Abstract
Traditional architecture style represents the evolutionary style and experienced characteristics of an urban environment that give a sense of place and identity. This style includes a mixture of technical and cognitive values that are difficult to conserve compared to other material resources. The process of organizing and classifying the architectural elements of these constructions in a virtual digital manner is one of the means of preventive conservation of the built heritage.
 Many international experiments have employed the shape grammar in analyzing the structure of the historic elements because of its ability to combine the dimensional and morphological values, to classify them into a variety of categories with common characteristics according to the local architectural language. The study seeks to determine the approaches of the shape grammar to derive the rules and its relationships that used in the virtual reconstruction according to the traditional architectural principles, and highlighting the digital applications and software that deals with the shape grammar in this field. The methodology of this study adopted the analysis of studies that employed the shape grammar in the built heritage domain to determine the potential of these systems, to be presented as a documentation procedure for information management of built heritage.
Highlights
Historic buildings represent a high-value part of the built heritage and have a prominent role in achieving cultural excellence and local identity El Namara et al [1]
The current research deals with strategies of applying the shape grammar in protecting the built heritage due to its cognitive value, which is complicated to conserve because of the difficulty of the representation of its deep architectural structure that requires analyzing and classifying of its component
The research presents a new approach of shape grammar for dealing with the built heritage due to its advantages in representing mathematically, morphologically, and topologically to formulate its characteristics and restrictions in a shape grammar form which are easy to deal with it in generating designs in the same architectural language
Summary
Historic buildings represent a high-value part of the built heritage and have a prominent role in achieving cultural excellence and local identity El Namara et al [1]. It embraces all acts that prolong the life of cultural and natural heritage, the object being to present, to those who use and look at historic buildings with wonder, the artistic and human messages that such buildings possess Feilden et al [2]. Conservation aims to safeguard cultural heritage while ensuring its accessibility to present and future generations. Preventive Conservation of cultural heritage includes many activities such as registration, planning, management, besides other aspects, in the management, including information management which deals with 3D representation and exchanges the information of the Built Heritage Al-Allaf et al [4]. One of the most prominent of these approaches is the Shape Grammar that analyses and classifies the architectural elements according to its common characteristic
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