Faris Ali Mustafa

Salahaddin University - Erbil | SUH · Department of Architecture Engineering

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 n...

Traditional Courtyard Houses in Erbil City

From ancient Greece till the present, the golden ratio has been considered one of the most significant criteria of beauty in art and architecture. Architectural forms are part of the visual language that is bound by the rules of geometry and proportion. This study aims to identify the extent to which contemporary mosques in the city of Erbil utiliz...

Mosque or Masjid is a place of worship for Muslims. The minaret is one of the structural components of the mosque that is used for Adhān (call to pray). Chronologically, the minaret occupied different locations in the mosque. There is a lack of research about the location of the minaret within the layout of the mosque context. The current research...

Preserving historical buildings is a very essential aspect as these buildings represent sociocultural indicators of the past. Historic buildings may lose their function during their life stages and become deserted. Adaptive reuse is a way to sustain a building by changing its function according to its area needs and current context. Qishla Castle i...

Visual comfort includes the ability to provide sufficient daylight without exaggeration. When daylight levels are insufficient inside a place or when daylight is intense, inhabitants experience visual discomfort. This study examines visual comfort in prayer halls by investigating the effectiveness of daylighting performance, including daylight amou...

Environmental psychology plays a vital role in the overall development of human health. Student activism and health concerns have arisen about the human health costs associated with a healthy built environment. This research focuses on recent design "trends", active designs, and their relationship to environmental psychology and a healthy campus. T...

One of the essential needs of humans that is influenced by architectural geometry is visibility in indoor areas. Prayer hall geometry dominates the mosque typology and morphology. The spatial–volumetric shapes of interior prayer halls affect worshipers’ visual comfort and spirituality. In this study, a new integrative framework is developed to quan...

The spread of chronic diseases, particularly obesity, has become a significant social issue on a global level concerning human inactivity and unhealthy behavior. The new approach to active design introduced by AIA and Sport England to increase human activity through physical activity in the built environment includes certifications such as Fitwell...

Purpose Spaciousness is defined as “the feeling of openness or room to wander” that has been affected by various physical factors. The purpose of this paper is to assess the spaciousness of space to determine how spacious the space is. Furthermore, the study intends to propose a fuzzy-based model to assess the degree of spaciousness in terms of phy...

The prayer hall is the main space in mosques where prayer and worship take place. It is normally open with a large area where Muslims can pray together. The identification and assignment of organizational forms to formally defined classes are referred to as classification. The term typo-morphology refers to the merging of two ideas: typology, which...

Higher education students' difficulties, especially students in architecture education, lead students to health problems. The design studio is the heart of architecture education and students spent most of their time with staff. Students tend to do various activities in the studio such as demonstrating, model-making, drawing, and lecturing. Therefo...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the potential role of the Emergency Department (ED) layout in enhancing its functionality. It applies a performance-based building design (PBBD) approach to evaluate emergency department functionality and efficiency as the most important criterion behind the success of the hospital service. Design/methodology...

Active design is the translation of health research into design solutions that amplify the role of architecture and urban planning in enhancing public health, it focuses on elements of the built environment that can encourage daily physical activity. Office employees are one of the demographics "at risk" for insufficient physical activity and prolo...

Human thought and the environment interact to create a synthesis of visual quality. Spatial characteristics of space affect human perception and indoor visual components. To review a wide range of knowledge, a systematic review of visual comfort assessment and recent developments in mosque architecture was conducted. Apart from effective-physical d...

Social learning spaces on campus ground, including nearby pockets, have become crucial for sustainable development to promote academic outcomes by enhancing the social learning experience. In line with the global trends, nearby pocket settings on the tropical campus should encourage interactive social learning activities. This study aimed to identi...

The emergency department (ED) is one of the most important departments in hospitals, which provides emergency care to patients who need rapid medical treatment. The configuration of the ED's interior spaces impacts their functioning and determines the hospital complex's performance. This study proposes a Performance-Based Building Design (PBBD) app...

Biophilic architecture is a design approach that enhances the connectedness of man and nature. Although Erbil city, Iraq is witnessing remarkable development, there is a lack of a comprehensive vision about adopting this design approach. This research attempts to find out the existence of biophilic design parameters and the proportion of naturalnes...

Objectives To systematically review architects' literature concerning stair promoting design interventions for reducing sedentary behavior and improving occupational health. Data Sources English language, manuscripts published between 2000 and 2022 in Google scholar, Science Direct, PubMed, CINAHL, and ERIC. Study Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria...

According to UIA-CIMES Declaration, several governments have included a group of intermediate cities in their program for sustainable urban development. In third world countries, many of these urban areas still suffer from neglect and shortcomings in the production process of well-thought-out urban expansion plans, regardless of their capacity and...

In the post-healthcare context, protecting patients against pandemic diseases like COVID-19 has become designers' responsibility; the amount and effectiveness of change are unknown, particularly in terms of future design. This study explores the potential significance of waiting area typology within outpatient clinics in generating a healthy and th...

Space organization and space layout in buildings are complex issues in architectural design. People spend most of their lives in offices, yet office buildings still get little attention. This paper examines the potential role of office space typologies in saving distance and time spent by users communicating between these spaces. The study adopts m...

This paper discusses the potential role of inpatient layout in creating a healing environment for its users, whether there is an existing relationship between inpatient typology and healing environment. The study employs an evidence-based design method adopting a qualitative-quantitative approach as a multiple research methodology. Quantitatively,...

sciences but also it is a place where the students start their social interactions that lead to encourage the students for superiority in their academic courses. It is noted that the outdoor spaces inside college of engineering at Salahaddin University-Erbil did not receive sufficient attention in terms of locating and distribution which may advers...

Daylight represents one of the crucial factors that affect directly on the building performance and its occupants. This study assesses the daylight performance in the multi-storey residential buildings (apartments) in Erbil city. It aims to find out the impact of building typology on daylighting quality and quantity. The endeavour of this research...

An analytical approach to architectural planning requires an investigation into possible systems of movement and spaces where people move and find their way. One of the most complex and comprehensive problems in architectural design is designing of floor plans and circulation systems for effective accessibility. This study aims to inspect three dif...

p class="Century20">Human scale and proportion have an important role in building design as they provide and create aesthetics and sense of place. In architecture, the human scale and proportion are based on the dimensions and proportions of the human body. The mosque is an important institution of Islam and is considered as a symbol of Islamic arc...

A mosque is a place of worship for Muslims. Erbil city contains a collection of historical mosques built in different eras dating back to 900 years ago. This paper highlights the plan typology of mosques and compares them with the known Islamic architectural typologies in an attempt to fill this gap of knowledge on such topics, especially with rega...

As the world progresses towards a greener and healthier environment, with the design of cities and buildings responding to human requirements and having less impact on the natural world, biophilic design is used as a tool by architects to connect people inside buildings with the nature outside them through relevant design patterns and parameters. T...

Recently, the physical building performance has been demonstrated widely by researchers and architects due to its direct and indirect influence on space usage and comfortability, particularly in learning spaces. This study was intended to assess the natural light performance of educational premises in Erbil governorate. The six foundation schools w...

The involvement of the people with different social, economic, and cultural features causes the cities to be complicated and continually self-changing settlement units. The changes happen due to human impact, as they are likely to shape the space where they live in and are lined with their own wishes and needs. However, the most serious problems of...

Buildings are established to meet the needs and desires of users. The purpose of a building is defeated if its users are not satisfied by the overall building performance. This study determines whether the users of the building of the architectural and software engineering departments at Salahaddin University-Erbil are satisfied with overall perfor...

Many of Outdoor spaces (OS)s in the local existing educational institutional sites are narrow or wide, of inefficient degree of enclosure (DOE) and of reduced performance. Optimum proportion of OS in this paper is one that can ensure efficient performance of both the surrounding buildings and the OS itself, and also ensure minimum consumption of la...

The functional efficiency of the internal spaces of shopping malls considered one of the most important criteria underlying the success of the interior design process for such complexes, as well as its success in economic terms that constitute a destination in itself. The process of distribution of internal activities and building a network connect...

This study attempts to quantify the influence of spatial configuration on the functional efficiency of mosque layouts in the early Ottoman period. The literature review consists of two parts. The first part is a theoretical study of the relationship between spatial configuration and functional efficiency of mosque layouts. This part highlights the...

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 n...

The aim of this paper is, firstly, to examine the parameters that have a role in achieving functional efficiency in using interior domestic spaces and to what extent these influence the distribution of spaces; secondly, to investigate the relationship between house layout morphology and the efficiency level of these layouts functionally. In this pa...

Abstract The aim of this paper is, firstly, to examine the parameters which have a role in achieving privacy in using the interior domestic spaces and to what extent it influences on the way of distribution of these spaces; secondly, to investigate the relationship between house layout morphology and the privacy of inhabitants. In this paper, space...

Modernity is understood in peculiar ways by a wide range of authors and critics as a process of newness. Modernity is a period of continual transformation that distresses all aspects of experience. It's a discourse that takes change and transformation as its central principles. Accordingly, Modernity realization and its achievement mechanism in arc...

Problem statement: This study was to analyze the concept of spatial-function in courtyard house layout and its influence to the cultural and social activities. Themes such as integration, segregation, accessibility and zoning of the building space layout are required to be deliberated, in order to achieve further understanding about the Kurdish soc...