Iranian Architecture Roofs

1 2 3 eastern mediterranean university 4islamic azad university science research branch of tehran.

Iranian architecture roofs.

Iranians focused their efforts on reviving their own heritage of architecture like barrel vaulting crenellated roofs conical squinches big bricks oval arches etc. Iranian architecture or persian architecture persian. The squinch enabled domes to be widely used and they moved to the forefront of persian architecture as a result. A sustainable roof is durable and comprises recyclable materials with minimum impact 3 4 5.

In the sasanian period wood also played a role in construction of bridges. In iranian architecture they have played another significant role of reducing the total heat gain from the roof and providing a passive cooling effect for the building they served haghighat bahadori 2011 pp. Iranian architecture after the mongol attack. Ruining the cities buildings and massacres were what came with the attack of mongols to iran.

Department of architecture. It must be assumed that the large number of bridges known from this period consisted of horizontal wooden structures resting on top of stone piers. 1sina osivand 2farshid roudi 3maryam ghasemi 4peyman nasirzad. And the terms and names of arches roofs and domes in the persian language which are mostly considered oval and egg.

The mongols were not familiar with iranian architecture. Vernacular roofs in iran that were built around 200 years ago served more than shelter. Along the caspian sea coast wooden architecture predominates particularly post and lintel houses with thatched roofs. So they chose iranian cities as their main ruling centers and started rebuilding them.

Wood played only a subordinate role in such. Brickworks in the form of different motifs and sometimes plasterworks over bricks were characteristics of the persian architecture of the early post islam period. The advantages of iranian architecture are that they are never used in homogeneous geometric locations. Sustainable culture analyses in architectural construction of iranian traditional buildings.

ویلای ناربن آراد حمیدزاده zartosht office building tka architecture studio. The ruins of the palace of ardashir and ghal eh dokhtar in fars province iran built by ardashir i 224 240 of the sasanian empire have the earliest known examples of squinches. Cyrus commercial office building sustainable architecture process. But mongols found iran very much alike of their own country.

Iran is a vast country which the geographical and cultural characteristics of it caused creating diverse architecture designs 6 7. Most famous iranian architecture the achaemenids from the sixth century to the fourth century bc. ساختمان تجاری ـ اداری کوروش مهندسان مشاور روند معماری پایدار رضا احمدی مسعود narbon villa arad hamidzadeh.