The Aesthetics of the Interior and Architectural Design of the Palace of Muhammad Ali Pasha in Shubra ( Al-Fasqiyya Palace)

Authors

1 Assistant Professor in the Department of Interior Design and Furniture Faculty of Applied Arts - Damietta University

2 Instructor in the Interior and Furniture Design Department Faculty of Applied Arts - Benha University

3 Master's researcher in the Department of Interior Design And furniture, Faculty of Applied Arts - Damietta University

Abstract

The garden palace style is considered one of the most important styles of royal palaces, but it was rare despite its design excellence, because it required design conditions, namely the vast area of the garden, the distinguished location overlooked by these palaces, the high cost, and the need for these palaces to have high experience in the arts of decoration and sculpture. This style became widespread in Turkey. The shores of the Bosphorus, the Dardanelles and the Sea of Marmara. The essence of the design of this style is a vast garden surrounded by a huge wall, interspersed with a few doors leading to the garden and its corridors, and scattered within it are several buildings called kiosks or palaces, each of which carries special architectural characteristics, and is one of the most important examples of this style in Turkey. Edirne and Topkapı Palaces.
      The design of Shubra Palace and its gardens has never reached us in the remaining Islamic architecture in Egypt before the era of Muhammad Ali. It was modeled on the style of garden palaces, where we find the general design of Shubra Palace is a sprawling garden, scattered throughout it is a group of buildings (sarayat), connected to each other by a network of The corridors or roads, and all of this is surrounded by a wall with a door leading to the garden and its corridors. The reason for Muhammad Ali choosing this style is that the location of the palace gave the architect complete freedom to distribute his building units on flat land, and the new spirit of experimentation during the era of Muhammad Ali helped the architect to formulate designs. It is new and has its ancient architectural origins, except that it was not used. If the Ottoman model for the design of Topkapi Palace was the original from which Muhammad’s architecture derived the design of Shubra Palace, then this is natural, as Muhammad Ali Pasha brought in workers from the Romans to construct this palace, and therefore the general design of Shubra Palace and its gardens came. Deriving its basic elements from the layout of the Topkapi Palace, Hence lies the problem of the research in the scarcity of the garden palace style despite its design excellence. The study assumes that studying the style of the Muhammad Ali Palace in Shubra results in relationships and determinants in the interior design that may result in the merging of the different styles and contribute to enriching the intellectual side of the designer. The interior and architectural design of the "Muhammad Ali Pasha" Palace (Al- Fasqiyya Palace) carries many meanings and aesthetic values. From this standpoint, preserving and documenting this heritage is a national goal for every designer, and even for every Egyptian. The research aims to identify the features of garden palace style architecture. And revealing the aesthetics of the interior and architectural design of Al- Fasqiyya Palace, and describing and analyzing the artistic and architectural features of the artistic styles that appeared in Muhammad Ali Palace in Shubra.
 
 

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