TY - CPAPER
KW - Sustainable development
KW - Buildings
KW - Social interactions
KW - Possible futures
KW - Appropriate building materials
KW - Building types
KW - Byproducts
KW - Hammām
KW - Heating system
KW - Islamic city
KW - Lessons of sustainability
KW - Public bath
KW - Small industries
KW - Thermal comfort
KW - Urban dwellers
KW - Urban fabrics
KW - Water heating
KW - Water management
KW - Water recycling
AU - M. Sibley
AB - The public bath, or hammām, is a building type which has been integral to the urban fabric of Islamic cities. Whereas other building types have attracted much attention and research in the past, studies of hammām buildings have remained scarce and far apart. Based on surveys carried by the author on the historic public baths of Damascus and Fez, this paper highlights the characteristics of this building type as a sustainable urban facility which not only promotes cleanliness and health of the urban dwellers but also social interaction and a support for a rich intangible heritage. The paper also highlights the lessons that this building type provides in terms of thermal comfort, under-floor heating system, water heating and management and recycling of byproducts from local small industries. The paper then discusses possible future adaptive re-use of this building type in the light of Sustainable Development Agenda.
CY - Geneva
LA - English
N1 - Journal Abbreviation: PLEA - Int. Conf. Passive Low Energy Archit., Conf. Proc.
N2 - The public bath, or hammām, is a building type which has been integral to the urban fabric of Islamic cities. Whereas other building types have attracted much attention and research in the past, studies of hammām buildings have remained scarce and far apart. Based on surveys carried by the author on the historic public baths of Damascus and Fez, this paper highlights the characteristics of this building type as a sustainable urban facility which not only promotes cleanliness and health of the urban dwellers but also social interaction and a support for a rich intangible heritage. The paper also highlights the lessons that this building type provides in terms of thermal comfort, under-floor heating system, water heating and management and recycling of byproducts from local small industries. The paper then discusses possible future adaptive re-use of this building type in the light of Sustainable Development Agenda.
PP - Geneva
PY - 2006
EP - I81—I86
TI - The historic Hammāms of Damascus and Fez: Lessons of sustainability and future developments
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84865790011&partnerID=40&md5=ff55dd1095f677930f43e5e64cc4842f
ER -