Back To Identity: The Role Of Arabic Calligraphy In Forming Modern Interior Design

Abstract

The main focus in Arabic world since decades is to search for new resources in configuring and producing new interior architecture form  that could adapt the recent human need.  The Arabic calligraphy was always the main feature of decoration in shaping the external and the internal facades reflecting the power of letters in mitigating the effect of massive scale. The geometrical forms and shapes of Arabic  letters have also the same power toward having  new concepts  and design methodologies  based  on finding out what behind the  interactions between  those letters within worlds.

This paper discussed the result of teaching methods through seminars and workshops in elaborating the contribution of Arabic calligraphy in producing such a design methodology for contemporary interior design models. The simulation was based on a wide spectrum of ideas in  adapting the transformation of  two dimensional forms to three dimensional within those three levels of design models. Bridging the western trends in design approaches within the spiritual and potentials of the  eastern Arabic calligraphy is the main focus of this paper. The paper aims also to look for the result and the interpretations of  integrating the Arabic cultural context within  interior design contemporary trends finding out new creative ideas to reconfigure the modern  form in an innovative approach.

Keywords: BACK TO IDENTITY, ARABIC CALLIGRAPHY, FORMING, MODERN INTERIOR DESIGN