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Abstract The aim of this research is -To understand that how manifestations of modern built forms and design

in Islam have been able to develop a conceptual continuity with the past. -If the execution in terms of spatial transformation has been allowed, by incorporating the social and technological changes that has taken place over a period of time. To full fill this research query, the following understandings were necessary to develop in this dissertation. -The features of geometry and geometric patterns in Islamic built forms. -Processes and methods carried out by craftsmen and workers in implementation of geometry- as a tool to make the patterns and built form. - To analyse how this geometry can be manifested with different approaches and interpretations in modern built form and design, with the change in technology. This study can be accepted as a preliminary step to the more complicated researches, which might involve innovative designs with historical patterns. In this research, geometry in Islamic built forms is studied at a level of organizational principles of spaces, as three dimensional form generators (space as an envelope of assembly of geometrical shape) and as surface articulation. The geometric principles and designs of Islamic art have a universal and a timeless significance, which extends its domains beyond their original decorative and religious purposes. Digital technology, today, offers a powerful tool for the study of these designs and their developments ahead. The advantage of this technology is, that it spans its vistas towards new emerging fields like biomimicry, performance oriented design, morphology, morpho-ecologies, responsive surface structure etc. All this emerging fields deal with the examination of nature, its systems, processes, and elements. These parameters are digitally decoded through scripting such that they perform in response to nature.

Conversely, the philosophy of Islamic geometry understands the nature deeply through abstracting the mathematical relations among substances like the growth pattern of plants, the distribution or arrangement of leaves on a stem, arrangement of petals in flower etc. Because of certain similarity in the processes of studying nature in both these cases, there could be a great tendency of merging both the processes, to achieve a synergy of the computation techniques and the geometry qualitative of symbolic value and its significance.

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