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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, …

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The Aesthetical Trace Of Interior Lighting In Art Gallaries, Akram Jassim Alakkam, Zeina Awad Abd Alla Apr 2026

The Aesthetical Trace Of Interior Lighting In Art Gallaries, Akram Jassim Alakkam, Zeina Awad Abd Alla

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Many studies referred to the importance of lighting in interior spaces. Some studies pointed to the aesthetic values of interior lighting without present the approach to build these values, The current investigation aims to explore the principles of aesthetics trace building of lighting in art galleries. The research hypothesized the influence of aesthetic trace building by structural and meaningful bases of lighting in art galleries.To tackle research problem, hypothetical model was built represented by lighting, aesthetic trace, and are galleries indicators, The semi experimental research has depended on survey descriptive method, (12) art galleries by (4) lighting types were chosen …

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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, …

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Strategies Of Addition In Architecture, Ali Haidar Aljameel, Baydaa Hana Saffo Apr 2026

Strategies Of Addition In Architecture, Ali Haidar Aljameel, Baydaa Hana Saffo

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Additions in architecture are regarded an important phenomenon which was handled in new perspective in the literature of post-modem architecture and it's practices as they represent responses to modemism like problems of the destruction of the urban environmentand the negligence of the traditional context in the city. After discussing the state of art of the subject concerning additions in the trends ofpostmodemism period , addition to buildings phenomenon emerged as it is regarded an important aspect of architecture which rvere invested to determine the problem of the research. This is due to their close relationship with products of the architectural …

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Discontinuity As Catastrophic Event In Urban Design, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Baya Belmessaud Belmessaud Apr 2026

Discontinuity As Catastrophic Event In Urban Design, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Baya Belmessaud Belmessaud

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

This research is an attempt to study the discontinuity as a catastrophic event in Urban Design, where this phenomenon had been studied in many displines such as Mathematics, Planning , Medicine ,Surgery and Biology. The research studied this phenomenon from linguistics and conceptual points of views, and submitted its basics in Mathematics according to the Theory of Catastrophe. The research try to borrow this Theory from this field and built a Programme to measure and explore the Discontinuity as a Catastrophic Event in Urban Design. The case study was The CaSaba of Algeria , which is a traditional urban fabric …

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Architecture & Idealistic Environment, Sabih Ali Al-Chalabi Apr 2026

Architecture & Idealistic Environment, Sabih Ali Al-Chalabi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

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Excitement And Color Scheme Articulation In Contemporary Interior Spaces, Akram Jassim Alakkam, Harith Abd Hameed, Nada Ekream Al_Ubayde Apr 2026

Excitement And Color Scheme Articulation In Contemporary Interior Spaces, Akram Jassim Alakkam, Harith Abd Hameed, Nada Ekream Al_Ubayde

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The current research tries to explore the bases of establishing "The excitement phenomena" through 'Olor scheme articulations. Basically, the phenomena is influenced, presumably by structural and meaningful principles of articulations in the interior spaces. To tackle the research problem, three proposed models for esthetical interior spaces were chosen a a research settings. Also, virtual color articulation patterns were established, to select the most satisfactory, to achieve excitement Quasi- experimental method was adopted, depending on, gestalt theory of perception, analytical-descriptive st dy method, and a questioner as a method of testing. Fifty types of color articulations for each of 3 models, …

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Non - Orthogonal Architecture: A Study In Arab Architecture Between Traditionalism And Contemporaneous, Ali Mohsen Jaafar Al-Khafaji, Asmaa M. H. Al- Moqaram Apr 2026

Non - Orthogonal Architecture: A Study In Arab Architecture Between Traditionalism And Contemporaneous, Ali Mohsen Jaafar Al-Khafaji, Asmaa M. H. Al- Moqaram

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

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Psychological Absence When Receiving Study On Perceiving Attendance, Absences And Impurities, Harith Abd Hameed, Hala Abdulwahab Saeed Apr 2026

Psychological Absence When Receiving Study On Perceiving Attendance, Absences And Impurities, Harith Abd Hameed, Hala Abdulwahab Saeed

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Architecture today aims to achieve poetics and eloquence in the architectural form, through which the pluralism and enrichment of meanings is achieved, and which achieves the involvement of the recipient in the creative process and his participation in the production of the text. In this case, the recipient will create bridges between the elements of the presence and the elements Absence and the text continues to acquire meanings and meanings as long as we have something to provide it with, and its meanings are only implemented by the limits of the reader’s experience and imagination. This research came to clarify …

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Rhythm In The Cubic Architectural System, Asma Hasan Taha Al Dabbagh Apr 2026

Rhythm In The Cubic Architectural System, Asma Hasan Taha Al Dabbagh

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Recent architectural literature dealt with cubism as a movement ofart and Architecture directly or through a specified phenomenon which relates the two indirectly. This research deali with the System in Cubism according to the Structuralist Methodology which concentrates on three characteristics: Totality, Transformations and Seli-control. At its first stage this rescarch attempts to clarify these tlree characteristics concentrating on the architectural freld. It extacted the formal tools used to reinforce the system in the architectural product' too' Rhythm emerged amongst ihese tools, rhythm as a major tool was defined, its importance was pointed out and its types were demonstrated. At …

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Complexity In Urban Environment, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Sahar Hilal Abdul Rida Al-Dujaili Apr 2026

Complexity In Urban Environment, Sanaa Sati Abbas, Sahar Hilal Abdul Rida Al-Dujaili

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Complexity is considered a design characteristic in the urban environment, representing a special case of environmental preference. Many studies link the concept of complexity to two fundamental concepts: ambiguity and contradiction. Therefore, this research aims first to distinguish between complexity and these two concepts at the urban level. Urban environments possess desirable levels of complexity, and their deficiency or excess can cause numerous environmental and psychological problems. Furthermore, complexity in the urban environment is linked to two key factors: observable and measurable differences and the speed of movement. Although complexity is necessary, it can cause a kind of disorientation and …

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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 Impact Of Aesthetic Preference On Formal Building In The Contemporary Interior Space, Akram Jassim Alakkam, Shamael Mohammed Wajeeh Al Dabbagh Apr 2026

The Impact Of Aesthetic Preference On Formal Building In The Contemporary Interior Space, Akram Jassim Alakkam, Shamael Mohammed Wajeeh Al Dabbagh

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 …

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The Prototypes Of The Concepts Of Game Phenomenon In Contemporary Architecture, Akram Jassim Alakkam, Dalia Ghassan Fattah Apr 2026

The Prototypes Of The Concepts Of Game Phenomenon In Contemporary Architecture, Akram Jassim Alakkam, Dalia Ghassan Fattah

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

There have been many points of view set to explain games. Some of which include the old theories whose foundation was created on a philosophical meditative base and have been achieved through the physiological theories (as the surplus energy theory and the relaxation theory), the biological theories (as the recapitulation theory and the pre-exercise theory), and the abreaction theory. These theories have paved the way for the current psychological theories that are meant to explain games on scientific studies and empirical researches.lt is possible to summarize these theories by the theory of Gestalt, the theory of Piaget.

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Time Semantics As An Expression In Architecture, Khalil Ibrahim Ali, Hadeer Jassim Al-Saady Apr 2026

Time Semantics As An Expression In Architecture, Khalil Ibrahim Ali, Hadeer Jassim Al-Saady

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The concept of time had stood to confront philosophical studies in severalfields of kaowledge, including archilecture, demanding an understanding of thisphenomenon.Time remained invisible, and only felt by sense, intuition and abstraction;unconnected to architecture as an expression of form.This paper tries to relate time to architecture not as an evolutionary conceptin architectural change but as a factor which evolves with significance in expressiveaspect.It presents findings, which illustrates time as a signifier to architecturalvision and expression.

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Architecture In Enrichment :An Explorative Study Of The Formal Enrichment Achieved By Contrast, Asma Hasan Taha Al Dabbagh Apr 2026

Architecture In Enrichment :An Explorative Study Of The Formal Enrichment Achieved By Contrast, Asma Hasan Taha Al Dabbagh

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Architectural literatures and practices presented the concept of Enrichment as one of the solutions for the problems of Modemism. The importance of this concept emerges due to its relation with other phenomena like visual complexity and ambiguity. Enrichment is a product character and a strategy to its creation. This product possess abundance and detail in the visual tools causing the meaning  nrichment and its readiness for multi interpretations. This concept is present in to two levels; the first, formal and includes complexity and riddles, while the second is moral which includes the multiinterpretations. These sub-concepts cover many tools to achieve …

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Pointed Arch In Islamic Architecture Between Intentional Innovation & Spontaneous Aim, Kabila Fares Al-Maliki Apr 2026

Pointed Arch In Islamic Architecture Between Intentional Innovation & Spontaneous Aim, Kabila Fares Al-Maliki

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Arch is founded in Islamic Arabic Architecture in many different Buildings, for aethetical and functional purposes that made this Arch one of its symbols, parallel with it, so the study of this Arch is very important. Many studies took care of this arch, pointed arch with four centers that it is Islamic Arab innovation comparative with all other kinds of arches.We don't know why this arch is specially innovated & used in Islamic Arab Architecture? What its relationship with pointed Arch by two centers? What causes behind this innovation? This study aim to search in many concepts explain the innovation …

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Strangeness In Contemporary Architecture As A Strategy, Khalil Ibrahim Ali, Emad Abd Al Hameed, Abbas Ali Hamza Al Greiza Apr 2026

Strangeness In Contemporary Architecture As A Strategy, Khalil Ibrahim Ali, Emad Abd Al Hameed, Abbas Ali Hamza Al Greiza

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Throrgh the last four decades of the 20th Century, architecture, as a language, was studied in various directions, which were concemed either with meaning, or with expressive methods. Both directions aimed to enrich it with meaning and significance; which are contradictory and harmonious. To accomplish continuity between architecture and the receiver in the social order, design strategies utilized other fields ol knowledge such as literature, linguistics or sociology... etc. Which merged the two directions. From these, strangeness and differences were realized and studied in this paper.

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Pluralism In Architecture, Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi Apr 2026

Pluralism In Architecture, Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

When studying the concepts that form architecture through analyzing its results along the time, the tension of intellect between the spiritual and intellectual aspects arises.The human civilizations through the history was always attempting to alien between the spiritual and metaphysical research , and the pure scientific research considering the first as studying the mysterious pheno nena , while science deals with what is researchable subject to analysis which provides a concrete base for discussion as it offers clear facts that could be experimented and tested , because science demands from human beings to deal with the universe and the facts …

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Mechanisms For The Retrieval Of Meanings In Urban Renewal, Khales Hasan Al-Ashaab, Maysoun Mouhy Hlal Apr 2026

Mechanisms For The Retrieval Of Meanings In Urban Renewal, Khales Hasan Al-Ashaab, Maysoun Mouhy Hlal

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The Urban strategies organized t}re materialism and formalism characteristicsof the urban fabric limiting types and distribution the activities. And the nature oftheuse despite the difference of nature ofthese strategies but they work away to:l - Limitate the size of the city and its expansion, for the aim ol decrease the costs ofsupply the services levels, to improving the administrative systems, and preventthe social disintegration by protecting the environmental and social characteristicsto it.2- To recognize the land use to ensure the environmental and functional ability, tocontrol the traffic and the main movement and its branchs. Commonly, the urbanstrategy declares on itself …

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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.

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Specialty Of Concept "Creativity " In Architecture, Maysoon Safi Yaser Apr 2026

Specialty Of Concept "Creativity " In Architecture, Maysoon Safi Yaser

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Architecture is one of the most effective changing methods in society. It's a cultural phenomena that reveal thoughts and believes of its society through its production. That production must have the power to introduce the unique, and which never been known. To achieve that is what could be named "Creativity". The object of this research is concerned with clarifying the concept "Creativity" in general, and its specialty in Architecture. The method which have been followed was by: l. Clarifying the concept in philosophy and linguistics theories because of itsinfluence on Architecture. 2. Clarifuing the concept in different theoretical attitudes and …

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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, …

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Preferences An Office In Commercial Administration, Khalil Ibrahim Ali, Oday Abbas Abood Apr 2026

Preferences An Office In Commercial Administration, Khalil Ibrahim Ali, Oday Abbas Abood

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

This speech resemble the Identity ofArchitecture. A task which makes busy the thinkersand educated class people in general and the Alchitectures in special, on a basic that theIdentity resembles thoughts which are as a kind of eagemess and retuming back for the pasttill the point of resembling, as to be an expression for its role to achieve Identity this researchdeals with through two axis the first relate in describing the dimension and sides ofthereferences in general sight and in Architecture in special sight. The research discusses theArchitecture through explaining the linguistic and Idiomatic dimensions the philosophicalside enlighten this reality and …

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Local Environment Analysis In Urban Design Studies, Adel Said Hadi Apr 2026

Local Environment Analysis In Urban Design Studies, Adel Said Hadi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The absence of clear understanding and awareness of local urban environmentanalysis and its impact on urban design studies, in addition to the influence ofnew westemarchitectural theories and ideas, had led to the problems ofcopying and repeating urbandesign solutions by some professional architects and students .This paper discusses the impact of local environmental analysis in preparing efficienturban design projects.It aimes at clarifying the importance of carrying out urban environment field studiesto bridge the gap between theory and practice in the urban design ideology.It presents a proposed methodology to diagnose environmental problems and to findpossible solutions in the urban design projects.

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The Design Concepts Of "Shanashel", And Its Effect On Functional And Environmental Performance, Saba Jabar Niema Apr 2026

The Design Concepts Of "Shanashel", And Its Effect On Functional And Environmental Performance, Saba Jabar Niema

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The design concepts of uaditional architecture have had greet potentiality throughtime for all social and environmental needs of the place and its inhabitance.And the idea of analyzing their contents and meaning to understand their effects inarchitecture on it both sides (theory and practice), in order to adapt their beneficial parametersfor modem architecture is so important for environmental design.This research concems with one of the design concepts of the traditional houses in theold fabric of the city which is the (Shanashel), and discuses their geometrical configuration,formal look, and material effect to show its functional and environmental performance(climate and acoustics). And has …

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Comparative Features In Islamic Architecture, Kabila Fares Al-Maliki, Nadia Abdel-Majeed Al-Salam, Taghrid Zuhair Najib Al-Zubaidi Apr 2026

Comparative Features In Islamic Architecture, Kabila Fares Al-Maliki, Nadia Abdel-Majeed Al-Salam, Taghrid Zuhair Najib Al-Zubaidi

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Most of the recent architectural studies direct?d towered the necessity of using the architectural characterization of the cultural inherited of the Islamic Architecture in the futurist designs, in away that unified the contemporary architecture with the historical roots.The contemporary architecture environment of the types and styles various in functions , forms and goals pushing on limitation of copying these types of traditional architectural elements , but trying to study and realize the cognitional meanings and using architectural solutions that had specific characterizations which connected with the theoretical believes which came from the cultural environment of the Islamic community in the …

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Evaluation Of The Metaphorical Image In Architecture : A Study Of The Elements Of A Good Metaphor In The Iraqi Cultural Environment, Ali Haidar Aljameel, Naam Behnam Minouna Apr 2026

Evaluation Of The Metaphorical Image In Architecture : A Study Of The Elements Of A Good Metaphor In The Iraqi Cultural Environment, Ali Haidar Aljameel, Naam Behnam Minouna

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

The metaphorical image represented in the architectural works was subjected toevaluation by different social sectors perceiving them in the society. Despite thediversity in the studies related to metaphorical image. In addition, the specialstandards forwarded for metaphorical image were dependent on selective formula asthey were conjugated with the cultural context to which the critic belongs giving suchinterpretations. These studies.could not formulate a theoretical framework comprisedcultural contexts. Its methodology concentrated ontheconstructionof atheoreticalframework, the isolation of the variables related its main aspects, the clarification ofits measurements and the performance of a selected field study which includes themain aspects of the evaluation process.This papers …

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Western And Arabic Islamic Architecture Discourse, Akram Jassim Alakkam Apr 2026

Western And Arabic Islamic Architecture Discourse, Akram Jassim Alakkam

Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning

Many literatures concentrated on the issue of architecture discourse which identified by thespace of conceptual thought that has essential characteristics based on knowledge foundations anddistinctive historical, cultural, religious, and social dimensions. These literatures pointed to westemarchitecture discourse elements and Arabic Islamic architecture discourse and cultural,environmental and doctrinal reference, But these literatures didn''t present clear comparative picturefor those discourses.

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