PROF, DR, ALY RAAFAT

Professor and Previous Head of the Department of Architecture – Cairo University Architecture
Nile Award-winner Gmail: Prof@alyraafat.com  
sit: e www.alyraafat.com
It is required that human being approach productivity with environmental context in its different
medias. He got nearer to this context by borrowing some of natural features. This is achieved
architecturally formally by analogy with environ mental features around. Large development in
computer made realization of such analogy by architecture imagination much easier. Such analogy
freed architecture forms from the straight lines and right angles. The permanent features in
mechanical analogy are formal contrast and unpopular with environmentalists.
They constitute free global forms and other shapes expressing developing dynamics of expanding
disturbing universe, brought disturbances and less comfort and comes to bizarre, something that
cannot be accepted in all cases. These devel oped on the base of complexity theory that announce
the end of contemporary abstract basic geometrical époque of archi tecture formation. This
analogical movement covered ecological, biological flora and fauna. All of these are executed in
symbolic way suggesting the origin but leaving something for the viewer to find and feel intuitively.
This experience is pending in its effect on how far and deep symbolically the product is from the
origin and what effect does this analogy had on the basic content of architecture.