Symbols Recognition in the Neighborhood Architecture

The most important mission by the neighborhood architecture is to upgrade the citizens' tangible understanding concerning the environment and creation of social connection between people through this procedure. In the light of this mission, various factors exist, of which symbols are the most important. Through these symbols, a person may find a deep and radical connection between himself and the neighborhood. Individuals' social presence in the residential environment has faded away due to the excess in contemporary architecture. In order to create new intimate spaces and renew this implication many architects and humanistic planners try to do research on the issue in psychological point of view in a symbolic or realistic way.The present article aims to recall the architecture stability factors in neighborhood and to examine the role of symbols in the past architecture continuity. In addition, our goal is to provide semiological senses in civil spaces design via considering implications as like symbols in a neighborhood scale, environmental understanding psychology, recognizing the sings in neighborhood, etc as well as to provide principles taken from field studies

Keywords:

Local symbol , neighborhood , tangible understanding , Rahim Khan Neighborhood , Rahim Khan Mosque