INTERFACE PATTERNS IN IRANIAN HISTORICAL ARCHITECTURE
Among the most important qualities of Iranian historical architecture is the exemplariness of most concepts including intersections. The most common patterns are: Intersection between building façade and the ground is one of the most important junctions in architecture. In Iran, the building element mediating between the façade and the ground has historically been a wall-base covered with bricks, glazed tiles or stone. Wall junctions were done using several frames forming a stepped surface at the intersection. Wall-roof intersection with arcs or framed structures (car- ried out in Iran in two different methods: Galooi and Ghatar- bandi.) On upper parts, extra decorations such as pediment or el- ements from the baroque or neoclassicist architecture were in times made out of stone. On walls covered with glazed tiles a protrusion was a proper solution that these architects applied. Such protrusion was also covered in tiles. On inner surfaces, junctions were chamfered. Skyline is an intersection not abandoned easily by Iranian architects. They had several methods for making it: vertically set bricks protruding from the façade, (simple, embossed, mosaic or Gereh) brickwork, stone ledges, glazed bricks and tiles (one row of glazed brick and then another row of tile- work friezes with nastaliq or thuluth scripts), Shirsar (a kind of structural cornice repeated in intervals along the façade and perpendicular to it in order to bear the load of the cantilevered roof), and Markoff tin gables (common at time of Reza Shah and in which instead of brick or stone, tin plates were used).
فصل مشترك زمين و ساختمانIntersection between building and the ground
اتصال ديوار به سقفIntersections between wall and ceiling
اتصال ديوار با در و پنجرهWall, door and window intersections