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Go to Editorial ManagerIn the sustainable dwelling, in all its formations whether at the urban or architectural level, the effects of the surrounding environment are taken into account in the design process, starting from the distribution of residential functions, the form of the dwelling, or even the structural materials used in its formulation, in addition to the technological dimension, not to mention the site and its effects as well as the consumed energy and its effects. The study proceeds with research and analysis to build a comprehensive strategy for the problem related to the harsh climate of the region, and its negative effect on residential formation, by activating ideal solutions to those problems according to the principles of environmental sustainability. The concept of the new healthy dwelling in its proposed form addresses the benefits that sustainable environmental formation can offer in improving the conditions of thermal comfort within architectural spaces and then designing a new form of housing under the name of passive energy bio-climatic formation systems. Its ideas must be subject to the wisdom of the architect through passing over all effective strategies that help create the maximum material comfort and thus reduce high environmental costs.
Wars have imposed on some countries a state of haste and rush towards haphazard, unstudied urban planning to fill the shortage of architectural elements and urban formations. Urban sustainability, alongside environmental and economic sustainability, has recently gained great importance in contemporary global studies. Given the problems suffered by the city of Basra regarding architectural formation and devastating environmental pollution, in addition to the significant deficit in finding the required design solutions for the urban rehabilitation of the city, it was necessary to limit individual attempts that tend towards unconscious concepts leading to anomaly and lack of harmony with the city's distinct environment. Urban formation is a series of visual interferences that cannot be intercepted by individual, personal, and unstudied attempts; therefore, shared visions agreed upon by specialists in various fields, primarily the environment, must be formulated. Hence, the research tends towards finding research areas that can offer objective and realistic solutions to be the basis for the future structure of damaged cities within the framework of the concept of sustainable urban development in the future. Here, the research aims to select the best methods for shaping the modern city of Basra.