The Comparative Study of the Sassanian Palaces and Manor Houses Architecture

Different Monuments from the Sassanid period have been identified; most of which are known as “Palace”. The main purpose of current article is to identify the quality of life in the Sassanid court and understand the architecture of such life-style. Getting this, the maps of existing palaces have analyzed from one hand, and the historical documents have investigated from the other hand. The analysis method is historical- interpretative and adaptive analysis of the architecture decoration. The main questions are on the influence of the religious and official ceremonies on the Sassanid architecture, identifying their domestic sections, quality of life inside Places, and understand the main features and decoration of architecture of palaces and Manor Houses. Aiming to get that, the religious ceremony of Sassanians has analyzed firstly to know the relation in between given issues. Then, will have a glance on the domestic sections to know a bit about the daily life and common people. Having better and more correct understand of the features of the Sassanid architecture, we need to know the quality of the previous architectures, so the architecture of some palaces backed to Achamenid and Parthian era have studied and compared and the results prepared as a chart. Finally, at the main part of the article, some Sassanid monuments with high possibility of being palace have studied aiming to recognize their main architectural characteristics and then compare them together. At the end, it is cleared that the main characteristic to understand the palaces are asymmetric geometric structure, division of interior and exterior sections, frequency spatial diversity, special praying rooms and the special role of Eyvān in the spatial organization of the complex. Moreover, the important result of current research is the identification of 3 types of function in the Sassanid palaces, showing the Ceremonial, Private and Religious life.