Topological Characteristics of an Architectural Product الخصائص الطوبولوجیة للنتاج المعماری

Topological architecture, properties, flexibility, fluidity, integration. Topology or spatial science is one of the branches of modern mathematics that cast a shadow over various cognitive sciences, including architecture, as it began to overgrow in the contemporary digital age to make room for more creativity and structural design and implementation capabilities. Yet, the characteristics of this concept are still uncommon in the architectural community and the previous studies that dealt with it in fragmentary and separate concepts. Accordingly, the research problem is “the ambiguity of knowledge about the topological characteristics of contemporary architectural products.” The research seeks to form a comprehensive theoretical framework on the topological characteristics represented by flexibility, fluidity and integration. These characteristics were generated by influential topological theories and previous studies that dealt with this concept, such as adaptation theory, knot theory and symmetry theory. Its concepts and vocabulary helped establish a formative structure in contemporary architectural products and then applied this to the selected samples. It resulted in a knowledge base that allows designers to gain more creativity, uniqueness and inspiration, depending on the descriptive-analytical