Mitra Ghafourian, Elham Hesari, Mina Peysokhan,
Volume 3, Issue 2 (9-2015)
Abstract
Looking at the structure of the cities, especially older parts of the city, it is seen that most of the urban public parts and elements are constructed not with any reliance on state resources and credits, but based on the consecration systems and public investments. Added to the sublime religious, social and economic values latent in the consecration culture, its impact in creating identity and sense of attachment to urban places is also notable. It seems that the effect of creating identities that the consecrated places create in the social-physical frame of the cities, can today be stressed upon as a proper response to the shortcomings of the citizens' social relations and lack of the sense of belonging to the city. The main aim of this study is to recognize the role of consecrated elements in the social-physical identification in urban neighborhoods on the one hand and to determine the effects of this valuable culture in reinforcing social interactions and improving the sense of belonging to the physical spaces of the cities, on the other hand. The research method of this study includes two stages: the first was implemented with a descriptive-analytic method and was based on library sources that provide the theoretical framework of the study and the second stage that was incorporated with the survey method, using questionnaires, which were distributed among the residents of district 12 neighborhoods of Tehran. The results indicate that the consecrated places, because of their unique characteristics in the city's social-physical frame, have effectively caused the firmness of identity and consistency in urban life in these neighborhoods.
Mitra Kazemeini, Mitra Ghafourian, Elham Hesari,
Volume 8, Issue 1 (Spring 2020 2020)
Abstract
Identity has become one of the most fundamental and important issues in people’s various areas of life in today's society, especially in countries like Iran has in the contemporary era. It seems that people who live in the modern society have multiple identities that should be recognized well. Identity of a place is one of the aspects understood as a way of communication between people and places through culture, history, collective memory, the type and nature of technology, performances, signs, forms and symbols of the city and visual and physical features. In this study, one of the categories of place identity, identity in the neighborhoods of Iran’s cities, was investigated. Existence of neighborhoods in the structure of historical cities in Iran, as a key element of the body of the city, balanced social life in cities. Neighborhoods as places of human life not only could affect the environment, but also improved the quality of social life. Hence, the aim of this study is to recognize the social variables affecting the identity of the neighborhoods of Islamic-Iranian’s cities. In this study both qualitative and quantitative methods were used. To do so, at first the concept of identity was identified through the studies of documents of experts’ ideas and social variables affecting identity were extracted. Then, the variables identified by questionnaires and random sampling among 100 residents of the neighborhood of Shanbedi in Bushehr were evaluated and reviewed. The results of the evaluation and analysis of factor analysis and Pearson correlation, which was used as a statistical method in this research, indicated that there is a strong, significant and meaningful relationship between the variables of sense of belonging, peace and image of identity and each of the factors with different effectiveness affects the idea of neighborhoods and peace had the strongest correlation with identity. Furthermore, the criterion of security is a variable which had a moderate and significant correlation with identity.
Mahsa Norouzi, Mitra Ghafourian, Zahra Barzegar,
Volume 12, Issue 1 (3-2024)
Abstract
The model of housing based on the religion of Islam in order to create a residence and obtain peace for the family depends on responding to their fixed and changing needs. Considering that the housing body is a container in which the family community is formed, the need to adapt the housing to the growth of the family as changing needs and respond to it over time in order to achieve the stability of the family community is important. In the meantime, the "expansibility" can be effective in climate stability in addition to social stability by making adaptations or changes in housing components according to the changing needs of residents. Given the high consumption of fossil fuels, designing and constructing residential buildings compatible with the climate is essential in order to reduce energy consumption. In fact, the use of private courtyards on the floors of residential units, in addition to creating a platform for the development of building walls, helps to provide light to the interior spaces and control the climatic conditions. The aim of the present research is to identify the optimal model of social-climatic expandable housing that is suitable for the growth of the family. In this way, the research question was formed in search of a housing model that, in addition to the expandability of the housing components in the courtyard of the apartment, also provides climate efficiency. This article focuses on the topic of social sustainability in housing by examining the expansion of its components in the courtyard of the apartment and it also addresses the topic of climate sustainability by assessing the amount of radiation received by expansible walls in the courtyard. The use of both qualitative and quantitative methods to identify the social-climatic expandable housing pattern has led, in the first stage, to the presentation of the expandable patterns A, B, and C in the courtyard of a residential apartment. Then, based on quantitative methods with simulations of the patterns in EnergyPlus software, the optimal pattern was identified. As the main result of this research, by comparing the amount of radiation received from the south, east and west in the cold, moderate and hot months of the same direction units, the best units in the SW direction belong to building B, in the NE and NW direction belong to building C, in the SE direction It belongs to A and C buildings.
