A Cultural Analysis of the Residential Architecture of the Kurdish People with an Emphasis on the Role of Space(A Case Study of Traditional Houses in Mukrian ( Sardasht))

Housing is an important form of the social organization of space and its shape is affected by factors such as cultural characteristics. The main purpose of this research is to study and analyze the architectural features, patterns of architectural space and how it is organized in the residential architecture of Kurdish Mukrian, in order to recognize the architecture of these areas from a cultural point of view. The theoretical section of the study relies on the descriptive-analytical methodology and the practical section is based a survey on the form of traditional houses in the Kurdish-inhabited region of Mukrian. The results of this study indicate that traditional houses in this region generally follow ‘linear’, ‘L-shaped’ or ‘U-shaped’ patterns, and the number of wives in a house is of great importance in how space is organized. The results of the study are presented in detail in tables, where the hidden layers of culture(Mukrian Kurdish culture) in relation to the shape of houses have been identified.