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Until now, patients' subjective well-being in the process of treatment has gained considerable attention in scientific research. In therapeutic environments, beside a set of effective factors on patients' subjective well-being, the architectural design of the therapeutic centers is also significant. Architectural designing of therapeutic centers and hospitals are remarkable because of their important role in health, hygiene and healing of community. Designer’s ignorance of the factors related to the well-being of the patients in hospital designing may cause some dysfunctional behaviors and additionally slow down the healing process of the patients. A sense of well-being is a sort of emotional state accompanied with a number of internal and external variables. The aim of the authors working on this subject includes those parts of the factors related to architecture, designed type, and environmental quality which are effective in enhancing the patients' well-being. Therefore, this research seeks to answer this question:" what are the mental components related to architecture in promoting the Subjective Well-being of patients in hospital design? With this motivation, the following case study used Q methodology to identify the effective factors of hospital architectural design in enhancing patients' subjective well-being. Q method is an exploratory approach that combines qualitative and quantitative techniques. At first, the psychoanalysis, performed by means of Q methodology was executed on the staff with more than ten years working experiences. Then, the obtained results were compared, revealing the presence of two important effective factors at Razi Hospital of Rasht, Iran. Identifying the subjectivity of the staff of a therapeutic environment due to its direct and long term relationship with patients and also discovering the patients’ subjectivity, is an abundant source of identifying those factors that can be effective in decreasing the anxieties and enhancing the well-being of the patients. Razi Hospital of Rasht, has been selected as a case study for this research. Many reasons including: The problems related to the well-being of the patients in this hospital, the easy accessibility of the place, and a sense of cooperation among the staff of the hospital led the author to select Razi Hospital as a case in this study. Results showed thah, one group of staff considered issues related to the visual quality of hospital architectural environment as the effective factors enhancing patient’s subjective well-being. In contrast, the other group who had a functional mindset, considered the physical concern of the hospital environments as far more important factors. Consensus the agreed and distinguishing statements between the two groups of staff, the study also revealed correspondences and contrasts between the different groups. The present study has been conducted to attract the therapeutic center designer’s attention about the necessity of enhancing the subjective well-being of patients by hospital architectural design. Designers’ attention of the factors of patients’ subjective well-being, of factors agreed upon by the audiences of the research, and also, of the statements disagreed upon by the different groups will lead in enhancing the level of subjective well-being and will accelerate the process of healing in patients.
 

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Design is one of the most complex human mental activities; many design theorists believe that design activity is "problem-solving". The designer goes through a process called the architectural design process from the time he or she faces the problem to the final idea and design. nature inspiration is one of the ways to come up with ideas and achieve the architectural design. Among the research conducted in this field at the international level, the existing knowledge in the field of biomimetic is not small and its examples are increasing. This is in the case that in architectural design, less attention has been paid to the process of architectural design inspired by nature. This research intends to formulate the stages of the architectural design process through analogy to nature. There are two main questions in this research: 1) what are the stages of the design problem-based process by analogy with nature? 2) What is the relationship between the architectural design processes defined by thinkers and the design process through analogy to nature? The method of this research is a logical argument that according to library studies and using analysis and description of studies over the problem-solving stages in parenting psychology, the problem-solving process of design and their adaptation to the problem-solving process It deals with an analogy to nature. This study finds that problem-solving through analogy to nature is one of the exploratory ways to solve the problem of architectural design, which is called problem-based Biomimetic and a process can be defined for it. The adaptation of existing architectural design processes to problem-based biomimetic processes has led to the introduction of problem-based biomimetic design processes in architecture.
 

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Imagination and its relation to creativity are among the most important issues related to the design category in various areas of architectural inquiry such as architectural design, whose function and role have changed in recent decades due to use and application of computers in the architectural design processes. Given all the changes occurred in the meaning and concept of architecture, by the interaction of designers and architects with computers, now the question arises that how the role and function of the creative imagination have changed in digital architectural design processes, compared to its role in non-digital design processes? The purpose of this research is to explore the concept of creative imagination from the point of view of the phenomenological philosophers, especially Jean-Paul Sartre, as well as to compare the differences between the role of creative imagination and its role in the digital and non-digital architectural design processes. This article first explores the concept of the imagination from the perspective of Sartre's phenomenology, and analyzes different kinds of imagination related to its design and function in the design process, and after introducing the effective aspects of the digital architecture design on the process of architectural creativity, it examines the role of creative imagination in digital architectural design process. In the last segment of the article and by way of conclusion, the authors compare creative imagination in the digital and non-digital architectural design in order to present a comparison diagram of the creative imagination in both processes, which shows that due to the presence of computers in architectural designs in architectural designs, as an architect's colleague, in comparison to design processes carried out without using computers, not only weaken the role of the designer's creative imagination, but also computers can push the boundaries of human's imagination beyond the realm of his/her experienced senses, by covering the weaknesses and limitations of human mind.