NOVELTY ARCHITECTURE AND MATHEMATICS IN AN IRANIAN MOSQUE
تاريخ الاضافة
08/07/2022
نوع المحتوى
Documentary
Category
Researches
الرابط للمحتوى
Subject Area
Mosques
الكاتب
Sara Behnamian
Saman Behnamian
Fatemeh Fogh
Firooz Pashaei
Malihe Mahin Saran
الناشر
Journal of Islamic Architecture
Year of Publication
2020
الوصف
Islamic architecture, particularly mosques architecture, has mainly been the focus of many architectural exhibitions in Muslim-majority countries. Recently, it has been influenced by novelty architecture and has been evolved into elaborate structures. Quds mosque in Tehran, Iran, is a picturesque architecture feat of a modern outlook that came under a lot of criticism for abandoning the traditional symbols of Islamic architecture. This study observes the Quds mosque from a mathematical standpoint using fractals as the method. Fractals are geometric constructions that exhibit similar or identical characteristics by order of magnitude. Rescaling a prominent architectural pattern is also a noticeable subject that considers Quds mosque from this point of view. This study shows that the Quds mosque used fractal principles; self-similarity and congruency. Those are applied in the roof form by using a triangle form on each side.