Samah Abrahem

Al-Nahrain University · Department of Architectural Engineering

Architecture and the environment have been intertwined since ancient times, man built home and city depending on the conditions of the environment in which was present. The cities of the ancient world were distinguished by their different building styles, planning and organization according to the local climatic specificity of each. In this book, w...

This research investigates the impact of rooftop vegetation on the phenomenon of urban heat island (UHI) in hot-aired microclimates with an emphasis on housing projects in the context of Baghdad city. The methodology of this research relies on ENVI-met Headquarter 4.4.5 to create models that simulate and comparatively analyze the effect of rooftop...

This paper investigated the effect of water features on thermal comfort in a central open space of a residential project in a hot-arid climate. A crowded urbanized area in Baghdad was chosen as a case study a city. The methodology relied on a simulation method using ENVI-met 4.4.5 software to create a model of a residential project and obtain the l...

Recent decades witnessed global climate change that effect negatively in all the cities of the world. Many researchers studied the effect of this phenomenon on thermal comfort for cities and buildings in its different sides. But the study of residential projects building’s façade materials effects on thermal comfort in Iraq Hot-aired climate didn’t...

This paper investigates the impact of counterinsurgency strategies on the efficiency and performance of public spaces within the context of Al-Kadhimiya city. The methodological approach relied on space syntax-Depthmap X to perform a syntactical comparative analysis of two morphological phases for the years 2003 and 2007 of the case study. These tw...

Recent literatures have addressed the effect of building formation on outdoor thermal comfort at urban scale level in various environmental climate contexts. However, there is a research gap in studying the effect of housing clusters formation in specific climate context for Baghdad city as an example of hot arid climate, and its effects on the out...

This research investigates the socio-spatial causes and consequences of tactical urbanism practices in Baghdad. It attempts to identify the main creators of these practices and their motivations. It recognizes five common practices of tactical urbanism in Baghdad, public art, pop-up rest areas, pavement plazas, guerrilla gardening, and open streets...

This paper will examine the causes and consequences of the transformation of mass housing typologies in connection to their politico-economic context in comparison with those that emerged during the 20th century. It emphasizes the characteristics of its physical structure as well as the socioeconomic characteristics of its inhabitants. Moreover, th...

This paper will critically analyze the underpinnings and potential socioeconomic impact of two mass housing provision approaches in post-socialist Baghdad. The first approach is a neoliberalist approach in which the housing demands of middle-income and high-income groups are satisfied by the private sector. The second approach provides state-provid...