Siwa and Ogle are North African oases of cultural, biological and environmental value, and are two of the few remaining oases in the world that retain values that are uniquely in harmony with nature as they contain archaeological treasures represented by buildings built with clay by local architects, and examples of these mud buildings are clay mosques, which are one of the oldest clay mosques in the world.
Research Objectives
1. Study the mud mosques in the Siwa Oasis in Egypt and the Ogle Oasis in Libya from a functional and architectural point of view.
2. The need to preserve clay mosques as a sustainable environmental clay architecture that is part of the local identity and cultural heritage of the oasis.
The importance of research
1. Preserving clay mosques as a sustainable environmental clay architecture taking into account their technological development.
3. Conducting a comparative study between the mud mosques in both Siwa Oasis and Ogle.
Research Methodology
The researcher will use the objective, descriptive and historical approach to study mud architecture in the oases of North Africa, and the researcher also used the method of comparison between the ancient mud mosques in Siwa and Ogle as the two oldest models of clay mosques in the world.
Research Themes
1-. Clay architecture in the oases of North Africa.
2-. Clay mosques as one of the models of clay architecture in the oases of North Africa.
3-. Comparison between the ancient mosque in Siwa and the ancient mosque in Ogle.