A Short Review of Influencing Factors of Islamic Architecture in Aleppo, Syria

E Noaime,M Touahmia,K Salah,M Hassan,G Abdullah,M A Said,A Osman,Y Nasser

doi:10.48084/etasr.3447

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Abstract

This research aims to examine Aleppo’s distinctive architectural design profiles, most precisely those of residential buildings, and to highlight factors that indicate how the Islamic culture influenced the architectural structure in the pre-civil war era. Descriptive research, observation, and documentation of architectural elements that determine the general characteristics of housing in the city of Aleppo were used. The study focused on Wakil and Zamriah houses as case studies because of their accessibility and excellent exemplary style. The current study sheds light on the history of Aleppo’s urban development and its influence by the Islamic civilization during the late Ottoman era up to the Syrian civil war in 2011. It is shown how Islamic civilization influenced Aleppo's residential buildings in terms of simplicity, respect for human scale, equality, and privacy.

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Architects not just design buildings and shape the very definitions used in design, including the definition of space relationships and different design styles [1]
Descriptive research was used in carrying out this study as it describes the characteristics of the population or the phenomenon under study without influencing it in any way [32, 33]
This paper uses observation and documentation combined with literature review in order to further portray the general housing characteristics in the city of Aleppo

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Architects not just design buildings and shape the very definitions used in design, including the definition of space relationships and different design styles [1]. Modern architecture has paid little attention to the concept of privacy. This is initiated by the increasing needs of advanced industrial countries, with most Arab countries gradually following [4]. In 2011, it was Syria's largest city with a population of 2.5 million people, a UNESCO World Heritage site that has been described as Syria's commercial capital. Aleppo is one of the oldest cities in the world, maintaining its continuity as an inhabited city for more than 5000 years. It is characterized by the plateau in its center, which dates back to the third or the fourth millennium BC [7]

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