Analysis of the Building of Mosalla (Public Prayer Place) in Rasht City

Criticism of the architectural works, which are not very old, is one of the constructive forward looking
critics that may be effective in positive changes of design methods. Determination of the positive aspects
of an architectural work and the statement of the project proper specifications are the methods requiring
architectural work criticism. Some of the most important duties of the common critics in this domain are
the extension of better perception and understanding of the space, discrimination of the good and bad, and
the judgment in relation to the architectural work and also the promotion of the project following to
supporting, amendment, and the optimization of the designing approaches in creation of a more desirable
space. In this article, which has been performed on the basis of descriptive- analytic research and with
library study method and field investigations, at first, we reviewed the aims of criticism of the
architectural works and then interpretive (hermeneutic) criticism, i.e. the criticism method used in
critization of the building of Mosalla (Public Prayer Place) in Rasht City, was mentioned briefly. The main
part of the article is related to the statement of the specifications of the building of Mosalla (Public Prayer
Place) in Rasht City that has challenged the building with a view to interpretive (hermeneutic) criticism.
At the end part of the article, the positive and negative aspects of the work were mentioned with the aim of
using the criticism advantages in strengthening of proper methods of design in the future. Also some
aspects of designing of the building of Mosalla (Public Prayers Place), which had lasting effects on
individuals' mind, have been distinguished from those aspects, which decrease the space desirability. At
all, the whole all points of design review obtained from criticism do not have equal value in people's mind
and all people do not have the same view against the building. On the strength of looking forward for
durability and public acceptance of a building, if it is tried to decrease the negative aspects, attractiveness
of the architectural work increases and therefore, the quality of the designed spaces will be improved. But
with a focus on the large number of the positive or negative aspects of an architectural work, the building
is considered as qualified or unqualified for attractiveness in people's minds. In relation to the building of
Mosalla, the positive aspects were more than the negative ones that caused acceptance and attractiveness
of this architectural work in one of the main areas’ of the city.