Purpose: This paper set out to uncover the advice available to help people take effective action within our home to improve mental health. The literature and professions are virtually silent on the issue. The professional advice is often the opposite suggesting we should get out of our homes - go for a walk, exercise, play...

Purpose: To clarify how regional differences in residential environment impact healthy life expectancy. Methodology: Define healthy life expectancy and considered how to measure and calculate it. Calculated healthy life expectancy for 1,750 municipalities in Japan in 2005 and 2010. Results: It was confirmed that 1% of the decrease of proportion of housing constructed before 1970...

Expansion and modification processes are ordinary matters that applied to many houses in Bangkok, Thailand. Evidences are depicted in various scales of construction, from floor extension to the modification of house structure, in order to accommodate with the new function. Although, there are studies that addressed the topic of expansion in architectural field but those...

Temperature is known to have impact on human health. In estimating such health effects outdoor temperature data are usually used as proxy for temperature exposure due to scarcity of indoor temperature data though humans spend most of their time indoor. Thus there is a need to investigate how outdoor temperature relates to indoor temperature especially...

Purpose / Context – Studies of building design and economic feasibility for energy-efficient refurbishments often utilise average temperatures for the heated space in a dwelling. As even small deviations have a significant impact on the resulting energy demand, an occupant-centred simulation is necessary for more precise evaluations and recommendations. Methodology / Approach – An Agent-based...