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Digital Girih, a Digital Interpretation of Islamic Architecture

2012; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 10; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1260/1478-0771.10.1.1

2048-3988

Gernot Riether, Daniel Baerlecken,

Architecture and Art History Studies

The relation between texture, pattern and massing is a fundamental question in architecture. Classical architecture, as Leon Battista Alberti states in De Re Aedificatoria, Book VI, Chapter 2, is developed through massing and structure first; texture is added afterwards to give the bold massing and structure beauty [1]. This hierarchy has of course been challenged throughout architecture history. This paper will provide a different thinking of the relationship of massing and texture in Islamic Architecture from a digital point of view. An analysis of Islamic patterns challenged this relationship in Islamic architecture. Digital design and fabrication methods for a series of studies and an installation were used to respond to the findings of the analysis.