biological values of aesthetical and geometrical elements in heritage buildings Monitoring the concept of sacred architecture and its biological effects

Awad, Islam

doi:10.21608/mjaf.2019.11619.1095

biological values of aesthetical and geometrical elements in heritage buildings Monitoring the concept of sacred architecture and its biological effects

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Islam Awad

Architectural dept. H.I.E.T. Kafr elsheikh. Egypt

10.21608/mjaf.2019.11619.1095

Abstract

Over the ages, man handled the building as a living thing that affect users and affected by them, thus choosing the location of the building was never easy, it was a sacred mission only given to a selected few who were considered sacred priests for the ancient Egyptians, then conveyed to Greeks and Ptolemais.
The hypothesis that the architectural space has an impact on the vital activities of the inhabitants is not new to architect, there are several studies that analyzed the great pyramid that speculate that the pyramid as a building has various effects over everything inside.
Thus, this research is adopting the hypothesis that the aesthetical and geometrical elements of the architectural space affect the biological functions of the users. Especially with the growing number of researches varied between proving the effects of the basic geometrical figures on the vital activities to the psychological effects on the inhabitants.
The importance of this research stems from its perspective as it studies the impact of the structure of the architectural void on the biological functions of the users. As we can benefit from it by applying the ratios and figures that have a biological effect on the spatial formations of the various designs in order to raise the efficiency of the functions of architectural spaces in the organizational, educational and therapeutic buildings and that to reach the best performance from employees and students and better therapeutic efficiency for patients.
This research aiming to bind the energetic sciences with the modern quantitative sciences on the one hand and with the architects on the other hand, through finding the common factor between them, by analyzing the sources of specific energy in some of the ancient architectural figures, and study it's source, then test all that in a scientific experimental method to rationalize those phenomenon.

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