Analysis of the Contextual Architecture and its Effect on the Structure of the Residential places in Dardasht Neighborhood of Isfahan

Abstract

Knowing the environment and architecture is only possible through understanding the human beings' activities in their surrounding world, and the goal of architecture can be considered as creation of human notion within the skeletal form. It is necessary to look at the building alongside its "context" and surrounding places and to rebuild a building the surrounding places should not be overlooked so that it would not result in a plan which is paradoxical and in coordination with its context from the stand point of function, proportions, material, etc. Contextual architecture is neither an emphasis on imitation nor a barrier on the road of innovation and creativity. Its message is the necessity for observing the skeletal environment around a part of architecture and it indicates that this observation can be a positive reinforcing factor for both the architectural work and the context. This study aims at distinguishing the features of contextual architecture, knowing and analyzing the characteristics of the residential place of the Dardasht, neighborhood of the city of Isfahan, and also accommodating it with the architecture of the present age. The method of this study is description-analytic and data collecting is done through data bank, field analysis, document studies, interviews and observation. The study results indicate that the textural architecture is a constant basis in the architecture of the present age, especially in neighborhoods with old places that the studied example is one of the examples from this category.