Document Type : Research Paper
Author
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture and Environmental Design, Iran Univesity of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
The geography of Iran is a haven of historical farmsteads with specific physical and functional characteristics. These small bio-complexes have a fixed population and physical structures related to agriculture and settlement, and they grew and developed in the centre of Iran from before Islam to the Zand and Qajar periods and then reached a low point in the Pahlavi period.
The moot point of the research is the need to know more about the nature of historical residential farmsteads. Many farmsteads, including buildings related to them, are subject to destruction. The purpose of the research is to obtain more information about the locality of farmsteads in the geographical arrangement of Iran, and to this end, the interpretive approach and historical interpretive strategy are used in the form of document research and field studies. According to the study findings, residential farmsteads, as the infinitesimal living complexes, were a subcategory of villages, acting independently or subordinately, and were considered a part of Iran's geographical system. Physical, agricultural and customary areas are their three significant influencers. The physical and agricultural zone is compared to the farmstead's core zone, while the customary area is equivalent to its buffer zone.
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