

Nevertheless, searching for integrated framework solutions that combine the sustainable aspects and architectural form will resolve that antagonism. Such a mode of deployment provokes the dilemma between preserving the architectural form and compromising its aesthetics aspects and symbolic religious value in favor of economic and environmental values. However, the way these panels are installed is superimposed and largely altered the architectural form of the mosque.

This study informs the design process and practice and construction industry by highlighting the opportunities PV systems, as a legitimate sustainable energy resource, offers to architects and manufacturers.Ībstract- In Jordan, many mosques go sustainable by having installed photovoltaic cells, PV, as a source of electrical power. There is a lack of research that explores the ways the installed PV systems impact the users’ architectural aesthetic perception of the mosque. Extra research is needed to explore the differences between the different participated groups. This study is focused on limited styles of one building type. Certain integrating PV strategies integrated more harmoniously with certain mosque styles.

However, integrating the PV cells with the mosque form was perceived as more aesthetically pleasing. The results revealed a negative impact of the building-applied PV panels on people’s perception of the mosque’s architectural form. This includes surveys, literature review, focus groups and an experiment. The study adopted a mixed-method approach comprising both qualitative and quantitative techniques for data collection procedures. It also aims to develop a framework for integrating PV cells with the various elements of the building type.

This study aims to evaluate the effect of the installed photovoltaic (PV) systems on the aesthetic perception of the mosque’s architectural form. They were more objective whereas non-architecture students were subjective and emotional in their responses. Furthermore, architecture students were more consistent in their most affective personality traits in environmental perception. Familiarity played a significant role in the results obtained on both personality traits and the correlated evaluation items. Results pointed out that personality traits had a strong effect on our perception of the environment and that the relationship between environmental perception and personality traits is a dynamic one. In the second experiment, fifty-two (52) students divided into twenty-four (24) and twenty eight (28) architecture and non-architecture students, respectively rated ten (10) familiar environments on the same scale. In the first experiment, sixteen (60) students, divided into thirty (30) architecture students and thirty (30) non-architecture students, rated ten (10) non-familiar architectural environments on a seven step semantic differential scale that contained thirty two (32) items. One hundred and twelve (112) students from Jordan University of Science and Technology completed the Cattell sixteen-personality factors type B test. This research investigated the effect of our personality traits on the perception of the built environment. Besides, our personality is one of the most important factors of our subjectivity in dealing with the environment. Our personality traits tend to play a significant role in our interaction with the environment.
