https://journals.vilniustech.lt/index.php/JAU/issue/feed 2025-02-21T18:30:42+02:00 Prof. Almantas Liudas Samalavičius almantas.liudas.samalavicius@vilniustech.lt Open Journal Systems <p>The Journal of Architecture and Urbanism publishes original research on all aspects of urban architecture. <a href="https://journals.vilniustech.lt/index.php/JAU/about">More information ...</a></p> https://journals.vilniustech.lt/index.php/JAU/article/view/21202 2025-01-27T18:30:15+02:00 Tuğçe Çelik tugce.celik@ostimteknik.edu.tr

<p>This study presents a design method aimed at visualizing cultural heritage through the architecture of ancient Egypt using modern technologies. With the deepening of the digital age, the use of digital technology and artificial intelligence in cultural heritage research has become an important tool for renewing and disseminating period architecture. The reason for choosing the interior spaces of ancient Egypt as a sample in this study is that, in addition to leaving a rich heritage in the field of architecture, ancient Egypt offers distinct period architecture in terms of space-light relationship. As a result of literature review, keywords related to architecture and the relationship between space and light in the Ancient Period were identified, and the study was visualized using the state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technology of today, namely human-computer interaction combined with text-to-image technology. The motivation and aim of this study is to demonstrate the role of reanimating cultural heritage like ancient period architectures in the computer environment based on interpretation, contributing to architectural sustainability, and spreading to future periods.</p>

2025-01-27T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2025 The Author(s). Published by Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. https://journals.vilniustech.lt/index.php/JAU/article/view/21695 2025-02-21T18:30:42+02:00 Francesco Carota francesco.carota@ku.edu

<p>This paper focuses on the practices, innovations and design regarding housing supply developed by a single Chinese private real estate company, China Vanke Co. Ltd. between 1979 and 2016. In the last 5 decades, China experienced a period of rapid urbanization, accompanied by the introduction of numerous economic and institutional reforms impacting the nation’s model of housing supply. Significant changes disrupted the urban housing sector in the country, shifting the main supply system from a public welfare model to a market-driven one. Within this time span, most new residential properties were developed and marketed by large real estate enterprises, which became crucial players in establishing the new housing market. While there is an extensive body of literature examining China’s housing market formation and progression, most of these studies focus on the economic and social aspects of housing, including factors such as affordability, inequality, governance, preferences and choices. Single real estate firms’ innovations, as well as the links between housing designs and market supply and demand, have yet to be thoroughly explored. This latter area represents thus the main focus of this paper. Expanding from the specific case of Vanke, this paper seeks to discuss the innovative processes of a real estate enterprise and the role of a single company in shaping new housing designs, based on supply and demand transformations.</p>

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