Meaning Transfer Analysis and Ranking the Types of Usage in Urban Space According to the Parameters of Urban Planning

Perception is the process by which the relationship between human and the environment and using environmental stimuli. So every phenomenon, including an architectural or urban building, transfers its message through meaning, when in the human scope perception. The main goal of this study is to investigate the way of meaning transfer and ranking the types of architectural usage due to the potential of meaning transfer. This research is descriptive from research design viewpoint, which is carried out in Delphi-type survey method. In the theoretical part, internet resources studies have been used to collect required information. Data collection was done after compiling the theoretical framework of the research using a questionnaire technique. The statistical population of the study consists of all faculty and graduate students of Shiraz universities. For population attitude investigation, the types of usage were evaluated in the form of a questionnaire with the degree of adaptation to the meanings transfer potentials and parameters of urban planning in the first step. Data were analyzed from 203 returned questionnaires. The results showed that according to the average score, the ranking of the building typology value belonging to cultural, religious and residential usage are 4.33, 4.03, and 3.91 respectively. Also, the significant level of the hypothesis test showed that there is a significant difference between the various architectural usages in the possibility of providing potential of meaning transfer and parameters of urban planning. Therefore, the matching of different architectural usage is not the same in the possibility of providing potential of meaning transfer.Then, based on the require review of the detailed plan of Shiraz city and according to the affecting meaning factors in transfer mechanism, 12 sites with cultural proposal and urban-metropolitan impact levels were identified. Then, related evaluation criteria were selected to increase citizen participation and citizenship culture. In the second step of the questionnaire, the proposed sites were ranked using the TOPSIS prioritization technique. The final result of this ranking showed that the sites of Adabiiat Crossroads, Vegetable Oil Factory and Goldasht were in the first three places with numerical values of 0.83, 0.75 and 0.72, respectively.