Mustafa Aziz Amen

The American Univeristy of Kurdistan · Design

Applying interior planting became a challenge yet a visual trend, which is often employed to promote the Biophilia concept as a style in interior design. However, the field's continuous expansion, driven by the aspiration to enhance the quality of life in interior spaces, underscores a persistent knowledge gap. This study investigates the impact of...

The assessment of accuracy of thermal comfort is critical for designing thermally comfortable and energy-efficient buildings. The Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) index is widely recognized by national and international specifications to predict thermal comfort. The main purpose of this work is to evaluate PMV inside row houses in semi-arid climates using...

Walkability is considered a vital component of the urban configuration; urban spaces should promote pedestrian walking, which is healthier and increases social sustainability by connecting people in urban spaces. This article aims to find the link between the street layout centrality values and the people’s walkability for sustainable tourism in hi...

Urban centrality is critical for comprehending cities’ most significant locations. Conventionally, urbanists analyzed urban centrality by transforming urban spatial networks into graph objects, with nodes and edges reflecting network intersections and connections. However, the conversion techniques neglected the weights based on the physical qualit...

Complex systems analysis is a widely used technique for assessing urban efficiency and sustainability of cities. However, sustainable cities need an effective energy management strategy based on regulations. This research aims to better understand sustainability efficiency of cities by establishing a link between complexity and urban energy consump...

Urban space is composed of various dimensions and contexts that generate urban forms. The spatial distributions of urban elements have different layers of connotative indications associated with Society's shared knowledge. The implying semiotics affect space configuration that could lead either to generate a compact or sprawl urban fabric. However,...

Despite Erbil's citadel significant role in the urban space configuration, it suffers from many functional and accessibility problems, there is rapture in the connectivity, accessibility and visual consistency between the city precinct and the development in the peripheral area, the connectivity of the city could be increased through enhancing cent...

Erbil Citadel is one of the most important monuments in the City. The Citadel has a significant role in the world as one of the oldest preserved city according to the UNESCO. Although the citadel can attract people and work as a tourism pole, it suffers from many functional, transformational and accessibility problems. Those difficulties characteri...

Urban space organization associates with specific characteristics in the transformation of society’s behavior and views; it is composed of principles of dichotomy that work as a system of signs to transfer meaning with conventional interpretation. The urban fabric as a context is full of signifiers that tend to convey a meaning implicitly carved in...

Urban Space is not just a simple, physical configuration. Instead, it is a transformation of human experiences with the different synchronic architectural characteristic that needs a critical examination to segregate discrete layers of structural elements. As a result, the traditional urban space is a unique existence of reality; it is a product of...

Modern architecture developed more than a century ago to find solutions suitable to solve the new concerns of the industrial revolution that changed the social idea of the world in all aspects. Bauhaus school which established by Walter Gropius in 1919 adopted too many principles and ideas that were totally new to the architecture concept and theor...

Modern architecture developed more than a century ago to find solutions suitable to solve the new concerns of the industrial revolution that changed the social idea of the world in all aspects. Bauhaus school which established by Walter Gropius in 1919 adopted too many principles and ideas that were totally new to the architecture concept and theor...

Residential parts construct a significant portion in cities. Usually, neighborhood works as a central component of any cities. This study concentrates on using the concept of sustainability values as a method to comprehend the intelligibility of the Neighborhood public space. In another way, it is an attempt to find out if the sustainability values...

Urban Space is not just a simple, physical configuration. Instead, it is a translation of human experiences with the different synchronic architectural characteristic that needs a critical examination to segregate discrete layers of structural elements. As a result, the traditional urban space is a unique existence of reality; it is a product of pr...