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The Color Decisions For Classrooms In The Primary Schools And Its Impact To Form Prefect Educational Environment For Pupils, Jassem Muhammed Nama 2026 Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology - Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq.

The Color Decisions For Classrooms In The Primary Schools And Its Impact To Form Prefect Educational Environment For Pupils, Jassem Muhammed Nama

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

In our contemporary world, the child spends the most important period of (his/her) life in the school’s environment,which helps there growing up, and building there personality for there future life . However , namely in our country still suffers from poorness in the presence of clear , and pure colors in the interiors for many primary schools especially within the classroom structures . This is due to the lade of any database standards or requirements for designers based on research and lab. Work. Concerning the behavior of children in their classrooms. special colors can set our tool to run the …


Digital Architecturestudying The Formality Characteristics Of "Digital Architecture", Lina Ghanim Yaqub Jajjawi 2026 Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology - Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq.

Digital Architecturestudying The Formality Characteristics Of "Digital Architecture", Lina Ghanim Yaqub Jajjawi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The digital revolution reflected on the architecture as it reflected on other scientific, living and social fields. It's effects emerged clearly in the architectural form, Hence the architectural products did not stop at the design using the traditional methods and producing pictures using computer but exceeded to where the form produced as a result to the imagination design affected directly by the digital media. There is a clear lack of knowledge in this aspect on the academic and professional levels within our local modern digitalization society. According the research problems was limited to "the lack of clear imagination of the …


Developing A Conceptual Framework For Bridging The Gap Between (Theory And Practical) In Urban Design, Shaymaa Hameed Alahbabi 2026 Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Developing A Conceptual Framework For Bridging The Gap Between (Theory And Practical) In Urban Design, Shaymaa Hameed Alahbabi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

There is confusion in professionals for the field of urban design results from the interactive nature of the relationship between the (Idea) and presnting it in a communication language. The problem becomes more complicated when shaping the (Concept) and the transition from the conceptual level to the next level applied. So the main focus of current research on the statement of what the idea and concept, and the transition mechanisms towards the application of the components of the process of urban design. It aims to search out the mechanics and easier the process of communication between the parties of jurisdiction …


The Effect Of Using Alucoponed In Achieving Visual Unity And Attractionin Commercial Building(An Analytical Study Of Commercial Streets Elevations), Suzan Abd Hassan, Samah Abd Alziz 2026 Department of Architecture / Al-Nahrain University

The Effect Of Using Alucoponed In Achieving Visual Unity And Attractionin Commercial Building(An Analytical Study Of Commercial Streets Elevations), Suzan Abd Hassan, Samah Abd Alziz

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The appearance of composite materials and there wide speared use for cladding commercial buildings in the commercial streets context has an effect on visual unity & attractive for these streets, form this research problem is that there is no clear and fine percept of the effect using composite materials (Alucoponed) in cladding commercial buildings in the commercial streets context on achieve visual unity. And the research hypothesis is (The use of composite materials Alucoponed reduce visual unity& attractive in commercial streets general context and in the same time give a visual attractive for single building). the research aims to find …


The Role Of Multi Sensory Responsive Architecture In Forming Distinctness Imagesat Interior Spaces, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Shamael Mohammed Wajeeh Al dabbagh 2026 Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology- Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq

The Role Of Multi Sensory Responsive Architecture In Forming Distinctness Imagesat Interior Spaces, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Shamael Mohammed Wajeeh Al Dabbagh

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The description of modern spaces is lacking in full range of sensory cues , which are not present in most modern spaces . They have also been neglected by designers, by not being consciously manipulated and by not allowing them to happen .There is currently an increased desire for sensory involvement for seeing, touching , smelling , hearing and feeling of kinesthetic – a desire for increased sensuality manifest in many fields , witch may permit architecture with multi sensory information, if only designers can take advantage . Research calls for the approach that embraces all human being senses and …


The Information Technology Effmts On Acoustic Comfort In Exhibition Halls By Using ..Ecotect" Program, Rudhab Ahmed Mahmood, Safaaaldeen Ali 2026 Ministry of Construction and Housing - Iraq

The Information Technology Effmts On Acoustic Comfort In Exhibition Halls By Using ..Ecotect" Program, Rudhab Ahmed Mahmood, Safaaaldeen Ali

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Comfort concept is not only limited to thermal comfort, as some people think. On the contrary, it is a broad concept which includes several aspects that must be taken into consideration when designing. Acoustic comfort is considered as one of the most important of these aspects, especially in large space buildings, as acoustic design is an essential designing need whose integration with other designing needs brings about comfort in its broadest concept. The acoustic design and achieving the acoustic needs in specialized audio halls and mosques has been the topic of several studies. But the lack of studies, if any, …


The Effect Of Morphological Changes In Urban Fabric On Its Syntactical Properties-A Case Study In Mosul Old Suq-, Mumtaz Hazim Aldauji, Hussain Salmaan Albutani, Ayad waleed jalal 2026 Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Mosul- Iraq, Mosul, Iraq.

The Effect Of Morphological Changes In Urban Fabric On Its Syntactical Properties-A Case Study In Mosul Old Suq-, Mumtaz Hazim Aldauji, Hussain Salmaan Albutani, Ayad Waleed Jalal

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Urban centers had been grew and expanded gradually with a little renewal of their parts . In the past, this process was very slowly due to limited development in needs .Most renewal works occurred as a response to destruction caused by natural disasters or wars . This was true until the industrial revolution which was accompanied with a dramatic changes in transportation systems and the necessity to erect wide streets in most historic centers .In many cases ,these works did not take in consideration the importance of spatial attributes of such centers . Assuming that syntactical properties of any urban …


The Health Architecture, Miqdad Haidar Al-Jawadi, Ibtisam Sami Muhammed 2026 University of Technology- Iraq, Architectural Engineering Department

The Health Architecture, Miqdad Haidar Al-Jawadi, Ibtisam Sami Muhammed

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

No abstract provided.


Sculpture And Contemporary Architecture, Rasha Subbhy, Aseel Ibrahem 2026 Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology - Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq

Sculpture And Contemporary Architecture, Rasha Subbhy, Aseel Ibrahem

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Architecture is one of the constructive Arts, but it is distinguished from the rest of the arts (sculpture, painting) as a functional utility, has been argued to be defined as the mother of art because they contain other arts in its subjects, while the sculpture is an incorporating art based on the establishment of three-dimensional replicas. There is direct relationship between architecture and sculpture through the incorporation of abstract forms of multiple spatial semantics with expressive manner.Sculptureal architecture has appeared at the late Modern period through the generation of pure sculptural form with high technical characters and exaggerating style. Where …


The Strategy Of Urban Development Of The Citatel Cities Comparative Study Between Design Strategy Of The Development Of The Citadel Of Aleppo And The Citadel Of Erbil, Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi, Shymaa Fadhil alkubaisi 2026 Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology - Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq

The Strategy Of Urban Development Of The Citatel Cities Comparative Study Between Design Strategy Of The Development Of The Citadel Of Aleppo And The Citadel Of Erbil, Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi, Shymaa Fadhil Alkubaisi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The research deals with the impact of historical citadel on urban development for city canters and their importance in shaping the urban areas of the city, as an attempt to define the best possible strategies for urban development of historical cities and in particular (citadel cities), which represents a tourist attraction on both global and local levels. Erbil city has been selected, as a case study for this research, since this fortress citadel having nowadays a comprehensive urban development, which creates an interactive effect for the urban fabric of the citadel and the urban fabric of the city of Erbil …


Globlization And Its Effect On The Building System, Mazin Thafir Musa 2026 Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology - Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq

Globlization And Its Effect On The Building System, Mazin Thafir Musa

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The Globalization has emerged and developed over several decides. This ideology which was set to constitutes the globe was not just to serve the world but to serve the entrusts of it’s believers for control and dominance. They’re for this ideology had to create anew world system, capable of constant reformation and changing. This new ideology made tools of technology, science, and economy as means have achieve it’s fundamental gals, no matter how these means have deferred and contradicted towards achieving the gals, they will seventhly serve the it’s main propose, which this comprehensive ideology seeks for. This contempory ideology …


Rhythm In Traditional Facades A Lanes Of The Old Mosul City, Talaat Alaane, Hussein Albotany 2026 Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Mosul- Iraq, Mosul, Iraq.

Rhythm In Traditional Facades A Lanes Of The Old Mosul City, Talaat Alaane, Hussein Albotany

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Maintaining the characteristic and identity is considered of great importance to today's architecture because it as an extension of the architecture of the past and a bridge to the architecture of the future. Rhythm is an important component in dedicating the architectural characteristic and identity as the comprehension of the basic fundamentals that have contributed in creating and maintaining architecture, are inspired by the characteristic that occupies a prominent place in architecture. Thus, the study is an attempt to expound the essential terms and basic fundamentals that are a pivot of rhythm in faced design in the old Mosul city. …


Formal Characteristics Of Vernacular Architecture In Erbil City And Other Iraqi Cities, Mahmood Ahmed Bakir Khayat, Binyad Maruf Abdulkadir Khaznadar 2026 Department of Architecture, College of Engineering, University of Salahaddin-Erbil.

Formal Characteristics Of Vernacular Architecture In Erbil City And Other Iraqi Cities, Mahmood Ahmed Bakir Khayat, Binyad Maruf Abdulkadir Khaznadar

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

No abstract provided.


The Local Features In The Islamic Architecture, Ahmad Abdulwahid Thannoon 2026 Arch. Dept / Mosul University

The Local Features In The Islamic Architecture, Ahmad Abdulwahid Thannoon

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Islamic architecture has spread in a wide geographical regions, covering many areas and cities with distinct civilizations, Most of these areas and cities imposed their local architectural features on the forms of Islamic buildings in these areas due to the flexibility that characterized the process of composition output of Islamic architecture represented in different functional patterns as mosques, palaces, schools, baths and markets. This paper tries to study in-depth the existence of these local features and its assets in a range of distinct civilized areas covered by Islamic architecture. Reviewing previous studies concerning the research topic revealed the problem of …


Designer’S Awareness In Architecture Products, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim AL-Yousif 2026 Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology - Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq

Designer’S Awareness In Architecture Products, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

There is an effective difference on the visual status of a designer when formulating architectural forms as products, ‘within the relations of the internal contents of these forms’ through the relations of the forms with their meaning. The complete visualization of the designer with meanings and the objectives of the forms. The research consent was on the lack of visualizing the possible changes in forming the products that can be achieved depending on the opposition of movements where they refuse traditional coping in forming programs related to architectural trends.This paper is searching for new two movement which refuses the old …


The Influence Of Some Of Design Decisions In Raising The Cost Of Dwelling Unit, Nagham Faisal Yusif, Nawal Abd Alameer, Maan Nihad 2026 Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology - Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq

The Influence Of Some Of Design Decisions In Raising The Cost Of Dwelling Unit, Nagham Faisal Yusif, Nawal Abd Alameer, Maan Nihad

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The most common problems in big cities is the high rate of residency because of the high population growth, therefore, It is a big problem nowadays to a family to get a suitable accommodation (general problem),but for the Iraqi family one of the most important priority is to get their own accommodation, and to achieve this target, the cost of accommodation ought to be low so it will be more easy for families , thus the specific problem is the difficulty of owing a dwelling unit with acceptable cost .Though the research problem is :there is no clear idea about …


The Prognostical Value Of Special Aptitudes' Tests For Accepted Students To Study Architecture "Accepted Students In Architectural Department In The University Of Mosul As A Case Study", Shatha Yakub Alshaik, Farhan Awad Jassim Altai 2026 Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Mosul- Iraq, Mosul, Iraq.

The Prognostical Value Of Special Aptitudes' Tests For Accepted Students To Study Architecture "Accepted Students In Architectural Department In The University Of Mosul As A Case Study", Shatha Yakub Alshaik, Farhan Awad Jassim Altai

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Most institutions, around the world attend to do tests for persons competing to work, in order to achieve the correct professional choice.From these, are architectural departments in Iraq, which sometimes attempt to do unobligatory tests for students like studying architecture. Ivestigation about the importance of the prognostical value of these tests and their achievement in choosing and directing students for studying architecture emerges clearly especially, that students' acceptance now depends only on the final results of the secondary schools exams. The problem of the paper had been represented as the absence of the objective vision of the prognostical value of …


Landscape Architecture In Architectural Education, Rawaa Fawzi Naom Abbawi, Ahmed Yousif Al Omary 2026 Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Technology - Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq

Landscape Architecture In Architectural Education, Rawaa Fawzi Naom Abbawi, Ahmed Yousif Al Omary

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Landscape design is taught at Iraqi architectural colleges at the 4th stage in one semester. Due to the increasing importance of this material and its environmental, ecological, aesthetic and designing impacts on design and in order to reinforce its role in the architectural learning in the undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the architectural departments, the study problem focus on the deficiency of attention paid for this material and the qualification of the graduated architect. Search has been made in both Arabic and foreign universities and institutes to examine the teaching of this material as related to curriculum, teaching hours and …


Place Identity Of Residential Environment In Iraqi Contemporary Architectural Trends And Its Impact On Academic Architectural Product, Hassan Abd alrazaq Al sanjari, Saba Ibraheem Taha, Mumtaz Hazim Aldauji 2026 Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Mosul- Iraq, Mosul, Iraq.

Place Identity Of Residential Environment In Iraqi Contemporary Architectural Trends And Its Impact On Academic Architectural Product, Hassan Abd Alrazaq Al Sanjari, Saba Ibraheem Taha, Mumtaz Hazim Aldauji

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Iraqi contemporary architecture is characterized with rise of some trends associated with Iraqi pioneers who had various attitudes in expressing place identity. Two main trends which are swinging between the conservative one who adopts the domestic architectural heritage and the second trend who tends to follow international architectural tendencies entirely could be mentioned . Today, in spite of these trends are more than fifty years old , there still some argument about this issue. The architectural works reflect more variation and ambiguity in expressing the contemporary local environment with no serious attempts to have a stable background for this case. …


The Trace Of Floor Area Ratio(F.A.R.)Change On The Dwelling Unit Environment(Casa Study: Neighborhood #427/ Al-Kadhimya), Fadhaa maroof Al chalabi, Jamal Baqer Mtlak Alsadi 2026 Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The Trace Of Floor Area Ratio(F.A.R.)Change On The Dwelling Unit Environment(Casa Study: Neighborhood #427/ Al-Kadhimya), Fadhaa Maroof Al Chalabi, Jamal Baqer Mtlak Alsadi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

In spite of the awareness of the researchers the importance of the preparation of living environment (private or public) which is appropriate for a person to ensure a better life in the social, physical and psychological that have been emerged in communities. A lot of studies have been taken in many countries in the world including Iraq, which used various planning tools to control the size of building in terms of number of existing housing units, quality and services to be provided within the housing unit and beyond it, in excess of inclusion delimiters and controls within the laws of …


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