Locating and architectural design of Forms on Stockpile of Essential Items with Approach Passive Defense Case Study: Mashhad City

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1 Technical and Vocational University (TVU), Tehran, Iran

2 Faculty member of the Architecture Department, Faculty of Urban Architecture and Art; Urmia University

10.30488/gps.2023.387843.3627

Abstract

Considering the location of vital centers in the heart of the cities and also are more affected in unexpected events. Hence, due to the probability of the loss of existing services and devastating effects on the social organization and the necessity to prepare essential needs of people and military agencies, planning and building the storages for essential items as a replacement for the damaged services, are considered a key factor in social and defensive reliability. This research tries to locate the Stockpile of Essential Items in Mashhad with emphasizing passive defense criteria and analyze Stockpiles of essential items in terms of form, communicational structure. The type of research is applied and the research method is in theoretical discussion and formulation of mental models, descriptive-analytical and information gathering methods, documents, questionnaires and interviews. And in the locating section, the method of information analysis is with the IHWP model in GIS software, and in the section of examining architectural patterns and forms, it is content analysis.The results of the research show that 20.61 percent of Mashhad city has an optimal location potential and 0.94 percent of the city also has a favorable potential for location and also parts of the north-east and south of the city have the first priority for location. In the architecture department, the types of spatial organization of the rectangular form, including centralized, four-armed, introverted, and diagonal, were investigated. The centralized form is preferable to other forms for its capacity and capacity, and access to exits and spatial organization.

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Geographical Planning of Space

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