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Corresponding Author

Lamiaa Gamal Eladle

Subject Area

Architectural Engineering

Article Type

Original Study

Abstract

The residential courtyard is a major architecture element used through concepts related to the environmental, economic, social and structural considerations. Its role radually deteriorated to the extent that its features disappeared and were replaced by architectural courtyard as an alternative to the traditional courtyard especially with high-density residential towers. Which led to failure in contemporary buildings where all the environmental, social, psychological dimensions and other such elements of human life were ignored. With the necessity of the vertical buildings in cities, there had to present new visions and strategies to re-employ courtyards, especially that developing courtyards does not contradict with building height. On the contrary, through creative thinking, its utilization, benefit maximization and reemployment have all become possible. The research aims at studying mechanisms of treating courtyards through sustainable methods and visions through one of the pioneer experiments in the field of housing evaluation to re-employ again in multi-storey residential building, and hence the research depended on the following approach: First: studying and analyzing of the courtyard. Second: using LEED" leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Requirements" as criterion for courtyard evaluation. Third: comparative analysis of three models to present a new vision for the residential courtyard. Fourth: conclusions and recommendation. The research handled the topic according to the following items: 1 Ahistorical study of courtyards in residential buildings. 2 The role of the courtyard as a sustainable architecture element.A comparative analysis for applied models (A contemporary vision of the residential courtyard). 4 Conclusion and commendations.

Keywords

Courtyard- Sustainability-LEED - Residential Buildings- Architectural Courtyard

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