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Seyede Fereshteh Ehsani Oskouei; Jamal- E-Din Mahdinejad
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With women's increased presence at home, they are disproportionately affected by unfavorable living conditions. This situation makes it essential to consider their lifestyle, needs, and preferences when designing housing. This study employed an exploratory approach, using qualitative research methods ...
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With women's increased presence at home, they are disproportionately affected by unfavorable living conditions. This situation makes it essential to consider their lifestyle, needs, and preferences when designing housing. This study employed an exploratory approach, using qualitative research methods such as semi-structured interviews and observations to collect data. The sample consisted of twenty purposefully selected women aged 20 to 40 residing in Tehran province. The data collected from interviews was coded using MAX QDA software, resulting in the identification of key themes and patterns. Besides that, behavior-oriented and spatial-oriented diagrams were drawn based on field observations of residential units. The findings highlight the pivotal role of rooms within residential spaces in women's lives, and it revealed that the contemporary social, economic, and cultural conditions of Iran have shaped a distinct lifestyle among women in this age, significantly impacting their housing preferences. Key design components for rooms in residential apartment units, based on the perspectives of young women, include perceived environmental characteristics such as “efficiency and functionality, beauty and order, privacy, flexibility and adaptability, cleanliness, and hygiene”. Additionally, physical attributes such as “the number of closets and storage spaces, lighting, room size and its other proportions, spatial configuration, noise pollution, interior furniture and its arrangement, texture, and color of materials, window views and their exposure, ventilation conditions, heating and cooling, the number of bedrooms, and form and geometry “.To accommodate the lifestyle of young women, it is important to consider suitable spaces for sleeping, working, and leisure, as well as ensuring personal solitude and incorporating individual tastes and cultural sensitivities in room design. These findings have practical implications for architects, interior designers, and developers involved in housing design. By incorporating the identified design components, housing can be tailored to meet the multifaceted requirements of young women, promoting their comfort and satisfaction.
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Farhad Karvan
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The design process in architecture is one of the curricula of the field of architecture that is taught at different educational levels. For optimal educational planning, it is necessary to identify the variables related to it. Among the variables related to the design process and method are the epistemological ...
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The design process in architecture is one of the curricula of the field of architecture that is taught at different educational levels. For optimal educational planning, it is necessary to identify the variables related to it. Among the variables related to the design process and method are the epistemological beliefs and cognitive load of the learners. The purpose of the current research was to investigate the relationship between scientific epistemological and cognitive load with ideation in the design process of architecture students. The research method is a combination of quantitative (descriptive-correlation) and qualitative (analyzing samples of students' Sketches). Its statistical population included all architecture girl students in Hamadan universities. The desired sample of 120 people was selected in an accessible way. Scientific epistemology, cognitive load and idea evaluation scale questionnaires were used in the design. The research data were analyzed by descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation, skewness and skewness statistics) and inferential statistics (Pearson's correlation and path analysis with the calculation of its defaults). The results of the research showed that there is a relationship between the beliefs of scientific epistemology and cognitive load with ideation in the design process of architecture students and it has provided a framework for recognizing and explaining the theoretical relationships between the components of scientific epistemological beliefs, cognitive burdens and the idea of Sketches. The learning process in architectural design and cartography courses includes the stages of analytical comprehension, critical thinking, and creative processing, so scientific epistemological belief and cognitive balance or cognitive load are good explanations and predictors for ideas in students. Based on the results of the research, it is suggested to pay attention to the reduction of Intrinsic and Extraneous cognitive load in planning the education of architecture students, as well as Germane cognitive processing so that they can make better progress in the field of design. The development of scientific epistemological beliefs is also recommended for generating and analyzing ideas.
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Fatemeh samipour; mostafa pourali; marzieh kazemzadeh
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Territorial behaviors are one of the most important and influential behaviors related to the environment and the use of it. Therefore, if the space is in accordance with these behaviors, it can lead to an increase in the quality of the environment and it makes them use it more and better. In line with ...
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Territorial behaviors are one of the most important and influential behaviors related to the environment and the use of it. Therefore, if the space is in accordance with these behaviors, it can lead to an increase in the quality of the environment and it makes them use it more and better. In line with the study of women's territorial behavior, the present research seeks to identify a concept called "semi-private territories" and achieve its characteristics in public spaces, which according to the research conducted and the hypothesis of the research, is compatible with the territorial behavior of women. It is also in line with women spatial preferences in public spaces. After conducting library studies and compiling the research literature, field studies have been used in a qualitative way using interview tools and contextual conversations to achieve the research goals. In fact, in order to explain the concept of semi-private territories and its characteristics, the opinions of various women in relation to their spatial preferences and territorial behavior in public spaces have been collected and analyzed. The qualitative analysis of the findings has been done in the form of coding and in the platform of Atlas.ti8 software. Based on this, with the study of women's territorial behavior, the concept of "semi-private territory" is defined. The semi-private territory is a territory that is neither completely private nor public, which, while being located in a public arena, has characteristics close to and similar to private territories, but has less public characteristics. These territories have characteristics such as: relative privacy and coziness, relative separation of space by visual and non-visual limits and boundaries, reducing the amount of access to the space compared to the public territory, etc, which is in accordance with the territorial behavior of women in public spaces and provides the necessary conditions for their presence in the space
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Mehdi Hamzeh Nezhad; Soolmaz Aghaie
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Since women make up half of the structure of the Islamic community, it is very important to address them in worship-political arenas. The importance of this issue has been shown more than before with the Islamic Revolution, the emphasis of Imam Khomeini (PBUH) and Imam Khamenei. Mosques and Mosalla of ...
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Since women make up half of the structure of the Islamic community, it is very important to address them in worship-political arenas. The importance of this issue has been shown more than before with the Islamic Revolution, the emphasis of Imam Khomeini (PBUH) and Imam Khamenei. Mosques and Mosalla of the country are conceived as the most important parts of women’s worship-political presence. As surveys show, a new pattern of women’s Shabestan (nightlife) has been formed in Mosalla, a pattern which is somewhat different from the original patterns of mosques and Mosalla. The current research aims to investigate the typology of contemporary and historical mosques and Mosalla, examining their compliance with Islamic values and providing a more consistent pattern with the Islamic and Revolutionary theoretical foundations. Therefore, some ways and methods are presented for future design of women’s Shabestan. Research methods include logical reasoning in order to set theoretical foundations, history studies in order to examine historical examples, and logical reasoning for ultimate inferences. Based on the research findings, women’s Shabestan space was simple in the earlier mosques, and it was separated from the main Shabestan using only one barrier. Over the historical course, more separation of space has occurred resulting in a more sophisticated and decorated space for men and marginalization of women space. Today, three general patterns can be identified in women’s section in Mosalla. Among these patterns, women’s Shabestan in the form of balcony (like letter U) is more prevalent. The current study aims to provide architectural solutions to improve the quality of contemporary common patterns through examining their benefits and advantages.
