Courtyard Compact House: Alternative Living Pattern for Urban Context in Tropical Regions
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This article proposes the idea of the courtyard compact house, an alternative living pattern for urban
context in tropical regions. A plan configuration of courtyard compact house integrates between the contemporary
notion of compact house and the advantage of courtyard house from the past by applying an open
courtyard for creating an individual outdoor space into an efficient planning of compact house. The open
courtyard area not rather serves a variety of social activities in family life but also fits into tropical climate
owing to a natural ventilation design method. This design strategy might be an alternative for sufficient architecture
in limited area. The contents of this article include history and development of the courtyard house, the compact house, and the courtyard compact house configuration in Thailand and other South East Asian
countries. Furthermore, at the end of this article demonstrates the roles of this contemporary design vocabulary
reflecting the social and environmental dimensions which are important issues for the development of
tropical sustainable architecture in urban context.
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