern challenges (such as financial crisis or health related crisis), are complex systems that give urban policies broad spatial significance. Creating and implementing urban ...

Bazaar is the most liveable part of any city in middle east. Mostly covered (less uncovered streets or Rastehes) public space which was the most interactive part of the city specially in the past. Bazaar not only is ...

Earthquakes are natural phenomena that impact the life of inhabitants who live in zones prone to them. It is of great importance to understand the mechanism in order to undertake adequate precautions and design improvements ...

The purpose of the research is to study the way colors contribute to architectural form and space building and how color schemes correspond with inhabitants perception. Three famous buildings are analyses in the means of ...

In a century immersed in technological acceleration, documentation of heritage buildings is the preliminary action to solve any built heritage problem. The documentation procedure requires a wide range of quantitative and ...

Terms such as quality deviations, non-conformances, defects, quality failures, over budget and behind schedule are quite frequent in urban planning, architecture and civil engineering projects. The effort to analyze the ...

This research emphasizes the presence of daylight in architecture as an essential element of experiencing it. Spatial experience and its perception can be reached by the existence of light and its distribution. We treated ...

This research focuses on the Royal Residence of King “Zog I,” located in Durres, Albania. Designed at first as presidential palace and later reconceptualized as a summer royal residence this building was subject of different ...

As a process in evolution, AEC has started its project drafts with the use of two-dimensional (2D) drawings, later evolving with the three-dimensional (3D) drawings and space projection, with the very helpful tool, of ...