Factory or Work and House Surveying the Concept of Business and Production in the Formation of Historic Persian Houses in Boshruyeh

Difference and variety of residential architecture patterns in one climatic area can be the result of a variety of life styles and the ways of supplying livelihoods. The main aim of this article is to search about formation and organization of spaces in the residential architecture with regard to their economy and culture. The research progresses based on qualitative analysis, After a glimpse of theoretical foundations and previous research, measures for surveying and classification of the houses emerged, and spatial properties in various types of house were compared in case study due to architecture phenomenology. After a comparative study on some certain criteria involving central courtyard, abundance of spaces, ruined signs of Barak (production of textiles), this article, made a simple classification of historic houses that involved two groups of residential architecture. The houses with small courtyards and the houses with large courtyards, on one hand, or the houses with signs of Barak (production of textiles) on the other hand.
The results of this study suggest that ruined signs of Barak confirmed in the portal (ivan) of small houses and there are almost no such organization in large houses. What is seen in these houses at the first look is the different duties of its various spaces. By analysis of mass and space organization and remained signs of Barak in some prominent samples of these houses, this research concluded that job and family systems, has been effected on this differences. This article concludes that those houses has in fact been production units of a pre-modern industrial city that combine life and work that realized physical embodiment of the word "Karkhaneh" (factory) in Persian language.