Reading how social interactions in the physical space of rural houses in west Gilan with the analytical approach of spatial syntax

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Mehrdad Razjoo ¹ , Aghil Emamgholi ²

1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Abhar branch, Islamic Azad University, Abhar, Iran. (Corresponding Author) [e-mail]
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Abhar branch, Islamic Azad University, Abhar, Iran.

Received: 2022-08-01 Accepted : 2022-09-13 Published : 2022-08-23

Keywords: Gilan, Rural Housing, social interactions, moderate and humid climate,

Abstract :

The creation of architecture as a practical art is influenced by culture and social conditions in addition to geographical and climatic factors. The space of a rural house is a space consisting of the omnipresence of humans in the fluid flow of life. Since this presence includes all aspects of his life, it has a role beyond a residential space for the users. Based on the results of the studies of the Gilan Rural Heritage Museum project, the cultural-architectural area of Gilan is divided into nine sub-areas without considering the country and political divisions, which consist of two major areas, East and West, with four sub-areas: coastal, plain, foothills, mountainous and Central plain. In this article, the sample houses studied in the western area and in the three sub-branches of foothills, plains and coastal plains have been selected in a purposeful way and research has been done based on them. The purpose of  this research is to develop the boundaries of knowledge, to identify and introduce the desirable body of sociable architecture, and to search for the social relationship between humans through space and architectural body. The examined physical elements include four elements, a room on the ground floor, an Ivan, a Telar and a room on the upper floor, which were examined from the foothills to the plains and coastal plains. The research method used in this descriptive-analytical research is based on a case study, and the space syntax method and "A-graph" analytical-statistical software were used to analyze the data. Also, the findings show that in the comparison of physical elements, the porch in the sample of Sahel has a high level of connection, which makes it the most interactive element of the physical space.