ARCHITECTURAL 1من اصل2

FORMS + VE AND – VE
Prof. Dr. Aly   Raafat
Professor and previous head of department of architecture, Cairo
University
Architecture Nile Award winner
Form is the final result of architecture creativity in nature form is already
up high in hard rock Mountains with sharp edges, it is found in smooth
curves and even – changing sandy hills. Prehistoric man chooses to be a
cave dweller inside a mountain that protects him from aggressive weather
and animals.
He discovered negative spaces caves as long as a whole continent in which
streams of water keeps dropping forming frozen stalactites and nourishes
on green stalagmites . He didn’t neglect his self-expression by drawing on a
cave walls celebrating stories of his tribal and personal victories. He went
as day of hundred meters through caves in Turkish mountains. He
continued on working on negative from +ve & – ve even after ventures with
built up +ve forms with their rules of gravity filed up walls and actuated
construction, moldings one after the other in decorative rows of well
studied lines of shades after .shades and shadows of dentals, cyma recta
and reverse.
We arranged with rows of shadows through one on top of the other a well-