Architectural and Heritage Elements and Formation Characteristics of Traditional Houses Interfaces

Abstract

The research aims to characterize functional architectural elements of the traditional houses facades in Jordan (the old city of Salt) as a case study. The analysis of these architectural elements will study the formation properties of the facades through identifying it’s historical, structural and philosophical foundations.  These various elements have great importance because they contribute to the design frameworks that have characterized these buildings interfaces. So these elements represent the architectural structural art integrated rich beauty ,heritage ,and moral values ??and  that has not changed by modern architecture or dispense the architect of quoting of western models in the need to focus on the structural basis of the architectural heritage that contributed to the detection of the solutions used in the civil disciplines so been reworked these foundations in a modern way.

Keywords: traditional architecture, moral value, aesthetic value, Archs, Shutters.