The Accordance of Vernacular Earth Architecture with IEPs and the Natural Image of Sustainability: Investigation of Earth Architecture of Kavir

نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی

نویسندگان

1 Ph.D Graduate, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Full Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

3 Full Professor, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.

4 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.


عنوان مقاله [English]

The Accordance of Vernacular Earth Architecture with IEPs and the Natural Image of Sustainability: Investigation of Earth Architecture of Kavir

نویسندگان [English]

  • Javid Ghanbari 1
  • Mahmoud Golabchi 2
  • Mohammad Reza Bemanian 3
  • Hasanali Pourmand 4
چکیده [English]

Making an investigation into the traditional architecture found in Iran’s Kavir, one can see an architecture that has emerged by merely changing the form of the face of the earth; this [complex] architecture is nothing but an intellectual use of simple land and water which simultaneously accords with the Islamic environmental principles [IEPs]. In this article, following a descriptive analysis of this architecture and its natural environment and making a comparative analysis of its values with the Islamic Environmental Principles [IEPs], we are going to demonstrate how Kavir’s vernacular architect, as the steward of the earth, has achieved utilization, development and maintenance of natural environment in the light of IEPs and a tacit sustainable building approach. Eventually, a model related to overlapping values of this earth architecture with the IEPs and the natural image of sustainability has been introduced.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • Vernacular Earth Architecture
  • Islamic Environmental Principles
  • Natural Image of Sustainability
  • Kavir
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