ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Formulating Guidelines and Requirements for Context-Based Rural Housing Design
Case Study: Rural Housing in Sistan, Iran
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Department of Architecture, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran
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Department of Architecture, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran
These authors had equal contribution to this work
Submission date: 2025-01-09
Final revision date: 2025-02-11
Acceptance date: 2025-02-23
Online publication date: 2025-03-18
Publication date: 2025-03-18
Corresponding author
Abolfazl Heidari
Department of Architecture, University of Zabol, Department of Architecture, University of Zabol. Z, Zabol, Iran
Department of Architecture, University of Zabol, Department of Architecture, University of Zabol. Z, Zabol, Iran
Civil and Environmental Engineering Reports 2025;35(2):91-113
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ABSTRACT
The Sistan area in eastern Iran was one of the areas that experienced a flood in the early 1990s, and many of its rural houses were destroyed. For immediate accommodation of flood victims, the government accumulated different villages in residential towns. The design priority in the creation of these towns was the houses' strengths against flood, and the rich indigenous architecture that was shaped based on the environment and attention to context was ignored. Thus, inattention to the environment and design context in the design process of rural houses after the crisis has made villagers not accept these houses. This paper aims to formulate regulations for designing rural housing by studying and examining the indigenous housing of the zone to help improve the quality of rural housing. The research method is based on the examination and field survey of 22 selected rural houses in this area based on the Geographic Information System (GIS), which is done through the descriptive-analytical method. The results of this study have resulted in formulation or advice and requirements within four parts of functional recommendations, climatic, physical identity, and spatial relations, which observation of these requirements can contribute to the improvement of rural housing quality. This method has been done based on the design field and area and can assist housing scope policymakers in the areas prone to natural disasters, so they can formulate the housing design after the crisis based on the attention to the design field and area.
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