Indigenous architecture is derived from nature, climate and the environment, and due to limited access to modern fossil energy sources, has tried to have the least degree of dependence on them. Imitating the indigenous architecture of a region is the first and most sustainable step in designing climate-friendly architecture. The Housing Foundation of the Islamic Revolution, as the main organiza...

the west of esfahan province, iran, is one of the most important agricultural areas throughout the country due to the climate variability and life-giving water of zayanderood river. rice is one of the major and economic crops in this area. the most important climatic elements in agricultural activities which should be considered include temperature, relative humidity, precipitation and wind. so...

cultural iran is a scope that is more extended than the political territories of iran as a political unit. this concept means that cultural geography(mehdi moghanlo-1383-1) of iran is greater than its political geography which, according to history, has a long history extending west-east from kandahar to the euphrates and north-south from the persian gulf to the caucasus including transoxiana a...

The architecture of the Persian Gulf northern shore cities is formed according to the dominant principles of Iran architecture. However; there are some differences. Cities of the Persian Gulf northern shores had relationships with big commercial cities in Asia and Africa through the sea. Thus, these cities were influenced by those regions in architecture. The main question of the article is how...

Since man has been engaged in architecture, he has paid attention to the spiritual , inner needs and aesthetics sense too. Today, in architecture, aesthetics is limited to formal secondary factors due to lack of the systematic and applied explanation, while this concept has a more definition and is closely related to structure, details of construction, audience and environment. Iranian architec...

The expansion of cities, as well as the increasing need of humans for energy, have led humans to seek solutions for the use of renewable energy. Considering the importance of the subject, studies has also been carried out in the field of architecture, in which one of the most important objective of sustainable development is the reduction of energy consumption in the building sector. This obj...

Traditional architecture of the historical cities in Iran contains valuable lessons related to architecture and urban design. A considerable group of these strategies are those that are used in outdoor urban spaces in desert cities providing a safe and sustainable microclimate to live in the harsh desert for more than thousands of years. This article will decode these strategies by doing field ...