Conceptual Review of " Node" in Physical Organization of Architecture

During recent decades and according to the population growth, the construction of residential projects has widely increased. We use exotic materials because of unknown reasons and in the same way we use to apply hastily imported (western) spatial organizing patterns. While according to western experts their architecture has some form of environmental uniformity and chaos. So our architecture will have such side effects. Numerous Iranian studies and papers have recognized this problem but it seems that they mostly have only dealt with details. Iranian traditional architecture shows the practical experience and richness in the creation of successful architectural and urban complexes conveying a sense of belonging to place. In this regard one can learn from the proper spacing between components and also providing purposeful physical configurations which is called joint. Paying attention to this comprehensive item will bring about valuable understandings in different fields of architecture and urban development. Although there are not much documented and reliable studies in this filed, some ideas can be found about the role and the influence of joint in architecture among famous researches. It should be notices that the goal of this essay is further exploration on the nature and types of joint. Although apparently the words joint and articulation are the same, but in fact they are two different concepts. It has observed that joint space has been wrongly misused by other spaces like entrance, connection and transferring space. So it seems necessary to consider the etymology of these words. Considering the notion of joint makes it clear that it is the space between two things that is used just for making them apart while the combination of different parts in articulation ranging from articulation to continuity. Different metaphorical uses of this concept in architecture is possible: for example it can be used as functional zones like access joint, entrance – exit joint and mass and space joint. It can also be used as constructional zones like material and structural joints.