DOI: 10.5176/2301-394X_ACE14.22
Authors: S. M. Sharif and M. F. M. Zain
Abstract:
Traditional Arab house in the interior parts of Tripoli is a vernacular architectural masterpiece and is considered as a valuable heritage object. Clusters of this edifice constitute significant indigenous housing stock in the traditional settlements of the Arab world. This study was undertaken to qualitatively evaluate adaptive factors associated with traditional Arab family residences in core Tripoli neighborhoods. Exclusively, physical and social factors that influence housing patterns were considered. Qualitatively, housing environments require users adaptation from a combination of competing social and physical features. A double single storey Arab housing prototype, shared by multiple families seems to dominate old Tripoli landscape. Here, spatial hierarchical order separates public from private zones, with strong sense of neighborhood interaction and internal social cohesion. The research findings showed there is dominance of social factors over physical factors in user residential adaptation. From these findings, it is evident that social environmental priority conserves cultural sustainability in the process of housing adaptation.
Keywords: Environmental adaptability; Courtyard; Privacy; Tripoli Introduction
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