Oday Qusay Abdulqader

University of Mosul · College of Engineering

The interior space should achieve the users' needs to achieve a high elegance and satisfaction level. Residential interior design in Mosul City in Iraq has less attention from the users and designers in terms of managing the colour theme. The technological era with imported interior design elements provided various options for designing interior sp...

The educational buildings within universities are the main spaces for students' academic activities and life during the daytime, students spend 80% of their time inside these buildings. Therefore, achieving student thermal comfort requires universities to spend time and cost to prepare these buildings to be comfortable. The University of Mosul (UoM...

The architects follow the trend of the architectural style used to design the facades of the buildings. The similarity in the design principles and elements in the designing of the facades are the most common problems in the contemporary era because of the difficulties that architects faced to add their creativity to the design without matching wit...

Old Mosul city is rich in architectural details and style and is considered one of the multi-culture cities. Each culture added its details to the original architectural style. Traditional houses in old Mosul city are known for the solid facades, which include a f ew architectural elements, such as gates and windows. Therefore, traditional houses a...

Ornaments are effective interior design elements, which enhance the identity and heritage value of heritage buildings. The Mosulian ornaments represent the mixture of the culture and architectural, which are produced by Mosulian marble ‘Farish’. After the war in 2017, there was a dramatic disappearance of the original types of Mosulian ornament bec...

The architecture of Mosul is rich in elements, and its history goes back thousands of years. Mosul ornamentation is one such element with a heritage value. This study aims to determine the algorithm for forming the smallest unit in the design of heritage ornaments of Mosul and use it in artificial intelligence programs to create new forms that are...

The image of the heritage cities is an interactive process between interior and exterior design. Visitors can perceive the reality of the place after matching what they have in their mental image with the existing form. The preservation of this matching lead to preserving the heritage places' image. Conservation processes should follow the original...

The multiple-framing in Islamic architecture included in the building a hidden order, which needs deep investigations and studies that depend on quantitative measurement methods. Framing process related to geometric and relational properties, in addition to the formal relationships. Moreover, the frequencies, proportions, shapes, and directions are...

The architectural buildings are the mirror which the cultures reflect the interiority in tangible form. This study clarifies the dialectic of the differences between Islamic and Western architectures and interior design, especially in the way of expression of religious needs. Moreover, it focuses on the heritage buildings that included religious pe...

Universities are focusing on the students' needs as a part of interior space elements in the designing processes. However, these needs related to the design of the environmental and formulating systems. Students prefer a comfortable interior space for movement and social activities. Therefore, comfortability should be considered in the design proce...

The Mosulian Traditional Houses have unique characteristics, which part of Islamic Architecture. The cultural effects are represented in the patterns, materials, layouts, and order of ornaments. Furthermore, decorative ornaments, especially metal ornaments, are a significant element in the components of the houses. Metal ornaments characterised wit...

The interior design of the Islamic style in traditional cites included tangible and intangible influences, which organized the interior space according to the needs of the users and following the rules of Islam as a religion and cultural values. The quality of the interior space referred to the three points, the Rules, Elements, and Factors. Howeve...

The images of the heritage cities are the key of the conservation process that deals with the visible and invisible factors. The psychological effects of the image on the recipients’ cognitive process can create an aesthetic value of the city. There are two types of skins, which are visible and invisible. The invisible skin is; the skin generated b...

The interior space in the educational building has a role in the sustainability of using that building, which students are the main users of that space. Unfortunately, this space is the results of designing the building. However, designers should give more effort to design these spaces according to users and function needs. The architecture and int...

The technological ear open the door for multiple directions of impacts on the sense of place, especially on the heritage places, which contained the inheritance culture of that places. Heritage streets covered by the various street elements, which follow the technological era to attract the users. The study identified the effective street elements...

The Baba-Nyonya shophouses have unique characteristics, which reflected the interchange of the Chinese and Malay cultures. With that, the shophouses in Georgetown-Penang have the opportunity to be included under the Baba-Nyonya influence. The cultural effects are represented in; furniture, patterns, material, colour, layout, and order. The interior...

The interior design of the heritage buildings has special characteristics. These characteristics represent the nature of the cultural heritage. The complete image of the interior design identity created by the formulation and expression system with a special setting is related to components, rules, and relationships. Peranakan Cina, a significant c...

The influences of the culture on the interior space could generate unique interior styles. However, The combining process between the architectural and cultural identity in the exits building in the ignition point to generate a creative place. Georgetown- Penang as a heritage city, created by the harmonize mixture of cultures. The Colonial style in...

Coffee shops as a place, are one of the significant urban design elements, which reflects the liveability of the city. Therefore, coffee shops considered a necessary thirdspace in the heritage area of GeorgetownPenang. Thirdspace, where users created their own space to communicate, socialise, and exchange the cultural behaviours. Georgetown's coffe...

To create simple interior space within heritage building is a tricky challenge. Simple space does not mean scanty design, conversely, simple design in the heritage area consists profound meanings and reflects the original aesthetic value of that space. The design of shophouse as a formation is simple raw building, contained three to four main zones...

Nowadays, coffee shops have become the society logo. The Georgetown core zone area contains various coffee shops design styles. The zone is viewed as one of the most significant heritage areas in the universe, it draws different types of tourists. Users of these coffee shops vary in term of nationality, age, and determinations. This study will focu...

The era of technological development adds new characteristics to interior design towards the development of living and working spaces. Flexibility characteristic is one of these new add. There are many types of flexibility according to the level of use. Interior design environment for small spaces is a new generation of interior design strategy. Th...

Identifying any society and culture, starts from perceptions main shapes, elements, and strategies of design that used to generate it, which visitors or users can realize it from the interior space, especially in retail space within shopping streets that represent the architectural identity of cities. Many important space that represents the archit...

interior design have architectural and functional identity, which affecting users' adaptation with the place. Primary survey done for some commercial centres and Malls in Pulau Penang to identify the problem, which marked deformation identity problem of place by similarity in general shape, colours, finishing techniques, and methods of product pres...

Interior design is the linking point between designer purposes and the results of these purposes inside the recipient’s mind. The interior design process addresses the users’ minds by implication and expression of effectiveness. The sense perception is a stage of mental perception, which ideas and meaning are moving from the designers’ mind to rea...

The technique of using the virtual reality was used in several scientific fields, it can be used in the scope of the engineering design, which can be done when the student transfers directly to the reactive design process inside the virtual environment. The harmony of design between the student and the designer becomes more efficient in terms of de...

The elements in the style and aesthetic of building environment are the basis in attracting and evoke the sense of beauty to a recipient. However the effect of that excitement may not add to the mental image of the recipient. Passing by a commercial street or through retail space can leave a mental image in the recipient memory. A recipient who doe...

The flexibility in architectural design can solve the area problems and multi - use plan. It could provide many possibilities to change the shape and size of internal space in addition to the economic and social impacts on the housing system. The increasing of moving from the rural and suburban to the main city offset router by new and creative des...

The flexibility in architectural design can solve the area problems and multi-use plan. It could provide many possibilities to change the shape and size of internal space in addition to the economic and social impacts on the housing system. The increasing of moving from the rural and suburban to the main city offset router by new and creative desig...

Buildings vary in shapes, types and locations, but are correlated in the original elements and relations to constitute the unified building Type or a certain architectural style from a certain place. These relations are linking points among different architectural styles; each style has a strategy in dealing with these elements and relations. The s...

Problem statement: The important things of the preservation of historic towns and heritage issustainability of mental image through the restoration works, where in some cases the restorationworks may wipe out all the qualities and characteristics of the architectural heritage andtraditional, this is because of the failure to observe the mental imag...

All buildings are characterized by possessing a set of architecturalelements and details that are most important in giving the characteristic ofthe architecture as a style, where these details and architectural elementshave configurations structurally different and this difference in structuralismdistinguishes the form of another where any architec...

In the field of architecture and art the design of any spatial models should adopt important principles in the creation of an integrated model: one or more principles can used to generate the same shape or an object , and many objects can be created employing architecture and arts principles. The color and texture give a model a sense of form and t...

Digital coding in the current digital age was used in finding and analysing real prototypes of old cities shapes and plans where this serves as a documentation for the relations forms among the city elements’ components, for each city has its planning properties reflecting the architectural and planning identity. Through this study, digital coding...

All buildings are characterized by possessing a set of architectural elements and details that are most important in giving the characteristic of the architecture as a style, where these details and architectural elements have configurations structurally different and this difference in structuralism distinguishes the form of another where any arch...

The are many type of prototypes or ornament and deferent method to created it , the ornament are considered as one of the most important architectural elements on which several fields of design are depending on . These fields include (Architectural Design, Interior Design, Planning, Furniture Design, etc) . So it is important to study these elem...

The architectural spaces and shapes are considered as the basis of components formation and grouping of formal architecture in general, including those of old city of Mosul, which display identity elements of traditional architectures. These key elements are useful after proper transfer to data and information symbols of their shapes and combin...

The architectural spaces and shapes are considered as the basis of components formation and grouping of formal architecture in general, including those of old city of Mosul, which display identity elements of traditional architectures. These key elements are useful after proper transfer to data and information symbols of their shapes and combinatio...