Geometrical Forming of the Interior Architecture for the Islamic House and its Relation with the Environmental Functional Parameters.

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1 Teacher Assistant at Interior Design and Furniture department - Faculty of Applied Arts - Helwan University

2 Professor of Furniture Design, Department of Interior Design and Furniture, Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University.

3 Lecturer, Department of Interior Design and Furniture - Faculty of Applied Arts - Helwan University

Abstract

Geometrical forming basics for designing residential Islamic interior spaces are deemed one of the most important environmental functional parameters that is a field of study in many kinds of research, the environmental functional parameters help us to solve existing problems to attain human comfort inside the house. The Geometrical forming provides the designer with the tools that he can use to achieve the environmental functional target through design parameters to reach the psychological and physical balance for human comfort in the space depending on natural resources in the house design without any artificial resources.

All the house elements and spaces are planned to serve the functional target like the courtyard (the center of design), it is designed from the outside to the inside of the house and oriented according to its location and its shape (square or rectangle) and dimensions (L, W, H) are designed to specific ratios, also windows overlooking the courtyard, backyard or the main street is designed to be protruded from the walls to serve the functional parameters, also the geometrical forming emerges in the design of the house elements like Mushrabiya, Shukshieka, Malqaf and arches that proportion is proportioned with the space ratio; from here the effect of geometrical forming in Islamic house design is revealed and reflects the designer creative level in the scope of unchanged environmental functional design parameters; So the study of the form and design of the house and its elements in the Islamic ages enable the architectural to comprehend

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