The Impact of Privacy on the Forms of Elevations in Traditional Vernacular Houses in Erbil City

Abstract:

Privacy is one of the socio-cultural factors that affect on the formation of vernacular houses forms as a space organization and forms of elevations. Dealing with privacy varies from one culture to another, and this explains the diversity of houses forms in detached geographic regions. Privacy affects on the vernacular forms through a set of sub-factors. The most effective sub-factor on the elevations of traditional houses forms in Erbil city is the privacy of view between public and private spaces. In the selected samples this relationship is a direct one. The sub-factor of view privacy affects on the elevation form through form of the element and the position of the element regarding the whole elevation. Privacy is an effective factor that affects on the formal language of elevations in the traditional vernacular houses within the culture of Erbil city.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 409-410)
• Pages: 381-387
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.409-410.381
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Binyad Maruf Abdulkadir Khaznadar
• Keywords: Elevation, Form, House, Privacy, Tradition, Vernacular

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