College of Engineering

A master thesis was discussed in Architectural Engineering department / College of Engineering at University of Mosul entitled “Using of Fractal Geometry Techniques to achieve Sustainable Architectural Design” submitted by (Firas Hamdi Abdullah) under the supervision of (Dr. Khalid Gamal Aldden Ismail) on Wednesday, 16/11/2022.
The general problem of the research emerged, which is “random reconstruction operations due to the lack of previous experience and the lack of documentation and its scarcity, so the practical experience of virtual reality was to provide this experience and help in making design decisions. One of the mechanisms of benefiting from virtual reality technologies in the reconstruction of the city of Mosul.”
The thesis aims to determine the fractal mechanisms within the context of architecture simulation of natural systems and their characteristics of complexity and other considerations. By defining a comprehensive framework for the nature of fractal geometry, and defining the nature of fractal designs for non-linear architecture, to come up with the sustainable strategies that the designers used in their fractal designs. Here, the fractal geometry appears as a contributor to achieving sustainability within the scope of the integration of the architectural systems of the place, which is carried out by humans with the natural systems, as a basic environment for inspiring architectural ideas. And determining the research hypothesis that the employment of fractal engineering applications in architectural design varies in achieving sustainability on both the formal and functional level, given that linking architectural design with the surrounding environment is one of the most important concepts of sustainability in particular.
The measurement form extracted with its main vocabulary and detailed variables was applied to these projects, and within the era of digital architecture represented by our contemporary time, because of its potential to show fractional techniques to their fullest potential. The most important results of the research indicated the existence of that harmonious relationship between the concepts of fractal geometry and the mechanisms and vocabulary it includes such as dynamic growth, repetition within graduated scales, symmetry, and others, and between the concepts of sustainable nature with its adaptive properties towards various changes over time.