مهرزاد صمدي

Human environment interaction is essential to achieve optimal living conditions by human beings. This interaction plays a decisive role in various aspects of life and various fields of knowledge. Architectural scope is one of these fields. One of the first steps in human environment interaction is adapting to phenomena such as weather conditions, sunlight and changes in quality of vision. Man moved towards the use of new possibilities to improve or change the conditions around him following the development of technology, and adaptation was replaced by interaction and communication with the environment. Today, architects are no longer just considered absolute designers, they also benefit from the latest technologies in the design process. Man puts architecture in interaction with the environment in order to provide the desired conditions for his comfort. Many of these factors are considered based on the needs of healthy people who see, hear, and move naturally, and the needs of the disabled people, which is very thought-provoking, have been ignored. Finally, ideas were put forward based on based on the needs of the disabled people at the beginning of the 21st century. Comprehensive design was presented and discussed with the aim of considering all members of society, including young and old, healthy and disabled people. Also, a group from Galaudet University in the United States raised issues affecting the environmental perception of the deaf and developed design rules and regulations for the deaf in 2005, which have been used in some historic and valuable monuments. Due to the needs of the deaf and their relationship to the environment, this thesis designed a cultural center for this group of people with the help of DeafSpace design rules and regulations. This cultural center creates a suitable cultural-educational atmosphere for the deaf by using the latest technologies and computer design patterns. The difference between design criteria for the deaf and the common design criteria is in defining the dimensions and size of different spaces such as passages, lobbies, using ramps with different widths and so on. Also, another part of the design has investigated the effect of sound as an environmental feature and affecting the perception of the deaf. Recording ambient sound and extracting the instantaneous sound intensity quantitatively and converting it into color in the lighting of public spaces leads to a new connection between the deaf and the surrounding environment, followed by continuous interaction between ambient sound and deaf by lighting, so that the deaf can be aware of the sound quality of different spaces by observing the colors at any distance. It should be noted that the design of the interactive part of this thesis is a research achievement that was carried out with it simultaneously. In the process of this research, the sound intensity of the space around the bridge in Babolsar was recorded by an audio tape recorder . Then, to educate the deaf using the Python programming language, a program was written to convert sound into color to capture the intensity of sound based on a custom timing. Then, Python programming language was used to write a program to convert sound into color, to visualize the sound intensity based on the desired schedule to al‎e‎rt people who are deaf.

Mehrzad Samadi

Dr. Ahmad Ekhlasi