Generating a Planned Community Based on a Vernacular Historic Village through Shape Grammar Methodology

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2022-12
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This thesis aims to achieve a systematic approach for analyzing and, in turn, generating design based on historical features of a vernacular historic settlement. In light of this purpose, a methodology is proposed for generating a new planned rural settlement that reflects the characteristic features of the historical village of Abyaneh, a vernacular destination in Central Iran. Given the characteristic feature of Abyaneh village that buildings are built in parallel with the existing topographical lines, the village dwellings create a unique multi-story elevation that has a history as a tourist destination. However, tourism has been beneficial to the village, the unplanned expansion of the tourist population has also had a negative impact in terms of increased land and food prices, increased waste production, and disrespectful behavior on the part of some tourists towards local people. In addition to the issues caused by mass tourism, the facilities in Abyaneh do not satisfy tourists’ expectations. Five villages are in close proximity to Abyaneh, and Manafi, Daneshvar, and Salehi have proposed that creating a new tourism market in those contexts would constitute a practical way to manage mass tourism in Abyaneh (Manafian et al., 2014). I extend that idea by focusing on developing one of those villages to provide the facilities not offered in Abyaeh village. For this purpose, I focus on a mountainside village similar to Abyaneh, Barz, where most of the historical texture was destroyed by a massive flood in 1957. Due to this demolishing, extending Barz village provides an opportunity to construct facilities excluded in Abayneh village.

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Vernacular Settlement, Historical Settlement, Abyaneh village, Shape grammar, Computational Framework, Generative Methodologies
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