Recognition of the Value Concept in Conservation of Cultural Landscape The Case of Uraman Takht

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Faculty of Architecture, College if fine arts, Uiversity of Tehran, Tehran

2 Professor, School of Architecture, College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

3 Department of Architectural and Urban Heritage Conservation, School of Architecture, College of Fine Arts, Tehran University

Abstract

The value as a semantic dimension and the product of the positive interaction between human and nature is considered as a key component in the process of conservation of cultural and natural heritage. Review and analysis of the evolution of the concept of the value of the single structure to contexts and beyond its cultural view reveal that as the scale of view changes from micro to macro and approaches to cultural view, intangible aspects find greater importance from one hand, and natural values are considered as an important part of the cultural view on the other hand. Uraman Takht is one of the cities of the Uraman in Iranian Kurdistan province. Cultural view of the Uraman Takht can be introduced as a small part of the Uraman cultural area. Local people in this mountainous climate have had very innovative interaction with their environment over time and this creative process has continued in several aspects so far. Investigating the transformation course of the values from tangible to intangible values. This paper tried to introduce a theoretical framework that includes tangible and intangible achievements of the human and all natural and cultural values from the cultural landscape

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