Technology-based learning environments
M. Assarzadegan; M. Khodabakhshian
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Background and Objectives: Human life and nature are tightly connected as an innate element. Nature is the manifestation of emotions, passion and beauty. For this reason, man always tries to be with it. This type of companionship and coexistence with nature can be well seen in architecture. Biophilic ...
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Background and Objectives: Human life and nature are tightly connected as an innate element. Nature is the manifestation of emotions, passion and beauty. For this reason, man always tries to be with it. This type of companionship and coexistence with nature can be well seen in architecture. Biophilic architecture is one of the new approaches in today's architecture, which follows the design of buildings using elements of nature. Biophilic design is actually an attempt to eliminate the gap between today's architecture and the need of humans to communicate with the natural world and is an innovative approach, which is based on the importance of restoring and maintaining the beneficial experience and use of nature in the built environment. The present research analyzed the hierarchical structure of indicators affecting the user in educational environments designed based on biophilic patterns.Methods: The current research is a descriptive-analytical application, and through a library, it studied the use of 14 biophilic patterns in 8 case examples of nature-related educational environments in a hot and humid climate, which provides the greatest possibility of using nature due to the existing conditions. The four indicators of physiological, psychological, cognitive and socio-spiritual were prioritized based on the opinion of experts and the numbers of ten visual patterns out of 14 biophilic patterns were categorized in these four indicators and then based on the patterns used in each educational environment. Its impact on the user was prioritized in four areas. To select the final indicators for evaluating and prioritizing the studied educational environments, a questionnaire was designed with a Likert scale and was identified and collected using the snowball method. For weighting and prioritizing indicators, pairwise comparisons were used in the form of a 9-hour questionnaire. In this research, in order to meet the qualitative criteria, the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method was used.Findings: The findings showed that the priority of the indicators in the educational environment is physiological, psychological, cognitive and socio-spiritual respectively, and the most impact on the user, according to the patterns used from the four indicators in the physiological, psychological and cognitive "educational environment of Green and "Barn Klong" had the greatest effect on the user. Examining the patterns used in these samples showed that the educational environment of Kensington generally observed the most biophilic indicators and criteria, and the observation of these indicators in the educational environment of Waterengnia was the lowest.Conclusion: Paying attention to the effect of each of the biophilic patterns on one or more indicators of the four indicators, with the aim of using these patterns in the educational environment, the effect of one of the physiological, psychological, cognitive and social spiritual indicators can be made more visible on the user. The use of target biophilic patterns based on the four indicators improves educational performance in various fields and makes people interested in the educational environment and increases academic progress.
Technology-based learning environments
M. Arghiani; M. Saffar; M. Mahvash
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Background and Objectives: Today, learning various sciences has become one of the basic needs of humans, and there are many obstacles that reduce the speed of learning; among these obstacles, we can mention stress. Stress is a kind of response to emotional or physical changes created in the environment ...
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Background and Objectives: Today, learning various sciences has become one of the basic needs of humans, and there are many obstacles that reduce the speed of learning; among these obstacles, we can mention stress. Stress is a kind of response to emotional or physical changes created in the environment and living conditions of students, which can appear in different ways according to their age, life situation, and personality. If the learning space is designed properly, it can eliminate a lot of stress in students. Reducing stress in students can lead to discovering their hidden talents, increasing self-confidence and making the most of their potential, which will increase learning. Also, various studies have been conducted in western and other countries about the effect of architecture on reducing the stress of users, a limited number of which have been conducted on the effect of the architecture of the educational space on reducing stress with different research methods and approaches, each of which has research problems and flaws in two areas. They are thematic and methodological knowledge. The research showed that various studies have been conducted in the three fields of environmental psychology, psychology and architecture of educational spaces, but no sufficient and accurate studies were found about the interrelationship of these three topics. With quantitative and qualitative approaches, this research aims to deal with the subject in the two scientific fields of psychology (stress, stress theories) and architecture (psychology of the environment of educational spaces, architecture of educational spaces, health and architecture, etc.). The purpose of the present research is to identify the physical factors that are effective in reducing the stress of students in the educational spaces of the school, which is a factor for the scientific progress and improvement of the country and is associated with increasing the productivity of schools. This research aims to evaluate the effect of physical and non-physical dimensions of stress reduction on stress reduction in combined research (description of the survey type and logical reasoning).Methods: With the help of the Delphi method, the experts in the field of architecture were asked to categorize the practical physical factors of stress reduction. Then, the test analysis was done with the help of hierarchical analysis (AHP).Findings: After the complete hierarchical analysis, at first, the main criteria were ranked according to the goal, and then the sub-criteria were ranked in details, and the percentage of importance of each was determined. Among the main criteria, the combination of nature and environment gained the most weight, with a weight of 0.534, so it was the most important among the main criteria. The criteria for modeling nature and the spatial characteristics of the environment were also in the following ranks. A pairwise comparison of the sub-criteria of the integration of nature and the environment and their order of importance was discussed, and it could be seen that the sub-criteria of light with a weight of 0.541 took the first place, and the sub-criteria of plants and natural landscapes and ecosystems were in the following ranks.Conclusion: In designing a conservatory with the approach of reducing stress through biophilic architecture, light is the most critical design factor, and then the plants inside and outside the environment, natural landscapes, and ecosystems should be observed in the design.
