Sanaz Litkouhi, Sepideh Sanjari,
Volume 2, Issue 1 (6-2014)
Abstract
This article seeks to compare the standards of urban life quality and extracted concepts of Islamic city based on four causes of architecture.
The main reason of this research is comparing what researchers mentioned as urban life quality criteria and standards and features of an Islamic city drawn by the Islamic sources.
All the schools of architecture and urban designing agree that the most important goal of designing is to meet the physical and psychological needs of mankind with the highest quality. Although there is not an exact definition of quality of life that all researchers agree on, but it is possible to achieve the main standards and features by reviewing the studies that have been done about this subject.
To achieve to this goal, the criteria of urban life quality from the western point of view have been studied and classified while extracting, to make it possible evaluating the features quantitatively. Besides features of Islamic utopia are studied and extracted from both religious references and ancient Islamic cases.
The main issue for comparing the results is the effect of architects and urban designers' points of view and believes on urban spaces. In fact subjective cause between four causes of architecture is the main source of architectural inspiration. Therefore, the extracted criteria of life quality have been studied based on this scale and results show that, only 1% of urban life quality features are driven from this point of view. In other words just 1% of these features have been considered for meeting clients’ spiritual needs, while this ratio in Islamic city features is much bigger and it means that the role of architects and designers believes is too important in Islamic view. Believing in God's wisdom and the ::::union:::: behind the diversity that could be seen in Islamic architecture, make Islamic architects’ view more comprehensive and wiser than other designers.
To sum up, Islamic utopia tries to achieve a better human being life by meeting their physical, psychological and especially spiritual needs. Shortly, it illustrates the intention of “Remembrance” in architecture and urban designing.
Sanaz Litkouhi, Zhaleh Ameli,
Volume 12, Issue 4 (12-2024)
Abstract
The mosque has been at the turning point of urban design in Iran's urban planning and has always been considered a part of the city's current life requirements. The low level of people visiting mosques, and also the lack of attention to sustainable architecture in recent years, are discussed as the main issues of this research. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to achieve the components of attracting different layers of society to the mosque and also to find sustainable architectural solutions that can be used in the design of mosques from the perspective of the audience and users of the mosque. This research has been done by analytical-descriptive method and field studies (questionnaire) have been used in it.The statistical population of this research was different strata living in Kashan, as well as architecture students and professors. This research seeks to find answers to two main questions: How can the elements that have been formed in the architecture of mosques for centuries be presented in a new way and at the same time, while maintaining the architectural values of Kashan, move in the direction of sustainable architecture? And is it possible to attract more people to attend the mosque by diversifying the functions of the mosque in such a way that there is no disruption in the transmission of spiritual concepts to the audience? The influencing factors of the mosque design, were used in the questionnaire and distributed among 384 people, and then the data were examined and tested after collection.The results of the research showed that the sustainability, physical, functional and psychological components are very effective in attracting maximum users of the mosque with the approach of sustainable architecture in the city of Kashan and are directly related to the design of the mosque with the desired characteristics in this research. Also It was confirmed that Contextualism and attention to the rich architecture in the old buildings of Kashan are suitable solutions to move towards the sustainable mosque, and the functional diversity of the mosque and its integration with public uses are effective in attracting people to the mosque.
