Presenting a Framework for the Presence of Nature in Architecture Based on Systems Thinking
Subject Areas :
Architecture and urbanism
Minou Gharebaglou
1
,
Laleh Reshad
2
1 - Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Tabriz Islamic Art University, Tabriz
2 - PhD in Islamic Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Tabriz Islamic Art University, Tabriz, Iran
Received: 2020-10-10
Accepted : 2021-08-22
Published : 2022-09-23
Keywords:
Nature,
Systematic Thinking,
Human,
architecture,
technology,
Abstract :
Basis and Goal: This article presents a framework for the presence of nature in architecture based on systems thinking. The main question of this article is how to express the optimal relationship between nature and architecture based on systems thinking.
Methods: The research method has a descriptive-analytical and inferential nature, which has been done by the systems thinking method with the help of causal loop diagram.
Finding: Explaining a framework for the presence of nature in architecture based on systems thinking makes sense within the human-nature-architecture system. Based on the identification of human, nature and architecture subsystems, the dualities of human-architecture, human-nature and finally nature-architecture were identified as the main relationships in the system.
Discussion and Conclusion: Results indicate that the framework of the presence of nature in architecture, receives dwelling necessities from the human-architecture relationship and its epistemological goals from the human-nature relationship. Accordingly, during the human-technical-natural process, first, with the help of coexistence with nature in the form of understanding the capabilities of the natural context in the ecosystem-based epistemological system, interaction with the environment is realized. In the next step, using the approach of modeling nature in the form of learning from it and spatial and visual integration with nature leads to the formation of spatial and formal qualities in the body of architecture. All approaches in the epistemological structure of the approach of completing nature, with the aim of promoting human and nature in the direction of human goals and needs, lead to the realization of the matter of dwelling.
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Adeli, s. (2013). Nature and Architecture in Islamic Ontology,A survey on traditional houses of central plateau of Iran with emphasis on four houses in Yazd, Naeen and Kashan. Journal of Motaleate-e Tatbighi-e Honar,3(5):103. [In Persian]
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