Complexity as a mechanism to reconstruct the urban pattern of the Iraqi marshes in the ancient city of Ur and marsh villages

Abstract

This research deals with the characteristics of life complexity which was found by Christopher Alexander and used in the process of measuring and comparing to find the Common physical properties of the architectural shape between the ancient city of Ur and the marsh cottages, according to this, the measuring factors for these characteristics were developed through the table related to it to create the complex sample which eventually reflects the natural characteristics of the pattern language shared between Ur as urban dueling and the cottages of the marshes as a natural environment through the assumption that there is a similarity of the fractal scale between the physical blocks of Ur and the marsh village cottages due to the use of the same scale material shared between them. The measurement was the association of the Sumerian human scale with the reed plant's scale in the fractal triangular style and hexagonal fractal style and the factor (2.7mm) and according to the practical proofs and experiments. The difference in measurements between reed knots is equal to this number and around it. The architectural scales resulted from these measurements associated with civilizations, including Ur civilization's ancient city from the smallest scale to the smallest tool in it to the largest building used in the ziggurats. It was essentially a result of the development of complex environmental patterns. In the fine, the research has some conclusions and recommendations.