Assessment of Privacy Level in Traditional Yemeni Architecture: A Case Study of Dhamar City

Abstract

The issue of privacy has been a very important topic in all fields because it is a topic related to human and social aspects The problem is represented by the spread of the phenomenon of globalization and the spread of modern global thought in historical cities that are characterized by their local specificity The research aims to determine the level of architectural privacy in Dhamar by identifying the criteria and factors that affect privacy and measuring those to determine their importance and priority The methodology is based on building a multi-criteria model that represents a theoretical framework for the dimensions of the research problem and includes criteria for achieving privacy at the level of plans and layout at the level of facades and at the level of urban The research was adopted from a field study that included questionnaires that were designed and distributed to the participating architects who live in the study region The results showed that the use of elements and methods of traditional architecture in contemporary architecture achieved great success at the level of privacy