The Emergence of Nature in Contemporary Iranian Architecture
Mahmood Feizabadi1 * , Mohammadjavad Mahdavinejad2 and Seyyed Mojtaba Mirhosseini2
http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.10.Special-Issue1.20
In this study, we discuss ways of affecting nature on contemporary architecture and utilise them to survey the naturalism of case studies of Iranian architecture. The basic question in this study is: 'how ways of utilising nature have influenced on contemporary public works of Iran?' Descriptive-analytic method is used to achieve the results. The literature review was done by using archival methods, then the ways of affecting nature on contemporary architecture were listed as an evaluation criteria. Next, characteristics of sample projects were analyzed by using surveying methods, and their effects were submitted in qualitative and quantitative manner. The results of the study showed that some ways of affecting nature include scenery, material and conceptual have had the most usage in contemporary public buildings of Iran, and some others include spatial, functional and formal have been overlooked.
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Feizabadi M, Mahdavinejad M, Mirhosseini S. M. The Emergence of Nature in Contemporary Iranian Architecture. Special Issue of Curr World Environ 2015;10(Special Issue May 2015). DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.10.Special-Issue1.20
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Feizabadi M, Mahdavinejad M, Mirhosseini S. M. The Emergence of Nature in Contemporary Iranian Architecture. Special Issue of Curr World Environ 2015;10(Special Issue May 2015). Available from: http://www.cwejournal.org/?p=10821
