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Temporary housing after the earthquake based on indigenous Iranian materials; another look at the actants and issues
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Molood Khosravi   , Hassan Zolfagharzadeh * , Seyed Rahman Eghbali |
| Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran. , zolfagharzadeh@arc.ikiu.ac.ir |
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Abstract: (583 Views) |
Objective: Given the high seismic vulnerability of most regions of Iran and the importance of cultural adequacy, temporary housing based on indigenous materials involves a complex set of known and unknown human, non-human, and discursive factors that require in-depth investigation. Therefore, this study aims to identify the most influential factors affecting the use of indigenous-material-based temporary housing after earthquakes in Iran.
Method: Due to the complexity of the research context, the study employed Situational Analysis (SA) and collected data through both selective and comprehensive approaches from three national and international databases (organized into four distinct categories). Using the tools of situational analysis, data were refined according to emerging themes, and successive situational and relational maps were developed through MAXQDA and iterative category refinement in Excel until theoretical saturation was achieved. Following the integration and refinement of elements extracted from the four final situational maps, a comprehensive situational map was produced. Situational factors were then derived through content analysis of the subcategories contributing to each factor.
Results: The comprehensive situational map was based on ten final situational categories. The allocation of categories and elements to ten situational factors resulted in the development of a worlds-and-arenas map. Subsequently, a paradigmatic model was constructed around the core category of “post-earthquake temporary housing based on indigenous Iranian materials.” The ten factors were classified into five groups: contextual conditions (spatial/place-based elements and non-human factors), causal conditions (political-economic elements, specific human actors, and silent actors), intervening conditions (related discourses, experiences, and reports), interaction/processes (discursive constructions of individual and collective human actors, silent actors, and non-human factors), and consequences (collective human actors and socio-cultural/symbolic elements).
Conclusions: The most influential factors affecting the use of indigenous-material-based temporary housing after earthquakes in Iran are discursive constructions of individual and collective human actors, discursive constructions of non-human factors, specific human actors, non-human factors, and political-economic elements. The most prominent categories within these factors include design and construction planning, managers and policymakers, temporary housing, climatic and environmental conditions, affected populations (users), and construction technology and implementation. The resulting paradigmatic model further clarifies the relationships among these factors and their connection to the core phenomenon.
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| Keywords: temporary housing after earthquake, indigenous materials, temporary housing, cultural adequacy, indigenous materials of Iran. |
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Received: 2025/12/28 | Accepted: 2026/03/15 | Published: 2026/03/15
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