Mehdi Khakzand

Iran University of Science and Technology · Department of Architecture

Today, one of the most important issues related to the industrial heritage in Iran is the rejuvenation and reuse of such assets. The industrial buildings dating from the Pahlavi era (1925-1978) have the adaptive capacity to create modern spaces. These industrial sites provide suitable opportunities for deploying new functional systems, since they c...

The foundation of the salutogenic approach that prevents stress, is the Sense of Coherence (SOC) that inspires this research paper. The results of the SOC questionnaire showed a direct relationship between the quality of the built environment and the quality of people`s life. In order to verify the statements, Shiraz city was selected as a case stu...

Indoor air quality (IAQ) represents an important research focus due to its direct and substantial implications on human health outcomes. Existing research showed that substandard IAQ exacerbates the effects of airborne diseases. The objective of this chapter would be to explore the correlation among indoor air quality (IAQ), location of air outlet...

Academic design pedagogy in the early stages of design is crucial and complicated. The complicated stems from the diverse aspect of architectural design. The world of values, opinions, and ideas begins the architectural design process, and junior architecture students strive to express their ideas in the language of architectural forms. Transformin...

Population growth and building mechanical devices to achieve thermal comfort have increased energy consumption. The hot and humid climates account for high energy consumption in the building sector. Meanwhile, for centuries, vernacular houses in this climate complied with their environment. This paper examined the vernacular architectural elements...

Indoor air quality (IAQ) is a significant concern that affects our health. Recent studies show how poor IAQ amplifies the effects of airborne viruses, which endanger the health of the population relative to COVID-19. This study aims to find the relationship among IAQ, the location of the air outlet valve, and the behavior of the IAQ indicators in t...

The purpose of this article is to review the researches that have been done in recent years, with the design of bio-inspired kinetic facade to provide visual comfort. Based on this, five recent articles that were done in this field were examined. From this point of view, the present research places in the category of review articles and among the t...

Purpose The adaptability of multi-functional industrial buildings can be an important factor in their reuse. This utility requires the evaluation of factors that are effective apart from physical interventions. Therefore, this study used a combined method to investigate the factors affecting the reuse of the case studies of Iran and their adaptatio...

Citizen communication creates the foundation for sustainable development by adopting the notions of social life, space and human behavior. Furthermore, the perceptions of the cultural landscape, and the social sustainability of the neighborhoods are assessed through the participation of the citizens. As such, to gain a more in-depth understanding o...

With the industrialization of societies, urban planners are more concerned with the significance of leisure time since it affects individuals’ mental state and wellbeing. Considering the importance of visual quality, this study examined young adults in the Torghabe and Mellat park of the Mashhad to improve the quality of the leisure environment by...

Indoor air quality (IAQ) is a significant concern that affects comfort and health. It is well understood that hospitals are thermal environments in which comfort must be calibrated. This comparative study examined existing international standards of IAQ in Iranian healthcare facilities. A systematic review of studies on IAQ standards was conducted...

Number of References B ACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The functional layout of student residences holds significant importance as these spaces serve as a collective 'second home' for their residents. Many students living in such complexes have left their hometowns and are adapting to a new city, often encountering individuals from diverse backgrounds an...

Energy consumption in educational spaces, as one of the main consumers of fossil fuels, has been a challenging issue in recent years. The present study seeks to develop a multi-purpose approach for optimizing classrooms in the hot and humid climate of Qeshm island. Variables such as the features of window and shading devices and building orientatio...

The governments implemented social distancing and isolation with the spread of COVID-19. However, these ways efficiently prevent coronavirus transmission, but they caused unprecedented changes in most people’s day-to-day lives. One of the concerns is mental health, and many experts are concerned about the tsunami of mental illnesses during and afte...

Accurate knowledge of human perception can help designers to create desirable spaces. An increase in publications from 2000 to 2020 demonstrates that studies in human perception of the landscape are evolving. This systematic review aims to comprehensively review existing knowledge and published papers on human perception concerning landscape to pro...

Outdoor air quality demonstrates one of the major challenges for preserving human health and the environment and also involves the indoor environment of buildings. Accordingly, besides urban morphology, building form should be considered as a passive strategy to reduce regional particle deposition and dispersion. In this framework, this study numer...

Agritourism is one of the strategies that has been proposed in recent decades for the sustainable development of rural areas and the diversification of the rural economy. The purpose of this study was to investigate the sustainability of Charqoli village in Iran by examining and identifying the role of agritourism in entrepreneurship and paying att...

The overexploitation of available water resources across the planet has increased pressure on these limited resources to a critical level, so water has been shifted into the “take-make-use-dispose” linear model. The use of rainwater, a non-conventional water resource, as an approach could promote the alternative model of Circular Economy (CE). Over...

چکیده مقدمه: قرارگاه رفتاری به عنوان محصول روانشناسی بوم شناختی بر نقش موقعیت فیزیکی در خلق رفتار انسان تاکید داشته و به تاثیر محیط فیزیکی بر مردمی که از آن بهره میبرند میپردازد. فضای سکونتگاه دانشجویی، به عنوان نوعی از زندگی سکونتی با تعریف شدن در عرصههای خصوصی تا عمومی، سلسله مراتبی از قرارگاههای رفتاری است که در پیوند با هم نظامهای فعالیت را به...

Optimization of window characteristics is crucial for achieving maximum daylighting while reducing energy loads in educational spaces. This research investigated the impacts of a building's window orientation, window-to-wall ratio, and different shading settings on daylighting, glare, and energy usage in an educational space in the mixed climate of...

It seems that in university education as well as in the professional field, landscape design and landscape architecture are not process-oriented in Iran. There is no precise and systematic process that establishes a proper correlation between architecture and landscape architecture. This has also reduced the quality of urban spaces in the country....

Thermal comfort in the building sector is a major concern, especially in high residential buildings which have become common in cities. In this regard, an adequate ventilation strategy can be an alternative technique to create better thermal conditions in these buildings. The impacts of microclimates in cities have also been taken into account rece...

Thermal comfort in the building sector is a major concern, especially in high residential buildings which have become common in cities. In this regard, an adequate ventilation strategy can be an alternative technique to create better thermal conditions in these buildings. The impacts of microclimates in cities have also been taken into account rece...

Analysing the navigation behaviour in a built environment without a particular destination is a complicated issue when simulating pedestrian behaviour. This navigation is called exploratory navigation. This paper aims to investigate the spatial characteristics of a built environment which affect exploratory navigation. It focuses on visibility grap...

In recent years, the development of cities and the inattention to the environment have led to many environmental problems. Although today's crises have been well identified, the sustainable approach has failed to improve the relationship between humans and the environment, and sustainable projects have proven over time that they only reduce environ...

Thermal comfort in the open spaces is a significant parameter in public mentally and physically healthy. Increased hot days of cities because of the urban heat island is the common phenomenon in cities. This phenomenon effect cites quality by a different aspect such as air quality, Use of fossil fuels etc. therefore, cooling strategies in the urban...

Iranian Islamic city is a physical entity that represents social, cultural and political mechanisms in the Iranian territory where forms, elements, and rules governing the interaction of the inhabitants and the environment are based on the Islamic worldview. Physical, functional, and spatial centers constitute the main form of the city. Also, Bazaa...

The courtyard is a common and traditional architectural concept in Middle Eastern countries, especially Iran. This study presents practical solutions to arrive at the optimal form and features of a courtyard based on this traditional architecture to cope with the hot and arid climate of Isfahan, Iran. A model using the ENVI-met 3.1 software was use...

This paper studies the performance of contemporary Iranian landscape architecture in the two areas, namely that of education and professional projects. It is divided into two sections; the first section being based on the qualitative method of grounded theory which analyzes theories by coding the concepts. The second section uses a comparative appr...

This paper studies the performance of contemporary Iranian landscape architecture in the two areas, namely that of education and professional projects. It is divided into two sections; the first section being based on the qualitative method of grounded theory which analyzes theories by coding the concepts. The second section uses a comparative appr...

Courtyards as a traditional strategy were used to create a suitable microclimate for dwellers, but in contemporary architecture, inadequate knowledge of form and features of courtyards makes them deficient. This study presents practical solutions reaching optimal form and features of courtyards based on the traditional architecture of two contrasti...

By the late twentieth century, the use of digital media for the design process had become epidemic amongst the designer communities. This paper aims to explore the place of human creativity. In this way, the present study is an attempt to develop a new medium as a tool for the architectural design process by using Found-Object Art. To identify the...

Courtyards as a traditional strategy were used to create a suitable microclimate for dwellers, but in contemporary architecture, inadequate knowledge of form and features of courtyards makes them deficient. This study presents practical solutions reaching optimal form and features of courtyards based on the traditional architecture of two contrasti...

Environmental matters are more complicated. Sustainability of environment requires an integrated approach to decisions making, planning, and management. Therefore, there is a need for a professional and systematic environmental management approach to reducing the consumption of resources. This approach is generally lacking in most universities, and...

Most of the designer's use of inspiration sources for problem solving and majority of them apply nature as inspiration sources, but these sources cannot restricted to only bio-inspiration sources. Because of the complexity and multi-aspect features of design, they can use of different methods of overcoming this complexity. This paper introduces and...

Environmental matters are more complicated. Sustainability of environment requires an integrated approach to decisions making, planning, and management. Therefore, there is a need for a professional and systematic environmental management approach to reducing the consumption of resources. This approach is generally lacking in most universities, and...

Intellectually disabled children differ from other children in terms of physical, rational and behavioural aspects. The present research is aimed at identifying and reviewing the factors that improve their relationship with the surrounding environment in educational areas. The research method of this study was a survey that contained both qualitati...

Refer to Maslow security is one of the most fundamental human needs, and crime is a crucial issue of the human society. Some of the urban environment and physical characteristics have been investigated in Deh-Vanak. In this regard, it could be referred to CPTED method. The purpose is to identify criteria and principals that are about the sense of s...

The value of socio-cultural aspects in the environmental design process and relevant issues are discussed in this paper. In addition, Alexander′s Pattern Language theory is derived from human activity, perceptive and behavioural patterns and is associated with the Genius loci. Thus, the researcher considered the possibility of a relationship existi...

Outward-oriented architecture has a short history in Iran and the history of establishment of outward-oriented buildings placed next to one another in the margin of a phenomenon called street is even shorter. Urban facades are considered as the most influential elements affecting the quality of urban spaces, the modification of which can enhance th...

By considering certain factors like those mentioned by Ian Thompson (2005) in his definition of landscape, i.e. ecology, community and delight, in designing landscapes, one can find the vocation more applicable and useful. City rivers can play a very important role with regard to such values. In fact, the presence of nature and wildlife could not o...

One of the simplest methods of achieving energy-efficiency is to make use of solar energy as a supplement to the heating and lighting requirements of buildings. This aspect forms a major part of this study. Currently in Iran, in order to calculate energy transfer for public buildings a coefficient is usually used. To increase the degree of accuracy...

Three Iranian academics examine how existing experience in inpatient and other ward design can be harnessed to ensure the creation of comfortable, relaxing and, as far as is possible, individually "tailored" hospital accommodation in the future.