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Sustainable Neighborhoods: West Bay, Business District of Doha (State of Qatar)
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Scholars Middle East Publishers
, 2018 , Article)
Over the past two decades in Qatar, designers and planners focused on design
merits of high-rise buildings and the impact on the skyline and the city image,
discarding the integration of the buildings with the ground ...
Sustainable Neighborhoods in the State of Qatar: Msheireb Downtown Doha
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Scholars Middle East Publishers
, 2018 , Article)
Over the past three decades, rapid urban sprawl, a changing economy, and shifting demographics have caused rapid developments, which included the urban regeneration of existing neighborhoods. In the 1940s, after oil and ...
Adaptive model of thermal comfort for office buildings in GCC
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nations top the world in CO2 emissions/ capita. However, plummeting oil prices and increasing energy demands necessitate rethinking on thermal comfort delivery. This region has warm desert ...
The Way-Finding in Educational Modular Buildings: The Case of the Male Engineering Building at Qatar University
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Hindawi Limited
, 2018 , Article)
Way-finding is the ability of people to perceive routes, flow patterns, or passageways inside and/or around a building. In other words, it is the capability of a person to know their whereabouts in a space. Modular buildings ...
Emerging factors shaping the identity of local urban districts the case of Doha
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Forms, Designs and symbols are components of the built environment that communicate information about the place and its identity to users. Users discern information from their environmental settings, combined with their ...
Light Rail Transit and Land Use in Qatar: An Integrated Planning Strategy for the Impelmentation of West Bay Al Sadd Al Wakra Tod'S
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
The research study aligns with the social sciences, art and humanities, themes of the main research priority areas of the four ARC'18 pillars (The Context) Recent Transit oriented development in Qatar embodies transportation ...
Towards an integrated urban design: investigation of tod in the cultural core of doha MSHEIREB SOUQ WAQIF NATIONAL MUSEUM
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Sustainable urban design of cities in the 21st century is challenged by serious problems centered around the over-dependency on the car as a the main transportation system. The car has generated problems of urban inefficiency, ...
Population Growth and Housing Affordability in Doha Metropolitan: Challenges and Opportunities
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Urban issues are increasingly considered on national policy programs. Cities are major contributors to national economies and play a key role as nodes in the global market. As with any urban area with an emerging history, ...