Simulation of Topophilia enhancing social sustainability: Local shrines in Iraq as case study

• Main Authors: Nagim, Zahraa Qassim, Raouf, Zainab Hussein
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Subjects: Architecture; Buildings; Case studies; Foundations; Hypotheses; Indicators; Knowledge representation; Social sustainability; Sustainability; Sustainable development
• ISSN: 0094-243X; 1551-7616
• DOI: 10.1063/5.0199713

Sustainability has emerged as a contemporary trend affecting the various fields of life, which has become constantly evolving, which made us need to activate various sustainability considerations, and because architectural products are among the important products that affect the lives of individuals in general, architectural designers are striving hard to keep pace with diversity in different fields of life and work to activate Various sustainability considerations to create contemporary and sustainable architectural products, and since the concept of sustainability is a comprehensive concept that has different considerations for multiple aspects, the most important of which are (environmental, economic and social), the research has dealt with the study of the relationship between understanding the role of social considerations for sustainability (which is represented in the love of place and attachment and the promotion of a sense of belonging to it, where In turn, it contributes to the renaissance of society) and the concept of Topophilia as an expression of love of place, so the research problem is represented in (lack of knowledge about Topophilia as a concept that enhances social consideration of sustainability), and the aim of the research is (defining a comprehensive framework for social phenomena that enhance social consideration of sustainability and naming indicators Responsible for the advancement of society) As for the hypothesis of the research, it is based on (that the application of mechanisms and indicators of Topophilia partially within the local foundation buildings leads to reducing the impact of factors that contribute to the renaissance and development of societies). Where the research worked on applying the descriptive and quantitative approach, which was represented firstly building a comprehensive theoretical framework around the indicators and foundations of Topophilia and its role in activating social sustainability in the architectural buildings around which the community is centered (fulcrum buildings), where the main vocabulary was developed, which was represented by (Foundations, Principles, buildings patterns, considerations, mechanisms) then move on to the practical study, which was represented hypothesis of the research and identification of the selected samples, where samples were taken from the local Islamic shrines as a case study and the ordinal scale was adopted, after which the research moved to discuss the results a