Architectural Design and Spatial Composition (طراحی معماری و ترکیب فضایی)
This paper tests whether you can convert a written brief into a plan that works: correct room sizes, defensible adjacencies, a legible circulation hierarchy, and a composition that respects Iranian cultural patterns such as privacy (محرمیت) and introversion (درونگرایی).
Core rules
- Zone the plan: public (ورودی، پذیرایی), semi-private (غذاخوری، آشپزخانه), private (اتاقخوابها), service (سرویس، انبار، تأسیسات). Private rooms should not open directly onto the entrance.
- Circulation is a cost, not a feature. In housing it typically consumes 10–15% of net area; long single-loaded corridors above that signal a weak plan.
- Habitable rooms need direct daylight and cross ventilation. A workable rule limits room depth to roughly twice the window head height, so a 2.10 m head gives about 4–5 m of useful depth.
- Clear heights are around 2.40 m in habitable rooms, lower in services - confirm against the current edition of مبحث ۴.
- Stack wet walls vertically between floors so drains stay short and shafts align.
Worked example
A 100 m² net flat gets a 1.10 m corridor, 6 m long, plus a 3 m² entrance hall. Circulation = 6.6 + 3.0 = 9.6 m², i.e. 9.6%, below the usual band. Now check quality, not just percentage: the corridor serves four doors and no room is a pass-through. If a solution reaches 12% only by turning the living room into a corridor to the bedrooms, the number looks right but the composition fails. Judge circulation by doors served per metre as well as by ratio.
Traps
- Producing a striking parti that ignores the brief's adjacency list - function is marked first.
- Forgetting service shafts and the boiler/package space.
- Opening a WC onto a reception room or kitchen.
- Using borrowed light for bedrooms and calling it daylight.