The Role of Borderline-Hybrid Space in Signifying Process: Evaluation of Interpretation Potentiality of the Space Employing Semiotic Approach

Subject Areas : architecture

Shervin Mirshahzadeh ¹ , Seyed Gholamreza Eslami ² , Alireza Einifar ³

1 - Department of Art and Architecture, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Associate Professor, University College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran.
3 - Associate Professor, University College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran.

Received: 2011-05-02 Accepted : 2011-05-24 Published : 2011-12-22

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Abstract :

 Considering aesthetic manifestation in architecture based on the local culture, is a matter of significance because it demystifies the mystery of the potentiality of the past architectural instances in impressing the observer and leading him to aesthetic experience. In other words the way beauty has been manifested in Iranian architecture reveals some aesthetic qualities that will result in obsever’s spiritual pleasure. Thus recognizing the continual, polished and enriched characteristics of the space that bring about such an impression, is an issue that the present study is to investigate through the analysis of architectural evidences and through opening a new window .It is to achieve the aspects that are pleasant and enjoyable and can be reproducible.  Perception of beauty, as an issue resulted from the interaction of architectural space and observer, emphasizes the characteristics that make the space capable of impressing the observer and rousing aesthetics experience within him. The outcomes of the present research reveal that this concept has been manifested in Iranian architecture through creating borderline- hybrid spaces. These are the space that the present study is to reach their efficient and effective characteristics in terms of sensory, formal and symbolic values, applying semiotic approach. Parallel to that, architectural instances of Iran are analyzed from two aspects to recognize the functional characteristics of the space; first from the opposite view (facet) and then from the roof view (plan). Thus the turning point of the spatial structure of the architectural instances are examined in terms of form and space; the spaces that are considered as the signifying base according to semiotics. Then the mentioned spaces are analyzed from three aspects. First according to the used elements (whether natural and abstract) such as water, light, vegetation, breeze, sky, second according to form and space qualities, and then according to their functions in spatial interrelation of the whole complex. Therefore the factors which can involve the observer of the space in various levels of meaning in signifying process are investigated in this level of reading. Then to evaluate the maximum interpretation potentiality of the space in spatial instances of Iranian architecture, Chehel Sotoon palace and Eyvan-e-Hasht Behesht from the complex of historical places during the reign of  Saffavi in Isfahan are scanned. These are the spaces that are capable of involving the observer’s culture and world view in this level of interpretation. They can also provide the observer with more sublime level of meaning in semiotic reading of the space.  Thus the semiotic reading of the spatial instances of Iranian architecture depicts that employing natural, pseudo natural and abstract elements in space turning point not only creates a pleasant emotional experience for the observer but also, by using the tactic of metaphor and allegory, can elevate him from natural and material world through the signifying process and as a result of generating the possibility of watching an unreal subject offer a cause of wonder and thus provide the context for the emergence of a positive aesthetic experience.

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