LOCAL ARCHITECTURAL FREEFORM: BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE

The formation of the building is the first thing that the viewers receives and draws his attention for the purpose of exploring the identity of this building because of the questions that this formation raises in the mind of the viewer. These architectural formations came as a result of different environmental conditions, including natural, economic, and social, especially technological, and the architectural formation must address the present and the future, especially The future is a call to change the existing situation and develop for the latest. The future is the field of achieving goals and objectives, and the past is the field of experiences. The modern era, and by extension the future, is characterized by dynamism, movement, and rapid transformation, as well as mutual enrichment between technologies and sciences, the most important of which is the field of architectural sciences, especially architectural formation, which has produced for society Architecture with free sculptural forms and compositions is spreading in many international national projects at an accelerating rate that is not equal to the local rate in this field. It was necessary to conduct this research study entitled “Free Architectural Formation at the Local Level between Theory and Practice,” which aims to Studying the concept of development in general and the concept of free architectural formation, the motives that led to the emergence of this trend globally, the extent of the need for it locally, and how to deal with this trend at the level of design and implementation, in a serious attempt to answer the following question: - What are the material reasons for the limited spread of architectural formation? Freedom at the local level, and will this concept remain a theoretical study or will it move to the stage of application on the ground in keeping with the global development occurring in this field, to achieve a higher goal, which is an attempt to raise the level of contemporary Egyptian architecture, especially at the level of architectural formation, from the current state of stagnation, as the research aims To determine the local position compared to the international level, as an attempt to codify the situation and find out the reasons for the limited interaction with this trend and study the obstacles and challenges that limit the spread of this trend locally, and thus develop a mechanism to try to overcome these obstacles, through a scientific methodology that follows the inductive approach of previous literature in this field. The experimental approach is based on conducting a questionnaire study targeting a sample of academics, architectural designers, and specialists in the field of building and construction as part of the study sample, to determine the proportions of the study elements, then the results are drawn and a number of recommendations are made that serve the research community and civil society in the future.
 
Special Issue of AEIC 2024 (Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design Session)