Architecture
malihe taghipour; aliakbar heidari; Khatereh Sajjadi
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One of today's social issues is the expansion of behavioral abnormalities in children, which is reflected in aggressive behaviors. Prevention of such behaviors is one of the most important priorities of families and educational institutions. Schools as the first social institution, plays a significant ...
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One of today's social issues is the expansion of behavioral abnormalities in children, which is reflected in aggressive behaviors. Prevention of such behaviors is one of the most important priorities of families and educational institutions. Schools as the first social institution, plays a significant role in promoting social skills and controlling such aggressive behaviors. Accordingly, the study tries to evaluate the impact of the school environment on the reduction of aggressive behaviors in children. Among the spaces in the school, the yard was selected as the most common space, and its spatial-physical characteristics were evaluated in six schools in Shiraz. The research method is descriptive-analytic based on quantitative and qualitative strategies. A semi-structured questionnaire and interview with students and teachers were used. The results indicated that among the various spatial features of the school yard, green area in the yard, as well as the diversity of open and semi-open spaces in the school yard, had the greatest effect on reducing student behavioral disorder.
Architecture
H. Pour mehdi Ghayem Maghami
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Background and Objectives:The "sense of belonging" in architecture is formed in the interaction between man and the environment in environmental psychology and environmental design. By generalizing the concept of belonging based on Dehkhoda’s dictionary, one of the aspects of the sense of belonging ...
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Background and Objectives:The "sense of belonging" in architecture is formed in the interaction between man and the environment in environmental psychology and environmental design. By generalizing the concept of belonging based on Dehkhoda’s dictionary, one of the aspects of the sense of belonging means knowing oneself belonging to the place and the society with which human identity is defined. In children, the sense of belonging to the family and the home as innate institutions of the child's emotional and spatial dependence are at the peak of the concept of attachment. After the children attend school, the family and teachers, as well as the place and body of school for the second social and physical institution, must continue and complement the sense of social and spatial belonging. The concept of a sense of belonging is very important for the second place where students spend a lot of time. The current study expresses the concept of primary school students’ connectedness and tries to define and analyse school environment affordances to increase the connectedness. Methods: The research method is qualitative based on library and case studies. The case studies have been chosen from two categories: initial cases and the ones from abroad so that a comparative comparison would be done. Findings: As the comparative comparison revealed the intersection of the two kinds of case studies focus is on open space or yard. The different between them is that in abroad cases space affordances refer to social interaction, hominess and controlled career while in Iranian cases they refer to religious social interactions and athletic acts. Conclusion: As the results show, the affordances of Iranian schools should be better in increasing connectedness by re-designing these elements: schools entrance, schools wall which link to community, better yards, dynamic corridors, multipurpose classrooms, etc. Reviewing these elements should be followed both in theory and practice. Thus, more student participation is considered as an important social factor and a kind of guarantee to increase their sense of belonging to the school, and schools should provide their physical capabilities for more socialization of students and teachers as members of the school family. Also, due to the importance of the role of open spaces in schools, it is necessary to re-design school yards to meet safe and comfortable facilities and revive students' safe mobility in them.
Architecture
M. Wahdattalab; M. Kaboudi
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Background and Objectives: Visual representations in the form of manuscripts are the most important tools for expressing ideas and generating concepts for designers and architecture students. Its wide application is always considered by designers due to the simplicity of tools and speed of expression. ...
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Background and Objectives: Visual representations in the form of manuscripts are the most important tools for expressing ideas and generating concepts for designers and architecture students. Its wide application is always considered by designers due to the simplicity of tools and speed of expression. Examining the types and methods of drawing design by students show that each uses a unique method and structure in drawing. An analysis of the concepts underlying the manuscript and identifying the possible relationship between graphic expression and personality type is very similar to research on graphology and the relationship between personality and handwriting. graphology is examined in psychology and personality analysis and means the analysis of physical features and handwriting patterns representing the author's personality. Conceptual sketch is the first visual representation of the mental ideas in the process of representation and interpretation embedded on paper, and similar to approaches of line psychology, it reflects many of the mental attributes of the designers and guidance for architecture design professors to understand the students' ability. The research problem is to identify the hidden concepts of conceptual sketch and how different personalities function in problem-solving. Methods: An exploratory descriptive study with an exploratory approach that with direct observation of architectural design and personality test seeks to find out the relationship between the qualities of drawing with personality type. Findings: The sample of the results of the personality and design test shows that perceptual and intuitive personalities have a broader approach to problem-solving ideas and are more skilled in open issues, but they are faced with defective details and lacking a fixed idea. In contrast, logical and judgmental personalities are more powerful in closed issues. They face flaws in detail and fail to come up with a well-established idea, and rational and judgmental personalities are more capable in closed issues. Conclusion: The results show that extroverted personalities have a general approach to the problem, while introverts do not pay attention to the essence of the problem and the real world, with mental ideas, especially in solving open problems by gathering a lot of information and drowning in an idea. Isolation and anxiety in the type of drawing indicate their lack of self-confidence. In intuitive and sensory personality, the way of receiving and interpreting the problem of designing and transmitting it becomes more visible. Attention to narrative and narrative aspects makes intuitions more successful in analyzing multidimensional problems; Therefore, they are more successful in solving open problems by creating various ideas, and in contrast, they are less careful in paying attention to details, especially in closed problems By primary interpretation of these sketches, professors can detect and correct these issues. Knowing students’ capabilities with respect to their varied personalities facilitates their guidance in the right time فخ strengthen their design ability and take the right path of productivity and fixed ideas.
Architecture
M. Arghiani; H. Vahdani charze khun
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Background and Objectives: In contemporary times, the concept of attachment to place has found considerable differences. Social scientists are heavily involved in the concepts of place and attachment to place. What happens to people's emotional connection to a place in a dynamic society? At the ...
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Background and Objectives: In contemporary times, the concept of attachment to place has found considerable differences. Social scientists are heavily involved in the concepts of place and attachment to place. What happens to people's emotional connection to a place in a dynamic society? At the macro level, globalization theorists offer a considerable understanding of the effects of dynamics on place and social organization in a city. They put emphasis on how economic, social, political, and cultural changes, travel and migration increase connectivity between distant places. Environmental psychologists, social scientists, and geoanthropologists distinguish between dynamism and attachment to space, and see the two concepts as contradictory. In the argumentative view, attachment to place is a phenomenon that is in the form of individual, social and place-human relations. Attachment in educational spaces is one of the most important factors affecting student attendance and consequently the prosperity and dynamics of the educational environment. Paying attention to the needs of these people with regard to their physical conditions can make their presence more prominent in educational settings. The purpose of this study was to identify the factors affecting students' attachment feeling among high school students in Bojnourd. This research is an applied research in terms of purpose. Methods: In this study, survey and correlational research were used. For this purpose, Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistical test was used to determine the normality of the distribution of research data and multiple linear regression and Pearson correlation tests were used to determine the relationship and severity and the relationship between independent and dependent variables. Findings: Findings showed that the sense of identity variable has the highest correlation with the level of attachment feeling. Therefore, the level of attachment feeling among the research variables is affected by the level of sense of identity and its related indicators. The second variable with the Pearson correlation coefficient is 0463 social bonds. The attachment sense variable was ranked third with a coefficient of 0.444, with the highest correlation being the attachment feeling question, which was 0.500 and a mean of 3.17, and the least related to being missing for this place in the attachment feeling, which was a mean of 2. 31 represents this issue, with a mean of 2.61 for quitting this place in three schools. Conclusion: Based on this, 37 indices were measured in 3 components. Summary of research results indicate that the components of sense of identity are the most important physical components affecting students' sense of attachment in educational spaces, respectively. Considering the correlation coefficients between the micro-indicators and the feeling of attachment, and to promote the sense of attachment to school, it is suggested to use architectural elements and shapes and volumes that identify the place until the sense of identity and finally the feeling of attachment is promoted. And significant components of the place are in the next ranks, in this process, preference for others and offering the school to others in the second stage through the meaning of place affects the attachment to the place.
Architecture
P. Hessari; A. Mohtasham; A. Farzandost
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Background and Objective: Schools, as the first formal and targeted educational and training center with predetermined managerial and managerial methods, play an important role in identifying individual talents. Talents that, if properly identified, can be the right path to the goals of a person's ...
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Background and Objective: Schools, as the first formal and targeted educational and training center with predetermined managerial and managerial methods, play an important role in identifying individual talents. Talents that, if properly identified, can be the right path to the goals of a person's future by relying on intelligence. Providing the groundwork for talent recognition, followed by smart choices for the future, starts with an environment such as family and school; and schools must be able to pursue this issue properly. Educational methods based on educational technology and cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies are active educational methods that have an impact on academic achievement and self-efficacy. The philosophy of education in the past was limited to the transfer of an organized set of knowledge and the creation and promotion of a value system governing the behavior of the individual and society, which is important in the framework and efficient program of a discipline system with a specific structure and institutional chain. Educational concepts, methods, and steps were institutionalized, but today the philosophy of education has been developed more than ever before and new approaches have been used, in which the learner is given primary importance rather than the path he or she takes. This process is completely contrary to the teacher-centered method, because in the teacher-centered method, it is the teacher who determines the type of activity and how it is done without considering the various spectrums of intelligence and considers only the learning requirements, while the student-centered method is flexible. Trying to deal with each person in turn. The use of Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences emphasizes the concept that the mental, physical and psychological structure of individuals is different and the focus of education should be on the type of intelligence of individuals, so the need to design school architecture with such flexibility can be studied and analyzed. Methods: This study, using available data from domestic and foreign scientific and research resources and field studies, compares the position of the theory of multiple intelligences in the architecture of the schools of the West and Iran. Findings: The flexibility in the type of education according to the type of school design in Iran, which is linear, with closed classes and one form, is negligible, and compared to the design of schools in the West, the lack of features includes Gardner's multiple intelligences. This is while the design of schools in the West with open and dynamic classroom practices seeks to stimulate various types of intelligence. Conclusion: Relying on multiple intelligences is one of the themes that can be combined with the design of schools and relying on a pivotal student to flourish creativity in students, a way in which none of the two students are in the same conditions, and they are who determine their learning by their activities. In fact, in this type of school design, the teacher becomes a pivotal student
Architecture
N. Gheshlaghi; Sh. Mirshahzadeh; Sh. Toghyani; Sh. Azizi
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Background and Objectives: Educational spaces, which take up a large part of students' daily time, are not created merely to meet educational needs, but should include the various aspects of student interaction and the physical environment that give rise to a sense of belonging to the school. This feeling ...
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Background and Objectives: Educational spaces, which take up a large part of students' daily time, are not created merely to meet educational needs, but should include the various aspects of student interaction and the physical environment that give rise to a sense of belonging to the school. This feeling will connect the person with the place. Students who are studying in these educational environments can understand the meaning of it, they can communicate better with that environment. Today, the study of the sense of belonging in schools has received less attention and mostly the educational needs of students have been taken into account. Addressing this special issue and examining it among high school students is very important because of their awared behavior. At the present, the relationship between students and the school environment is very important; therefore, the purpose of this article is understanding the effective components of the environment. It seems that one of the factors influencing this relationship is the meaning of the environment. Methods:The data collection was don based on a survey method, using both questionnaires and direct observation and mapping observations. The research method according to open-ended questions is a combination of consecutive ones. The analysis stage also relies on the results of the questionnaire to identify their relationship with the characteristics of space. Findings: Data collection was done through survey and open and closed questionnaires and direct students’ behavior observation. The questionnaire was developed and analyzed in 6 qualitative sections. Conclusion: The results of the research indicate that the effect of form-spatial school features on student's belongingness is higher than other environmental factors, due to semantic capabilities. In other words, in various levels of environment’s meanings, the fourth and fifth levels of meaning, which are considered to be the symbolic meaning, are more important than other levels of meaning for students, and its cause is largely rooted in the value and emotional meanings of space. In fact, there is, a completely direct relationship between the semantic levels of changed function of non-profit school space and the ideal situation of students in educational spaces. In other words, the emotional and perceptual components of the school environment can better communicate with the student's mental state if they use the symbolic levels of meaning in space.
Architecture
F. Abbaszadeh Diz; H. Rashid Kolvir; A. Rezaeisharif
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Background and Objectives: One of the important and influential issues of research is recognizing the components of the physical environment of schools as learning process can be influenced by the physical environment of the school. Paying attention to the architectural features of school buildings, ...
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Background and Objectives: One of the important and influential issues of research is recognizing the components of the physical environment of schools as learning process can be influenced by the physical environment of the school. Paying attention to the architectural features of school buildings, among other features, can be achieved by creating schools with successful students. What is commonly known today as the physical model of the school are the classrooms that are continuously connected through the corridor, and this pattern of building schools as a pattern continues. If the learning environment, whether classroom or school, is designed in such a way that students are the center of activity, it provides a very good ground for increasing students' interest in the school environment. In the collaborative learning method that is the goal of the research, students are placed in such an environment and engage in collaborative activity. The purpose of this study was to identify the physical environment components of schools with a participatory learning approach. Methods: This applied research is of descriptive-analytical type. The statistical population of the study was male middle school students in Tabriz. 356 male middle school students were randomly selected from four schools in different parts of the city. The data were analyzed by one-sample t-test and chi-square test. Findings: The results showed that the satisfaction of the physical environment in all four studied schools was low and the tendency for the environments in which the students could participate was very high. It can be deduced that the more the physical environment of the school has favorable conditions for participatory learning, the higher the level of satisfaction and interest in learning in students are, and also education and training take place properly. Conclusion: The results showed that the elements of physical environment such as furniture, green space, color, and space geometry are among the most important factors in learning, especially learning and cooperative activity in schools, which can have a significant effect on students’ satisfaction and their presence with enthusiasm at school. One of the suggestions of the present study is to design suitable and efficient spaces according to the aesthetic and psychological principles as well as the use of collaborative learning method for lecture-based teaching.
Architecture
M.A. Banihashemi; H. Beyti
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Background and Objectives:Visual expression techniques play an important role in providing technical information in the design process of architecture, but this way of expressing the image that is common in the West is not in accordance with our past architectural look. The perception of space in past ...
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Background and Objectives:Visual expression techniques play an important role in providing technical information in the design process of architecture, but this way of expressing the image that is common in the West is not in accordance with our past architectural look. The perception of space in past architecture was not human-centered. So, if we are to seek a generalized approach and to conform to an ontological-based view of Islamic-Iranian wisdom, one can ask the principles of mapping the Iranian documentary image architecture in the past. In this study, the attitude of Iranian artists to space in the painting environment on the one hand and the history of perspective and the principles of perspective drawing on the other hand have been studied. It is expected that by examining this view of space and expanding it in the intellectual framework of Islamic wisdom and by examining the status of two elements of time and place in the intellectual space of these two worlds, the point of difference between the two views of the West and Iran to space is identified. Methods: On the one hand, this study uses a descriptive-analytical method to study the attitudes of Iranian artists to space in a gallery environment and on the other hand, expands intellectual framework of Islamic wisdom. Understanding this insight in the Iranian intellectual and cultural sphere can be interpreted in the form of colloquialism in the presentation of drawing documents. Findings: In this regard, the hyper-process method as a graphing approach with the approach of increasing the points of escape and displacement of the lines is introduced; and consequently the field of view and motion from the mere point of view of spatial representation in the field of architectural drawings is increased. Conclusion: Considering the place of spatial drawings in the process of architectural design and teaching how to draw perspectives in basic courses with architecture students, as well as the importance of familiarizing architecture students with the principles of visual expression and related drawing methods, this study Introduces and suggests it for presentation to architecture students. The hyper-process method tries to have a functional interpretation of the perfectionist worldview of the Iranian artist (as it was before). This method allows the image of all spatial details in one frame and creates a suitable spatial impression in the viewer and facilitates the understanding of architectural space in the architectural design process. It is also possible to teach this method based on the principles and rules governing linear perspective in a way that is understandable to architecture students.
Architecture
Sh. Valadi; S. Alitajer; H. Khotanlou
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Background and Objective:The advancement of information technology in the field of portable technologies has made it possible to develop omnipresent learning. Mobile learning (learning everywhere) is a new learning environment in which the learner is placed in a real-world scenario, with access to online ...
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Background and Objective:The advancement of information technology in the field of portable technologies has made it possible to develop omnipresent learning. Mobile learning (learning everywhere) is a new learning environment in which the learner is placed in a real-world scenario, with access to online resources, through portable tools and wireless networks. On the other hand, augmented reality has helped to complement human sensory perceptions of the environment by positioning them in the middle of the real world and the virtual world and creating an environment in which virtual components are combined in a dynamic interaction with the real environment. Portable augmented reality technology is a great tool for adding content to field visits by adding virtual components and information to a specific physical location. Such a tool can change the student-centered and inactive educational process into a student-centered and active process by creating a self-sufficient learning situation for students. The learning environment resulting from the combination of the real world and the virtual world is effective in creating a valid learning environment for students. Numerous studies have examined the application of augmented reality technologies in various educational fields such as engineering, medicine, ecology, science, art, history, etc. This study has used a tool based on augmented reality technology to enhance the efficiency of regular visits in teaching technical courses in the field of architecture. Methods: This study is applied utilizing a quantitative research method. Participants included 73 students in the mechanical engineering course divided into experimental groups (38) and control group (35) after an initial theoretical training and administering pre-tests. The instruments in this study were tests and questionnaires. The experiment took place over a three-week period creating an active learning environment. Findings: The results of the study show that the application of the AR supplementary teaching tool contributes to enhance the students’ learning through the field visits and it is more effective than field visits in order to provide the satisfaction of learning approach and higher scientific validity from the students’ point of view. Conclusion: The use of AR technology and the focus on important points in field visits have made the teaching and learning process more efficient and enjoyable for students. From the students' point of view, the knowledge credibility of the activity designed for the experimental group was higher than the activity designed for the control group. The combination of building information in a simple and understandable software caused valid and superior knowledge.
Architecture
Kh. Daneshjoo; A. Hosseini Alamdari; M. Moeinipour
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Background and Objective:In the process of design development, it is the duty of the architect to find appropriate answers to design issues based on his experience and knowledge to provide the design goals considering diverse criteria. Therefore, the ability to create new and unknown solutions to issues, ...
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Background and Objective:In the process of design development, it is the duty of the architect to find appropriate answers to design issues based on his experience and knowledge to provide the design goals considering diverse criteria. Therefore, the ability to create new and unknown solutions to issues, commonly referred to as creativity, is one of the basic skills required from any architect. Responsiveness to the unique design issues requires a creative and flexible mindset. Accordingly, in teaching architecture, nurturing student creativity is critical to solving design issues. The present paper examines the extent of this goal realization in the undergraduate training course in architecture engineering in Iran. Methods: The present study is designed and implemented based on the exploratory mixing research method and the two paradigms of positivism and poststructuralism. In this regard, the research population was clustered based on MSRT’s qualitative classification, and one university was selected from the largest cluster (third grade universities). Considering the dual nature of creativity, using two standard tests of creativity (Torrance and Ned Herrmann), and the degree of creativity of students in the study process at the Malayer university was measured. In addition, the level of readiness of the educational environment for the development of creativity is also measured. In the next stage of the research, the appropriateness of the educational environment for improving creativity was examined based on five basic indicators. Graduated students were asked to evaluate their educational environment during their study in a closed-ended questionnaire based on these five criteria. Findings: The results of the research indicated that students did not increase their general creativity and significantly reduced their use of imagination and creativity as a tool for problem solving during the training period. Based on the results of the research, the instability of goals and design values during the course of the curriculum resulting from the structure of the educational system is a major factor in the disability of the educational environment in the development of student creativity. Conclusion: According to the results of examining general creativity of students, it seems that architecture education environment is useful for people with low general creativity, but it does not embrace very high creative students and provides conditions for high creativity to be suppressed and become close to the average creativity of the society. In general, this environment does not have a significant effect on the general creativity of the student community. On the other hand, a sharp decrease in the use of imaginative and creative thinking during the training course shows that the architectural design environment does not support and respect creative thinking and does not even tolerate creativity beyond a certain extent.
Architecture
F. Mozafar; F. Mahdizade Seraj; S.S. Mirmoradi
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With changes in lifestyle, children’s daily experience is separating the natural world. Can be said of children and nature connection in today’s world is a failure and one of the most important places for re-establishing this connection are schools. What it said in this article is various ...
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With changes in lifestyle, children’s daily experience is separating the natural world. Can be said of children and nature connection in today’s world is a failure and one of the most important places for re-establishing this connection are schools. What it said in this article is various aspects of functioning of nature in educational spaces. Difference in these aspects can be an important factor in how the design of natural spaces and how their presence in the educational spaces and spaces so this is efficient. This article recognition various nature’s potentials in the development and education of children and explores practical solutions for them.
Architecture
R. Rezazadeh; M. Mir Ahmadi
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Modeling and simulation of urban growth could be a good means for explaining the mutual relationship between the man made and natural environment, in order to assist planning decision makers in their decisions in complex situations. A cellular automaton is an effective method in explanation of urban ...
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Modeling and simulation of urban growth could be a good means for explaining the mutual relationship between the man made and natural environment, in order to assist planning decision makers in their decisions in complex situations. A cellular automaton is an effective method in explanation of urban growth processes and a useful means for evaluation of environmental and social consequences of various planning scenarios. This article reviews the application of cellular Automata method in urban growth modeling. Firstly it introduces the model, its major elements and principles. Secondly the operation for urban growth simulation is explained. The purpose of this article is to suggest ways in which researchers can model urban phenomena with Cellular Automata approach.
Architecture
M.H. Talebpour; V.R. Kalatjari
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Although GA optimization is among optimization methods, the method may not be successfully employed in all cases due to slow down in process and some other unknown parameters including the number of generations, cross over ratio, mutation ratio, and the selection process which cause local optimized points. ...
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Although GA optimization is among optimization methods, the method may not be successfully employed in all cases due to slow down in process and some other unknown parameters including the number of generations, cross over ratio, mutation ratio, and the selection process which cause local optimized points. In this paper a new approach is proposed to perform GA for optimization of cross section and topology of trusses that reduces such problems. A complete system with different sub sections, called island, is used to search in the design space. In each island, different operators and parameters are used separately. After some generations, depending on the migration ratio, the best chromosomes from each island alter the chromosomes with lower fitness in other island. Based on the proposed method, GA is continued until the global optimum with the least dependence on the GA parameters is achieved. The results were evaluated with some standard examples.
Architecture
J. Mahdinezhad; B. Ssaleh Sedghpour; R. Najjari
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Background and Objective:In tracing the recent crises of contemporary architecture, one of the roots of this crisis is the lack of attention and learning from traditional architecture in the educational system. Architecture education in Iran has been codified in the form of uniform programs, which has ...
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Background and Objective:In tracing the recent crises of contemporary architecture, one of the roots of this crisis is the lack of attention and learning from traditional architecture in the educational system. Architecture education in Iran has been codified in the form of uniform programs, which has overshadowed architecture. Fixed and uniform programs in higher education in architecture, in the field of architectural activity, have paid little attention to traditional architecture, which can be understood by going through the city and looking at the buildings built in recent years. In order to formulate an organized system for teaching architecture in educational centers, it is necessary to know the basic effective principles in architectural education. In educational processes, the relationship between traditional and modern education is decisive. The purpose of this relationship, in addition to the transfer of information, is to gain in-depth knowledge that is more important than the exact meaning of the message sent. In order to define the specific features of scientific communication, modern concepts in the form of new perspectives on educational methods should be used. This gives rise to new theories of communication that incorporate different ways of recognizing, learning, and transmitting information in order to make non-interrelationships between modern and traditional education. Learning from the potential of traditional architecture, especially Bazaars is helping to design modern commercial-social spaces in today's urban space. To create effective and dynamic urban spaces, that are in harmony with the social, cultural, environmental, physical, psychological and economic needs of the society people has always been the interest of, architects and urban planners. The purpose of this study is to construct, validate, stabilize and standardize the scale of socialization in traditional Bazaar. Methods: The construction of socialization -related items was conducted through an open interview selected by open and central coding, and after review, and evaluation of validity and reliability, 58 items were presented for the participants by eliminating problematic issues. The sample size is 326 which have been selected by random cluster sampling. In order to evaluate the internal coordination of the questions, differential coefficient method and to validate, the exploratory factor analysis, has been done. Finally, the normative table was presented for the main factors. Findings: Considering the results of the research, it can be concluded that this questionnaire has a proper validity and justifiability, and the factors that can be extracted from the factor analysis can measure the learning of traditional architecture. Conclusion: The findings indicate an acceptable initial validity and reliability for the sociability scale. To assess the validity of the questionnaire, exploratory factor analysis was used, which indicates the extraction of 12 components: Culture and belief, new business centers, activity-behavioral component, functional capability, socio-cultural component of the market, social factor, diversity and visual attractiveness, social mixing, physical component, structural values of place, environmental impact on place, physical quality, access and communication. The scale has sufficient factor load to predict the validation measurement tool, ensuring the degree of sociability.
Architecture
S. Azemati; F. Mozaffar; B. Saleh Sedgh Pour; S.B. Hosseini
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Background and Objectives:Today, the issue of teaching and learning patterns and group activities is one of the issues of interest in areas related to education in universities. How to achieve teaching-learning patterns has gained a special place among experts. In recent years, due to the increasing ...
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Background and Objectives:Today, the issue of teaching and learning patterns and group activities is one of the issues of interest in areas related to education in universities. How to achieve teaching-learning patterns has gained a special place among experts. In recent years, due to the increasing growth and scope of changes in educational methods, adapting the learning environment to all aspects of learner needs, has been the focus of education professionals. Because the physical environment, due to its structure, can strengthen or weaken the interactions and subsequent learning process, it is believed that new approaches are required for movement, teamwork and student dynamism. Therefore, defining the needs and how to organize the context in which such learning can emerge is of particular importance. Considering the effect that academic spaces can have on the audience and users of these spaces, the present study aims to provide guidelines for designing open university spaces based on increasing the vitality and social interactions among users and improving the level of education among them. The present research tries to identify the factors affecting the promotion of vitality and social interactions from the users' perspective, drawing the correlation between these factors in an analytical model. In the current study, both quantitative and qualitative research methods have been used. Method and Materials: After formulating the contents of the content table and the questionnaire, the sample size based on Klein's views reached 341 according to the number of questionnaires. Therefore, students from architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning and civil engineering at Iranian universities were randomly selected by cluster sampling. The data were analyzed by SPSS version 22 using R factor analysis. The model was developed by Amos. Findings: The results of this research indicated that social, physical, designing and psychological dimensions of the environment are influential. Conclusion: According to the results of previous studies and the present study, the existence of social, physical, design and environmental traits in the collective spaces of the university, can facilitate the necessary conditions to increase vitality, sociability and group activities. In this way, the existence of a spatial trait in open university public spaces, by increasing the possibility of vitality, facilitates the process of creativity and innovation for researchers and leads to socialization. Also, increasing the desire to do group and group activities and the possibility of solving problems in groups leads to improving the level of education among users. A review of this research reveals the fact that human behavior, collisions, and the use of space can be influenced by space and spatial communication, and ultimately lead to social vitality in collective centers.
Architecture
H.R. Azemati; S. Norouzian Maleki; N. Khan Vali
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One of the most important steps in planning the design of educational facilities, is attention to the physical safety of these spaces, especially in elementary schools. For this reason, the priority in the designing is safety of the child and then due to the flexibility of the environment and tools, ...
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One of the most important steps in planning the design of educational facilities, is attention to the physical safety of these spaces, especially in elementary schools. For this reason, the priority in the designing is safety of the child and then due to the flexibility of the environment and tools, to give the child's chance of imagination. This study aimed to evaluate the importance of physical security and safety, environmental variables that creates safety in the educational spaces, in order to achieve a more favorable atmosphere has been done. In case study examples, solutions can be found to solve the problem in schools and in planning for the future, measures to promote safety in our schools. The research study, so that in the first phase, the theoretical research gathered through library studies, that was based on the results of the research. In the next step is to test hypotheses, field studies and interviews have been done on 8 elementary schools in Rasht, and the questionnaires were distributed in two stages, the required results gathered and analyzed. The findings showed that for respondents so many factors such as correct location of schools, access, privacy and security in the performance of schools and educational facilities described have special significance, despite the fact that is, the level of security in schools body was moderate, however, physical security, enhancing the utility of educational facilities and increase children's learning outcomes will follow.
Architecture
Gh. Memarian; S.M. Hashemi Toghroljerdi; M. Hamzeh Nejad
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In recent decades, the need for interdisciplinary research in architectural education has become more evident. Meanwhile, designers implement objective and subjective interpretations for solving architectural problems. Therefore, the recognition of the conscious and unconscious mind of the architect ...
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In recent decades, the need for interdisciplinary research in architectural education has become more evident. Meanwhile, designers implement objective and subjective interpretations for solving architectural problems. Therefore, the recognition of the conscious and unconscious mind of the architect and users is becoming a prominent criterion in reading architecture. One of the teaching methods in Italy is the method of the Moratoria School of Architecture. This method is based on historical-evolutionary typology, which is formed in order to regenerate the historical chain reconstruction of the object, which is, a part of the unconscious mind of the architect. The advantages of this approach are the research process, education and design in order to achieve basic types in the regional, city, contextual, architectural scale that provides the option of following the method in other schools of architecture. Describing the Moratoria school, the paper employs the descriptive-analytical method to criticize the basis of intellectual thoughts and curriculum. The findings of this study can be used in type recognition in the residential complex studio in schools of architecture.
Architecture
M. Bisadi; F. Mozafar; B. Hosseini
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Nowadays، creativity and innovation، particularly in the field of research، are of an extreme importance. Group activities have a key role in this area. Accordingly، and owing to the effect of spaces on human beings، this paper has focused on the identification of space aspects that increase the ...
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Nowadays، creativity and innovation، particularly in the field of research، are of an extreme importance. Group activities have a key role in this area. Accordingly، and owing to the effect of spaces on human beings، this paper has focused on the identification of space aspects that increase the researchers’ creativity and innovation in an “architecture and urban design research center”. To achieve a set of desirable architectural attributes of the center’s public areas، four factors influencing creativity and innovation were taken into account which includes tranquility/physical comfort، motivation، creative thinking، and communication. Also، four spatial aspects، which affect these factors، were considered as privacy، beauty، spatial diversity/flexibility، andproximity/visibility. On the basis of the aforementioned factors and spatial aspects، a four-point Likert scale questionnaire was prepared to gather the researchers’ opinions. The statistical approach of Repeated Measure Analysis of Variance (RM-ANOVA) in the environment of SPSS software was employed to assess the questionnaires’ data. The rankings of factors influencing on the innovation and creativity، from the perspective of being affected by spatial aspects، were accordingly extracted
Architecture
S.M. Mofidi Shemirani; Sh. Pournaseri
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: Lighting Quality is one of the most effective factorson student’s performances. In respect of visual quality, high performance schools have valuable educational spaces and theses spaces creation is possible with proper design.The aim of present Article is to achive to the measure and effect process ...
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: Lighting Quality is one of the most effective factorson student’s performances. In respect of visual quality, high performance schools have valuable educational spaces and theses spaces creation is possible with proper design.The aim of present Article is to achive to the measure and effect process of various factors on proper daylighting in different classroom’s circumsments (16 tips). In this correlation research with modelling method – Structural Equation Modelling- in statistic case studies includes 2324 students, researcher made questionnaire is accomplished and through the causal relations modeling by path analysis, direct and indirect effects of window’s physical variables on daylighting studied.The research’s statistical case studies includes Tehran guidance schools. Among these population, girlish and boyish schools of three zone of Tehran (3,11&18) as the statistic case studies in sixteen types of classrooms – in order to control four variables; window’s orientation, window’s transparency, height of window’s okb and window’s glass percent – to answer the questionnaire – by the method of multi stage casual racemose – are selected. The questionnaire in several stages prepared and its validity and reliability is estimated. Questionnaire reliability measure (α= 0/825) and its validity is optained by content validity and construct validity. The research method is causal relations modeling by path analysis. Found model and its data tables shows the importance of four factors; "view and its effects", "glare", "lighting quality" and "window’s nonvisual effects". Among these factors, "view" factor is independent variable, "window’s nonvisual effects" is dependent variable and other factors are mediator variables. Furtheremore, hypothesis survey showed that controlled variables (window’s orientation, window’s transparency, height of window’s okb and window’s glass percent) are effective on measure and effect process in Tehran guidance schools classrooms daylighting.
Architecture
A. Sadoughi; Gh. Memarian; S.M. Fatemi; H. Kamali pour
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: Theoretical trainings, especially in the fields of art & architecture in graduate programs, have lead to basic theories of experts in different branches of these disciplines that are often instructed in a linear and unidirectional knowledge order in the classrooms. The qualitative approach which ...
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: Theoretical trainings, especially in the fields of art & architecture in graduate programs, have lead to basic theories of experts in different branches of these disciplines that are often instructed in a linear and unidirectional knowledge order in the classrooms. The qualitative approach which was introduced for the first time as a research in Iran university of Science & Technology (IUST) based on one of the qualitative research methods in environmental perception called Phenomenology. The fundamental goal of this method is to understand the lived-experience which is regarded here as a direct & lived interaction of students with the built environment. Therefore, an issue discussed from the syllabus of the review of reflections’ classroom, with the central idea of architectural formation, was the position of the sense of place and its architectural understanding. Thus, the students lived in the place, experience it and communicated with it by their placement somewhere that they have not already experienced it in a way different from the mere study. The result which ultimately obtained from this experience was the understanding of the sense of place, which is going back to the relation between user and architecture, by graduate architecture students which have previously thought of themselves as they are in the position of a rational analyzer.
Architecture
S. Nazi; A. Keshtkar Ghalati; R. Parvizi
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Narration in education by using all the elements of narrative literature is one of the active teaching methods. This method has already been used in teaching children and adolescents, but research about the application of method in different branches of academic education, such as engineering, medicine ...
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Narration in education by using all the elements of narrative literature is one of the active teaching methods. This method has already been used in teaching children and adolescents, but research about the application of method in different branches of academic education, such as engineering, medicine etc has recently started. Narration is one of the human mind bases for thinking in different areas of science and art. Considering the research topic is new, library studies ful bfiled first and then quasi-experimental study was used to prove the research results, Library studies was used by the researchers to compare the structure of both story and architecture in order to find their interactional relationship and bilateral effects on each. The psychological impact of narration on architecture education has been investigated in different subjects. A quasi-experimental study was carried out as two-groups, post-test only in faculty of architecture of Bushehr Azad University in 2010. Two groups each including 29 architecture students and achieved results were compared using t-test by SPSS software. As a result, considering to narrative nature of architecture, narration can be used in sense of space and architecture design. It is highly recommended to use narration in architecture education. It also helps the students to keep learned architecture concepts and ethic values in their mind for a long period of time. The mean of the total scores achieved by the lecture group was 11.7±1.31 and by storytelling group was 14.1±1.05 out of the total score 20. The difference between the two groups was statistically significant. The finding of this research can be applied in digital stories and, production of pedagogical books, films and computer games, which cause a familiarity with the architect tural by society as well as prepare children to understand the architecture.
Architecture
M. Shafaie; R. Madani
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In recent years, a significant population of children in Iran is caused a special attention towards the problem of educational spaces for children. Unfortunately in Iran, most schools and child care spaces are established in non-educational buildings (such as houses). Emphasizing on the advantages of ...
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In recent years, a significant population of children in Iran is caused a special attention towards the problem of educational spaces for children. Unfortunately in Iran, most schools and child care spaces are established in non-educational buildings (such as houses). Emphasizing on the advantages of environmental features that influence the human mind and his behavior, this study is seeking to achieve designing patterns for 3-6 years old children educational spaces. The Survey Research Method is used in this research. Based on the integration of related theories, the patterns are derived from the creativity model. The conclusion displays the patterns of children educational spaces for promoting their motivation and creativity, such as: the variability of space and its components, the interaction between indoor and outdoor spaces, diversity and game-making of the natural stimulus elements such as light, water and plants.
Architecture
Y. Gorji Mahlabani
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Nowadays, the concern about the future of architecture education has been growing. It seems that the existing models of teaching and practicing architecture may not be appropriate to address the challenges of tomorrow. Not only has there been little consideration of the future of architecture but even ...
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Nowadays, the concern about the future of architecture education has been growing. It seems that the existing models of teaching and practicing architecture may not be appropriate to address the challenges of tomorrow. Not only has there been little consideration of the future of architecture but even less about the inclusion of the futures thinking within the architectural curriculum. While thinking about future is so important, particularly for current students who lives and works the future. This paper presents arguments for the necessity of futures thinking within the architectural curriculum of tomorrow. In this regard, attention to future is investigated from modernism till now to gain the right view to past, today and future problems; specially criticized view to today problem in order to prepare the future. Concerns about today architecture and their solutions have been considered to find out the basis of future architecture education. In fact in this way not only has history of architecture taught but also future of architecture is considered. This article shaped based on a developing research. This kind of research is similar to applied researches. The goal of this research is the planning and codification of the problems about quality of architecture education in the future. So, firstly in this paper the condition and situation of today architecture education has studied and then (secondly) according to developing research results, the conclusion for solving the available problems has extracted. The aim of this research is to determine how available situation would improve or is there any method or model to improve this situation or not. Generally, it can be said that the aim of this article is in the area of improving the situations, methods, equipments and structures of architecture education in future in Iran .In order to data gathering in this article, the researcher used a combined method: analyzing the documents and references and using questionnaire method. In this method the results extracted from comparative literature about each part and quantitative data analyzing via evaluating the questionnaires by descriptive and inferential methods.
Architecture
M. Khakzand; F. Mozafar; M. Feizi; M. Azimi
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: This paper describes "Drawing Analogies", a shape based reminding program that uses freehand sketches to index and retrieve visual references for creative architectural designing.Architecture students and professional designers often employ reference images from books, magazines and other visual collections ...
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: This paper describes "Drawing Analogies", a shape based reminding program that uses freehand sketches to index and retrieve visual references for creative architectural designing.Architecture students and professional designers often employ reference images from books, magazines and other visual collections to find new forms and adapt them into their designs. Many designers indicate that, what architects imagine is the represent of what they have seen. So, it is evident that visual elements play a key role in design process. However, many architects believe that imagination is an essential factor in art and design while the investigation on its importance in architecture education is thoroughly neglected. In this paper, we investigate on imagination and analogy as potential aids to creative design and education. Some examples of how the designers use drawing and describe their approach to find similar visual analogies are also presented. We argue that a graphical reminding scheme based on sketching can help the designers to find interesting references from various domains. Finally, we discuss the ways of using diagrams and freehand sketches as visual sources and explain how students can retrieve them in creative architectural design process.
Architecture
B. Hassani; A. Ganjali; M. Emdadi
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: Numerical methods, especially the Finite Element method, are increasingly being used for solving different problems. Due to fact that these methods are approximate, having a good understanding and judgment about the errors and their distribution is very important. Hence education of users of engineering ...
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: Numerical methods, especially the Finite Element method, are increasingly being used for solving different problems. Due to fact that these methods are approximate, having a good understanding and judgment about the errors and their distribution is very important. Hence education of users of engineering analysis and design software is necessary and inattention to it may result in catastrophe. As regards this issue, the problem of determining the stress intensity factor in a cracked plate under tensile stresses, by using the finite element method together with error estimation and adaptivity, is the subject of this article. For this purpose, an academic FORTRAN code has been developed which is able to estimate the finite element solution error by using the superconvergent patch stress recovery method. In addition, an adaptive solution with remeshings in each step is carried out to improve the quality of the employed finite element mesh. Comparing the obtained results with the analytical solution, as well as the ANSYS commercial software, it is observed that the employed algorithm for error estimation has a better performance and can be used for determination of the stress intensity factor in complex structures with arbitrary cracks.
