Dwelling Culture of the YAZD
Geographical Location
twelve hundred meters above sea level
four hundred thousand
desert and semi-desert
Demographic Feature & Household Structure
Demographic Feature & Household Structure Region
1976
1986
1996
2006
All Members Total
5.0
5.1
4.8
4.0
Urban
4.9
4.9
4.6
3.9
Rural
5.2
5.5
5.2
4.4
Children Total
2.6
2.8
2.3
1.3
Urban
2.3
2.4
2.1
1.2
Rural
2.8
3.0
2.6
1.6
Adults Total
2.5
2.3
2.6
2.7
Urban
2.5
2.5
2.5
2.7
Rural
2.4
2.5
2.6
2.8
Average household size in Yazd, 2006
Housing Typology
Central courtyard plan
I Type plan
U Type plan
L Type plan In terms of orientation used according to plan type
Housing Typology Winter Room
Spring Room
Spring Room
Winter Room
Summer Room
Summer Room
Winter Room
Spring Room
Winter Room
Summer Room
Summer Room In terms of Seosonal space
Housing Typology
3Door room
Mini porch
3Door room
5Door room
3Door room
3Door room
Porch
3Door room
3Door room
5Door room
3Door room
Porch
ORSY hall
Mini porch
Spring Room
Spring Room
Winter Room
Porch
5Door room
Summer Room
Housing Supply Policies
Physical divisions
Leftover
Sprawl Patterns of the city
Horizontal growth and expansion of the Yazd
1975 1987 2000 2010
Low density
Linear
Mutation
Yazd Sprawl Reasons
SocialDemographical
Economic
NaturalEnvironmental
Immigration Adding city boundries
Cheaper land at the sideline if the city
Absence of natural barriers
Yazd Houses
Recent Development in housing
Mehr Houses
Recent Development in housing
Qanat
Qanat is gently sloping underground channel with a series of vertical access shafts, used to transport water from aquifers in highlands to the surface at lower levels by gravity.
Qanat
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/05/iran-qanat-irrigation-engineering-history-video/
Recent Development in housing 2nd place in Memar Grand Award in the section of single residential buildings- 2014 Architect: Mehdi Gerami
Recent Development in housing
Recent Development in housing 1st place of Yazd Department of Housing and Urban Development competition-2016
Recent Development in housing
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Thanks
Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi Faculty of Architecture Dwelling Culture of the YAZD
Moozhan Ayatollahi March 2018