THE ROLE OF SYMBOLISM IN CONTEMPORARY EXTENSIONS TO HISTORICAL BUILDINGS

Back to Page Authors: Mitra Allahmoradi, Zahra Allahmoradi

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Keywords: symbolic architecture, contemporary additions, culture, communication

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Abstract: When people stroll into space or fabricated surrounding, people ought to perceive the design purpose-made apparent through visual signals. The constructed surroundings sustain purpose as a major aspect of a social arrangement of symbols and affect our activities and our conclusions of social regularity. Symbolic architecture alludes to the classical perspective of the architecture of the mind. In this method, the mind is seen as a procedure in which symbols are controlled. Symbols are moved between memory stores, for example, long and short-term memory and are influenced by a clear arrangement of tenets in a specific path. Cultural reactions epitomized in contemporary annexes to historic surroundings, as symbolic architecture is momentous. The aim of this research is to the comprehension of what makes extension design distinctive as a symbolic form. In such a manner, this study will inspect three cases of Daniel Libeskind projects that he roused by the symbolic culture as the idea of these new annexes. Libeskind has confidence in design as a type of correspondence and this the principle motivation to investigate his works in this study. The primary criteria to choose his works is because Libeskind's projects are constantly in light of a complex applied structure and an intensive examination of the symbolic, cultural, and formal components of outline and architecture.

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