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JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE, VOL. 67, NO. 1, FEB. 2020, PP. 55-77 FACULTY OF ENGINEERING, CAIRO UNIVERSITY PATTERN LANGUAGE AS A TOOL OF UNDERSTANDING TRADITIONAL NUBIAN VILLAGES WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO GARB SOHIL VILLAGE M. Y. SHEDID 1 ABSTRACT The urban spaces of any city are a process of social, cultural and natural aspects which interact with each other. These aspects of urban spaces are critical to producing social and cultural arrangements. Elements of urban form tend to mediate physically with its social, cultural and natural setting. This means that urban spaces can‟t be defined by its physical components but requires a deep understanding of its interaction of its social and cultural aspects and natural context. Urban design of old traditional communities is an expressive of shaping the urban space according to several personal and impersonal processes such as sociocultural aspects and natural context. The paper aims to analyze the urban spaces of the old Nubian communities through studying the interaction between the elements of old traditional Nubian village with its natural context and social and cultural dimensions and to link these elements with the fifteen fundamentals of pattern languages by Christopher Alexander to develop a prospected template, which include and analyses the various indicators and dimensions for old Nubian communities and its relation with the settlement of these communities and the fundamentals of pattern language. Then the paper will study how much these elements are in common with the natural context and social and cultural dimensions and with the fifteen fundamentals of pattern language. KEYWORDS: Old traditional communities, sociocultural dimensions, old Nubian communities, pattern language 1. INTRODUCTION Architecture is the reflection of the social and cultural life of the people, fulfilling physical and psychological needs. So, any design must provid a set of human needs and the sucess of any architectural product is related to the degree of satisfaction of its users‟ basic needs [1]. 1 Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering-Benha, Benha University [email protected]

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JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE, VOL. 67, NO. 1, FEB. 2020, PP. 55-77

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING, CAIRO UNIVERSITY

PATTERN LANGUAGE AS A TOOL OF UNDERSTANDING TRADITIONAL

NUBIAN VILLAGES WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO GARB SOHIL VILLAGE

M. Y. SHEDID1

ABSTRACT

The urban spaces of any city are a process of social, cultural and natural aspects

which interact with each other. These aspects of urban spaces are critical to producing

social and cultural arrangements. Elements of urban form tend to mediate physically

with its social, cultural and natural setting. This means that urban spaces can‟t be

defined by its physical components but requires a deep understanding of its interaction

of its social and cultural aspects and natural context. Urban design of old traditional

communities is an expressive of shaping the urban space according to several personal

and impersonal processes such as sociocultural aspects and natural context. The paper

aims to analyze the urban spaces of the old Nubian communities through studying the

interaction between the elements of old traditional Nubian village with its natural

context and social and cultural dimensions and to link these elements with the fifteen

fundamentals of pattern languages by Christopher Alexander to develop a prospected

template, which include and analyses the various indicators and dimensions for old

Nubian communities and its relation with the settlement of these communities and the

fundamentals of pattern language. Then the paper will study how much these elements

are in common with the natural context and social and cultural dimensions and with

the fifteen fundamentals of pattern language.

KEYWORDS: Old traditional communities, sociocultural dimensions, old Nubian

communities, pattern language

1. INTRODUCTION

Architecture is the reflection of the social and cultural life of the people,

fulfilling physical and psychological needs. So, any design must provid a set of human

needs and the sucess of any architectural product is related to the degree of satisfaction

of its users‟ basic needs [1].

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering-Benha, Benha University

[email protected]

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These social lives appear in urban spaces, which refer to how cities are

structured through its social relations and practice. As a result, studying urban spaces

are not through its components such as buildings, streets and open spaces and

interaction between them but also about the densities and distribution of the users and

the spatial relationship between social groups, natural context, social and cultural

aspects that shape them. The scales at which urban space can be considered include

the building, street and urban block. These levels of spatial disaggregation influence

how urban spaces are understood in terms of its various aspects [2].

A researcher identified urban elements according to its complex urban pattern

and form. These urban patterns can be grouped together conceptually to form a set of

different concepts. The urban spaces of traditional settlements are termed as a unique

urban form leading to an inclusive community. Each of these concepts has an

influence on the social and cultural dimensions and natural context of the traditional

settlements [3].

The paper attempts to study traditional communities such as Nubian

community, because - Nubians are residential architects - through multi-generations

knowledge practices and they succeeded to adapt to their environment and create

personal architectural features that are socially and culturally passive [4].

The point is that in designing people their environments they always rely on

certain languages that allow them to articulate and communicate an infinite variety of

designs within a formal system which gives them coherence.

From this perspective the Nubian community is a distinguished manifestation of

the reciprocal relationship between people and urban spaces; and the old Nubian urban

fabric is the resulting of cultural and social aspects.

So the aim of this paper is to analyze the relation between the old traditional

Nubian settlement and the natural context, social and cultural dimensions of the

Nubian community with the fifteen fundamentals of pattern language by Christopher

Alexander to develop a prospected template. The prospected template includes and

analyses the various indicators of natural context and cultural and social dimensions

for old Nubian communities and its relation with the fundamentals of pattern language.

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The research methodology is qualitative based on:

1- Data collection of the traditional Nubian community at the Nubian villages in

Aswan.

2- Observation and semi structure interviews (direct communication with local Nubian

communities in Cairo) with the Nubians in order to determine the prevalence of

each indicator of the natural, social and cultural dimensions to the settlement of the

old Nubian villages.

3- Link the relation between the different parts of the old traditional Nubian village

with the various indicators of the natural context, social and cultural dimensions of

the Nubian community and the relation between the Nubian village with the fifteen

fundamentals of pattern language by Christopher Alexander to achieve the

prevalence of these indicators as shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 1. Formation of the relation between Nubian community and settlement from the

perspective of Christopher Alexander.

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2. PATTERN LANGUAGES AND TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE

A pattern language by Christopher Alexander is renowned for providing

simple, conveniently formatted, humanist solutions to complex design problems

ranging in scale from urban planning through to interior design.

Alexander, C believes that the architecture of traditional societies is more

beautiful than contemporary architecture and he alleges that this disparity arises from

the use of radically different design processes. Traditional buildings are the product of

a communally-shared value system and piecemeal adaptation to changing

circumstances which brings all the „forces‟ impacting a design into a harmonious

balance. In contrast, contemporary architecture results from the imposition of formal

rules and abstract concepts upon a single design episode, creating an outcome where

the „forces‟ are unbalanced [5]. From this point of view, Christopher Alexander has

derived a set of fifteen properties that identify the character of living systems as shown

in Table 1 [4].

3. UNDERSTANDING TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE FROM A

SOCIOCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE

Traditional architecture is an architecture that addresses the basic needs of the

users. It depends and reflects the cultural “beliefs, opinions,” and social dimensions

that handed down from generation to another [6].

Rapaport in his book” House form and culture” emphasized the importance of

folk tradition in the built environment. He determined the factor in flouncing the built

form of traditional environments in materials, construction, sociocultural factors. The

sociocultural factor includes religion, beliefs, family, social organization and privacy

[7].

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Table 1. A list of the fifteen properties by Christopher Alexander [4].

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Table 1. A list of the fifteen properties by Christopher Alexander (cont.) [4].

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3.1 Aspects of Traditional Architecture

There are many aspects involved to understand traditional architecture, these

aspects can be classified into sociocultural aspects and the natural context.

The social aspect: a community is a social group of organisms sharing environment.

In human communities, intent, beliefs, resources, preference, needs and a number of

other conditions may be present and common affecting the identity of the

participation and their degree of cohesiveness.

The most important indicators of social dimension are: the family, groups and

organizations and social interaction [8].

The cultural aspect: according to various academics, scholars and practitioners

affiliated to different academic disciplines and professions, the cultural aspect is a

complex envelope environment which includes knowledge, belief, arts, morals,

laws, customs, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as member of

the society. It gives communities a sense of dignity, continuity, security that binds

society together [9-10].

As traditional cultures tend to compete, they must enjoy senses of place,

identity, evolution, ownership and finally, community. This is to emphasize that

cultural heritage is not only a production of traditional communities but also about of

distinctive places where such communities live within. This has always been evident

in the shift of habits, dialects, language, customs etc. of the very same traditional

community living in different places [11].

Natural Context: old traditional architecture is a container of social, cultural, and

historical layers of its context. Understanding of context is an inherent property of

architectural practice, although it has hardly become central to architectural theory

[22]. Prince Charles‟ suggested ten principles of urban design: respect to land,

architecture as language, attention to scale, achieving harmony through diversity,

well-designed enclosures, drawing on local building materials, reducing the use of

signs and lights, pedestrian-centered designs, achieving density, and flexibility .His

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ideas referred to an understanding of context as the consolidation of traditionally

built harmonious urban environments [20].

4. OLD TRADITIONAL NUBIAN COMMUNITY AND SETTELMETS

Old traditional communities and settlements are the result of lots of social and

cultural aspects and values. These unique and traditional architectural features were

the reason for creating new vocabulary of architecture in the time where lots of

technology and industrial building materials were developed. “Adaption” was the main

theory that Nubians follow through centuries, through building dwellings adapted with

the surrounding environment. Old Nubian villages were socially and culturally stable

[12-13].

From this point of view this part will discuss the different parts of the Nubian

villages and correlate them with the unique social and cultural dimensions of the

Nubian community.

4.1 Nubian Villages

Nubia is considered one of the great cultural regions, since ancient times. The

Nubian civilization flourished on its land a civilization that witnessed ancient Egyptian

civilization.

The land of ancient Nubia was bounded on the north by the first Cataract of the

Nile River and on the south by the sixth Cataract and Nubia is divided into two main

regions: Lower and Upper Nubia.

- Lower Nubia: Is the northern region extending 400km from the first Cataract at

Aswan to north of Wadi Halfa.

- Upper Nubia: Is south of Lower Nubia, extend along the Nile to the sixth Cataract

and Khartoum [14].

The Nubian villages had several unique characteristics, in terms of the

settlements' pattern and housing. The most important characteristics can be listed as

follows:

There were two types of settlement patterns in Old Nubia:

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The grid pattern that is usually found in the southern part of Nubia on flat lands

where dwellings were organized in rows parallel to the Nile.

The free pattern that was usually found in Northern Nubia where the settlements

stood mostly on hills leaving the flat lands for agriculture [15].

The biggest or most important local settlement “naga” in the village became the

seat of the mayor “omda”, school mosque and community house for meetings and

gatherings of the inhabitants. The small settlements were connected by bad sand roads

only in the southern part of Nubia, while in the north only by paths trod by pedestrians

as shown in Fig. 2 [15].

Wooden sail-boats “felukas” were solely used for transporting people and

goods. Since there were no shops in the settlements, local traders brought basic food

and various goods from Aswan to be sold directly from their boats.

Fig. 2. The different parts of the old traditional Nubian village between Nubian.

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4.2 The Relation between the Natural, Social and Cultural Dimensions for

Nubian Villages

In order to understand and analyze the Nubian villages from the sociocultural

perspective and their natural context the researcher will review literature and concepts

of theorists “Hassan Fathy and Amos Rapoport” and these theorists explained the

relation between traditional architecture and the cultural and social dimensions of such

communities and also its natural context when designing architecture for these

communities with specific natural, cultural and social patterns.

So this part the study will discuss the different part of the old traditional Nubian

villages “buildings, open spaces, streets and transportation” and its relationship with

the various indicators of the natural context, social and cultural dimensions as shown

in Table 2.

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Table 2. The relation between the different parts of the old traditional Nubian village

and the natural context, social and cultural aspects.

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Table 2. The relation between the different parts of the old traditional Nubian village

and the natural context, social and cultural aspects (cont.).

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5. STUDY AREA

The selection of the study area is selected based on the sociocultural and

traditional belief system of old traditional Nubian communities.

The village of Garb Soheil was selected as it is the only village that has not

been displaced and is still holding its unique identity and character.

5.1 Garb Soheil Village

Garb Soheil is located on the western bank of the Nile, approximately15 km to

the south of Aswan. The village was called Garb Soheil “West of Soheil in Arabic”

because of the island of Soheil opposite to it and it still retain the character and

identity.

The buildings extended along the Nile River at irregular intervals in a staggered

line parallel to the river following the topography of the village. Therefore, the

orientation of the entrances to the houses faced the river, whether they were on the

west banks of the Nile as shown in Fig. 3 [23, 25].

Fig. 3. Settlement pattern of old Nubian village [12].

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5.2 Method

5.2.1 Objective of the empirical study

To study the Nubian community as a traditional society and their unique

identity and character, the objective of the empirical study is to link the natural context

and the social and cultural dimensions and their different indicators and the fifteen

fundamentals of pattern language by Christopher Alexander with the different parts of

the Nubian village “Garb Soheil Village” and to study how much these different parts

are in common with the natural context, social and cultural dimensions and with the

fifteen fundamentals of pattern language, that can be used in designing contemporary

architecture for such traditional communities.

5.2.2 Procedure

To reach the objectives of the empirical study, the study area has been analyzed

according to their qualitative characteristics and indicators which have been identified

based on a comprehensive literature.

This part will go through the following stages:

1. Study Garb Soheil Village as a case study

2. Study the old traditional Nubian community through observation and direct

interviews with local Nubian communities in Cairo to analyze the social and cultural

dimensions and its indicators and to analyze the urban spaces of Garb Soheil village

in order to conclude the relation between each indicator of the social and cultural

dimensions and the elements of the village.

3. Develop a prospected template that includes the elements of the Garb Soheil village

and the different indicators of the natural, social and cultural dimensions of the old

Nubian community.

4. Linking the elements of Garb Soheil village and its relationship with the fifteen

fundamentals of Christopher Alexander.

5. Determine how much these elements “buildings, urban spaces, streets,” are in

common with the natural context, social and cultural dimensions of the old Nubian

community through the literature review and interviews with the Nubian community

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in order to conclude the fulfilment of each natural context, social and cultural

dimensions through the element of the village.

6. Determine how much the parts of the village are in common with the fifteen

fundamentals of Christopher Alexander.

7. By studying the interaction of different indicators (relation between Nubian

settlement and different indicators of natural context, social and cultural

dimensions, and the relation between Nubian settlement and the fifteen

fundamentals of pattern language) the designer can take the indicators according to

their importance in designing contemporary architecture for such traditional

communities into consideration.

5.2.3 The prospected template and their relation with the pattern languages and

the various dimensions

This template is formed of 3 axes: The settlement of Garb Sohil village, the

indicators of natural, social and cultural dimensions and the 15 fundamentals of pattern

language. Each is formed of several indicators.

The template studies the relation between the settlement of Garb Sohil village

and the 15 fundamentals of pattern language in addition to analyzing the relation

between the Garb Sohil village settlement with the indicators of natural context, social

and cultural dimensions. Future studies are needed to study the relation between the 15

fundamentals of pattern language and the indicators of natural context, social and

cultural dimensions as shown in Fig. 4.

5.2.4 Mapping the prospected template

The prospected template will discuss the relationship between the natural

context, social and cultural dimensions and their interaction with the different parts of

Garb Soheil village and it includes:

The cultural dimension and its indicators: Beliefs, Values, Customs and traditions,

Rituals and religion.

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The social dimension and its indicators: Social interaction, Organization, activities

behavior and habits.

The natural context and its indicators: The Nile, topography and valley.

Fig. 4. The prospected template.

It will discuss also the relationship between the fifteen fundamentals of pattern

language by Christopher Alexander with the different parts of Garb Sohil Village and

it includes:

The fifteen fundamentals of pattern language by Christopher Alexander: Level of

Scale, Strong Centers, Thick Boundaries, Repetition, Positive Space, Good Shape,

Local Symmetries, Interlock, Contrast, Gradients, Roughness, Echoes, Simplicity

and Inner Calm, Void and Not Separateness.

The prospected template represents 10 indicators of the sociocultural

dimensions, three indicators of natural context, 14 variables of the different parts of

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Garb Sohil village and finally the 15 fundamentals of pattern languages. It has

accordingly validated the objective of the paper that tested the prevalence of the 13

indicators of the natural context, social and cultural dimensions with the settlement of

Garb Sohil Village in part A and the prevalence of the 15 fundamentals of pattern

language with the settlement of Garb Sohil Village in part B of Table 3 using a scoring

system from 0 to 14.

The relation between the different elements in Table 3 based on literature

review, observation and semi structure interviews (direct communication with local

Nubian communities in Cairo) with the Nubians.

Table 3. Garb Soheil unique character and identity.

5.2.5 The relation of the different indicators and the components of Garb

Soheil village

This diagram based on Table 3 and demonstrates the relation between the old

Nubian villages “Garb Soheil Village” components and the natural context and social

and cultural dimensions in addition to its relations to the fundamentals of language

patterns. The design can be tailored according to the score of these relations as shown

in Fig. 5.

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Aim of the diagram:

1. Can act as a tool for the designer to find the possible combination between the three

pillars altogether or the fabric and each of them separately.

2. More elaboration of understanding the complexity of the different relations.

The diagram consists of the following part:

1. Three tables: The first one (vertical) consists of the different part of Garb Sohil

village and two scores, the first score represents the relation between the settlement

of Garb Sohil village and natural context, social and cultural dimensions. The

second score represents the relation between the settlement of Garb Sohil village

and 15 fundamentals of pattern language. The second table (upper horizontal table)

consists of the natural context, social and cultural dimensions and their different

indicators. It also consists of a score (how many parts of Garb Sohil village are

repeated in each indicator). Finally the third table (lower horizontal table) consists

of 15 fundamentals of pattern language and a score, which represent many parts of

Garb Sohil village are repeated in each fundamental.

2. The score: It represents the different parts of Garb Sohil village (14 equal intervals

because the settlement of Garb Sohil village consists of 14 indicators such as

location, orientations,…, pattern) and was divided into three equal part score . The

1st part from 0 to 4, the 2

nd part from 5 to 9 and the 3

rd part from 10 to 13.

3. The arrows represent the relation between the settlement of Garb Sohil village and

natural context, social and cultural dimensions. They represent also the relation

between the settlement of Garb Sohil village and 15 fundamentals of pattern

language. These relations are based on literature review, observation and semi

structure interviews (direct communication with local Nubian communities in

Cairo) with the Nubians.

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Fig. 5. Diagram of the relation between Garb Soheil village components and the

natural, social and cultural dimensions and fifteen fundamentals of pattern language.

6. CONCLUSIONS

There has been a common agreement between theorists, academics and

practitioner that cultural and social aspects are much related with specific space edge,

social, economic and political structures as well as the natural context with which it

lives. It is inherited through generations and redefined through time.

From the literature review the study evaluated the relation between each

component of the old traditional Nubian village (with special reference to Garb Sohil

village as it is only one that has not been displaced) with the different dimensions of

the old Nubian community. It further analyzes the old Nubian village from a social and

cultural perspective and with the fifteen fundamentals by Christopher Alexander in

order to develop a meaningful understanding of the Nubians‟ unique context.

The empirical study dealt with connecting the 10 indicators of the sociocultural

dimensions, 3 indicators of the natural context, 14 variables of the different parts of

Garb Soheil village with the 15 fundamentals of pattern language by Christopher

Alexander to conclude the prevalence of these indicators in the 15 fundamentals which

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lead us to know what are the most important indicators and fundamentals to be

considered in designing contemporary architecture for such traditional communities.

The result can be summarized as follows:

The relation and interaction between the different components of Garb Sohil village

and the fifteen fundamentals of pattern language.

- Components with the heights score are pattern and decorations (score 9).

1- Pattern includes the following fundamentals: level of scale, positive shape, good

shape, contrast, roughness, echoes, void, simplicity and inner calm and not

separateness.

2- Decorations includes the following fundamentals: level of scale, good shape,

roughness, local symmetry, interlock, contrast, simplicity and inner calm, echoes

and repetition.

- Components with the least score are orientation and skyline (score 0).

1. Form.

The relation and interaction between the different components of Garb Sohil village

and the indicators of the natural context and social and cultural dimensions.

- Components with the heights score are communication (score 6).

1. Communication includes the following indicators: traditions, activities, behavior,

Nile, topography and valley.

- Components with the last score are skyline, texture and color, decorations and form

(score1).

1. Skyline includes the following indicators: values and topography.

2. Texture and color include the following indicators: values and traditions.

3. Decorations includes the following indicators: traditions and religion.

4. Form includes the following indicators: topography and valley.

Finally, these findings are limited to Garb Soheil Village, as it is the only

village that has not been displaced and is still holding its unique identity and character.

Further researches are recommended to respond to these limitations.

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DECLARATION OF CONFLICT OF INTERESTS

sts.The author has declared no conflict of intere

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author would like to acknowledge arch. Gihan Ismail for her sincere

contribution with references and photos.

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العلاقرة التبالل رة نرمك هات رات الافاارات العةفا رة لمنرفي النت رة ةالتعرف لمرم ها ر يتناول البحثلراسرررة عة عرررة والخرررتالإ اماتةا رررة والثنام رررة الةذرررامة لتمررر الةجتةعرررات هرررك رررلال ذات الق ةررة التفاة رررة

والنفي النت ة و رمك الةبرالا الخةدرة لذرف لملأرة ا درا هرك ي امرتباط نمك نمئة النتاج العةفا ي والةعةار وهاهرت للأرة اد درا ةرر تعرف ي لال ص ااة بحث ة تةرأبنتتب ادلن رات الأالةرة والةادرفة لمعةرفاق التنممرأ

في هحاولة لطفح هراتفة العلاقات والتاةمفات الةتباللة وتطةمق ذل ملخرتص ة العةفات والةعةار النت لطة عة العلاقات وتحأيأ التقاات الحاكةة. مننةتذج تل ملمم حالة لراس ة لنفي افب سهمل بةا ينته