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Expressive Appropriateness In Contemporary Architectural Production, Suha Haddan ALdahwia, Binar Abdul-Hameed Al jaf 2026 Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology - Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq

Expressive Appropriateness In Contemporary Architectural Production, Suha Haddan Aldahwia, Binar Abdul-Hameed Al Jaf

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The concept of Appropriateness has emerged by thousands of years, since the architect Vitruvius, as one of the most important theoretical aspects that achieve integrated architecture. It has evolved over the years in the postmodern architecture to the importance of the recipient and his reading of the architectural text. The concept varied and numerous such as ( functional, structural, expressive , environmental, social, and economic) Appropriateness. The research emerged many of the architectural and non architectural studies related to the concept of Appropriateness, where achieved to the importance of the expressive side and expressive Appropriateness. The research identified problem as …


Sustainable Transportation And Urban Form, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Yahya Tayyeh Imran 2026 Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology- Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq

Sustainable Transportation And Urban Form, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Yahya Tayyeh Imran

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The development of the means of transportation lead to travelling to new areas, and settled in suburban, so it was necessary to study the relationship between sustainable transportation and urban form .The research problem was that (there was a gab about the role of sustainable transportation in urban form). The aim of this paper is to build a theoretical frame work about this relationships. The paper described and analyzed two, Arabic and international samples, which have been chosen according to the variety of sustainable transportation as an urban strategy .The paper concluded that, the urban form based on sustainable transportation …


The Indicators Of Creative Thinking Patters In Architectural Design And The Forms Of Continuity For The Designer's Direction Of Its, Suha Haddan ALdahwia, Jassim Mahammed Neama 2026 Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology - Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq

The Indicators Of Creative Thinking Patters In Architectural Design And The Forms Of Continuity For The Designer's Direction Of Its, Suha Haddan Aldahwia, Jassim Mahammed Neama

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

There is no doubt that creative thinking an area refined human activity since ancient times, for that scientific research institutions attented it since the mid-twentieth century , society humanitarian civilized increasingly need more to the creative which can not be achieved without the development of skills and thinking abilities activity creative different cultural norms . Despite the issue of architectural creativity, especially in the architectural design process importance, but can say that and also that every thinking in any area of life areas of special rules and attributes define features pattern, the to think of the architectural work to him …


The Basic Criteria For The Development Of Architectural Education Programs (Department Of Architecture-University Of Technology) As A Model, Mustafa Kamil Kadhim 2026 Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology- Iraq

The Basic Criteria For The Development Of Architectural Education Programs (Department Of Architecture-University Of Technology) As A Model, Mustafa Kamil Kadhim

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Many of architectural schools experiencing challenges related to the weakness of their suitability to meet the standards of the criditability inistitutions. In reaction to that, interest increased about quality and cridibility to ensure that the educational process outputs meet with the requirements of international recognition. The problem of the search to find the deficient in the diagnosis of the factors affecting the development of architectural education programs and enter the quality and cridibility as new variables concepts. The objective of the research identifying factors affecting the development of architectural education programs and proposing the changes necessary to make the development …


Thermal Environmental Treatments For Residential Buildigs In The Oil Fields, Younis Saleem, Hadeer Shallal Akar Aljaber 2026 Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology - Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq

Thermal Environmental Treatments For Residential Buildigs In The Oil Fields, Younis Saleem, Hadeer Shallal Akar Aljaber

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The industry growth and development were one of the reasons for the emergence of cities, the oil industry has been affected in the establishment of these cities in the environmental aspects, Oil fields are considered heavy industry areas. The research aims: Identification of environmental treatments which make the building efficient thermally and therefore to reduce the impact of climatic conditions and pollution In urban complexes inside the oil fields . The research concluded a set of conclusions which have been associated two sides: First side has been associated in the theoretical framework, the flipside link to the results of the …


The Impact Of The Sacred Sites In The Particularity Of The City Holy City Of Najaf As A Case Study, Khansaa Ghazi Rasheed, Sarah Munther Abdel Hamza 2026 Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology- Iraq

The Impact Of The Sacred Sites In The Particularity Of The City Holy City Of Najaf As A Case Study, Khansaa Ghazi Rasheed, Sarah Munther Abdel Hamza

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The sacred sites considered as explicit spiritual and architectural symbols, enhance the memory of what society holds of history, culture and the nature of his relationship with the sacred, which contribute to enhancing the privacy of the city through what is achieved from the meanings interact with human directly affect the city properties of architectural and urban features on different material and spiritual level. Basically, the research began by searching about the sacred concept in various fields down to discuss studies and proposals that dealwith the holy sites and the content of the types and characteristics and spiritual values, so …


Visual Integration Of Historic Cities Centers- Al Rasheed Street, Abdul Hussien Abd Ali Al-Askary, Atheer Omran Hayyawi Al-kaissi 2026 Center of Urban & Regional Planning/University of Baghdad-for post graduate Studies

Visual Integration Of Historic Cities Centers- Al Rasheed Street, Abdul Hussien Abd Ali Al-Askary, Atheer Omran Hayyawi Al-Kaissi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Historic centers are considered as one of the main problems introduced in the contemporary literatures, The concept of visual integration was discussed in several studies on several levels (philosophical, urban, architectural), while they did not get to intensively within the studies dealing with the concept on a holistic level and in all its aspects. The research problem defind as, "The lack of image about the concept and indicators of street visual integration " The hypothesis of Search is "Vary the effect of the elements , relationships and properties visual for elevations at the level of the Part and the whole …


Effect Of The Double Walls On Thermal Internal Environment Of Buildings In Baghdad, Miqdad Haidar Al-Jawadi, Fatma Juma Edan 2026 University of Technology- Iraq, Architectural Engineering Department

Effect Of The Double Walls On Thermal Internal Environment Of Buildings In Baghdad, Miqdad Haidar Al-Jawadi, Fatma Juma Edan

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The external walls represent one of the most important structural elements that have a direct effect on the thermal performance of the building.In order to achieve the aim of the research the experimental approach and style of analytical study were adopted. The current study included two main aspects: first, the theoretical side: Which included the time delay factor calculation and cooling load depending on the Radiant Time Series (RTS) theory that achieved accurate and detailed results and ease of application. While the second aspect included the practical test and measurement .The theoretical results achieved good convergence with practical results margin …


Traditional Architectural Type Simulation Strategy To Fulfil Environmental Sustainability Courtyard Type As A Model, Kais Abdulhusein Abbas, Abbas Ali Hamza Al Greiza 2026 Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology- Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq

Traditional Architectural Type Simulation Strategy To Fulfil Environmental Sustainability Courtyard Type As A Model, Kais Abdulhusein Abbas, Abbas Ali Hamza Al Greiza

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

In last decades, many architectural tendencies has appeared, that adapting sustainability, with various nominations, but with same or close meanings that refer to same concept. It's all dealing with principles, characteristics, dimensions, and elements of sustainable design, but it were lack to such a comprehensive framework treatment method. which resulting with abstrusely vision for the designer, globally and locally, to determine lineaments of design strategy, that depending on an environmental fundament, with sustainable impression. This abstrusity is the "research problem". This strategy may be strike from fundamental environmental design concept. There for, the research, suppose that, there is an ability …


Application Of The Environmental Design Treatments In The Steps Of Design Process, In Hot –Dry Climate, Younis Saleem, Sura Zakaria Y. Mahmood 2026 Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology - Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq

Application Of The Environmental Design Treatments In The Steps Of Design Process, In Hot –Dry Climate, Younis Saleem, Sura Zakaria Y. Mahmood

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Due to the cyclical changes of the climate during the year, it is imperative in the building design process that special consideration and treatments should be taken in order to protect the building from the climatic changes. These treatments should be used in the designing process in order to upgrade the building so that it should be highly efficient in its thermal control and accomplish the desired comfort to the occupants. The multiplicity of the environmental treatments used in design and the wide spectrum of its effect that differ in accordance with the strategic target that was used for, resulted …


The Effect Of Moisturizing Treatment Of Wind-Catcher On Internal Thermal Environment, Miqdad Haidar Al-Jawadi, Ali Farhan Darwish 2026 University of Technology- Iraq, Architectural Engineering Department

The Effect Of Moisturizing Treatment Of Wind-Catcher On Internal Thermal Environment, Miqdad Haidar Al-Jawadi, Ali Farhan Darwish

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Wind-catchers in traditional architecture in Iraq were small in dimensions, where their horizontal cross section and their largest section did not exceed 0.20 square meters. AS a result, architects abandoned their use in modern building designs, especially after electric fans made available and adopted in buildings. Due to the importance of natural air on human health and as natural air is rich in refreshing negative ions that artificial ventilation lacks, which is usually charged with positive ions, causing drowsiness and depression. New large wind-catchers of more than 2 square meters in cross section were employed by the author in house …


Concept Of The Sense Of Control For Wellness Supportive Design [Theory In The Interior Spaces Of Senior Living], Shamael Mohammed Wajeeh Al dabbagh, Sarah Alaa Baqer Bayram 2026 Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology - Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq.

Concept Of The Sense Of Control For Wellness Supportive Design [Theory In The Interior Spaces Of Senior Living], Shamael Mohammed Wajeeh Al Dabbagh, Sarah Alaa Baqer Bayram

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Seniors represent an important category in any society being one of the most important institutions of community, Architects, planners, psychologists and sociologists have taken into account major considerations when designing the interior spaces in health institutions to help reinforce a curing environment. The research problem identified by the lack of a clear perception of the concept of sense of control within social support of supportive wellness design theory, in relation to internal space elements and their role in promoting recovery within the atmosphere of the internal environment of the elderly residence, the main hypothesis of the research, which were represented …


The Role Of International Legislation And Charters In The Tourism Industry Study In Buildings And Historical Centers, Asmaa M. H. Al- Moqaram, Sumbul Muhammed yunus saki 2026 Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology- Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq.

The Role Of International Legislation And Charters In The Tourism Industry Study In Buildings And Historical Centers, Asmaa M. H. Al- Moqaram, Sumbul Muhammed Yunus Saki

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

In many countries tourism industry considered a social and cultural phenomenon, in its role in changing work patterns and standards of living and income distribution. The success or fail of this industry depend on many environmental factors, natural (such as land, water, plants) and unnatural (man-made heritage buildings and historical cities).all this need different Interventions to create a magnet for tourists especially in valuable buildings. One of these are Legislation and conventions to manage and planning these environment. The research problem is the need to explore the Iraqi and international Legislations and conventions, by comparing between them we can identify …


Repetition Mechanism And Its Impact In Architectural Form Perception, Ali Mohsen Jaafar Al-khafaji, Mayce Aziz Muhammed Ridah 2026 Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology- Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq

Repetition Mechanism And Its Impact In Architectural Form Perception, Ali Mohsen Jaafar Al-Khafaji, Mayce Aziz Muhammed Ridah

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Repetition appeared in some architectural studies as a mechanism design aiming at either hiding the repeated item from the consumer, or emphasizing it. That created a query about the nature of repetition and its characteristics that change the item from being invisible to being emphasized. Moreover, the problem of the research emerged as: "the lack of perception of repetition as a mechanism of invisibility that enables the architectural form to either appear or disappear, in the consumer's awareness." The research was divided into four stages, the first of which is introduced meaning of the main terms in the research (which …


The Impact Of Event In The Context And Response Of Architectural Act, Abdul Hussien Abd Ali Al-Askary 2026 Center of Urban & Regional Planning/University of Baghdad-for post graduate Studies

The Impact Of Event In The Context And Response Of Architectural Act, Abdul Hussien Abd Ali Al-Askary

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The research philosophically deals with objects, about how the Architectural act represents many acts in the fact of context. The research problem is how the architectural act was responding to the event that happened in the context. The research hypothesis is: there is a relationship between strategies of reading (explanation, interpretation, and deconstruction) and strategies of response (animation, renewal, and reform). The plan of the research includes two parts: first part includes knowledge framework about; event, response, and architectural act, second part includes analysis of terms and ideas of many architects. According to first part, the event, response, and architectural …


The Effect Of Smart Growth Principles On Affordable Housing, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Tamara Mutaz Abdulmaged 2026 Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology- Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq

The Effect Of Smart Growth Principles On Affordable Housing, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Tamara Mutaz Abdulmaged

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The concept affordable housing deals with affording adequate housing to a moderate and low income households. The research defined affordable housing as housing deals with moderate and low income households (60%-80% AMI) that housing costs don’t exceed (30%) of their annual income (renting or owning) , while smart growth is defined as a development that contains a set of principles related to compact design and affordable housing .The research problem is embodied as (a knowledge gap about the effects of smart growth principles at a micro scale on the costs of affordable housing).The research built a theoretical framework including both …


The Sustainable Preventive Preservation For Historical Building, Basim Hasan Al Majid, Harith khlaif abbood 2026 Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology- Iraq

The Sustainable Preventive Preservation For Historical Building, Basim Hasan Al Majid, Harith Khlaif Abbood

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Historical Buildings are result of human thoughts and culture, also Considered that nations have been always known and studied through their culture and civilization, it is reasonable to state that architecture is an important entrance to understand privacy of specific society that have been formed through an interaction among social, economic and other aspects. technology evolved much further than anytime Accordingly, It is clear how crucially important to think in a certain way to deal with those building, to protect, revive and work to improve its sustainability and convenience by using advanced techniques and technologies, also to measure how suitable …


The Urban Addition An Analytical Study Of The Relation Between The Additive And The Origin In The Contemporary Urban Projects, Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi, Shereen kamil Zedan 2026 Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology - Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq

The Urban Addition An Analytical Study Of The Relation Between The Additive And The Origin In The Contemporary Urban Projects, Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi, Shereen Kamil Zedan

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The research Explore one of the important topics that emerged from the contemporary urbandevelopment policies, by adding new urban entities within the city fabric, which represented by the urban addition, which appeared at different levels, evolved gradually with different contemporary urban orientations, which began to call in at the beginning of the twentieth century to go back to the inner-city and their historic city centers and addition to it in order to develop. the concept of urban addition crystallized in many literatures that dealt with the relationship between the addition and origin, and the process of creating a new integrated, …


Impact Of Religious Tourism Landmarks In Authenticity Dimensions Of Urban Identity For The City, Suha Haddan ALdahwia, Yousif Issa Alwan 2026 Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology - Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq

Impact Of Religious Tourism Landmarks In Authenticity Dimensions Of Urban Identity For The City, Suha Haddan Aldahwia, Yousif Issa Alwan

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The most important characteristic of urban cities is the presence of identity characterizes types of architecture. Most of these cities suffer from the decline and deterioration, and become blocks of adjacent buildings, which are copies of a particular architecture and tradition and simulate them. That led to disappear originality. The importance of this research on the link between the role of tourism attraction within the central cities for rooting there urban identity. Through the review of previous studies on the subject of tourist attraction,and after clarify landmarks kind, the research problem has identified as the "Missing of comprehensive knowledge about …


Excesses To Permissions And Building Codes And Their Impact On The Urban Environment In Baghdad City, khawla kareem kawther 2026 Civil Engineering Department, University of Technology- Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq.

Excesses To Permissions And Building Codes And Their Impact On The Urban Environment In Baghdad City, Khawla Kareem Kawther

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The spreading of the unregulated construction phenomenon in Iraq cities become a serious transgression of the regulations and legislation. The current master plan of Baghdad city no longer responsive to the actual needs of the city, It must be renovation to commensurate with the population growth and city development , so the research problem of this study states that: There are shortcomings in the existing laws and regulations that must keep pace with population, demographic and technology changes, legislation comprehensiveness and not tailored to the requirements of the laws and clauses are applicable, as well as the absence of the …


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