Yassine Bada

• Université de Biskra

The rural area of the southern slope of the ‘Aurès’ massif represents a significant model of a very particular way of life, which depends not only on the impact of its physical environment, but also on its own culture. That is to say that this rural community seems to be defined according to a dialectical relationship with the society that produced...

Culture influences the way people develop and use urban spaces. These are voids between and around buildings intended for public and private use. It consists of many categories of well-defined open spaces, though, some are being categorised as an ‘undefined’ spaces, referred to in this study as the in-between spaces. This work explores the relation...

Although the thermal comfort benefits of shade in warm areas are well known, empirical work on the link between public space use and shade pattern from hot, arid cities remain poorly investigated. The aim of the present study is to investigate the correlation between shadow pattern, outdoor thermal comfort and human behaviour, according to the inte...

Previous studies on urban space have shown that space syntax can be predictive of users’ movement in the urban space. These users are standardized and their mobility is studied according to the configuration and geometry of the urban fabric. But how can other variables related to users’ socio-economic status and body conditions be included in these...

This work is part of an ongoing research on the impact of urban structure on public squares in Bejaia city (Algeria). This paper will investigate the relationship between the configuration of the urban structure and the use and attractiveness of public squares in Bejaia city. Assuming, from space syntax theory, that urban space configuration extrem...

Gender segregation is considered a significant problem in the modern period, where urban planning may play a role in facilitating male and female use of public spaces, or overlook their different needs in the city. Urban spatial use has been linked to many factors in previous studies. One important factor to consider here is the pattern of land-use...

In Algeria, people with disabilities often struggle with the inaccessibility of cities. These problems are related to accessibility and physical barriers in the urban environment, and have a negative impact on the lives of people with disabilities, who are prevented from carrying out daily tasks and from moving freely in attractive and desirable pl...

Purpose This paper provides an analysis of the vernacular houses of the city of Biskra, in the north-eastern Algerian Sahara. The aim is to examine the underlying genotype of the spatial configuration of the city's vernacular house plans and to consider the parameters that influence the domestic arrangement and phenotypic aspects of the house lay...

The city is a coherent whole with a structure and a meaning, and streets play a very important role in its functioning and represent its framework. Unfortunately, some cities, such as Bejaia, are facing many problems such as the disparities in the use of urban spaces like streets, and this between different parts of the city. The questions which th...

In Algeria, the National Agency for Spatial Planning (ANAT) reports over-consumption of land and an increasing rate of urbanization. Faced with this observation, a legislative and regulatory mechanism was promulgated between 1990 and 2000, making spatial planning a tool for sustainable territorial development. The article questions the effectivenes...

Consideration of the five senses and emotions is not well explored in the urban environment. Different fields deal with the influence of the physical environment on human experience. However, the role of the multi-sensory experience and affectivity in selecting the itinerary for pedestrian mobility is not yet well studied. Several methods have been...

The understanding of the relationship between outdoor activities and outdoor urban spaces is a complex issue, comprising a mutual study between urban space configuration and human behaviors aspect. Jan Gehl and Birgitte Svarre 1987 confirmed that when the outdoor areas are of high quality, the outdoor activity take place with the same frequency, an...

Abstract Urban complexity of the Algerian town, in this case the city of Biskra, consisting of a compilation of different fabrics through history (the old city, the colonial fabric, and the post-independence fabric), has produced several housing types. Therefore, a variety of domestic architecture has emerged; vernacular, colonial, self-built (ind...

The consideration of the five senses and emotions is not well explored in the urban environment. Different fields deal with the influence of physical environment on human experience. However, the role of the multi-sensory experience and affectivity in selecting the itinerary for pedestrian mobility is not yet well studied. Several methods were prop...

In Algeria, people with disabilities often struggle against the inaccessibility of cities, these problems related to accessibility, and physical barriers of the urban environment have a negative impact on the quality of life of people with physical disability, since it prevents them from carrying out their daily tasks and living their life in a ple...

The historical development of the city of Biskra, located in the southeastern part of Algeria, was the result of different and various civilizations overtime that produced different urban fabrics and different housing typologies. The houses from the Ottoman period known as vernacular architecture is characterized by its emergence inside the palm gr...

The quality of urban public space in general, and urban plazas in particular, has been a concern and a major challenge for designers in setting rules and principles to its layout and its design; functional and aesthetic. Environmental and behavioural research contributes importantly to the understanding of the interaction between user and space, to...

Open spaces provided in mass housing schemes is considered as one of largest issues in public mass housing, and their use by the inhabitants has been a concern and a topic of interest of many fields, where the focus is on inhabitant behavior in space according to either inhabitant/inhabitant or inhabitant/space relation. This open space constitutes...

A four-nodded rectangular finite element based on first-order shear deformation theory is used to investigate the dynamic behavior of thermally stressed angle-ply laminated composite plates. Total potential energy and Hamilton’s principles have been used to formulate stiffness, geometric and mass matrices. Assumed natural strain method has been emp...

This paper springs from the assumption that a good space is a used space and people's behavior, movement and use is directly related to the visual fields created by the spatial configuration i.e. visibility. It is also assumed that the use of space is governed by two major factors: Its attractiveness in terms of movement, i.e. how easy for people t...

This paper starts from the assumption that a good space is a used space and that people's behavior, movement and use, is primarily correlated to the potential of both the spatial structure and the visuals fields created by the spatial configuration: visibility. The success is attributable to "…how well the spatial configuration fits real pattern of...