Recognition of Architecture Design Adapted with Nature in Iranian Central Plateau Case study: Haj Agha Ali ’s Mansion in Rafsanjan

This paper is going to study the adaptability of building to its landscape. The intent is to explore Iranian traditional architecture visually and intellectually in a manner that illustrates how its interior and exterior aspects are rooted in the dualities of its forms and functions. Exploring this specific vernacular architecture in Iran will both inform our understanding of sustainability and contribute to our knowledge about local and global issues in architecture and urban living, which in turn are pertinent to human sustainability, multi-culturalism, geo-political forces, and architectural meaning. Given the mounting evidence for and public awareness of climatic change, this film comes at a fortuitous moment. A walk through an Iranian desert city continuously implies the unity and plurality in the relationship between interior spaces and connective exterior court gardens. The architectural dialogue between indoor and outdoor spaces represents the unique character of desert cities and amplifies the brilliance of the desert cultures that evolved and flourished in inhospitable, barren regions. In such an environment, all houses had one objective: to counter the harsh climate in a way that could be easily sustained for protection from both summer heat and winter cold. In the organization of desert cities, this consideration meant respecting and learning from several millennia of the region’s previous history, especially the contributions of a civilization such as Sumer and from previous religions, such as Zoroastrianism.

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Local Material , Haj Agha Ali’s Mansion in Rafsanjan , Energy saving , 4- season house , Sustainable architecture