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Achieving urban sustainability by revitalizing the performance of Islamic geometric pattern on residential façades
Cultural awareness is becoming increasingly important in an effort to reinvigorate local urban heritage into modern production. Considering that, one of the most significant aspects of sustainability is preserving socio-cultural and environmental specificities and restoring local heritage. The aim is influencing the local identity by promoting sustainability through the revival of Islamic geometric patterns (IGP) and their performance as effective components in local urban facades. A set of indicators related to the purposes for reusing IGP in facades within three main performances (decorative, structural, and functional). Their sustainability was studied and extrapolated, and a checklist has developed and tested by Likert scale on fifty residential facades in Baghdad's districts. The findings demonstrated the feasibility of measuring urban sustainability by evaluating the effectiveness of Islamic geometric patterns on residential facades. Furthermore, it has clearly achieved in the decorative performance of the IGP. It has also attained functional performance on the Socio-Cultural side, with a weakness in its environmental performance. In contrast, the checklist revealed a flaw in its structural performance
Parameterized Shape Grammar for n-fold Generating Islamic Geometric Motifs
NoThe complex formation of Islamic geometric
Patterns (IGP) is one of the distinctive features in Islamic art and
architecture. Many have attempted to reproduce these patterns
in digital form, using various pattern generation techniques.
Shape grammars are an effective pattern generation method,
providing good aesthetic results. In this paper we present a novel
approach in generating 3D IGP using an extended shape
grammar: Parametrized Shape Grammar (PSG). PSG allows a
user to generate both original and novel forms of Islamic
geometric motifs (a repeated unit of a pattern). PSG is
generalized to generate n-fold Islamic geometric motifs in a 3D
environment, practically implemented as a 3D modeling tool
within Autodesk Maya. The parametrization within each
grammar rule is the key to generating numerous original and
novel Islamic geometric motifs