Susan Abed Hassan

Nahrain University · Department of Architectural Engineering

The Climate change appears obviously in the world, especially in hot climate regions like Iraq, because of their proximity to the equator and the geographical desert nature, which requires strategies to adapt climate change in effective ways. One of the most prominent of these strategies is the implemented of environmental criteria for buildings, t...

Last decades witnessed rise in global average temperature for cities, consequently with the problem of rising needs for energy results from the growth of populations in cities. Recent studies concentrated on degree days method to calculate energy consumption for buildings, the main problem of this research is the role of cooling degree days on dete...

Urban fabric types in hot dry climate cities have an impact on microclimate and thermal comfort in the street canyon. Previous studies compared the microclimate for traditional and modern urban fabric, but the study of the airflow speed within the street canyon had not been presented statistical way. There were no obvious studies for the role of ur...

Traditional architecture was responsive to climate and environmental considerations. One of the traditional architectural elements in hot dry climate was the Wind catcher that largely contributes thermal comfort inside buildings. However, Modern architectural design has moved away from this vocabulary. This research explores the air heat exchanger...

Last decades cities were rapidly growing and continuously changes, the growth of population was increased and life conditions changes. Urban formation for cities changes accordingly, which includes land uses, the geometry of buildings, the heights and density for the built area changes. There is a research gap in studying the effect of high commerc...

The last century witnessed a global movement towards green architecture in all its aspects, conditions, and standards, aimed at preserving natural resources, reducing negative environmental impacts, and addressing climate change. This approach was integrated with the application of intelligent systems in buildings. Retrofitting existing buildings t...

Atriums and wind catchers are architectural design elements that have been used to improve airflow inside buildings since first civilization in Mesopotamia. Previous studies have shown the various effects of wind catchers on increasing natural ventilation in buildings in different climates. This research problem is to discover the integration role...

The proportion of the world's population living in cities is rapidly increasing, presenting new challenges to the urban environment and quality of life. Among these challenges is the urban environment's impact on residents' outdoor thermal comfort, which can affect their health and well-being. Urban roughness, which includes building and street hei...

The research examines the influence of street morphology on the thermal comfort of pedestrians by studying urban climate dynamics and their various levels. It also explores the formation characteristics of open urban spaces and their impact on thermal comfort. The study focuses on two streets in Al-Adhamiya, Baghdad a city characterized by a hot, a...

The soundscape is an immanent part of the open spaces in historical cities. This study aims to investigate the role of soundscape in enhancing urban attraction and its effect on intentional behavior. This is based on a questionnaire survey, which is conducted in compliance with ISO/TS 12913-2:2018, of 31 visitors in the Almutanabi and Almurad (alka...

The investigation for human cognitive mapping and its implications regarding thermal comfort in hot and arid climates, emphasis is placed on outdoor conditions largely unexplored. Consequently, this study evaluates the role of cognitive mapping for open spaces in hot dry climate on thermal comfort. An analysis for selected case studies in the city...

Architectural acoustics (also known as room acoustics and building acoustics) is the science and engineering of achieving a good sound within a building and is a branch of acoustical engineering. Architectural acoustics aims to achieving good speech intelligibility in a theatre, restaurant or railway station, enhancing the quality of music in a con...

The existence of man was linked to the environment surrounding him, and architecture and construction processes constituted clear examples of man’s respect for his environment and the attempt to adapt to it. This can be seen when studying many of the building and architecture systems of various human and Islamic civilizations, as they resulted in t...

The urban soundscape is one of the most significant elements influencing the human experience of open spaces and constructing human acoustic perception of cities. The soundscape contributes to creating a sound environment related to the human memory of a location experienced within the spatial and temporal context provided by the acoustic experienc...

Religious buildings are part of the context of cities and their urban environments. They are affected by the environmental conditions surrounding them. This research deals with the types of religious buildings, their architectural elements, and their role in enhancing their environmental performance and achieving thermal comfort for their users, as...

In recent years, research has focused attention to the evaluation of the acoustics performance of conference halls. The acoustic environments of conferences halls is very important to enhance the effective performances in them. This research examines the acoustic performance of a conferences hall in Iraq. A practical experiment was carried out at t...

Acoustics and Noise control

Designing urban open spaces, which affect outdoor activities, social connections, tourism, well-being, and health, must consider outdoor thermal comfort. In this study, which used a university building in Iraq as an example of a hot, arid area, open space design conformation's impact on thermal comfort was examined; the methodology depends on choos...

Over the past decades, Iraqi traditional architecture has provided solutions to environmental problems, with a specific style of environmental design. Iraq is a region with a hot, dry climate and thus, without doubt, the architects and designers who practice in such a region could learn enormous lessons from them. This paper takes the view that des...

Over the past decades, numerous studies have presented several research related to the soundscapes of cities. However, the impact of the soundscape on the urban attractiveness of traditional cities has not been adequately addressed. The traditional open spaces in Baghdad are distinguished by their geometrical formation of buildings with a unique ar...

Iraq is one of the countries facing a noticeable rise in temperatures caused by climate change in recent decades. This generated an increased feeling of thermal discomfort among humans. Previous studies submitted many research works in the field of outdoor thermal comfort in cities, but the study of the role of the Iraqi green buildings code in imp...

Motives: This paper investigates the urban adaptation elements (vegetation cover, water bodies, and different shading patterns) effect on the outdoor thermal comfort for pedestrians in the educational complexes. Aims: The aim of the research is to determine the impact of urban elements on outdoor thermal comfort in an educational campus with a hot-...

The past decades had witnessed many research and studies on natural ventilation at the level of urban design and individual buildings. Some of these studies focused on the effect of interior spaces on enhancing natural ventilationن depending on the environmental characteristics of the local climate. The atrium space represents the link between insi...

During the past decades, environmental noise and its negative effects on humans in its entire social, economic, and health aspects have been addressed. However, the study of the impact of noise in residential buildings on E-learning for university students during the lockdown period due to the Corona pandemic, specifically in Iraq, had not been suf...

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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...

Car parking is one of the important contemporary problems in the cities. The increasing number of cars create traffic jams which eventually lead to the need of car parks to accommodate these cars. Many previous studies had searched on the sustainability consideration for buildings, but the sustainability considerations in the multistory car parking...

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...

Previous studies showed the effect of building facades materials on the micro-climate of cities. This research comparatively analysis building façades materials the effect on outdoor air temperature that effect negatively on the thermal comfort. Various facade materials were tested (stone, granite, alicobond, concrete, ceramic tiles) in the city of...

Recent research focuses on the study of thermal comfort in cities and buildings, but the study of the effect of vegetation planting on improving microclimate for public buildings in hot arid cities were not addressed in simulation method. Two main variables were studied in this research, thermal comfort and vegetation cover, and finding a relations...

The problem of climate change has emerged globally in recent decades. One of its most prominent indicators is the increase in temperatures in all countries, especially in regions with hot and arid climates. This has coincided with the problem of rising energy consumption for cooling needs in cities, especially in the summer season. Also, the increa...

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...

Traditional cities are characterized by different urban forms. The transformations in urban formation came in response to human needs over time and technological developments. This research explores the relationship between urban forms and microclimate in hot aired climate cities. A comparative analysis for two selected urban forms patterns in Bagh...

Environmental determinants contribute to improving the urban climatic environment, especially in desert areas, because of their role in determining design requirements at the urban and individual building levels. Most previous studies aimed at the importance of enhancing the environmental performance aspect by adhering to environmental determinants...

There were emergences trends towards achieving sustainability in landscape. But the study of the role of healing gardens in the landscape sustainability for the public gardens had not been studied previously in recent literatures. The research hypothesis is that healing gardens have a role in the landscape sustainability for public gardens. The r...

This research examine the role of physical design elements for healing gardens in promoting the psychological health for the patients. Many studies had presented the role of the landscape in enhancing the psychological aspects of human, and its connection with outdoor environment. Previous studies also provided a definition of healing gardens desig...

Sounds of the city reflect daily life activity, social interaction, and special features. The interaction between people and sounds strengthensthe identity of a place in the city.Each city has its own characteristics and elements of sounds that distinguishit. There were many recent studies that define the city soundscape. The main research problem...

The gardens in Islamic societies have been characterized by their environmental، natural، cultural and social characteristics، which have contributed to the emergence of many special and public patterns، long periods of time and large geographical areas with close climatic characteristics characterized by low rainfall and high temperatures. The pre...

Urban morphology is closely related to the use of land, its planning and the changes that take place on it, as land use is the most obvious urban indicator affected by the development of cities and their urban growth and the increasing growth of population over time, especially in developing countries that are experiencing urbanization very quickly...

The importance of providing thermal comfort at the urban level in the city has emerged due to its importance for the human being and his daily activities. Most of the previous literatures aimed to study and analyze various thermal climatic variables, in addition to studying human thermal comfort and the most prominent factors affecting them, especi...

Previous studies focused on the importance of natural ventilation as a strategy that reduces energy for cooling purpose and improve thermal comfort in buildings from several aspects, but the study of openings design formation impacts on natural ventilations for building in Iraq hot climate had not been addressed yet, which is the main research prob...

Previous studies had proposed the environmental advantages of green roofs applications for the cities. This research investigated the effect of the green roof on improving the environmental efficiency for the residential buildings in Baghdad city as an example for hot aired climate. The research studied in practical applications of roof planting wh...

One of the most prominent parts of the building envelop that exposed to the external environment is the facade of building due to the pressure of environmental conditions as compare to the rest of building. Previous literatures had presented many researches in this field, but the study of the effect of the residential building façade design in redu...

There were massive innovations in the field of buildings materials at the beginning of the new millennium especially in the field of smart materials. There were many literatures that searched on the role of the smart materials on reduce energy consumption for buildings. This research problem that there was no obvious studies about the effect of sma...

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...

Urban spaces are prominent urban configurations for the cities, its important came from its role on encourage human daily social communication and activities. During last decades several studies searched on achieving thermal comfort in cities and urban spaces, the importance of providing thermal comfort at the urban scale in the city had emerged be...

Recent years witnessed wide increased in private car numbers in Baghdad city. Cause of the lack of public transportations. That leads to increase of demands for car parking, which caused many environmental problems. Recent studies focused on the field of environmental noise levels reduction in cities and educational buildings. This research problem...

Residential buildings design formation varies according to the environmental, constructional and functional requirements. The environmental aspect is the most significant requirements that connect with energy performance. Last decades considerable attentions were made about the energy consumption for residential buildings. Previous studies showed t...

The potentials of air movement were adopted to enhance the environmental aspect of building designs throughout the ages. The most of the previous studies aimed at enhancing the environmental performance of the buildings through studying and analyzing the potential of the air movement in addition to studying the thermal loads and the appropriate iso...

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...

Cities in the world were formed by the compatibility and integration of the physical characteristics of the urban environment from buildings and urban spaces and methods and related environmental and economic requirements and other psychological characteristics of individual and community related to the culture of communities and the behavior of it...

During the last decades many structural building systems were implemented in multi-story buildings production. Each of these systems consumes energy and produce carbon emissions from the early stage from the extraction of materials to the construction of a building. The selection of structural building systems with low embodied energy and carbon em...

بتوفيق من الله وفضل ، وقع اختيار الجهات ذات العلاقة على فريقنا لإعداد مدونة العمارة الخضراء، ولم يأل الفريق جهدا في تقديم مدونته هذه معتمدا على خبرته في مجال البحث العلمي والتصميم المعماري الملائم لبيئة المناطق الحارة الجافة والمناخ المشابه لمناخ العراق، ومستفيدا مما تم التوصل إليه في العراق من بحوث محلية قام بها العلماء العراقيون، ومن البحوث العال...

ان ظهور المواد المركبة والانتشار السريع لاستخدامها في تغليف واجهات المباني التجارية ضمن سياق الشوارع التجارية العامة له تأثير على مفهوم الوحدة والجذب البصري لهذه الشوارع ، من هنا برزت المشكلة البحثية المتمثلة عدم وجود تصور واضح ودفيق لأثر استخدام المواد البنائية المركبة ( Alucoponed ) في تغليف واجهات المباني التجارية ضمن سياق الشوارع التجارية في تح...

ان ظهور المواد المركبة والانتشار السريع لاستخدامها في تغليف واجهات المباني التجارية ضمن سياق الشوارع التجارية العامة له تأثير على مفهوم الوحدة والجذب البصري لهذه الشوارع ، من هنا برزت المشكلة البحثية المتمثلة عدم وجود تصور واضح ودفيق لأثر استخدام المواد البنائية المركبة ( Alucoponed ) في تغليف واجهات المباني التجارية ضمن سياق الشوارع التجارية في تح...

تميزت البيئة الصوتية في مدينة بغداد التقليدية بعناصر وعلاقات صوتية محددة عرفت بها بيئة الانسان الصوتية، وكان للاصوات الطبيعية المتمثلة باصوات الانسان والحيوان وغيرها من اصوات الصناعات ووسائل النقل التقليدية الاثر الكبير في حياة الانسان اليومية. الا ان التغيير في مقتضيات الحياة اليومية من ظهور وسائل النقل الحديثة وتطور الصناعات الحديثة المختلفة. راف...

تميزت البيئة الصوتية في مدينة بغداد التقليدية بعناصر وعلاقات صوتية محددة عرفت بها بيئة الانسان الصوتية، وكان للاصوات الطبيعية المتمثلة باصوات الانسان والحيوان وغيرها من اصوات الصناعات ووسائل النقل التقليدية الاثر الكبير في حياة الانسان اليومية. الا ان التغيير في مقتضيات الحياة اليومية من ظهور وسائل النقل الحديثة وتطور الصناعات الحديثة المختلفة. راف...

Islamic gardens are an integral part of the urban fabric in Islamic societies, where it accompanied by all its details the requirements of its users and there need for privacy and it has many of symbolic meanings, so these gardens have a great role in the daily life of these communities and a source of inspiration for different artists. The designe...

Abstract The Acoustic environment represents all the sound that surrounds mankind and that it can interact with the daily life and communicate with members of the community. The importance of acoustic environment in urban centers cause of the diversity and plurality of the sounds resulting from human activities of daily life. This requires designer...

The university education represents one of the civilized basic foundation for societies , for it bears the scientific development flag, as well as it plays fundamental role in serving society, with submitting fundamentals educational and society and economy and humanity even spiritual and emotional for the society. And has essential role in graduat...

Residential Buildings are responsible for a large portion of energy consumption in cities. The study of The Impact of Residential Building's Design on the energy consumption in hot desert climate requires careful examination and evaluating the validity of the commonly known assumptions and for quantifying the effects of building design on energy co...

Residential Buildings are responsible for a large portion of energy consumption in cities. The study of The Impact of Residential Building’s Design on the energy consumption in hot desert climate requires careful examination and evaluating the validity of the commonly known assumptions and for quantifying the effects of building design on energy co...

Water associated with human life in all its aspects. It is the origin of existence and the pillar of life. It is the thought and spirit that cannot be separated. The o Islamic gardens design has shown creative examples in use of water as a functional decorative element that has symbolic connotations derived from human thought and Islamic doctrinal...

The use of green structural surfaces increased recently in green buildings designs, both in the roofs of buildings or on their walls, and extended to include buildings in the most diverse cities in the world to the environmental benefits of urban and individual buildings level. Many studies and research of global and local has advanced study of the...

The acoustic parameters (RT 30 , EDT, C 80 , G) and noise rating curves for evaluating background noise levels are measured in the Al-Rabat Concert Hall in Baghdad. The aim of the measurements is to investigate the acoustical environment of the hall and compare the results with ISO 3382. The measurement results indicate that all the parameters that...

The sound environment in the Traditional Baghdad city specified with sound elements and relationships between sounds that define human sound environment, and had the greatest impact where natural sounds as human voice, animal and natural sound in addition to the voices of the traditional industries and the old means of transportation. The Recent ch...

Planning of cities show great attention on streets planning as one of the most structural component foundations for cities, that providing many functional needs and connect parts of the city each other, and work as a commercial and services activities centers. Instead of this highly focused on distributing streets with different streets types such...

يحاول هذا البحث أن يقدم الأليات التصميمية لمكونات الفضاء السمعي الداخلي بما يحقق الروعة والجمالية البصرية التي تنسجم وتقوي من نمط الأداء الصوتي المقدم وتجعل المتلقي يتفاعل معه بشكل يحقق الراحة النفسية ضمن الفضاء السمعي. لقد تعددت الدراسات التي تناولت تصاميم الفضاءات السمعية ومحدداتها الشكلية والحجمية التي تحقق الكفاءة الادائية الصوتية ومن خلال نقد...

ان للمنظومات التقنية في القاعات متعددة الفعاليات دور مهم في الكفاة الادائية عموما والكفاءة الوظيفية الصوتية على وجه الخصوص، بالنظر لما تلعبه هذه المنظومات ومفرداتها الاساسية والخدمية من دور في تحقيق الطبيعة التعددية لفعلايات هذا النمط من القاعات. ولوجب المام المهندس المعماري بكافة الجوانب التصميمية في القاعات متعددة الفعاليات من مؤشرات تصميمية وجوا...