Assessment of the Role of Archetypes in Creation of Sense of Place in Iranian Mosques Using AHP

Taking into account the decrease in public presence in religious places, it appears that one of the
main reasons for the los t connection between audiences and sacred sites is the lack of sense of place. Creating a sense
of place is the job of architects who utilize several factors to this end. The objective of the present s tudy is to show that
in designing, an architect considers a set of the personal unconscious mind and collective unconscious mind to achieve
the optimum design based on the needs and a sense of place. Hypotheses were formed based on this. The mos t complete
among them was that the mos t solid and adequate unders tanding of place is composed in a space that encompasses
a combination of the two groups of semantic and physical archetypes. A variety of phenomenological, environment
psychology, and analytical approaches helped the s tudy to realize its objective. A combination of field and library
s tudies provided qualitative and quantitative data to the researcher that were analyzed using the Delphi technique. The
data obtained by a ques tionnaire were analyzed using analytical hierarchy process ۱ (AHP). The findings showed that
inducing a sense of place in the Iranian mosque depended on semantic archetypes, and creating, s trengthening, and
ensuring the survival of these archetypes turned on more robus t use of physical archetypes.
 

Keywords:

Sense of place , archetype , religious place , Mosques