Keywords
Design Characteristics, Flexibility
Document Type
Original Study
Abstract
Flexibility is one of the principal factors in architecture to which a paramount significance must be attached. This significance gains more ground in contemporary life in which change accelerates in a tremendous speed, for today's design might not meet tomorrow's needs without shifts or modification and this applies to the University buildings more than any other buildings in comparison. However, by reviewing the theoretical hypotheses tackling this topic in architecture on the one hand, and critically analysing architecture research on it, on the other hand; it results that none of these hypotheses or investigations have adequately or clearly determined the impact of the functional context and spatial of these buildings in the light of the further impact ofthese characteristics. It emerges that these studies have all not provided a clear-cut delineation of those characteristics that most affect flexibility in buildings so as to satisf, the designer needs for future design giving due concem to architectural space from the every beginning.
Recommended Citation
Aljameel, Ali Haidar and Al-Nu'man, Raeed Salim
(2004)
"Design Characteristics And Flexibility in University Buildings : Mosul University as a Case Study,"
Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning: Vol. 4:
Iss.
1, Article 7.
