2.2.2 Hierarchy
In order to protect the garden from outside and
in line with the principle of introversion in Islamic
architecture, entering the garden and the pathway
to the pavilion has been designed with an accurate
hierarchy. Similar to traditional houses, mosques
and schools, the entrance to the garden occurs
from a completely public area to a semi-public one
and then to the private. Therefore, for entering the
garden, you need to pass a hierarchy of spaces from
the lintel into an octagonal space called “Hashti”1
,
and then you can see the main axis and the pavilion
(Fig. 10).