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Titre : INTEGRATED ECO-CULTURAL ARCHITECTURE FRAMEWORK FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING DESIGN IN JORDAN

Auteur : Qtaishat, Yahya

Université de soutenance : University of Bath

Grade : Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) 2021

Résumé
The interest in sustainable architecture continues to grow in recent years. However, research and practice within the built environment are limited to the tangible indicators of sustainable buildings. Therefore, there remains a gap in understanding the socio-cultural indicators of sustainability and their role in delivering sustainable built environments. Vernacular architecture once represented buildings that were culturally, economically, and environmentally adequate to their context. A coherent understanding of the indicators that inform this vernacular-inspired sustainable architecture is thus required. However, few studies specifically incorporate relatively intangible indicators such as the vernacular buildings’ historical and cultural development in the sustainable architecture discourse. This research aimed to bridge the gap between the built environment’s tangible and intangible indicators by proposing an eco-cultural approach for sustainable architecture that integrates cultural, social, and ecological variables. This study investigated lessons of sustainability from vernacular architecture as a model for this integration. The research also aimed to create and test a decision support tool that can help with the deployment of this eco-cultural design process in Jordan and the wider region.
As a concept, eco-cultural design is the physical interpretation of a region’s context and culture based on sustainable architecture principles that are economically viable. An eco-cultural design also adapts, uses, and maximises the technological performance for locally specific needs and socio-cultural system. An eco-cultural logic in architecture calls to examine the reuse of lessons from vernacular architecture as a base for socio-cultural integration within the built environment. The research first critically reviewed recent literature on sustainability and vernacular architecture to understand and map the tangible and intangible indicators that can help the renaissance of a critical regional architecture as a dynamic eco-cultural design. Following that, the research applied a qualitative approach that consisted of 81 semi-structured interviews with inhabitants of residential dwellings of various typologies from two case study areas in Jordan, each representing a historical and a contemporary case. The framework and thematic analyses guided the analytical and synthesis stag

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