Document Type : Original Research Paper

Authors

• Seyyed Abbas Yazdanfar ¹
• Zohreh Naserdoost ²

¹ Associate Professor, School of Architecture & Environmental Design, Iran University of Science & Technology, Tehran, Iran

² MSc in Architecture, School of Architecture & Environmental Design, Iran University of Science & Technology, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

house is an environment for the formation of social activities to satisfy a part of physical and mental requirements. By observing the contemporary design construction industry, it is easy to notice the absolute ignorance toward behavioral, cultural and residential patterns of users. By considering this problem, the main purpose of this paper is to emphasize on the role of behavioral patterns, lifestyle and user’s culture in their housing patterns as one of the most important tools of understanding the behavior of residents. In addition, due to the changes in the lifestyle and human’s needs, the housing patterns
have also evolved and have resulted in new spatial arrangements. This research examines the changes in housing pattern and people’s lifestyle in “Maragheh” over time Zand era to today. In this article methodology of research in literature review section is descriptive-analytical method and in field studies by qualitative method, 32 houses were reviewed and interviewed with fifty inhabitants, a semi-structured questionnaire and an anthropological questionnaire with interview analysis. The relationship of lifestyle to
body structure is explained. And results shows that for proper design houses in each area, we need to probe that area’s people’s lifestyle, behavioral patterns and daily and annual activities properly. Also probation of their housing patterns.

Keywords

• Lifestyle
• Physical pattern
• Spatial arrangements
• Maragheh housing pattern
• Behavioral pattern