Iranian Architecture Roofs

Domed roofs have traditionally been used throughout the world to cover large area and spans.

Iranian architecture roofs. Wood played only a subordinate role in such. Ruining the cities buildings and massacres were what came with the attack of mongols to iran. 1sina osivand 2farshid roudi 3maryam ghasemi 4peyman nasirzad. Iranians focused their efforts on reviving their own heritage of architecture like barrel vaulting crenellated roofs conical squinches big bricks oval arches etc.

1 2 3 eastern mediterranean university 4islamic azad university science research branch of tehran. Cyrus commercial office building sustainable architecture process. Department of architecture. On the other hand in the islamic period bridges were built primarily of stone or brick and vaulted.

Vernacular roofs in iran that were built around 200 years ago served more than shelter. 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. Iranian architecture or persian architecture persian.

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. But mongols found iran very much alike of their own country. In the sasanian period wood also played a role in construction of bridges. The mongols were not familiar with iranian architecture.

A sustainable roof is durable and comprises recyclable materials with minimum impact 3 4 5. Brickworks in the form of different motifs and sometimes plasterworks over bricks were characteristics of the persian architecture of the early post islam period. 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. معمارى ایرانی memāri e irāni is the architecture of iran and parts of the rest of west asia the caucasus and central asia its history dates back to at least 5 000 bc with characteristic examples distributed over a vast area from turkey and iraq to uzbekistan and tajikistan and from the caucasus to zanzibar.

Iranian architecture after the mongol attack. ساختمان تجاری ـ اداری کوروش مهندسان مشاور روند معماری پایدار رضا احمدی مسعود narbon villa arad hamidzadeh. The squinch enabled domes to be widely used and they moved to the forefront of persian architecture as a result. So they chose iranian cities as their main ruling centers and started rebuilding them.

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. And the terms and names of arches roofs and domes in the persian language which are mostly considered oval and egg. ویلای ناربن آراد حمیدزاده zartosht office building tka architecture studio.