Study of Rural Housing Architecture and Compilation of Optimum Pattern (Case Study: Agh Ghala city)

Rural architecture of Iran from the point of view of functional nature and meeting human needs of popular activities, production elements and environment form a harmonious and organized collection with special physical nature that is a representation of contacts, functions and multi-functional role of spaces. Design, technology, and the method of rural housing construction, dimensions, proportions, scale and conformity with inside and outside conditions of residential unit, all indicate the rate of effect and strengthening the human relations with facilities, natural environment conditions and requirements that has revealed experimentally and over time in the form of principles, measures and quantities in spatial structure of housing. The article aims at dealing with present rural housing pattern in the city and the influential factors in their development and strategies for compilation of optimum housing pattern for rural dwellings regarding the modern needs, natural and climate features of the region. The research method was descriptive-survey and through library and documentary study, theoretical basics were adopted and the complementary information was completed by interview, questionnaire and field observations.