DOI: 110.5176/2251-3701_2.1.41
Authors: Zoheir Mottaki and Iman Amini
Abstract:
Global sustainable development is facing enormous challenges. The United Nation’s World Summit (2002) underscored economic, social, environmental, and cultural factors as the cornerstones of sustainable development. Traditional rural architecture represents an interaction between local culture and vernacular dwellings. Local vernacular architecture is a cycle encompassing "life pattern", "form pattern", and "nature". Some of these vernacular heritages may have remained stable in the face of a changing world, but some others are threatened with extinction. The purpose of this paper was primarily to illustrate cultural sustainable solutions in the vernacular architecture in the northern Iranian province of Gilan, bordering the Caspian Sea, and discuss a number of cultural solutions there, including “Dweller as Designer” and “Mutable Geometry". The conclusion focuses not only on how the local knowledge of the native residents is in harmony with the environment from sustainability perspective, but also on how people can artistically overcome environmental limitations or natural catastrophes.
Keywords: cultural sustainable solution, Vernacular architecture, Dweller as Designer, Mutable Geometry, Gilan, Iran
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