The Effect of Traditional House Patterns on Changing Privacy Treatments: Traditional Houses in the City of Sulaymaniyah, a Case Study

Abstract

Ancient architecture until the present time. The models of traditional houses in the cities built by Muslims were among the clear examples of the response to this factor, and aspects of privacy may have had a fundamental role in forming their identity and known architectural form, and from here. The problem of this research was to know how traditional houses in the city of Sulaymaniyah, which have a special architectural style and character, respond to the problem of privacy, and do their distinct building styles have an impact on how they deal with the privacy factor? Aiming to know the extent to which the architectural elements used to provide privacy in Sulaymaniyah homes match their previous counterparts in other Islamic cities, the research assumed that privacy treatments in traditional homes in the city of Sulaymaniyah differ from their counterparts, influenced by the distinctive style of traditional homes in the city of Sulaymaniyah. The research concluded that the traditional residential floor patterns common in the city of Sulaymaniyah have clearly influenced the change in the mechanisms of dealing with elements that were previously found to provide visual privacy. It varied between eliminating or reducing some of them to increasing the percentage of some of them, and the emergence of new, innovative models that were not present in similar traditional homes in the region and in the rest of the Islamic cities.