The methodology of design by geometric code in traditional architecture

Abstract EN

The role of geometric code as a design generator in architecture design throughout history had
not demonstrated in any specialized study.

The most concern for this research understands how
some historical buildings may have been designed in the first place by the aid of geometry.

The
research started a process of geometric decoding for these buildings beginning with
understanding the geometric methodology of design which were used.

Geometrical analyses of
various designs of historical buildings from Greek, Roman and Islamic architecture, are
presented to illustrate how design idea and the building design have been derived geometrically
by depending on the geometric code, which remain the backbone of the process of “designing”
of all buildings, and it played the role of design generator which control all the design process.

The outcome of research analysis were listed in a set of observations which show a certain
relationship between building design and geometry, arising from the use of geometric code as the
core of the process of architecture design, not only in these selected buildings but generally in
the architecture of the different historical periods.