Open House International: Sustainable & Smart Architecture and Urban Studies (OHI)

Open House International: Sustainable & Smart Architecture and Urban Studies (OHI) is an interdisciplinary research journal in architecture, building technology, housing, urban design and planning. Open House International: Sustainable & Smart Architecture and Urban Studies (OHI) is an interdisciplinary research journal in built environment studies speaking to the disciplines and areas of interest in architecture, building technology, housing, urban design and planning. The journal aims at establishing effective links between theory and design and education and practice in these fields. Placing emphasis on international collaboration, and global south/global north dialectics, the key objectives of the journal are to: Promote research and practice towards addressing the full spectrum of sustainable development and whenever possible relate to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). OHI publishes articles in the following two areas as they relate to the built environment. Socially and culturally sustainable architecture and urbanism This area involves a range of topics that include action planning; affordable homes; building and urban design; building design & planning for social sustainability; culture and built form; gender issues in design; habitat agenda; housing planning and production; slum improvement and redevelopment; socio-spatial justice; user participation; vernacular architecture and self-built housing development. Built environment tectonics and technologies This area involves topics that include building technologies and materiality; building performance and energy simulation and conservation strategies; environmental planning and design; open building; prefabrication and industrialisation; restoration and conservation technologies; tectonics of traditional and contemporary architecture; and application of information technologies in design and construction processes.

Open House International: Sustainable & Smart Architecture and Urban Studies (OHI) is :-

• International, Peer-Reviewed, Open Access, Refereed, Architecture, Urban Design, Urban Planning, Housing Studies, Building Technology, Sustainable Development, Environmental Design , Online or Print , Quarterly Journal

• UGC Approved, ISSN Approved: P-ISSN P-ISSN: 0168-2601, E-ISSN: 2633-9838, Established: 1976, Impact Factor: 1.6
• Provides Crossref DOI

• Not indexed in Scopus, WoS, DOAJ, PubMed, UGC CARE