Architectural Energy   1من اصل2

PROF. DR. ALY RAAFAT
Professor and Previous Head of the Department of Architecture Cairo
University
Architecture Nile Award- winner
Energy is the power to influence people and things. Falling water, solar and
wind power produce clean electrical energy.
are from burning fossils creates the same with harmful gaseous products
that produce what we are suffering from high temperature, floods and
disturbing weather changes. Electricity as energy influences all aspects of
our life, for our comfort it regulates temperature, humidity, ventilation, air
conditioning for efficiency on work it creates telecommunications,
transport, electronics, industry and for our safety we use electric automatic
alarms. In spite of its harmful effects it has the control on its excessive
consumption by the use of computer programs.
It is apparent that human energy produces infinitesimal power compared to
electric one .It can raise a bucket of water from a well or throw an arrow
hitting an aggressive animal.
Human efforts whether physical or rational have inert energy that
influences human communication.
In speech it can move an army to fight. One singer has the artistic energy to
move large crowds to sing and even get up and dance single or doubles or
in organized circular groups. As an artist he will move with his artistic
energy, laid on a sheet of canvas, people to travel and spend hours touring
the Louvre, Hermitage or any Rugen Heim museum to receive energy out
of such artistic tours.
The same with energy received by visitors to historic architectural
monuments in Luxor, Paris or London. These places are full of historic
expressive architectural monuments. Their creators didn’t spare any effort
to charge it with expressive and creative architectural forms, space sand
surfaces.