Abstract:
Problem statement: Today, providing the desired environment for the human being,
whether it is a male or female user, requires the architect to have full knowledge of the
physical, mental, intrinsic, and social dimensions of the audience. As half of the space users,
women are often ignored since their needs are derived from their mental, psychosocial,
and even social bases, so they have remained disregarded. Lack of such knowledge about
women’s requirements may decrease their environmental satisfaction. The hypothesis of
the research is that architecture consists of multiple components manifesting the designer
femininity. These examples, mainly derived from postmodernist concepts or created by
women, influence the quality of space, especially women.
Research objective: The purpose of the present research is to introduce elements of
femininity in architecture to create desirable and utilizable contexts for women.
Research method: It is inductive research in terms of theoretical background and literature
review to approach the research model. Then, the research also applied the Delphi method
and interview among 28 active female Iranian architects.
Conclusion: The research conveys that components of motherhood/mother-ness,
liquescence, fundamental and structural elements, besides their sub-components are
introduced as femininity in contemporary female architecture.
Machine summary:
Original Research Article Explaining Femininity Elements in the Works of Iranian Women Architects* Ali Yaran1, Honey Arjomandi2** 1.
88 The Scientific Journal of NAZAR research center (Nrc) for Art, Architecture & Urbanism Bagh-e Nazar, 17(91), 87-100 / Jan. 2021 • Femininity and postmodern perspective The prevailing conditions follow after modernity is referred to postmodern (Ihab, 1985, 4).
Of Rhizome associated components (a postmodernist philosophy adopted by Deleuze and Derrida to explain femininity) manifested in postmodern architecture can include horizontal movement, contextualize, centrality rejection, boundless, spatial convolution, as well as the fluidity.
92 The Scientific Journal of NAZAR research center (Nrc) for Art, Architecture & Urbanism Bagh-e Nazar, 17(91), 87-100 / Jan. 2021 the mentioned components in women's architectural projects, and second the Delphi method besides interviewing experts were conducted, and then, the final model of feminine elements in architecture was provided.
94 The Scientific Journal of NAZAR research center (Nrc) for Art, Architecture & Urbanism Bagh-e Nazar, 17(91), 87-100 / Jan. 2021 (View the image of this page) Table 6.
Architect Dorte Mandurup Råå Day Care Multifunctional Amar Children's Skansen Title of work Image The Icefjord Centre Center Sports Centre Culture House Residences Main characteristics of the works Harmony with nature, fluidity, transparency, horizontalism, human scale, boundlessness in foundation, centrality rejection, dealing with details Table 7.
Since the research uses "a posteriori," the obtained 96 The Scientific Journal of NAZAR research center (Nrc) for Art, Architecture & Urbanism (View the image of this page) Bagh-e Nazar, 17(91), 87-100 / Jan. 2021 factors are categorized in similar classes so that a conceptual model of femininity criteria is obtained.