Contemporary architecture has failed to engage the rich culture of planar and spatial
transformations of historical Muslim architecture, often relegating it to a form of naive pastiche
or, at best, to the realm of historical reconstruction. In this project we make use of current digital
technologies in an attempt to revisit and reinterpret, in modern terms, the geometric structure of
patterns embedded in the historic Islamic architecture of Iran. The original contribution of this
project lies in extending traditional two dimensional tiling patterns into a dynamic three
dimensional state with the help of computational tools. The analogy to the classical Persian
carpet as well as mobile character of design can also be seen as original. The notion of
‘transparency’ and ‘dynamism’ are interpreted using Autodesk’s Maya and Bentley’s Generative
Components software. This report illustrates initial explorations and outlines future possibilities.
In the past architects of the country were responsible for making the enclosure heaven-like
while it was carpet weavers’ job to make the floor heaven-like. In this project as a symbolic
approach, carpet and weaving becomes both the enclosure and the floor to define both floor
and roof and symbolize the new approach through which we as architects use other disciplines
and new tools such as new software to learn and shape the space and discover new vocabulary
for a contemporary and local architecture for Iran.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU./4163 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Jamali Firouzabadi, Farshad |
| Publisher | University of British Columbia |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | 4342084 bytes, application/pdf |
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