The Infinite Scroll and the Infinite Corridor: What Architects Can Learn From Screen Addiction
How Digital Psychology Research Reveals the Hidden Logic of Public Space Design and Studio CultureInside a large shopping mall, there…
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Architectural Research
Research and critical inquiry into how buildings and cities are conceived, used and transformed. Articles examine spatial behaviour, design methods, technology and environmental performance, connecting architectural questions with evidence and their implications for practice.
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The Skin That Erodes in Silence
What Research on Skin Acidity Reveals About Our Failure to Design Care Environments for the ElderlyThere is a quiet paradox…
When the Studio Becomes a Stage: The Hidden Cost of Surviving Architectural Critique
How does social masking convert into academic burnout fuel for neurodivergent students?There is a harsh paradox at the core of…
The Architecture of Not Enough
Architecture serves as an economic ledger for low-income families, reflecting and reinforcing their financial status. Land costs and tenure security…
When the City Has More Buildings Than People
Modern urban planning historically assumes growth, yet many cities now face population decline. This creates a mismatch between long-lasting architecture…
Sand Batteries: When the Building Begins to Store Heat
Sand batteries store energy as heat within granular solids rather than through electrochemical processes. Excess electricity or solar energy heats…
The Prison of Borrowed Air: How Air Conditioning Systems Reshape Human Health Within Sealed Spaces
Modern architecture underwent a structural transformation when it transitioned from stone masonry equipped with natural apertures and windcatchers to sealed…
The Sealed Box Trap: How Air Conditioning Systems Transformed into Mechanical Vectors for Health Risks
Reevaluating the Environmental Engineering of Indoor Spaces Between Climatic Imperative and Air Quality CrisesOne of the central paradoxes in modern…
Batteries on Wheels: How Electric Vehicles Are Reshaping Urban Infrastructure
Garage Walls and Urban Grids Shift from Passive Energy Consumers to Flexible Distributed GeneratorsPrivate automobiles spend nearly ninety-five percent of…
The Building That Could Not Find a Tenant
I watched a building fail in slow motion. It was finished on time, it was structurally sound, its facade photographed…
2005: My Graduation Research on a Site That Became Part of the Grand Mosque Courtyards
This archival study examines the vertical development of Jabal Turk, a mountain formerly located near Makkah’s Grand Mosque. Originally a…
When Did the Toilet Enter the House?
The history of the bathroom is a non-linear evolution of waste management, bathing, and water access. While ancient civilizations integrated…
Living Shields Above Arid Planets: How Extreme Plant Bio-Engineering Reshapes Space Envelopes and Smart Architectural Systems
As humanity prepares to establish its first permanent settlements on the Moon and Mars, and to expand the construction of…
Engineering Human Behavior: How Architectural Spaces Shape Our Hidden Motivations
A Psychological Anatomy of Built Environments and Design Studios Between Controlled Constraint and Autonomous FreedomA striking paradox marks the contemporary…
When the Owl Teaches the Machine to Be Silent
The barn owl’s stealth flight inspires a new generation of quiet drones — and may yet reshape the acoustic landscape…
Why Don’t Architecture Schools Teach Students to “Think”?
A Lesson from Euclid’s Ancient Geometry on How Architectural Curricula Should Be Built, Step Upon StepPicture a third-year architecture student…
When Society Refuses to Dissolve
Subcultures and the Built Environment: From Chicago Streets to the Architecture StudioA paradox sits at the center of every modern…
Software Abandonment: Why Users Discard Digital Tools the Same Way They Abandon Architectural Space
How the science of app abandonment explains the failure of BIM projects, engineering collaboration platforms, and perhaps certain urban spaces…
When Makkah Looked to the Sky and Jeddah Looked to the Sea
Stand on the mountains above Makkah four hundred years ago and you would not have seen a single ship. Stand…
Architecture of Reclaimed Land: How Fine Clay Sediments Dictate the Limits of Waterfront Urban Expansion
Contemporary urban master plans increasingly aim to transform waterfronts and ports into floating cities and high-end coastal districts, yet the…
Architecture of Restriction and Passage: How Borders and Norms Re-engineer Female Space in West of the Jordan
In urban planning and architecture, walls transform from structural elements safeguarding privacy into explicit mechanisms of social control; they dictate…
