Recommendations for housing planning and design in the hot-arid region of khartoum

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This paper presents some recommendations on the measurements that should be taken in the planning and design of residential neighbourhoods and housing units fromthe thermal environment viewpoint, and the procedures to promote such an environment at the planning and design scales of housing.

The recommendations are based on a fieldwork conducted in the early nineteen nineties as a search in theoretical, professional and users' perceptions of passive thermal performance of the major residential trends in greater Khartoum.

For this purpose, some residential regions were surveyed together with interviewing professionals from the public and private sectors in one hand and the inhabitants of the surveyed residential units in the other.

This study includes the main problems in planning and design of housing and their deviation from the theoretical knowledge in housing, planning and design in hotarid regions (greater Khartoum and the neighbour-ing areas) and the non-conformity of both the professionals and inhabitants views in this respect.

This paper presents general recommendations for residential planning and design especially from the thermal environmental aspects and for some typical samples in regions of greater Khartoum and for both professionals and inhabitants for upgrading the thermal environment in new and existing residential areas.