THE PROBLEM OF ARCHITECTURE & URBAN IDENTITY OF CAMPUS BUILDINGS IN NEW COMMUNITIES

Document Type : Research Paper

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Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Mataria, Helwan University

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New University Campus buildings, new urban communities is the center of cultural and civilizational radiation because of their scientific value, symbolic and factor interact with the identity and character of the place . It has become suffering from lack of respect for the identity of a local architectural, urban and cultural heritage of the place as a result of an extensive and varied intellectual, which occurred as the product of the stage of modernism and different orientations and self-views, both architects or owners of the universities and foreign institutes in a case dealing with the architectural identity. This study discusses the correlation between the urban and architectural identity of the campus buildings and space ,studying the different experiences, which has respected the identity and character of the place , Through the study and analysis of some examples in the local reality and the new urban communities in order to take advantage of the serious examples which respects the importance of architectural identity and the cultural heritage of the place , especially of university buildings when building in a society with a characteristic cultural, heritage and unique identity .

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JES. Journal of Engineering Sciences
Volume 40, No 3
May and June 2012
Pages 923-941

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