The morphology of built environments has a significant effect on human well-being. To match the emotional effect of natural environment, architects need to create connections with its stimuli. In Islamic architecture, and due to the strict prohibition of depictions of human and animal forms, geometry was the only appropriate tool to create these connections through tessellations, stalactites, and motifs that cascade without an end. This paper employs Christopher Alexander’s 15 properties of Art and Nature as a preliminary qualitative tool for analyzing the visual properties of Nasir El-Molk mosque to measure how far the architects succeeded in creating these connections. A numerical model by Nikos Salingaros was also employed for a quantitative measurement of these qualities. The paper concludes that the building's design was based on a thoughtful process focused on extracting the qualities of Creation and …
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