“Idea-Product” Correlation in Iranian Traditional Architecture Evolutionary Construction (The Architecture of Caravanserai)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Ph.D. Candidate of Architecture, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor of Architecture, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran (Corresponding Author).

3 Assistant Professor of Architecture, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

In today's modern era, due to the influence of Platonic and Neoplatonic idea-centered achievements, the concept of idea has become of great importance, and greatly attracted the focus of education, profession, and research. However, it is found very well that the idea cannot be assessed alone and it is required to assess the idea and its evolution and processing along with the result and product. This study is applied explanatory-analytical design research which aims to assess the "idea-product" correlation in the evolutionary construction process in historical caravanserais of Iran as a type of old buildings with Iranian architecture and appraise the realization of the idea in the final product according to the opinions of experts. Based on this, the approach governing this research is "applied" and the research has an "explanatory-analytical" nature. To this end, the qualitative content analysis is applied to investigated the evolution of Iran's historical caravanserais. The results indicate that in Iran's historical caravanserais, the idea indicators have been realized in the product indicators to a large extent so that the "material and artificial nature" indicator was realized in the form of the "naturalism and climate-ism" indicators, the "culture" indicator in the form of the "contextualism" indicator, the "planning" and "technical matters and construction method" indicators in the form of the "knowledge-base" indicator, the "psychology and spiritual needs" and "philosophy" indicators in the form of the "semantic-ism" indicator, the "semiotics" indicator in the form of the "symbolism" indicator, the "performance and economic matters" indicator in the form of the "functionalism" indicator, and the "social needs and participation" indicator in the form of the "collectivism" indicator.

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  • Receive Date: 17 March 2021
  • Revise Date: 07 April 2021
  • Accept Date: 08 April 2021

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