دور العوامل الاجتماعية و الوظيفية في الحلول المعاصرة للسكن الباثيوي

The degree of constructing houses that meet the needs and functional and social requirements of inhabitants is closely connected to the level of general efficiency of the architectural solution. Recent studies have shown a great interest in treating these aspects of building solutions through suggesting various housing models. In some of their specification, these models were based on the traditional abode, making use of many of its social and functional specifications in an attempt to develop these specifications to meet modern requirements. This paper attempts to determine the social and functional requirements of an abode through analytical studies of the functioning of different housing models. After adopting these points as evaluation standards for the home model, this paper makes an analytical study of different models of modern courtyard houses according to these standards. This study shows that solutions to courtyard houses displaying important specifications enable them to achieve a high level of functional performance and provide a lot of social needs. This study has also dealt with the negative aspects of these solutions, which show that they are too limited, since some of them apply only to a specific social environment.