چكيده به لاتين
Unlike our indigenous, traditional architecture and the modern world paternns , our today habitats architecture does not have an optimum pattern or a mechanism to interact with environmental resources and capacities (nature,culture,local capacities and indigenous infrastructures ) or utilize them in the best manner. which causes problems including excessive and irrational dependence of habitats to fulfill resident’s needs, waste of natural and human resources, increase of cost and increased enviromental pollutions.
Habitats capacities are wasted and they have been dependant on fulfilling resident needs for water, due to the lack of infrastructures for managing the capacity of asorbtion and recycling of water and sewage cycle of a habitat architecture. Amongst the problems of this are also Inaccessibility to a permanent, healthy, adequete and suitable drinking water, and lack of systems that could absorb and produce healthy adequete water.
Unlike the old indigenous architecture of the habitats, the modern ones are not capable of using natural resources capacities (soil, air and water) and habitat’s cultivable spaces for the purpose of cultivating productive plants and taking part in producing food, thus wasting this capacitiy and being unable to satisfy the least of residents food needs.it also causes permanent food insecurity (abcense of permanent accessibility to different kind of food required by the habitat), pollution of food with fertilizers , preservatives and unhelthy chemical additives, and finally high cost of the food due to movement, maintenance and distributions
The design of a self-sufficient neighbourhood, located in the intersection of ImamKhomeini and Hosseini Highway,northeast Shiraz, has tried to perserve the city’s historical identity and looking for a new pattern based on the cultural ,social and enviromental values of the old habitats architecture at the same time, also has tried to be proportional to the modern requirements ,while having a balanced relationship with the environment.
Boundaries of this relationship have been clarified by a research, specifing 2 areas of the habitat and making it practical in design.
This research aims to clarify the relationship between habitats architecture and residents partership in producing food and managing water supplies cycle in the research area, and to acheive relatively self-sufficient patterns to fulfill residents requirement in design.
Relative self-sufficiency in producing food and managing water supplies cycle can be acheived by utilizing architectural capacities of habitat environment.
Over the course of this research, in the first stage, considering the problem being recent, in order to attain the theoretical basics and principles of a self-sufficient habitat, library studies and interviews were conducted and opinions concerning self-sufficiency or a self-sufficient habitat were analayzed.the results of this stage contained definitions, aspects, characteristics, strateges and eventually operational solutions for self-sufficiency and a self-sufficient habitat in the field of architecture.
In the second stage, to exam the aspects, characteristics and found solutions for self-sufficiency and a self-sufficient habitat, 2 kinds of target content tables were edited. the relation between architectural and self-sufficiency variables was questioned in the form of propositions ,according to the said tables, after analysis and regular interviews with agricultural, architectural and water specialists.
These solutions or propositions were achieved by studying case samples in each area, conducting interviews , and analyzing the characteristics and strategies of a self-sufficient habitat. Definite and operational solutions were used to readabilite and transparent the questioned subjects and to make the answers even more precise. These propositions consist of Architectural ideas ( independent variable ), water,agriculture and other parts’s ideas ( mediator ) and self-sufficiency ( dependent variable ).
In the third stage of the research,specialists of the research area, which means architecture, agriculture and water management were asked the questions and 75.41 percent of them agreed that the research’s proposition will lead to self-sufficiency in a habitat.
Results were shown and analyzed seperately in form of graphs and tables, hence some principles and solutions were derived for designing a self-sufficient neighbourhood in the manner of residents partnershhip in producing food and managing water supplies cycle.
Keywords: self-sufficient neighborhood center, food production, water resources, participation of residents
