Applying the contextualism approach in regeneration of historical textures Case Study: Tabriz SAHEB-AL-AMR Square

historical contexts of cities, displays a set of teachings in the collective wisdom of human beings throughout history. Hence, the abandonment of the historical sites circumvents the contemporary men from using wisely the past experiences and locating in the path of historical continuity. The necessity of research refers to the value of historical context in Saheb-al-Amr Square as one of the urban spaces of Tabriz in the past.nOn the other hand, the significance relates to the abnormal body of the mentioned work in contemporary age. In this respect, the research’s main purpose is to investigate the state of regeneration in the modern body of Tabriz Saheb-al-Amr collection in terms of the features of the setting and the representation of regeneration strategies. The conceptual model is based on the descriptive-analytical research method and based on library studies in order to explain the concept of contextualization and to extract four major dimensions of contextualism. After regulating the regeneration objectives at three large, medium and small scales based on field study, observation, and direct registration, we analyzed the status quo of Saheb-al-Amr collection by means of SWOT table. In line with the large-scale objective and utilizing the contextualism approach for analyzing the revival condition, the results of the present study consist of the “recommended strategies of revival” in four body-related, historical, socio-cultural and ecological dimensions according to the medium scale and small scale objectives in order finally to achieve a generality on “revival condition” in this collection.