Impact of spatial configuration on functional efficiency of house layouts in Erbil City, Iraq from 1900 to 2010.
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Date
2011-02
Authors
Mzoori, Faris Ali Mustafa
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
Abstract
Penyelidikan ini adalah untuk mengenalpasti impak konfigurasi ruang terhadap tahap susunatur dan efisiensi fungsinya dalam pelan-pelan rumah yang dibina dari tahun 1900 hingga 2010 di Bandar Erbil, Iraq. Pelan-pelan perumahan di Bandar Erbil dipilih sebagai kajian kes ini kerana ia mempunyai stail yang pelbagai dipengaruhi oleh senibina tradisional dan moden. Pemilihan tahun 1900 sebagai permulaan masa kes kajian bukanlah ditentukan secara spontan tetapi ia dipilih kerana ia merupakan detik permulaan senibina moden dengan rakusnya mempengaruhi dan mendapat lebih tumpuan daripada senibina tempatan, yang mana situasi ini tidak berlaku pada zaman sebelumnya. Kajian literatur dalam penyelidikan ini meliputi dua bahagian. Bahagian pertama ialah kajian teori mengenai hubungan di antara konfigurasi ruang dengan susunatur pelan rumah untuk memahami tahap fungsi efisiensinya berasaskan Teori Ruang Sintaks. Bahagian kedua pula ialah kajian mengenai perubahan dan transformasi perkembangan rekabentuk susunatur pelan rumah di Bandar Erbil.
This study is to determine the impact of spatial configuration on the level of functional efficiency of house layouts in Erbil city in Iraq, from 1900 to 2010. Erbil city in Iraqi Kurdistan region is selected as the case study because the city has mixed styles of traditional and modern architecture. The period from 1900s to 2010s in this study is not coincidental, selected for the analysis because during this period, its architecture experiences the most rapid changes with an influence of modern architecture superseding over the traditional architecture, where this condition is not found in the earlier period. The literature study comprises two parts. The first part is a theoretical study of the relationship between spatial configuration and functional efficiency of the house layouts highlighting the key syntactical characteristics of spatial configuration and its impact on the level of functional efficiency, based on the Theory of Space Syntax in clarifying this relationship. The second part is an overview study on house layouts in Erbil city through an analytical-comparative description to the changes and transformations in their configurations; classifying the period (1900-2010) into four time periods with about 30 years’ sequence for each period (1900-1930, 1930-1960, 1960-1990 and 1990-2010s) with reference to the historical events which influence their layout designs, categories of the house layouts, types, patterns, and zoning of spaces and activities.
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Confuguration , House layouts