Neighbourhoods are the most-local communities of human habitat. Inhabitants sense that they intuitively realize what a ‘good neighbourhood’ mean, for their satisfaction, with the degree of neighbourly interactions; mutual support, gathering places, convenient and appealing environment, or in a ‘bad neighbourhood’, for dissatisfaction; danger, anti- social interaction, exclusiveness, isolation, inconvenience, and dereliction. In this paper, the inquiry into both architectural and environmental behaviour, is a growing body of qualitative, descriptive research, focusing on human responsiveness to a place, a neighbourhood. Particularly the study expresses neighbourhood as built environments, converging to the environmental experiences of residents. In response, they are the non-physical sensual component of built forms and spaces that refines the built environment inscribing a living quality into it. The study investigates the physical formation of the neighbourhood and it reveals the degree, of user satisfaction; to which the neighbourhood space is sensed from the viewpoint of inhabitant engagement.

Glass is a common material used in buildings, mainly for penestration purposes. Although the physical properties and performance data of the wide variety of glass can be easily obtained from technical literature, their performances under specific environmental conditions are not commonly known. While the technical literature presents performance data under laboratory conditions, the same under ambient conditions are not available. However, the post application performance of glass largely depends on the external environmental conditions. This paper attempts to understand the performance of popularly used variety of glasses under tropical urban climatic conditions of Sri Lanka. It presents the' findings of an experiment conducted under ambient conditions, using a scaled model of a typical office building.