Evaluation of the Spatial Structure Transformation in Traditional Iranian Houses, in Combination with Urban Space of Tehran’s First Modern Streets
Subject Areas : Architecture
nooshin ramezani
1
(PhD student in Architecture, Azad University, Karaj branch)
Jamaleddin Soheili
2
(Ph.D. Assistant professor, Department of Art and Architecture, Ghazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ghazvin,
Iran)
Mohammadreza Khatibi
3
(Department of Urban Planning, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran.)
Keywords: Traditional and Modern Residential Patterns, Space Syntax, First Modern Streets of Tehran, Values of Traditional Architecture,
Abstract :
Iranian traditional architecture has been changed by modernity during the era of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar. This led to combination of residential context and the first modern streets of the capital. In addition this development create new residential spaces above commercial functions and make challenges for traditional values and respond to activities and interactins of residents. The main goals of research are firstly achiving residential pattern in combination to urban space and secondly changes in concept of Iran traditional values in this era. Residential spaces in the streets of Lalezar, Ala-al-Dawa, and Sani-al-Dowleh, as well as the passageways between them are studied. Four mansions with traditional residential patterns and six modern style apartments were selected as deliberate case studies. The residential plans based on field surveys and reports from the cultural heritage ministry. The measurement components of connectivity, integration, and depth were conducted with quantitative analysis tools of E-Graph and DepthMap software which are space syntax analysis instruments. Comparative assessment led to some changes, such as the omission of some traditional elements like the courtyard and entrances, and altering the nature of some spaces like the livingroom. The result of research via deductive reasoning explaing changes in qualities of some values in Iranian tradition architecture.These qualities are privacy and hierarchy. The main reasons of these changes are having the balconies in the first floor like the older model but facing the street and locating majority of spaces in the similar depths.