TY - JOUR AU - Marwa Abdel Jabbar AU - Kadhim Dhumad PY - 2021/03/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Architectural Rehabilitation of Traditional Houses in the District of: Bab Al-Seef JF - Association of Arab Universities Journal of Engineering Sciences JA - ASSOC ARA UNIV J ENG SCI VL - 28 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.33261/jaaru.2021.28.1.012 UR - https://jaaru.org/index.php/auisseng/article/view/500 AB - The urban heritage fabric of Baghdad, especially its historical center, has great cultural andmaterial importance. However, there is no serious approach to regenerative policies or developmentstrategies for these areas, especially the residential urban fabric and traditional houses, which represent thegreater part of the urban heritage. In addition, the owners and users of these houses have not developed amature vision about the rationale and possibility of rehabilitating their homes, especially in light of theeconomic and social determinants, and the weak financing and technical capabilities. From here emergedthe research problem, which states: The lack of knowledge of the mechanisms and methods of architecturalrehabilitation of traditional houses, to preserve and ensure its functional and urban durability, especially byits owners or users. The main objective of the research was determined: to develop a theoretical frameworkfor a better understanding by the owners and residents of traditional housing, for the purpose of rehabilitatingtheir houses by efforts and self-capabilities, with support and technical advice from the relevant planningauthorities and local governments. In order to solve the research problem and achieve its goal, the hypothesiswas put forward which states: Architectural rehabilitation of traditional houses is achieved, in light of acomprehensive treatment of the defects and deficiencies in the three architectural characteristics of thehouses, functional, environmental and urban. By following the analytical descriptive approach, a theoreticalframework was constructed in light of the analysis of the components and elements of the traditionalBaghdadi houses, and its characteristics that form its integrated architectural personality, down to a standardset of vocabulary for rehabilitation that represent the theoretical indicators of the research. These indicatorswere applied to rehabilitate a group of traditional houses (five houses were selected for analysis and one ofthem was selected to apply the rehabilitation) in the Bab Al-Seef heritage district in the Baghdad-Al-Karkhhistorical center, after studying the reality of the district and its houses and diagnosing its deficiencies. Itemerged from the application of rehabilitation indicators that most of the deficiencies in the physical sidecan be remedied. As for the functional side, it is difficult to adjust the functional spaces due to the limitedspace and the mainly high usage density. As for the environmental aspect, it appeared that it is difficult tolimit itself to natural (passive) treatments and there is a need to employ mechanical and arteficial treatmentsin an integrated manner with natural treatments. ER -