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International Conference | Bari - Lecce, Italy Session X-XI PASSIVE DESIGN APPROACH FOR HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS: FROM COURTYARDS TO SKYCOURTS Saba Alnusairat 1, 2 & Heba Elsharkawy1 1 Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, United Kingdom, [email protected] 2 Department of Architecture, Al-ahliyya Amman University, Jordan, [email protected] 1 Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, United Kingdom, [email protected] Abstract Developing sustainable design approaches is becoming necessary worldwide especially with the notion of high-rise buildings to meet the rapid growth of cities. Passive design strategies could be considered as potential tools to achieve the environmental, social and economic requirements of