Authors : Siamak Panahi, Erfan Mohammadi and Payam Riahi
Abstract: One of the most important criteria for quality architectural space is “sense of place”. Which means understanding people’s subjective sense of environment so that understanding and feeling with the semantic environment context are linked and integrated. This causes a sense that change of space to place with a sensory characteristics and special treatment for specific individuals. But today the vacuum of meaning in many architectural monuments more glaring. So, one of the most effective means of dealing with the human and environmental factors are discussed. The designers must consider important architectural spaces in order to create a sense of place. In this regard, semiotics root in many cognitive science, it can make use of signs based on the concept of connotation, causing the audience better relationship with the architectural space. Signs can be factors applied in various aspects of semantic, structural and simultaneously in the architectural space shaping progresses. The use of the sign is influence in architectural spaces, creating a space and a sense of belonging to the place. Khan school in Shiraz (1004-1024 AD) is made by Hossein Shirazi Shamaei in the Safavid period which is one of the schools that adopted the design and manufacture of signs and numbers are sacred. So based on this, Khan school in Shiraz were selected as a case study in terms of impact syndrome factors were used in the analysis. Therefore, in this study the library and field data collection of signs is used in architecture school in Khan school.
Siamak Panahi, Erfan Mohammadi and Payam Riahi, 2016. Statue of Sign in Promoting a Sense of Architectural Space Place (Case Study: Khan School in Shiraz City). Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 11: 1104-1112.