Marzieh Ghasemi Eshkaftaki - M.A Student, Department of Art and Architecture, West Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran,
Atefeh Dehghan Touran Poshti - Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Architecture, West Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran,

Today communities need creative men and women to reach improvement in all fields like social, intellectual and economical. With the advancement of education, attention to the creativity is necessary and the psychologists believe that improving creativity related to childhood. There are some methods to encourage children’s mind to new thinking and develop the creativity. One of these methods is architecture. Understanding the characteristics of this optimal architecture is our interests. In this article, elements tocreate innovative Such as fluidit y, fiction, imagination, analyse and develop were identified. In this study, interactive architecture as a new architecture was investigated and characteristics of that such as fiction, nonlinearity, being intelligent, being four-dimensional, etc were extracted. To understand more about interactive architecture world samples were analysed and Principles were extracted which are common with Factors that enhance creativity. The study reveal that architectural characteristics such as brightness of the space, colors of the walls, height of the furniture, moveable furniture, security and protection of place, form of the building are believed to influence children’s problem solving and creative thinking ability. Interactive architecture can be a good answer to providing architectural characteristics that enhancing creativity of children because the technology associated with interactive architecture and human as a participant involved in this architecture and this architecture is flexible to respond the needs of people. Thus, these studies show that interactive architecture can be seen as an appropriate architecture and factor to increasing creativity of children. Using technology and new architecture can help our country in order to create a creative generation.

Interactive Architecture, Creativity, Children, Design Principles