A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
This chapter discusses how a detailed understanding of a given cultural setting that involves languages, customs, memory of place, and lifestyles is a prerequisite for conscious design. A newly designed spatial environment can be either a trigger to enhance a cultural experience or a means to expunge it. The relationship between cultural practices and contemporary architecture, which has conventionally been perceived as conflicting, ought to be explored as a key catalyst for sustainable architecture and urban‐ism. The historical urban and natural landscape gives a sense of community representation that maintains an interactive dimension for currently fragmented architectural and urban space. The key value of cultural resilience in architecture and urban‐ism is the focus on the momentum of community participation through activating its dormant memories and refreshing its living ones through a new holistic design. The key issue in the act of designing with cultural cues in the Middle East is how far the planned is taking over the spontaneous and vice versa. The planned signifies modern projects where there is always an established functional program offered by clear terms of reference in order to design an edifice with a specific function. The representation and expression of cultural and contextual meaning is of utmost importance in order to understand an existing setting and cultivate a new one. It is about the images in the collective memory that provide signals of communal expressions of how a form is connoted.
This chapter discusses how a detailed understanding of a given cultural setting that involves languages, customs, memory of place, and lifestyles is a prerequisite for conscious design. A newly designed spatial environment can be either a trigger to enhance a cultural experience or a means to expunge it. The relationship between cultural practices and contemporary architecture, which has conventionally been perceived as conflicting, ought to be explored as a key catalyst for sustainable architecture and urban‐ism. The historical urban and natural landscape gives a sense of community representation that maintains an interactive dimension for currently fragmented architectural and urban space. The key value of cultural resilience in architecture and urban‐ism is the focus on the momentum of community participation through activating its dormant memories and refreshing its living ones through a new holistic design. The key issue in the act of designing with cultural cues in the Middle East is how far the planned is taking over the spontaneous and vice versa. The planned signifies modern projects where there is always an established functional program offered by clear terms of reference in order to design an edifice with a specific function. The representation and expression of cultural and contextual meaning is of utmost importance in order to understand an existing setting and cultivate a new one. It is about the images in the collective memory that provide signals of communal expressions of how a form is connoted.
Cultural and Contextual Meaning
Radoine, Hassan (author)
Architecture in Context ; 165-198
2017-04-18
34 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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