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Thermal Effect Of External Cladding Materials On The Microclimate In Urban Environment, Miqdad Haidar Al-Jawadi, Ahmed Hani Rasheed Al-Tamim Apr 2026

Thermal Effect Of External Cladding Materials On The Microclimate In Urban Environment, Miqdad Haidar Al-Jawadi, Ahmed Hani Rasheed Al-Tamim

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

It has been found recently, that many architects are using new imported materials for external cladding, which might cause an increase in air temperature of the urban environment, and creating new microclimate thermally differ from other places according to the type of cladding materials used on building façade , especially in commercial streets, which is believed that most people feels changes in thermal difference in commercial streets more than the difference in residential districts, where people are usually indoors. So due to the lack of information about the effect of such material on urban environment, the paper aimed to contribute …


Interchanging Interaction Between Heritage And Technical In The Local Architectural Practice: An Empirical Study Of The Heritage Elements In Baghdad, Rana Mazin, Enas Salim Apr 2026

Interchanging Interaction Between Heritage And Technical In The Local Architectural Practice: An Empirical Study Of The Heritage Elements In Baghdad, Rana Mazin, Enas Salim

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

An architectural local practice facing a crisis associated with losing the local intermediated feature for local heritage and rapid development, which is a feature of the current era. The research focuses on the case of intermediation in expression between heritage privacy (as it cannot be denied the whole heritage or accept the whole) and the expression of the spirit of the times and new techniques to ensure the continuity of architectural output achieved in time and space thus The research problem absented of equilibrium expressionist architectural output arises between the ancient and the modern..Proceeding from the need Establishment the successes …


Developing Green Infrastructure For Baghdad City, Najeel Kamal Abdul Razzaq, Mayasa Farkad Abdul Raheem Apr 2026

Developing Green Infrastructure For Baghdad City, Najeel Kamal Abdul Razzaq, Mayasa Farkad Abdul Raheem

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The public green spaces in Baghdad city have an obvious shortage and doesn’t fulfill and meet the needs of the population and the required open space criteria, moreover these green spaces are disjointed, disconnected and does not function as a unified system, that is why it suffers from neglect which contributes to deterioration of the city’s environment and increasing air pollution. Human beings depended on nature into providing clean air and good health, with the growth of the population and the urban areas, there has been negative influence on the natural environmental system. A new term lately appeared “Green Infrastructure”especially …


Effectiveness Of Sustainable Urban Projects In The City Of Baghdad A Comparative Study Of Sustainable Development Projects In Adhamiya And Kadhimiya District, Wadhah Abdul Sahib Hussein, Zaynab Radi Abaas Apr 2026

Effectiveness Of Sustainable Urban Projects In The City Of Baghdad A Comparative Study Of Sustainable Development Projects In Adhamiya And Kadhimiya District, Wadhah Abdul Sahib Hussein, Zaynab Radi Abaas

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

This research comes in an attempt to evaluate and compare between the efficiency of a selected sustainable urban projects from Baghdad city (Al Adhamiya and Al Kadhimiya areas) through applying the criteria ofurban sustainability and compared using SWOT analyses model(represents one strong word: S = strengths, W = weaknesses, O = opportunities, T = threats.), this done by examine the most important strategies which targeted to extrapolate the urban form as a vital sustainable structure, and has become a standard which could measure and evaluate the impact of the application for sustainable criteria. These strategies know as Smart Growth Strategies …


The Application Of Fengshuiin The Design Of Contemporary Architecture And Its Environment, Areej Kareem Al-Sadkhan, Lena Auday Hatem Apr 2026

The Application Of Fengshuiin The Design Of Contemporary Architecture And Its Environment, Areej Kareem Al-Sadkhan, Lena Auday Hatem

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

This research discuss a scientific vision about the natural components of the environment and its effect on the urban environment and human in particular, all this will be discussed within the framework of an ancient discipline known in China as the art to determine the best conditions for the construction of buildings or development of cities, called "FengShui".It is a practical technique, designed to find the right place, good direction, good shape, good proportion and good arrangement for designing the best environment in which to live. "FengShui" is a mean of assessing the environment and provides the techniques for local …


Urban Integration Of Historic Centers: Analytical Study Of The Factors Of Urban Integration At Al-Karkh Historic Center, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif, Mohammed Mahdi Hussein Apr 2026

Urban Integration Of Historic Centers: Analytical Study Of The Factors Of Urban Integration At Al-Karkh Historic Center, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif, Mohammed Mahdi Hussein

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Historic centers are considered one of the tangible forms of civilization in terms of depicting the extensions of the past. They form one of the intensively proposed controversies in the modern field in regard to the possibility of dealing with them, the objectives of development and conserving them as they represent the merge of the old and the new. This is manifested in the merger of contradictions and the changing value resulting from urban interference in order to link the historic centers with other parts of the city through linear streets that penetrate its urban structure and divide its urban …


Wall Between The Structure Of The Intent And Mechanics Of Writing In Architecture, Abdullah Saadoon Salman Almaamoori, Abbas Ali Hamza Al Greiza, Laheib Ali Abdulhussain Al-Sayigh Apr 2026

Wall Between The Structure Of The Intent And Mechanics Of Writing In Architecture, Abdullah Saadoon Salman Almaamoori, Abbas Ali Hamza Al Greiza, Laheib Ali Abdulhussain Al-Sayigh

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The current search trying to study deeply the semantic relations generated from the adoption of mechanisms written with a certain intent on the board (the wall), as a means of displaying architectural text which is of semantically cumulative as it described as a traces .Where the Architected text is the writing about a topic not attaching pictures of the past and heritage. To establish by the search the structure of conceptual and assume to that a wall is not physically dividing line between inside and outside of the space but dialogue bridge between the designer and his intellectual reference at …


Humanization Of Arabic Islamic Architecture Architecture Between Needs Requirement & Ideal Theorization, Abdullah Saadoon Salman Almaamoori Apr 2026

Humanization Of Arabic Islamic Architecture Architecture Between Needs Requirement & Ideal Theorization, Abdullah Saadoon Salman Almaamoori

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Architecture is the content of human events, it is the most important products through history with all its structure of the formal elements, relations between them and the regulations governing the organization of space and movement patterns and formations that form the lives of their inhabitants to achieve the highest performance of the material without displacing the local building techniques and modern engineering into account the rules and the investment component of the site in order to find the structure of architectural humanism the surrounding elements of the natural environment to achieve the requirements basic, so the architecture is the …


Color Harmony In Urban Environment, Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi, Nada Abdul Mueen Hassan Apr 2026

Color Harmony In Urban Environment, Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi, Nada Abdul Mueen Hassan

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Many studies have addressed the problem of visual distortion a and disharmony in urban facades in terms of styles , formations , compositions and materials ... Etc., which reflected negatively on the urban form and aesthetic character of the city, and as a result of imposing of colors and clear dissonant in its design harmony . This research deals with the concept of harmony in architecture in general and urban design in particular, draw the most important formulas to achieve Color harmony in the urban facades, the research problem states that "there is no clear perception of the formulas to …


The Impact Of Technology On The Patterns Of The Arab-Islamic City, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif, Ahmed A. Mohammed Apr 2026

The Impact Of Technology On The Patterns Of The Arab-Islamic City, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif, Ahmed A. Mohammed

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The traditional Arab-Islamic city represented a reflection of the desires of the Arab-Muslim community and the Arab- Islamic character, and a clear expression of the religious and the cultural transformations of their different societies, and at the same time showed the physical structure formed by the characteristics of environmental and social principles and ideological, religious and spiritual values. The looking at the present Arab cities raise many fundamental and pressing questions regarding the continuity of the Arab- Islamic city in the present Arab societies. Is there still a real phenomenon of the "Arab-Islamic city", as active as the way it …


The Aesthetic Impact For The Technique’S Presentation For Interior Architecture, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif, Rand Abbas A.H. Alkhaiat Apr 2026

The Aesthetic Impact For The Technique’S Presentation For Interior Architecture, Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif, Rand Abbas A.H. Alkhaiat

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Man searches for a tool to reflect his thoughts and simulate what is around him of features, and through the various and different drawing techniques he can now portray what is around him and demonstrate it with different means as an integral whole. Where using the techniques requires using the experience and skill by drawing and architectural performance. The research problem was determined by the scientific need to know the nature of the aesthetical effect for the presentation techniques in internal architecture, where the research tries to disclose the nature of the aesthetical effect for the presentation techniques through the …


Formal Characteristics Of Vernacular Architecture In Erbil City And Other Iraqi Cities, Mahmood Ahmed Bakir Khayat, Binyad Maruf Abdulkadir Khaznadar Apr 2026

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

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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 Apr 2026

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 Apr 2026

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 …


The Role Of Housing In The Random Events Of The Phenomenon Of Visual Pollution Case Study "Um Alwarid " In Al-Jadirya Quarter., Zainab Salman Shama, Luay Taha Almulla Huaish Apr 2026

The Role Of Housing In The Random Events Of The Phenomenon Of Visual Pollution Case Study "Um Alwarid " In Al-Jadirya Quarter., Zainab Salman Shama, Luay Taha Almulla Huaish

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Increasing the breadth of the phenomenon of slums in the cities has generated a lot of problems between the problems of physical and social, economic, and return multiple problems to the complexity of the causes giving rise between economic and social reasons, cultural, noting that the results have exceeded these aspects to cause a display of environmental pollution of visual pollution, which is one of the most dangerous types of pollution because it is more pronounced and affects the psychological equilibrium and aesthetic for the viewer. Have contributed to the extension of population non-planned, multi-migration to the deterioration of social …


Pilot Projects For Traditional Areas In Bahrain "Conservation & Urban Design Projects For Traditional Areas", Falah Al-Kubaisy Apr 2026

Pilot Projects For Traditional Areas In Bahrain "Conservation & Urban Design Projects For Traditional Areas", Falah Al-Kubaisy

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Bahrain has a rich heritage of built environment dating back to antiquity which left us many important of historical buildings and traditional city areas. However, the historical core areas of Bahrain’s two oldest towns, Muharraq and MaNama, are now under threat. The concern of the government to seek innovative solutions for Bahrain’s cultural heritage resulted in adopting the project of “Capacity Building for Enhancement of Urban Governance: Urban Design Projects for Traditional Areas". A team comprised of an appointed project director and a number of international consultants representing various disciplines were assembled for the project with the assistance of the …


Levels Of Creative Addition And Its Characteristics In Contemporary Iraqi Architecture, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Anwar Subhi Ramdan Al-Qaraghuli Apr 2026

Levels Of Creative Addition And Its Characteristics In Contemporary Iraqi Architecture, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Anwar Subhi Ramdan Al-Qaraghuli

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Addition is regarded as one of the important concepts which has accompanied human culture from time memorial in its various aspects of thinking, science, and art. Thus, addition in architecture which represents a cultural product embodying man’s thought, his social needs and demands was reflected in theory and practice through different historical era. Each era added to the previous one something new and distinctive serving development and growth. At present, the importance of this concept has emerged after an increased call to invest in the heritage and re-employ it in new attempts after adding to it, thus achieving an architecture …


The Aesthetics Of Ugliness In Architecture, Asma Niazy Taher Apr 2026

The Aesthetics Of Ugliness In Architecture, Asma Niazy Taher

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The concept "aesthetics of ugliness" is considered to be one of the post-modernism treatises. The meaning of "aesthetics" is more comprehensive it encompasses numerous other concepts, e.g. those of beauty, ugliness, sublime… Many studies were generally concerned with the concept of ugliness (especially in the field of architecture) from different perspectives, and in a brief and inclusive way. The research problem focused on the absence of a clear definition of the concept of aesthetic ugliness and its role in the aesthetic experience of architecture, and this is what the present research aims to discover. Depending on the research hypothesis which …


Excerption And Inclusion In Language And Architecture, Emad Younis Lafi Apr 2026

Excerption And Inclusion In Language And Architecture, Emad Younis Lafi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Excerption and inclusion are two terms in Arabic rhetoric. The excerption is defined as a taking a part of text from Holly Quran or Hadith and put it in a poem, verse line, or put it in a prose text. But the linguistics expand the concept of this term to include taking from another sciences and knowledge, like Grammar, Philology, and Prosody. Inclusion is defined as taking a verse line or part of verse line from another poet to put it in a new poem, it is necessary that the poet who take the text should declare it, and if …


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 …


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 …


Translation And Architecturea Study Of Translation Act In The Concept Transport For The Mental Auction Oftext's Meanings And It's Reflects In Architecture, Ahmed Hashim Hammed El-Eqapy, Basim Hasan Al Majid Apr 2026

Translation And Architecturea Study Of Translation Act In The Concept Transport For The Mental Auction Oftext's Meanings And It's Reflects In Architecture, Ahmed Hashim Hammed El-Eqapy, Basim Hasan Al Majid

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The Architectural theses are focus on study of the parallel concept’s for architecture in it’s direction physical types to benefit fromit in the architectural use without go toward study of maintains the analogical operational nature in the concepts and benefited from it in architecture. The research aim to study the concept (translation) through analysis and understand the continuity nature for the concept in the axes of the mental transport operation for icon’s between mead and anther.to benefit from that in the formlation .of the analogic model which have operational dimension serve architecture field by discovered the same sides in the …


Coherence In The Fractal City, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Sahar Hilal Abdul Rida Al-Dujaili Apr 2026

Coherence In The Fractal City, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Sahar Hilal Abdul Rida Al-Dujaili

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

This research is a second part of paper about the Fractal City. The research studies the coherence phenomenon in this city, which is one of its characters. The paper connects the urban coherence with the geometrical coherence through the theory of complexity which says that the large scale complex which is assembled from tightly interacting subunits on many different levels of scale is in a hierarchy going down to the natural structure of material. Also through the connection with the rules of geometrical coherence which are, the coupling, variety, boundaries, forces, organization, hierarchy, interdependency and decomposition. The case study was …


The Ideal Climatic Shape Of Detazched Houses In Hot Arid Regions, Bahaa Issa Yadco Apr 2026

The Ideal Climatic Shape Of Detazched Houses In Hot Arid Regions, Bahaa Issa Yadco

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Climute imposes big impact on the life of human and his activities, among them his residence which if designed and executed suitably to the climate without additional artificial treatments, it will achieve the thermal comfort to the resident.Hence the idiom ,, climatic efficient residence" rises which means harmonizing the effective climatic factors (with using minimum amount of energy) leading to the " ideal climatic shape,, which is characterized by the receiving of minimum amount of thermal iaad in si[nmer and maximum amount of it in winter, this will effectively reduce energy consutnption. The ideal climatic shape implies, as well as, …


Crime Prevention Through Territoriality In Urban Design, Bahaa Issa Yadco, Azad Atoof M. Raoof, Sahar Hilal Abdul Rida Al-Dujaili Apr 2026

Crime Prevention Through Territoriality In Urban Design, Bahaa Issa Yadco, Azad Atoof M. Raoof, Sahar Hilal Abdul Rida Al-Dujaili

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Crime has been a symptomatic issue that civilized world had suffered from.To tackle crime does not come through enhancing security and police procedures, but through studying relevant factors and aspects from different and various fields of knowledge.One of such fields is architectural and urban design strategies and in specificthe role of the designer and / or the planner in providing secure living spaces.Territoriality represents one of the most important element in creatingdefensible space in urban design to reduce crime rate. Literature review showed a biggap in thescientific awareness about the concept of this phenomenon, and its relations to architectural design, …


Spatial Organization And Socisl Structure, Khalil Ibrahim Ali, Merel Feneeg Parsegh, Sabih Ali Al-Chalabi Apr 2026

Spatial Organization And Socisl Structure, Khalil Ibrahim Ali, Merel Feneeg Parsegh, Sabih Ali Al-Chalabi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

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The Policy Of Residential Plots Secretion And Its Results Dr. Jamal Baker Al-Sa'ady Case Study (Baghdad City), Jamal Baqer Al-Sa'ady, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Haidar Abd-Al-Razak Apr 2026

The Policy Of Residential Plots Secretion And Its Results Dr. Jamal Baker Al-Sa'ady Case Study (Baghdad City), Jamal Baqer Al-Sa'ady, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Haidar Abd-Al-Razak

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Housing considered as a basic need for humtn being. It's provision in Iraq depends on all society sectors. This is required a proper means and methods, and one of these means are the legislations and laws, The two mairs decisions, which were dealing with the secretion of residential plots (The decision ltlo. 850 in 1979 and the decision No. 940 in 1987), were one of the methods used ir solving the Housing Shortage Problem in Baghdad. Also they were a reaction to the Prevailing policy which was dealt with the providing of large residential plots, The research aims to study …


Characteristics Of Urban Housing Units And Their Relation To The Economic And Social Characteristics Of Their Residents - A Field Study On The City Of Mosul, Mumtaz Hazim Aldauji Apr 2026

Characteristics Of Urban Housing Units And Their Relation To The Economic And Social Characteristics Of Their Residents - A Field Study On The City Of Mosul, Mumtaz Hazim Aldauji

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Iraqi cities have a rapid growth in their urban area with explosive populationincrease. This growth is accompanied with advent of various residential pattems. Thephenomenon is conspicuously explicit in Mosul as the major urban center in the northregion of Iraq.The hypothesis which states that residential pattems -by means of their physicalfeatures and location within urban area- are correlated with the occupants'characteristics including demographic, socio-economic, ethnic, cultural . . etc. isadopted and to be tested in order to determine the nature and scope ofthis relationshipin Mosul.


The Relation Between Spatial Organization Of The City And Its Function, Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi Apr 2026

The Relation Between Spatial Organization Of The City And Its Function, Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The city , is one of the expanded and most complex systems that the human beings ever known, as it exist through continuous development and changing process through time. Each generation extends substitutes , re-arranges and adopts what it inherits before passing with to the new generation, therefore the city can be called ina moment of time as a group of dynamic processes more than being constant facts. The city is a product ofa large number of resolutions within its reality, having the small and large measurement to be connected with the social structures and ideological constructions of its occupant, …


The Effect Of The Geometrical Relations Of The Opera Spaces On The Acoustical Performance, Saba Jabar Al-Khafaji, Peter Khammu Mety, Sara Munther Al-Khoja Apr 2026

The Effect Of The Geometrical Relations Of The Opera Spaces On The Acoustical Performance, Saba Jabar Al-Khafaji, Peter Khammu Mety, Sara Munther Al-Khoja

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

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