Explaining the place of privacy in the spatial configuration of historical houses in Dezful during Pahlavi period

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naser ghaneifar ¹ , Hasan Rezaei ² , Vahid Ahmadi ³

1 - Ph.D. Student in Architecture, Department of Architecture, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran

Received: 2023-01-24 Accepted : 2024-04-25 Published : 2024-06-06

Keywords: Policymaking, privacy, strategic planning.,

Abstract :

The role of privacy and its place in the social structure is one of the characteristics of Iranian house architecture, which can attract the attention of researchers and designers by knowing what happened during historical periods. The purpose of this article is to explain the place of privacy in the spatial configuration of Dezful houses in the Pahlavi period and it tries to answer the question: what is the place of privacy in the micro-spaces of Pahlavi houses in Dezful? And it is based on the assumption that privacy has been considered in these micro-spaces. The present research was conducted using a combined method, based on quantitative data extracted from A-Graph software and their analysis using logical reasoning method. 10 houses from among the houses of Dezful in the Pahlavi period were selected as Study samples and in a purposeful way according to the originality of the samples, and three indicators of space syntax, including "mean depth, relative asymmetry, and integration" were investigated in these houses. The results of this research indicate that the micro-spaces related to Dezful houses in the Pahlavi period can be classified into three levels of micro-spaces with "high, medium and low" privacy and the juxtaposition of these three levels has created a spatial hierarchy in the configuration of Pahlavi period houses in Dezful.

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