Innovative Application of Traditional Chinese Cultural Symbols in Contemporary Architecture

How traditional symbols can be used as inspiration source in shaping the urban architecture?

This paper explores the developing of how designers can search for inspiration source which provided in the form of traditional elements and archetypes and also their role on idea generation in design from building to urban measure. In order to clarify of this, current study focuses on the Far-East region as an ancient part of the world in which there is a huge number of symbols like well known...

History of Contemporary Cultural Psychiatry in Iran:

Cultural psychiatry is one of the relatively new trends in psychiatry that has received much attention today. During the last century, many Iranian psychiatrists have taken steps to introduce various aspects of cultural psychiatry from the field of epidemiology to the cultural conceptualization of psychiatric disorders. This article tries to refer to the history of contemporary cultural psychia...

Climate-Responsive Architecture for the Residential Houses of Homs: A Comparison of Traditional and Contemporary Houses

Given that high energy consumption in residential buildings is one of the main problems in Syria, applying criteria for a climate-responsive building design is one of the most important ways to reduce energy consumption. This article seeks to study and compare the historical and contemporary residential buildings of the city of Homs and extract the positive and negative aspects of each. The mai...

User Interface for Creating Traditional Chinese Architecture

We present an interface for users to conveniently and quickly create a settlement with various standard structures in traditional Chinese architecture. The main page of the interface is a top-down map view of the canvas which allows users to place different structures, such as pavilions, pagodas, halls, houses, gates, moon-gates and bridges onto the scene. Then, the user can custom-design each ...

Methods of Utilizing Nature in Samples of Iranian Contemporary Architecture