The Aesthetical Perception of Residences in the North and South of the City regarding Residential Building Facades

Abstract

Nowadays, paying attention to the facade and facade design has considerable importance. The facade of the buildings and constructions is an important part of the urban landscape, and thereupon it plays a great role in urban quality. One of the important factors in forming the urban landscapes is employing aesthetic measures as touchstones in the design process. The goal of this study is to reach a set of aesthetic measures from the viewpoint of people in the same society according to the perceptual differences of citizens in the northern and southern regions of Tehran. There are several measures that by relying on them we can arrive at an ideal facade design from the viewpoint of people and the building users; designers can also be used to help designers cooperate with the idea and viewpoints of people, their approval in their designs. The following research is done in an applied-analytic method and gathering the data was done by library and field research and by designing questionnaires for the users. By scrutinizing and analyzing the data, it is concluded that the objective criteria are in priority for specifying the beauty in the facade of residential.