Urban Design
yaser shahbazi; Azita Balali Oskui; elham shahabi
Abstract
Flexibility index was added in the functional dimension as an effective factor for realizing the origin of desirability and promoting the creation of territorial perception. Flexibility refers to flexible furniture design and the flexible use of space in the form of both socialization and desocialization. ...
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Flexibility index was added in the functional dimension as an effective factor for realizing the origin of desirability and promoting the creation of territorial perception. Flexibility refers to flexible furniture design and the flexible use of space in the form of both socialization and desocialization. Culture is one of the most influential factors in determining territories, and differences in cultures demand the diversity and flexibility of territories. For example, within the scope of A and C, geometry provides flexibility in socialization and desocialization space. Face-to-face communication is possible in social organizations, and the distance between sitting spaces is within socio-advisory intervals. Organizing desocialization brings about social interaction. These practices should also be used in the design of public spaces. In public or semi-public places, spaces are sometimes considered as community-friendly places for people’s visits and sometimes as vacant spaces. According to John Lang, it should not be assumed that face-to-face relationship reduces the presence of people in social spaces. For such behaviors, there should be a previous inclination, and the territory should be in places acceptable to the people. Urban spaces should emphasize human pauses and must include factors such as good artistic design, proper spatial structure, hierarchy, physical comfort, flexibility of security, readability, engagement and popular participation, identity and cultural values for the realization of a universally desirable place.The Tabi’at Bridge, as the largest pedestrian overpass built in Tehran, Iran, was selected as the case study in this research to evaluate the desirable territory in public urban spaces. The 270-metre bridge connects two public parks – Taleghani Park and Abo-Atash Park – by spanning Modarres Expressway, one of the main highways in northern Tehran. The word tabi’at means “nature” in Persian. Construction of the bridge over a large highway was described as a big challenge, with platforms and temporary tunnels built to ensure that nothing fell onto the road below. The results of data analysis showed that providing security, particularly in the form of social monitoring and territory control is important for women. They also ask for the tangibility of territorial boundaries with men and the proper definition of the territories through design factors. Women also want more flexible spaces than men. Men demand wider and more arrogant walkways than women in the territories. Although the slogan of the project was “Nature Bridge is a place to stay” (Diba Project Designer, 2014), 33% of the desirable spaces identified in this study were deprived of the first means of establishing a territorial position in design process (A, D, I). Also, 53% of the spaces designated for pause lack a proper quality and only reduce the physical fatigue resulting from human factors such as age. This is while the precondition of a pause space is a territorial space. This highlights the importance of low-priority issues such as providing spatial indicators of territory which are absent even in well-designed architectural and urban plans.
Urban Architecture
Amir Hossein Farshchian; Azita Balali Oskuei
Volume 4, Issue 15 , August 2015, , Pages 53-68
Abstract
The present study is based on the analysis of perceiving geometry aiming at explaining, analyzing and displaying the geometry system of urban development according to different periods and the factors affecting it. Cities are formed from the crowds gathered along rivers and ...
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The present study is based on the analysis of perceiving geometry aiming at explaining, analyzing and displaying the geometry system of urban development according to different periods and the factors affecting it. Cities are formed from the crowds gathered along rivers and caves based on perceived relationships, including the requirements of human survival, and are developed according to the needs of people living in them. The most important issue in this system is the type of organization that bonds these parts to urbanism issues and controls them. The main background and hidden relationship in urbanism system is perceiving geometry. It is a factor that systematizes the principles associated with subjectivities in relation to itself beyond visual perception and identifiable mathematical relations. The main research hypothesis and question presented is how cities are developed based on its perceiving geometry and if this type of geometry is effective in other general and specific subjects such as area and area centers. This paper is based on survey-based research, phases of which include 1. defining this system and its performance; 2. studying perceiving geometry and its effects on the formation of Hamadan as a case study; 3. research literature and analysis of information and documents; 4. detailed description of the main periods and parts of the city; 5. analyzing and displaying graphics, images, and factors affecting the formation and geometry of the city and green areas (centers of districts in Hamadan); 6. identifying how the physical structure of the city is achieved, consolidated and continued based on perceived geometry 7. research results 8. strategies to maintain and renovate the geometry according to time and place; and 9. summary and description of the formation and development of the original geometry. Hamadan has ten main periods of the city development based on the most significant changes in the urbanism system: 1. geometry and basic needs; 2. geometry and security vacuum; 3. geometry and government rule; 4. geometry and Islam; 5. geometry and wars 6. geometry and the notable presence of Shiites 7. geometry and machine 8. geometry and urbanism without geometry; 9. geometry and the increase of urban territory, 10. geometry and machinist. Since the early period, six main factors overshadowed this geometry from the smallest urban cell (house) to green spaces and the whole of the city: accessing water, food, green spaces, being with others, security and livelihood. At present, the remaining green spaces of this perceiving geometry system is that it apparently has no causality and order, but internally it has the most precise causal relationship so that the semantic adaptability of these issues will be manifested by analyzing this issue in the different periods of the city’s development. The basic strategies that result from this research include: 1. detection of the type of process of change according to the geometry of growth and factors affecting it and how to respond in any successful period; 2. examination of the stoppage time and sidelining its correct and appropriate procedure along with the reasons regulating this issue; 3. identification of the type of geometry which, after stoppage period, has taken the procedure and managed the changes; 4. Finally, the adaptation of the type of the main perceiving geometry with the present geometry and entering the modern components in achieving a geometry in accordance with all aspects of present life. This geometry can be the most desirable turning point in this regard with a reforming view to the future of desirable architecture and urban development that can be turned to optimizing and renovating green space according to this type of recognized perceiving geometry.
