Creative City Design
Volume:7 Issue: 4, Oct 2024

Nowadays, due to the increase in diseases, patients spend a long time in hospitals; Therefore, these centers are important as a container for the treatment and recovery of the patient. In the modern world, where most of the treatment spaces rely on technology and the advancement of medical methods, nature, an effective factor on the treatment and human health, has been given less attention, and as a result, the environment of the treatment centers has turned into dry and soulless spaces. This research was carried out with the aim of explaining the effective indicators in the quality of therapeutic spaces with the attitude of biophilic architecture from the point of view of the treatment staff, patients and companions. In the qualitative part, targeted sampling was done with 30 experts and professors of architecture and an exploratory interview was conducted with them. The quantitative part was selected by random cluster sampling of a hospital in Kerman city and the questionnaire was completed with its clients and medical staff. The minimum sample size with a variance of 1 and an error of 0.1 was considered to be 384 people. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by using the opinions of experts and architectural specialists, and its reliability is also based on Cronbach's alpha coefficient equal to 0.879, which indicates the high reliability and appropriateness of the tool. The results of the research show that proximity to water, landscape, thermal diversity and air flow, visual connection with nature, dynamic and diffused light are the most important characteristics of biophilic architecture to improve the quality of therapeutic spaces.

Urban historical and religious textures possess strong social, cultural, and physical dimensions. Implementing new projects and structures in such textures that contradict their physical-cultural background can have contradictory effects on these dimensions and lead to dissatisfaction among local residents as the main owners of the texture. The worn-out texture of Mashhad city is also currently facing various unregulated interventions, which have increased local dissatisfaction and caused numerous physical-cultural and social problems that need to be addressed. The aim of this research is to determine the context and backgrounds of creating satisfaction among local residents in the revitalization of the neighborhood surrounding the Holy Shrine of Imam Reza (AS) with a physical-cultural contextual approach. To this end, a qualitative method based on the grounded theory method was used based on the systematic approach of Strauss and Corbin. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews and purposive sampling from among 30 experts, officials, and local people. To extract the components, the interviews were categorized and analyzed using MAXqda 18 software based on open, axial, and selective coding. The results showed that five main contexts, namely causal conditions, contextual conditions, intervening conditions, strategies, and finally consequences, can be identified with a total of 17 important sub-components. These components can create and strengthen the satisfaction of local people with the intervention in the renovation of the Holy Shrine of Imam Reza, and can lead to the implementation of a complex and intertwined system that is considered effective in the renovation and reproduction of the historical and religious texture of the Holy Shrine of Imam Reza (AS), which is also in line with contextual architecture in Iran.

Design is a creative process that begins with a spark of imagination and culminates in the creation of a visually appealing product or structure. This journey is the embodiment of the designer's thoughts and ideas, which are expressed in the form of a final plan and the overall concept of the work. However, along the way, challenges may arise that require attention and resolution when necessary. Therefore, identifying and categorizing these challenges is also one of the important actions that architectural designers should not overlook. So in this research, which was conducted by a simple review method with a descriptive approach, the methods of design and the existing problems in this field are discussed. The results of this study showed that there are four methods analogical, pattern.based, logical, and theoretical, on which many buildings have been designed. The formation of the concept in the design process also involves various types of concepts under the titles: analogical, metaphorical, essential, programmatic, and idealistic, which are derived from design problems that may be extracted using one of the eight methods of theme, analogy, metaphor, experience, symbolism, context, scheme, scenario. The final results of the research showed that in design and concept creation, numerous problems can be identified in two main groups, which can be classified under the titles of: problems outside the designer (design problems) and problems related to the designer, each of which also has its own components.

The objective of the current study is investigating the use of water in the traditional architecture of Qajar Period in Yazd City and the manner of thematic dispersion in the area under study. The research has employed mixed methods (Qualitative and quantitative). In order to identify the aspects of using water in the traditional architecture, the interpretive historical method was employed. The mentioned aspects were prioritized by using Delphi Method (experts’ panel) and questionnaires (spectral checklist). Finally, in order to draw the zoning maps, GIS Software, Version 3.3 was used. Results showed that a total of fifteen components were identified in the form of two main aspects (conceptual and physical) as the main components of using water in the traditional architecture in Yazd Province. The component of “hierarchy” with the weight factor of 4.63 and the component of “color” with the weight factor of 4.44 were the most significant ones and the component of “empty space”, with the weight factor of 2.41 was recognized as the least significant one. With regards to six aspects of using water, there was no difference among the cities of Yazd Province, and the type of attitude to these components was equal throughout the province to a great extent. With regards to the components of transparency, hierarchy, color, environmental health and nature, some differences were observed throughout the province, in such a way that these components mostly play a role and are significant at the center of the province (Yazd City) and the west side of the province. Yazd province has been very progressive and diverse in the field of water application in architecture, so that all dimensions and functional components of water have been reflected in the architecture of the Qajar period.

In modern houses, spatial and structural relationships and lifestyle have led to changes in the morphology and meaning of housing. The main objective of this research is to evaluate the effective physical.environmental components in open spaces to enhance the sense of place in residential complexes in the middle context of Mashhad. The combined approach of this research is initially based on theoretical foundations and a conceptual model has been extracted. Then, the components of the research model are divided into two categories: quantitative and qualitative. At first,qualitative data was collected based on the direct observation method, and then a comparative qualitative analysis was performed according to the six components of the research. In the quantitative part, based on the results of qualitative analysis from two dimensions,the effective factors on enhancing the sense of place have been investigated: Confirmatory factor analysis and hierarchical analysis. In the first part, the viewpoints of citizens have been analyzed based on five main factors including form, location, furniture and equipment,landscape,location and natural elements of the complex with Lavaan software. The second part, which is related to the review of the experts' questionnaire, the Delphi technique,has also been analyzed with the help of the AHP ranking method and Expert Choice software. Finally in order to increase the sense of belonging to the place in the Sazman Ab complex, some strategies such as Spatial connection and coherence between different spaces of the residential complex, Observance of privacy in the residential space interior design in order to increase the sense of belonging to the place, Using materials and nostalgic elements of identity to create memories and stimulate residents to interact more and feel belonging to the place and Designing flexible and multifunctional spaces can be devoted.

Learning always occurs in the environment and environmental factors and conditions are unconsciously involved in the quality of education, so the environment as an educational place is important in terms of quality. The elements of the environment as non-formal education form an important part of the trainings outside the workshop locations. As a behavioral setting, environments are made up of elements that have meaning together. The characteristics and quality of each of these elements are effective in the formation of the type of learning. The purpose of this research is to change the environmental conditions in order to increase creativity by using experimental designs. This research is using causal-comparative method in A-B-A experimental designs. Targeted-cluster sampling of first-year and final-year students is used, and the sample size of students is determined by the available method with sufficient quantity. For both groups, control and test groups are considered. The results show that Torrance's creativity variables have grown in the group of first-year students, and the highest growth is related to the flexibility variable with a value of (1.000) and the lowest related to the variable Fluency is (0.589) in the fourth year group, the difference between the average coefficients between the post-test and the pre-test is much higher, and the highest level of improvement in flexibility and fluency variable is (1.000) and the lowest is related to expansion with the value is (0.851).