Golden Ratio in The Subdivisions of Islamic Wood Lathe of Architecture Facades

Mashoor, Amany; Faisal, Aya

doi:10.12816/0038023

Golden Ratio in The Subdivisions of Islamic Wood Lathe of Architecture Facades

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Amany Mashoor ¹
Aya Faisal ²

¹ Assistant professor & Department of Interior design and furniture, Faculty of Applied Arts, Damietta University, Egypt

² Researcher, Department of Interior design and furniture, Faculty of Applied Arts, Damietta University, Egypt

10.12816/0038023

Abstract

Our Islamic heritage is full of many aesthetic values whether in architectural elements or interior design works. The mashrabiya and the window are considered architectural elements that were used in architectural openings in Islamic age, and they had a major impact on interior spaces design . They were used to link between inside and outside with a special character which achieved the wanted function of mitigation lighting power that enterd into house

and letting air penetrate through them to ventilate interior spaces with maintaining interior privacy to occupants of the space . It is observed that the mashrabiya and the window had good harmonic proportions which gave them regularity and rhythm where the Muslim designer excelled in determination their proportions , dimensions and division of their parts . the search problem is concentrated in lack of interest of aesthetic proportions inspired by the Islamic architecture elements in contemporary interior design and furniture works because of many reasons such as narrow interior spaces , the cutout of link between the present and the past and the dependence of the Islamic art on geometry and mathematics that the contemporary designer see difficult to quote or inspire by . The search assumes that the golden ratio was found somehow in the internal divisions of the Islamic mashrabiya and window, and this assumption is largely based on the proportions of rectangles used in the distribution of works of wood lathe in them and some of these rectangles applied to what is known as the golden rectangle . So, this study aims to analyse the aesthetic values of models of mashrabiya and window used in architecture facades through doing analytical study of some models of the mashrabiya and the window located in one of the Islamic heritage houses in Egypt and the analysis of the proportions and dimensions used in their design especially to know the presence of the golden ratio in devisions of their parts because of its aesthetic value which made it used throughout the ages because it is found in nature Clearly and significantly - and finding out the extent of the contribution of this ratio in consolidation of the aesthetic values in the vocabulary of architecture and interior design of that era .

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