Investigation of the Dome-Like and Arched Structures with Sustainable Masonry in Sassanid Architecture (Case Study: Mushkan Fire Temple)
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 3, September 2021
Pages:
46-55
Received:
4 February 2021
Accepted:
17 March 2021
Published:
24 August 2021
Abstract: Architecture and structures’ sustainability date back to several thousand years ago in Iran. Iranian architecture has created countless historical buildings in a vast territory in the course of centuries and it has been able to solve complex structural problems and create magnificent architectural masterpieces. The structures of the roofs, domes and mosques and other edifices are all signs of the proper interaction between the architectural principles and structural behavior therein. Iran’s Islamic architecture is the natural continuation of the Sassanid Era’s architecture and the recognition and study of it can pave the way for us to identify the Islamic period’s architecture and its various aspects. Sassanids’ architecture was highly capable of erecting vaulted and dome-like covers on square substructures and their method of constructing domes was spread and continued in various regions. Moreover, the effect of religion in the architectural designing of this period and the existence of Zoroastrianism caused the creation of different fire temples the remnants of which have been found in Fars, Kermanshah, Ilam, Kerman, Khorasan and other provinces. The present study investigates Mushkan fire temple as a case study in Chardavol County. Therefore, the present study has been conducted with the objective of investigating the structural stability and method of the construction of four-dome and vaulted structures in Sassanids’ era through the use of library resources and documents and also by relying on a descriptive-analytical method and field studies. The results obtained from the present study indicated that the use of sustainable masonry, including stone, lime-ash or sand plaster and gypsum, as well as methods of constructing four-dome structures and vaults and dissipation of force on four pillars are amongst the reasons for the structural stability in Mushkan Fire Temple.
Abstract: Architecture and structures’ sustainability date back to several thousand years ago in Iran. Iranian architecture has created countless historical buildings in a vast territory in the course of centuries and it has been able to solve complex structural problems and create magnificent architectural masterpieces. The structures of the roofs, domes an...
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National Tourism in Developing Countries: The Confrontation Between Informal Development and Urbanization, the Case of the Coastal Region of Beni-Ksila (Bejaia, Algeria)
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 3, September 2021
Pages:
56-63
Received:
11 December 2020
Accepted:
5 January 2021
Published:
7 September 2021
Abstract: The article focuses on domestic tourism in developing countries by focusing attention on confrontation between its developments, often informally, and urbanization. As case study, the coastal region of Beni-Ksila on the west coast of Béjaia (Algeria). The wish through this article is to put, once again, in evidence my persuasions on the advent of the tourist practice in developing societies and the importance of its effects space. This situation, in the face of the stagnation of certain decision-makers and specialists in the field, at least until recent years, has never ceased to worry a number of other observers. Thus, a glimmer of awareness, more and more collective, emerges and supports the highlighting of the reality of the phenomenon. Globally, if in the past, some tourism authors and organizations underestimated domestic tourism in developing countries, let alone its spatial effects; today many authors, even even those who were reluctant in the past speak of the reality of phenomenon and its corollary spatial effects. In the case of Algeria, taking awareness of public authorities, in recent years faced with this reality, admittedly displayed in a timid manner, where actions are slow to come; but this already highlights the importance of the phenomenon.
Abstract: The article focuses on domestic tourism in developing countries by focusing attention on confrontation between its developments, often informally, and urbanization. As case study, the coastal region of Beni-Ksila on the west coast of Béjaia (Algeria). The wish through this article is to put, once again, in evidence my persuasions on the advent of t...
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