Architectural Plan
Traditional houses in humid and moderate climate have roofs with incline because of the high humidity and high amount of rainfall during the year. This region which is locates on southern shoreline of Caspian Sea is the most verdurous climate in Iran and in all seasons has humidity. The difference of air temperature between day and night is low and allover of this region has been covered with plant.
Humidity caused a nice two-sided breeze and traditional houses took advantage of that with special architectural plan. Unlike traditional houses in hot and dry climate which had central yard, in this climate they made balconies around the house overlook to their own yard.
Buildings were stablished on base and had long shape. Because of suitable wind from the sea the house were built in eastern to western direction. Windows and doors were made with high height, and they used light structure and wood to establish the houses.
House builders’ considerations
- Traditional houses in humid and moderate climate which are built near the sea, were built on wooden poles but the houses on hillside were built on stone and mud
- To protect the rooms from raining they created wide balconies with roofs around the house.
- Materials which were considered for buildings had minimum heat or thermal capacity.
- In all buildings uses natural air ventilation, architectural plans are wide and compacted spaces.
- In order to take advantage of wind, direction of building the house was considered according to blowing the wind from the sea.
- Scattered architectural plan is the result of abundance of water and using wind to ventilation inside the house.