Under the supervision of Professor Dr. Alaa Nafeh Jassim, Director of the Center, the Center for the Revival of the Arab Scientific Heritage at the University of Sabah organized on Wednesday, in 4/1/2023, in the hall of Professor Nabila Abdel Moneim Dawood in the center, a seminar entitled (Technical Treatments in Heating and Cooling Means in Iraqi Architecture)
The seminar was delivered by Prof. Dr. Saadi Ibrahim Al-Daradji, Head of the Department of Pure Sciences at our center. They shed light on aspects of environmental and climatic treatments in Iraqi architecture, and examined the architect’s efforts and contributions in adapting building materials and employing them with the aim of regulating the weather within the building units in a way that suits human nature and his living in all seasons.
The discussion focused on examples of mud buildings that still exist in Baghdad. The researcher had come across some of them during his field visits, so he photographed some of them and drew others. The importance of this seminar lies in documenting an aspect of the environmental treatments adopted by the Iraqi architecture in buildings that lived for many centuries while embracing a group of people who successively inherited it. Today, however, it is threatened with disappearance due to modernity, which forced them to abandon bricks and mud in whole or in part, and rely on cement and iron in the implementation of modern buildings. In conclusion, the director of the center thanked the lecturer, wishing him continued success and permanent success.
