University of Prishtina, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Kosovo

  • Humongous Traffic Rhythm: Urbane Fulmination for Parking Spaces in Prishtina

    Cities are complex organisms, it can be conceptually considered that cities are locally and regionally specific. Pristina in 1486-1487 had only 392 houses and 10 neighborhoods, while in 1689 it was spatially developed with 4000 houses. Pristina became Kosovo’s administrative center in 1947, where it had begun to be developed with institutional and urban infrastructure.…

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  • Design and Art Guidelines for Complex Structures

    Drawn words are better recalled than written! Furthermore, pictures are better remembered than items studied as words even when test items are presented as words, clearly, and evidently presented in many conducted research tests. The picture superiority effect showed a clear developmental trend. Designing commercial buildings poses urban and compositional challenges, especially when the production…

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  • Architecture: COLLECTION OF RESEARCH PAPERS PUBLISHED AT THE JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, HUMANITIES AND ARTS “JOSHA”

    The collection contains the research papers published from 14 September 2016, till 9 July 2018 at the Journal of Science, Humanities and Arts – JOSHA. The collection contents papers of the Architectural Design scientific field, followed by discussion and citations by various authors as the scientific comparative references. There are seven research papers, organized by…

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  • THE VERTICAL FARM – Part 2, Architectural Design Principles

    This is a second part of the monograph entitled Vertical Farm – Architectural Design Principles, also, this part discusses and reflects the standards, technical details of the Vertical Farm – Architectural Design Principles, accompanied by photographs, drawings, sketches and case studies. The core of this monograph are the student works as design models for future…

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  • ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN: A PHOTO MONOGRAPH 100+ PHOTO STUDENT WORKS

    The photo monograph incorporates professional works of the Architectural Design courses, followed by student models, photos, discussion and citations by various authors as the academic comparative references. The core of this photo monograph are the student works, design models for the future generations, and it is intended as the basic literature of Bachelor and Master…

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  • Creativity of Interactive Academic Education for Sustainable Urban Development

    Education for sustainable development is a process with a primary role to protect and use the environment, to manage spatial planning and urban development as a whole holistic system. In relation to education for sustainable development, the creativity of urban planning and design can significantly improve quality of life of their urbanites. Hence, students and…

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  • Visual Organization of Industrial Functional Compositions

    Historically, Kosovo’s industry has gone through various stages of its development and fully dependent on the economic system. In general, Kosovo’s industrial development was based on the exploitation of raw materials and their processing to a certain degree, but not to a satisfactory degree of processing and finalization. The diversity of industrial building design must…

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  • Measuring Vitality of the Ottoman Public Space in Kosovo Cities

    This paper elaborates the vitality of the Ottoman public spaces in Kosovo Cities, generated by the public sphere of the contemporary city life. It analyses the public life in the main public space in four cities in Kosovo related to • Urban morphology – the structure and the position in the city, which relates also…

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  • Research Centres and Laboratories – Part 2. Architectural Design Principles

    This is a second part of the monograph entitled Research Centres and Laboratories – Architectural Design Principles, also, this part discusses and reflects the standards and design guidelines, accompanied with charts, photographs, drawings, and sketches. The textbook is divided into four extensive chapters. The first chapter, present and elaborates the intro of architectural design challenges.…

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  • Building Rating System: Kosovar imperative in sustainable context

    The purpose of this paper is to identify and establish an understanding for the importance of Building Rating System (BRS) and insights of a detailed survey of the building’s specifications in compliance literally stated in requirements of Construction Industry Law in Kosovo. BRS will be used as a comprehensive tool to deliver a report to…

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