A Study of the effecteness of social relation and effective cultural headstocks in physical condition of the entrance portals in historiccity of Birjand

The special study on Birjand’s portals has not yet been conducted. Groups of students from Islamic Azad university of Birjand in Fall 2009 has began their researches under the supervision of deceased engineer Soltani on historical portals of Birjand city and these studies continued in the subsequent years. This group also, continued in their researches and then they could be able to prepare their evidences to compiling a book about that issue. For the first time, with the presence and excuse of workhouse for training Iranian architecture from Birjand view, selection of the information of this project again, with the advices of respected professors of that workhouse have been examined from cultural and social viewpoint, where remarkable results acquired.It is worth to say that this article has been presented among the commendable articles from one of the research groups.Any kind of architecture remained from the past, contains the messages and concepts of the life and relations of people from that period of time. Now if we believe that the architecture has being and is the container of social life of people, we should imagine the relations between architectural elements as a reflection of peoples’ relations. Specifically when the ornamental and symbolic aspects of these components are more than their functional aspects they remain in the memories and the portal is one of the important kinds of this architectural components. Portals also in Birjand like the other places in our country defined symbolically to invite the individuals inside the mason for creating permanent and everlasting memory. On the basis of it, portals are as main connectors between architectural and metropolitan space, reflecting outer ideas, impressions and individual and family positions against outer and the neighboring communities. For this reason, in this study the variety of figures and physical relations among historic portals with ancient textures as a kind of neighboring relations and mentalities and the cultural messages existed in historical city of Birjand that was the headstock products of these historic buildings have been examined and a table with the inclusion of main key words and their relation for the cognition of this subject has been created.