Erbil City’s traditional and vernacular architecture disastrous status : a perception survey using semantic differential scale

Joint Authors

Khazindar, Binyad Maruf Abd al-Qadir
Khayyat, Mahmud Ahmad Bakr

Source

ZANCO Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences

Publisher

Salahaddin University-Erbil Department of Scientific Publications

Publication Date

2016-06-30

Country of Publication

Iraq

No. of Pages

8

Main Subjects

Natural & Life Sciences (Multidisciplinary)
Civil Engineering

English Abstract

In the period from 1970 to 2003, the region passed through conflicts and wars led to social, economical and cultural changes, some of them can be regarded as positive cultural developments, but architecture as a sub-culture especially vernacular and traditional part of Erbil city reached to a status that can be regarded as a disastrous one on physical and cultural levels, a status that needs serious reforms.

The paper will make use of available documentation data for this part of Erbil city to detect the rate of deterioration of perception of the symbolic value of traditional architecture elements as part of the cultural identity of Erbil society.

The goal of the research is to inspect the factors that led the status of the vernacular and traditional architecture in Erbil city to a disastrous status regarding the perceptional vision of the intellectual community that the research selected to be tested.

The Research covers the Traditional and Vernacular houses in the old sectors of Erbil city including the Citadel and the surrounding three traditional zones.

The methodology of the research uses a perception survey using semantic differential scale for three intellectual selected groups (first year students, fifth year student and senior teaching staff in the department of Architecture) will be implemented.

The research finds that the survey outcome support the proposition that traditional and vernacular architecture of Erbil city are not the core of interest of majority of intellectuals living in Erbil city The research reaches to a conclusion that the status of the vernacular and traditional part of Erbil city can be regarded as a disastrous one both physically and conceptually that need serious reforms to reinforce the role of traditional architecture as a subculture towards local identity.

Data Type

Conference Papers

Record ID

BIM-787286

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