الهوية الثقافية و الاجتماعية في المسكن الكوردي المعاصر

Abstract EN

The present research aims at shed light upon a basic dimension which is to achieve sustainability of the cultural and social identity of the modern Kurdish houses in Erbil city that reflects the effect of the traditional civilization of the Kurdish society.

It also reflects the style of distributing the design bases and elements and also using spaces, furniture type and textures.

The research theoretical background deals with the cultural and social identity, sustainability, interior design elements and ways of achieving sustainable design.

The research has achieved a number of results and the most important one is that the Kurdish society has adapted three directions in designing Kurdish houses.

Some houses adapted modernism as their residents were affected by the foreign designs, other houses adapted the heritage-based designs that reveal authenticity and magnificence throughout using textures and colors that are related to the surrounding nature, some other houses are individual and subjective in the kind of the adapted designs chosen by people who are affected by both the modernist and the heritage-based directions.

The research also presented some conclusions that reflect the ideas mentioned in the theoretical background.

The most important conclusion is that the cultural and social identity is noticeably present in the most of the interior designs and distributing their elements and depending on the Kurdish heritage and also coping with the modern designs so the Kurdish house is deep-rooted to its heritage and this is what makes it unique and special.