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The Effect Of The Formal And Organizational Properties Onthe Aesthetic Evaluation Of The Architectural Design Project"According To The Specialty Of The Iraqi Academic Experience", Nagham Ahmed Al-Qaysi Apr 2026

The Effect Of The Formal And Organizational Properties Onthe Aesthetic Evaluation Of The Architectural Design Project"According To The Specialty Of The Iraqi Academic Experience", Nagham Ahmed Al-Qaysi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Evaluation as a general concept in the academic field are considered to be one of the most important aspects in the architectural design domain from the beginning of the process of designing a project until the final presentation in the academic field.So this research mainly concentrates on the evaluation concept and specially on the Aesthetic evaluation of the architectural design in relation with the formal and organizational properties on the project therefore the research special problem can be set out as "the lack in a clear understanding of the effect of the formal and organizational properties of the design in …

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Formal Transformation In Urban Context Analytical Study To The Formal Transformation In Urban Context By Using The Remote Sensing, Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi, Maha Haki Almuhammadi Apr 2026

Formal Transformation In Urban Context Analytical Study To The Formal Transformation In Urban Context By Using The Remote Sensing, Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi, Maha Haki Almuhammadi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Many researchers interest directed to study the urban context as one of important concept to achieve temporal and spatial continuity in urban environment and link the building with neighboring. The paper deals with urban context as:- integral contain apposes clear orders and also statue procedural definition it is contain of potential and outstanding orders which instituted from joined parts in urban fabric, linked together in potential relations and bear urban and cultural values posses formal conduct, coinciding functional and rotating and bear association deliberative meanings the potential in shared between the parte and the whole and the outstanding in formal …

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Design For Daylight Windows In Architectural Spaces, Younis Saleem Apr 2026

Design For Daylight Windows In Architectural Spaces, Younis Saleem

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The daylight was and still one of the most important means and could put human in touch with his environment and architecture. The aim of this research is to determine the proper design of window's area which achieves suitable level of daylight in Architectural spaces of Baghdad city. This area of window relate to the change of interior and exterior design characteristic with addition to the suitable light level for users and their activities. The research treats windows in the same way followed in methods of designing artificial lighting and determining power size of electric lamp. Because it's difficult to …

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The Concept Of Fourth Dimension In Landscape, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Rawaa Fawzi Naom Abbawi Apr 2026

The Concept Of Fourth Dimension In Landscape, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Rawaa Fawzi Naom Abbawi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Landscape designer deals with three spatial dimensions, as well as with another dimension mentioned in design literatures. This dimension is the fourth dimension. Because of the absence of sufficient information about this concept, in the field of architecture, and particularly in landscape design . For the purpose of benefiting the landscape architects, and how to present and develop this dimension through the design process, and finding it in the final design. Search for this concept in different literature those specialized in research problem, so this research was aimed to clarify the concept of the fourth dimension briefly within the scientific, …

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Mechanism Of Contemporary Architectural Text(Analyzing View According To Symbol Concept), Zainab Hussein Rauof Apr 2026

Mechanism Of Contemporary Architectural Text(Analyzing View According To Symbol Concept), Zainab Hussein Rauof

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Meaning of speech language achieved by symbolic it's items, so the symbolism is one of independent strategies which survive on dialog throw design process. Although texts resulted from this strategies combined in goals, mechanism and creation style but they are characteristic to familiar and unfamiliar symbolic text. So the research problem represent in (there is no knowledge about how texts are characteristic to familiar and un familiar symbolic text and what are vocabularies identify each type). hypothesis of research is (architectural symbolic text characteristic to familiar and unfamiliar symbolic text according to vocabularies resulted from mechanism of architectural symbolic text). …

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The Change Of Genotype In Old Traditional Areas In Baghdad Cityanalytical Study Using Geographic Information System, Sanaa Sati Abbas Apr 2026

The Change Of Genotype In Old Traditional Areas In Baghdad Cityanalytical Study Using Geographic Information System, Sanaa Sati Abbas

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Change is the fact of being difference, or something to be in a state that not being before. Old traditional areas in Baghdad City have been encountered to many changes by the act of streets cut through, as a result of development process or comprehensive plans, which represents the research problem. The research hypothesis is, the genotype of old traditional areas is changed by the act of streets cut through. The aim of this paper is to explore the changes in this genotype with specific reference to old traditional Al- Kadhemiyah and old Karkh, according to four morphological stages passed …

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The Effect Of Globalization Terrorism On Architectureproblematical Of Architecture In Globalization Terrorism, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif Apr 2026

The Effect Of Globalization Terrorism On Architectureproblematical Of Architecture In Globalization Terrorism, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

It could be said; that the globalization during the last10-20 years, lead to the colonization of societies. The power and dominance practiced over the societies, indirectly, created some level fear in imitation. The study attempts to indicate the picture of globalization(in architecture)as a case of deliberate change to the nature of architectural thought in order to influence architectural modes in the societies. The globalization terrorism in the world tends to bear some lack in architectural thoughts. The society live these international relationship, problem related to the absence of realization of the final effects on architectural results and it is related …

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The Transformation Within The Urban Structure, Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi, Venus S.A. Zangana Apr 2026

The Transformation Within The Urban Structure, Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi, Venus S.A. Zangana

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Urban transformation is one of the most dynamic properties for the city and its growth. The type of the functional and structural transformation assigns the approaches of thought of it inhabitants, if the transformation was natural, while it indicates serial of political and economical dissentions if it was a compulsory transformation. The research affirmed upon studying the global transformation within the urban structure at the level of (part) and the level of (whole). Literatures review was made on research that dealt with concept of transformation in general and the transformation within the urban structure in particular. The research problem was …

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Reduction Cooling Load Using Intelligent Envelope System, Wael A.Al-Auqeily, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif Apr 2026

Reduction Cooling Load Using Intelligent Envelope System, Wael A.Al-Auqeily, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The nature of Iraqi climate which represents longevity the hot summer seasons, made almost the buildings depend on mechanical services to remove the cooling loads and ensure a suitable conditions of human activity within it. Therefore and for the importance of topic many architecture researches in Iraq focused on searching practical solutions that could reduce the consumption in buildings through controlling the climate effect on these buildings, by following different strategies for cooling. The research has focused on active cooling strategies which contribute on a larger part to the reduction of the cooling load in the buildings through its providing …

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Concepts In The Products Of Students In The Iraqi Architectural Schools, Parizat Q. Hussein Fehmi Fehmi Apr 2026

Concepts In The Products Of Students In The Iraqi Architectural Schools, Parizat Q. Hussein Fehmi Fehmi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Concepts are considered as an important part in the architectural design process and play a major role in achieving new and distinctive products. They are the life giving of architecture and represent a means to understanding the essence of the project. Forming concept is no easy way; it requires intensive and creative efforts. From reading previous studies on concepts and realizing their importance, and the problems that block skill development in conceptualizing for designers including architectural students, one easily realizes the lack in knowledge in the nature of concepts which is seen in the products of students in the Iraqi …

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Thermal Simulation Of Custom Designed House To Test Application Of New Cooling Methods, Sahar Najeeb Karrufa, Yahya A. Ebraheem, Nagham Ahmed Al-Qaysi Apr 2026

Thermal Simulation Of Custom Designed House To Test Application Of New Cooling Methods, Sahar Najeeb Karrufa, Yahya A. Ebraheem, Nagham Ahmed Al-Qaysi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

A traditional Iraqi house used to be compatible with climate and allows the users to live in a genealogically comfortable way in winter and summer. And because of the evolution of technology and contemporary housing demands, this kind of housing became inappropriate that led to the appearance of a new Iraqi house design which offers overall comfortable living but it cause a terrible loss of power for heating and cooling. Several new methods have been tested in the University of Technology in Baghdad to cool the building interior through cooling the structural envelope. The tests have been done on a …

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Problematic Of Reception At The Designer & (Receiver) In Architecture, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif Apr 2026

Problematic Of Reception At The Designer & (Receiver) In Architecture, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The architectural designers bear certain qualities in the nature of their work which leads them a head in older to seek novelty, and as a man (human behavior) has aims which can be related to environment and society. The designers experience all those aims through fixed natural requirements, which can make him completely free in his invention. The relationship between designer and targets in the environment &society provides the flexibility needed in the design process The search assumes that the mind of the designer through his level of knowledge (architectural) and the elements of style, mode, etc. provide many directives …

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Authority In Architecture And Architectural Criticism, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Suha Haddan Aldahwia Apr 2026

Authority In Architecture And Architectural Criticism, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Suha Haddan Aldahwia

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Many of criticism studies have focused on the concept of authority . These studies vary in their intentions, about the type of authority , according to their theoretical criticism directions. Also they varied in their disciplines, from the attention to the author, to complete care to the text; eventually they transferred to the reader in the last decade of the twentieth century .The research problem was "There is no comprehensive image about the concept of authority in Architecture and specially in Academic architectural criticism". This study aims to define the specialty of authority in architecture and architectural criticism .The research …

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The Impact Of The Designer In The Architectural Outcomearchitectural Education Projects, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif Apr 2026

The Impact Of The Designer In The Architectural Outcomearchitectural Education Projects, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

A theory was subjected ;as an attempt to study the architectural circulation as an education media; That, the impact of the projects in the circulate , where , these projects were designed as to improve the intellectual abilities of the students , different from traditional approach ; produced results in a kind of architecture which alien to the goals. The intention of such intel-lectual circulation meant to develop the aesthetic values of the student within the teaching medium. Teachers attempt to look for teaching medias that can be related to Society, Education, Histo-ry, as main ingredients in their teaching, in …

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Principle Of Correspondency In Context Of Architecture, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif, Rafid Abd Alatif Apr 2026

Principle Of Correspondency In Context Of Architecture, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif, Rafid Abd Alatif

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The research concentrates on Communication which forms one of the main criteria in the design process, Particular attention is given to the user rather than the designer "Architect”;The architectural output process can be represented in two poles; the first, the individual element as designer ,while the other pole, represents the social output as thinker user. But the design process occurs in a much wider range than the two poles. And involved the context that achieved the output. It appears more than one context determined the relationship between parties in the process of design as a designer context, user context, and …

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The Effect Of The Outside Design Elements In Daylight Levels Impact On Windows, Younis Saleem Apr 2026

The Effect Of The Outside Design Elements In Daylight Levels Impact On Windows, Younis Saleem

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The architects recognize the role of environmental elements (specially the daylight) in reach to successful design achieving better user's performance. The daylight goes to the essence of architectural work by helping to inspire the spaces with their shapes, colors, touches and surfaces. The aim of this research is to determine the fundamental step in daylight design, by measuring the daylight impact on windows. This light is the main source in lighting interior space after it's through the glass panel of window and diffuse in space. So, it's possible to increase interior light level by controlling the external daylight impact on …

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Night Lighting In Architecture, Rana Mazin Apr 2026

Night Lighting In Architecture, Rana Mazin

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Lighting Consider one of the most important subject which is still a productive field for researches and architectural studies, which provides by it's two types (Natural and artificial) and different field which studied throw it's important results participate in supporting architectural movement continuously. Resent studies have show very important sides from lighting caricaturized by night lighting and its rules in adding effective steps for the projects. The beauty of the night seen connected enhance the feelings of place be longing. Good night lighting considered on of the most important criteria which connected to the achievement of architectural identity, so the …

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Spatial Configuration Characteristics Of Religious Buildingsa Comparative Study Of Cult Buildings In Selected Civilizations, Ali Haidar Aljameel Apr 2026

Spatial Configuration Characteristics Of Religious Buildingsa Comparative Study Of Cult Buildings In Selected Civilizations, Ali Haidar Aljameel

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The relation between cult and space in religious buildings was considered as an important issue in different previous studies, which had confırmed, explicitly and implicitly, the role of cult ceremonies in the formulation of religious architecture, especially cult buildings. Cult ceremonies usually define the activities of the social system occupying religious buildings, and those activities find their reflection in the nature of the spaces of those buildings and what is widely known as (Spatial Configuration). This research is a comparative study aiming to define the nature of variation between Islamic mosques, ancient Egyptian and Iraqi temples in terms of spatial …

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Utilizing A Cooled Roof To Increase Thermal Performance Of The Building, Sahar Najeeb Karrufa, Yahya A. Ebraheem Apr 2026

Utilizing A Cooled Roof To Increase Thermal Performance Of The Building, Sahar Najeeb Karrufa, Yahya A. Ebraheem

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The purpose of this paper is to test the use of an evaporative air cooler to cool the roof of a building. It was hoped that this would reduce the temperature inside the building and the cooling load as well when a compressor air conditioning unit is installed. Evaporative cooling is cheap and only uses a fraction of the power that compressor units do. Furthermore its cooling effect increases with the rise in temperature and drop in humidity, conditions that prevail in large parts of Iraq including Baghdad. The test included setting up a thermally insulated compartment above a room …

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Sustainability Principals Of Traditional Architecture In The Islamic Perception, Maha Sabah Salman Al-Zubaidi, Bahjat Rashad Shahin Apr 2026

Sustainability Principals Of Traditional Architecture In The Islamic Perception, Maha Sabah Salman Al-Zubaidi, Bahjat Rashad Shahin

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Undoubtedly, Islam contains many sustainability and environment conservations indicators that integrated with the social values and human behaviour of the Moslems society. The concept of environment in the Islamic perception means more than the simple enumeration of its components or those of the ecological system; it transcends this to establish a link between these components and the human factor. Thus, built environment in the Islamic World was a reflection of Moslems view to environment as living entity. This view is materialized in different levels whether in the city planning or architectural design that was shaped by the beliefs and actions …

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The Relationship Between Theoretical Concepts And Architecture, Khalil Ibrahim Ali, Basim Hasan Al Majid, Ahmed Hashim Hammed El-Eqapy Apr 2026

The Relationship Between Theoretical Concepts And Architecture, Khalil Ibrahim Ali, Basim Hasan Al Majid, Ahmed Hashim Hammed El-Eqapy

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Throughout history, man has questioned the existence of (phenomenas) that surrounds him, with the intention of finding convincing answers that could verify and generalize these events. His aim was to formulate a mental reality which could frame up these (phenomenas) in a theoretical discourse of his understanding. Architecture was distinguished by utilizing various projections on its reality in order to create its theoretical framework. This rollows a variety of references and sources. As a result, it contained various factors to match the intellectual demands of any period. To understand the influence of variety in the theoretical input of architecture, this …

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The Nature Imitation Strategy And The Sustainable Architectural Form – Analytical Study For Organic Formsthrough The Architectural Product Of Eguen Tsui, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Rana Momtaz Dawood Apr 2026

The Nature Imitation Strategy And The Sustainable Architectural Form – Analytical Study For Organic Formsthrough The Architectural Product Of Eguen Tsui, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Rana Momtaz Dawood

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Literature review showed that sustainability is a phenomenon which had been studied in different disciplines, particularly in architecture. These studies showed that the aim of architectural sustainability is the integration between buildings and environment. Literature review mentioned the role of nature imitation strategy in the generating of sustainable form, whose characters effects on the building efficiency and ,provide comfort to its users , but this had not been studied in practice. The research problem was, there was a gap in the relationship between the organic sustainable architectural form and the nature imitation strategy, as one of sustainability strategies. So the …

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Some Of Criteria Of Contemporary Arab Dwelling In Hot Dry Climate, Bahjat Rashad Shahin Apr 2026

Some Of Criteria Of Contemporary Arab Dwelling In Hot Dry Climate, Bahjat Rashad Shahin

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

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Artistic Architecture Of Interior Lighting For Hotels Looby, Akram Jassim Alakkam, Shymaa Nabeel Alhashimi Apr 2026

Artistic Architecture Of Interior Lighting For Hotels Looby, Akram Jassim Alakkam, Shymaa Nabeel Alhashimi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

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Analogy In Architecturestudy Of Conceptual Act On The Designing Dimension Of Concept In Thecontemporary Architectural Thoughts, Basim Hasan Al Majid Apr 2026

Analogy In Architecturestudy Of Conceptual Act On The Designing Dimension Of Concept In Thecontemporary Architectural Thoughts, Basim Hasan Al Majid

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Analogy in architecture has been studied by various researchers especially in fields related to creativity and the in conceptual content of signs and symbols within the various architectural contexts. This paper approaches analogy from design aspects and its application in design quality. To achieve its objectives the paper covers theoretical background which is related to existing studies with specific reference to analogy. The second step, covers a number of studies from which a hypothesis to build up a framework that addresses the re search problem with some emphasis on symbols. The paper presents an adopted design model of analogy in …

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Design Criteria And Standerds For Oprating Departments In Privet Hospitals In Iraq, Azad Atoof M. Raoof Apr 2026

Design Criteria And Standerds For Oprating Departments In Privet Hospitals In Iraq, Azad Atoof M. Raoof

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

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Architectural Referential Divergence, Khalil Ibrahim Ali, Suher Abd Alhameed Rasheed Apr 2026

Architectural Referential Divergence, Khalil Ibrahim Ali, Suher Abd Alhameed Rasheed

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

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Mythicism Mechanism -Reading In The Types Of Appointment The Myth In The Contemporary Architecture, Abbas Ali Hamza Al Greiza, Emad Abd Al Hameed Apr 2026

Mythicism Mechanism -Reading In The Types Of Appointment The Myth In The Contemporary Architecture, Abbas Ali Hamza Al Greiza, Emad Abd Al Hameed

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

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The Act Of The Stories Constrution On The Thoughtly Construction In Contemporary Architecture, Abbas Ali Hamza Al Greiza Apr 2026

The Act Of The Stories Constrution On The Thoughtly Construction In Contemporary Architecture, Abbas Ali Hamza Al Greiza

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

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Environmental Design For Industrial Building, Bahjat Rashad Shahin, Rula Dhafir Dawood Apr 2026

Environmental Design For Industrial Building, Bahjat Rashad Shahin, Rula Dhafir Dawood

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

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