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The quest for improvement and upgrading of the historic urban environment through coexisting historical context and new context had introduced tension over the previous years. The resultant flows have jeopardized the harmonious layers of historical settings. The concept of conservation that provides the needed bridge between the forces in many case...
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... to get an elaborate basis for interpretation the two cases will be analyzed to check the level of compatibility (harmony or contrast) with existing context. The guiding design criteria will entail ten determinants (Table 1). From the results of the analysis, a Continuum is drawn to evoke the interpretation of the results (Figure 10). ...
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... They continue to demonstrate that their preferences are based on one-sided historical evidence. One common factor that has aided regulation and principle formation is urban development that exceeds its historic boundaries-the dynamics that define its meaning, significance, and values (Jokilehto, 2007:33;Ukabi, 2016). In theory, that link was critical to preserving the authentic layers of a historic setting. ...
... The reality is that people will keep upgrading. So a mosaic of their endeavors serves as a visual reminder even when they exceed the physical limits of the historic environment (Ukabi, 2016). ...
This paper investigated how localizing new design principles can lead to curbing forgery design patterns in historic environments with a heterogeneous character. Over time, interventions like preservation, restoration, and adaptive reuse have been implemented but cannot yet resolve issues related to design repetitions, static development, and obsolescence in historic cities. This is primarily because such actions adhere to a predetermined structure that can limit innovation and creativity and further impact the discerning of historical imprints as time passes. This paper adopted an evidence-based strategy gathered through a thorough literature review and situation observation in the context of North Nicosia's Walled City as a case example with diverse material cultures and mixed design composition. The results of this study identified five causalities linked to the roles played by three groups: regulatory bodies, designers, and locals. Such as approaches to reinterpreting past styles, the use of selective conservation principles, the lack of a conservation framework, circumscribing only contextual approaches, and celebrating partial perceptions for only nostalgia value. This research recommended the incorporation of SEBAS (Specimen, Engaging, Balancing, Adoption, and Selecting) as a supplemental set of conceptual tools for regulators, designers, and other stakeholders who are instrumental in the preservation of historical environments.
... Mehr (2019) suggested that cultural properties have recreational value, but their receptivity and vulnerability expose them to external and internal manipulative energies. Some scholars refer to such forces as urban tensions (Rahbarianyazd 2017;Ukabi 2016). These forces, whether unevenly or evenly stratified, influence the way sites undergo life processes similar to those of living organisms. ...
... The latter has repeatedly reduced the historical urban fabric in various historic towns with heterogeneous characters. Normally, regulations aim to pave the way for high-quality design outcomes and to address other social pathogens like demolition, displacement, and the architectural ubiquity of building designs that violate historic limits (Jokilehto 2007, 33;Ukabi 2016). Similarly, May and Griffiths (2015) revealed that to meet the contemporary needs of the community and accommodate new functions, altering, adapting, or adding to historic buildings and precincts nowadays represents an existential phenomenon. ...
New designs in historic precincts often spark considerable discourse, but there has been limited research into quality and relational aspects that allow communities to perceive the new architectural objects. A lack of understanding of these concepts, a preference for certain conservation principles, a misapplication of design approaches, and misconceptions about the character of a historic precinct can disrupt historic coherence. This paper explores conservation principles, and design approaches to form enhanced policy and design tools for coexisting new and old within historic precincts. The study employs discourse analysis, content analysis, and inductive methods to probe the matter further. The study results indicate that conservation agencies tend to pay more attention to quality indicators than relationship factors of design, leading to an overemphasis on contextual-based designs and an under-emphasis on other possible design styles. In response, the study offers policy and design-enhancing tools such as introducing a six-ranking system for conservation principles, proposing six novel design approaches, and formulating three hypotheses. These new tools can help designers, researchers, and urban planners plan, and manage historic precincts and make informed decisions, and design future interventions.
... Some studies concentrate on the emergence and evolution of contextual theories and design methodologies (Komez Daglioglu, 2015;Zavoleas and Taylor, 2021;Saad, 2022;Miao, 2012;Naghavi andMazaherian, 2019, Abrar, 2021;Saadlounia et al., 2021). On the other hand, some studies evaluate contextualism in relation to certain building types, such as hotels and museums (Jakobsen, 2012;Ozorhon and Ozorhon, 2015;Ukabi, 2016;Tabarsa and Naseri, 2017). In one study, contextual design was discussed in the context of technology and science (Neumann, 2014). ...
... Several case studies that analyze spatial change in the built environment employ the space syntax method and the shape grammar methodology (Ertaş and Taş, 2017;Asif et al., 2018;Lambe and Dongre, 2019). Further studies use a qualitative method to compare a series of case studies (Moneo, 2015;Ukabi, 2016;Mısırlısoy, 2017;Attia, 2021;Fabbri, 2022). ...
... Contextual design is defined as the theory and methodology of delicately and productively integrating new buildings in historic context (Booth, 1989;Loew, 1998). Ukabi (2016) declared that there are a variety of appropriate approaches for the vast types of infill developments in any historical urban environment, focusing on the integration by conforming the physical features (Scale and size) of new buildings to the surroundings. He deduced three methods: Contextual uniformity, contextual continuity and contextual juxtaposition. ...
... Al-Askary (2016) measured the elements that contributed for the visual integration on the level of the part and the whole, while Mohanty and Chani (2015) analyzed a historic district, by first classifying buildings by style, materials, type of uses, and identified the characteristics of the surroundings, and setting eight principles to design in new development. Ukabi (2016) devised an interaction web between owner, community, and designer, and also created a correlation model that identified the relationship between historic and new contexts in a historic urban environment. Soosani (2013) analyzed the free design and compatible designs in historic context and measured the influencing criteria in the old city of Nicosia. ...
With the continuing advancement in material technology and construction techniques, architects face a greater set of options and challenges when it comes to designing in historic settings. In the meantime after the ICOMOS agreement, every country adapted the policy according to their own culture and settings, therefore every architect in their respective country started interpreting the charters, and the design review processes in their own way. Working on the new addition to historic context gave rise to familiar characteristics in design, especially in the infill designs, which is “Replication and Contrast”, which in turn sparked the question, how to evaluate whether a building is properly fitting in its context with whatever approach employed. This paper aims to answer this question by conducting a literature review covering First, the qualitative evaluation approach which compromises of surveys and pre-visualization in order to identify the main visual properties that improve the contextual compatibility of the new designs in the historical context, and quantitative techniques focused more on the mathematical scientific cognitive results of all aspects of the architectural elements within historic settings. A comparison has been made on each result achieved and an assessment of their reliance or authenticity has been tested in order to find and bridge the gap between tangible and intangible values when judging “fit” in a historic setting. The results showed that the qualitative evaluation if followed properly it could be very promising, but it always leaves room for skepticism as the result is expected to change based on the size and the characteristics of the participants. The quantitative evaluation provided a more tangible evidence of the contextual fit in terms of architectural elements like size, proportion, and scale. Finally, a suggestion was made in order to provide a better, and a more comprehensive technique merging both methods together and trying to incorporate more of three-dimensional aspects of the building instead of the two dimensionality of the current assessment techniques.
... The result will be the difference as assessed in the case study and leads to the emigration of the local population because of the psychological state, loss of interest and identity of the place and convergence and harmony are promoted through the continuity and intersection. The study showed that tension takes place at historical environments when adding a building to the context and the developments exceeding the historical limits that they indicated to, through the concept of a limit of flexibility and that the balanced and integrated development is what enhances the continuity of historic urban neighborhoods [7], as shown in Figure 1. ...
In the stages of their development, cities become a grouping of different urban contexts as a result of development projects of all kinds, which generates, over time, spatial tensions at different levels and dimensions within cities in their different contexts.
Previous literature have pointed out the phenomenon of urban tension, between the existing systems and the process of withdrawing them towards sustainability, or as a result of globalization and rapid urbanization that brought with it many tensions and contradictions in urban environments. The research has classified these tensions into: economic, such as the effects of the recent global financial crisis; social tensions that have been exacerbated by persistent poverty and discrimination worldwide; migration pressures and social disintegration as a result of economic restructuring; and environmental tensions due to ecosystems threatened by uncontrolled flows of energy and waste. The research indicated the tension between any two entities during the development process, where the tension occurs between what is added and what is existing of urban systems. The research aims to clarify and explain the urban tension, its causes and manifestations, and to present global experiences to reach a comprehensive theoretical framework for sustainable development approaches and ways to activate them to address urban tension in local contexts to achieve sustainable, safe, and livable cities.
