Technologies to know and share the Cultural Heritage between East and West: geometric patterns in the decorations

ln the current global universe, the architecture (in all times and expression) is confirmed also as a highly communicating system. ln particular, among East and West, considering the art and architecture (lslamic and not only), we will refer to the geometric patterns: a simple common matrix - the "katem" as "semema" (from Greek OῆIJO) - can generate not only formal and significant system, but also structural system. The same geometry, that it is understood as a complex language, can develop architectural, decorative, symbolic or structural systems creatively, as well as to material and technological equipments. Which of these approaches appear confirmed in time and which are the new? An answer can be retraced, for example, from the seventies of the 1900s, when the studies on geometric patterns in architecture were resumed, thanks also to the massive introduction of the digital. You can do a few examples: the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lampur City (in this case the geometric pattern has been chosen for its high symbolic value and it has been used in the plan scheme); the Centre Pompidou a Metz (France) and the Arab World lnstitute in Paris (in these two examples the pattern has been used in external covering and to absolve structural functions). But such architecture can be seen and proposed as a cultured and symbolic language and therefore as an instrument of integration and peace between different cultures and peoples, in comparison of the identities, through the similarities and/or the differences. ln this study we propose to test the possibility to weld the visual characters of this system to its constructive potentiality, through innovative technologies. Such technologies can help to reconnect formal modes and common meanings, making them more recognizable, appropriate contexts and are finalized coherently. This contribution is played the thesis work of Osama Mansour, quoted in the bibliography.