Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt
@conference {2225, title = { The influence of the Palestinian sociocultural values in shaping the vernacular architecture of Nablus city}, journal = {Euro-ELECS 2015 - 1st Latin-American and European Conference on Sustainable Buildings and Communities}, volume = {2}, year = {2015}, note = {Tawayha\ F., Mateus R., Bragan{\c c}a L. The influence of the Palestinian sociocultural values in shaping the vernacular architecture of Nablus city,\ Euro-ELECS 2015, vol. 2, pp. 923-930, 2015.
}, month = {2015-07-21 00:00:00}, pages = {923-930}, publisher = {Multicomp}, address = {Guimar{\~a}es, Portugal}, abstract = {Recently, environmental architecture and sustainable construction has been ranked on top of the world{\textquoteright}s interests. Making use of natural resources helps in reducing energy consumption and costs associated with the operation of buildings. The current architectural approaches and designs in Palestine are far away from environmental concepts, copying and simulating abroad approaches, without taking into account the culture, climate, and inhabitant{\textquoteright}s needs. On the contrast, vernacular architecture has achieved environmental concepts and has given suitable approaches and samples - without any need to simulate or copy - which come from people and land. This paper discusses how the Palestinian socio-cultural context shaped the residential vernacular architecture in Palestine, taking the old city of Nablus as a case-study. The research concept depends on analysing and trying to understand the effect of the socio-cultural context on vernacular architecture and trying to reach some rules or understandings of how it works in order to reach a modern environmental dwelling that is suitable to this concept. The research method goes through analysing study cases from the traditional architecture models and the Nablus city is selected as a case study. This analytical and qualitative method can lead to deep understanding for how to benefit from vernacular architecture in Palestine in finding the future environmental residential construction. One of the main findings of this research is to set general and special rules for building sustainable buildings in Palestine from the socio-cultural point view, in order to be a reference for designers, stakeholders, ministry of planning, and municipalities.
}, keywords = {Palestinian vernacular architecture, Sociocultural constrains, Sustainability}, isbn = {978-989-96543-8-9}, doi = {10.13140/RG.2.1.2089.3203}, author = {Tawayha, F. and Bragan{\c c}a, L. and Mateus, R.} }
The Centre for Territory, Environment and Construction (CTAC) is a research unit of the School of Engineering of University of Minho (UMinho), recognised by the “FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia” (Foundation for Science and Technology), associated to the Department of Civil Engineering (DEC), with whom it shares resources and namely human resources.
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Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt