HOW TO IDENTIFY AND APPLY THE INHABITING CHARACTERISTICS OF THE KURDISH CULTURE TO TODAY’S RESIDENTIAL DESIGN

Culture has a wide and deep meaning and finds its identity through belonging to a society of human beings in a specific place. When we consider the Kurdish people, this identity includes various, distinctive characteristics, which some parts of them are related to the methods and rules of living in residential accommodations. Those inhabiting characteristics which are specific to the Kurdish culture and distinguish it from other cultures are blood-based relationships, hospitality and entertainment, ceremonies and customary visits, behavioral patterns of space using, believing and traditional values, spiritual and mental needs and interests, and the coexistence of several families together. In this article, after examining the human’s behavioral principles, characteristics, and specifications in the mentioned cultural issues, the possibility of making good environment to realize them in a house designed and built according to the common patterns of today’s architecture in this region is surveyed and some approaches are suggested to apply them. These approaches include the kind, relation, form, and dimensions of the spaces of a residential unit and the elements attached to those spaces.