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Architecture was initially defined as the functional art specialized in the concept of shelter. However, over time, deeper ideas emerged emphasizing the importance of producing creative and distinctive architecture that possesses beauty and humanity. Architecture became the material embodiment of a manifested message. With the advent of the digital revolution, a new thought and philosophy known as digital forms emerged, spreading widely across various fields, aligning with the requirements of the present era and its evolving trends. The research problem revolves around the insufficient awareness of different patterns in architecture and their relationship with architectural form. The paper aims to enhance this relationship by integrating digital architectural mechanisms into the design process, utilizing this connection to creatively produce architectural forms. The research assumes that establishing a relationship between pattern, form, and digital architectural mechanisms, harnessing them to generate architectural shapes in different ways, may contribute to creating innovative architecture. The research paper is grounded in the primary goal of identifying methods for deducing architectural form and its relationship with architectural references. This is achieved by presenting various patterns and mechanisms used in deducing form and their impact on creating distinctive architecture. The descriptive-analytical approach was employed, exploring different concepts and analytical examples to reach results and recommendations. One of the key recommendations is the necessity of revisiting the essence of architecture as a cognitive source containing a vast number of principles adaptable to the era's variables. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of addressing the concept of pattern and its relationship with other architectural elements to enrich architectural thought and produce more distinguished architecture. The utilization of digital methods in producing architectural forms is highlighted to achieve more distinctive shapes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing Engineering Systems (MEP) Play a Major Role in Enabling Hospitals to Perform their Functions, and in the Comfort, Safety, and Security of their Occupants. They Affect each other and Influence the Design and Execution of the Building’s Architectural and Structural Elements, including the Layout, Elevations, and Plans, in addition to Aspects Pertaining to Structural Systems or Shafts, and Interior Finishes. The Paper Problem is Apparent through the lack of knowledge Relating to the Requirements of different Engineering Service Systems, and the Unawareness of their Impact on each other or on the Architectural and Structural Elements of the Building. This limits Fully Benefiting from such Systems due to Conflicts between them and the Architectural and Structural Elements, in addition to Hindering Making Appropriate Design Decisions related to Operating them causing Deficient Coordination. This Paper Aims to Develop a Methodology for Achieving Integration between Types of Engineering Service Systems and the Architectural and Structural Elements of Hospital Buildings, Leading to Design Decisions that can Attain the Highest Benefit from such Systems and Ensure their Operational Safety according to their Types, Internal Components, Functional Requirements, and their Impact on the Design Decisions for all the Structural Elements of the Building. This is Performed based on a Theoretical and Analytical Study of the Types and Components of Engineering Service Systems (MEP) and Determining their Impact on the Structural Elements and Architectural Components of the Building. The Paper proposes a Methodology that Comprises 12 Stages to Achieve Integration between Engineering Systems and the Structural and Architectural Elements of the Building, according to the Types and Requirements of each System and its Impact on Design Decisions. A set of Tables are also Developed that Represents a Guideline and include Alternatives to the Different Types of Engineering Systems, their Requirements, and Highlight their Impact on the Structural and Architectural Elements of the Building, including the Layout, Plans, Elevations, and Interior Design Elements, in addition to their Relation to other Engineering Systems. The Results also Highlighted the Large Diversity of Types of Mechanical Systems, and the Significant Influence of Electrical Systems on all other Systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Socio-cultural sustainability represents one of the important pillars of sustainable development. As one of the fundamentals targeted by Saudi Vision 2030, it aims to achieve sustainable development that enhances the living standards of citizens and improves the quality of their lives. This necessitates the provision of Saudi housing that achieves socio-cultural sustainability, to ensure it reflects the culture of the Saudi society, its social characteristics, and fosters a sense of stability and belonging, while also strengthening community ties. Especially since the contemporary Saudi housing model, heavily influenced by the social and cultural backgrounds of the places from which it was imported, is an adopted model. Therefore, there is a need for socio-cultural sustainability criteria in Saudi housing, which should serve as a reference for all design, review, and evaluation work. However, establishing these standards requires initially identifying the fundamental factors from which the criteria will be derived, through a conceptual framework that includes all elements, components, references, and applications necessary for building the model. The study aims to identify the most important factors influencing the derivation of criteria for socio-cultural sustainability in Saudi housing. Hence, the paper is based on a methodology that combines the analysis of current literature and the study of elements of socio-cultural sustainability, and how they are applied in the Saudi context, particularly in the city of Riyadh. It reviewed all concepts of socio-cultural sustainability in housing, its principles, and objectives, deduced its general characteristics and attributes, and reviewed their compatibility with the characteristics of Saudi society. It also identified the pillars of socio-cultural sustainability in Saudi housing (both traditional and contemporary), to then integrate the findings to arrive at the fundamental factors for deriving standards of sociocultural sustainability for use in planning and designing housing in the city of Riyadh. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The architectural design patterns of buildings have varied throughout the ages according to economic, social, cultural, and other variables to suit the function of the building, the design module is one of the most important means that organize and arrange the architectural design to enhance its functional, structural, and other performance. This research paper studies the concept behind the module and the analysis and classification of its types in the design of interior spaces, mass formation, structure, and composition of architectural. The research aims to reach a criterion for selection of the appropriate module, especially in the processes of development and elevation, to avoid the scattering that occurs in the mass formation, the structure, the composition of architectural, as well as the interior spaces. In addition, the research aims to help to coordinate the urban spaces of the architectural group to achieve integration between them and the mass, space, and elements of formation to raise their efficiency, especially those created in different periods. The research paper concluded that the provision of treatments and solutions using the architectural module, and methods of architectural integration to reach integrated buildings that optimally achieve the objectives and meet their function . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Knowledge management is one of the latest administrative concepts because of its human and intellectual capital, and it represents the basis on which project management and development are based and the basis of competitive advantage in construction companies. This is what causes managers and building experts to light and attention to managing knowledge to improve performance and better practicing the construction industry. However, many construction companies, especially medium and small enterprises, still do not effectively manage knowledge, with much lost financial burden and waste much experience, information, and knowledge without realizing the importance of lost knowledge and also what it takes to redefine lost knowledge. Therefore This paper aims to study the role provided by knowledge management to improve the performance of construction companies by reviewing the relationship between knowledge management and improving the performance of construction companies in the light of the available literature and previous studies using the descriptive analytical approach to stand on two main axes for any knowledge system applied in The two construction companies are: the effective supporting factors in the knowledge management systems, and the second is the obstacles facing the implementation of the current knowledge management systems. The result of the study is that supporting the culture of knowledge management, support from senior management, supporting information technology, and training continuous of employees are among the most important critical success factors shown by previous field studies. The obstacles differ according to the work environment and place of study. The research hypothesis was confirmed, which is that knowledge management improves the performance of construction companies, as it affects project performance, affecting project performance, company performance, employee performance, and knowledge effectiveness within the company. This research is the nucleus for decision-makers and those working to develop the performance of construction companies and the setters of strategies and knowledge systems to improve performance and achieve the required final output in the construction industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Elements of landscape of vegetation or water cover or complementary elements (floors, umbrellas, etc.) are among the factors related to the local climate to achieve thermal comfort for humans in hot desert environments, which are exposed to high temperatures, bright sunlight, and undesirable strong winds. The research problem appears in the lack of accurate identification of the links between the elements of landscape and the achievement of thermal comfort within Egyptian universities (Assiut University, Old Sohag University, New Sohag University at Al Kawamel, and Qena University) in desert environments, which includes proper selection of elements and precise identification of the materials used in them in a way that reduces the effects the negative climate on users and the lack of full use of its potential to achieve thermal comfort, This paper aims to determine the role that the elements of landscape can play in achieving thermal comfort in university sites in desert environments, and then maximizing the use of these elements in reducing the negative effects of climatic elements in universities, while specifying the proposed interventions (whether by increasing, adding or deleting and replacing) the elements of landscape the new Sohag University at Al Kawamel to achieve thermal comfort as a model for dealing with universities in Upper Egypt and as a mechanism for dealing with similar universities, based on the descriptive, analytical and deductive approaches. The research has reached results that define the specifications of the suitable elements of landscape for climatic factors in hot environments, including evergreen plants with high leaf density, moving water, floors that allow permeate water, multiple bumps walls, hollow backing benches, and curved or broken surfaces or covered with solar cells umbrellas. Monitoring the elements of landscape in some universities of desert environments and indicating the extent of their availability through field visits, the interest in plant elements and the neglect of water and complementary elements, and the degree of their impact on achieving thermal comfort, determining how to benefit from it in Egyptian universities comprehensively related to plant elements, such as the use of perennial green spaces, planting trees over green spaces, using plant fences with creating a green belt around the university, using moving water elements, loose floors, interlocking tiles with shading, wood material for seats and umbrellas with seat shading, then the need to pay attention to activating the role of the architect in coordinating university sites to solve environmental problems by choosing the right elements for landscape to achieve thermal comfort in desert environments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the existence of studies that confirmed that the quality of Built Environment (BEQ) is the most important factors that affect the quality of life, and In light of the absence of quality in the Egyptian built environment in one or more of its aspects and its repercussions on the behaviors of people living in it, which led to a decrease in the quality of life in general, this research paper seeks to present a model for a comprehensive framework for assessing the BEQ in general. To achieve this goal, a deductive approach is adopted by analysing built environments rating systems, identifying the concept of quality generally and BEQ, starting with the concept of quality, its aspects, and methods of measurement, and to analyse the current methods of assessing BEQ to check its comprehensiveness, followed by the proposed conceptual framework for assessing BEQ and its basic pillars. As a result, a conceptual framework for assessing the BEQ including its pillars and the mechanism of work was proposed. It could be a base for establishing a system for assuring and assessing the quality of the built environment in Egypt as the paper recommend. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Egypt's construction sector faces enormous challenges related to the construction phase, the most important of which is a considerable waste of effort, time, and money that may result in increasing the risk of losing projects. Indeed, eliminating such a waste will certainly improve the project performance, thereby enhancing the value of the project stakeholders. The researcher assumes that adopting lean construction (LC) approach is necessary to reduce waste, improve performance, and enhance the performance of the Egyptian construction sector at large. The research relies on a simplified methodology that has several positive outcomes: (1) saving time and cost; (2) boosting quality and safety; and (3) improving management process control, resource management, and relationships between project team members. Therefore, the main objective of the current paper is to examine and analyse the ability of wasteless construction principles to reduce waste in the construction process through an applied case study of a large construction project in Egypt. The study employs lean construction (LC) methodology and utilizes its technologies and tools to reduce waste in construction, particularly at the finishing stage, measuring their effectiveness in achieving the desired goals. The study assumes to have two major contributions: (i) determining the main causes of waste in the Egyptian construction industry; and (ii) applying LC methodology to prevent and eliminate the causes of waste inherent in the construction process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The multiplicity of activities inside the new Sonbol Mosque in the city of Assiut, including prayers, lessons, and worship, listening to sermons and celebrations of holidays, and all these activities have their own vocal demands. The research paper deals with the study of the acoustics of the new Sonbol Mosque in Assiut city and its acoustic defects. To determine these acoustic problems, the mosque’s shape and size were studied to know the sound behavior inside it, as well as the finishing materials and their effect on sound absorption and its actual and optimal recurrence time and calculating this mathematically using mathematical equations. It has been based on theoretical backgrounds, research and studies that are interested in this aspect. It was also relied on field visits and surveying of the mosque, and monitoring of internal and external noise values affecting it using a loudspeaker (S.L.M) (**). To draw conclusions about the mosque and come up with special recommendations to address this problem, the most important of which were: Re designing the speaker system in the mosque and distributing speakers on the ceiling as much as possible to distribute sound in an orderly manner. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the importance of social mechanisms as one of key elements for achieving optimal healing environment-OHE for oncology patients' rooms, by examining the reality of some oncology centers that have been shown to focus solely on providing medical treatment without taking into account the social, psychological, emotional and spiritual needs of patients, which in turn negatively affect the treatment of patients and the speed of recovery, especially adolescents and young adults–AYA where the challenges of Emotional and social resulting from cancer with challenges resulting from adolescence and adulthood. This paper aims to extract social mechanisms for oncology patient rooms, and indicate their role and priorities for their application in meeting the needs of patients in the AYA category, mitigating their disorders, and their impact on patients' health outcomes. This paper attempts to reach the best appropriate models to achieve these mechanisms, by analyzing the current situation of selected samples from case study of the South Egypt Cancer Institute in Asyut. Through this analysis, the research paper presents a set of results and recommendations that should be followed to develop patient rooms that take into account the provision of social mechanisms and the priorities of their application depending on the degree of impact of each element in order to reach the optimal setting for the optimal healing environment for the room. This paper relies the analytical descriptive approach to dealing with the research problem by studying the literature that dealt with the characterization and analysis of the needs of AYA oncologists in patient rooms, identifying the disorders and effects of the disease on this group, and thus identifying the appropriate social mechanisms for this group that can be met in the rooms. This was followed by an analytical and introspective approach through the use of various research tools and procedures to analyze the status quo to see how these mechanisms are achieved within different models of patient rooms and how they affect patient health outcomes, and then to analyze the data and results reached. Finally, this paper concludes with a comprehensive chart of social mechanisms’ matrix suitable optimal healing environment for AYA pati [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Parametric design is called many meanings, including boundary design, modelling, standard design or variable design all lead to parametric meaning. Parameter design is an architectural approach that uses vocabulary in the light of a set of rules and design patterns that achieve design objectives in the presence of a design idea And research finds that the problem is that such a contemporary approach to design is rarely used in Egypt, although it is widely used around the world and in countries that share with Egypt the cultural heritage, nature and environmental condition, But the complexity of using programming techniques in design without studying or knowing the vocabulary on which the parameter and the associated formation rules depend directly affects design thinking and, in turn, affects the cost because it needs various and modern implementation techniques.. Therefore, the research aims to derive the vocabulary of the parametric approach and to identify the rules and patterns of this contemporary design approach. The paper addresses the different concepts of parameter design, the main principles on which it relies and the basic patterns on which the architect can identify the features of the parameter building. The study found that the parametric approach has been proven to be efficient using various modes of formation and various architectural vocabulary in achieving all design objectives. The research recommends using the benchmark for architectural design equation in identifying and analyzing parametric buildings in light of patterns and rules to reach the parametric vocabulary to achieve different design Features. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Kindergarten buildings have a great role in forming the personality of the child at this age and contributing to the achievement of skills for the child. The development of kindergarten spaces aims mainly to improve the function of the main kindergarten buildings, from which it contributes to achieving the targeted skills of these buildings. The research problem is represented in the lack of clarity of the relationship between the interactive design elements and the skills intended to be acquired by the child inside the kindergarten buildings. This research paper aims at how to use the interactive design elements to support the function of the internal spaces of the kindergarten buildings, using the descriptive approach in describing the basic skills desired in the kindergarten and what It is the role of the interior designer in using and designing interactive elements that contribute to the development, and the descriptive analytical approach in identifying and describing the interactive elements and techniques that can be used within kindergarten classes, then the deductive approach to conclude the relationship between the desired skills from the kindergarten classes and the proposed interactive methods, including access to techniques and methods. The proposed interactive to develop the internal environment of kindergarten buildings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]