Baeissa, Anwar Ahmed Abdullah
(2009)
An Evaluation Of Space Planning Towards Habitable
House Design For Low-Income Group In Mukalla And
Shibam, Yemen.
PhD thesis, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
Abstract
The aim of this research is to evaluate the house design and its habitable the level of
satisfaction of the low-income group in Mukalla and Shibam, Yemen. The study
focuses on the house design of the low-income group of Modem Mukalla, and uses
the traditional house design in Shibam as the reference model because of its
UNESCO’s recognition listed under World Heritage Site. The study commences with
the definitions of house, house design and habitability. The study finds that space
planning and function, interior elements house-unit, interior house comfort level,
interior house services, and indoor socio-cultural actives are important categories for
definition of the house design and its habitability. It proceeds to provide qualitative
and quantitative analyses of the data of these five categories as the check-list factors.
A comparison of the responses under these five categories is made for Mukalla and
Shibam. The outcome of the above steps is then subjected to a further analysis using
triangulation method. The study finds that the respondents who live at modem
houses are slightly satisfied with their house design in Modem Mukalla. It also
observes that the house design in Shibam can serve as reference model of habitable
house design for Hadhramout region, Yemen. The study finally provides several
useful guidelines of habitable house design for the low-income group in Hadhramout
region, Yemen.
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