جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "کاروانسراهای صفوی" در نشریات گروه "هنر و معماری"

The need for a shelter has made people not always neglect that, even during the journey.
Nowadays, with the arrival of industry in the country and the use of motor vehicles, caravansaries have lost their initial boom and remaining obsolete make them deserted, and some other have been changed their usage and have became  passage, parking, warehouse etc. In the past, especially in the Safavi era, which coincided with the golden age and the flourishing of the construction of Iranian caravansaries, caravansaries have been a safe haven for travelers and merchants. The study of caravansaries in the Safavi era is important because it has unique features that the most obvious of them are plentiful reconstructive activity in the field of roads and especially construction of this building. The present study uses library studies and field visits. Using a deductive method, the typology of caravansaries and the basis of their spatial structure are examined in response to individual and social needs and physical characteristics. It is possible to achieve spatial and physical patterns for the development and revitalization of destructive caravansaries, and to revitalize and give new uses to them.

The welfare and safety of caravans have always been of great importance throughout the Persian history and this fact has led to the foundation of the buildings called caravanserai and its related elements. These buildings resolved communication and economic needs. Caravanserais can be divided into two kinds: city and intercity. Flourishing of Iran’s caravanserais in the Safavid era was due to the security, development of relationships with Europe and India by land or sea as well as development of foreign and domestic trade. In this period, prosperity in production and commerce, especially in Isfahan (capital of the Safavids), led to the establishment of urban caravanserais as a coherent element in the structure of the urban bazaar (market). Accordingly, the structure of bazaars and caravanserais was closely linked to each other and created variations in the caravanserais’ structure. Although, in time, caravanserais lost their primary role in relation to the bazaar’s needs and services, studies about these caravanserais are important. The present research seeks to answer the question of what changes have occurred in the Safavid caravanserais of Isfahan bazaar. This study has been executed using library and field studies and comparative method. The main purpose is to provide a typology of the Isfahan bazaar’s caravanserais in the Safavid era to respond to personal and social needs of traders and caravans, in addition to extracting common patterns in these caravanserais according to their residential and commercial functions. Recognizing these patterns can help designing commercial spaces proportionate with modern needs of the bazaar. These caravanserais, according to their construction period, are divided into three kinds: early, middle and late. Despite similarities in most types of Safavid caravanserais in Isfahan bazaar, some differences are seen as well in these buildings considering their structural relation to bazaar and its urban elements, caravanserai’s spatial composition, expanse, external form and type of entrances, courts, ivans (porches), ivanches (small porches) and ravaghs (porticoes), rooms and also caravanserai’s spatial diversity.