Objectives: According to the available evidence, changes in the design of medical centers, which can create a more comfortable, pleasant, and natural environment, have reduced the patient tensions and increased their satisfaction with the quality of treatment in the given centers. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of the architecture and design of a supportive care environment on the treatment process in hospitals adopting a qualitative study design. Materials and Methods: This qualitative study with a phenomenological approach was conducted to investigate the effect of an optimal supportive care environment in hospitals based on the experiences and opinions of experts, university professors of architecture, and doctors in hospitals. To this end, experts were interviewed qualitatively and, then, eight main themes as well as 22 sub-themes were classified by performing content analysis. Furthermore, the effect of the environment on the patients, treatment control length, blood pressure control, and subjective nature of the disease’s impact, as well as the effect of social relations on the vital signs, comprehensiveness and acceptability, place of using the supportive care model and a completely mechanical attitude towards humans in the modern period were all evaluated. Results: The effect of the optimal supportive care environment on the patients’ treatment processes was confirmed by qualitatively reviewing the experts’ viewpoints and collecting comprehensive information from other sources. Conclusions: In sum, it was recommended that that the heads of the hospitals should consider the concepts of optimal supportive care environment when designing and/or reconstructing hospitals.
Introduction: When the modern rational man saw himself as the source of all values and saw nature as an inexhaustible source of raw materials for the development of industry and the satisfaction of his needs, architecture became a tool for meeting man's physical and material needs. The spread of this thinking led to many problems, including environmental crises. To encounter this crisis, new intellectual roots were formed based on the combination of nature and technology, and sustainability concepts were introduced in scientific circles. Consequently, the architecture of the time was influenced and forced architects to invent an approach in architecture that minimizes damage. Methodology: Studying different strategies of nature and gaining comprehensive knowledge of the application of these strategies in architecture for the development of environmentally friendly space can be obtained from practice and design training. This study extracts teaching strategies derived from nature on the process of bioarchitecture design with the aim of sustainability and change in bioarchitecture design. After studying in the field of bioarchitecture to develop sustainability by using strategies derived from nature and selecting strategies (The Hannover Principles, Biomimicry, Ecological design) to develop a survey method in the target community and sampling students of humanities, nature, the architecture of Islamic Azad University by conducting researcher-made tests to analyze focusing on the level of understanding and application of strategies, the type of selection and focus of students on concepts, as well as the level of results obtained. Results: This study shows: Strategies derived from nature expand the range of student design solutions; A complete description of the cognitive challenges of nature-based design includes problems and challenges such as retrieval, incorrect mental models, focusing on and using inappropriate features and aspects, and ignoring similarities.
Conclusion:In the future, nature-based design tools and methods encourage designers to develop concepts based on biological resources, including various motivations and attitudes with common ground principles, providing innovative solutions, combining categorized information structures and data.
In addition to having the most stability, the first task that every building has to do is having the economic factor, which is one of the concerns of the builders. One of the tools for the advent of architectural form is the structure. This is despite the fact that the limitless artistic thinking has very little unity with numerical and enclosed numerical thinking in the framework of structural engineering math. The date of the interaction between the architecture and the structure implies that the industrial revolution and the consequences are considered as a major event contributed to the further disruption of the relationship between architecture and structural engineering. In many studies, the form of architecture, structure, and nature have been distinctly examined, but in the present study, it was tried to link these two relatives, structures and architectures from the form in nature using technology. First, the evolution of structural and architectural harmony in different historical periods was studied. Then, we focused on natural patterns such as human, plant, and animal structures and finally, works by the Spanish architect, Gullart, was analyzed as an external case study. Regarding the above, this study has achieved a model and a strategy to enhance the quality of construction and interaction of structure and architecture using the structural structure in the existing forms in nature.
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