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Vol.12(12) (2021)

  • Performance of Traditional Iraqi Courtyard Houses: Exploring Morphology Patterns of Courtyard Spaces

    Mohamed Almumar, Salahaddin Baper(Department of Architecture, Salahaddin University, Erbil, Kurdistan Region, IRAQ).

    Disciplinary: Architecture Science & Engineering.

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    doi: 10.14456/ITJEMAST.2021.250

    Keywords: Spatial form; Morphology analysis; Simulation model; Built-up masses; Covered and open outdoor spaces; Courtyard structure; Courtyard form type; Courtyard aspect ratio; Habitable room.

    Abstract
    The multiplicity of the courtyard form types of the traditional Iraqi house hindered a model formulation that can explain its morphology characteristics. Exploring these characteristics could improve architectural design knowledge. This paper investigated the geometry and positioning of the built-up massing surrounding the courtyard to understand their effect on the formation of the covered and open outdoor spaces. Accordingly, it established a new understanding of the courtyard spatial characteristics and designed a model that simulated the possible courtyard forms. The model simulates 149 courtyard patterns and depicts diagrammatic ground and first floor plans for houses containing these courtyards. Borrowing the extracted courtyard forms could improve the building's functional performance in contemporary architectural design. In subsequent studies, the evaluation of the environmental efficiency of the Iraqi traditional courtyard houses should not be limited to the model with a courtyard surrounded from all sides by walls of equal height. The evaluation may be conducted to the extracted types in the paper simulation model, as they are more representative of reality.

    Paper ID: 12A12S

    Cite this article:

    Alsulami, M. (2021). Performance of Traditional Iraqi Courtyard Houses: Exploring Morphology Patterns of Courtyard Spaces. International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 12(12), 12A12S, 1-13. http://doi.org/10.14456/ITJEMAST.2021.250



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