ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE RENOVATION AND PRESERVATION OF IDENTITY

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Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport, Egypt

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With a closer look at what the architectural activity is witnessing in the years of the beginning of the twenty-first century, we will notice many international architectural models and works that simulate and conform to the standards of creative architectural work, in terms of formation and space, and ideas of respect for culture and the local architectural heritage, and this is what calls us to shed light on the reciprocal relationship between values Heritage architecture and contemporary global architecture directives, where movements and trends appeared in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century calling for the application of concepts and trends of postmodern architecture, given that the architectural work must combine between the originality and the contemporary in terms of architectural formation, to restore architecture after The human and its cultural and historical identity, which calls for us to analyze the importance of the architectural cultural heritage and determine the set of local heritage architectural values, which can produce an architectural innovation that keeps pace with the spirit of the times with a template of heritage values that guarantees the continuation of the civilized identity, just as the Creator taught us that every creative production has a set of influences and factors, It contributed to bringing it out in its creative form, so it was necessary to determine the shape of these influences on architecture In the twenty-first century, given that originality and contemporary can move in one parallel direction, and each affects the other, as the study focused on defining a set of material and intangible influences stemming from the heritage architectural values, and the tributaries of creating these values to produce an architectural innovation Contemporary, and with the agreement of scholars, critics, and thinkers throughout human history, to consider nature as the main and inspiring tributary of creative thought in all aspects of life, thus being the sources of creativity in all ages one with the addition of elements of human experience, and special conditions related to the life of people, their activity and contemporary thought. Circumstances in the spirit of the times.

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