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This globalisation of architecture, which is now parallel to the intense globalisation of trade and economy, is cause for serious concern for at least two reasons. It reduces the diversity of urban spaces in the world, and it also encourages careless use of renewable energy.

The sensible view is to educate young architects in responding to local climatic needs in building design, much as other design needs. All previous studies and research condense on the Islamic ornament itself by focusing on the style, type, lineage and color as a traditional art that belongs to the Islamic society long time ago. Does Islamic Ornamentation belong to the past or it can be our day time creation? This study aims to focus on the possibility of creating Islamic ornaments with new different elements that reflect the ideology of Islam.

Research hypothesis Ho. Research methodology and analysis This research includes analytical descriptive study in the Islamic ornaments through place, time and the different expressions in results affiliate. Vision and philosophy of this study will be substantive analytical in the approach within the limits of the research problem on one hand, and based on assumptions derived from objectives, on the other hand.

This led to conduct the study in four levels as follow: - Ideology of Islam and its effect on Islamic ornamentation - Traditional elements of Islamic ornaments - New vision of ornament elements. Ideology of Islam and art: The most important principle in ideology of Islam depends on the fixed and variable Fig.

The fixed indicate to the main principles of Islam that could not be changed in place and time including the oneness of God, while the variable depends on human vision in different places through time. Fixed principles Islamic ornament Variable effects according to era Fig 1: The effect of Ideology of Islam on Ornamentation Islamic societies have been conceptualized almost completely in terms of the determinative role of religion.

Only under Islam, its Orientalist version, does religion appear as an organizing force, shaping all aspects of society Haideh, The causal relation between the Islamic revelation and Islamic art, moreover, is borne out by the organic rapport between this art and Islamic worship, Between the contemplation of God as recommended in the Quran and the contemplative nature of this art, between the remembrance of God which is the final goal of all Islamic worship, and the role played by Islamic art in the life of individual Muslims and the community as a whole.

This art could not be perform such a spiritual function if it were not related in the most intimate manner to both the form and content of the Islamic revelation Hossein, The connection between art and spiritual methods is more firmly established and clear since the beginning of Islam.

In the Islamic cities which throughout the ages have produced most of the objects of Islamic art. Islam was able to create an ambience that was Islamic in both form and content.

One in which the religious and spiritual principles were imprinted upon the matter that surrounds man in his daily life and has such a profound effect upon the attitude of his mind and soul. Fixed Islamic effects on ornament 5. Just as all genuine Islamic art, whether it's in Alhambra or Paris Mosque provides the plastic forms through which one can contemplate the divine Fig.

Unity manifests itself in multiplicity. All the sciences that can properly be called Islamic reveal the unity of nature. One might say that the aim of all the Islamic sciences and, more generally speaking, of all the medieval and ancient cosmological sciences is to show the unity and interrelatedness of all that exists, so that, in contemplating the unity of the cosmos, man may be led to the unity of the divine principle, of which the unity of nature is the image Hossein.

Striking the plane of visual imagination, these flashes congeal into crystalline forms, and it is these forms in their Fig. It is a most striking symbol of that contemplative state of mind which conceives "unity in multiplicity and multiplicity in unity" Burckhardt, 5. It is an indefinite existence without a start or a finish Baer, Islamic ornament is an arrangement in line with the principle of eternity in decoration can be seen Fig.

The stars and hexagon was decorated with vegetal motifs which were placed as if they are continuing in four directions from the center: upwards, downwards, to the right and to the left. The following example clearly represents this ornament style, which is the foundation of the eternity principle and gives the impression that the starting and ending points are not known Fig.

The goal of making such a change is not to distort objects and depart from the truth but to apply a different interpretation Fig. Islam opposes the production of art works and architectural designs that depict figures of animals or human beings.

According to Islam, all living creatures with the ability of locomotion fall in the Fig. Unity itself alone deserves representation; since it is not to be represented directly, however, it can only be symbolized and at that, only by hints.

There is no concrete symbol to stand for unity, however; its true expression is negation, not this, not that. It remains abstract from the point of view of man, who lives in multiplicity Hossein. So, Islam rejects portraiture for the theological reasons.

Islamic architects pegged their creativity on evoking their inner beliefs through the use of abstract forms that produced magnificent works of art.

They progressively developed alternate architectural styles that used Islamic art to create unique works Ghasemzadeh, As circles decorate the work of art with a rhythmical repetition, different arrangements formed at the connection points also create motifs with more circles and polygons Etikan, Islamic art concentration on geometric patterns draws attention away from the representational world to one of pure forms.

Poised Fig. The starting point of Islamic art was in the purity of essential relationships which lie beneath the visual surface of our world. The significance from the Islamic standpoint is that, in the effort to trace origins in creation, the direction is not backwards but inwards.

Whereas the experienced world, the world of manifestation, is of necessity in the three dimensions of space, the paradisiac world, or world of motivating intelligences, exists only two dimensionally, the principle being that as archetypes are released from the limitations of existentiality so also is their confinement within the dimensions.

In other words, as the intuitive mind, or the soul, of an individual seeks sources and reasons for its existence it is led inward and away from the three dimensional world towards fewer and more comprehensive ideas and principles. Critchlow, 5. Symmetrical arrangements were mostly used in architecture Fig. They were often considered in the plans and decorations of buildings. In the works of art in which geometric Fig 6: Symmetry in architecture of Al-Mustansiriya school, Iraq motifs were used, symmetrical decoration is noticeable at a first glance.

At the balcony ornaments of the Alhambra Palace, this principle is evident Fig. In this decoration, which involves the use of floral motifs, geometric shapes and written script together, if the particular section of the structure were vertically divided into two pieces from the middle, the ornament on each piece would be similar Etikan, Traditional elements of Islamic ornaments The Islamic interest in evermore complex and varied ornament eventually led to the development of several remarkable traditions of multiple-level design.

This form of ornament augments a bold primary motif by incorporating smaller scale secondary elements into the background areas. The antecedents for this type of Islamic design can be traced back to the ninth century.

While these early geometric examples are rare, in time the Islamic fascination with multiple-level ornament found wide favor within each of the three principle modes of Islamic artistic expression: floral design, calligraphy, and geometric pattern.

The tradition of multiple-level floral designs reached maturity during the fourteenth century Bonner, They also add an aesthetic value to the structure Vernoit, Geometrical pattern and symmetry, which comprise the main visible body of Islamic art, lead naturally to abstract notions of pattern symmetry. These are the two most profound and wide ranging notions that the human brain can conceive.

The potential of Islamic art for offering such experience arises from the fact that it relies primarily on geometry and on explorations of pattern and symmetry. The dominion of geometry, as the wisest through the ages have proclaimed, is supreme. The harmony of the Universe can only truly be experienced in the purest perfections of geometrical form Abas, Islamic geometric patterns developed along two separate historic paths: that of the eastern regions of Persia, Khurasan, and Transoxiana, and that of the western Fig.

Click here to sign up. Download Free PDF. The elements of architecture: Principles of environmental performance in buildings Australian Planner, Scott Drake. A short summary of this paper. The elements of architecture: Principles of environmental performance in buildings. This is perhaps not surprising given the alarming predictions and forecasts for cities, the ecology and life in general.

He says p. This history telling is also important because the book is aimed at a relatively uninformed audience, presumably first-year undergraduate students, who have little or no understanding of the fundamentals of geography.

The result is an easy to read, easy to understand book that a more informed reader may find somewhat benign; with claims like p. To explain the principles of environmental performance in buildings primarily residential buildings the book is divided into eight chapters loosely representing the four elements earth, air, water, fire.

Each chapter is broken down into short subsections, an appropriate structure for the target audience undergraduate students as it aids ease of reading and comprehension. The first four chapters Sun, Heat, Light and Sound are the most substantial of the eight. Chapter one outlines how and why the earth revolves around the sun and the effects this has: sun paths polar, tropical and temperate and climatic zones.

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