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The Role Of Artistic Movements In Achieving The Aesthetic Values Of Cities, Teaba Mohammed, Khansaa Ghazi Rasheed, Aseel Ibrahem Apr 2026

The Role Of Artistic Movements In Achieving The Aesthetic Values Of Cities, Teaba Mohammed, Khansaa Ghazi Rasheed, Aseel Ibrahem

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

This research aims to clarify the role of art movements in urban aesthetics and to give a clear understanding of the beginnings of their emergence and the features, characteristics and types of these movements and how they affected architecture and the formation of cities through the most prominent pioneers and the most important influences that give a clear vision of these movements and their role. The research deals with artistic movements at the beginning of the 19th and 20th centuries and how they contributed to the development of the stages of architecture to build a knowledge background around it to …

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The Dynamics Of Contextual Juxtaposition: Expansion Of The Fatima’S Court As A Case Study, Qasim Rais Shridan, Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi Apr 2026

The Dynamics Of Contextual Juxtaposition: Expansion Of The Fatima’S Court As A Case Study, Qasim Rais Shridan, Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Literature pointed out the impact of contextual juxtaposition on urban dynamism at the level of the townscape, urban fabric, and economic, social, and environmental aspects to promote and support urban identity and achieve urban dynamics. The research problem was diagnosed with [the lack of clarity of the various aspects of contextual juxtaposition in the urban dynamics of the historical cities and their urban scene]. Which is determined based on the research goal of clarifying the levels and objectives of the inclusion and its most important economic, social, physical, and environmental dimensions, its requirements to achieve urban dynamism. The expansion of …

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The Role Of Marketing On The Success Of Residential Investment Projects In Baghdad, Hayder Abdul Hadi Abbas, Safaaaldeen Ali Apr 2026

The Role Of Marketing On The Success Of Residential Investment Projects In Baghdad, Hayder Abdul Hadi Abbas, Safaaaldeen Ali

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The housing process in Iraq needs a comprehensive review, starting with its political philosophy and the content of its strategy, to produce a new vision and more efficient and empowering approaches for its central role in securing and caring for certain groups of society, especially those with limited income and those in need. In addition to emphasizing self-help and mutual assistance within the framework of future housing methods, this is one of the best ways to mobilize efforts and energies. Moreover, it is an entry point for developing innovative, non-traditional methods of high value. This research highlighted the role of …

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Measuring Complementation In Urban Environments: Kadhimiya’S Historical City As A Case Study, Mustafa Tahseen Moslem Ismai, Basim Hasan Al Majid, Saad Khudhair Aljumaily Apr 2026

Measuring Complementation In Urban Environments: Kadhimiya’S Historical City As A Case Study, Mustafa Tahseen Moslem Ismai, Basim Hasan Al Majid, Saad Khudhair Aljumaily

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Assessing urban environments is necessary to address and mitigate the undesirable effects of urban challenges at different levels. The city responds to these challenges complementarily by proceeding with changes at the level of the profound structure and urban transformations at the level of the virtual structure through a set of strategies, mechanisms and tools of urban design. Good urban is the potential response in facing the contemporary and future urban challenges facing the city that urban design practitioners aspire to solve and complement the requirements of users and occupants. The research seeks to address the concept of urban complementation. The …

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Mutualism As A Design Approach In Architectural Formation, Abbas Na’Im Mohsin, Basim Hasan Al Majid Apr 2026

Mutualism As A Design Approach In Architectural Formation, Abbas Na’Im Mohsin, Basim Hasan Al Majid

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Mutualism in various fields of knowledge is a method of life and a necessity of existence imposed by the requirements of survival and continuity to create a state of integration and balance in nature, and that the mutualism based on give and take between opposing and dissimilar architectural entities can establish the correct and useful design principles in architecture and create new architectural formations characterized by creativity and development, hence the problem of the research appeared in the need to reveal the role of mutualism as a symbiotic design approach between opposing and dissimilar architectural entities that works to strengthen …

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The Effect Of The Sound Level Parameter On The Acoustic Performance In Closed Shopping Centers, Shayma Hameed, Kais Abdulhusein Abbas Apr 2026

The Effect Of The Sound Level Parameter On The Acoustic Performance In Closed Shopping Centers, Shayma Hameed, Kais Abdulhusein Abbas

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The study focused on the objective measurement method of the sound level parameter, the geometrical formation, the observation of some acoustic properties, and their effectiveness for the atrium space in the Baghdad and Babylon shopping malls. In this study, a measurement of the sound level parameter was carried out to evaluate their acoustic performance and compare them with the standard standards required to be achieved in such buildings. The measurement process was conducted using a portable device SL-4112P that measures the sound level parameter SPL (A) and at a point on each floor around the atrium in both shopping centres …

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Covid-19 And Public Spaces: Improving Quality And Resilience For Healthier Places Case Study Liberty Square In Biskra, Hocine Boumaraf, Faiza Dahmouche, Louisa Amireche Apr 2026

Covid-19 And Public Spaces: Improving Quality And Resilience For Healthier Places Case Study Liberty Square In Biskra, Hocine Boumaraf, Faiza Dahmouche, Louisa Amireche

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The current Covid-19 pandemic has interested the world, changing habits and use of places. During the lockdown period, public spaces became empty, and new urban landscapes replaced the previous ones, transforming the private into the public. Children, young and elderly people were those who mainly had problems: to them, real life was negated at the time of their life, which is more critical reopening all public spaces once again allowed social interactions “in the presence”, although with respect for physical distancing, confirming the importance of these places for all. Safe urban public spaces are essential due to their public health …

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Integration In Empowerment Strategies: Residential Investment As A Case Study, Waleed Mustafa, Safaaaldeen Ali Apr 2026

Integration In Empowerment Strategies: Residential Investment As A Case Study, Waleed Mustafa, Safaaaldeen Ali

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The architect is the heart of the investment process. Consulting is a science and an art that only those who possess high taste, experience, and knowledge of the integrated elements that lead to the success of investment complexes. The research problem is the lack of comprehensive studies on integrating enabling strategies for residential investment projects. The research objective is to present a clear vision of integration in enabling residential investment complexes with utilitarian, aesthetic, and symbolic indicators. Accordingly, the hypothesis is that the strategy of allowing the housing unit and the housing complex is integrated for the success of enabling …

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Indicators Of Deviated Semantic Structure In Architecture, Haneen Abd-Alrahman, Parizat Q. Hussein Fehmi Fehmi Apr 2026

Indicators Of Deviated Semantic Structure In Architecture, Haneen Abd-Alrahman, Parizat Q. Hussein Fehmi Fehmi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The deviation is a phenomenon of life before it is an important phenomenon in creative and artistic processes within different fields. Including the field of architecture, where the designer resorted to it to form a new architectural product that goes beyond the rules and direct, explicit connotations, achieving poeticism, uniqueness, and excellence in its production. Given the importance of the concept and its role in the formation of contemporary architectural production. The research went on to explore it, identifying its research problem b: cognitive deficiencies around indicators of semantic structure that include displacement in architecture. Still, its goal is to …

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The Ecological Dimension In The Formation Of Resilient Urban Landscape, Haneen Ali Abd Mohya, Khansaa Ghazi Rasheed Apr 2026

The Ecological Dimension In The Formation Of Resilient Urban Landscape, Haneen Ali Abd Mohya, Khansaa Ghazi Rasheed

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The research deals with the concept of resilience in the urban landscape in terms of its ecological aspect, as a dynamic system that is formed from the interactions of nature with artificial elements, and it possesses resilient dynamic relationships that create spatial and temporal urban continuity. the concept of urban resilience includes new theoretical tools for thinking that resulted from the transformation of the sustainable development model and became more important with the emergence of crises and unexpected changes, and the research studies the relationship between the attributes of Resilience and the ecological aspect in the formation of the urban …

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Improving Social Interaction In Vertical Housing, Lubna A. Kadhim, Mufeed Ehsan Shok Apr 2026

Improving Social Interaction In Vertical Housing, Lubna A. Kadhim, Mufeed Ehsan Shok

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Iraq is witnessing an increasing population growth and an influx of migration from the countryside to the city. With the lack of urban lands, vertical housing has become the final solution to this problem. However, until recently, Iraqis have rejected vertical housing, and perhaps the most important reasons are social reasons. Through previous studies, it was found that the problem of social interaction is one of the most prominent problems in vertical housing. Thus, residents of vertical residential buildings achieved lower rates of social interaction than residents of single apartment buildings. The research uses a descriptive analysis method based on …

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Topological Characteristics Of An Architectural Product, Ahmed Maher Rashid, Abdullah Saadoon Salman Almaamoori Apr 2026

Topological Characteristics Of An Architectural Product, Ahmed Maher Rashid, Abdullah Saadoon Salman Almaamoori

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Topology or spatial science is one of the branches of modern mathematics that cast a shadow over various cognitive sciences, including architecture, as it began to overgrow in the contemporary digital age to make room for more creativity and structural design and implementation capabilities. Yet, the characteristics of this concept are still uncommon in the architectural community and the previous studies that dealt with it in fragmentary and separate concepts. Accordingly, the research problem is “the ambiguity of knowledge about the topological characteristics of contemporary architectural products.” The research seeks to form a comprehensive theoretical framework on the topological characteristics …

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Inclusion And Minimalism In The Design Of Health Laboratory Space, Sarah Hasan Al-Kazzaz, Mustafa Kamil Kadhim Apr 2026

Inclusion And Minimalism In The Design Of Health Laboratory Space, Sarah Hasan Al-Kazzaz, Mustafa Kamil Kadhim

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The ongoing emergence of new diseases that threaten the human race has resulted in the need to keep pace with the risk of infection through pursuing technological development and the emergence of new tests that are added to existing laboratories. The need is to find solutions that contribute to keeping pace with medical developments while accommodating patients' need for examinations on time while maintaining time and patient safety. The research assumes that international engineering standards will play a role in understanding and introducing this development by incorporating the concepts of merger and minimization by absorbing the new functions in the …

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Development Measures For Slums Of Dhaka City : Case Study Area Korail Slum, Sanjida Ahmed Sinthia Apr 2026

Development Measures For Slums Of Dhaka City : Case Study Area Korail Slum, Sanjida Ahmed Sinthia

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh is extremely populated, unhygienic and environmentally degraded city. The growing number of population and environmental degradation are due to natural disaster and economic depression. As a result, the rate of urban poor is and producing huge pressure on urban lands, housing and infrastructure. Due to limited resources these poor people encroached open spaces, wetlands, vacant plots or even footpath for shelter. They don’t have any access to proper job market, healthcare facilities, education and sanitation either. These constraints are mostly resulted from the failures of the government in initiation proper policies and measures. Past …

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Urban Strategies For Managing The Coronavirus Crisis, Mohammad Alaa Bassam Aljaffan, Soulaiman Mhanna Apr 2026

Urban Strategies For Managing The Coronavirus Crisis, Mohammad Alaa Bassam Aljaffan, Soulaiman Mhanna

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The management of the spread of the Coronavirus crisis is one of the main challenges in the world today, and of increasing importance due to the widespread spread of the epidemic and its negative repercussions on local communities around the world, which put local administrations on the front lines to address the pandemic and take the lead in mitigating its effects. The article attempts to develop a theoretical and applied model to manage the crisis of the outbreak of the Coronavirus in urban areas by monitoring and analyzing the forms of local administrations' response to the pandemic and mitigating its …

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The Nature Of The Architectural Surfaces And The Structural Relationships In Order To Build Stability And Formal Balance, Anwar Shareef Apr 2026

The Nature Of The Architectural Surfaces And The Structural Relationships In Order To Build Stability And Formal Balance, Anwar Shareef

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The architectural surface represents one of the main pillars of formal configuration that work with each other to give the building external appearance and its formal properties. In general, the most important challenges facing the study of architecture is the analysis of The Structural Relationships under which the formal formation and formulas for generating its patterns within the different architectural directions to benefit from her in the process of architectural education. This original_study represented a step in the way of analyzing and establishing an information base for architectural propositions that dealt with surfaces according to Structural Relationships with multiple linking, …

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Employing Smart Systems In Integrated Management Of Infrastructure For Housing Projects, Marwa Mohammed Al-Zaidi, Safaaaldeen Ali Apr 2026

Employing Smart Systems In Integrated Management Of Infrastructure For Housing Projects, Marwa Mohammed Al-Zaidi, Safaaaldeen Ali

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Many contemporary economic and social drivers have enabled the introduction of sensor network technologies, computing and communication systems in urban infrastructure and contemporary housing projects with the aim of achieving integration between infrastructure management. As a result, the current study deals with a topic that has not been dealt with through previous studies, theses and theses in an accurate and required manner. Therefore, the aim of the research was to clarify the role of smart systems in achieving integrated management by building a comprehensive theoretical framework to be a research problem (the need for a comprehensive theoretical framework on the …

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Low-Income Housing Provision: Between Governmental Interventions And Informal Settlements - Greater Cairo Region Between 1980s And 2010s, Hussaen Ali Hasan Kahachi, Alison Brown Apr 2026

Low-Income Housing Provision: Between Governmental Interventions And Informal Settlements - Greater Cairo Region Between 1980s And 2010s, Hussaen Ali Hasan Kahachi, Alison Brown

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Low-cost housing, so-called affordable housing, is an important subject as it affects many aspects of people's well-being and city planning. The urban poor, who form a respectable percentage of cities' residents in many developing countries, are the most affected segment by the availability and affordability of housing. Governments often try their best to provide affordable housing through housing interventions and programs. However, many low-income people end up in informal settlements including slums and squatter settlements. This research analyzes state-led low-cost housing initiatives compared to informal affordable housing in developing countries. The importance of this research is mainly associated with understanding …

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Urban Health’S Methods And Checklist, Mohammad Alaa Bassam Aljaffan, Soulaiman Mhanna Apr 2026

Urban Health’S Methods And Checklist, Mohammad Alaa Bassam Aljaffan, Soulaiman Mhanna

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The purpose of the article is to prepare an integrated theoretical and applied framework for the concept of urban health and methodologies for its application and checking, by presenting and analyzing the relevant literature and experiences. The article includes an analytical study of the concept of urban health, and the identification of planning methodologies that have a positive impact on the health and well-being of urban residents. The article was also concerned with developing a methodology to checking that the topics of urban health are included in existing cities or in their future plans. After that, the article tended to …

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Physical Revitalization Of The Historical Paths: An Analytical Study For Urban Connectivity Property Of Al-Safafer Market Axis In Baghdad, Rawan Adel Khalaf, Sanaa Sati Abbas Apr 2026

Physical Revitalization Of The Historical Paths: An Analytical Study For Urban Connectivity Property Of Al-Safafer Market Axis In Baghdad, Rawan Adel Khalaf, Sanaa Sati Abbas

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The historical paths  suffer from neglect for a long time as a result of inappropriate interventions and the loss of public spaces, which led to their deterioration and the loss of their urban value, The research problem was "The cognitive  need to clarify the physical revitalization as a type of sustainable revitalization patterns and the possibility of its  application to avoid urban neglect of historical paths". Therefore, the aim of the research is to built a theoretical framework on urban connectivity property and relationship with mechanisms the physical revitalization .The research hypothesis is that "The mechanisms of physical revitalization have …

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The Role Of Third Place In Revitalizing The Interior Spaces Of The Academic Libraries Through The Concept Of Identity, Israa Al Jailawi Al Jailawi, Shamael Mohammed Wajeeh Al Dabbagh Apr 2026

The Role Of Third Place In Revitalizing The Interior Spaces Of The Academic Libraries Through The Concept Of Identity, Israa Al Jailawi Al Jailawi, Shamael Mohammed Wajeeh Al Dabbagh

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

With the rapid prevailing of electronic information resources and services, the traditional academic libraries are being declined and gradually deserted. Recent studies highlighted this issue as one of the challenges of the digital era. Responding to this issue, this paper introduces the idea of revitalizing academic libraries through the concept of "Third place" based on the possibility of providing traditional libraries with new interior spaces wherein students, scholars, and faculty can learn and socialize as well as cooperate, without stress. Based on the literature reviewed, there are several factors through which it is possible to enhance the interior spaces to …

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Emergence Of Water Sensitive Design: Alternate Development Strategies For Eastern Periphery Of Dhaka Metropolitan Area, Ayasha Siddiqua Apr 2026

Emergence Of Water Sensitive Design: Alternate Development Strategies For Eastern Periphery Of Dhaka Metropolitan Area, Ayasha Siddiqua

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, once had lowlands on both west and east periphery. The west periphery has already taken up by urbanization after constructing the flood embankment and in the eastern periphery it is on process of disappearing very fast. City is now expanding to this area which requires mandatory to keep open and low to take water from city for flooding alleviation. Lack of physical planning is very evident here which causes great degradation of the flooding and water logging situation of the city. At present master planning of the city following subdivision of land and provide …

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The Urban Synergy - Building A Formal Strategy For Synergies In Contemporary Urban Space, Noor Saeb Ahmed, Khansaa Ghazi Rasheed Apr 2026

The Urban Synergy - Building A Formal Strategy For Synergies In Contemporary Urban Space, Noor Saeb Ahmed, Khansaa Ghazi Rasheed

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

What appears in most urban environments is poor spatial and functional cohesion, in addition to various factors overlap and mixed within urban projects .We will have to understand the various forms and relationships that help to re-establish cohesion into the urban fabric, Therefore, the research needed to delve deeper into contemporary concepts to deal with it. Contemporary urban projects usually seek to maintain the connection between individual elements and the process of creating cohesion of urban space through its constituent elements. At the same time reduce its negative impact on urban tissue and city life. This highlights the importance of …

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Sustainability Systems In Architecture, Abdullah Saadoon Salman Almaamoori, Tuqa Mahmood Hameed Apr 2026

Sustainability Systems In Architecture, Abdullah Saadoon Salman Almaamoori, Tuqa Mahmood Hameed

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The research deals with the concept of sustainable systems as one of the influential concepts in the process of architectural design, as it is defined as "the integration of natural systems with human patterns according to a multi-dimensional design approach to give continuity and exclusivity to the product". The research aims to clarify the strategy of sustainable architecture systems as well as their principles and dimensions. In order to address the research issue and achieve the objectives of the research and to verify its hypothesis, a knowledge framework was first built, then a comprehensive theoretical framework for sustainable architecture systems. …

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The Abstraction Of Architectural Heritage In Contemporary Local Architecture: Abstraction In Contemporary Iraqi Architecture, Sura Kassim, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif, Ali Moussa Hussein Apr 2026

The Abstraction Of Architectural Heritage In Contemporary Local Architecture: Abstraction In Contemporary Iraqi Architecture, Sura Kassim, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif, Ali Moussa Hussein

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Abstraction is used in architectural and interior design and is based on abstraction with formal values, taking into account the functional aspect of architecture. Architectural heritage represents the cultural value that directly affects successive generations, and embodies cultural values to reflect the social, economic and political aspect that contributes to the advancement of human civilization, and architectural heritage is the basis of architectural thought in societies that have unity. Cultural. He found that the concept of the philosophy of abstraction has multiple views, whether Western and local and dependent on the nature of cultural, social and environmental thought, and for …

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Urban Resilience And City Infrastructure Urban Resilience Of Baghdad, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Sura Kassim Apr 2026

Urban Resilience And City Infrastructure Urban Resilience Of Baghdad, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Sura Kassim

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

This paper aims to study urban resilience as an adaptive system in a complex dynamic world along with its ability to comprehend disorder, change and reorganization to conserve identity. Urban resilience can be understood through the interrelationship between people and nature as a source-ecological system. The case study is represented by analyzing (Edlayd City in Australia) in depending on resilience advantages in which optimized by a renewable resource, zero carbon, equity in distributing energy, active environment, sustainable transportation and investing natural materials. Hence, these advantages have been applied on (Al-Karkh Haifa Street) in Baghdad in order to develop its infrastructure …

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Water Urbanism Analytical Study Of Design Principles In Contemporary Urban Production, Nada Abdulmueen Hasan, Rana Mazin, Shereen Kamil Zedan Apr 2026

Water Urbanism Analytical Study Of Design Principles In Contemporary Urban Production, Nada Abdulmueen Hasan, Rana Mazin, Shereen Kamil Zedan

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Water is an important element of urban development due to its relationship with changing environmental and climatic conditions in particular, thus, contemporary trends suggest the link between water and urban development processes, offering a new kind of safe coexistence with water through the role of urban design, social life and ecological renovation. The research explores the concept of (Water Urbanism) to make cities more coherent and open towards water environment, as a contemporary track contributing to the development and sustainability of cities on the one side, and extract the most important indicators for the design principles for the water urbanism …

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Textile Strategies In Contemporary Architecture, Safaaaldeen Ali, Ban Mohammed Sultan Apr 2026

Textile Strategies In Contemporary Architecture, Safaaaldeen Ali, Ban Mohammed Sultan

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The textile in architecture is an old phenomenon, as the mixing of architecture and textiles is not a modern development. The fusion of textiles and architecture, including processes, techniques and various materials, has a long and full history, but is largely neglected. In the past two decades, interest in the combination of architecture and textiles has been renewed with the ideas and ideas of architectural theorists, engineers, textile designers, materials scientists and artists. by investing technological technologies at The level of modern design and construction processes and advanced materials, has formed an important aspect of the critical and critical dialogue …

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Design Requirements For Contextual Integration For Train Stations (Iraqi Stations As A Model), Abdullah Saadoon Salman Almaamoori, Ammar Kareem Dhumad Apr 2026

Design Requirements For Contextual Integration For Train Stations (Iraqi Stations As A Model), Abdullah Saadoon Salman Almaamoori, Ammar Kareem Dhumad

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The buildings of the railway stations are one of the important buildings that distinguish the cities and give them their identity and their special character through their association with the memory of the society that contains them. The importance of these centers as commercial and cultural centers, as well as their main function in transporting passengers and goods, To the atrophy of its effectiveness, so it must be protected and developed to contribute effectively in the performance of its diverse activities in an integrated manner and to serve the community at various levels and encourage the use of public transport. …

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Residential Neighborhood Development Analytical Study Of Residential Projects In Contemporary Trends, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Riyad Fikrat Najat Apr 2026

Residential Neighborhood Development Analytical Study Of Residential Projects In Contemporary Trends, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Riyad Fikrat Najat

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Development and such as the problem of research, where the goal of the research to build a theoretical framework to fill this gap. The research hypothesis that the development of the residential neighborhood is achieved through (integration of the social, economic and environmental aspects associated with the values and principles of sustainable neighborhood). The research relied on an analytical descriptive method in the description and analysis of selected samples namely , and was the criterion of choice based on principles of sustainable residential neighborhoods in contemporary trends . The research concluded that the residential neighborhood based on the principles of …

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