Mahgol Seirafian Baboldashti; Seyedeh Marzieh Tabaeian
Volume 9, Issue 2 , June 2019, , Pages 49-60
Abstract
Our modern society is filled with stressful stimuli that impact our daily lives, and lead to problems that eventually threaten our mental and psychological wellbeing. Expanding urban life and urbanizing people's interactions have drastically increased and resulted in more stressful circumstances. Unfortunately, ...
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Our modern society is filled with stressful stimuli that impact our daily lives, and lead to problems that eventually threaten our mental and psychological wellbeing. Expanding urban life and urbanizing people's interactions have drastically increased and resulted in more stressful circumstances. Unfortunately, the role of nature and nature-based design in our urban societies as an alternative in reducing the impact of unhealthy and stressful situations produced by our modern and urbanized life style has been neglected. Considering the fact that human beings are social creatures and their surroundings affect them both mentally and psychologically; hence, the study of psychological impacts of nature and nature-based design is both essential and necessary in our fast evolving urban societies. This research investigates nature-based design and the short-term observational impacts and benefits of urban societies' interaction with nature on different aspects of human psychology including perceived restoratives’, mental health and vitality and creativity. The participants in the two sample groups observed two different urban areas. One was a building complex in Isfahan city center and the other was an urban park in Isfahan. In the end, the participants filled out a comprehensive psychological questionnaire assessing the effects environment on different dimensions of human psyche. Our results demonstrate that even short-term interaction with nature and nature-based designs had positive effects one's psychological wellbeing, and therefore, our finding show that urban designs and architecture intertwined with nature were crucial in protecting and improving human mental health and wellbeing.
Nasim Ahmadi; Seyedeh Marzieh Tabaeian
Volume 7, Issue 2 , June 2017, , Pages 33-40
Abstract
Designing places particular for children entails desire conditions for the physical, mental, emotionaland social development in different age ranges, and this design shouldn’t bring about any disturbance in the naturalgrowth and their entertainment. In the modern educational system, the physical ...
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Designing places particular for children entails desire conditions for the physical, mental, emotionaland social development in different age ranges, and this design shouldn’t bring about any disturbance in the naturalgrowth and their entertainment. In the modern educational system, the physical atmosphere of the school must bean alive and dynamic factor in the quality of educational and training activities for the students. In the creation ofphysical atmospheres based on identifying the principles of aesthetics, it is essential to put the perceptual principlesof atmosphere, context and color into practice. According to the findings of the researchers, colors has miraculouseffects on the mental and morale of human beings and the color type bring about joy, freshness, mobility or depression,tiredness, and dullness and they influence on the individuals’ performance. The present study aims to explore theappropriate atmosphere features for children`s learning and the effect of color diversity on education level and theirattraction toward the educational setting in order to enhance the quality of educational environment. To do so, 6 schoolsin Isfahan were selected randomly as the sample group. To collect data, colorful brochures (questionnaires) followed byfree questions about the educational environment were applied. When the data was analyzed, desirable results on therole of color in the educational settings and the students` interest to the educational settings were found suggesting thatthe sense of motivation and interest to educational settings are effective factors on the student`s understanding aboutschool and their educational progresses.
Seyedeh Marzieh Tabaeian; Alireza Einifar
Volume 1, Issue 1 , September 2011, , Pages 27-32
Abstract
The concept of place and the necessity of understanding the plan and thus the reality of architecture has always been an important issue for architects. The mental and psychological effects of architectural frames on human beings have been considered from the early shelters to today΄s modern structure. ...
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The concept of place and the necessity of understanding the plan and thus the reality of architecture has always been an important issue for architects. The mental and psychological effects of architectural frames on human beings have been considered from the early shelters to today΄s modern structure. Since the human behavior is performed in defined spaces, it is necessary to design the physical space based on people’s behavioral characteristics. In this papar, different perspectives on the relation between psychology and architecture as an interdisciplinary plan in two areas of perception and planning are studied. First, some general concepts and principles are presented and then an attempt is made to integrate the two. The main purpuse is to study how the designed environment by man affects his mind and soul in terms of function, form and other factors and also how the architecture is affected by controlling the behavior and individual as well as social motivation based on the principles of environmental psychology. Establishing optimum relations between man and his designed environment is the main objective of this study.
