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The Relation between Urban Space and Society

Sally Essawy, Salma Ayman, Nariman Fahmy

Abstract


The only tool for any architect is the space. Any order of this space and the relation between them together speaks about a society. This order can tell us more about the implementations that analyzes the relationship between space and society and to understand whether the culture with its religious, political, economic believes and ideology affect the architecture or not? Thus, to be able to understand this connection, this paper is going to go deeper in the Mamluk society to know whether their architecture was just a building or whether it’s a resultant of the surrounding culture and behavior. In addition, this paper will describe the relation between the mausoleum and the madrassa and how the four iwans and the shape of the mausoleum was to protect the legacy of the sultan according to their believes. Moreover, this paper will study the alignment of the forms and whether they respected the orientation of the qibla or not and will discuss the urban awareness and the facades or elevation relation with the street, the street adjustment and positioning, the literary sources and documents of the Mamluk architecture. Then this paper will end up by a very important case study which is Al Darb Al-Ahmar and will see the procession of the mamluks and their dominance to the urban space and awareness. All in all we can say that Mamluk architecture is a very vivid example to see and observe whether the surrounding can affect the architecture or not according to the believes and ideology of a society.

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