OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Open House International is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)

Article	Citations
A case study on a flexible floor plan design for South Korean apartments using two types of margins	23
Re-enterprising the unplanned urban areas of Greater Cairo- a social innovation perspective	22
Vernacular architecture of Turkish eastern Black Sea region: a case study in Senoz (Büyükdere) Valley	16
An analysis of the spatial qualities of the waterfronts: conceptual proposal projects for Istanbul Sarayburnu	14
Re-considering core housing: transformations by aided self-help residents in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia	14
Exploring the spatial distribution pattern and influencing factors of Shanghai's cultural functional elements based on the point of interest data	13
Guest editorial	13
Modeling the critical barrier factors to hindering sustainable construction: sampling the Turkish construction industry	12
Crowding between urban planning and environmental psychology: guidelines for bridging the gap	12
Social sustainability of cultural heritage: Erzurum great mosque (Atabey mosque)	12
Architectural design research through reflection: a sub-approach under “research by design”	11
Exploring the sense of place of traditional shopping streets through Instagram’s visual images and narratives	11
The influence of sense of place dimensions on visitors' conservation behavioral intention: the case of Semarang Old Town, Indonesia	10
A geometry-based decomposition method for energy prediction in early design stages of residential buildings	9
Contextualized computations: a multi-objective optimization approach for designing contextually responsive building envelopes	9
Factors influencing collective action of gated communities: a systematic review using an SES framework	9
Application of green building concepts and technologies for sustainable building development in Sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Ghana	9
Municipal infrastructure management using smart city landscape design and sustainable architecture technologies	7
Prioritizing user preferences for quasi – Public space by using analytic hierarchy process (AHP): bursa Podyum park, Turkey case	7
A material-based computation framework for parametric design education	7
The evolution of privacy in contemporary houses in Iran using space syntax techniques: a case study of Kerman	6
Teaching parametric design: fostering algorithmic thinking through incomplete recipes	6
Analysis of transparent building envelope renovations for indoor thermal comfort in an educational building	6
Housing demand of urban fringe residents and underlying causes: example of Ankara, Türkiye	6
Integrating virtual reality technology into architecture education: the case of architectural history courses	6

Numerical evaluation of pedestrian-level wind and indoor thermal comfort of a historical monument, Muğla, Turkey	6
Numerical investigation of optimal wall materials for effective thermal performance in warm and hot climatic regions	6
Findings from a field study of urban microclimate in Korea using mobile meteorological measurements	6
Unpacking the concept of 20-minute neighbourhoods: disentangling “desired outcomes” from the “means” available for achieving them	6
The evolution of female space in Korean vernacular houses in Yanbian: the influence of social logic on spatial configuration	6
Supporting, tinkering, adjusting and resisting: a typology of user translations of the built environment	6
Generative design experiments with artificial intelligence: reinterpretation of shape grammar	6
The planning of smart elderly housing in Dubai with IoT technologies	5
Where is the basic community infrastructure? Seeking for rural community transformation through community infrastructure planning in Sarawak, Malaysia	5
Socio-spatial appropriations in dwellings of Cairo during lockdown: lessons learned for the post-pandemic era	5
Users' role in applying biophilic attributes to the interiors of residential spaces	5
Modeling the construction readiness parameters for abandoned housing projects in Malaysia: PLS-SEM approach	5
Labor camps in Dubai: implications of courtyard regulations on daylight performance	5
Biomimicry in the built environment: energy-saving assessment of a novel biomimetic window system	5
University campuses’ location-allocation: a case study of Egypt with insights from the Japanese context	5
Geometric analysis of early Ottoman tombs within the context of conservation studies	5
Transformations and appropriations of the in-between spaces in Cairo	4
Towards a human-centred approach for enhancing place prosperity: defining and operating within the basic human needs	4
An adaptive thermal comfort model for naturally ventilated classrooms of technical institutions in Madurai	4
Exploring immersive learning technology as learning tools in experiential learning for architecture design education	4
Crafting an urban restorative model from bibliometric analysis of neuro-urbanism literature	4
Origin, development and evolution: the space construction and cultural motivations of Shi Gandang temple in Macau	4
The mediating role of sense of belonging in the relationship between the built environment and victimisation: a case of Penang, Malaysia	4
City identity and singularity: people's preferences about development projects in Cairo	4
Implementation of BIM-based model checking technology for managing maintenance planning in green building ecosystem	4