STRUCTURAL CONCEPTS’ INSTRUCTION MODEL FOR ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS REGARDING MOTIVATION AND CREATIVITY PROMOTION

In addition to different factors, industrial revolution and its consequences as a huge event caused separation between architecture and civil engineering. This status influenced architecture instruction schools too, and caused the arising of technical schools, which resulted in separate instruction of civil engineering. In France, two kinds of activities arose at Paris Fine Art School, which was trying to separate architecture from life and at Polytechnic school which caused the unity between science and life. This issue clearly shows the gap between architecture and structure art (Mozayani, 2011). Lack of our understanding from structure's basic principles prevents creativity at designing (Namara & collaborator, 2010). Teachers declare fear and discouragement of architecture students for structural lessons. Often, students think about structural lesson as boring exercises with a lot of mathematics (Slattery, 2000). Regarding that, this article aims to present an instructional model which can reduce above mentioned problems to the minimum level. Used research method for this study is structuralism grounded theory. So, instead of using existent theories as theoretical, the researcher seeks to give an autonomous theory based on field data. For this purpose, needed data were collected from different sources by using theoretical sampling method. For data collecting, various techniques were used, including interview, documents and articles collection. So in this point, all data were coded by triple coding instruction sets, i.e. open, axial and selective. Eventually, 203 concepts and 32 categories were derived from data midst, and various solutions for arising motivation as the central category were specified. After that, by using paradigmatic model, autonomous theory resulting from data midst are represented as story and pictorial model. Finally, the study is assessed by answering seven questions of Strauss and Corbin.