Digital coding in the current digital age was used in finding and analysing real prototypes of old cities shapes and plans where this serves as a documentation for the relations forms among the city elements’ components, for each city has its planning properties reflecting the architectural and planning identity. Through this study, digital coding for each city planning element will be found to be compared with codes for other cities through using programming techniques in analysing and planning cities. The first level is analysis and finding genetic codes for the cities by using graphic analysis software including AutoCAD, 3Dmaxpro and CorelDraw. Four traditional cities will be selected : Karbala, Erbil, AL Najaf and Mosul, The results obtained in this level ,will be used as inputs for the second level, which is forming and planning the new cities’ shape , in addition to rehabilitating parts of the cities to maintain the architectural and formal identity of the city using programming and digital automation techniques. C++ programming language will be used to design a hypothetical environment for the cities analysed at the first level. For example, city coding could refer to properties and relation with digital codes that could be understood through the program designed with C++ including:
A2A21D3C001S: Iraqi traditional cities code .
A1A22D3D3001: a code for the Arabic cities in general.
A1A22D3D3001S1: a code for the traditional cities in Morocco.
A1A22D3D3001D1: a code for the traditional Arabic cities in Syria.
C6A22D3Z700Z: a code for the European cities in general.
These examples of the codes are simply representing the basic elements and factors for forming the city and when using such codes, cities related to the city identify analysed at the first level will appear .
The main objective of this study is to communicate with the past through the programming techniques that are based on the source city and to form a hypothetical environment for new cities with ancient incomes. Changing such incomes shows us a new shape for the city which is a copy of the original in addition to the possibility of controlling the hypothetical environment of the architectural facades and skyline. In this study we can distinguish the rules and shape relations of the traditional cities in Iraq throughout the selected samples , one of the most important elements is clear centralize and the historical buildings in the centre of these cities .
تاريخ النشر
07/11/2011
الناشر
Engineering College, University of Babylon, Babel, Iraq,The Iraqi Journal Of Material and Mechanical Engineering
د.عدي قصي عبد القادر الجلبي | Dr. Oday Qusay Abdulqader Al-Chalabi | 6935