A Comparative Study of the Impact of Cultural Changes on the Privacy at the Entrance of the Traditional Houses in the Qajar (Case: Traditional Houses of Qazvin)

One of the most important beliefs in the past was the home’s privacy and especially women hijab; that consider in the most private buildings such as homes. Entrance has been one of the most important parts of the house that considers the privacy of homes, hierarchy of entry was being done through a “Hashti” (vestibule), “Dallan” (hall), yard and “miandar” to the rooms that was the most private parts of the home.
In this article Interpretive- historical method is the main method for research. Therefore, using library research tools, privacy problem studied in Entrance architecture of Iranian traditional houses. The field studies have been done on ten Iranian historical housesto retaining the entrance space privacy in entrance designing. finally five samples have been introduced as evidence in article. The results of this study shows that significant changes had happened in the entering to house that the most important features of them are; Removing some elements of confidentiality in entrance.
Placement and construction of houses in the main street, which was not existed before the Qajar.