ARCHITECTURAL من اصل2 2
FORMS + VE AND – VE
protected open valley “Petra” to hide it from Roman enemy he built
negatively in both forces of wall boundaries. He curved livable spaces with
negative facades with the same language of a positive façade. All negative
features were curved out from positive façade. Negative spaces project
forward as in negative cave
These negative and +ve forces were projected by Nabatian invaders by
defending natives on top of very high and narrow opening in top of
opposite cliffs narrow enough to hardly being crossed by a single horse. In
these narrow valley and opened piazzas.
The positive facades of the Nile Mountains in Beni Hassan were pierced by
caves and left over columns to carry roofs of cut outs tombs. These were
left as negative spaces where no buildings tombs showed up as in Northern
Giza artificial mountains.
The same negative spaces were cut outs in Luxor valleys of kings and
queens and in Abu Simple temple. The last one was cut out as an
astronomical miracle with precise geometry of sun rays to penetrate all
through to lighten “coad” face.