Modern hospital indoor environment aims at fulfilling the psychological needs and preferences of the people who use it. Nowadays, physical and non-physical and healing environments are perceived as potential contributors to recovery processes. Unlike curing, healing relates to aspects of health that are psychological and spiritual. This study aims at tracing the relationship between the qualitative level of the healing environment and patients’ psychological comfort. Therefore, a 43-item questionnaire was distributed among 148 respondents to obtain patients’ opinion; a total of 117 valid questionnaires were received. The results showed that the quality of the healing environment can be considerably related to the fulfilment of patients’ satisfaction. The patients at tested hospitals were generally satisfied with their healing environments. The findings revealed four crucial factors, Interior appearance, Comfort and control, Views and Privacy, to create a satisfying healing environment. A negative correlation between demographic information, such as age and education, and patient satisfaction was revealed. Additionally, this study suggests that post-occupancy evaluation is a relevant tool for evaluating the quality of indoor environment and a useful technique to inform designers that variations in the indoor physical design may positively influence the patients’ level of satisfaction.

Technological advancements over the last decade has led to changes in people`s preferences and lifestyle which needs to be reflected in the design and planning of urban environments. It has become essential to pursue, create homes with greater agility, better interrelationships of components and more open systems. Contemporary homes are hugely difficult to modify as most building have fixed and static structure. The most common concept of space in current dwellings is its categorization by functions, such as sleeping rooms, bathroom and living room. Rather than requiring users to shift, twist, and surrender to fit into static environments, the new architecture should technologically adapt to support the building sustainability by ensuring users‟ wellbeing and safety, long term value of the building and its efficiency. In this context, Efficiency indicates Spatial Flexibility which enhances the quality of inner space. Spatial Flexibility is the capacity of inner spaces to be: Adaptive, Responsive and Resilient. The main aim of the research is: to clarify the impact of smart technology to improve flexibility in inner spaces and to evaluate the level of spatial flexibility between smart and contemporary apartment. The researcher employed qualitative analysis methodology to test experimental prototypes designed by researcher and investigate the impact of use of Smart technology on spatial flexibility in contemporary house and in future smart house in Sulaymaniyah (Kurdistan region of Iraq). The empirical nature of our case study led us to organize the research into two levels: theoretical level to form conceptual structure and practical level in which we chose two models smart and contemporary. Results explained that smart homes display an improved spatial flexibility than contemporary homes by the effective use of space for the full range of functions using smart devices.

The traditional housing at Sulaimanyah city belongs to the 2nd half of the 19thcentury, These house were responded with the climate requirements, habits, social traditions and economic conditions. these were formed as extension for the past periods by using the architectural elements and constructions materials . The interior court House with inside direction house was the famous prevalence form, we realize closing for the outside in the interior court and opening to outside by using special treatment which were developed with time. All these changes and evolved treatments were done without documentation it or studied or take the knowledge about the purpose of doing it from those objectives our research started to study visual penetration treatments bases and types. The theory study part intake Studying planning of the traditional house, the house planning elements, visual penetration concept, classification houses unit according to visual penetration effects, privacy concept, the aim of privacy and clarify the rules for inquiring the privacy and prevent the visual penetration in the Islamic traditional house. According to these data we started the practical study by using analyses on the elected samples that represented from the research time (1900–1940), the analyses was done by using the Graphic Form and collecting the results at special table and finding the final conclusions and giving the recommendations that assimilate the mechanisms and the Types of the Treatments.

The study traces the theory of Deviation (L'écart) by Jean Cohen, trying to apply it in architecture, highlighting its role in making changes in the form structure, to reach the nature of Deviations in Architecture. This study falls under the framework of shedding light on the nature of the Deviation Concept, its types and levels, and identifying its work mechanisms in language and its association with the concepts of poetics and stylistics and its manifestation in poetry, in an attempt to investigate its influence in the structure of Architectural Form . For the purpose of reaching the mechanisms of Deviation in architecture, it was necessary to study the structure of Architecture from, to understand the relationship between language grammar and architecture, concluding some important indicators for the practical part of the study, by focusing on analyzing some selected samples of Classical, Romantic, and Symbolic architecture, for the purpose of achieving the research aim on finding what corresponds to Jean Cohen's model of Deviation in architecture. The research has concluded that the mechanisms of Deviation which affect the structure of poetic language as per Cohen's model, are viable and affect the structure of architectural form, regardless the style, the movement, or the time it belongs to, and the representations of the concept were found in the classical, romantic, and symbolic architecture in varying rates, and that the semantic level or rhetorical side is one of the poetics components, which correspond to inspiration and substitutive relationships in architecture.

The aim of the research is to clarify the effect of internal design indicators on improving the efficiency of patients' rooms, to deploy these indicators to be integrated into the curing contexts in achieving healing in a compatible way with the psychological comfort of patients in five public hospitals in Sulaimani city. The contemporary trends in the interior design of hospitals depend on the strong link between the healing environment, which differs from the curing environment by evolving the psychological dimension in the treatment process (curing), and the efficiency of the indoor environment that directly affects the psychological comfort of the patients.The research has adopted a descriptive analytical approach compatible with the nature of the research, using a quantitative measure of the 43-items questionnaire, encompassing six items of psychological comfort including: (Privacy, Views, Comfort & control, Interior appearance, Family support, and Facilities). A total of 240 questionnaires were distributed on the study samples, and then 198 questionnaire forms were retrieved after being completed by the respondents. The percentage of valid questionnaires was 82.5%. The findings of the study showed a positive correlation between internal design indicators and psychological comfort of patients in the patients’ rooms with the possibility of providing a supportive environment for psychological comfort through these indicators. The findings revealed the patients’ satisfaction with the items that support the psychological comfort in the selected hospitals in general and the newly built especially. Also, the findings showed a negative correlation between some demographic characteristics of the patients (age, educational attainment, and duration of stay) and psychological comfort in the patients’ rooms in public hospitals.