MECHANISMS OF FUNCTIONAL GROWING IN THE VALUABLE BUILDINGS

The processes of changing architecture became necessary with the change of the basic needs and requirements of society, and in order for the architecture to survive, it must possess the necessary characteristics in achieving this (living architecture). Simulating the basic principles of living organisms in nature (such as growth) plays a major role in achieving this continuity. The importance of this process lies in the valuable buildings for their importance in society. Many studies addressed the conservation, reuse, rehabilitation, and did not address how they grow after making the appropriate changes to the future need, by taking advantage of nature. Therefore, the research problem lies with "the cognitive need to clarify the mechanisms of functional growing in the valuable buildings " and the research aimed to "explore the mechanisms of functional growing in the valuable buildings and their role in the permanence of those buildings." The first steps to solve this problem were to build a theoretical framework that includes those mechanisms and contains a set of variables to be applied to a group of selected projects in order to reach results and conclusions.