Reconnection to Context: Place-based Contemporization and Reuse of Tehran Valuable Houses

Residential use prevents effective communication between the monument and the audience, therefore the new type of use that is assigned to them during the restoration process is significant. The main purpose of this article is to analyze the adaptive reuse of the Tehran valuable houses by Tehran Beautification Organization and Municipality of Tehran based on the place-based contemporization model.

The qualitative research method is adopted based on the "synchronic discourse analysis". By examining the place-based contemporization approach, the participation of all stakeholders and influential people is inevitably divergent. Considering different groups in nine case studies of changing the use of historic houses in Tehran, the quality of the neighborhood is analyzed with the approach of the article. The process of changing the use of historic houses was also explained based on this model.

In all cases, developmental discourse, including local restoration, quality enhancement and development stimulus has a higher score than all other discourses. The discourse of unconscious reproduction involves the use of place and interactions and experiences after developmental discourse is important.

In the highperformance architecture theory, contemporization and reuse of the valuable houses in Tehran with the approach of the article can make these houses a better place and link them to the neighborhood. The conclusion highlighs the successful record of the Tehran Beautification Organization and the Municipality of Tehran in contemporization of the Tehran valuable houses; as well as benefits and drawbacks.