Passive Cooling

Passive cooling techniques

Passive cooling uses cost-free and renewable sources of energy like the wind and sun to provide lighting, cooling, and ventilation for a house. It is a natural or passive way of cooling a building or space without using any mechanical or electrical devices…

Daylighting

Fenestration through daylight

Daylight is an important component of architecture in its historical, theoretical, and technical conceptions, with the ability to inspire people and illuminate design elements. Light’s aesthetic and psychological qualities are combined with building orientation, cross-section, interior finishes, window design, and integration with electric lighting in daylighting design principles. 

Gothic Architecture

Milan cathedral is an example of a Gothic Architectural Style

Gothic architecture is a kind of medieval European architecture that flourished from the middle of the 12th century through the 16th century and, in certain places, continued into the 17th and 18th centuries. [1] [2] [4] It developed from Romanesque architecture, and Renaissance architecture replaced it.

Earth Air Tunnel

Working of Earth Air Tunnel

An earth air tunnel, also known as an earth air heat exchanger, is an essential technique that is used for the pre-cooling or pre-heating of a system that consists of a pipe, duct, or tunnel network buried underground at a reasonable depth.

Corbusian

Corbusian is an adjective used to describe architecture in the same style as Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier was the popular name for the Swiss architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, one of the most famous architects to ever live. His modernist style was based on ideas of functionalism

Context

Example of Context in Architecture

The context in architecture is defined as the interconnection of circumstances that surround a specific place, site, or project and should be related to and connected in some way. The buildings and structures that comprise the built environment do not exist in isolation; rather,

Contextual architecture

Example of Contextual Architecture

Contextual architecture, also known as contextualism, refers to architecture that reflects the shapes, features, and geographical characteristics of the surrounding landscape. Mostly, the structure is designed in response to the urban and natural environment.

Contemporary Architecture

Burj khalifa

Contemporary architecture refers to the current style of architecture of the twenty-first century. Contemporary architecture deviates from late-20th-century contemporary architecture by including eco-friendly characteristics and embracing all forms of creativi

Colonial Architecture

colonial architecture in India

Colonial architecture is an architectural style from a mother country that has been incorporated into the buildings of settlements or colonies in distant locations. It happens when a country is colonized and begins to use architecture from the country that colonized

Classical Architecture

Colosseum, Rome, Italy

Classical architecture refers to the architecture of ancient Greeks and Romans, especially between the 5th century BCE in Greece and the 3rd century CE in Rome, and is characterized by symmetry, columns, rectangular windows, marble, etc. Greek architecture was primarily built on the post-and-beam system,