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DILEMMA OF UNIFYING BUILDING FACADES COLORS: CASE STUDY: “ASSIUT” CITY – EGYPT

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Architecture Engineering and the Engineering Architectural Interior Design.

Abstract

In the last few years, many of Egyptian cities tried to unify the colors of their buildings. One of these cities is “Assiut" city. The trial was made as an initiative by Assiut ex-governor. This initiative has been rejected by some architects and supported by others. Each group has its reasons and its points of view. This paper aims at analyzing the case of coloring building facades of Assiut city and answering a crucial question about the degree of rejection or acceptance of unifying colors of building facades from the perspective of academic architects versus the public. The paper will present the main architectural features of “Assiut" city before and after unifying its facades colors. Then, the paper presents the results of a questionnaire answered by the academic architects in Assiut. Finally, the paper presents the most important results of the study and discussion of the results. The most important results of the study are that most academic architects refused the unification of façades colors at the city level, but they support selecting a color scheme for every area. Also, they support selecting flexible color schemes that give architects flexible selection of the suitable colors for each building depending on variables of the building and its circumstance.

DOI

10.21608/jesaun.2012.114529

Authors

First Name

Khaled Salah Said

Last Name

Abdelmagid

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Affiliation

Lecturer – Department of Architectural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering – Assiut University.

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khaled@aun.edu.eg

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0000-0002-1805-6294

Volume

40

Article Issue

No 5

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16871

Issue Date

2012-09-01

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2012-07-01

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2012-09-01

Page Start

1,563

Page End

1,574

Print ISSN

1687-0530

Online ISSN

2356-8550

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JESAUN_Volume 40_Issue No 5_Pages 1563-1574.pdf

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1,438

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JES. Journal of Engineering Sciences

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https://jesaun.journals.ekb.eg/

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DILEMMA OF UNIFYING BUILDING FACADES COLORS: CASE STUDY: “ASSIUT” CITY – EGYPT

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23 Jan 2023