sarasadat tejareh; Farah Habib; Hadiseh Kamran Kasmaei
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This study aimed to develop a conceptual model to use the biomimicry approach in design of building envelopes to improve urban ecology. The research was descriptive-analytical and the required data were provided by library and field studies of buildings designed with biomimicry approach. For this purpose, ...
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This study aimed to develop a conceptual model to use the biomimicry approach in design of building envelopes to improve urban ecology. The research was descriptive-analytical and the required data were provided by library and field studies of buildings designed with biomimicry approach. For this purpose, first, biomimicry approach was identified, then twenty samples of biomimetic envelopes designed by architects around the world were examined and components and criteria were extracted from them. The dependency system of the criteria was measured and the importance of each criterion was determined using a network analysis process with a survey of twenty elites and experts in this field and they were weighted with the help of Super-decisions software. As a result, for functional, physical, and formal components, the relevant criteria and sub-criteria were determined according to their importance. Then, a conceptual model of quality evaluation of building envelopes with biomimicry approach was developed. The novelty of this research is the study of biomimicry approach in Iranian envelopes with nature-oriented design. In this regard, using a quality evaluation model, Barin ski building was evaluated so that according to its strengths and weaknesses, designers can make more effective decisions in design of biomimetic building envelopes in Iran.
Farzad Farnad; Hadiseh Kamran Kasmaei; Mehdi Khakzand; Gholamhossein Memarian
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the variables that form the courtyard system of Kashan houses (from a morphological point of view), to improve the climatic comfort of the house in Kashan and to determine the significant of correlation between them. These variables include length, width, height, ...
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the variables that form the courtyard system of Kashan houses (from a morphological point of view), to improve the climatic comfort of the house in Kashan and to determine the significant of correlation between them. These variables include length, width, height, courtyard elongation, garden pit, pond area, garden area, number of courtyard, number and location of the Sardab and Houzkhane and the orientation of the courtyard. The study area of the old urban fabric of Kashan, which is surrounded by Jalali fort and the statistical population is houses in the old part of city. The type of applied research and descriptive research method is using statistics, analysis based on SPSS outputs and content analysis. In this study, twenty houses were selected as a sample from the statistical population and each of the research variables was reviewed based on field visits and written sources and checked for Pearson correlation and summarized by content analysis and then concluded. This study is innovative in terms of number and type of variables and examining the correlation between variables for the courtyard of Kashan houses. The results show that the central courtyards of Kashan have an average area of 440.6 m2, length 33.8 m, width 17.5 m, body depth 6.75 m, central courtyard elongation 1.38, pond area 48.7 m2 The area of the garden is 86.6 m2, the percentage of the area of the pond from the yard is 10.98, the percentage of the area of the garden from the yard is 19.7, the average number of yards is 1.55, the average number of Sardaab is 1.75, 50% have a pond and 70% have a garden pit and 65% have a southeast orientation. have a . The variables of width and length and yard area and pond area and garden area are correlated with each other and yards with an area of more than 500 square meters have two Sardab.
