Volume 28, Issue 2 (2018)  

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XML Spatiotemporal analysis of Shiraz metropolitan area expansion during 1986-2014: Using remote sensing imagery and landscape metrics.
A. Azhdari , A. A. Taghvaee * , R. Kheyroddin
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XML Semiotics of behavioral settings in educational spaces, emphasizing the social value of spaces (Case study of Islamic Art Faculty and Architecture and Art Faculty of Azad University of Tabriz)
S. Beyraghi , L. Balilan asl *
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  • Research issues were studied with different approaches in anatomy and landscapes. Among different buildings of Tabriz universities
  •  two faculties of Art and Architecture and Islamic Art Faculty were selected by the recommendation of architectural experts due to different anatomies from the historical perspective and the modernity of the spaces, differences in the social spaces
  • Islamic Art University with higher average of factor in shaping behavioral settings in compared to Azad University
  • Comparing the variables in questionnaire survey, the variable of perceptual dimensions of individuals in dealing with the environment has a higher effective percentage (85.63%) compared to other variables in the formation of behavioral settings. Emotional dimension and visual importance of the place in the people’s perception has the effective percentage of 80% compared to other variables of environmental perception


XML Evaluating the Compatibility between Urban Researches and Contemporary Urban Challenges in Iran
G. Vahidi Borji * , F. Aliakbari
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  • The findings showed that the researches conform to problems with regard to themes approximately 78 percent but the importance and preference of both themes and axial codes in researches differ from the existing problems which indicate the irrelevancy of some researches to concerning problems.
  • The ambiguity in determining the needs and disregarding the local context as well as, the researches valuation based on global topics lead to the increase of researchers' enthusiasm to select the topics which are unrelated to Iranian urban context and encourage them to select the topics that are covered in the global urban communities.
  • using social Media can help to determine the temporary urban problems. For they are one of the best resources in which the urban challenges as well as, the opportunities and threats faced by the city are discussed and reflected.  


XML The study of architecture students' learning styles and their relationships with gender, academic performance and duration of study in this discipline
S. S. Mirmoradi *
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  • The dominant learning style of architectural student is Diverging.
  • Small percentage of students in architecture has Convergent learning style.
  • Duration of education is not an effective factor in students' learning style.
  • Diverging Male students have a higher academic performance. 


XML Redesigning Bazaar Physical Structure According to its Dealing Culture Structure- Case Study: Arab Bazaar in Ahvaz City
H. Normohammadzad * , S. Makki
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  • Using the ethnographic method to discover the culture structure
  • Discovering the dealing culture structure in the model format
  • Comparison the proportion of two physical structure and culture structure in bazaar
  • Designing bazaar physical structure in accordance with the culture structure


XML Case study: Redesigning a Kansei Engineering Designed Scissors by User Centered Design Approach
S. Ebrahimi , N. Koleini mamaghani * , S. R. Mortezaei , M. Saffar dezfouli
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  • KE process based on common available products that had been designed and used before, and the UCD process not necessarily needs available products or concepts.
  • In KE, designers or researchers one time only meet end users and collect their perceptions, but in the most parts of UCD users are present.
  • In this research continuation of KE to UCD helped designers and researchers to connect with end users more and more and maybe that high satisfactory could be the result of this connection. 
  • In KE, researcher use a semantic differential based form to achieve user’s feelings but in UCD with some interviews, users use non-technical words to describe what they need or want. So it seems that KE findings are more valid.
  • KE can be a kind of UCD but just with focus on perceptions and feelings when UCD focuses on needs and requirements.


XML Assessment of Soundscape Quality of Naghsh-e-Jahan Square in Isfahan
M. Ghalehnoee * , A. Ghaffari , N. Mohsen-Haghighi
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  • Natural and biological sounds are more preferred rather than technical and transportation sounds.
  • Sound maps for 3 temporal frames are produced (day time, evening time, night time)
  • The method allows a visualization of dynamic nature of soundscape (24 hour period)
  • Recommendations for improvements can be derived


XML Investigating the effect of family structure changes on houses' spatial organization using grounded theory: A case study of the houses of Yazd
E. Fallah , I. Hojat *
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  • The omission of gender and age hierarchy in structuring spaces.
  • Centrality of individuals in structuring spaces.
  • A decrease in the fluidity of spaces.
  • A change in the qualities expected from houses (home is a place for resting at nights).


XML An Approach for Extracting the Main Characteristics of a Smart City
A. Rahmanzadeh , H. Haghighi * , A. Tarihi
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