id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
essd-17	Bougdah, Hocine	The Courtyard House: Can a Sustainable Future Learn from a Context Relevant Past	2016	13	.pdf	application/pdf	4863	249	52	A typical courtyard in the Cordoba historic quarter Having discussed the socio-cultural relevance of the courtyard house in the previous section, the second aspect of its multi-determinant context, which is the climate, is discussed through a study into the environmental performance (internal temperatures) of a typical example of traditional courtyard house in Boussaada, Algeria (35◦20’N, 4◦12’E, 459 m above sea level). While courtyard houses exist in most parts of the Arab/Islamic world, they evolved in different ways “as influenced by existing local traditions, construction materials and environmental factors” (Sibley, 2006).	cache/essd-17.pdf	txt/essd-17.txt