International Journal of Architecture, Arts and Applications

Special Issue

Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design

  • Submission Deadline: Jul. 20, 2018
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Yupeng Wang
About This Special Issue
Architecture design and urban development is providing a huge effect to the current living environment. Facing to the environmental challenges such like the depletion of natural resources, the deterioration of indoor and outdoor air quality, human thermal comfort and aging society, architecture and urban designers are required to carry out the design that combined with the consideration of related technologies. From the view of sustainable architecture design, Researches related to sustainable building evaluation and technology development are focusing on individual buildings. For sustainable urban design, the environmental effects from building layout and building facade design, as well as vegetation planting should be evaluated. Therefore, sustainable development has to be carried with consideration and discussion in various levels and process of the urban expansion.
The aim of this special issue named Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design is to gather researches for solving the comprehensive environmental problems and trying to break the barriers among different design fields.

Aims and Scope:
Sustainable architectural design and technology
Architecture energy consumption
Indoor environmental evaluation
Urban geometry design
Urban climate change
Sustainable society and urban planning
Lead Guest Editor
  • Yupeng Wang

    School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Guest Editors
  • Yi Sun

    Department of Information Systems, Kobe Institute of Computing ,Graduate School of Information Technology, Kobe, Japan

  • Tao Zhang

    Department of Architecture, University of Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Japan

  • Liyang Fan

    Department of Urban Development, Nikken Sekkei Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan

  • Ahmet Akay

    Department of Landscape Architecture, Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey

  • Ren Xiangfang

    School of Design, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China

  • Dian Zhou

    School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

  • Zhe Sun

    Department of Landscape Architecture/ College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing, China

  • Dingqing Zhang

    School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

  • Hongyi Wang

    School of Architecture and Art, Central South University, Changsha, China

  • Jun Lu

    School of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Chengdu University, Chengdu, China

  • Huan Zhang

    College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  • Yuanwen Zhang

    College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, HeBei University, Baoding, China

  • Yuan Su

    Architecture and Fine Art School, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China

  • Victor Konstantinovich Kolobaev

    Department of Foreign Languages, North-western State Medical University, Saitn Petersburg, Russian Federation

  • Arezou Aghaei Kutanaei

    Department of Art and Architecture, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

  • Mohammad Nikafrooz

    Department of Linguistics and Foreign Languages, Ahvaz Branch, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran