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International Conference | Bari - Lecce, Italy
Session X-XI
PASSIVE DESIGN APPROACH FOR HIGH-RISE
BUILDINGS: FROM COURTYARDS TO SKYCOURTS
Saba Alnusairat 1, 2 & Heba Elsharkawy1
1 Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, United Kingdom, [email protected]
2 Department of Architecture, Al-ahliyya Amman University, Jordan, [email protected]
1 Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, United Kingdom, [email protected]
Abstract
Developing sustainable design approaches is becoming necessary worldwide especially with
the notion of high-rise buildings to meet the rapid growth of cities. Passive design strategies
could be considered as potential tools to achieve the environmental, social and economic
requirements of