Evaluation of Traditional Iranian Houses and Match it with Modern Housing

Abstract

Iranian traditional houses have a kind of internal spaces structure on the basis of religious and traditional ideas of the Iranian families. Spatial flexibility, legibility, introversion, spatial hierarchy and respecting family privacy have special position in architecture of Iranian houses which has been replaced by extravert architecture. Traditional architecture which has all necessary spaces for any kind of communication inside the house has been replaced by the inn architecture of which residents don’t expect stability and tranquility. For these residents, only equipments and services of the inn are important and they are not attached to its entirety. Living in contemporary houses has caused problems such as decrease of attachment feeling, tranquility and emergence of emotional and family problems. This article tries to compare architectural plans of Iranian traditional houses with the contemporary houses by studying them and emphasizing on their space quality and richness to take effective step for inclusion of these forgotten concepts in the single- dimension spaces of the contemporary houses while introducing spatial concepts of these houses.