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A study on the key factors affecting the rural house architecture in Fars province
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Khosro Movahed *  , Kaveh Fattahi |
| Shiraz Azad Islamic University , khmovahed1@yahoo.com |
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Abstract: (13983 Views) |
| Rural areas are the residential and productive places that have organic relationships with natural, ecological, economical, social and cultural patterns. Meanwhile, due to the recent changes of economical, social and cultural patterns and also entrance of new technologies in Iran and hence Fars province, rural house architecture has drastically changed. Our initial investigations revealed that as a result of such changes, the rural sense of the villages in Fars province has altered as well. Hence one of the main objectives of this paper is to present the key factors affecting the rural house architecture in Fars province.
Fars is one of the provinces in Iran with a vast variety of rural architecture in its different villages. Therefore, to reach our goals, firstly, we have listed all the villages in Fars with more than 90 families which have been constructed at least fifty years ago, as our target population. Then, with SPSS software and based on the several meteorological data that were gathered from all 24 weather stations in Fars and with the q-mode cluster analysis, Fars province has been divided to five main ecological zones. Finally with the cluster sampling method, 60 villages from the initial list have been selected from those five ecological zones as our clusters. Accordingly we have analyzed the house architecture in these villages through different methods such as direct observation, filling questioners, interviews and mapping the houses.
Our investigations in those 60 sample villages have confirmed that the new housing architecture in the villages of Fars province has hardly influenced by their traditional rural architecture. In most cases their new architecture is a bad copy of their neighbor’s urban one. This study also leads us to understand the traditional rural house architecture in Fars province and hence has introduced some main recommendations related to their new house buildings. Moreover, a range of practical strategies for house construction and preserving the identity of villages are obtained in this study.
To reach such an objective, this paper will address:
(1) The current condition of rural house architecture in Fars province (2) Some key factors affecting the rural house architecture in different parts of Fars province
(3) Comparative analysis of house architecture in different ecological zones of Fars province to find criteria for future designs in such zones
(4) Several guidelines for rural house constructions and
(5) Essential readings for rural planners, architects and local and national government officers. |
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| Keywords: Village, Rural house architecture, Fars province, Rural identity, Ecology |
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Type of Study: Research |
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Received: 2012/04/7 | Accepted: 2013/06/18 | Published: 2013/06/18
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