The meanings of sacred geometry symbols throughout ancient times in architecture and interior design and an analysis of their principles

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1 Assistant lecturer in the Decoration Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, Nahda University, Bani-swef

2 Professor of Interior Design Theories - Department of Interior Design and Furniture - Faculty of Applied Arts - Helwan University

3 Faculty of Applied Arts - HeProfessor of Environmental Design, Department of Interior Design and Furniture, Faculty of Applied Arts - Helwan Universitylwan University

Abstract

Sacred architecture is a type of architecture that is linked in its standards to universal standards in proportion or measurement. Dimensions, proportions, and special formation are the most important thing that distinguishes sacred architecture, and it is a common symbolic language between different civilizations.

It was natural for these different civilizations to incorporate the numbers, geometric shapes, and ratios that they reached in the journey of searching for the calendar and the astronomical cycles into their sacred architecture. This golden ratio in the shapes, lengths, and divisions makes it beautiful in the eyes of people and in the eyes of artists. It is the most beautiful in organizing and arranging the parts of the artwork, which is always subject to mathematical proportions, and the golden ratio exists in nature to govern the pattern of growth and formation, and was used in the proportions of Egyptian and Greek temples.

We find in ancient places of worship organized energy, which was originally built on the places where this type of energy was emitted from the earth. Ancient civilizations were aware of the existence of these energies, and had methods for measuring them and tracking their paths. Thus benefiting from it, and from the property of balance that exists wherever it is found.

Ancient Egyptian architecture was familiar with energy sciences. The building is placed above the powerful natural energy points on the ground, and through the studies conducted it was found that the choice of the locations of the temples was not random but was done wisely. The Luxor Temple and the Dendera Temple realize the concept of energy, and the most famous example of this is the Great Pyramid building. In terms of its location on land and its astronomical directions for celestial bodies, as well as the relationship of its height to the dimensions of the Earth and its relationship to the sun.

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