Nomadic Housing Flexibility, a Factor in the Stability of Nomadic Architecture (Case Study of Qashqai Tribe)

Nomadic way of life based on housing migration is flexible in accordance with the living conditions and lifestyle arising from the standard of living that is the reason for the adaptation of nomads to the climatic conditions of the environment around them, housing that has survived from the past to the present and with sustainable environmental, physical, economic and social conditions that have successfully achieved the effects of maintainable housing. The aim of this study is to identify the components of the formation of sustainable nomadic housing. In fact, the black tent has all the definitions and meanings of a house, which is at a low cost and with a simple appearance but high in efficiency, which despite the flexibility in the dimensions of nomadic life and housing, can be found in justifiable housing factors, housing that meets the conditions of the natural environment and its inhabitants. The method of this research is data collection within a documentary framework based on local interviews with the tribes of the Qashqai community; moreover, the research method is classification and content analysis. This study introduces the spatial dimension of physical and functional elements of nomadic housing in various types of flexibility and the dimension of environmental sustainability introduces functional and structural elements and their adaptation to diversity and adaptability. In the field of social sustainability, it examines the concepts of nomadic life structure in each of the three types of flexibility. Findings indicate that the use and integration of these principles with modern technology and expertise can be a step towards the richness of the design and implementation of mobile and sustainable housing.

1. Achieving flexibility indicators in environmentally achievable lifestyle. 2. Recognition and re-reading of nomadic housing in order to design a suitable model for mobile housing.

Research questions:

 1. What are the dimensions of nomadic housing sustainability? 2. How does the flexibility feature in this housing model create stability in nomadic housing?