Regeneration and restoration of old texture with a perspective to protect the identity of housing, case study –Joybareh locality in Isfahan

The structure of historic cities has been formed based on the needs and demands of their citizens within history.Climatic conditions and nature - the type of existing materials - technical abilities - livelihood and the economy -prevailing culture of society and ultimately creativity and innovation of architects and designers, have changed humanlife in the cities throughout history. The historical texture of the cities is eliminated due to the traditional structure,deterioration of housing, lack of accessibility, poor physical infrastructure and environmental organizations. In linewith these fundamental changes in the historical cities and solving problems related to historical texture of thesecities, some urban plans as format reconstruction - reconstruction - rehabilitation and revitalization in the economic,cultural, social and physical fields have been provided and completed in different countries. The method of dealingwith the historical contexts is resulted from different philosophical perspectives on urban planning. In recent decades,the reduction and elimination of exhaustion of cities and objects of historical context as well as the maintenance andrestoration of historical centers and Coordination between new and historical context with emphasizing on socialnorms and values are taken into consideration. Iran holds a rich and extensive history of civilization and culture overthe centuries has valuable historical cities. Now in historical cities of Iran, only physical problems such as copycatdesign is considered and historically valuable urban space optimization not. Isfahan is one of the historical cities ofIran with significant architecture and urban values due to its location and as the capital of the Safavid era. Many criticsand historians attributed architecture and urban prosperity in the Iran to Isfahan in the Safavid era. the formation ofthe city is based on two axes, one is natural and originated from the Zayandeh rod river and other is geometrical andresulted from Naghsh- e jahan square. In the past, composition of the city was based on dividing city into smaller unitscalled localities. Relative self-sufficiency of the localities and organizing their space and communication networks andaccess roads in the localities of the city in such a way that residents were self-sufficient for their needs. The historicalcity of Isfahan has experienced many changes in fundamental modern urban developments such as integrated andorganic systems with the city road network (Indoor and outdoor) and historical self-sufficient localities have hadmany developments, such as the Joybareh locality as a core component of historical city of Isfahan. In this locality,despite the implementation of projects, including road-improvement and reconstruction of valuable buildings andgreen space, it h a s been unable to maintain its historical identity as well as the past and the lack of a long-termplan formulated in the preservation and restoration of historical cores of this city and in harmony with the rest ofits components in the development and always its population abandoned this locality and aging buildings and thehistoric cores of this city are observed. Preserving steady historical values in the locality, traffic planning and unityin environment in this locality, job opportunities and restore social identity of Joybareh locality and revitalizinghistorical passages and transitions to attract tourists are the most important results of this research which carried outby field study and analysis in the historic core of Joybareh locality with capability in attracting potential tourists. Inthis study, after identifying and studying on a neighboring unit in the locality, every building in the neighborhood andcomponents have been addressed to allow desirable regeneration based on social, cultural and economic structuresand public participation to realize historical identity of Joybareh locality and in line with a lively neighborhood withpreserving its historical identity to achieve a Sustainable modernization

Keywords:

Restoration , Historical identity , Urban development , Old texture , Joybareh locality