The Impact of Harmony Between Organic and Parametric Design on Interior Architecture (An Application to the Arboretum of Toson Building, Faculty of Fine Arts in Alexandria)

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Decor Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

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Toson Palace, affiliated with the Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University, witnessed vital developments throughout history at all historical, cultural, social and educational levels that affected the nature of the building and witnessed attempts to preserve it and exploit its parts in a way that suits the functional structure and the nature of the educational process sought by Decor Department. The aesthetic and utilitarian areas of the Palace were numerous. Tosun Pasha, which is immersed in the folds of history and the scent of its events over time, and attempts have continued to integrate them for the benefit of the educational process and applied artistic practices of a creative nature specific to Faculty of Fine Arts. The faculty arboretum in Tosun Pasha Palace building is considered one of the main imprints of the building with its special character, unique in its antiquity, as it contains the bounties of nature that have become a mark. Distinctive and unique.

This research presents a development proposal for the arboretum area of Faculty of Fine Arts in Toson Building as a multi-purpose space to benefit from it at all educational, social, cultural and environmental levels, reflecting the functional and aesthetic nature of faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Decoration, and making it a distinguished forum for its users, including faculty members, students, workers, and visitors, to support the educational system to suit The origins of the faculty, through the harmony of applications of organic and parametric interior architecture to promote a sustainable environmental design that achieves the principles of environmental preservation in light of the integration between beauty and function through the formative capabilities that organic architecture contains to deal with the distinctive creative thought reflected in the nature of Faculty of Fine Arts while integrating it with technological capabilities. And the intelligence resulting from the parametric application and its smooth, flowing lines that are characterized by flexibility and flow to achieve standards of beauty and function in solidarity with the principles of sustainability, including advanced environmentally friendly materials, a design that is harmonious with what surrounds it, and modern technological applications that suit the nature of the arboretum while preserving the natural heritage of the distinctive ancient plants in the arboretum space.

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