Strategies of passive defence in Kerman old neighborhoods architecture

Passive defence is a strategy to increase life quality, when Internal or external enemy is tryingto torment people and break the people stability. Old Iranian scientists of urban planning haveplanned some strategies to decrease such torments that nowadays are called passive defences.Nowadays passive defences is not considered in most houses and its importance is decreased.The most important factor in people welfare is their feeling of security in their private placesthat would be obtained by passive defence principles.Ignoring this case destroy feeling of sequrity. In Iranian traditional architecturesome strategies were considered that are in accordance whit todays passivedefence principles. This research is conducted to recognize these traditionalstrategies, by literature reviewing and field observation. Recognizing suchstrategies would result in knowledge that could be used in planning andimproving of nowadays urban spaces by modern architects.

Keywords:

Passive defence , stability , security , Neighborhood , parish