Abstract
Finding a favorable trade-off between saving the architectural heritage, and assuring the development of modern architecture is a delicate and precise task, due to the lack of knowledge in the original criteria for the re-thinking of traditional architecture. As a tentative answer to this challenge, this paper attempts to shed light on Mashrabiya (traditional Arab oriel window) as a powerful environmental element in modern architecture, with regard to the important functions that it provides, such as light control, airflow regulation, humidity control, temperature regulation and visual privacy. Due to these functions, Mashrabiya achieved widespread popularity around the old world and it has been revived again in many contemporary projects by different modern versions. The objective of this study also is presenting a general evaluation for the modern Mashrabiya to observe the misconceptions of using the Mashrabiya and to call for stop ignoring of the proper standards of Mashrabiya design and to preserve the original name of this element Mashrabiya.
Highlights
The Mashrabiya is an Arab architectural element, which always had something magical that attracted the western orientalists' attention and has subsequently been revived in many contemporary projects
Mashrabiya House project in general looks like a primitive project, due to it uses the concept of Mashrabiya; but it does not apply the correct terms which are related to the functions, patterns and design parameters of traditional Mashrabiya
For the visual privacy aspect, the relationship between people and the outdoors is no longer evident in the use of modern Mashrabiya, where a glass layer is placed behind the main façade, creating what is known as double skin façades
Summary
The Mashrabiya is an Arab architectural element, which always had something magical that attracted the western orientalists' attention and has subsequently been revived in many contemporary projects. Mashrabiya in its traditional version had many important environmental functions and specific parameters for design through recognized patterns.
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