List of Articles Hossein Soltanzadeh

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  1 - The Role of Climate and Culture on the Formation of Courtyards in Mosques
  Hossein Soltanzadeh
  20.1001.1.23456450.2015.4.3.2.3
  The process regarding the formation of different mosque gardens and the elements that contribute to the respective process is the from the foci point of this paper. The significance of the topic lies in the fact that certain scholars have associated the courtyard in mos More

  The process regarding the formation of different mosque gardens and the elements that contribute to the respective process is the from the foci point of this paper. The significance of the topic lies in the fact that certain scholars have associated the courtyard in mosques with the concept of garden, and have not taken into account the elements that contribute to the development of various types of mosque courtyards. The theoretical findings of the research indicate that the conditions and instructions regarding the Jemaah [collective] prayers on one hand and the notion of exterior performance of the worshiping rites as a recommended religious precept paired with the cultural, environmental and natural factors on the other hand have had their share of founding the courtyards. This study employs the historical analytical approach since the samples are not contemporary. The dependant variables are culture and climate while the form of courtyard in the jame [congregational] mosque is the dependent variable. The statistical population includes the jame mosques from all over the Islamic world and the samples are picked selectively from among the population. The findings have demonstrated that the presence of courtyard is in part due to the nature of the prayers that are recommended to say in an open air, and in part because this is also favoured by the weather in most instances and on most days. The area covered by the courtyard and its features were mainly determined by the climate and culture of the given area, and this is what originates the variety of mosque courtyards across the Islamic territory. Manuscript profile
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  2 - The Role of Cellars in Reducing Energy Consumption in the Residential Architecture of Iran
  Hossein Soltanzadeh Mersa Bideli
  20.1001.1.23456450.2015.4.1.2.9
  According to research, between 15 to 20 percent of the total energy consumption of every country is used for residential spaces. This amount is explanatory of the high cost and will follow the destruction of natural resources and environmental demolition. The aim of thi More

  According to research, between 15 to 20 percent of the total energy consumption of every country is used for residential spaces. This amount is explanatory of the high cost and will follow the destruction of natural resources and environmental demolition. The aim of this research is to recognize earth thermal ability and its usage in public buildings and especially in private buildings in order to reduce energy consumption which can lead to huge savings in natural resources. It is intended to pay attention to the role of cellars as underground spaces in reducing energy consumption in residential spaces in this research. Cellars which are one of the climatic elements were very useful in residential spaces in the past and underground spaces in cities and public spaces are using in the contemporary era. Native Iranian architecture has exclusive features in residential spaces. One of the reducing energy consumption techniques is using ground depth and underground spaces in private and public buildings. Pit gardens, Shovadan, aqueducts, lavers, cellars with natural abilities in coldness, warmness and support are examples of underground space uses (providing cooling, heating and storing food and goods) in Iranian cities. The Main questions of this research are: what the role of undergrounds or cellars was in native Iranian architecture and how impressionable it was in reducing energy consumption. The theoretical framework of this study indicates that several factors had positive impacts on reducing energy consumption in cellars. To do this research, descriptive-analytical methods were uses and were analyzed according to case studies in Qazvin houses. The results of this study reveal that cellars had a main role in human thermal comfort and they caused reducing energy consumption in residential and even public spaces. Also, several factors such as the cellar's depth, height and dimensions had impacts on the reduction amount of energy consumption and the level of their impact was different. Manuscript profile
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  3 - Intertextual Relationships in the Contemporary Architecture of Iran During 1961-1977
  Maziar Ghaseminia Hossein Soltanzadeh
  20.1001.1.23456450.2016.5.4.4.4
  It seems like in the contemporary era and with the use of approaches which are formed during a passage from structuralism to poststructuralism, a number of fundamental changes have taken place in the different types of relationships between the works of architecture, th More

  It seems like in the contemporary era and with the use of approaches which are formed during a passage from structuralism to poststructuralism, a number of fundamental changes have taken place in the different types of relationships between the works of architecture, their methods of productions and different readings of it along with the differences in the types of research and criticism among them. Such changes are present to a point that the borders between the works of architecture have become fairly vague and their relationships are probable, as these links can extremely question the self-existence nature of the work. We can search a set of orders in the mentioned link with this approach based on the amounts and quality of the connection between the works of architecture.With an assumption that the role of western architecture on the contemporary architecture of Iran can be subject of reading either as: 1.receiving an impression, approaching or arriving for a personal language; in other words, solid Interarchitecturality through a production-oriented process, or 2. as the suspension of a link on a level/ surface (layer); in other words it is a type of light Interarchitecturality. Manuscript profile