Evaluation of The Visual Preferences in the Residential Façades; Case study: Tabriz Twelve Historical Houses

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Associate Professor of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Tabriz Islamic Art University, Tabriz, Iran

2 Professor of Architecture, The Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, Tehran, Iran

3 PH.D. of Architecture, Faculty of Arts and Architecture, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran

Abstract

The recognition and evaluation of the visual features and components in the perception process is a way for the aesthetic evaluation of a phenomenon. When facing an architectural building, its façade has the first impact on the observer's aesthetic experience process. Various physical components and visual qualities play a role in creating the architectural façade. Extraction of the visual preferences in the architectural façades and investigation of the forming components and elements of these preferences can lead to developing the criteria in the aesthetic evaluation. Consequently, studying these visual components in the architectural façades and investigating their aesthetic preferences are of significant importance. The current study aims to evaluate the observer’s aesthetic preferences of visual qualities and components that forming the external façades of the residential buildings. The theoretical concepts and approaches were presented to reach the research purpose in the theory section of the research using a descriptive-analytical method. By studying the research background and explaining the considered research concepts in this part, a structure of the studies and evaluations on the visual components was introduced, and the theoretical framework was presented. In the practical section, using the preference tests, the relationship between the visual components and aesthetic preferences of the façades of twelve historical houses of Tabriz was measured using 320 respondents. Also, the preference scores of the respondents were analyzed by a descriptive-inferential method using SPSS software. The research results showed that two visual components of the diversity of the structure of the architectural elements and the forming levels of the architectural façades, as well as complexity (visual richness) and using the curved lines, have more impact than other visual qualities and components of the architectural façades. Considering and investigating the visual components, including the structure of the architectural elements and different levels of the façade can be used as criteria in the aesthetic evaluations and analysis of the façade of the residential buildings. These criteria can also be applied in architectural designs of the buildings’ façade.

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