Journal of Researches in Islamic Architecture

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Adapted architecture to the environment in the past has brought calmness and comfort for people. Today, great dependence on technology has caused an incompatible human body in his living areas and failed to offer contextual tranquility. It seems old theoretical and practical wisdom has proposed special features for any areas as patterns through temperament experiments.
The principles put forward by precedent customs has been used gaining architectural harmony and locating topography within natural backgrounds. So today, it is required to identify this procedure principles and patterns to introduce needed designing applications. Accordingly, human medical healthcare bases in the four climate situations is being studied through multidisciplinary and deductive- reasoning approaches. This research is trying to propose a comprehensive definition of architecture, urban ecologism and contextualism via setting them coordinated in an integrated system. This system while expressing temperament principles depended on each zone, is offering instructions toward physical comfort status. The body tranquility is formed by expressing required benefiting rules and through avoiding wind, water, sun light and soil in temperaments.
At the end, a table of measurements for evaluating local qualities of urban areas based on geographical specifications is designed titled as “20 factors” along with a report presented based on two aspects of benefiting local potentials and avoiding local in competencies to be evaluated and analyzed. The main innovation in this research is introducing applied reporting sheets in urban ecology evaluations based on medical principles and presenting evidences from its application used in historical aspects of urbanism and architecture.
Research Question:
What are the rules involved in benefiting or avoiding the main elements in human environment such as wind, water, sunlight, soil and plant in different temperaments and living areas to create human body calmness?
 

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Housing serves a dual purpose as both shelter and a vital contributor to human health and comfort. While traditional architecture successfully integrated medical and environmental knowledge to create health-oriented designs, contemporary housing often prioritizes economic factors over biological well-being, effectively transferring responsibility for occupant health from architects to medical professionals. This study investigates healthy housing patterns in hot, dry climates, using Kashan, Iran as a case study due to its well-preserved traditional houses and representative climate conditions.
Employing qualitative methods with analytical and logical reasoning, the research examines traditional and modern houses through the lens of medical and architectural knowledge. The urban scale analysis reveals important patterns in residential block orientation and the structure of closed versus open spaces, proposing both ideal configurations and corrective measures for current housing. At the architectural scale, the study identifies critical zoning considerations addressing air quality, sleep cycles, and physical movement patterns.
Spatial design patterns emerge for various house components, including outdoor spaces like yards and roofs, transitional spaces such as porches and terraces, and interior spaces ranging from living areas to service spaces. These patterns demonstrate how traditional design principles responsive to climate and human biology can inform contemporary housing reform.
As global temperatures rise, the research offers timely solutions for healthier living in hot, arid regions by bridging historical wisdom with modern needs. The findings provide architects with actionable models to reintegrate health as a fundamental design priority, particularly relevant for regions facing increasing climate challenges. The study ultimately advocates for a return to more holistic design approaches that prioritize occupant well-being alongside functional and economic considerations.