Architectural Design Criteria In Historical Fabrics

The disparate and unbalanced development is one of the most important problems in our cities. Inattention to the past including buildings and context’s natural-historical environment for the different aspects in both demographic and cultural texture and it’s framework and coordinating of new developments with old context or built surrounding, could have many consequences, such as chaos and disparate in urban landscape, gradual loss of urban identity, cultural incompatibility and other outcomes. Because the indigenous and traditional architecture of each place, in a historical continuity and in order to a basic policy of continuity, gradually and over the years has been formed with its nature and environment. This category would include the cultural, social and economic aspects.The sufficient attention to sustainable development of cities in Iran, necessarily will affect on the retrospect. Regarding to the historical contexts design criteria from international charters, declarations and principles, this article is thoroughly reviewing the architectural design characteristics in the historical areas with respect to their authenticity and integrity as an inviolable idea. Therefore according to the proposed criteria by the theorists has been tried to derive the major issues of architectural design in the historical contexts. It can contain a wide range of restoration interventions, conservation and new constructions in adjacent or inside these context. With setting up a table based on the general principles of architectural design and restoration interventions in historic fabrics in this article tried to adopt the related international criteria and guidelines with localization approach.