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Natural and symboliclight as a design factor in creating atmosphere in architecture : With special reference to religious buildings /

Mariam Salah Eldin Bassiouny Marei

Natural and symboliclight as a design factor in creating atmosphere in architecture : With special reference to religious buildings / الضوء الطبيعى والرمزى كعامل تصميمى لاضفاء جو على العمارة : مع ذكر خاص للعمارة الدينية Mariam Salah Eldin Bassiouny Marei ; Supervised Aly Hatem Gabr , Basil Ahmed Kamel , Raghad Mofeed Mohamed - Cairo : Mariam Salah Eldin Bassiouny Marei , 2009 - 233 Leaves + (11) Folded leaves of plates : facsimiles , plans ; 30cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Architectural Engineering

The research deals with natural and symbolic light in religious architecture. It focuses on the created atmoshere inside space. As light design in contemporary religious Egyptian architecture is not taken seriously as one of the design factors, the research's main aim is to achieve the principles affecting the design of light



Light Natural light Symbolic light