Evaluation of social interaction place in the spatial configuration of houses in Tehran City (late Qajar period)

Moslehi, Pejman; Ahmadi, Vahid; Dorari Jabarooti, Ehsan

doi:10.22034/ijumes.2024.2022391.1194

Evaluation of social interaction place in the spatial configuration of houses in Tehran City (late Qajar period)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Pejman Moslehi ¹

Vahid Ahmadi ²

Ehsan Dorari Jabarooti ²

¹ Ph.D. Student, Department of Architecture, Mashahd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashahd, Iran

² Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashahd, Iran

10.22034/ijumes.2024.2022391.1194

Abstract

One of the most important challenges of modern life is facing the identity crisis in social interactions in the field of urban space and body, which is formed in the context of architecture. The configured pattern of architectural spaces, as well as the space that governs it, is the response of architecture to the issue of identity and authenticity. The research method of the current research is analytical-descriptive and has a practical purpose, which is based on the method of collecting library and field information from 16 houses of famous persons in Tehran city during the last Qajar period. The aim of the research includes the recognition of social interactions as one of the components of social cultural identity in the houses of Tehran in the late Qajar period. The main question of the research is that what is the position of social interactions in the architecture of residential buildings of noble class in Tehran during the Qajar period? The studied case studies have been analyzed based on the space syntax method and using A-Graph software. Findings show dividing the houses of this period into two types of introverts and extrovert, this research has analyzed the issue of social interactions in the spatial configuration of these two categories. The results of the research show that although the spaces of Shahneshin, hall, yard and porch are among the spaces with high social interactions, the spatial configuration criteria are different in them.

Keywords

Historical houses

identity crisis

Qajar period

social interactions

Tehran city

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