A survey of the position of archetypes in the investigation of the historical houses of Shiraz

Today, without considering the human needs, the residential buildings are designed. If we consider the past residential architecture and investigate the archetypes, we can find archetypes in traditional architecture besides considering the individual needs mostly emphasizing on cultural and spiritual needs of human being. The origin of archetype architecture is based on considering human being.The present study attempted to investigate the archetypes in the past residential architecture of Shiraz and by the investigation of the form and their typology, we reached the archetypes. This study was documental and comparative design.