Atefe Ansari; Behnam Pedram; Mohammad Hassan Talebian
Abstract
The relationship between man and nature is realized with his presence in the natural environment. This unavoidable relationship has undergone many changes over time and has created cultures and, numerous works such as Agriculture and its infrastructure including dovecotes accordingly. This native architecture ...
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The relationship between man and nature is realized with his presence in the natural environment. This unavoidable relationship has undergone many changes over time and has created cultures and, numerous works such as Agriculture and its infrastructure including dovecotes accordingly. This native architecture is constructed in such a way that it doesn't hurt nature on the one hand and causes physical and meta-physical relationship between man and nature on the other hand; which gives a different definition to the life of Isfahan’s fields. Although this relationship has varied in the quality of life due to traditional agriculture change, but the remained structure of dovecotes, make it possible to return to field cycle. Therefore, this research has considered to meta-physical concepts of this architecture in relationship between man and nature, in addition to the physical aspects attended by previous researchers.Thereby, the main question is the quality of the relationship between man and nature in the Isfahan’s fields due to the presence of the dovecotes; which describes evolution of the relationship between man and nature by the passage of time and Iranian plateau through a descriptive-analytical method and further studies this relationship in the countryside fields of Isfahan. The results show that this relationship in Isfahan's fields is divided into four distinct periods in which dovecotes have a significant impact on the human interaction with nature. This native architecture indicates how the farmers of this region interact with the environment, which has led to a triangular relationship between humans, fields and dovecotes.
