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Highlights:

• Todays, Urban Heat Island phenomena is one of main issue in Bioclimatic architecture studies.
• Applying the air pollution Model (TAPM) with pollution and wind data can help to simulate wind pattern in Karaj city.
• Survey of atmospheric conditions and synoptic map are essential for the principles of bioclimatic architecture.
• There is an severe degradation in air quality at November 25 that caused Urban Heat Island phenomena in Karaj.

Highlights:

• Window configuration effects on the intensity and uniformity of daylight
• Uniformity increase and glare reduction by light shelves and roof monitors
• Best “daylight performance, better daylight intensity and uniformity via a roof monitor
• Even daylight distribution in sun condition and less overall daylight in overcast, utilizing light shelves

Highlights:

• Developing map-based methods could pave the way for understanding urbanscape more effectively.
• Cognitive maps often provide an image of physical dimensions and structural perception of urbanscape.
•  Narrative maps provide us with deeper layers of individuals’ perception of urban environment.
• Evaluative maps help us to find and measure meanings and concepts of a place. 

Highlights:

• the Quality of Local Cultural Spaces are the necessary environment for social relations and face-to-face communication of residents of urban area.
• physical factors are affective in the quality of cultural spaces.
• Cultural area is a suitable space for creativity and choices, actions and exchange of investment.
• cultural spaces are deemed as places for activity and considered as city places.
• formation of cultural-social selective activity is in direct relationship with quality of these spaces.  

Highlights:

• The RT values and the sound insulation are the main parameters of measurement.
• The auditorium can be defined through the computer simulation utilizing ODEON ver. 4.2.
• The measured parameters used to define the speech intelligibility of an auditorium.

Highlights:

• Preference for visiting urban parks in different group users was investigated.
• A survey on 275 visitors of two popular urban parks in Gorgan was conducted. 
• Visitors rated their preference on four activities: relaxation, socializing, nature involvement, and playing activities.
• Relaxation and nature involvement was chosen as the most preferred activities.
• Socializing and playing had the least preferred activities.
• A significant difference in two variables: relaxation and nature involvement activity was found among marital status and visitor age groups.

Highlights:

• The question of ornament, surface and appearance in architecture is elaborated.
• Surface can be defined as more than a 2D phenomenon – i.e. with a thickness.
• Semper’s “Principle of Cladding” led to Modernist metaphors, concepts and ideas.
• Though related, “Woven Walls” and “Clothed Walls” are very different.
• Instead of visual barriers or covering layers, surfaces produce architecture.

Highlights:

• The acoustic quality of an auditorium is elaborated.
• The RT values and the sound insulation are the main parameters of measurement.
• The auditorium can be defined through the computer simulation utilizing ODEON ver. 4.2.
• The measured parameters used to define the speech intelligibility of an auditorium.