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The Effect Of Urban Street Planting On Improving The Climate Of Baghdad City, Miqdad Haidar Al-Jawadi, Ali Hussain Al-Bayati Apr 2026

The Effect Of Urban Street Planting On Improving The Climate Of Baghdad City, Miqdad Haidar Al-Jawadi, Ali Hussain Al-Bayati

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The aim of this research is to study the effect of tree planting on the reduction of thermal load of solar radiation falling on the area of Baghdad city and its contribution to weather treatments; since the temperature of green mass of trees is less than the human body and higher than air temperature in winter, so one expects condense tree plantation and foliage may participate in reducing air temperature in summer and could make the climate of the city to approach near the human temperature comfort limits .The impetus to encourage the authors to undertake the research is the …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Minarets Of Baghdad: Monuments Of Architectural Identity, Hassan Mahmood Haj Kasim Apr 2026

Minarets Of Baghdad: Monuments Of Architectural Identity, Hassan Mahmood Haj Kasim

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Minarets are distinctive architectural elements which defines the architectural identity of the Islamic cities both old and new through its vertical appearance ... The skyline of Baghdad -as one of the oldest Islamic capitals – is distinguished by set of minarets dating back to different eras ... These minarets seem as important elements that determine the place identity of Baghdad in drawings and photographs of foreign travelers ... The heritage minarets of Baghdad had architectural features that distinguish it from other minarets of other Islamic cities, despite the succession of periods and foreign influences. In the modern era, many minarets …

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Policies To Develop Transportation Systems: Alawi Region In Baghdad City, Nasma Maan M., Assda Abdulhamed A., Basma Abdulnafi S. Apr 2026

Policies To Develop Transportation Systems: Alawi Region In Baghdad City, Nasma Maan M., Assda Abdulhamed A., Basma Abdulnafi S.

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Al-Alawi region is the most important transportation center of Al- Karkh district in the city of Baghdad, its importance to this district the same as the beating heart for the human body, where it has a number of privileges including association of all axes destinations movement that lead to important government institutions, such as building of the Iraqi Museum, the train station, government buildings and others. Many inside transportation vehicles move out and back to this center as well the external transportation vehicles do, either to the northern, southern, eastern and western sides of Iraq, or to the outskirts of …

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Sound Environment Of Cities: A Comparison Study For Sound Environment Between Modern And Traditional Urban Fabric In Baghdad City, Susan Abd Hassan Apr 2026

Sound Environment Of Cities: A Comparison Study For Sound Environment Between Modern And Traditional Urban Fabric In Baghdad City, Susan Abd Hassan

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The sound environment in the Traditional Baghdad city specified with sound elements and relationships between sounds that define human sound environment, and had the greatest impact where natural sounds as human voice, animal and natural sound in addition to the voices of the traditional industries and the old means of transportation.The Recent changes in the traditional urban fabric that accompanied with the requirements of contemporary life. Of transportation, machinery and various industries affected in the structure of the traditional Baghdad urban fabric and Incision straight roads to the movement of vehicles and concentration height buildings on both sides of these …

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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 …

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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 …

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Cave System Technique As One Of The Most Important Applications Of Virtual Reality In Architecture, Aula Muhammed Abd Alkareem, Younis Saleem Apr 2026

Cave System Technique As One Of The Most Important Applications Of Virtual Reality In Architecture, Aula Muhammed Abd Alkareem, Younis Saleem

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Virtual reality technology is the most important techniques reached by the technological revolution in the last decades of the twentieth century. It had a significant impact in various fields of life, especially in the field of architecture through the presentation and realizing the product of architecture, The improve in technology and virtual reality techniques, including CAVE system was depend on how to understand the third dimension of space and sense of it. So it was necessary to keep pace with this development locally in Iraq and try to show its impact on this evolution in the perception of space and …

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The Effect Of Teaching Technologies Used In Theories Of Architecture Lectures In Students' Performance Mosul University As A Model, Rana Mahfooth, Niam B. Mannona, Ali H. Al-Jameel Apr 2026

The Effect Of Teaching Technologies Used In Theories Of Architecture Lectures In Students' Performance Mosul University As A Model, Rana Mahfooth, Niam B. Mannona, Ali H. Al-Jameel

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Recently, educational technologies have become an important issue thanks to the vast developments in the fields of information and digital technologies as new means were introduced to become essential parts of teaching methods. Because of their role in promoting education in general and the architectural education specifically, as they are new means for introducing knowledge in the theoretical lectures to accelerate the process of learning, it seems essential to provides scientific knowledge about their efficiency intended educational goals. On the other hand, Theories of Architecture is one of the principal lectures in architectural schools as the knowledge introduced in them …

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Consumption In Architecture(Study In The Formulas For Dealing With Consumption In The Local Architecture), Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif, Ahmed Salem Khalaf Apr 2026

Consumption In Architecture(Study In The Formulas For Dealing With Consumption In The Local Architecture), Ibrahim Jawad Kadhim Al-Yousif, Ahmed Salem Khalaf

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Architectural trends and their developments witnessed new ideas at many levels; one of these ideas is known as consumption, which is one of the new themes in an old concept and in its presence, which takes place effective today in the field of architecture. And plays a role in changing the architectural constants targets, and plays a role in changing the architectural constants targets, or classification of priorities. Every body tries to search for new and evolving architecture through what is available has advanced technological methods. This will be directed Search, make the process of change and evolution in architecture …

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The Effect Of Spatial And Visual Configuration Of Museums In The Formation Of Visiting Patterns. (A Comparative Study Between Iraqi And International Museum Buildings), Miqdam A. M. Alkurukchi Apr 2026

The Effect Of Spatial And Visual Configuration Of Museums In The Formation Of Visiting Patterns. (A Comparative Study Between Iraqi And International Museum Buildings), Miqdam A. M. Alkurukchi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Museums add cultural and social values to their societies, by transferring knowledge to the visitors through their exhibits. Accordingly, movement/visibility relation is considered as a crucial aspect in explaining spatial manners of museums, and direct operator in the formation of visiting patterns. The relation between both faces of museum's spatial configuration (movement axes, and visibility network), represents phenomena that lacks adequate research endeavors, despite its importance in the formation of visiting experiment patterns. Accordingly, the study aims to explain this relation. Using the comparative analysis methodology between Iraqi and international museum buildings. The results show full coincidence of the most …

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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 …

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Fractal Rhythm In Local Architectural Facades, Enas Salim, Venus S.A. Zangana Apr 2026

Fractal Rhythm In Local Architectural Facades, Enas Salim, Venus S.A. Zangana

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The research focuses on local architectural facades in Baghdad and the chaos and confusion ,Loosing the balance and order that these facades suffered from, due to random and irresponsible architectural practices, with the emergence of the idea of fractional rhythm as a regulatory tool achieves that exciting balance back between the extremes (contextual and disorder), the research problem has Defined that there is no study diagnosed this confusion and anarchy in local architectural facades in Baghdad based on the idea of fractional rhythm, on that base the research's goal is to Identify practical procedures to reach to facades with fractional …

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Cort Program After Use In The Development Of Creative Thinking For Students Of Architecture, Sura Kassim Apr 2026

Cort Program After Use In The Development Of Creative Thinking For Students Of Architecture, Sura Kassim

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Meditator notes the reality of contemporary Arab architecture in general and Iraq in particular, the absence of systematic rules of the Organization, it has become theoretically and practically the scene of a mixture of perceptions and visions of "individual" case resulting from the intellectual, cultural and social conditions. The observation of the reality of architectural education and academic in general, manifested the need to review a comprehensive methodology at the level of principles and rules. So the idea of the research problem, which is summarized (the development of creative thinking skills among students in architecture using CORT) The aims of …

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Green Architecture As Continuous Phenomena, Rana Mazin, Zainab Hussein Rauof Apr 2026

Green Architecture As Continuous Phenomena, Rana Mazin, Zainab Hussein Rauof

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Architects today interest about "Green architecture as continuous phenomena" deals with problems today throw haring so many system treat this problems. So this research is attempt to study both conceptual and practical levels for green architecture to significant its style. So research problem represented by (there was no image about what considers make green architecture as continuous phenomena). So the research goal is (significant the considers which makes green architecture as continuous phenomena) the hypotheses of research is (Green architecture in its conceptual and practical level has some and vocabulary with confirm green architecture as continuous phenomena).

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The Impact Of Angle Tilted Glass Panels On Solar Energy Gained In Different Buildings Function, Rawaa Fawzi Naom Abbawi, Younis Saleem Apr 2026

The Impact Of Angle Tilted Glass Panels On Solar Energy Gained In Different Buildings Function, Rawaa Fawzi Naom Abbawi, Younis Saleem

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Tilted of glass panels of windows is one of the solutions to reduce the solar energy gain depending on the angle of solar radiation and transmittance of glass panel. The variance of hour's usage of the different functional spaces (residential, administrative, and educational), requires different treatment due to the different amount of energy gain. This determined the research problem as: the absence of a clear vision about tilted of windows glass panels and its impact on solar energy for different buildings. The research aim is to determine the appropriate tilted of glass panels of windows according to the period of …

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The Effect Of Landscape In Sustainability Of Schools, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Aseel Jafer Jasem Apr 2026

The Effect Of Landscape In Sustainability Of Schools, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Aseel Jafer Jasem

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The landscape in sustainable schools acquires great importance in the knowledge era, which is of essential development. This era deals with the components of educational system, concentrates on the educator, transfers teacher from the impart teacher to a trainer teacher, and ensure on selfeducation activity to achieve the aim of modern education, which visualize by sustainable teaching or teaching to the sake of sustainable development. Therefore, it is necessary to adopt the Environment school with the new educational needs, which ask to the development of the relationship between teachers and students and the openness on outdoor environment. So the aim …

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Building Performance A Study For Evaluate Prefabricated Residational Buildings Performance, Ali Mohsen Jaafar Al-Khafaji, Asmaa M. H. Al- Moqaram, Auday Abbas Abood Apr 2026

Building Performance A Study For Evaluate Prefabricated Residational Buildings Performance, Ali Mohsen Jaafar Al-Khafaji, Asmaa M. H. Al- Moqaram, Auday Abbas Abood

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The performance concept expressed as the distance between what is needed and what is realized, and a solution to the problem of evaluating the suitability of the product for the application, which in turn is an important factor from which to evaluate the building and therefore the identification and development paths of practice and professional experience in the housing field . the performance concept adopted after the need dictated by the new circumstances in the construction field as a result of the emergence of new concepts aim was to move away from compliance to traditional construction systems and the transfer …

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Urban Form Types And Some Related Social Problems Of Multistorey Housing In Britain And The Gulf, Emad Mushtaha, Muhammed Arar, Faisal Hameed Apr 2026

Urban Form Types And Some Related Social Problems Of Multistorey Housing In Britain And The Gulf, Emad Mushtaha, Muhammed Arar, Faisal Hameed

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The urban expansion of the Gulf cities included many multi-storey housing projects of urban form types similar to those built in Britain during the post Second Wold War period of reconstruction. According to the literature, these types of urban form are associated with a number of social problems in relation to the health of some residents, anti-social behaviour of some youngsters, and some types of crime. The aim of this research is to identify the types of urban form in the context of the British built environment and to conduct a pilot study to investigate the presence of social problems …

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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 …

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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 …

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Daylight Design Graphs For Baghdad City Sky, Younis Saleem Apr 2026

Daylight Design Graphs For Baghdad City Sky, Younis Saleem

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Baghdad city constitutes one of the areas have clear sky with complex and ununiform distribution of light in the sky dome. This was one of the explanations why there is few studies concern with daylighting design in clear skies, from there, this research oriented to devise a new method that can assist in achieving the appropriate levels of lighting for interior spaces. The aim of this research is tempted to find a method that can help designers in achieving the appropriate levels of daylight in architectural spaces with different forms and sizes. The annual distribution rate of daylight was calculated …

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Representation In Activation The Interlocution Of Interior Spaces Language, Ahmed Louay Al Bajjari, Harith Assad Abdulrazzaq Apr 2026

Representation In Activation The Interlocution Of Interior Spaces Language, Ahmed Louay Al Bajjari, Harith Assad Abdulrazzaq

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The subject of representation in the Interior Design & Interior Architecture occupied an important place & a wide range of interesting by theorists, critics & practitioners of the jurisdiction of interior design, and came this interest in narrative theory & practical both in terms of the fact that the products of interior design are language & communication system with the receiver, This has pour practitioners jurisdiction interest to generate meanings intended and delivered through a formula of representation, while a theorists & critics made a lot of explanations in an attempt to discover the meaning of the work or approach, …

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The Role Of Technology In Urban Fragmentation Analytical Study For The Role Of Information And Communication Technologies In Urban Fragmentation, Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi, Vian Abd Al-Baseer M. Hasan Apr 2026

The Role Of Technology In Urban Fragmentation Analytical Study For The Role Of Information And Communication Technologies In Urban Fragmentation, Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi, Vian Abd Al-Baseer M. Hasan

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The research deals with one of the most important issues that faces cities during their growth, the “Urban Fragmentation”, which occurs to the city and its parts during its various stages of growth due to many different reasons , technology is one of the most important of those reasons. The research has defined the urban fragmentation as: The state of dismantling, losing coherence, and heterogeneity in urban form and structure, that is linked to the process of city growth, the state of urban fragmentation occurs on different levels such as the formal, spatial, functional and social levels, due to technological …

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Design Of Horizontal Shading Devices For Baghdad City's Buildings, Younis Saleem Apr 2026

Design Of Horizontal Shading Devices For Baghdad City's Buildings, Younis Saleem

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The use of sun control and shading devices is an important aspect of many energy-efficient building design strategies, where the shading of the building is the first step in the passive cooling systems in buildings. So the starting point of cooling systems is to reduce the solar heat gain by prevent solar radiation from entering the building in the hot period in the same time allow the daylight and benefit from achieving passive heating in cold period. This research interested with design of horizontal shading devices for buildings in Baghdad city. The research problem identified as the need to study …

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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 …

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The Effect Of Sun Breakers Characteristics On Wind Noise Generated By Them, Samar Hilal Askar, Miqdad Haidar Al-Jawadi Apr 2026

The Effect Of Sun Breakers Characteristics On Wind Noise Generated By Them, Samar Hilal Askar, Miqdad Haidar Al-Jawadi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

In hot regions like Iraq, where solar energy is very high, sun breaks are preferred to be implemented in design of the buildings as apart of the facade. Some types of sun breakers cause whistling noise or other types of noise which annoy occupants of the building especially if the building is residential. as it has been found, numbers of sun breakers may act similar in preventing sun ray penetration, therefore classified these shapes according to it's effects on causing noise may help designers in choosing the shapes matching there esthetic needs with less noise generating. Thus sun breakers with …

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Concepts In Architecture Between Theory And Practice, Anwar Subhi Ramdan Al-Qaraghuli Apr 2026

Concepts In Architecture Between Theory And Practice, Anwar Subhi Ramdan Al-Qaraghuli

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Architecture on both sides, theoretical and practical, deals with many concepts, according to the intellectual visions and different trends of architecture , in general, and of architectural designer, in particular. To highlight the importance of studying the concept in the architecture in terms of theoretical and practical aspects. The research problem came to point out” the lack of clear sight of the nature and levels of concepts that architecture deals with on both sides, theoretical and practical” Thus, the main goal of this research is to” make a clear understanding of concepts in architecture, which identifies the nature and levels …

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